Topics Started by blondie

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WT June '25: Why Can't We Turn Studies Into Baptisms?
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/t_mpdwsqpy0?si=okf4bsfsqfed0szp.

study article 27 under the title :"help bible students to take a stand for the truth" paragraph 1 *did you have reservations about becoming one of jehovah’s witnesses?

perhaps you were afraid that your workmates, friends, or family would turn against you.
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bomb for jehova italy
by andr in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
italy meets another bomb in front of the kingdom hall, after having caused a scandal on tv, now it is also dangerous to go to the hall.

here is the image of the press release.
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3 Changes The Watchtower Made on Babylon The Great in the Last 6 Months
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/vpws6ncqpla?si=dqnf7-hupfr4pdta.

for decades, jehovah’s witnesses have been banging on about babylon the great—the so-called world empire of false religion—being on the brink of collapse.

any day now, they assured us, churches would empty out, priests would be left twiddling their thumbs, and humanity would collectively bin organised religion.
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WA bill mandating clergy report abuse clears Senate floor
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2025/mar/24/wa-bill-mandating-clergy-report-abuse-clears-senate-floor/ .
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Why is there nothing known about the Jehovah’s Witness brother WOLFGANG OTT which raped 6 women in Austria and killed 4 of them?
by Sektenkult in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
the wikipedia has not even his date of birth, photos unavailable.

only the places where he rapped and murdert are known nothing else.

normally when somebody like him kills and murders everything gets public, which school was he, what was kn his mind and so on and so on.
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New World, New World Order, New System of Things
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
the wts has used to above terms, over the years, some more preferred in certain time periods.

more though, but these occurred to me first.

also the terms "new world" and "new world order" have been used by some us presidents and other leaders..
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Ex-jws request congregation info on file
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
https://www.oakbaynews.com/news/grand-forks-jehovahs-witnesses-lose-privacy-law-appeal-7897541 .
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What is this?
by Achille in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this image is from "the watchtower" july 2024 (study edition):i can't figure out what that object is that is between the sleeping apostles.wath is it?

a stick, a scroll of the scriptures?

....
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What is the current Watchtower "rent charge per publisher" for Kingdom Halls in the USA???
by Balaamsass2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was following a few threads in reddit from current pimo jws complaining about local announcements regarding halls being short on their per publisher "rent payments".

third gen and i have been out pomo for a while...so how much is this charge now?

could this be part of the recent push to get people to "come back" or get re-instated...if it even is online and 15 minutes of service per month?
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Did Watchtower Really Teach That Armageddon Was Coming in 1954?
by Jerome56 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in the march 2025 jw broadcast david splane in his morning worship talk mentioned that "some thought" that armageddon would come 40 years after 1914. such statements are usually meant to shift the blame of their own false predictions on to their members for speculating.

however, i was unable to find anything in print showing that such a thing was indeed taught by the society.

was this really a thing?.