Posts by 4thgen

if someone has done this before , i apologise but this was new to me.....struck me as strange that nowadays, the answers to life's problems are found on the internet .

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4thgen

Betcha the new tract distribution will be similar to this one, only promoting the new Tv.jw.org!

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TV.JW.ORG Productions Episode 1 - Brilliant!

by 4thgen in

this is brillant!

watch this before the wt takes this down!.

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

4thgen

This is BRILLANT! Watch this before the WT takes this down!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGsTms2sIOA

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New online JW TV channel released at the AGM

by kneehighmiah in

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TV.JW.ORG is coming!

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4thgen

*** 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

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.

4thgen

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.. .

4thgen

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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4thgen

*** 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."