Topics Started by Fisherman

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Real reasons behind this change?
by Gorb in
1. jw
2. friends
just a good conversation at home about the hour report change.. we think the change was not impmemented because the gb are such a lovely bunch of old grandpa's having the best in mind for us individuals.. there will be only, and we say only, an organizational reason for it.

a legal reason, to protect jw.org and it's officials and wealth.. next step?

maybe selling more kh and when jw hollywood studio's in rampoo are ready a change to tv subscription.. what do you think?
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No more REPORTING field service!!!!!!!!!
by BoogerMan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is going to break the hearts of a lot of uber-jw's!

reddit has now removed the video link of samuel herd telling jw's they will no longer have to report time or placements - just tick a box which says "active.".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdshyx79rm&t=13s.
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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN GOD TRANSFERRED JESUS LIFE TO MARY PER WTS
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
pardon all caps on original post title.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/176336/blondies-comments-you-will-hear-05-31-09-wt-study-praise-forever.

comments you will not hear at the 05-31-09 wt study (march 15, 2009, pages 24-28)(righteous forever).
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1961 1962 higher authorities
by Marcial in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
are there among you, dear friends, a specialist in american associations from around the 1950s -1970s and a little more?

to find out from what years in the usa the first subsidies were granted to religious congregations and other non-profit or charitable associations?

why this question is that i just thought that there is perhaps a link between doctrinal clarifications over the years and government innovations to support or subsidize these supposedly charitable religious organizations or certain qualified ngos?
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Is There Concrete Evidence That The Org. Has Covered up Child Abuse?
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hear of a plenty of personal testimonies of abuse but it is harder to prove organizational complicity.

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They still call it Pizza but it doesn’t taste like it anymore.
by Fisherman in
1. social
2. current
i remember as a kid that a slice of pizza was a dime, the same price for a large bag of m&ms or a large hershey’s bar or an ice cream popsicle, box of cracker jacks, bag of potato chips, bus fare.

the dimes were made out of silver and many of them were mercury dimes with the dates worn off.

…and while nowadays except for the pizza, everything tastes about the same only now costing 10 times as much, bus fare costs 28x as much and pizza costs 40x as much:.
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1974 and all that
by Number 6 in
1. jw
2. experiences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xznh9icm1os.

i came across this footage recently whilst searching for something completely unrelated and it blew me away!.

it's from the august 1974 convention at murrayfield, edinburgh and you can clearly see the stage set up still keeping the 6000 years and 1975 mantra going.. what makes this very personal for me is that i was here.
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New brochure Make Disciples was it worth the suspense?
by Tahoe in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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courtesy of reddit.
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Two biggest issues for Watchtower right now
by Teddnzo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
selena accused tony morris of being involved in child abuse and the pimo bethelite who just got kicked out.

let’s see how this rolls out.
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Goodbye Mother
by punkofnice in
1. jw
2. friends
so my mother passed on 20 aug 23 from the big c. i was there when she went.

that was indeed very traumatic.

i won't go to describe it.. dad went 17 years ago so there's just me now.