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  2022-05-04-Adjustment to Amount of Time for Isolation from In-Person Meetings!

  by Atlantis in

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  2022-05-04. announcement:.

  adjustment to amount of time for isolation from-in-person meetings.. .

  https://www.filemail.com/d/phdvcdkungxjpkn.

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  blondie

  Dwain, how did happen? I take it there were not laws by then, not that the general community was on board. Do you have copy or link to that? I was only about 10 back then and did not read the newspaper or watch news on tv; no interest I guess. What were your feelings and experiences? If you want, just send me a pm. Blondie
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  Is there ANY possibility at all that the WatchTower and the Governing Body has the TRUTH? (You're about to find out)

  by Terry in

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  in my opinion, having been a jehovah's witness for twenty years as well as being an ex-jw for forty-three years,is that the following talk as given by peter gregerson, emphatically removes any shadow of a doubt aboutwhether the claim for the faithful slave has any merit whatsoever.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytcj6smffbk&t=3145s.

  note: (references to the publication the finished mystery are given.

  you can read the entire book here:https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46016/46016-pdf.pdf.

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  blondie

  Peter was the ex-jw Ray had lunch with. Peter was his employer and landlord for a time when Ray and Cynthia moved down there. Peter as an elder saw how Ray was being treated. A point to remember, Cynthia was at that lunch and nothing was done to her, not df'd or did she da herself. I met Peter and his wife at an ex-jw meeting. So funny they were and so supportive.
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  Which Bible Translation.....

  by BoogerMan in

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  ....is the best, in your opinion?.

  out of the numerous translations i've had/used, i can honestly state that the 2001 translation is head & shoulders above all the others i've ever consulted, imo.

  the publishers even invite suggestions/corrections to be submitted.

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  blondie

  I use biblehub to compare a lot of translations/revisions at the same time to get a more blended version. www.biblehub.com
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  Will the ministry ever resume?

  by optimisticskeptic in

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  going on 2+ years of no public ministry.

  can't imagine anyone is really enjoying letter writing still or that it's remotely effective.

  i'm a little shocked that we haven't resumed yet but i guess that's what happens when the org is run by a bunch of old people (ie high risk for covid) and a bunch of other sheltered germaphobes.

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  blondie

  The DTD is really not the important issue. As long as jws keeping anteing up donations, guilted by the WTS, or eventually, a form of "tithing" might be set up, at the congregation level, assigning an amount by publisher and the congregation is responsible, so the elders have to nag the members. Oh, they sort of do that already. Jws are told their everlasting in life in paradise depends on their giving some semblance of trying to save people by their "preaching." Too many jws don't think their god knows what they are really doing, Just so the elders stay off their back. As a scripture in Ezekiel says, (reporting not supporting), "Jehovah has left the land, and he is not seeing."
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  WATCHTOWER's RTO (Remote translation offices) like this one are million dollar luxury locations

  by Terry in

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  more than 60 percent of our full-time translation teams work, not at branch offices, but at remote translation offices (rto).

  why is this arrangement beneficial?

  what equipment do translators need in order to work effectively at an rto?

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  blondie

  Wow, Terry, they certainly have found their "paradise" on earth already.
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  Start of the Great Tribulation will be announced soon

  by joey jojo in

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  at the 2021 annual meeting, samuel herd revealed new light and claimed the anointed will all have passed away before armageddon.

  it has since been revealed that while they will die before armageddon, there will be some anointed still around that will witness the start of the great tribulation.. so the question is, how many years until the existing members of the governing body have passed away?.

  im not a doctor, but based on their age and various stages of obesity, im thinking 10- 15 years- give or take, sounds about right.. with that in mind, the great tribulation could be announced any day.. the new understanding has now freed the org from the burden of having to identify a particular generation in relation to the date of armageddon.

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  blondie

  "at the 2021 annual meeting, samuel herd revealed new light and claimed the anointed will all have passed away before armageddon." Wow, the younger GB members, better get their affairs in order, because they will be dying sooner than they think. haha But the WTS does not call it the "rapture" although that is what it is, just semantics. The GB members and other "anointed" jws have to be in heaven for the wedding of Jesus and the Bride. And now the WTS says that will be shortly after the "great tribulation" starts. So since the GT is just around the corner, very, very soon now, in the toenails of the feet of the image, etc. Then they will all be just be new boys and need to go to new boy school. With the "overlapping generations" maybe that can stretch the time out for all of them to be dead, as long as more jws don't start thinking they are anointed now and start partaking. Blondie
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  My personal thoughts on Ray Franz

  by Terry in

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  the death of ray franz hit me harder than i would have thought.. i had to reflect for awhile....alone......and quietly.. .

  after all, fine people die every day and some of them are indispensable, yet, we go on....don't we?.

  but, ray franz was something that can only be described in the phrase sui generis (one of a kind).. my task was to ask myself what it was that made ray so singular, potent and admirable without a trace of scandal or ill will attached to his memory.. .

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  blondie

  Thanks, Terry, I meet Ray and Cynthia many times on our way back and forth from Florida. It was always fun and positive. Cynthia always had us laughing out loud and Ray too but it would sneak up on you later how funny it was. He shared photos of him and Cynthia in their missionary assignments. They both spoke fairly good Spanish because of that. They are sad to leave their home and the people there to go to headquarters for Ray to be on the GB. He was stunned as to what went behind the doors. And though Fred Franz was his father's brother, he did not know him at all, and Fred did not interact with him much at all. I'm sure he had several aha moments, but felt some how it would be corrected by god (wait on Jehovah). He would take me back in his office and show me letters he had gotten from people who had been affected so positively by what he wrote; and then he would write back! I'm glad we were able to do that. I just looked online and found their phone number and called. No problem, he said stop by on down to FL or back. I enjoyed going down memory lane about Ray with you. Love Blondie
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  WT resumes public ministries*

  by Smiles in

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  from jw org news alert:.

  breaking news | resuming public witnessing.

  on may 31, 2022, the governing body informed all branch committees that they may now resume all forms of public witnessing with the exception of the door-to-door ministry.

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  blondie

  But not publicly from "door-to-door" and I bet lots of jws are glad.
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  Watchtower Dishonesty aka Theocratic Warfare

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  i would like to collect as many instances of watchtower dishonesty and pretense as possible.

  here is one from a bulgarian as an example of what i'm looking for.. are jehovah's witnesses disfellowshipped for receiving blood in a hospital?.

  helge fauskanger writes: "if witnesses can’t convince the elders that they are utterly “repentant” for this vampiric lapse of theirs, they will be held to have disassociated themselves from the religion — even if they never said a word about wanting to leave it!

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  blondie

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN7o6w-ST_w
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  4 New GB Helpers

  by Reservations in

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  apparently 4 new gb helpers as per reddit.

  1) paul gillies.

  2) johnathan smith.

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  blondie

  Reservations: "Apparently Gillies is now partaking, he’ll be GB within 3 years." This is exactly the process used to decide if baptized male partakers are possible GB members. Bring in as helpers and the other GB can "scrutinize" if they are worthy of being on the GB. More importantly, do they obey the GB in all things. But by that time, these "helpers" have already demonstrated they do, the GB just wants to see it in person. The GB has to come up with more candidates for the GB to make the "overlapping generation" belief last as long as possible.