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  In the Year 2525

  by blondie in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7pohqumwg in the year 2525 i. ii the year 2525, if man is still alive .

  if woman can survive, they may find.

  in the year 3535ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lieeverything you think, do and sayis in the pill you took todayin the year 4545you ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyesyou won't find a thing to chewnobody's gonna look at youin the year 5555your arms hangin' limp at your sidesyour legs got nothin' to dosome machine's doin' that for youin the year 6565you won't need no husband, won't need no wifeyou'll pick your son, pick your daughter toofrom the bottom of a long glass tube.

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  Balaamsass2

  1975....50 years ago...I was a wide-eyed gullible youth who thought the big A was "any day now." "Staying alive till 75 !"

  What a maroon.

  - Grizzled old guy.
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  2025**S-147**January** Announcements.

  by Atlantis in

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  2025**pdf**s*147**announcements.. here.. https://pdfupload.io/docs/73dbf41c.

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  Balaamsass2

  Thank you, Petra.
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  My story of becoming a circuit overseer after Kin Suen visited our congregation.

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

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  here is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.

  my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.

  i had actually become a circuit overseer!

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  Balaamsass2

  I'm glad you're back on the board, ex-co. It took strength of character to leave when your eyes opened.

  It takes years to re-examine everything you believed and absorbed from Watchtower. It can feel a bit lonely at first when leaving your tribe, and it takes time to adjust.

  3rd gen and I wish you a great 2025 from Northern California! :)
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  Annual Report

  by St George of England in

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  the latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.

  george.

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  Balaamsass2

  Take anything Watchtower says with a huge chunk of salt.

  In times past the JW designation meant something. An ACTIVE (preaching and attending) member who held a set group of beliefs including; future life on earth in a paradise.

  WT used to be proud of this difference in comparison to mainstream religions which count all nominal 1x per year attenders or donators.
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  Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’

  by LongHairGal in

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  this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.

  (i don’t go on jw dot org).

  it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.

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  Balaamsass2

  Finance education is great. Budgeting education, simple math, and escaping cult mind control are what is needed by most people.
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  1922 Cedar Point Ohio Convention

  by Nambo in

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  i recall reading that daniel 12 verse 12 ( 12 blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

  ), was claimed to have been fulfilled by the cedar point ohio convention in 1922.. can anybody recall which publications this claim was published in please?.

  or even better, a screen shot.

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  Balaamsass2

  Cedar Point, Ohio.....World famous...for....zip. They had a big roller coaster back then. I used to pester mom and the bookstudy about this when I was 10.....in the 60s.

  More wasted time about a bronze age dream that only one guy had.

  Chalk this up to a 20th-century charlatan.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
  
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  "Yahweh" pronunciation is more correct (w60 8/1 pp. 453-455)

  by psyco in

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  https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1960561 (substitute .borg with .org)furthermore, today in every jw publication the tetragrammaton is rendered as yhwh which is more preserved by yahweh than by jehovah..

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  Does it matter?

  Do we have any idea of how bronze-age goatherders pronounced anything?

  Where are the "two or more witnesses" to confirm the stories?
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  My story of becoming a circuit overseer after Kin Suen visited our congregation.

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

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  here is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.

  my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.

  i had actually become a circuit overseer!

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  Balaamsass2

  Just another sad tale of a youth wasted with Watchtower. :(

  PS. While I was at Bethel in the 70s overseas Branch Overseers were brought back for various meetings and training.

  I was excited to have a few work in my department for a few hours each day. I was expecting some Bible scholars! They were all formerly in the circuit work, Gilead Grads, etc. Yikes, was I disappointed. Half had little formal, or bible education. All could recite Watchtower Dogma verbatim, but had trouble reasoning with underlying biblical principles, and everyday work requirements, and even argued with visiting writing staff & GB members (unsuccessfully) during coffee breaks.

  Sadly, Gilead is no substitute for College, in preparing for the real world. All investments of youth, time, money, and life in Watchtower are a waste. :(
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  HOW TO BE LOYAL TO JEHOVAH

  by liam in

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  a post from another exjw site, shows how throughout the years, in a regular, systematic fashion, the watchtower has influence thoroughly; an ideological point of view, in the minds of it’s members by using bible scriptures and examples, to get the members to do the unthinkable, even if it clashes with modern ethics.

  february 2016 watchtower, paragraph 3 of the article titled .

  "learn from jehovah’s loyal servants".

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  Balaamsass2

  Way beyond "modern ethics". Felonies. Child rape, domestic violence, Child abuse, Senior financial abuse. Perjury. Conspiracy. Witness tampering.
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  Wythenshawe Kingdom Hall - Sold

  by AdamCzarnobay in

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  i was slightly surprised to see that wythenshawe hall has been sold.

  it's now a mosque.

  this one had an attached flat where the co and his wife lived, i wonder what accommodation they put them in these days..

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  Balaamsass2

  AH....." perception," "conscience of the congregation," and the slippery Watchtower phrases some elders use for "depends on who you are. "If we don't like you, it's wrong".

  I remember a sweet mousy sister who was an engineer working on the moon lander vehicle. The new CO targeted her for "working for a defense contractor"—Lockheed. Meanwhile, a few miles down the road in Silicon Valley, an ex-cop elder was the head of Security for a 100% Defense Contractor, giving keynote talks at Conventions and conducting electronic eavesdropping on Watchtower "enemies" at the behest of Don Adams at Bethel. It all depends on who you are.