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Last minute repentance
by inbetween in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
while most talk about the end of reporting for publishers, i think the doctrinal change is even bigger.. repentance after start of gt still possible?

what does that mean for the judgement message, they pushed a bit lately?.

will that be really just before armageddon?
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Thought on “0 hours” reporting
by FFGhost in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so everyone knows the “big news” of this past weekend, no more reporting of hours, placements, return visits, etc.

beginning november 1, jws just tick a box indicating whether they “shared in any form of the ministry during the month”.. so there was a brief comment by a redditor that seems like a brief joke “throwaway comment” but after thinking about it….why not?.

the idea is, what is “any form of the ministry”?
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Raymond Franz
by inbetween in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
recenty we had some contact with some jw.

after it was briefly mentioned, that am iii is no longer a gb member, one of them mentiuoned about raymond franz.

he called him a brother to fred frantz, who slowly slipped in some publications his own ideas, thats why he was removed, and some of his books discontinued.. it was just interesting, how badly informed some so called well informed witnesses are.....
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GB Update - Meet the new GB members
by eyeslice in
1. jw
2. friends
i 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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Mass Shooting at Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany
by EdenOne in
1. social
2. current
mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.

at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.

single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.
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"Mankind's Search for God" book
by My Name is of No Consequence in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this book was published around 1990, but was never studied (to my knowledge).

does anyone know the reason why?.
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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body
by WingCommander in
1. jw
2. 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!
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How Will They End 1914 Teaching?
by EmptyInside in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i'm sure this has been discussed, but 1914 has to go away.

instead of, the overlapping generation teaching, they should have just ditched 1914. .

they should have done that a long time ago with 1975. it's the last of the teachings in the charles taze russell era.. i'm thinking they just will stop talking about it, and it will be out of the mind of the rank and file loyal witnesses .
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New blood card system in March
by Indoubtbigtime in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there is going to be a hole new system of blood cards this march .

the congregation won’t hold any information as they did before from march it will be all put on the pub.

i think it’s to do with vaccines and they are worried now they got everyone vaxed and they want to distance themselves from medical responsibilities and say own personal decisions.
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Watchtower has fallen from 700k words/year to now to just 170k words/year
by ComingOutaMyCage in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this is one of the many charts on my jw lib analytics.. i have also attached the top 500 scriptures from 1950-2022. https://comingoutamycage.github.io/jw_lib_analytics/viewwordsperyear.html?publication=watchtower&normal=1.

https://i.postimg.cc/503yg1f7/word-count-watchtower.png.

https://i.postimg.cc/gdmskjv-lib-analytics-view-top-scriptures-html.png.