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Hi Jeffro:
With regards to both the number, and the frequency, of the printing of The Watchtower magazine, the points being added are hardly insignificant.
In the Dec 15, 1977 Watchtower, Watch Tower stated at page 753: "Today the Watchtower magazine has increased its printing from an initial 6,000 copies monthly in one language (English) to a semimonthly printing of 10,400,000 copies in 79 languages. Today, ever since the issue of March 1, 1939, this magazine has been entitled “The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.”"
The volume and frequency has always been a mainstay of boasting of this magazine.
From 1939 forward, The Watchtower has been produced as a Public Edition with 32 pages in each of its 24 annual issues. (Also reprinted annually in a "Bound Volume" of 768 pages).
Beginning in 2008, The Watchtower split into a Public Edition and a Study Edition (to be studied by Jehovah's Witnesses each Sunday at a meeting in a Kingdom Hall). The 12 annual Public Editions were dated the 1st of each month, and the Study Editions were dated the 15th of each month, both issues remaining at 32 pages in length.
Beginning in January 2013, the monthly Public Edition of the Watchtower (as well as the Awake magazine) were reduced to 16 pages in length. (The Study Edition remained at 32 pages.)
Beginning in January 2016, both The Watchtower (Public Edition) and Awake magazines were changed again, this time from monthly to bi-monthly.
As noted, Watch Tower often boasted about its frequency and quantity of its mainstay magazines. For its flagship Public magazine to go from 768 pages printed per year, down to 384 pages per year, then 192 pages per year, and, beginning in 2016, down to 96 pages per year, is hardly trivial for an entry supposedly devoted to the factual history of that entry.
(Thanks for your time, all the same - I know volunteering is an often thankless task.)
Garth
Hi Jeffro, You may want to update "Study Edition" view of WT because it has really changed this year, 2016. I was not sure how to change picture. Juleon11
Hello Jeffro77, I am a French contributor, and I am currently getting concerned about the cleaning of some articles concerning the anthroposophy and its practical uses. I signaled here the Civil POV pushing ongoing on Waldorf education, where no trace of criticism is mentionned, sectarism, etc. This is a severe corruption of the encyclopedia, but I can't do much as a French-speaker. I hope you will be able to inform the appropriate projects of this issue. Best regards, Totodu74 ( talk) 09:54, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jeffro77. I asked a question about this topic last year, but there wasn't a response from you. Given that you are the resident Jehovah's Witnesses expert, I want to ask you: why do the Jehovah's Witnesses continue to teach that Jesus was executed on an upright stake as opposed to a cross, even though early Christian writers (pre-Constantine even) at the very least write that Jesus was executed on something other than a crux simplex (i.e. he was executed on an instrument with a crossbeam of some kind), and certain Bible verses (notably one on Thomas wanting to see the nails on Jesus' hands, and another saying that Jesus will stretch out his arms when he dies) also suggest that Jesus was executed on a cross? Reading on material on the ex-JW subreddit on Reddit, there is a theory that this was part of the platform (for lack of a better word) of Joseph Rutherford in order to "stomp out paganism" in Christianity (apparently this is the same reason why don't celebrate birthdays or holidays), and to distinguish themselves from the various splinter Bible study groups which were common at the time, but is this really the case, or are there other reasons to the doctrine as well? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 00:17, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
As an addendum, why do they continue to believe in the 607 B.C.E. doctrine even though this date has no support outside of Watchtower scholarship and is believed to be inaccurate by scholars? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 00:34, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
The Category:Creationist museums in the United States has been removed from Category:Pseudoscience. Theroadislong ( talk) 13:14, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, that was a Til Eulenspiegel sock - with probably the mildest attack he's made on me this year, others have had to be rev/del'd or even suppressed (not of course by me)/ Doug Weller talk 11:03, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
[2] Fair enough. Having wrestled with god is way cooler, but as you say, out of scope. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 09:59, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
I just never said it before I think, so I'm saying it now: thanks for your persistent work on various sensitive articles to prevent vandalism and censorship, I think you've been doing an awesome job for years. And happy holidays. 76.10.128.192 ( talk) 02:46, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
The No Spam Barnstar | |
Thank you for your long-standing work on preventing vandalism, censorship, and propaganda in sensitive articles. 76.10.128.192 ( talk) 09:17, 21 December 2016 (UTC) |
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Hi Jeffro:
With regards to both the number, and the frequency, of the printing of The Watchtower magazine, the points being added are hardly insignificant.
In the Dec 15, 1977 Watchtower, Watch Tower stated at page 753: "Today the Watchtower magazine has increased its printing from an initial 6,000 copies monthly in one language (English) to a semimonthly printing of 10,400,000 copies in 79 languages. Today, ever since the issue of March 1, 1939, this magazine has been entitled “The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.”"
The volume and frequency has always been a mainstay of boasting of this magazine.
From 1939 forward, The Watchtower has been produced as a Public Edition with 32 pages in each of its 24 annual issues. (Also reprinted annually in a "Bound Volume" of 768 pages).
Beginning in 2008, The Watchtower split into a Public Edition and a Study Edition (to be studied by Jehovah's Witnesses each Sunday at a meeting in a Kingdom Hall). The 12 annual Public Editions were dated the 1st of each month, and the Study Editions were dated the 15th of each month, both issues remaining at 32 pages in length.
Beginning in January 2013, the monthly Public Edition of the Watchtower (as well as the Awake magazine) were reduced to 16 pages in length. (The Study Edition remained at 32 pages.)
Beginning in January 2016, both The Watchtower (Public Edition) and Awake magazines were changed again, this time from monthly to bi-monthly.
As noted, Watch Tower often boasted about its frequency and quantity of its mainstay magazines. For its flagship Public magazine to go from 768 pages printed per year, down to 384 pages per year, then 192 pages per year, and, beginning in 2016, down to 96 pages per year, is hardly trivial for an entry supposedly devoted to the factual history of that entry.
(Thanks for your time, all the same - I know volunteering is an often thankless task.)
Garth
Hi Jeffro, You may want to update "Study Edition" view of WT because it has really changed this year, 2016. I was not sure how to change picture. Juleon11
Hello Jeffro77, I am a French contributor, and I am currently getting concerned about the cleaning of some articles concerning the anthroposophy and its practical uses. I signaled here the Civil POV pushing ongoing on Waldorf education, where no trace of criticism is mentionned, sectarism, etc. This is a severe corruption of the encyclopedia, but I can't do much as a French-speaker. I hope you will be able to inform the appropriate projects of this issue. Best regards, Totodu74 ( talk) 09:54, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jeffro77. I asked a question about this topic last year, but there wasn't a response from you. Given that you are the resident Jehovah's Witnesses expert, I want to ask you: why do the Jehovah's Witnesses continue to teach that Jesus was executed on an upright stake as opposed to a cross, even though early Christian writers (pre-Constantine even) at the very least write that Jesus was executed on something other than a crux simplex (i.e. he was executed on an instrument with a crossbeam of some kind), and certain Bible verses (notably one on Thomas wanting to see the nails on Jesus' hands, and another saying that Jesus will stretch out his arms when he dies) also suggest that Jesus was executed on a cross? Reading on material on the ex-JW subreddit on Reddit, there is a theory that this was part of the platform (for lack of a better word) of Joseph Rutherford in order to "stomp out paganism" in Christianity (apparently this is the same reason why don't celebrate birthdays or holidays), and to distinguish themselves from the various splinter Bible study groups which were common at the time, but is this really the case, or are there other reasons to the doctrine as well? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 00:17, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
As an addendum, why do they continue to believe in the 607 B.C.E. doctrine even though this date has no support outside of Watchtower scholarship and is believed to be inaccurate by scholars? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 00:34, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
The Category:Creationist museums in the United States has been removed from Category:Pseudoscience. Theroadislong ( talk) 13:14, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, that was a Til Eulenspiegel sock - with probably the mildest attack he's made on me this year, others have had to be rev/del'd or even suppressed (not of course by me)/ Doug Weller talk 11:03, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
[2] Fair enough. Having wrestled with god is way cooler, but as you say, out of scope. Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 09:59, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
I just never said it before I think, so I'm saying it now: thanks for your persistent work on various sensitive articles to prevent vandalism and censorship, I think you've been doing an awesome job for years. And happy holidays. 76.10.128.192 ( talk) 02:46, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
The No Spam Barnstar | |
Thank you for your long-standing work on preventing vandalism, censorship, and propaganda in sensitive articles. 76.10.128.192 ( talk) 09:17, 21 December 2016 (UTC) |