1992 Nethinim to the Governing Body
stillajwexelder
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Bullet list of major (recent) changes
by RN init is with great interest that i recently read ceders article on the decline of the wts.
his article along with many of the comments really drives home just how many major changes there have been in a fairly short peroid of time.. somewhere in the recent past i could swear that someone had posted a bullet list of major changes with the corresponding year.
when i saw this (or something like it) my first thought was that this simple list made it all the more shocking; and since i have searched and cannot find anything like it.. so i dug around and started one of my own, please feel free to add/corrects events.
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Fabius Maximus (or Why The Watchtower Will Lose)
by metatron inonce upon a time, there was a military commander named fabius maximus (the name sounds silly, i know, like gluteous maximus).
he faced a more powerful enemy he could not directly defeat - and so was born "the fabian strategy".. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fabius_maximus.
it worked in the american revolution.. it worked in vietnam.
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stillajwexelder
I think it is ironic (not totally sure if that is the correct word) but in the Middle Ages the printing press saw a decline in the power and prestige of the Roman Catholic Church.
I have consistently said in this forum since I joined in 2003, that the internet will prove (when history is written) to be a huge nail in the coffin (not necessarily the total demise) of the WTBTS.
It is all about control - control of information, and the Internet is all about free flow of information.
Even the WTBTS has started using it more - downloads of WTs, etc. As the OP -Metatron has pointed out - it totally has changed publishing/printing in general - so even magazines/periodicals/newspapers (even porn) are struggling. We are in a brave new world. Watch this space
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Fabius Maximus (or Why The Watchtower Will Lose)
by metatron inonce upon a time, there was a military commander named fabius maximus (the name sounds silly, i know, like gluteous maximus).
he faced a more powerful enemy he could not directly defeat - and so was born "the fabian strategy".. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fabius_maximus.
it worked in the american revolution.. it worked in vietnam.
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stillajwexelder
Breakfast of Champions said -- Yes, I believe you are correct. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
AGREED +1
They can survive for a long time. They will have to sell real estate and live off that - but slowly -but surely - it will happen. UNLESS ------ they stop being a publishing organization -and become a construction organization- built off free/cheap labor. It may buy them another 30 years or more.
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Examples of Fredrick Franz Horrible personality.
by Witness 007 inin he's nephews book i could not believe some of the things he mentions.
when his father died fred franz told his mother he could not go to the funeral because he was just too busy at bethel.
she spoke to rutherford who ordered him to go.
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stillajwexelder
zero people skills
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The ugliest statment A parent can say to their child.
by jam inmy ex (jw) told my two youngest 9 and 11, your dad.
wanted more kids, meaning them.
we had two older.. how would a child feel after their mother tell them, i really.
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stillajwexelder
A sad but great thread.
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Image Subliminal nº 094 - YIN-YANG
by indicetj.com in.
look no 94: yin-yang.
http://indicetj.com/pdf/estudo_2_jehovah.htm.
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stillajwexelder
Great link - thank you for posting
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US Politics - please read
by Simon inwe're already being innundated with the drivel that is the us political process.. propaganda, right and left.
no one wants to discuss or debate, they just want to shout in each others faces.. so, here's the rules:.
you can discuss politics as long as you are discussing things.if you just post copy-and-paste propaganda it will be deleted.if you post it in anywhere but the politics area it will be deleted.if it's the inane "obama can't prove he was born" or "romney is an alien" crap then it will be deleted.if you repeatedly violate the above, including trying to get threads shut-down, then you will be deleted.this has been a public service announcement on behalf of the "i dont' give a shit, the government always gets elected" party.. .
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stillajwexelder
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Sad news Re: Menlo Park Congregation
by Devil_Fish init saddens me to inform you that ruth edwards has passed.
ruth was a long time member of the menlo park congregation.
when the letter was read that indicated that john cobb, jason cobb, walter st. clair, and george stock had been removed from their post as elders, ruth fainted and needed to be taken to the hospital.
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stillajwexelder
Can someone kindly post a link/thread about what happened in this congregation and why elders needed to be removed.
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My son was murdered today
by truman ini have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
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stillajwexelder
My god -I am so sorry. I wish I could share your pain but know this is not possible. My heart goes out to you.
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Interview with former Watchtower P.R. man Robert Jankowski
by Dogpatch inlast week i took a trip down to santa ana, ca.
and met robert jankowski, a name i heard very often at bethel in the late 70s.
robert was one of the voices of many watchtower drama characters in the 70s, along with tom cabeen, who he often worked with.. in addition, the watchtower was allowed a slot on local radio stations every sunday (allowed by law free of charge to churches then) , which he provided to the radio stations in cassette form in advance.
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stillajwexelder
great link thanks