Interesting. This may be in response to accusations in Russia that their translation “not a Bible” because it is not called a “Bible”. I wonder if they will change fnd title and cover in other language versions, and in English.
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German got his silver sword
by fastJehu inon saturday 02-02-2019 german jws got there silver sword.
rumour has it that all of europe received the translation yesterday, because gerrit lösch visited the european branch in selters (germany).
can anyone confirm that?.
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Halls closing
by iknowthetruth inin my city philadelphia they closed many kingdom halls.
my hall was desolved and most of the publishers were added to a congregation that only had 50 publishers.
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slimboyfat
Yet, you can see the discouragement in their faces.
Nice job GB. Keep kicking the only people who care about you.I think the GB do realise the effect these cutbacks are having on morale. This is something to consider, because it indicates how much trouble Watchtower is in. They are implementing these cutbacks, despite the effect on morale, because they can see no other way to preserve the organisation at this point. They must be in deep financial trouble to resort to this.
The "literature" has long railed about how callous the "corporate world" is - viewing employees as chattel, having no use for you once you cease to provide value to them, etc.
Have you got any such quotes handy, because that would be interesting to compare.
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German got his silver sword
by fastJehu inon saturday 02-02-2019 german jws got there silver sword.
rumour has it that all of europe received the translation yesterday, because gerrit lösch visited the european branch in selters (germany).
can anyone confirm that?.
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slimboyfat
Have they changed the cover in German from “Holy Scriptures” to “The Bible” as in the picture? They didn’t change the cover title in English.
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Interesting Find
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara inscandal in malta.
by paul j. bonanno and kent steinhaug.
it was, and still is, a fact well advertised by jehovah's witnesses (hereafter referred to as jw) that every member who works in their general headquarters (which is located in brooklyn, new york, america), and their other worldwide offices, receives only room, board and a few dollars per month.
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slimboyfat
Wow this is nostalgia inducing. This was one of the earliest “apostate” stories I read online around 2000. I think it was on Freeminds. Pretty tame compared to what’s happened since.
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Legal concerns about: "picnics"
by Darth FayDehr in"congregation picnic"2.
"congregation gathering"3.
"spontaneous gathering of jws”.
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slimboyfat
I like part in the elders book that says: just because you paid for the local KH, and are responsible for its upkeep, don’t get the idea that you somehow “own” the local KH!
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Who will be resurrected? The righteous and the unrighteous
by RULES & REGULATIONS inchapter seven.
there will be a resurrection.
17 who will be resurrected?
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slimboyfat
Did you know that traditional Christadelphian teaching is that only baptised believers (of their version of Christianity) will be resurrected? Billions of humans who never heard the Christadelphian message will never be resurrected and will never get a chance at salvation. On the other hand, baptised Christadelphians who leave the religion and later die, will get a resurrection and another chance, despite having left the religion.
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2019 Elders Manual and a Whole Lot More!
by Atlantis insingle zipped folderhttps://we.tl/t-uiqj87wimd.
2019-02-02-musical preludeshttps://we.tl/t-zyfpnodizd.
s-21-e congregation's publisher record (2018-12).pdfhttps://we.tl/t-i9qamx3s0q.
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slimboyfat
Oh man, the part that says a disfellowshipped person can get a lift to the KH if it’s in a bad neighbourhood and he has no other way to get there... but he has to be treated like on public transportation with no conversation during the trip. To top it off, an elder will monitor the “arrangement” in case it is being “abused”.
I think it is clear who is being abused in this sort of arrangement.
These people have no humanity and no common sense.
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At the mouth of 2-3 witnesses a matter is established .Gods word the bible proves a generation is 50 years +, or - 5 years
by smiddy injehovah`s witnesses make a big deal about the 2 or 3 witnesses in judicial decisions yet they ignore that evidence when it suits them.. firstly :.
regarding the length of a generation matthew ch.1:17 gives a strong clue ,their are 3 lots of 14 generations mentioned which equal 42 generations from the time of abraham to jesus .. watchtower publications give abrahams birth as 2018 bc......they also give jesus birth as of 2 bc a period of 2016 years .
2016 yrs.
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slimboyfat
Good point, a reasonable generation is around 40 or 50 years.
And the idea that a “generation” can last longer than a human lifespan (as we are currently stretching the limits from 1914) is just insane.
I don’t know who is more nuts, Splane for coming up with it, or the other crackers for going along with it,
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2019 Elders Manual and a Whole Lot More!
by Atlantis insingle zipped folderhttps://we.tl/t-uiqj87wimd.
2019-02-02-musical preludeshttps://we.tl/t-zyfpnodizd.
s-21-e congregation's publisher record (2018-12).pdfhttps://we.tl/t-i9qamx3s0q.
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slimboyfat
From the announcements and reminders.
2. Guidance of God Brochure: The brochure The Guidance of God—Our Way to Paradise has been discontinued, and any remaining stock should be discarded. Publishers may instead make use of the brochure Real Faith—Your Key to a Happy Life.
The Guidance brochure (published in 1998) was aimed directly at Muslims and contained frequent references to Islam and the Quran. As far as I can make out the Real Faith (2010) brochure makes no explicit reference to Islam. Is there any reason Watchtower is disposing of their Islam-focussed literature and replacing it with a generic brochure?
We can read the discsrded brochure here.
http://www.watchtowerwayback.org/jw-wb/English/Brochures/1998-2006%20Our%20guidance%20of%20God-Our%20way%20to%20paradise%20(2006%20edition).pdf
Thank you Atlantis!
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German got his silver sword
by fastJehu inon saturday 02-02-2019 german jws got there silver sword.
rumour has it that all of europe received the translation yesterday, because gerrit lösch visited the european branch in selters (germany).
can anyone confirm that?.
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Some congregations didn’t have enough copies to distribute. Each person in attendance was supposed to receive a copy but some went away empty handed - and not pleased.
How short of funds must Watchtower be that they can’t print enough Bibles?
And the revised Spanish Bible has still not been released. Is that because millions of Spanish Bibles would need to be printed, for many publishers in poorer countries?