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  Allegheny Pyramid Desecrated

  by RolRod in

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  sometime within the last 2 weeks, someone took a sledgehammer to the pyramid monument in allegheny.

  they stole the topstone, smashed the cross and crown emblem and removed the seal.. personally i'm surprised it lasted this long untouched.

  although through the years russell's grave has been vandalized, it was always repaired by the bible students..

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  Mary Whitehouse? A different Mary Whitehouse than the famous British battle-axe for morality, I presume.
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  Researching published JW content is now hindered

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. bible

  the recent topic by comingoutamycage about the amount of words published by jws decreasing reminded me:.

  jws are now publishing more video content than printed content.

  all the printed content up until now has either officially or unofficially been made available in digital format with the ability to search for keywords, which removed a layer of control and allows us to instantly find any references to, say, 1975 or "this generation".

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  I think it’s fair also to say the magazines were increasingly illustrated with photo and art illustrations over time. That may gave accelerated in the 1980s, perhaps also due to the technology of colour reproduction.

  The Watchtower Study articles certainly got less wordy along the way too. I know a sister whose nickname was “paragraph 29” because she was always late for the meeting. But study articles never run to 29 paragraphs any more.
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  Researching published JW content is now hindered

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the recent topic by comingoutamycage about the amount of words published by jws decreasing reminded me:.

  jws are now publishing more video content than printed content.

  all the printed content up until now has either officially or unofficially been made available in digital format with the ability to search for keywords, which removed a layer of control and allows us to instantly find any references to, say, 1975 or "this generation".

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  Good points. I’d give your post a thumbs up, if I could.

  It’s easier to identify pre-1975 books Franz wrote: Babylon The Great Has Fallen! is a good example.

  Post 1975 I suspect he wrote, or helped write the Trinity brochure and the Divine Name brochure. But I don’t know what apart from that. I think he became blind in the 1980s so that may have curtailed his writing too. The Survival book is in the mould of Franz with all the typologies but I think that is credited to someone else (forget who) that probably followed in Franz’s footsteps theologically.
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  Randall Watters our old friend

  by new boy in

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  does anyone here know his where about or have any updates on him?

  he hasn't been active his face book in over a year.

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  He wrote a couple of short books, I think, one titled something like “What Really Happened at Bethel?” And “Thus Saith The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses”. The second seems to still be for sale, but I can’t find the first. Did I imagine it? He also published a newsletter about JWs for a while. I can’t remember the name of that either. I think a lot of the website content was first issued in the newsletter. It would be good to have all these items in an archive. Maybe Atlantis has already done it but don’t want to presume Atlantis has to do all the work all the time.
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  Researching published JW content is now hindered

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the recent topic by comingoutamycage about the amount of words published by jws decreasing reminded me:.

  jws are now publishing more video content than printed content.

  all the printed content up until now has either officially or unofficially been made available in digital format with the ability to search for keywords, which removed a layer of control and allows us to instantly find any references to, say, 1975 or "this generation".

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  A reasonable hypothesis might be that they were a bit flummoxed what to write after the 1975 prediction failed, so they scaled back their output. Fred Franz in particular might have decreased his written output after 1975, due the failed prophecy and due to old age. Arguably Watchtower output stabilised from 1984 onward, just as their growth numbers began to tick up again, they adjusted following the prophecy failure, and writers such as Harry Peloyan, Lloyd Barry, and Jack Barr came to the fore.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Boris Johnson currently doing Lloyd Evans in the UK. Will not accept responsibility and will not resign under any circumstances even if he ends up all by himself in the bunker. It’s psychotic at this stage.
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  Watchtower has fallen from 700k words/year to now to just 170k words/year

  by ComingOutaMyCage in

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  this is one of the many charts on my jw lib analytics.. i have also attached the top 500 scriptures from 1950-2022. https://comingoutamycage.github.io/jw_lib_analytics/viewwordsperyear.html?publication=watchtower&normal=1.

  https://i.postimg.cc/503yg1f7/word-count-watchtower.png.

  https://i.postimg.cc/gdmskjv-lib-analytics-view-top-scriptures-html.png.

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  slimboyfat

  To be fair, should add the words in video output, if that’s not included.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  slimboyfat

  Any chance I could have my likes restored, Simon?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  slimboyfat

  It’s completely pointless for me to click the like buttons at all because for some reason my likes were disabled sometime back in 2014 or thereabouts 😉
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  2022-07-01--Additional Contribution Box!

  by Atlantis in

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  the watchtower wants more money!.

  https://we.tl/t-jyt0susog5.

  atlantis!.

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  slimboyfat

  I think they are frustrated that online donations mean that it is difficult now for them to track exactly what each congregation is contributing. Maybe this is an attempt to regain some control over information about which congregations are contributing less money than others. Because in the past circuit overseers could see exactly how much the congregation was contributing and address the issue with the elders. But now the elders could truthfully say, “in this congregation the publishers donate online, so we can’t know how much they are donating”. Even if the circuit overseer or the branch suspects that a congregation is not pulling its weight, as they see it, it may be more difficult to identity these days.