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  Je Suis Charlie

  by Slidin Fast in

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  this incident in paris makes me feel absolutely furious.

  yes i feel desperately sorry for the victims and their families no one should have to deal with that.

  the thing that makes me feel absolutely incandescent though is the attack on freedom of speech and expression.

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  Quoting a journalist friend:

  We all have our tendencies towards certain ideologies or belief systems. For example, you can be a follower of Christ or be convinced socialism is the best socio-economic system, it doesn't matter. I'm an atheist. We are all different. We all have our individual or shared beliefs.

  Now, I feel we're being generally quite hypocritical as we tend to be more lenient towards acts of brutality depending on how loyal or disloyal we are to their alleged cause.

  I'm quite impressed by some of these scholars and how they really lay the responsibility of extremist elements within their own community. We should do this too. Ultimately, the justest way is to meet in the middle. It's where I meet my friends. We do this by moderating the extremes on our own end, not by targeting our so-called opponents.

  How Muslim Scholars View Paris Attack (In-depth)
  

  BTW  I live in Colombia. Since 1977 about 142 journalists got killed here (and none by a Muslim).
  
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  No longer to use "house to house record" slips and "please follow up slips"!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  a letter has just been read out indicating that effective immediately, witnesses are no longer to use the s-8 slip known as the "house to house" record slip, as well as the s-43 "please follow up" slip (usually used for foreign language people).. the letter stated that this is because of the changes in privacy laws etc that are becoming common in the world today.. i will try and get a copy of the full letter and post it asap.. .

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  I know the slips were banned in Belgium years ago. In The Netherlands they still used the forms when I got out (2012), I don't know the current situation. And for the foreign field (I was the ministerial servant in charge of the territory) we builded a nice program to keep track of all the foreign addresses, which we printed on S-8.
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  Does ANYONE use RSS anymore?

  by nicolaou in

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  just wondering .

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  I use RSS in Firefox. Love it. Especially for a dozen blogs that don't update every day, or news sites that have a lot of not-interesting articles.
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  This weeks service meeting! More craziness.....

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so this weeks service meeting is so full of "crazy".

  a whole 15 min part devoted to trying to indoctrinate everyone on how to "explain our beliefs on 1914".

  then another 15 min part called "a tool to help us explain our beliefs about 1914".

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  Tv.jw.org - Average Jdub reaction? I'm getting NOTHING but Silence!

  by 4thgen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello all, as you know, when jw tv was announced, our board went wild.

  many comments, much speculation and alot of negative feedback on the quality, etc.

  well, what has me concerned is that i have not heard a peep from any of my connections left in kingdom-land.

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  How many JW read their magazines? Read the Bible daily? Participate at the meetings? Pioneer? How many do recognize 'new light' when they read it? (Usually the WT needs a footnote to indicate: this is new light.) How many are really able to lead a Bible study? Etc.

  Really, most JW aren't very jolly about their religion: they're followers, not more. Maybe just 10% is really active and happy about it. The rest is mentally inactive.

  So, I am not suprised that most jdubs aren't very exited with tv.jw.org.
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  Rick Fenton, please stop lying!

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  makes a good point.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x8i192fbuq&list=uuz1w0ll081jjiycjb298pow.

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  Who is Rick Fenton?
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  Looking back to what happened since sept 2012... i must say its brilliant !

  by insidetheKH in

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  2. friends

  who thought in the early months of 2012 that such a rebranding would take place in only a matter of 24 months?.

  they managed to go from an antique looking and boring website (watchtower.org) with hardly any attractive content to go to a fresh looking new website with stuff for everyone, families, children, teenagers.. movies, and short videos about almost everything and new ones added every month.

  cartoons, animation video's , interviews, picture activities all kind of projects, many audio files like dramatic bible readings, dramas and music, online research tools, new brochures for kids (off and online) etc.

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  So, the OP is actually saying that until 2012 the WTG did not take care of it's members and didn't had much to offer.
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  TV.JW.ORG Productions Episode 1 - Brilliant!

  by 4thgen in

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  this is brillant!

  watch this before the wt takes this down!.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgstms2sioa.

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  OMG, that's freaky!
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  Watchtower encouraging members to go and preach in Israel

  by wannaexit in

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  2. friends

  an odd letter was read at last nights' meeting.

  it was in regards to a special campaign for next year arranged by the governing body to go and preach in israel.

  the call is going out to anybody that speaks hebrew and english.

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  From my own experience: traveling to Israel is very safe. Except for Gaza, which is pretty far away from every place where tourists will go.

  A few years ago we've visited a Dutch sister who lives in Israel since the 80s. She had some nice stories about the jewish opposition against JW. They are getting some serious threats now and then. So funny when she showed a poster which was distributed in her region with the faces of her and other JW and a nasty text (I don't remember the words). But in general she was really positive.
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  JW.Org Google Ranking Not Looking Good for WT!

  by JW GoneBad in

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  ^^ What Simon says. Google results are personalized.

  Try a privacy enabled search engine. Startpage.com uses Google for the results, but the results aren't based on your history: https://startpage.com/do/search?q=jehovah%27s+witnesses . The first 5 results (should be the same for everyone):

  1. Jehovah's Witnesses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses

     Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. According to August ...

  2. Jehovah's Witnesses—Official Website: jw.org

     www.jw.org

     Jehovah's Witnesses: Our official website provides online access to the Bible, Bible-based publications, and current news. It describes our beliefs and ...

  3. BBC - Religion: Jehovah's Witnesses

     www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/witnesses/

     Guide to the Jehovah's Witnesses, including beliefs, history, the Watchtower and medical ethics.

  4. Jehovah's Witnesses - Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

     www.carm.org/jehovahs-witnesses

     The Jehovah's Witnesses go door to door, distribute the Watchtower and Awake magazines, deny the Trinity, the deity of Christ, and deny his physical ...

  5. Jehovah's Witness Exposed Home Page

     www.bible.ca/jw.htm

     Exposes the history of the organization, the prophecy blunders, deceptive quoting, doctrinal flip flops, and corruption within the Jehovah's Witness organization.