Some of you may know of a longstanding JW owned and operated forum named "Touchstone Forum" ( www.touchstoneforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl ).
Wrench, the elder who ran the board, closed its doors rather quickly a couple of weeks ago, and has refused to discuss the reasons for the closure. No announcement of closing. Touchstone Forum just disappeared.
A sign of this?
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Does“thefaithfulanddiscreetslave”endorseindependentgroupsofWitnesseswhomeettogethertoengageinScripturalresearchordebate?—Matt.24: 45, 47.
No, it does not. And yet, in various parts of the world, a few associates of our organization have formed groups to do independent research on Bible-related subjects. Some have pursued an independent group study of Biblical Hebrew and Greek so as to analyze the accuracy of the NewWorldTranslation. Others explore scientific subjects related to the Bible. They have created Web sites and chat rooms for the purpose of exchanging and debating their views.
One of the brothers has created his own board as a replacement. http://www.truetheology.net