Posts by Caminante

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What happened to the 2020 Annual Meeting? Was it suspended?

by Misterme in

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friends

anyone know?

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Caminante

Yes, the annual meeting will be posted in January in the form of prerecorded talks, and everyone (including Bethelites and others who otherwise would have joined the spiritual program at the Stanley Theater or some other facility) will watch the talks on JW.org early next year.

@slimboyfat : Nowadays the organization is focused more on producing digital content and video content. Apparently the demand for printed publications has diminished. And also paying for Akamai and Amazon cloud services is probably cheaper than printing as many pages as they used to print 15 years ago.

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2020-October-German-Elder-Manual! (as of 2020-10-11)

by Atlantis in

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friends

2020-october-german-shepherd the flock of god manual.. .

top 10 german foods and recipes!.

https://www.movingto-germany.com/top-10-german-foods/.

Caminante

Ja bitte schön! :D

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Annual Meeting?

by pauluk in

the watchtower annual meeting is traditionally held the 1st saturday in october which is today, usually there are topics and speculations leading up to this but i've not seen anything on here or reddit this year.

has it been cancelled this year, anyone know?

Caminante

Some users on JWTalk say that the spiritual program connected to the Annual Meeting will be shown prerecorded to everyone at once in January.

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French Interpreter Needed!

by Atlantis in

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friends

we just received a letter and i think it is french.

i can't make any sense out of it.

would someone who can read french volunteer to read the letter, and then reply below what it is about?.

Caminante

That looks like S-147-F 7/20.

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2019 New World Translation Matthew-Acts--PDF!

by Atlantis in

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friends

2019 new world translation matthew-acts.

click the first dark grey bible.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/ petra!

Caminante

@truth_b_known

The other Bible translations available in English on the JW.org are Bibles that the organization had the right to publish and print on their own presses. They printed both the AS and KJ versions, while Byington's "The Bible in Living English" (not to be confused with "The Living Bible" by Ken Taylor) was copyrighted by Watchtower in 1972.

All these translations, including the organization's own Kingdom Interlinear (the 1985 revision), were made available in JWPUB format in 2015, when the JW Library app was first released.

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2019 New World Translation Matthew-Acts--PDF!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

2019 new world translation matthew-acts.

click the first dark grey bible.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/ petra!

Caminante

@Magnum:

It's simple why only the Gospels and the Acts are in PDF—only these first books were made available in print. You can't have a PDF of something on JW:org that has not been prepared for printing.

The Study Bible is a veeeeery large and time-consuming project. Initially when the study edition of Matthew was released at the 2015, the Study Bible only contained the full text of Matthew. Later, it was decided that the Study Bible be the default translation used for hyperlinks of Scriptural citations on the English JW.org, so in 2017, the full 2013 New World Translation was included in the Study Bible, even if, by that time, only a couple of other books had their study notes released. As of today, the Study Bible has extended features up to the book of 2 Corinthians, that was released in December with a 2020 copyright.

As soon as there is enough material to format the Study Bible into a printable format, new volumes will be released in both print and PDF. My personal hunch is that volume two will comprise Romans through Colossians, volume three 1 Thessalonians through Hebrews and volume four James through Revelation.

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Gerrit Loesch video from this week's meeting

by neat blue dog in

he talks about how a group of 5,000 broke away from the organization due to distrust of government agents infiltrating the jws.

they weren't regarded as apostates, just distrustful.

he uses phrases like "their leader" and "his elders", and how they had a meeting with the governing body and made the decision for all these thousands to reintegrate them into the jws, splitting them up among congregations.

Caminante

Even among those splinter groups there were disagreements. One of them, "Asociaţia Martorii lui Iehova din România", claims to have continued to legacy of the Romanian branch shut down in 1948. The other larger one, "Credinţa Adevărată Martorii lui Iehova" (True Faith JWs) accepted some post-1948 literature as genuine, however they don't accept the terms "true religion" (introduced in late 1950) and the secular interpretation of the "superior authorities" (of 1962).. There was a schism amid True Faith JWs as well in the past decade, where the congregation in Târgu Mureş (as opposed to the one in Cluj-Napoca) took the lead in rebranding themselves as "Asociaţia Internaţională Martorii lui Iehova", as there are some Hungarian, Ukrainian and some former Yugoslavian congregations sharing the same theological views

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New JW Study Bible: Matthew-Acts

by pale.emperor in

so the bumbling body have released a new study bible dissecting the books of matthew-acts.. even as a jw i had an excellent study bible produced by “satan’s world” which helped me no end to seen insightful on the platform.. does anyone know when this apostate can get hold of a copy?

when will the congregations have a shipment you reckon?.

Caminante

Congregations don't receive a shipment. This first printed volume of the Study Bible is a special-request item: it can be ordered, but congregations must not keep a stock of them.

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Shepherd The Flock Of God secret elders' manual available on Australia Royal Commission website in pdf format

by snapdragon4 in

not so secret anymore!.

https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits-case-study-54.

Caminante

The Shepherding book (ks10) has been superseded by the new Shepherd book (sfl) first published in February 2019, then updated in October 2019. The next updated release is dated April 2020. The October 2019 edition is available for download in PDF, JWPUB and EPUB on AvoidJW.org.

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10 Year Growth Chart

by HiddenPimo in

here are some visuals to help show what is going on with the jw numbers game.

i am not a numbers guy and there maybe a few errors (info directly from grand total pages on jw.borg).

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Caminante

Peak publishers is even more fictitious than stated above.

The "Peak publishers" grand total is the sum of the each land's peak publisher count—which might be a different month in different lands .That is why the growth percentage is given of the average publisher count.