Is the Watch Tower name going away?

by garybuss 50 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  nvrgnbk

  Not soon enough.

  And yes, there has been a concerted effort to slowly distance themselves from the Watchtower name. And the word "Society".
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  drew sagan

  Great topic!
  
  The more you think about it the more it seems like they are moving away from the Watchtower name.
  
  Possibly a name change on the magazine sometime in the future? Possibly changing it to something generic like 'Bible Study Today' or something like that? I could see this as a very advantageous move for them to try and look more mainstream.
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  nvrgnbk

  Possibly a name change on the magazine sometime in the future?

  I was just thinking the same exact thing yesterday drew!

  I know from when I was in communication with friends at Bethel, that they really are trying to distance themselves from the Watchtower name.
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  B_Deserter

  I think they're going to shy away from using "Watchtower" to define themselves when the general public is involved. Makes it seem like less of a cult.
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  dawg

  Watchtower is masonic, we here on this site have damaged them by continuly showing their masonic past. Also, they're probably trying to find a way out of all the siuts that are sure to follow on this pedohile thing
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  steve2

  Quite apart from the (deserved) bad reputation of the incorporated title "The Watchtower Society", threre is also the length of time its been around - something that does not inspire confidence that the system is about to end.

  The WTS was first incorporated in the 1970s - 1876, I think. That's about 131 years ago - before the age of automobiles and movies!! If I were running an end-times religion, I'd want to downplay the length of time I'd been trumpeting the end-is-nigh message - especially if that message was strongly linked to a symbol that has spanned three centuries: 19th, 20th and now the 21st.
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  trevor

  The new thing seems to be 'Jehovah's people.' A reference to the Biblical assertion that Jehovah would take out 'a people for his name.' Take out as in adopt - not in the terminator fashion - I assume!

  Some prick once informed me that he was 'one of Jehovah's people.' I asked him if he believed that Jesus had died for all humanity to pay for the mistake that Adam had made. He confirmed that he did. I then suggested that we were all 'Jehovah's people,' otherwise Jesus was short changed.

  Our conversation led to him to admit that acceptance of The Watchtower Society was also necessary to benefit from the sacrifice that Jesus is said to have made. I told him that I would join his religion if he could show me that the Bible or even his version of the Bible.

  Still waiting...
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  emptywords

  there is a secret group within the org that is emerging, it is anti org tower FDS, and awaits a cleaning out of the org. by Jesus. they do the preaching work of the kingdom and rely on Jehovah to bring down the evil slave within the tower.
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  Quandry

  Gary

  I am sorry but I will have to point out some errors in the picture you sent. First, there are windows in that KHall. Bad!!

  Second, there were children close by and you now have to be seventeen and baptised to work at a quick build. When the last hall my family went to was being built, my daughter was sixteen and baptised, but they asked us to take her home. She was crushed. I pointed out some other teens working because Mom and Dad had a big heavy duty truck and other equipment needed by the group. I am sure the parents were aware of the "rule."

  Third, it looked like a tile roof was being installed and that would be waaaaay too expensive to use. Also decorative stone? Does that fit in with the uniformity of new halls now? Don't they just use variations of floor plans from the WTS?

  Also, there was not a place where the volunteers are to wait until needed. At the hall build, there was a "round up" place. (A Texas term because I don't know the correct one). One man in charge of a building crew saw someone he knew and said for him to come work in his area, and the man in charge at the "round up" place got angry and called him down in front of everyone and said he was not going according to correct procedure. In other words, all must go through him first.

  Also, where were some of the elders that just walked around and talked without working?
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  LennyinBluemont

  To clarify the trivia, a former Branch Overseer made me aware:

  Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Pennsylvania

  Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York

  (PA Corp is WT in 2 words, NY Corp is WT in 1 word.)

  It's so helpful the things one can learn from those who have gone far in Jehovah's organization!