Ok.... is AGM stand for Annual ?? Meeting? Sorry, it's 5:00 in the morning and I have had insomnia so it took my brain a minute to figure it out LOL This is my FAVORITE thread to read in a very long time. I am LMAO at so many posts, and other posts are very informative. You posters really rock sometimes!
AGM 5 OCTOBER 2013 (UNOFFICIAL RUMORS)
by WatchTower87 293 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Jeffro
love2Bworldly:
what the heck is AGM
It just stands for annual general meeting. It's really just a corporation thing for the Watch Tower Society, but of course they like to dress it up as a 'special provision from Jehovah'.
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Apognophos
Thanks. I'm a little surprised they haven't changed it
Well, if they were even paying attention to this sort of thing during the revision process, they would have had to face the fact that "changing" means "drawing attention to", especially since (once we have the new PDF) we will be able to run the whole thing through the computer and get an instant comparison. But I think they weren't interested in rocking the boat too much, just tweaking wording.
what the heck is AGM
The truth is, I haven't heard the rank and file calling it the AGM at all, only the "annual meeting". "AGM" seems to be a shibboleth on the forum here. I've been careful to avoid saying "AGM" to Witnesses so I don't get funny looks and give away my JWN reading habits.
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Jeffro
Apognophos:
The truth is, I haven't heard the rank and file calling it the AGM at all, only the "annual meeting". "AGM" seems to be a shibboleth on the forum here. I've been careful to avoid saying "AGM" to Witnesses so I don't get funny looks and give away my JWN reading habits.
Of course rank-and-file JWs won't call it the AGM. They probably don't even realise. However:
*** w12 8/15 p. 16 A Meeting Marked by Unity and Thrilling Plans ***
ANNUAL meetings of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania always generate excitement.*** w01 1/15 p. 28 How the Governing Body Differs From a Legal Corporation ***
ANNUAL meetings of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania have been held since January of 1885.Though they've provided a video link to other locations this year (for the first time ever as far as I'm aware), in reality it's the yearly meeting that is actually attended by the members of the Watch Tower Society corporation. Corporations have annual general meetings.
You also won't hear rank-and-file JWs say that the baptism questions are intended as a contract, or that their meetings for worship are actually indoctrination. JWs love their own special semantics.
Back in reality, it was part of the Watch Tower Society's AGM. But yes, if you're dealing with JWs incognito, you'll want to call it Jehovah's Witnesses' annual meeting™ (even though it's the first most JWs have ever seen) and not the AGM (and certainly not the AGM of a corporation).