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  August issue is now up on JW.com

  by ozziepost in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just a heads up that the english version with the changed cover is now up on jw.com.. i haven’t yet read it but if any you have the time i’m looking forward to people’s insights.. in the meantime i must find a red 🍷.

  cheers,.

  ozzie (of the ‘is he still here?’ class ).

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  Jeffro

  Lots of word games in the articles. In addition to the obvious semantic nonsense about what they call their ‘shunning’, there is also a conspicuous reference to a supposed ‘personal decision’ about ‘marking’ where the ‘decision’ has already been stipulated:

  if we notice a fellow Christian who shows such a disobedient spirit, we will make a personal decision not to associate with him for social occasions or recreation

  Notice how it’s not a personal decision about whether or not the person will continue to associate, but the ‘decision’ is to not associate. This nonsense is akin to the distinction that a person won’t be disfellowshipped removed for ‘accepting a blood transfusion’ but they’ve supposedly ‘disassociated by their actions’ anyway.
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  Who told the first lie?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

  god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

  in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

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  Jeffro

  🤦‍♂️
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  Who told the first lie?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

  god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

  in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

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  Jeffro

  It sure is funny (and quite pitiful) that there are people who believe that this unoriginal and nonsensical story is actually true. And the people who just accept that it’s all true with no evidence are generally the same people who expect ‘nonbelievers’ to explain complex scientific processes in detail in multiple fields. But they just make up trite excuses for primitive and obviously wrong folklore.
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  Paul Gillies and JW Spellcasting July 2024

  by FragrantAddendum in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gillies is moving up quick.

  wonder what kind of devilish acts he's done to get that job so fast.

  hey, look!

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  Jeffro

  It wasn’t the Pixar bit I was talking about
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  Paul Gillies and JW Spellcasting July 2024

  by FragrantAddendum in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gillies is moving up quick.

  wonder what kind of devilish acts he's done to get that job so fast.

  hey, look!

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  Jeffro

  hey, look! they put the "monster" logo in this time too!

  Good grief. It’s just a reflection. 🤦‍♂️ If you imagine the two letter abbreviation of their denomination name is just so it can be used to represent this nonsense when reflected, you’ve instantly lost all credibility.
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  Big News: August English Watchtower released on servers

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  big news.

  just in from a friend who is fading.. disfellowshipping will no longer be a term used by jws.

  study article 35, paragraph 4 footnote says this:.

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  Jeffro

  slimboyfat:

  I don’t see it on the website yet. What does it mean “released on servers”?

  It means the Streisand effect has struck again 🤣
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  Big News: August English Watchtower released on servers

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  big news.

  just in from a friend who is fading.. disfellowshipping will no longer be a term used by jws.

  study article 35, paragraph 4 footnote says this:.

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  Jeffro

  Disfellowshipping will no longer be a term used by jws.

  Semantic nonsense. Congregation members haven’t been informed whether a person is ‘disfellowshipped’ or ‘disassociated’ for about 30 years anyway, or why. They just announce that the person is “no longer one of Jehovah’s witnesses”.

  Will governments such as that of Norway actually be fooled by this weak chicanery?
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  Have Witnesses made more false prophecies then any other religion??

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  armagedon in 1914 rutherford 1925 1940's the fascist catholic take over franz 1975 and 2000 the 1914 generation will not die.

  now the generation that new the generation....this must break a world record of false prophecies in any religion..

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  Jeffro

  The Watchtower, 1 May 2014, page 3:

  Doomsday prophet Harold Camping and his disciples widely advertised that the earth would be destroyed in 2011. Needless to say, the world is still here.

  The irony. 😂
  
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  2024-08-August-Edition-of-Watchtower!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was translated so make sure everything looks ok.. 2024-08-august-edition of watchtower magazine.. .

  https://smallpdf.com/result#r=c90d948913ed99d72872c0a1c609f388&t=share-document .

  leopold.

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  Jeffro

  When we were having this discussion months ago, an amended version of the manual came out, but it did not echo these changes.

  The announcement that advised of the April 2024 revision directly stated that that revision does not include the recent changes to 'disfellowshipping', which would be included in a later revision (to be released in October).
  
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  Watchtower August leak: details from reddit user

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from reddit.. a summary of changes: .

  we are all sinners, so we have to be reasonable how we punish sinners.

  if elders and congregation do not quickly help someone come to be reinstated they would be imitating satan the devil, not jehovah (yes that actually is what is said in the tagalog version in translation!

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  Jeffro

  ukpimo:

  I wouldn't say that the 3 stated reasons for being more likely to get disfellowshipped is a deliberate distortion

  Stop trotting out this lie. The ‘3 stated reasons’ are for more caution to reinstate. Not ‘reasons for disfellowshipping’.