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  TV.JW.ORG is coming!

  by Oubliette in

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  *** g78 4/22 p. 7 How Television Can Hurt ***

  How Television Can Hurt

  AT ONE time, some researchers thought that television programs did not have any lasting negative influence. A few even claimed that programs featuring violence could help by serving as "safety valves," helping to curb such tendencies in people.

  But that was before there had been enough time to analyze the effects of the viewing of TV programs for years. Now, prolonged studies almost unanimously agree that, when improperly used, TV can hurt, and hurt badly.

  It Does Influence

  The claim that a steady diet of TV programs featuring violence, depravity and immorality has little or no effect does not stand up to scrutiny. If this is so, then why do companies spend billions of dollars advertising their products and services on TV?

  These advertisers know that TV, as a medium of communication, has a profound effect. Their advertising conditions people mentally so that they will buy their products. Surely, the commercial leaders of the world are not so simple-minded as to throw away money if TV advertising has little or no effect.

  The same is the case with the content of TV programs. People are bound to be influenced one way or another by spending large amounts of time watching them.

  To say that a steady diet of bad TV programs has little effect on the mind is like saying that a steady diet of bad food has little effect on the body’s health. To a large extent, your body’s health depends upon good food. Eat bad food long enough and your health will be damaged. In the same way, your mental health is largely determined by what you feed your mind. Too much bad mental food over a long period of time can adversely affect your mind.
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  can anyone verify the new "basic pioneer" rumor?

  by Chris Tann in

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  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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  Oh I can see it now: "Yes, the work to speed up. Our pioneer numbers tripled, because of the impact of tv.jw.org! Praise Jah!"
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  tv.jw.org is for the haves and not for the have not

  by Gorbatchov in

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  the new tv.jw.org tv-religion is typically for the western jw's and will at a time be used for money collecting.. but the have not?

  they have no internet in africa.

  so the difference between the western and the southern jw will rise.. .

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  Yeah, I wondered when they were going to drag out the RNW Mal 3:10 about tithing. I think I just got my answer....tv.jw.org....
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  JW broadcasting now at tv.jw.org

  by Gorbatchov in

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  the jw broadcasting is now at the subdomain tv.jw.org.

  goes live today.. g.. .

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  *** g78 4/22 p. 4 What Are People Saying About Television? ***

  What Kind of Influence?

  Because of television’s influence, some people are saying that it can be blamed for many of this world’s ills. An editorial by William Shannon in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer declared: "If we are a less happy, less confident, less intelligent people than we were 30 years ago, a generation of television watching is largely responsible."

  In the book The Plug-in Drug, author Marie Winn claims that television is largely responsible for a serious decline in reading and writing skills, the tearing apart of the family, the rise of the drug culture, the emergence of a new breed of vicious young criminals, and a generation of children suffering from no less than an imbalance of the mind.

  A family man in the United States said: "I am old enough to remember when families or children didn’t have television. I believe television has been one of the most damaging influences to the modern-day family. The extent of the damage is now becoming more evident."

  In Japan, Mrs. Kimiko Takisawa, a leader of the Society for Responsible Television, said that TV has "brought about our cultural destruction." And the Melbourne, Australia, Sun reported: "Television viewing can have the same effect as severe brain damage."
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  Children & TV....OMG tv.jw.org Would you let the GB watch your kids?????]

  by 4thgen in

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  well, it's starts today.

  the jw's know what they are doing to corrupt young minds.. ***g749/8p.11theimpactoftv***.

  another problem is that very young children believe what they see on tv; they do not distinguish between reality and a make-believe world.

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  Well, it's starts today. The JW's know what they are doing to corrupt young minds.

  *** g74 9/8 p. 11 The Impact of TV ***

  Another problem is that very young children believe what they see on TV; they do not distinguish between reality and a make-believe world. Youngsters also have difficulty relating events to context. How are they affected, for instance, when they see a "good guy" doing something bad? A code adopted in Great Britain to curb the amount of violence on television specified: "Good men doing evil things to secure a good purpose provide a bad message to young children."

  *** w88 8/1 pp. 11-12 pars. 8-9 Parents—Reach Your Child’s Heart From Infancy ***

  They use television as a baby-sitter. "Not now, honey. I’m busy. Go watch television," they tell their children. [What better way to brainwash and get free baby sitting. Would you let the GB watch your kids?????]

  A prominent television broadcaster says that these are "the most often spoken words in many American households." And yet sending children off to watch whatever may be on television amounts, in effect, to letting them on the loose. (Proverbs 29:15) It constitutes a sad neglect of parental responsibility. As this broadcaster noted regarding raising children: "It is time consuming and a great responsibility this parenting business and it may not be delegated, certainly not to the television set."

  9 However, because of the pressure of the times in which we live, you may be inclined, as the disciples were, to turn children aside so that you can attend to what may be thought of as more important business. But what is more important than your own children? Their spiritual lives are at stake! You may recall that when the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred in the Soviet Union in 1986, children were removed from the region to protect them from the pollution. Similarly, if you are to guard the spiritual health of your children, you need to protect them from the world’s poisonous "air," which is so often spewed out from the television set.—Proverbs 13:20.
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  WARNING - DON'T SIGN IN TO JW LANGUAGE APP

  by cultBgone in

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  unless you are willing to have all your movements tracked on the internet and your files opened to the watchtower, don't sign in.

  here's what will happen:.

  to install the app - you will give the jw-app access to:.

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  Did I hear you say "Big Brother?"
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  3 Flash Mob songs performed by a choir of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  So, why did they do this? What was the point? To praise God? It was so stupid. It had no purpose other than to attract attention and flaunt their beliefs. This JW.org is a mess.
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  JW broadcasting now at tv.jw.org

  by Gorbatchov in

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  the jw broadcasting is now at the subdomain tv.jw.org.

  goes live today.. g.. .

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  It's amazing, how they are now using TELEVISION ------------ THE DEVILS EYEBALL--------------

  To spread their message!

  
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  TV.JW.ORG is coming!

  by Oubliette in

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  TV Evangelism - Wrong, now Right!

  by The Searcher in

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  w86 11/15 p. 21 insight on the news - tv evangelismgods way?.

  "if jesus laid such emphasis on this method of preaching in order to make disciples, why do many evangelists prefer tv as their medium?

  the courier-mail of brisbane, australia, notes that tv evangelists make up to $120 million a year selling salvation.

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  *** g81 3/22 pp. 5-8 The Electric Church Turns On ***

  "How does that message square with Jesus’ warning that the road to life is not easy, but difficult—“narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it”? (Matt. 7:14) Does that sound as though eternal life can be yours merely by dialing Channel 21? [No, only by tv.jw.org]

  Consider this further admonition from Jesus Christ: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross [torture stake, New World Translation] daily, and follow me.” (Luke 9:23, Authorized Version) Does a person deny himself and take up his “cross” daily propped in front of the TV? Could Jesus Christ really approve of a religion that promises people easy salvation—no torture stake, no self-denial—for just a monthly check to somebody’s “worldwide TV ministry”?"

  *** g88 3/22 p. 7 Do Today’s Religions Feed or Fleece the Flock? ***

  On one of ABC’s Nightline series of programs on the televangelists, ABC correspondent Marshall Frady said: “At the least, as a number have begun to notice, all the trappings of modern television evangelism seem a long way from the original simplicity of that intense young Galilean mystic without property, without any boards of directors, who just trudged about a dusty corner of the earth talking, two thousand years ago.”

  *** w86 11/15 p. 21 Insight on the News ***

  TV Evangelism—God’s Way?

  If Jesus Christ were on earth today, asserted TV evangelist Jim Bakker, “he’d have to be on TV.” Why television? Because, according to Bakker, “that would be the only way he could reach the people he loves.” Like Bakker, an increasing number of fundamentalist preachers in the United States feel that television is the best medium for spreading the Word of God. Yet, a 1984 study showed that, for the most part, TV evangelists “reinforce people already committed to evangelical religion.”

  Interestingly, in a letter to the editor of the magazine Ministry, one reader wrote: “You said they [television sets] are the church’s most powerful gospel seed-sowing tools, and yet God says the most essential work is house-to-house visitation—soul hunting. . . . Our Saviour loved to get away from the multitude, and then He went from house to house—soul hunting. The one-soul audience was His delight. . . . Can we not do the same?”

  According to Jesus Christ, the purpose of the Christian ministry was not just to ‘spread the Word’ but to “make disciples.” (Matthew 28:19, 20) He directed his followers to go to people’s homes. (Matthew 10:7, 11-13) The apostle Paul accepted this preaching method and said regarding his ministry: “I did not hold back from telling you any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.” The personalized house-to-house ministry of the disciples reaped good results.—Acts 5:42; 20:20.

  If Jesus laid such emphasis on this method of preaching in order to make disciples, why do many evangelists 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. . . . For all their tactics, these men who claim to manipulate even God, come down in the end to a straight business deal. Send them $10 and they will send you to heaven.”