Juan Viejo2
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Everyone here should see this video
by Juan Viejo2 ini'm sure that many of you here are familiar with ted.org.
if you're not, you should check it out.
there is a wealth of information on every kind of subject located there.. i stumbled across this short (6 minute) talk by a former moonie turned deprogrammer.
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Dying to find out if you made it to Paradise
by Juan Viejo2 ini remember as a jw kid listening to a special talk about life after death by lester dugan, a circuit overseer whose mother attended our kingdom hall.
i don't think he was our circuit servant (in fact i'm pretty sure he was not), but he would visit our hall about twice a year when he took time to see his elderly mom.. his talk was about life after death and achieving paradise through good works and staying active in the preaching work.
after nearly 60 years, i remember very little of the bulk of his talk, but i do remember a couple of questions that he answered afterwards:.
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New Mini-Survey: Holidays and Celebrations
by Juan Viejo2 injohn cedars and i have put up a new survey to find out what current and former jws think about celebrating "worldly holidays.
" this survey does not include the memorial - only traditional and secular types of holidays.
please check it out and vote.. if you haven't voted on the other two mini-surveys, please take an extra couple of minutes and give us your opinions on those as well.
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New Health Worker Rules
by Juan Viejo2 inthe obama administration on friday (2/18/2011) eliminated key provisions of a george w. bush-era rule that allowed health workers to opt out of medical services they find objectionable on religious or personal grounds.
the rule was widely interpreted as allowing workers to refuse to participate in a range of services, including providing the emergency contraceptive plan b and treating gays and lesbians.
the new rule leaves intact previously established "conscience protections" for workers who do not want to perform abortions or sterilizations.
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Can anyone help these folks with info?
by Juan Viejo2 ini received this request for help through my contact page at www.ex-jw.com.
greetings from isiro, dr congo, my name is john vandermeer.
my wife and i work with wycliffe bible translators in providing technical support to the work in this vast african nation.. as i write this email, i am listening to the loud pa system at a local jehovah witness meeting.
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Wish I had thought of this in May 2011
by Juan Viejo2 intripped across this classic post while surfing "the best of" craigslist:.
originally posted: tue, 10 may 07:43 cdt .
seeking pious individuals for the coming rapture on may 22nd, 2011 - m4mwdate: 2011-05-10, 7:43am cdt.
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Wordpress 3.5 - warning!
by Juan Viejo2 inas many of you know, i am the webmaster for several jw discussion websites.
as a rule, any new site i install and maintain uses wordpress as it's background operating system.. while working on the new freeminds.org website, i happened to upgrade to the latest version of wordpress.
i immediately noticed some serious issues.. i was able to work around most of them using plugins or my own ingenuity, but then i noticed a few new issues that i simply could not resolve on my own.. the folks are wordpress have been swamped with support forum hits from irate users that upgraded and the found their sites were not nearly as functional as before and in some cases (loading and inserting media) were not working at all.. wordpress 3.4.5 is the last stable version.
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Sacramento, Ca area Kingdom Halls
by Juan Viejo2 ini'm hoping someone can help me with this:.
as many of you know, i've been reporting and researching on the takeover scandal at the menlo park kingdom hall.
there is much more to report on this case, which i will as soon as possible, but i've been asked to hold off for a bit while some things sort themselves out.. two requests:.
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Assembly Halls
by Juan Viejo2 incan i get some updated info about the assembly halls owned or leased by the jws?.
is this just a usa practice, or are they doing this everywhere now?.
who owns the halls?
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Need some translation help
by Juan Viejo2 ini'm looking for anyone on jwn who might be fluent in both written and spoken italian and portuguese (brazilian dialect).. i've recently received two very interesting communications from jehovah's witnesses in brazil and italy.
they seem to be very anxious to tell their stories and share them with the rest of the world.
i've used google translator to try to get the gist of what they are trying to tell me, but i've found that for online translation services to work well you have to write in very short sentences and use very common phrases to make them truly intelligible.