It's evidently a case of Watchtower not liking that the brothers are grabbing the food while it's in the kitchen. So they closed the kitchen door until the spiritual food is ready to be served. 17 languages were released when I last checked before Watchtower pulled the plug on us. I don't think there will be any significant changes. The Tagalog edition was changed yesterday, they updated the section on handling minors who committed a serious wrongdoing, but it was a minor update.
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Big News: August English Watchtower released on servers
by ukpimo inbig news.
just in from a friend who is fading.. disfellowshipping will no longer be a term used by jws.
study article 35, paragraph 4 footnote says this:.
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2024-08-August-Edition-of-Watchtower!
by Atlantis init was translated so make sure everything looks ok.. 2024-08-august-edition of watchtower magazine.. .
https://smallpdf.com/result#r=c90d948913ed99d72872c0a1c609f388&t=share-document .
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2024-08-August-SPANISH-Edition!
by Atlantis inhere is the spanish edition of the 2024-08-august watchtower if anybody wants it.. .
https://pdfhost.io/v/gleqyxbh._w2408s .
grandpa!.
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@Marcial, all issues have been unpublished, all access to the files on Amazon was disabled until shortly before the magazine is visible on JW dot org. Apparently the French edition is not yet finished in digital form. The English edition literally went to print yesterday.
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Big News: August English Watchtower released on servers
by ukpimo inbig news.
just in from a friend who is fading.. disfellowshipping will no longer be a term used by jws.
study article 35, paragraph 4 footnote says this:.
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I don’t see it on the website yet. What does it mean “released on servers”?
On the servers = The Amazon and Akamai-powered cloud infrastructure that hosts the content distribution network behind JW.org website. The publications are first uploaded there, replicated around the server farm for fast access from anywhere in the world. Only after that is the actual website updated (via their in-house content management system) and the publications visible in the usual manner. The URLs to the uploaded publications can be query by the so-called GetPubMediaLinks API call.
Has any change been made to an earlier version of the magazine that would explain the delay in publication?
The magazine was rewritten from scratch since Governing Body Update #2, even though the earlier version was ready for printing. The actual English language edition of the August Watchtower went to print today.
Have they removed the word disfellowshipping but not the practice? Or are they trying to water the whole thing down?
Yes, it's all word games. "Removed from the congregation" instead of "disfellowshipping", "committees of elders" instead of "judicial committees". One relevant change though is the discontinuation of warning talks if someone is marked for "walking disorderly", because now each individual Christian can decide for themselves whether to mark such a person, not just the elders.
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2024-08-August-Edition-of-Watchtower!
by Atlantis init was translated so make sure everything looks ok.. 2024-08-august-edition of watchtower magazine.. .
https://smallpdf.com/result#r=c90d948913ed99d72872c0a1c609f388&t=share-document .
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2024-08-August-Edition-of-Watchtower!
by Atlantis init was translated so make sure everything looks ok.. 2024-08-august-edition of watchtower magazine.. .
https://smallpdf.com/result#r=c90d948913ed99d72872c0a1c609f388&t=share-document .
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English is officially available, albeit only the formats specifically designed for visually impaired (RTF and BRL). PDF, JWPUB and EPUB still in pending.
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/media_periodical/99/w_E_202408.rtf.zip
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2024-08-August-Edition-of-Watchtower!
by Atlantis init was translated so make sure everything looks ok.. 2024-08-august-edition of watchtower magazine.. .
https://smallpdf.com/result#r=c90d948913ed99d72872c0a1c609f388&t=share-document .
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True, but the announcement did not go into the reason behind it. That is why I explained it.
In the meantime, the August Watchtower is out in 16 languages. The most recent is Spanish—the first major language for this issue: https://d34ji3l0qn3w2t.cloudfront.net/277518a9-528b-4606-924b-52d3f305d9e0/1/w_S_202408.pdf
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2024-08-August-Edition-of-Watchtower!
by Atlantis init was translated so make sure everything looks ok.. 2024-08-august-edition of watchtower magazine.. .
https://smallpdf.com/result#r=c90d948913ed99d72872c0a1c609f388&t=share-document .
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These changes were already pretty well known months ago. Now that they are being officially announced in the WT, does that mean that the secret elders ' manual will now be amended to reflect the changes? When we were having this discussion months ago, an amended version of the manual came out, but it did not echo these changes.
Yes, the October 2024 update of the elder's manual will no doubt reflect these changes. The April 2024 update of the Shepherd book could not have already contained the changes, because it was printed in January (as per the date on the QR code on the back cover), and the changes were announced in March.
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2024-08-August-Edition-of-Watchtower!
by Atlantis init was translated so make sure everything looks ok.. 2024-08-august-edition of watchtower magazine.. .
https://smallpdf.com/result#r=c90d948913ed99d72872c0a1c609f388&t=share-document .
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Assuming this leaked August 2024 Watchtower is legit
I can confirm and assure you that it is legit. The machine-translated PDF Atlantis posted was processed starting from the actual Tagalog (Filipino) edition of the magazine: https://d34ji3l0qn3w2t.cloudfront.net/e2678173-85cb-4413-ae25-336c2102660e/1/w_TG_202408.pdf
Chaka of the "Anthory Morris Returns" YouTube channel released a video where he and Arthur discussed some of the stuff in the articles based also on the actual Cibemba translation (Chaka is originally from Zambia and Cibemba is a major Zambian language). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTm_kZCHt2w
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2024-08-August-Edition-of-Watchtower!
by Atlantis init was translated so make sure everything looks ok.. 2024-08-august-edition of watchtower magazine.. .
https://smallpdf.com/result#r=c90d948913ed99d72872c0a1c609f388&t=share-document .
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Wt has realesed article 9 languages but not in english?
They didn't release them officially. They just uploaded them to the content delivery network (hosted in a rented cloud powered by Amazon Web Services). I suppose we will see many more languages coming on Monday. After most of the languages are posted, then will they release the magazine by creating its entry on the main jw.org web site.