Always wondered why they chose that garish red for the colour.
Anyway...
The Watchtower is dead. Long live JWdotborg.
Not really, but isn't that what you say when one monarch passes and a new one is crowned.
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Sign of the times
by recovering inoh i have waited for this for many years.
it used to really irritate me when i looked out my office window at long island college hospital.
dang the witnesses presence in brooklyn even out lasted a117 year old hospital.. https://nypost.com/2017/12/06/iconic-brooklyn-sign-taken-down-after-70-years/.
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December 6, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: Study of Jesus—The Way
by wifibandit indecember 6, 2017 to all congregations re: study of jesus—the way.
jesus—the way, the truth, the life.
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They need to prove to ... who? Their critics? that they are actually christian rather than Jehovian in the only way WT knows - write a propoganda book about it and make the members study it.
"See we love the other J-Dog, and we even wrote a book bout it 😆"
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Unbelievable KMS example
by Saltheart Foamfollower ini've been to the kingdom ministry school (for elders) recently and can report that it is mostly the usual mix of cliches and platitudes.
several letters where basically just read through one line at a time.
one point early on though almost made me laugh out loud.
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ttdtt - ooooh yeah... never thought of that... good catch.
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The '' other and remaining '' Faithful and Discreet Slaves are '' useless ''
by RULES & REGULATIONS infaithful and discreet slave parable.
matthew 24:45-47 "who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
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Yes I see this as a problem for them what to do with all those pesky extraneous annointed?
That means that each GB member represents about 20571 of the 144000 annointed by proxy.
Considering at the moment any baptized witness in good standing can claim to be annointed I'm pretty sure that would really tug the nuggets of the GB to know that barn door has been left wide open.
I can see a few ways to close the "barn door". They could call new light and say the number 144000 isn't literal it's symbolic and representative of 7 could be a stretch but hey they pulled that overlapping gens crap and the brainwashed masses swallowed it.
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Unbelievable KMS example
by Saltheart Foamfollower ini've been to the kingdom ministry school (for elders) recently and can report that it is mostly the usual mix of cliches and platitudes.
several letters where basically just read through one line at a time.
one point early on though almost made me laugh out loud.
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Considering there is advertising everywhere and hard to avoid why don't the GB just advise JWs to consider poking their own eyes out for Jehovah and be done with it.
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Attendents sit at the best seats
by Quarterback inwell it's been awhile since i got angry and wanted to post on here again.
last week's watchtower about the subject of love had something to say about the hard working attendants.
it seems that they are choosing to sit in the best seats at the convention.
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The most petty of the petty tyrants aka "attendants" were not married, had no kids, no clue and no heart.
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Why dont practicing JWS cant accept the fact that the Watchtower Corporation is a commercialized false prophet ?
by Finkelstein into the majority of people who investigate the activities of the wts from its beginning history there were obvious false proclamations and doctrines propagated by the wts.. a matter of fact the wts produced a long list of literature that posted proclamations on the front cover and went into detail of things that were suppose to happen, from jesus returning changing the world in which we live and so on.. wonderful things one might say but not factual or either theologically correct .
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For practicing jduds to accept WT as anything other than "the only true religion" they would first have to
think about it - critically
research it
weigh up the evidence
accept the evidence
fom an opinion of their own based on evidence
WT tells them they're not even allowed to do the first step which is to think about it and most obey.
That's why.
Sad but true, there is hope though we've all been there.
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Congregation dwindles
by wannaexit ini think we are going to be seeing lots more of this stuff.
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http://www.capjournal.com/news/pierre-jehovah-s-witnesses-put-up-smaller-kingdom-hall-to/article_e05d9c36-d8b9-11e7-acb3-9f63fb65c896.html.
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Am I reading this right? Seems odd that they gave up on selling after only six months, tore down the building and put up a tiny box in it's place. The Branch knows absolutely that KH usage is never going to pick up in the future and KHs are not needed even to sell - remove the building and just sell the land? Weird for an org in "accelerated growth" period. But then again if pop growth has slowed to crawl and going backwards in certain areas pulling out is sensible.
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Oh this stoopid shunning thing!!
by Unstuck inwarning - vent ahead....... so, my father (still very much in jw but who has at least had the decency to still keep in contact with me and hubby and to show interest in why we aren't attending and respect where we are at) is in intensive care at a local hospital and is intubated and sedated with some serious health issues.
i'm next of kin so i get all the phone calls from the hospital.. so, the rest of the "family" has cut me off because we are inactive and because the ever-active jw gossip grapevine has rumoured with a sibilant slithy hissy voice: "apossstassssy" is the cause of our inactivity.. whatever.. but now i've had to contact said "family" with the news about my father and what is going on....... so, dad's sisters answer my calls and manage to act and conduct themselves with a degree of decorum.. my sister on the other hand - well, she doesn't deign to answer my calls and texts for most of the day.
i push the issue tonight and insist on speaking to her when my brother-in-law answers the call.
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Shame your sister can't see the need to rally and support at this time, would make life so much easier if family could just be family. The cult childishness is an added layer of difficulty - insult to injury.