I went to the site but can't find reviews on his stuff, though this long article seems kind of interesting. Anyway, there is lots of criticism against Steve Hassan, Wikipedia even has a section on it, though this isn't necessarily unique in these kinds of fields.
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Have you ever read the review of Steven Hassan's books on Cult news.com?
by Enzo inhi, to everyone my username is enzo, .
recently a saw a video presented by john cedar presenting steve hassan as a cult expert.. .
but read this reviews presented on cult news about steve hassan's books, and it's up to you make your own opinion about the video.
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Update to Linguistics Publications Software Build
by objectivetruth ina few weeks ago, i mentioned a new tool that i started building which will track wording changes and find trends highlighting propoganda techniques in the wt publications... this is an update.. 1. a fellow jwn member has joined the project, (more like he recruited me to join his already existing project).. 2. we have made some great progress.
the most exciting news is that we now have a complete text catalog of all watchtower publications from the 1870's to 2014.. 3. we are building an online tool which will be "invite only" (the site will be free, but certain areas will only be accessible to approved individuals) .
this tool will be similar to wol.jw.org , with 1 main difference.. there will be no "newspeak" tactics employed on this site.
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Richard_I
if this project is ever hosted online publicly, it will be taken down by WT's lawyers. doubt they'll appreciate all their copyrighted stuff being hosted somewhere other than their holy website
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KM Online Now
by konceptual99 ineven more of what you don't want to read is online.
the km are now online under wol.
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/lv/r1/lp-e/0/20397
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Richard_I
thnaks for posting this. i've been in congregations that were super strict with KMs, but really the amount they get is determined by publishers + unbaptized publishers, so they are limited. but they've never been available publicly like this before, only authorized jw.org accounts could download them (often just MS/elders)
goes back to 2010 http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/lv/r1/lp-e/0/20283
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wow they're freely available on the website now as PDFs too http://www.jw.org/en/publications/kingdom-ministry/ , this is a big change in policy.
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Does the President of the WT have any power?
by BU2B ini thought about this after reading incognito's thread.
i was wondering if anyone here has any idea what the president of the wt actually does or if he truly has any real power, or if he is merely the gb puppet..
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Richard_I
Don Adams is approaching 90, but yes I assume he has some power, at least administratively. He signed & stamped some government-related forms for me that I had to show to government agencies, was kind of surprising to see his signature along with the title "President of the Watchtower and Bible Tract Society of Pennsylvania" on a piece of paper.
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1995 Outbreak of Ebola Virus in Zaire Traced to Jehovah's Witness Family
by Kenneson inthe first case of ebola raised its ugly head in 1976 in zaire, africa.
it remained dormant until 1995 when it struck again.
this time the virus was traced to one family.
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Richard_I
Bumping this due to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Here's an archive of Kenneson's first link: http://web.archive.org/web/20070814001700/http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/explanatory-journalism/works/ebola12.html
I haven't heard anything about how the JWs are doing in Liberia, Seirra Leone, Nigeria, and Guinea over this outbreak. Do they go door-to-door with gloves & face masks? Are they even going door-to-door in these towns/villages?
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Ken Little
by expatbrit inhello.. ken little is the canadian branch overseer.
i have met him once (across the lunch table at a circuit assembly).
my immediate reaction was that he is a complete company man, and fulfills his name perfectly.. i should like to know a little (har har) more about him, his background, business dealings, watchtower career, personality.
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Richard_I
I'm gonna bump this 11 year old thread because Ken Little's life story is in this month's study edition of the WT. You can read it all on JW.org here. In short:
- Seems to be born in 1932 (so he's ~82 right now)
- Arrived in Canada Bethel in 1952 (when he was ~20)
- Became a "company servant" (coordinator of the body of elders) in 1955 (when he was ~23)
- Married 1957 and became a CO in that same year (when he was ~25)
- Doing "district work" in 1960 (when he was ~28)
- Went to Gilead in 1961 (at ~29), where Knorr said he could go back to Canada Bethel to be a Kingdom Ministry School instructor, which he did a few months later
- Went back to Gilead in 1965 (~33)
- After graduating from Gilead, assigned by Knorr to Canada Bethel to be the branch overseer (Branch Commitee coordinator) at 34 years of age, which he still is
AFAIK he does not consider himself "annointed". He's the "top guy" in JWs in Canada, he would know everything that goes on related to JWs in Canada. I spoke to him a few times, he seemed fairly normal but with that tract record he has to be a huge "company man" to move up the ladder that fast. He's probably the best known Canadian JW after Glen Howe (a JW lawyer, died in 2008 at 89 years of age). Ken was also the one who signed the "settlement agreement" to take watchtower.ca from Peter Mosier.
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KIngdom Melodies 7 & 8
by SuperBoy inwould love to know why they aren't on the jw.org.. any ideas?.
it's a bit sad but i still listening to them.
i feel quite industrious when they are on so get the housework done..
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Richard_I
I asked the same question to my CO in 2008, SuperBoy. He wasn't even sure why it wasn't on JW.org, but you could still order them from the literature counter. I do not know if that is the case today, but if you are still in try asking them if they can order it.
The only reason I could see them not being on the website is due to a copyright claim that a song was plagiarized or that a song sounded too similar to a non-JW song.
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BOE - PDF - CONFIDENTIAL 2014-04-22 Adjustment in process for appointing elders and ministerial servants
by WatchTower87 inboe - confidential.
instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.
no virus ;-).
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Richard_I
This is too much power for a CO, now if the CO holds a grudge against a brother, nothing can be done. There's no DO to complain to, and I bet if the branch was contacted they wouldn't get involved. Power tripping CO's will be drooling when they read this letter.
Let the ass-kissing begin!
Thanks WatchTower87 for sharing this with us!
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Does anyone know what is happening with Italy's (Rome) Bethel???
by LoisLane looking for Superman inthere are rumors out, that the italy (rome) bethel is being shut down and putting out to pasture a large portion of the bethel staff.. has anyone heard anything... ?.
the word is that everyone but the most senior members will be let go.
the senior bethel family members will be reassigned.
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Richard_I
Selling it after Morris' visit reminds me of how Ted Jaracz visted a branch, everyone was so excited, he asked everyone what their responsibilities were, and then after he left many people were dismissed (I believe I read this on a thread on this site). Branch visits are just to trim the fat in disguise and making sure the branch commitee are in agreement with the GB.
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Audio of Detroit Propaganda Video
by kneehighmiah ini couldn't take video to avoid blowing my cover.
the audio quality could be better.
can anyone enhance it?.
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Richard_I
is this your recording, kneehighmiah? if thats the case, nice job, thank you very much for uploading it! guess they really are having trouble getting people to come to detroit