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Huge Shift in Doctrine?

by Lemonp in

i am not sure why more people aren't talking about this?.

the march 15 study edition of the wt has some major changes!

- all unbiblical "types and antitypes" are now dropped.

skin

You only need to hear this from stage and see it in the mag for it all to totally make sense.

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Changing images

by maisha in

awhile ago i was mentioning how many of the images in watchtowers last year were containing addins with skulls, demon like faces and blatant illuminiti imagery.

i recently went into the download sites again to grab some of those images and blow me away they have all been changed, cropped, edited, i can say that because i have some those original digital images from the magazines of last year, however the images currently on download sites are not the same some completely removed.

one such image of jesus coming on an ass has been cropped, removing the name of the hidden name of the artist,,,, and altering a huge demon like face on the window.... has anyone else noticed this?..

skin

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i work with a JW and he doesnt know im an inactive

by user100 in

so i started working at this place 4 years ago.. and i am usually myself a still-in inactive atheist jw at work.

after several months i came to realize the guy i work with is a devout jw... im always afraid of running into him in the conventions.. he is in a different circuit but im afraid he might show up in one of the district conventions.. i am dreading that day...

skin

What are you doing at work that you are so worried about? That your wife will be upset about?

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Something a CO once said.

by cappytan in

"there are only three reasons you should miss a meeting.

fever, fracture or funeral.

everything else is a sorry excuse.

skin

He said "Funeral" was a reason to miss a meeting? I'm sure I have heard it said "Let the dead bury the dead". In other words, don't miss meetings because someone has died.

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25 YEARS of compiled yearbook statistics

by 88JM in

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hello again folks - as promised in my last thread here, i've been working on turning yearbook statistics into excel spreadsheets.. coincidentally, today is my 25th birthday (spare a thought for a fader).. i've now updated the spreadsheet with yearbook data all the way back to 1988 (the year i was born), therefore it now contains 25 years of statistics.. there were a lot of countries changing around and for some it was possible to create a continuation of data.

some are a simple change of name like south-west africa to namibia.

others, for example - in 1993 with czechoslovakia splitting into two countries (czech republic and slovakia) i have added an extra row that provides a continuation of the data, combining czech republic and slovakia back together as if they were still one country.

skin

Thanks 88JM for the updates. Just downloaded them into excel to look at.

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Borg music video a real tear-jerker

by Slave4_38y in

this is a must watch video.

it brought tears of laughter!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-akomec3q.

skin

Wow, that came from JW Broadcasting. That means its wrong to miss a meeting because of work. Poor wife has to go on her own. Does she work to provide any income? I guess not because she is filling out a pioneer form.

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Zone visit meeting Australasia region 7th march...

by stuckinarut2 in

i'm sitting here now going insane with this program of fear, obligation and guilt!.

oh man....seriously mind numbing.. i can't bring myself to share too much of it all now.... but i just want to get out...... tell you all more soon about the manipulative trash..... .

anyone else go to this?

skin

Here are the key points that I remembered.

At the very beginning of this meeting we were told that no recordings are to be taken and any notes we make are for our personal use only and not to be made available to anyone else. Is this really how Jehovah wants his knowledge of truth treated? Keep it to ourselves? Hearing this I knew there must be something in one of these talks that they don't want recordings of to come back to bite them in the future.

After the WT study came a short video about the organization and how the new donations arrangement is working and that some 13000 more KHs are needed around the world. So you brothers need to give more money was the guilt message brought out in this talk.

Then came the main speaker. Sorry not sure of his name, but he was aged and had a UK accent. His talk contained mostly experiences from remote area's of Russia. Experiences that sounded to far fetched to be true or they had to be modified to tickle the audiences ears.

Now for what I believe to be the key point as to why they don't want recordings of this meeting made. During this same talk, he talked about the young ones and how they need to advance in the truth because it is you brothers that will be bringing Jehovah’s people on into the new system. It would be embarrassing for them if this audio was around in 50+ years and this system is still here. (Remember the 1969 awake article about young ones not growing old in this system).

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I quit the Theocratic Ministry School

by My Name is of No Consequence in

after almost 24 years in the school and doing it since i was nine years old, i officially resigned.

it has become increasingly difficult to prepare talks, especially with the new format for brothers.

i did not mind doing them; i actually put the time and effort into getting them out.

skin

Great blog. I too finally quit the school about a year ago. Joined it 13 years before that. I never wanted to join it, but the then school overseer then came up to my wife and I and asked us if he could put us on the school. My wife said yes but I didn't get a chance to say no before the overseer walked away, then I got my first talk slip...13 years later I finally got the courage to send the school overseer a txt saying I wanted to be taken off the school. His reply was "that's fine, can we meet up for a catchup". So we did, I was nervous not knowing what could happen. But it actually when very well, He only made a quick passing comment about dropping off the school. The rest of this catchup time (about 30min) was great, no religious (JW) topics were talked about. Now that a year has gone since ending the school, I couldn't be happier, a real weight off my shoulders. Ive learned my lesson, If only I had had this courage years earlier.

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The beginning of the end for shunning?

by Saltheart Foamfollower in

the borg seem to prepare for changes by missing explanations out for a while then presenting a "new understanding" which doesn't contradict the most recent discussion.check out the most recent references to gog - no identification as satan.. in today's wt study, paragraph 15 concerning benefitting from the prodigal son stated "if we meet a person who has strayed from the congregation, will we offer loving and practical help to assist him to return?

" there is no footnote or other qualifier saying not to go to disfellowshipped ones (who are definitely the ones being talked about) which is still the official policy.

i know this isn't an ending to shunning, but it may signal the start of the preparation for a change.

skin

Almost all JWs I know view those who have left the organization has being on the same level has those DA'd or DF'd. They are all to scared to have any contact what so ever with someone who has strayed, let alone "offer loving and practical help to assist him to return".

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what were some of the comments at the meetings on that lesson?

by sowhatnow in

the lesson the past sunday that everyone is talking about, with' the basement club', .

what were some of the comments[ that anyone who does go to the meetings], you may have recalled hearing as to this photo?.

i mean has anyone right out asked one of the members at the hall, what they are hiding from?.

skin

Some comments can be read here:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/71420010/fear-mongering-this-weeks-wt-study