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  WT AUGUST 2025: NEW LIGHT ON HAILSTONE MESSAGE : IS IT BIBLICAL OR JUST CONVENIENT?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/n_fttvylm-m?si=l44406ohysubkajr.

  so today we are considering, the watchtower's new take on the "hailstone message", and if you don't know what that is , they used to believe that according to revelation 16:21 they would be preaching a hard hitting message during the time of the end.

  now, let's read the verse first from the new world translation: "then great hailstones, each about the weight of a talent, fell from heaven on the people, and the people blasphemed god because of the plague of hail, for the plague was unusually great" now this is their new understanding as it appears from the 3rd paragraph from their new watchtower study edition for august 2025 and their article:when will the preaching work end, has this to say: "our clarified understanding of matthew 24:14 also adjusts our understanding of the hailstonelike message foretold at revelation 16:21. further examination has revealed that the two scriptures complement each other.

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  Listener, hahaha. They still "see through a glass darkly."
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  Where r we now?

  by sparrowdown in

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  post covid, post trump, post cedarsgate, post tony morris, post arc… where r we now?.

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  Will They Change the Memorial Talk This Year?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/o5almnehew4?si=kdgrjgbiutjkvcxe.

  i’m hoping the memorial talk will be different.

  change the talk!

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  Hope away, these are manuscript talks with fill-in the blanks appropriate for that congregation (just kidding). The speakers are so much less qualified today, can't change the script. Some elders don't prepare before giving a public talk, just think they have already given it, they don't need to prepare. If the WTS changed the script they would freak out. I always felt that was the worst talk to invite non-jws to but a little bit better than the funeral talks.
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  Reddit thread on convention video urging cutting off contact with Faders

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just read this.

  don’t know if anybody here has seen the video.. the intended result of this is to obviously scare ‘faders’ out of the shadows.

  now, they are being threatened with loss of association with their loved ones and friends.

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  Earnest, thanks for sharing that, my search on WOL was frustrating. I searched with everything but "hold hands." You are a good friend.
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  Reddit thread on convention video urging cutting off contact with Faders

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just read this.

  don’t know if anybody here has seen the video.. the intended result of this is to obviously scare ‘faders’ out of the shadows.

  now, they are being threatened with loss of association with their loved ones and friends.

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  blondie

  FedUpJW, it wasn't written policy, but a talk was given at one congregation I was at that even married jws could not hold hands or put their arm over the shoulder of the spouse during the meeting. People might get the wrong idea, or make the single people feel bad. Ridiculous I know.
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  Change in WT Stance on Retirement? A qualified answer?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading the march 2025 wt today, and i notice this: "march 2025 p. 29 jehovah’s hand is not too short p.29-31 (retirement, but qualified statement) (notice , it is not wrong, but, in the end we must rely on their god.

  retirement is alluded to as "making the quest for material things the focus of our life.

  " are we confident that their god will provide (why have retirement then?

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  Ugot2bekiddingme1, love that. No elders come to our door any more and we are just "faders." We just wave them away at the door through the window. Finally, stopped coming, until recent change in policy and I got 2 phone calls and a letter, after no contact with the senders/callers for 25 years. What hypocrites!
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  Change in WT Stance on Retirement? A qualified answer?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading the march 2025 wt today, and i notice this: "march 2025 p. 29 jehovah’s hand is not too short p.29-31 (retirement, but qualified statement) (notice , it is not wrong, but, in the end we must rely on their god.

  retirement is alluded to as "making the quest for material things the focus of our life.

  " are we confident that their god will provide (why have retirement then?

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  I remember an elder telling a sister, that their god would provide. I later asked the elder, "Maybe your god is trying to use you to provide...and you aren't listening that he means you personally by action." Even the Watchtower Society applies James 2:15.16 that way "It means that it is not always enough simply to say “I love you.” We need to show that we mean it. For example, if our brothers or sisters do not have enough food or clothing, they need more than kind words. (James 2:15, 16)" from WT October 2017 p. 4
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  Change in WT Stance on Retirement? A qualified answer?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading the march 2025 wt today, and i notice this: "march 2025 p. 29 jehovah’s hand is not too short p.29-31 (retirement, but qualified statement) (notice , it is not wrong, but, in the end we must rely on their god.

  retirement is alluded to as "making the quest for material things the focus of our life.

  " are we confident that their god will provide (why have retirement then?

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  I quit! I knew 2 elders who sold life insurance for a living and hit up all the jws they could. I asked them how they could sell life insurance to people who thought the end was coming in their life time and that they should rely on their god to take care of them. And then there was the elder that sold a pre-paid funeral package, to jws.
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  Remember Hour Quotas?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hour quotas timeline.

  back in the old days long before 1952.

  “after staying in our ‘home’ for two days we decided that if we were going to meet our quota of 140 hours for the month.

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  blondie

  Thanks St. George for taking us down memory lane. I remember all that. Like an Accounting Department.
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  Remember Hour Quotas?

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hour quotas timeline.

  back in the old days long before 1952.

  “after staying in our ‘home’ for two days we decided that if we were going to meet our quota of 140 hours for the month.

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  I remember something similar to that, when regular pioneers were not making their hours, it was pointed out to them if they put in 4 hours a day, that would be 120 hours, so that should be able to meet the monthly quota of 100 hours at that time. They may have assumed that people only worked 3-4 hours day to "support" themselves. Said by elders who hardly made 10 hours a month.