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  2024 year Highlights: JWs hit 9 million Publishers

  by Sanchy in

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  2. friends

  watchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.

  average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.

  baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.

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  blondie

  Well, the WTS has never been good with numbers (remember 1914, 1925, 1975 very soon now) still waiting.
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  Is it just me, or is Watchtower lowering its standards?

  by ukpimo in

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  in the past, we used to hear talks on:.

  avoiding sexual immorality and porn, as well as masturbation and other sexual practices.

  why evolution cannot possibly be true.

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  blondie

  Yes, they have been lowering their stands since the first inception of the Watchtower Society. Just seems like it is on a steeper downward direction.
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  Tis the season

  by garyneal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  seems like i just pop in here every now and then to see what everyone is up to.

  just like the previous years, i check in during the holidays to let everyone know about the annual christmas card exchange.. blondie used to lead this several years ago and i was involved for about 3 to 4 years before it began to fall off.

  for those of you who participated back then, i still have your addresses and have just sent off this year's christmas cards to everyone.

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  blondie

  I guess it may be that some people don't send cards. I send cards that mention the winter season only. Some may not want to give out their address. Or they don't know you. In the past, it seemed people felt more comfortable send them to me here in a pm on JWN. Just wait, I got your card today. I'm going to open it up and put on my card string under our fireplace mantel. You're the first one this season. Love Blondie
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  What is Your Favorite WT Lie?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.

  surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.

  my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.

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  blondie

  Seabreeze, "I agree when in person. But for posting online, I think documented quote snippets are very effective, and make people more comfortable cut and pasting the data." That is exactly what I have been doing on JWN for years, hanging them with the WTS with their own words I"m sorry if I seemed to say that should be done in person. Sometimes, depending on the circumstances, I have copied a few to the point comments by the WTS with the source given, and give to them and ask how they would explain this kindly with a wondering tone of voice, invite them to look it up on the Watchtower Online Library. As in person, I agree, that it is not as effective. That is why I have done it on JWN and other ex-jw sites, in writing giving the source. (thought you knew that about my posting on JWN :) Blondie
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  THE LONG ANTICIPATED INTERVIEW OF THE 2 NEW GB MEMBERS

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/dxyjupnklgi?si=2ux5wokg57xdpaob.

  here we have the more indepth interview of the two new gb members jody jodele & jacob rumph and what jumps out to me is how borring they are, interestingly they don't go into detail when it dawned on them when they became anointed but they only go though their history and how they ended up in bethel.

  as we already know jody jodele is the real estate expert that will help the gb capitalise on all this real estate money and jacob rumph sounds he spend alot of time as a missionary in south america, maybe he will provide a more insightful understanding of that continent to the gb since no indigenous jw will be part of the gb anytime soon.now what strikes to me as odd is the examples they both sited as the bible characters they want to relate more with, and no it is not jesus.. these modern-day governing body of jehovah's witnesses seems to be leaning heavily on old testament figures like moses and gideon as their role models instead of focusing on jesus, which speaks volumes about the kind of organization they’re leading.

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  blondie

  And then there are "replacements" of anointed fallen away (1935 was the cutoff date, no more anointed after that, then this when those after 1935 started partaking, and the the steading increase of those partaking on the memorial which starting about 2008, about 20,000 today)

  W2008 1/15 p. 23

  It seems, however, that not all who have been called to a heavenly hope since the 1930’s are replacements for ones who have fallen away. Jehovah has evidently made sure that we will have anointed Christians among us all through the final days of this system of things until the destruction of “Babylon the Great.”

  WT1998 2/15 p.21

  Suppose an anointed one became unfaithful. Would there be a replacement? Paul indicated as much in his discussion of the symbolic olive tree. (Romans 11:11-32) If a spirit-begotten one needs to be replaced, likely God would give the heavenly calling to someone whose faith had been exemplary in rendering sacred service to him for many years

  WT1992 3/1 p. 20-21

  What if some anointed ones fail to be integrity keepers? At this late hour, the number of such disloyal ones will no doubt be few. Reasonably, any replacement would come, not from among newly baptized ones, but from among those who have stuck with Jesus in his trials through many years of faithful service.

  https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php#L4
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  THE LONG ANTICIPATED INTERVIEW OF THE 2 NEW GB MEMBERS

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/dxyjupnklgi?si=2ux5wokg57xdpaob.

  here we have the more indepth interview of the two new gb members jody jodele & jacob rumph and what jumps out to me is how borring they are, interestingly they don't go into detail when it dawned on them when they became anointed but they only go though their history and how they ended up in bethel.

  as we already know jody jodele is the real estate expert that will help the gb capitalise on all this real estate money and jacob rumph sounds he spend alot of time as a missionary in south america, maybe he will provide a more insightful understanding of that continent to the gb since no indigenous jw will be part of the gb anytime soon.now what strikes to me as odd is the examples they both sited as the bible characters they want to relate more with, and no it is not jesus.. these modern-day governing body of jehovah's witnesses seems to be leaning heavily on old testament figures like moses and gideon as their role models instead of focusing on jesus, which speaks volumes about the kind of organization they’re leading.

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  blondie

  The WTS wants "loyalists" who have proven it over time, and not necessarily "anointed" from their baptism. "replacement anointed" something that made Fred Franz furious. Puppets.
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  Ramapo project approved

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  news is that the ramapo project has been approved by authorities and can move forward..

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  blondie

  How many locations does the WTS have now and past ones.

  Walkill

  Warwick

  one in CT

  This one

  and another whose name I can't think of
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  Preaching the "good news" - about whom or what?

  by BoogerMan in

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  the "good news" was specifically about christ's imminent kingship/rulership in heaven, to be followed by his rulership over the earth.

  (matthew 6:10).

  basileia (kingdom) - royal power, kingship, dominion, rule: not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather rulership, the right or authority to rule over a kingdom, of the royal power of jesus as the triumphant messiah.

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  blondie

  Nice list of scriptures, Boogerman (interesting name), and searching for witnesses of Jehovah in the New Testament (WTS bible) as opposed to witnesses of Jesus.
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  What is Your Favorite WT Lie?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.

  surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.

  my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.

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  blondie

  I myself would stick to doctrinal and policy issues and what scriptures the WTS uses and why not accurate or where the WTS has waffled on their applications of certain scriptures.
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  What is Your Favorite WT Lie?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.

  surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.

  my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.

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  blondie

  Yes, I would a link to a WT publication regarding Bethelites running with pillows.