fact checking = checking their own WBTS material to confirm their doctrine. If any "outside" references are used, they cherry pick it and/or misquote them.
Soldier77
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About 20 on Watchtower Writer's Staff
by Gayle inthe watchtower then comes together like most magazines, pellechia explains.
a writer is chosen as a compiler, functioning like a magazine editor, and an assignment editor distributes briefs to writers there are about 20 on staff.
copy is fact-checked, copy-edited and rewritten as it moves through the 70-person writing department.
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Brothers, did you like being asked to say a prayer?
by sacolton ini dreaded it!
i've seen brothers freeze-up doing prayers with long uncomfortable silences to think of what to say.
sometimes my mind would just go blank and i would panic at the thought if i paused.
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Soldier77
It's funny thing you ask here... funny to me because I absolutely hate Hate HATE public praying. Yet, I have no problems being asked to get up and do an "impromptu" TMS talk. I always freeze up, stammer, fumble for words/thought to speech fails etc. Yet giving talks is no problem. What the hell is my problem!?
In fact I used to be eager to be "that guy" that would volunteer to do the last minute talks... Now I just don't show up to the meeting... Haven't been asked to pray for anything lately either... hmm..maybe they're on to me?
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About the Preaching Work
by Mad Sweeney ini think it is intuitive to most of us that the preaching work is a collosal failure if the goal is to recruit new dubs.
it's been mentioned that the growth rate of other religions, even some that do pretty much no recruiting, is as high or higher than jws.
does anyone have a link to some data about religious growth rates either internationally or in the usa and how they compare to jws?.
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Soldier77
Mad this is just the USA but it's a start: http://religions.pewforum.org/reports
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About the Preaching Work
by Mad Sweeney ini think it is intuitive to most of us that the preaching work is a collosal failure if the goal is to recruit new dubs.
it's been mentioned that the growth rate of other religions, even some that do pretty much no recruiting, is as high or higher than jws.
does anyone have a link to some data about religious growth rates either internationally or in the usa and how they compare to jws?.
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Soldier77
Wasn't it on JWfacts? I know I saw somewhere a graph of religious growth recently being linked from a post on this site.
Sorry, not much help... but I'd be interested in looking at this data as well...again.
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Watchtower sues Former Bethelite in local upstate Supreme Court!
by Bethelite Elder inwatchtower is really going after the money these days.
the same money that will be thrown in the streets.. .
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Soldier77
Got a news link or info to the story?
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Face book status' that you don't have the nerve to actually post...
by Cagefighter in"lonliness is a bitch, but unfortunatley so is the solution".
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Soldier77
Soldier77 "is LMFAO at the new "generation" understanding"
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So really just how long is a generation in regards to the length of human life ?
by thetrueone inthe recent topics covering over the new overlapping generation doctrine being put out by the wts.
stirred up some research.
by myself on the meaning and use of the word generation.. here's some interesting things i found out .. most interpretations reveal that a generation if no longer than 30 or 40 years in length.. nowhere have i found that the meaning of a generation is an entire length of a human life span.. on the other hand the wts has their own interpretation of the word, they contend that.
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Soldier77
OTWO: Excellent explanation, that's how I understand it.
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Ladies, how do you feel about be called a "weaker vessel"?
by sacolton inonly after joining the jehovah's witnesses did i ever hear women referred to as "weaker vessels".
how does that make you feel?.
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Soldier77
What they may lack in physical ability they sure do make up for it in psychological ability!
Although, I have had my ass kicked by a woman... I enjoyed every second of it!
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So really just how long is a generation in regards to the length of human life ?
by thetrueone inthe recent topics covering over the new overlapping generation doctrine being put out by the wts.
stirred up some research.
by myself on the meaning and use of the word generation.. here's some interesting things i found out .. most interpretations reveal that a generation if no longer than 30 or 40 years in length.. nowhere have i found that the meaning of a generation is an entire length of a human life span.. on the other hand the wts has their own interpretation of the word, they contend that.
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Soldier77
I am having a serious issue with this new generation intrepretation myself. I mean that coming from my "active JW" self. My other self knows its bullshit, anyway, on topic...
After reading several different dictionaries, they all have a line item definition of 30-40 years make up one generation (I should say most not all). So if that's the case, and taking the WBTS new understanding of the "overlapping generations", using 1914 as a reference point (just picking a specific year to count) then we are in the 3rd-4th overlap of the generation already....
What issue I have is that they insult my basic level of intelligence, I mean, surely, they know that I have access to a dictionary or two...
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Soldier77
I hope that there is a major schism that will happen about 2014-2015. I mean like on the proportion of the 1920's schism. That would rock.
Hey, one can make a wish right?