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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

by WingCommander in

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this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

eyeslice

Everything here is very speculative until more is revealed or known about the situation.

Personally, I don't buy the stepped down for health reasons or personal reasons as that would totally go against the 'Faithful and Discreet Slave' doctrine they have conjured up. If Christ has selected old Tony, then being closer to death means being closer to the heavenly reward as not just one of the 144,000 but of the specially chosen FDS (may be there are even two classes within the 144,000 lol).

On the other hand the FDS doctrine can be bent to show the FDS is a 'flexible' arrangement for dispensing 'spiritual food at the correct time' and therefore can be and is a much a body that changes regularly.

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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

by WingCommander in

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friends

this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

eyeslice

I find these very terse announcements very strange. No mention of something like 'we thank brother Morris for all his hard work over the years and appreciate the input he has had to the GB.'

It's akin to the short of announcement made when they disfellowship someone, 'brother/sister so-and-so is no longer one of JWs'.

They are either totally ungrateful or something is amiss.

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Second school

by llubrevlis2000 in

has the auxiliary class or second school been done away with?.

when i grew up in my congregation we even had three schools, so three bible readings and three lots of student assignments.. after covid it seems everything is easier, less assignments now some only seem to get one or two per year.. being an elder is much easier these days, everything is done for you.

meetings are full of videos and q&as need no preparation you could take a watchtower or cong book study with zero preparation and most midweek meetings have q&as that requires no preparation .

eyeslice

When I was 'school overseer', our congregation once had a main school and two additional schools.

Also, in those days each student had a counsel sheet and they were expected to work through all the points, with the school overseer marking each point of counsel good, weak or improved.

Now a days, the talks are just a parrot repeat of some video or other and I don't think anyone is asked to work anything, just a general chat about the pre assigned point they were supposed to be working on.

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No more public WT & Awake?

by mikeflood in

have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

eyeslice

Wasn't it claimed that the Watchtower was the most widely circulated magazine in the world at one time? Greater than the Readers Digest?

In fairness, in the last 25 years, print has fallen out of favour as the internet has taken over.

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JWs and the constitution of the United States

by Vanderhoven7 in

jws will not salute the flag.

however they will support the us constitution which gives congress the right to establish the military and to declare and to make war.

isn’t that tant amount to supporting the country going to war?.

eyeslice

Does anyone know if this was just a written pledge? I see that someone, a notary, witnessed some of these.

So did that involve having to verbally take the pledge in front of an official and even in front of the US flag perhaps?

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This week's Watchtower Study - don't complain if ...

by eyeslice in

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don't complain if you get kicked out of bethel after 23 years (it's really a blessing to be assigned back to the field) and don't complain if they sell your kingdom hall even if you have just invested your time and energy renovating it.. so encouraging?.

eyeslice

Don't complain if you get kicked out of Bethel after 23 years (it's really a blessing to be assigned back to the field) and don't complain if they sell your kingdom hall even if you have just invested your time and energy renovating it.

So encouraging?

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How do JWs know that millions who were martyred as Christians before the 20th century did not have the heavenly hope?

by Vanderhoven7 in

as i understand it, jehovah’s witnesses believe less than 145,000 faithful christians existed prior to the twentieth century.

the other sheep christians did not start forming until after 1914. that means jehovah’s witnesses view millions martyred for their faith in christ prior to the 20th century as merely professed christians.. the question is…how do witnesses know that those millions who perished for their faith in christ were not christians at all?.

eyeslice

Seems strange that two white American men who have spent most of their adult lives in the cosy confines of Bethel can get the heavenly call followed by being made GB members when a frail female slave girl, tortured and brutally put to death, isn't counted worthy of heaven.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandina)

She was bound to a stake and wild beasts were set on her. According to legend, they did not, however, touch her. After enduring this for a number of days, in an effort to persuade her to recant, she was led into the arena to see the sufferings of her companions. Finally, as the last of the martyrs, she was scourged, placed on a red-hot grate, enclosed in a net and thrown before a wild steer who tossed her into the air with his horns. In the end, she was killed with a dagger

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Elders are no longer teachers

by eyeslice in

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back in the day when i was a young witness lad, you very much got the impression that at least the training as theocratic teachers was good.. even the bible reading back then had a short introduction and conclusion.

you had to research and prepare your own ministry school talks and then perhaps you would graduate to a half of a 55 minute public talk.

then later if you were a book study conductor, you got to decide which scriptures to read and highlight.

eyeslice

So true - not much fun or initiative nowadays.

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Elders are no longer teachers

by eyeslice in

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friends

back in the day when i was a young witness lad, you very much got the impression that at least the training as theocratic teachers was good.. even the bible reading back then had a short introduction and conclusion.

you had to research and prepare your own ministry school talks and then perhaps you would graduate to a half of a 55 minute public talk.

then later if you were a book study conductor, you got to decide which scriptures to read and highlight.

eyeslice

Back in the day when I was a young witness lad, you very much got the impression that at least the training as theocratic teachers was good.

Even the bible reading back then had a short introduction and conclusion. You had to research and prepare your own ministry school talks and then perhaps you would graduate to a half of a 55 minute public talk. Then later if you were a book study conductor, you got to decide which scriptures to read and highlight. Even assembly parts only had an outline.

Fast forward to today. Why bother training elders as teachers as in reality they don't do any teaching. All the parts are more or less fully scripted with 'read' scriptures and pre-set questions. The bible reading is just that - get up and read no comments or conclusion about the passage. The school presentations are simply a case of watch a video and parrot off something similar.

Then the living as Christians is simply watch GB video followed by a few pre-set questions.

I reckon I could do any Congregation Watchtower study with zero preparation. Just stand up, get the paragraph read, ask the questions, read the 'read' scriptures. Then after everyone would say 'what a great job you did today bro'.

So what's the role of elders today? Well a lot are sincere people person's but in the end they are simple organizational enforcers.

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JWs and the constitution of the United States

by Vanderhoven7 in

jws will not salute the flag.

however they will support the us constitution which gives congress the right to establish the military and to declare and to make war.

isn’t that tant amount to supporting the country going to war?.

eyeslice

Anyone know what year the swearing oath of allegiance to get a passport stopped?

Some of the current GB are getting on maybe they had passports back in the day.

Did any of this happen at the time of the Malawi/Mexico debacle?