AndDontCallMeShirley

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  TV.JW.Org - WTF is Wrong With This Guy? - CAPTION THEM

  by passwordprotected in

  1. jw
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  i've heard about his bombastic, overly patronising, cartoon-ish delivery before, but i'd never actually seen it...until now.

  and i should add, this religion bears little to no relation to the one i left 6 years ago.. .

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Just saying that 8 weeks to design, procure and build a studio is pretty good going.

  I take this with a very large grain of salt.

  Remember, this is an organization that traditionally brags that it's the first, the best, the fastest, the greatest ad nauseum...with no outside sources to verify anything it has actually done. And, WT doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation for honesty or accuracy.

  More likely the WT spent months, maybe longer, planning this. Then when everything was assembled and ready to go they simply bolted the parts together, then claim they did it all in only two months.
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  TV.JW.Org - Expense?

  by passwordprotected in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there's no doubt that the wtbts isn't sparing the hard-earned donations from the r&f on its latest trial of jw broadcasting.. this screenshot i took from the "behind-the-scenes" is just one of many examples of top-end tech gear being used in this endeavour.. .

  why does this guy need harmankardon speakers when he's using cad software...and note the iphone.

  this guy's a bethelite?.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  WT cost/benefit formula:

  One super duper TV studio

  -or-

  5,000 new Kingdom Halls in any-number of-third-world-countries-of-your-choice.

  The final decision was a GB no-brainer.

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  Note that jw.tv is broadcast only in English. So much for reaching out to the disenfranchised (read: nothing to donate to WT) crowd.

  "Yet, a 1984 study showed that, for the most part, TV evangelists "reinforce people already committed to evangelical religion." W 11/15/86

  jw.tv isn't designed to gain converts...its sole purpose is to keep the captive JW more captivated.
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  How Much Drinking Is Too Much?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have seen that some say if a man has 3 beers per day or a woman has 2 glasses of wine per day, that they may have .

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  @ jam:

  1) you lose arguments with inanimate objects.

  2) you have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling

  off the earth.

  3) your doctor finds traces of blood in your alcohol stream.

  4) you believe alcohol to be the elusive 5th food group.

  5) the parking lot seems to have moved while you were in

  the bar.

  6) mosquitoes catch a buzz after attacking you.

  7) that stupid pink elephant followed me home again.....

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  You forgot one, jam

  8) JW.Org videos start to look interesting.
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  Tv.jw.org - Here we go, "with your support" mentioned in the first 10 minutes of broadcast!

  by 4thgen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  see minute 6:25 "with your support....".

  http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodmonthlyprogramming/pub-jwb_e_201410_1_video.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  I refuse to click on that link. I don't want to be a unique visitor in next months KM.

  As if their published numbers are real.

  You'll be counted whether you actually go to JW Org or not.
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  Tv.jw.org - Here we go, "with your support" mentioned in the first 10 minutes of broadcast!

  by 4thgen in

  1. jw
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  see minute 6:25 "with your support....".

  http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodmonthlyprogramming/pub-jwb_e_201410_1_video.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  "The Governing Body has approved..."

  I feel so much better now.

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  "sensing" and "feeling" Jehovah's "obvious" direction.

  WT ordered and paid for equipment, then it arrived.

  Yes, this is obviously Jehovah's direction, because in all the time TV has existed, never once has a TV station ordered equipment and it actually arrived.

  This only happens for Watchtower.
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  TV.JW.ORG is HERE!

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://tv.jw.org/ is up and running.. see bro lett stumble his way through the introduction.

  he really does have a good face for radio.. http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodmonthlyprogramming/pub-jwb_e_201410_1_video.

  nice sweaty top lip at 15 mins onwards - the pressure is showing!!.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  So if Jehovah has clearly blessed this, it seems the GB will determine whether to continue running with it or not.

  WT has always told Jehovah what to do and routinely revises His decisions. Why should this be any different?
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  can anyone verify the new "basic pioneer" rumor?

  by Chris Tann in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so it's rumored started by one member that there is a new pioneer rank called basic pioneer, announced at annual meeting.

  can anyone verify this is true?

  everything else presented at the meeting has been verified except this.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  What's up with the 10 virgins? After all that time the new light is that they were not virgins after all??

  They are "basic" virgins.
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  can anyone verify the new "basic pioneer" rumor?

  by Chris Tann in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so it's rumored started by one member that there is a new pioneer rank called basic pioneer, announced at annual meeting.

  can anyone verify this is true?

  everything else presented at the meeting has been verified except this.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  I think it is a rumor. Why? Because it would be so stupid to do that....

  I dont think the powers that be are THAT stupid...............

  Since when has this ever stopped the GB?

  "Overlapping Generation" anyone?
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  I...I have no words

  by Theredeemer in

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  i cannot wrap my mind around the fact that there is jw tv.

  being a born in and living most of my life hearing how tv evangelism is wrong and lazy preaching yet seeing this unfold solidifies this religion as a cult!.

  i remember back when i began my fade a few years ago i told my brother during an argument how this religion is just like any other religion in that its bull.

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  Being a born in and living most of my life hearing how tv evangelism is wrong

  It's only wrong when other religions do it.

  Just put it on the same long list as all the other things WT has condemned other religions for doing...only to see WT eventually do it themselves.
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  TV.JW.ORG is coming!

  by Oubliette in

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  AndDontCallMeShirley

  The 11/15/86 WT quoted earlier sums up why the GB are now using television:

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  "...why do many evangelists [now The GB too] prefer TV as their medium? The Courier-Mail of Brisbane, Australia, notes that TV evangelists “make up to $120 million a year selling salvation. They appear in a blaze of electrified power and glory on 300 TV stations, and are worshipped like pop idols."