October Elder's Letter Delayed- Big Announcement at Annual Meeting
by Newly Enlightened 31 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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slimboyfat
I know churches where relatives of members are paid for “work” done that doesn’t amount to very much. It’s income for doing very little, and some members of the congregations are not happy about it. I didn’t know JWs were at it as well. There’s a word for it I only learned recently - it’s called a sinecure. Probably others know this term, but it was new to me, and I never heard about it among JWs.
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nowwhat?
Love kim and Mikey!
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Beth Sarim
For sure!!!!
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Ron.W.
I'm trying to think what the 'big announcement' may be. Any educated guesses?
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ukpimo
It is all speculation. We will find out for certain tomorrow. It doesn't appear likely the meetings will "slim down" as the first 2025 midweek meeting workbook has been released with no apparent changes. Lessons we can learn from the Bible will be the next CBS book middle of next year.
The only apparent change we can see thus far is that on the jw.org servers Sing Out Joyfully will extend the number of songs to 200 (it says songs 1 to 200), which is ironic because the whole point of the first revised songbook in 2009 was to avoid having too many songs to sing. The brown book Sing Praises to Jehovah had many songs I never got to practice or even learn.
Other than this, the rest remains to be seen.
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Journeyman
Sing Out Joyfully will extend the number of songs to 200 (it says songs 1 to 200), which is ironic because the whole point of the first revised songbook in 2009 was to avoid having too many songs to sing.
Yes, this has already been announced to congregations. I agree this is odd for the reason stated, and most of the songs in the old brown "Sign Praises" book (I think there were 225) were better than their 'updated' replacements. Presumably it was just an excuse to have a clear-out and add in all the (awful) 'modern' 'original compositions' the org has been churning out since JW Broadcasting went live. More of an ego boost to the current music department, rather than anything else.
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Anony Mous
@Journeyman: The internet exposed also several of their older songs being 'inspired' by other denominations (some riffs are outright plagiarized). There were more and more viral posts and questions going around, and not only that, they were putting themselves at risk of copyright infringement which around that period also had some famous cases that defined 'sampling' vs 'plagiarism'.
It also helped having less paper to print in a paperback vs hardcover and the enthusiasm of buying entirely new sets of CD from the borg.
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Journeyman
Anony Mous: True, although some of their 'new' songs also either sound like Disney or other creations, not truly 'original'. There's one that sounds like a Christmas carol and I keep wanting to break into the carol's chorus when I hear it! 🤣
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a watcher
The new songs suck.