So in short, what The Watchtower is saying is that there may be a handful of areas around the world where beards are allowed on brothers with responsibilities, (except for on conventions), but even in those areas, the truly mature ones will choose not to where a beard.
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Beards mentioned again in magazine!
by neat blue dog inaaaaaand .
.. it offers absolutely nothing new.. from questions from readers in the december 2016 study edition watchtower:.
"is it proper for a brother todayto have a beard?in some cultures, a neat beardmay be acceptable and may notdetract from the kingdom mes-sage.
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Beards mentioned again in magazine!
by neat blue dog inaaaaaand .
.. it offers absolutely nothing new.. from questions from readers in the december 2016 study edition watchtower:.
"is it proper for a brother todayto have a beard?in some cultures, a neat beardmay be acceptable and may notdetract from the kingdom mes-sage.
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neat blue dog
The reason why the paragraph seems to be contradicting itself? Besides the obvious benefits of anonymity from doubletalk, there also may have been a split in the voting among the GB, and this reflects it.
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Beards mentioned again in magazine!
by neat blue dog inaaaaaand .
.. it offers absolutely nothing new.. from questions from readers in the december 2016 study edition watchtower:.
"is it proper for a brother todayto have a beard?in some cultures, a neat beardmay be acceptable and may notdetract from the kingdom mes-sage.
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neat blue dog
Aaaaaand . . .
It offers absolutely nothing new.
From Questions from Readers in the December 2016 Study Edition Watchtower:
"Is it proper for a brother today
to have a beard?
In some cultures, a neat beard
may be acceptable and may not
detract from the Kingdom mes-
sage. Still, some brothers might
decide not to have a beard.
(1 Cor. 8:9) In other cultures
and localities, beards are not
considered acceptable for Chris-
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Dear beloved, Does your heart feel for the motherless?
by Colinconfused ingreetings to you and your family.
i am mrs. amadou gloria, a widow to late mr. greg amadou; i am 56 years old, suffering from pancreatic cancer, my condition is really bad and it is quite obvious that i will not live for a very long time according to my doctors but i strongly believe in god and not the doctors and if it is the will of god that i will die, then so shall it be.nevertheless i am willing to donate the sum of 1,700.000.00 us dollars for you to help widows and the less privileged in the rural and urban areas and to carry out charity works, my promise to god almighty is to help the poor people and i hope you have the kind of heart and ability to help others that is of needs, if so please do not hesitate to indicate to me, your interest.
i wait to see your response, write me for more discussion [email protected] my regards, madam gloria.
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neat blue dog
Would having my bank information facilitate this charitable transfer by any chance?
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Jw's and beards
by wannaexit inwithout going into details.
it appears that new light might be coming down the pipes that beards are acceptable.
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neat blue dog
Same thing. Anything on the chin is condemned.
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Jw's and beards
by wannaexit inwithout going into details.
it appears that new light might be coming down the pipes that beards are acceptable.
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neat blue dog
Here's a brother from the LDC working in a project in Europe.
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Jw's and beards
by wannaexit inwithout going into details.
it appears that new light might be coming down the pipes that beards are acceptable.
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neat blue dog
Yes he was.
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Jw's and beards
by wannaexit inwithout going into details.
it appears that new light might be coming down the pipes that beards are acceptable.
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neat blue dog
Yes he was.
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David Splane on the "older members" of the GB
by Richard_I inin the august broadcast, david splane is shown in a morning worship video.
i just wanted to focus on the end of the video, were he has this to say:.
the governing body loves to get together and discuss the bible.
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neat blue dog
They like talking about the bible and having a mutual conversation, give and take, on various ideas and theories, each giving their input and thinking outside the box. Must be fun. Of course if any other private group of individuals were to do this it's called apostacy, sectarianism or running ahead of the chariot
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Just a reminder about voting
by Simon inthere appear to be some people who are of the mistaken opinion that endlessly clicking the like or dislike button 20x will mean 20x votes.. it doesn't !!!.
only one vote is ever counted.
1 user, 1 vote, each post.
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neat blue dog
That was me 😓
I did that earlier today on a random post when I noticed that my like registered twice. So . . .
I just kept going, I couldn't help myself 😭
But seriously, no harm intended. Simple curiosity. I refreshed the page when I was done, (after over 200 likes), and it was back to where it was, so that was it.
Sorry.