Posts by blondie

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Bible Study Approaching Its End

by Fallen_Winter in

jw
friends

i have been engaging in bible study with my bible study conductor for the past two years.

i am on lesson 48 of enjoy life forever book and it is only a matter of time before i complete lesson 60 which is the final lesson.

my bible study conductor informed me today that once i complete lesson 60, i won’t be receiving any more studies as i have been given all of the information that i need to make a decision.

blondie

Back in the pre-1975 date when the WTS was using the blue Truth book, students had to be coming to the meetings after 6 months, or study would be terminated, because there were so many other people who needed a chance to survive Armageddon.

1969 ARE you among the over one million persons who are at present being helped by Jehovah’s witnesses to learn what the Holy Bible teaches? If you are, likely you are using the Bible-study aid The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life. Undoubtedly it has helped you to learn many wonderful things about God and his will for mankind.

Those of you who have been studying the Bible for about six months should by now be in position to decide whether you are going to follow through on what you have learned.

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philip brumley wt 7/2025 experience

by andr in

how encouraging one finds the experience of a liar.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-july-2025/the-battle-belongs-to-jehovah/.

philip brumley is a legal counsel associated with the jehovah's witnesses organization, having worked for about 40 years at their world headquarters' legal department.

blondie

Thanks for sharing!

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Green Handshakes - Taxable income in Australia

by Listener in

i was doing some research on the taxable status of money being gifted to co’s and travelling missionaries and was surprised with what i found.

i had assumed that it was not taxable income in australia.. it is taxable income in australia and it‘s likely that the same rules apply in some other countries.. a registered religious institution only receives tax free status on donations because they have been endorsed by the australian tax office.

travelling overseas and missionaries are not in this category.. there’s a tax ruling that goes into great detail.

blondie

The state I live in has what they call a "use tax." Meaning if you go over the border to a state without sales tax and bring it back, you have to pay the going rate for sales tax in your state. For example, 5 percent. But then how does that state keep track of items you buy to catch you not paying that tax? I will check with the state department that handles that. "Most states do not actually enforce their use tax laws, with less than a fraction of individuals actually paying the tax. Businesses, however, receive much stricter oversight and must report the covered purchases on their tax returns." So I guess it is matter between them their god, not keeping the law because they can get away with. But then too many jws do things that they teach their god does not approve, serious things, and it only matters if they get caught by the WTS and its representatives. As if they don't teach that their god can read minds and the intentions of their hearts. They say: "Like the wicked immoral peoples of times past, they say, ‘God has left the land, he is not seeing,’ yes, he is dead." Ezekiel 9:9

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Live long and prosper: WT JULY 2025

by raymond frantz in

"now more than ever, we need to focus on our hope.

because we are living in 'the last days' and we all have problems that are 'hard to deal with.

' (2 tim.

blondie

Fedup JW, good application of that scripture.

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Sisters can now wear pants. Any more important changes

by Witness 007 in

alot of my witness friends were excited sisters can now wear pants and you can say hi to disfellowshiped folks but what about important stuff child molesters in the congregation you need 2 witnesses blood fractions are fine but not whole blood????

607 bce is from the 1880s wrong....anything else?

blondie

I doubt not many female jws dress that way. But the men seem to remember those. Makes a little uncomfortable being a woman myself.

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Memorial talk the SAME EVERY YEAR no anointed??

by Witness 007 in

yeah so got invited this year and just thought what a waste of my time no one partakes in the wine or bread the talk has been the same for 20 years i would rather stay home.

blondie

No anointed, despite the number of partakers increasing every year: https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/memorial-partakers.php

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BABYLON THE GREAT IS NOT FALLING ANYMORE? (NEW LIGHT FROM THE ANNUAL MEETING)

by raymond frantz in

https://youtu.be/rsbfa_7lqv4?si=muuxmgtll1n1ifad.

the watchtower’s babylon the great: a shrinking reality?.

so this latest annual meeting introduced a new idea about babylon the great, and here is the part from geoffrey jackson's talk we real need to dig in and consider it's ramifications..... so you’ve got to hand it to them; they know how to keep things interesting with their ever-evolving interpretations and, of course, those classic "adjustments" in understanding.

blondie

Thanks Jeffro

"The change introduced at the annual meeting was that the 'one thought' (Revelation 17:13) is now considered to refer to the 'nations' giving their authority to the UN rather than to destroy 'false religion'.

But the JW position that the UN, once it has been given authority in the imaginary scenario, will then 'turn against false religion' has not actually changed."

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1975 debacle

by Gman2001 in

did the borg ever apologize for 1975?.

blondie

An example of more current missing jws:

Before 1975 and after

Year	Ave. Publishers	Growth	% Growth	5 Year Growth
1970	1,384,782	127,998	10%
1971	1,510,245	125,463	9%
1972	1,596,442	86,197	6%
1973	1,656,673	60,231	4%
1974	1,880,713	224.040	14%
1975	2,062,449	181,736	10%	37%
1976	2,138,537	76,088	4%	.
1977	2,117,194	-21,343	-1%
1978	2,086,698	-30,496	-1%
1979	2,097,070	10,372	0%
1980	2,175,403	78,333	4%	2%

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JWs in the news: UK Telegraph:"‘Jehovah’s Witnesses told me I would die at 15 – so I didn’t save for a pension’"

by Balaamsass2 in

‘jehovah’s witnesses told me i would die at 15 – so i didn’t save for a pension’.

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blondie

I always viewed as a "suggestion" not a command; but many jws were really serving men, an organization, and did not look at the scriptures.

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Memorial attendance

by Balaamsass2 in

curious.

what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?

blondie

Duran, I know non-jws believe differently, and the WTS always has its own interpretation to fit its doctrines.