There is one wrong face in the pic above, the guy above Lett is not Rumph.
Nostromo
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GB Update - Meet the new GB members
by eyeslice ini overheard my wife listening to '2023 governing body update #2, presented by kenneth cook jnr.
a few points i got from it.. new hour requirements.
quote "with the new hour requirements for pioneers, many us us can share in the pioneer work.
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Historian and former JW Jim Penton dies
by slimboyfat ini don’t know a lot about james penton but i think he deserves a better thread than the one currently on offer.
james penton, who died recently, grew up in a jw family in canada and served as an elder.
unusually for a jw, he studied liberal arts at university and became a history professor.
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Nostromo
For the last few years Penton participated in the online Bible study group with Eric Wilson. There are also some videos by him on Wilson's channel (Beroean Pickets).
This is an interesting interview from the early 80s. This was done 2 months after Ray Franz was kicked out from the org. Too bad Ray himself wasn't interviewed here as well - but his landlord, former elder Peter Gregerson was.
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Will there ever be any new GB members?
by Mikejw inthe last two seem very young.. will there be any further new gb members or will they all die off?.
i still remember when tony morris and a few other joined many were disappointed thinking the current crop would be the last.
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There are at least 2 GB helpers who are "anointed", I bet they will appoint them soon. Not Gilles though, he is too old and apparently he did not partake this year. -
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Branch dedication London
by ExBethelitenowPIMA ini’ve been invited to the dedication at chelmsford.. it’s crazy here, several thousand ex bethelites here for lots of events.
all hotels booked.
big marquee.
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Nostromo
Who is the 3rd GB member with a beard?
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New light on shunning?
by Mikejw inone theory why tony was booted out was because he was a stickler for not changing the shunning doctrine.
he actually said the words we will never ever change it.. they are slowly deleting all of tony’s videos and now losing court cases and losing government hand outs in places like norway.. it’s looking very likely they will release new light on shunning policy after losing this latest one in norway.. .
what are the odds they coincidentally get new light from jehovah and lighten up their shunning policy ?.
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Nostromo
^ They changed that in 1981 because of the famous Peter Gregerson/Ray Franz situation...
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Forget 1914, the 1975 generation are now passing away!
by nowwhat? inwe still have quite a few elderly here that came in as young families in the late 1960's-early 70's because soon, yes very soon they would enter the new system and never grow old.
it's now one year away from 50 years since 1975. just in the last couple years i've seen them come down with alzheimer's, cancer, brain tumors, becoming invalid etc.
the children of them that are now around 60 are just so distraught at seeing their parents deteriorate.
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Nostromo
In case someone has not seen this... Mouritz is now 96 years old, btw...
It is quite something that the youngest GB members were BORN when this talk was given!
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The History and Impact of Disfellowshipping and Shunning (Dr. M. James Penton)
by iloowy.goowy inthe history and impact of disfellowshipping and shunning (dr. m. james penton).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwdv1-apzlc.
the history and impact of disfellowshipping and shunning: a jehovah's witness inquisition by dr. m. james penton, 2003. recording of a discourse delivered at the " out of the watchtower - into christ" convention of former jehovah's witnesses in england and wales, where he discusses how the watchtower evolved its doctrine on disfellowshipping and shunning by twisting scripture, and the impact this has had on many watchtower victims.
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Nostromo
Buzkid, they really do that on Beroean meetings? Kick people out? On what basis? That's disappointing to hear.
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A talk about 1975 from 1972
by Nostromo ineverybody knows the famous "stay alive still 75" audio clip but here is a clip from 1972 with english subtitles.
harold mouritz was the branch committee member in finland when he gave this talk.
later he became the coordinator of the australian branch.
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Nostromo
Everybody knows the famous "stay alive still 75" audio clip but here is a clip from 1972 with English subtitles. Harold Mouritz was the Branch Committee member in Finland when he gave this talk. Later he became the coordinator of the Australian Branch. I wonder what he thinks about this talk now if he is still alive...
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Still no U turn on vax mandates for all schools
by ExBethelitenowPIMA inyou still have to be fully vaccinated to attend any theocratic schools.
elders and ministerial servants have their kingdom ministry school every year, the cobe of every congregation has to check that everyone is fully vaccinated.
after the school everyone will ask any bothers who were not there why not?
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Nostromo
It is interesting how many witnesses have woken up because of this issue. I was just watching some new interviews on Beroean Pickets youtube channel and almost everyone mentioned that this was the last straw for them.
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My favourite female protagonists: Ellen Ripley
by LoveUniHateExams inok, so another favourite female protagonist of mine is ellen ripley, played by sigourney weaver.
she just about overcame the xenomorph in ridley scott's alien (1979).
and she spent most of james cameron's aliens (1986) getting over her trauma.. here's some nice footage of newt calling ripley 'mommy' .... https://youtu.be/7fjana93kea.
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Nostromo
Those 2 were both great films. It was such a shame that Newt's story didn't continue in the third one. David Fincher, the director of the 3rd one, hates that film with passion and doesn't even want to talk about it.