Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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CAH closing down in upstate NY

by oppostate in

yet another circuit assembly hall is going to be sold off!.

they've been reducing the amount of congregations assigned to meet there and using the times when it isn't in use to make repairs.

elders have now been informed that they are selling off the property and buildings and that circuits would be assigned to attend other sites, twice as far, three or four hours away, like montreal.

dropoffyourkeylee

West Henrietta is near Rochester NY. A surprisingly lot of Witnesses there. Lots of snow too.

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Does The Music in This Songbook Sound Familiar?

by berrygerry in

heard/saw this 30-second commercial last year - they just started it up again this growing season.. pink songbook memories, anyone?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocuojb1ripq.

I was at a Baptist church for a funeral a while back and the pianist played a hymn that sounded virtually the same as Keep Your Eyes on the Prize. I think the tune was ripped off from Christendom. imagine that

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LATEST NEWS: CANDANCE CONTI VERIDICT READY - WT LOST!!!!!!!

by Viva la Vida in

jw
friends

i'm not an expert but that is my understanding of this: .

opinion filed.. (signed published) the judgment against defendants on the negligence count is affirmed.

the judgment against watchtower on the cause of action for punitive damages is reversed with directions to enter judgment for watchtower on punitive damages.

dropoffyourkeylee

Candace's original intent was to force the WT to be accountable, and to make the WT change their policy. In this respect, since the WT's negligence was affirmed, I would say that it is a win for Conti. The secondary issue of millions of damages (which Conti didn't ask for in the first place) the WT has apparently dodged the bullet. But the precedent is set and they can no longer say that they have never lost one of these cases.

Not a lawyer, just what I am getting from the wording in the OP.

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Trend of Fewer Baptisms Continues: Latest JW Conventions in New Zealand

by steve2 in

the round of "international" conventions that started in the middle of last year in the states "wrapped" up last weekend in new zealand.

there was some media converage (from which i derived the information that follows).

(someone who knows how to copy links may be able to provide the relevant media links?).

dropoffyourkeylee

This past weekend in London Ohio (Midwest US) there was 1 baptized on Saturday and 2 baptized on Sunday, all boys. Attendance was about 950 each day.

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Jehovah's Witnesses video slammed for threatening kids with death for not paying attention in church

by dropoffyourkeylee in

here is the link to a recent news article.

maybe it was commented before, but today was the first i had seen it.. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.

i guess caleb is getting around.

dropoffyourkeylee

Here is the link to a recent news article. Maybe it was commented before, but today was the first I had seen it.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873

I guess Caleb is getting around

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How much did Candace Conti originally sue for?

by Pubsinger in

was it $144000.

where would i find proof of this?.

thanks.

dropoffyourkeylee

I think it was actually for $1,440.00. I remember seeing it in the documents in the early period of the case. Maybe someone else could locate the thread.

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Jdub Growth In USA?

by freein2004 in

does anybody have any information on recent growth in the jdub religion?

other than their own reports?

or, can you point me to the right post here?

dropoffyourkeylee

In the US in my region (midWest rural) there isn't any growth. Kids getting baptized, some foreign language growth (I hear) but besides that there are very few converts like in the pre '1995-or-so' days. I believe the increase on publishers that are being printed are due to:

1) making it easier to report time. 15 minutes at a time is allowed, and both parents can report time for their bible studies at home with kids. and

2) encouraging, reaching out to, former publishers who have gone inactive in service but still attend meetings for family reasons. There are many, many people in each congregation like that who have started reporting again, maybe just an hour or two.

The result is an increase in numbers of publishers, but I wouldn't call it growth.

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The Real History of Mormonism - Outstanding Lecture

by cofty in

if you think the mormon church is off-the-scale crazy you probably don't know the half of it.. the historical information in this talk by david fitzgerald is fascinating.

the good news is that, just like the watchtower, their growth is being stunted by the internet.. grab a coffee and be amazed at just how gullible millions of people can be.. lucy harris has become my new heroine.

don't miss the section from 8:50.

dropoffyourkeylee

Just listened to the entire thing. A bit on the sensational side, but interesting.

It's a shame that he doesn't bring out the JW roots in the 'burned over' district of upstate NY, though he does mention the SDA connection.

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Connections between blood transfusion and sexual repression in the Victorian Age.

by dropoffyourkeylee in

here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book dracula:.

the importance of blood during the victorian era: blood as a sexual signifier in bram stokers dracula by by nilifer pektas.

http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/fulltext01.pdf.

dropoffyourkeylee

TD, I had completely forgotten about HG Wells's comments. He was very well known at the time.

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Connections between blood transfusion and sexual repression in the Victorian Age.

by dropoffyourkeylee in

here is an interesting essay (seems to have been written by a college student) which explores the topics of sexual repression and its relationship to blood and blood transfusions featured in the 1897 book dracula:.

the importance of blood during the victorian era: blood as a sexual signifier in bram stokers dracula by by nilifer pektas.

http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:16204/fulltext01.pdf.

dropoffyourkeylee

Actually, the connection of the vampire horror stories and sex has been written about before, so the author of the essay referred to in the OP isn't original in that respect. But he or she does make more of a specific connection to blood transfusions than I have read before.

Thanks for commenting. I think for some reason the WT leaders in the 30's and 40's had a gut level abhorrence of blood transfusions without really understanding why. It is quite possible that it was a subconscious feeling on their part that was based on sexual repression.

For the record, Fred Franz was born in 1893, Rutherford in 1869.