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  World Wide Construction comes to a Shuddering Halt - Jehovah's Blessing has Evidently been Suspended!

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the chelmsford project in the uk has already come to a halt and every one has been sent home.

  the bethel family in london is to be cut by several hundred.

  my impression is that most ambitious youngster in the org dream of being involved with the building program.

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  I go away for a while, and come back to the Watchtower in shambles. Awesome!

  How much more can they cut back? Let's see...

  Getting brothers with computer access and printers to make physical copies for the elderly who are stuck in the dark ages is a good idea. What an opportunity to get to know our elderly congregation members better! Jehovah works in magnificent ways!

  Turn meetings into video-watching sessions. Well, that could happen in people's homes! Jehovah's organization embraces only the best in technology!

  Cutting down the number of conventions and assemblies until there's no more to cut is a good way to get rid of those expensive Conventions and Assembly complexes, although they'd probably be the last buildings to go.

  When the organization ordered the congregations to send them a set amount each month, I firmly believed that the organization had severed themselves from the Kingdom Halls. The Org can strike a Kingdom Hall dead if it so desires. If donations aren't up to par or are WAY down, they can just kill off the Kingdom hall and/or congregation. To hell with the members if they aren't donating. The members can have the option of meeting in homes to watch JW TV.

  My only question is, what is the end goal (if any)? Keeping the Governing Body fed and housed? Control is only good if you get a reward from it.
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  What are the costs of literature cart witnessing?

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the article on the guardian ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/jehovahs-witnesses-evangelism-church-god-armageddon ) mentioned in another thread, there's this quote of mark omalley, who is assigned to the public information desk at the jehovahs witness uk centre in north london.

  we now have more than 165,000 [literature] carts on the streets in over 50 countries.

  it gives us visibility and availability.

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  These carts are a good thing. They're not engaging people which means there will be less people converted to the JW way of life. It's just pointless busy work for the R+F, but it's exciting to them because it's new and different! Jehovah's chariot is moving at full speed.... towing a literature cart behind it.
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  Borg music video a real tear-jerker

  by Slave4_38y in

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  2. entertainment

  this is a must watch video.

  it brought tears of laughter!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-akomec3q.

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  Is the Watchtower going to release a "Jehovah's Greatest Hits" CD with all these crummy songs on it?
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  New Mascot - Translator Robot

  by Slave4_38y in

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  2. humour

  this is the latest offering from the caleb/sophia duo - lesson 16, preach in a foreign language.

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  Aren't they ALL supposed to be robots?
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  Those JW pins and Jewelry

  by AudeSapere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm not surprised but i must admit to a little eye roll.... looking at some photos on my brother's facebook page, i stumbled on a picture of our mother.

  it took a few cycles thru the photos before i realized that mom has a jw pin on her top.. not surprising, but wanted to share.. we have not spoken in a long time.

  for a while she was calling me every couple of weeks from her cell phone in the morning.

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  So what's the purpose of JW.org jewellery? Giving a witness? Identifying other JWs? Showing your dedication to your cult?
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  JW.ORG has jehovahs backing

  by antes8080 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  been hearing this from various people from the cong that jw.org is a clear sign that god is directing the org.. i have various friends in the it dept not only in brooklyn but mexico and colombia, just a fact there is 5 to 6 it dept all over the world that give support to jworgie 24/7... so i have ask them how they came up with the website wich is not the best but not the worst by far.

  all four of them told me the same story, there is a brother in florida that is profesor of some kind computer class and as project he made them work on the website so students of these college helped launch this site.. so more like jah backing it has more like satan backing...

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  OMG, really? This exists? Is this like the JW version of Mary Poppins?

  What really gets me is that the JWs used to tout that they didn't give credit to anybody because all praise should go to Jehovah. Now they've got the GB's names and faces splattered all over their videos. If they would have stuck to their original stance on who they should worship, there would be no names to go along with the people on the videos.

  Back when I was a JW, the names and faces of the GB members were generally unknown or unimportant (with the exception of CT Russell). Now we know all the stars behind Jehovah's cartoonish organization.
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  Jw Business Cards??? Really???

  by Nosferatu in

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  2. friends

  i got one from my mother.

  when the hell did they start doing this???.

  i'm guessing this is the way they're going to do it eventually.

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  US bethel could not produce them - so they were printed from 3 different "not JW-companies".

  You mean I touched a worldly business card??? Ewww
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  Jw Business Cards??? Really???

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got one from my mother.

  when the hell did they start doing this???.

  i'm guessing this is the way they're going to do it eventually.

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  I got one from my mother. When the hell did they start doing this???

  
  

  
  

  I'm guessing this is the way they're going to do it eventually. A card is much cheaper to print than a magazine. I wonder what the suggested donation price is for this piece of crap?
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  NEW SYSTEM SCHOOL - Exclusively for Dubbite Kids

  by AFRIKANMAN in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.newsystemschool.org/.

  anyone heard of this institution ?

  has it been covered on the forum ?.

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  Do they use the Awake! as a textbook? If they do, they must be smarter than the average college graduate.
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  All this new JW.org stuff is hurting my brain

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i just watched the singing cart video.

  i literally cannot describe how i felt watching that.. growing up as a jw was serious business.

  we had to take the preaching work seriously, watch our conduct, give a good witness by our actions, and be on our best behaviour to ensure we made it through the great tribulation.. when i was a child, i had dreams of being a cartoonist.

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  So I just watched the singing cart video. I literally cannot describe how I felt watching that.

  Growing up as a JW was serious business. We had to take the preaching work seriously, watch our conduct, give a good witness by our actions, and be on our best behaviour to ensure we made it through the great tribulation.

  When I was a child, I had dreams of being a cartoonist. I remember mentioning the idea of making a JW cartoon that would help preach the good news. The idea was shot down and I actually got scolded for it. Now they have that Sparlock and Caleb crap.

  I once coloured and painted in my copy of "My Book of Bible Stories". I got a beating for defacing Jehovah's books. Now they have downloadable colouring pages and connect the dots activities.

  I remember one particular assembly we had where some of the brothers were talking about giving a Kingdom Melody a rock beat and how wrong it was. Now we have songs about singing carts.

  And yeah, the carts themselves. This is serving Jehovah with your whole heart? I can throw a bunch of literature on a cart and walk around with it. Does a recycling cart count?

  And the whole JW broadcasting thing. After seeing Jimmy Swaggart crying on TV and having Oral Roberts beg for money, the last thing I thought I'd see is JW Television. But here it is.

  I guess I always expected the JW religion to stay the same no-fun dictatorship that it was when I left. I never in my wildest dreams expected them to turn into a parody of themselves. Just when I thought I had dealt with most of the issues I had when I left, they create new ones that just screw with my mind. It's just like when I found out (years later) that they changed the Generation of 1914 teaching. Finding out they had changed it made me extremely angry for a long time. Now that they've become everything I thought was wrong and worldly, I'm blown away again. I just can't wrap my mind around it.