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Series of articles about the March 15, 2015 Watchtower on AD1914.com

by Gilgamesh in

over the next 5 weeks, we should have 5 or 6 articles/posts that will provide more commentary on the march 15, 2015 watchtower.

important doctrinal changes in march 15th, 2015 watchtower (study edition) explained wp.me/p4cpzs-xo .

http://ad1914.com/2014/04/20/new-important-doctrinal-changes-in-march-15th-watchtower-study-edition-explained-clarified/.

Gilgamesh

Just completed another post to the ad1914.com blog. The one with the title that starts out [1 of 6] is the last one. So now the first two on the list below are linked. The articles are likely going to be rather tedious and long. I noticed that the Watchtower's own level of explanation about previous "type-antitype" parables and narratives was very skewed toward simple ones that didn't sound too difficult (Good Samaritan) or far-fetched (Naboth's Vineyard). I am replacing these with "The Prodigal Son" and "Elijah/Elisha" because these serve as a much better representation of the "type-antitype" genre, and make a much more realistic foundation for the discussion of the 3/15/15 articles themselves.

[Intro] Important DOCTRINAL CHANGES in March 15th, 2015 Watchtower Explained
[1 of 6] “This Is the Way You Approved” …The Prodigal Son
[2 of 6] “This is the Way You Approved” …Elijah/Elisha (avail. 12/29)
[3 of 6] The New and “Approved” Type of Watchtower Explanation (avail. 12/31)
[4 of 6] “Will You Keep on the Watch?”The Ten Virgins (avail. 1/5/2015)
[5 of 6] “Learn From the Illustration of the Talents” (avail. 1/12/2015)
[6 of 6] Conclusion: What Just Happened? (avail. 1/16/2015)

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Series of articles about the March 15, 2015 Watchtower on AD1914.com

by Gilgamesh in

over the next 5 weeks, we should have 5 or 6 articles/posts that will provide more commentary on the march 15, 2015 watchtower.

important doctrinal changes in march 15th, 2015 watchtower (study edition) explained wp.me/p4cpzs-xo .

http://ad1914.com/2014/04/20/new-important-doctrinal-changes-in-march-15th-watchtower-study-edition-explained-clarified/.

Gilgamesh

Terry,

I usually only work on behind-the-scenes projects that don't require a name or face because I'm in an odd situation with the JWs.

When Barbara Anderson brought up this idea about a site that celebrated the 100 years since 1914 ( ad1914.com ) I thought it was a great idea, especially because she had a lot of good ideas for such a site.

But I am not in a position to give out my name in any public way. Several people already know me of course, but I'm not anxious to get my experience tied to my name. Actually, I personally knew about half the people who provided experiences for AD1914. I didn't know you, but you might recall that I spoke to you on the phone and got a copy of your book: "I Wept by the Rivers of Babylon." I feel I know you pretty well now, and there was a lot in the book that we might use on the site when we get around to featuring authors of books about their JW experience.

And of course, I wished I had been able to erase my first 10 or more Gilgamesh posts, or change my name, especially after that first big argument I got into with Bill and friends. Anyway, that was my mistake. I'll learn to keep my mouth shut on certain subjects.

I enjoy your posts, btw.

Thanks

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Series of articles about the March 15, 2015 Watchtower on AD1914.com

by Gilgamesh in

over the next 5 weeks, we should have 5 or 6 articles/posts that will provide more commentary on the march 15, 2015 watchtower.

important doctrinal changes in march 15th, 2015 watchtower (study edition) explained wp.me/p4cpzs-xo .

http://ad1914.com/2014/04/20/new-important-doctrinal-changes-in-march-15th-watchtower-study-edition-explained-clarified/.

Gilgamesh

3-15-15-wt-UPDT

Over the next 5 weeks, we should have 5 or 6 articles/posts that will provide more commentary on the March 15, 2015 Watchtower

The first one is up there now.

New! Important DOCTRINAL CHANGES in March 15th, 2015 Watchtower (Study Edition) Explained wp.me/p4cpZS-xO

http://ad1914.com/2014/04/20/new-important-doctrinal-changes-in-march-15th-watchtower-study-edition-explained-clarified/

The new articles should be posted at about 1 per week. There's also a Twitter (800 followers) and Facebook page linked to ad1914.com to get notified as the new articles go up.

Thanks!

Excellent article by Tom Cabeen contributed to the new ad1914.com site

by Gilgamesh in

are we living in a special time?

http:// wp.me/p4cpzs-xi thought-provoking article by tom cabeen.

ex bethel elder and pressroom overseer.. ( http://ad1914.com/2014/11/20/are-we-living-in-a-special-time/ ).

Gilgamesh

Are We Living in a Special Time? http:// wp.me/p4cpZS-xI Thought-provoking article by Tom Cabeen. ex Bethel Elder and Pressroom Overseer.

( http://ad1914.com/2014/11/20/are-we-living-in-a-special-time/ )

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AD1914.com Website has about 300 Pix from Rutherford's FBI File for 1917 and 1918

by Gilgamesh in

barbara anderson had a great idea for the ad1914.com website that launched on october 1st (2014).

it's still getting a lot of attention even though it was especially launched to make a splash for october 1 & 2. i'm currently one of the admin/editors and i have a lot more respect now for everyone who runs a website.. the purpose of the site is to continue to focus attention on the 1914 doctrine and related doctrines.

to keep getting attention there is now a facebook page and a twitter account where new updated articles are mentioned.. i don't think anyone behind the site thinks that 1914 is such an important issue when there are real issues such as "high-control," blood & medical coercion, lifestyle coercion, hypocrisy/honesty issues, child abuse, 'persons having no natural affection,' shunning, etc, and the religion has therefore become a hotbed of psychological and emotional turmoil.. but 1914 is still one of those "weak links" in the chain that has exposed the so-called "faithful and discreet slave" as dishonest, unfaithful, unwise, indiscreet, and ever unable to serve spiritual food at the proper time.. ultimately, the goal of the site will be, not to compete with other sites that have done such a great job of exposing the watch tower doctrines and practices.

Gilgamesh

doykl,

Agree completely on the out-of-order problem. Haven't figured out a quick tech solution yet, except to reload them all in a different order.

In case anyone knows the answer I'll explain the tech problem. After a whole day of putting them in a pretty good order in a Flickr album along with 5 other related albums, I attached it to the WP blog behind 1914.com , and it turns out that I couldn't link to a specific album -- I can only use an RSS link to the entire Flickr Photostream. This also meant that 5 albums were intermingled. So at the last minute I just copied the "doc dump" into a new album and deleted all the other albums, the order was lost, and the only way to get the "title picture" was to reload it so it came up last.

When I get some time, I'll have to reload all of them in reverse order of the intended display.

What might also be of interest to people are the pages for about 10 other groups that were similarly targeted with the JWs, but that's a few hundred more pages with less interest to most of us.

Greg

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AD1914.com Website has about 300 Pix from Rutherford's FBI File for 1917 and 1918

by Gilgamesh in

barbara anderson had a great idea for the ad1914.com website that launched on october 1st (2014).

it's still getting a lot of attention even though it was especially launched to make a splash for october 1 & 2. i'm currently one of the admin/editors and i have a lot more respect now for everyone who runs a website.. the purpose of the site is to continue to focus attention on the 1914 doctrine and related doctrines.

to keep getting attention there is now a facebook page and a twitter account where new updated articles are mentioned.. i don't think anyone behind the site thinks that 1914 is such an important issue when there are real issues such as "high-control," blood & medical coercion, lifestyle coercion, hypocrisy/honesty issues, child abuse, 'persons having no natural affection,' shunning, etc, and the religion has therefore become a hotbed of psychological and emotional turmoil.. but 1914 is still one of those "weak links" in the chain that has exposed the so-called "faithful and discreet slave" as dishonest, unfaithful, unwise, indiscreet, and ever unable to serve spiritual food at the proper time.. ultimately, the goal of the site will be, not to compete with other sites that have done such a great job of exposing the watch tower doctrines and practices.

Gilgamesh

Barbara Anderson had a great idea for the ad1914.com website that launched on October 1st (2014). It's still getting a lot of attention even though it was especially launched to make a splash for October 1 & 2. I'm currently one of the admin/editors and I have a lot more respect now for everyone who runs a website.

The purpose of the site is to continue to focus attention on the 1914 doctrine and related doctrines. To keep getting attention there is now a facebook page and a twitter account where new updated articles are mentioned.

I don't think anyone behind the site thinks that 1914 is such an important issue when there are REAL issues such as "high-control," blood & medical coercion, lifestyle coercion, hypocrisy/honesty issues, child abuse, 'persons having no natural affection,' shunning, etc, and the religion has therefore become a hotbed of psychological and emotional turmoil.

But 1914 is still one of those "weak links" in the chain that has exposed the so-called "faithful and discreet slave" as dishonest, unfaithful, unwise, indiscreet, and ever unable to serve spiritual food at the proper time.

Ultimately, the goal of the site will be, not to compete with other sites that have done such a great job of exposing the Watch Tower doctrines and practices. The goal is to begin to index and highlight the best of chronology-related websites that expose the weakness and dishonesty behind 1914.

Every month or so, we'll add a new ex-JW life experience, so if anyone here knows of additional ones to add, or has one to offer, drop a line or a comment and we'll follow up.

Parody material always gets a lot of attention, too, so we'll be looking for more material of the kind that Ann O'Maly contributed.

For today, I added about 300 pix from Rutherford's FBI file. They are not well sorted yet, and you have to know how to use flickr if you want to add comments, or view them full screen. But there's a lot of interesting stuff in there, that a lot of JWs have never seen, and the FBI sprinkled in a lot of anti-Rutherford and anti-Russell material that fits the purpose of the site.

Always looking for good ideas... So thanks in advance.

This was the FB notification:

Rutherford's FBI Files now on ad1914.com. (from 1917 and 1918)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128958466@N07 OVER 300 PAGES/PICS

Gilgamesh

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PART DEUX: AN ALTERNATIVE CONVERSATION WITH A NEIGHBOR - Watchtower, November 2014

by AnnOMaly in

the second contrived and unrealistic conversation that one of jehovahs witnesses imagined having with a neighbor in the november 2014 watchtower will not be reproduced here.

instead let us imagine the other witness named andre (sorry, i meant) cameron has returned to the home of the other man also named jon.. nebuchadnezzars dream a tortuous recapcameron: hi there, neighbor!.

jon: whoa!

Gilgamesh

Ann, Thanks for your permission to include this on ad1914.com It's really great. http://ad1914.com/2014/10/28/jon-cameron-pt2/

An Alternative Conversation With A Neighbor, Part Deux – Watchtower, November 2014 ad1914.com The second contrived and unrealistic conversation that one of Jehovah’s Witnesses imagined having with a neighbor in the November 2014 Watchtower will not be...

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AN ALTERNATIVE CONVERSATION WITH A NEIGHBOR - Watchtower, October 2014

by AnnOMaly in

the contrived and unrealistic conversation that one of jehovahs witnesses imagined having with a neighbor in the october 2014 watchtower will not be reproduced here.

instead let us imagine another conversation another witness named andre (ahem, sorry) cameron has at the home of another man who is also named jon.keep searching for a suckercameron: jon, ive really enjoyed the regular discussions weve been having about the bible.

* the last time we spoke, you raised a question about gods kingdom.

Gilgamesh

Thanks to Ann, this was also contributed to the "Parody" section on ad1914.com JON & CAMERON Show! Watchtower's 1914 dialog for JWs. http://ad1914.com/2014/04/20/the-jon-and-cameron-show/ …

An Alternative Conversation With A Neighbor - Watchtower, October 2014 ad1914.com Contributed by Ann O'Maly (Parody based on the Jon & Cameron conversation published in the October 2014 Watchtower.)

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TV.JW.ORG is coming!

by Oubliette in

Gilgamesh

Hey Wanna See Something Really Scary?

The ad1914.com site has some interesting snippets from JWB:

really-scary

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AD1914.com Coming Soon!!

by ABibleStudent in

i visited the jehovah's witness report website today.

i read the following article:.

on october 1st 2014, barbara anderson will join in and participate in the launch of a new website ad1914.com.

Gilgamesh

Hey Wanna See Something Really Scary? http://wp.me/p4cpZS-vb http://ad1914.com/

I see that jw-archive took the Governing Body Committee list and tacked their own URL onto the place where it used to say ad1914.com