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  New "donation" arrangement begins to FAIL

  by Tech49 in

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  so here we are, almost a year into the "new" congregation donation arrangement.

  and its beginning, as was predicted, to fail miserably, and to have direct negative consequences on the poor sheep.. let me give you a little experience, directly from our congregation of about 80 publishers.

  back in may, after reading the letter about the "new" arrangement, the elder body decided to "donate" the extra funds on hand to wt, as directed.

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  DesirousOfChange - I know of a pioneer brother who had a very fancy custom-bound leather NWT with a large section from that old Watchtower including that quote pasted into the inside cover of his fancy leather binding. Ironic that the WTBTS has got rid of that translaton and also pretty much breaking that promise.
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  First 27" 2560 x 1440 144Hz G-sync IPS-type panel

  by glenster in

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  acer predator xb270hu current champ of the gaming monitors http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_xb270hu.htm http://www.overclock.net/t/1536499/official-acer-xb270hu-27-1440p-144hz-g-sync-ips-ulmb-monitor-thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2f9myd0qy.

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  Also hopefully monitors with AMD's FreeSync will be coming out later in the year too and they might have HDMI as well as DisplayPort - maybe best to wait on this one, but nice to see monitor manufacturers at least trying to keep pace - they've been very stagnant lately.

  I'd much rather have an AMD/ATI card anyway - I still haven't forgiven nVidia for the "bumpgate" fiasco and lying.
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  Letter for More Free Workers Required by the ORG!

  by The Searcher in

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  letter read out at meeting last night - for scotland!.

  the scottish rbc urgently requires qualified plumbers who are registered central heating installers.. also, they are looking for volunteers to train as plumbers for the scottish rbc.

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  It also doesn't help that most of the skilled people in Scottish congregations got poached or got bored and went to do temporary volunteering down at the London Bethel and/or international construction.
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  The Largest BOE File Ever Compiled!

  by Atlantis in

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  watchtower body of elder letters:.. this pdf file is the largest boe file ever compiled.

  it has been downloaded at least 30 times with no virus issues.

  the file is from 1905 to 2015 updated, and includes all the elder manuals from 1961 to 2010 at the bottom of the bookmarks.

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  Lots of little gems in there - I've never seen those little public talk outline change request slips before - i.e. page 11209

  I knew they existed as the P.O. here used to make the corrections by hand to the congregation's box of outlines. Nowadays it's just a PDF file that gets distributed and updated similar to this one.

  Thanks!
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  Letter for More Free Workers Required by the ORG!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
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  letter read out at meeting last night - for scotland!.

  the scottish rbc urgently requires qualified plumbers who are registered central heating installers.. also, they are looking for volunteers to train as plumbers for the scottish rbc.

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  I think I probably know who your grandfather is, notsurewheretogo.

  Things were always a bit tense with the RBC in Scotland and London Bethel. I don't think they realize we build things differently up here to cope with the much harsher climate and weather - i.e. every roof tile needs at least a clip and/or a nail. Bethel also said they should do roofs without sarking boards, which means it's less safe to work on and doesn't cope with the weather as well.
  
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  this week's bible reading leviticus chap 19 - 21 - my opening remarks

  by user100 in

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  so.. some asshole visits another asshole but a mob erupts and wants to rape the visiting asshole.. the host asshole offers his daughter and the visiting asshole's concubine to appease the mob.. sure enough.. the concubine ends up gang raped and murdered.

  in the morning the visiting asshole loads her up on his donkey, takes her home, dismembers her body into 12 pieces and sends it to all the tribes to incite war.. so an army of 22,000 is formed, some prick goes and asks jehovah if they should go and destroy the gang raping mob.. and jehovah says 'yes.. do it.

  they go to fight and loose all 22,000 die.

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  I think you mean Judges 19 - 21.

  irondork did a good explanation of why a comparison with this account helps explain what the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was - rape is mainly about control, not sex:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/243651/sin-sodom-gomorrah-what-does-bible-really-teach
  
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  Letter for More Free Workers Required by the ORG!

  by The Searcher in

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  letter read out at meeting last night - for scotland!.

  the scottish rbc urgently requires qualified plumbers who are registered central heating installers.. also, they are looking for volunteers to train as plumbers for the scottish rbc.

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  Oh, was that only for Scotland? The way it was read out, for some reason I thought it was for the whole of the U.K.

  Is there even still a Scottish RBC anymore? Is it not just U.K. teams coordinated from London Bethel now?
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  First 27" 2560 x 1440 144Hz G-sync IPS-type panel

  by glenster in

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  acer predator xb270hu current champ of the gaming monitors http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_xb270hu.htm http://www.overclock.net/t/1536499/official-acer-xb270hu-27-1440p-144hz-g-sync-ips-ulmb-monitor-thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2f9myd0qy.

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  TFT Central shows you photos of the underside and there is quite clearly no HDMI, as they state.

  TFT Central is a great site - very thorough reviews, so I would definitely trust them over any forum.
  

  The Asus website product page agrees too: http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/xb0

  Also it looks like they're doing a 28" 4K resolution version - sweet!
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  New "donation" arrangement begins to FAIL

  by Tech49 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so here we are, almost a year into the "new" congregation donation arrangement.

  and its beginning, as was predicted, to fail miserably, and to have direct negative consequences on the poor sheep.. let me give you a little experience, directly from our congregation of about 80 publishers.

  back in may, after reading the letter about the "new" arrangement, the elder body decided to "donate" the extra funds on hand to wt, as directed.

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  _Morpheus - it's just for the congregation here as far as I know because it looked like they weren't emptying the box often enough.
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  First 27" 2560 x 1440 144Hz G-sync IPS-type panel

  by glenster in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  acer predator xb270hu current champ of the gaming monitors http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_xb270hu.htm http://www.overclock.net/t/1536499/official-acer-xb270hu-27-1440p-144hz-g-sync-ips-ulmb-monitor-thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2f9myd0qy.

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  Wow umm okay - not the sort of post I'm used to seeing on JWN, but incidentally that is an awesome monitor.
  
  Bit of a shame it doesn't have HDMI