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  Gerrit Loesch video from this week's meeting

  by neat blue dog in

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  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.

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  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

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  2. bible

  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?.

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  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

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  2. beliefs

  not so secret anymore!.

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

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  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

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  2. beliefs

  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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  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.
  
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  Caleb and Sophia with different names

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  in one country they're david and sophie.

  in another they're petra and olena.

  i just chanced across this recently.

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  In Romanian, they are Andrei (Andrew) and Iulia (Julia).

  In Hungarian, it's Marci (from Marcell) and Zsófi (cognate of Sophia).
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  Faithful and Prudent slave? read somewhere that the discreet was going to change to Prudent.

  by goingthruthemotions in

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  read on one of the forums, and maybe this one that the gb are going to start calling themselves the faithful and prudent slave.

  my pimi brainwashed wife wouldn't bat an eyelash if they started calling themselves this.

  to her it would be new light and they could do nothing wrong.. but, how the not so brainwashed flock take this change?

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  The Spanish revised New World Translation renders the expression in Matt. 24:45 as "esclavo fiel y prudente".
  
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  Anyone know if the 2019 Regional Outlines have been leaked yet?

  by HiddenPimo in

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  thanks in advance....

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  In Spanish. Haven't seen the outlines in English.
  
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  The Watchtower Tract Society doesn't print Bibles?

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
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  after reading a few comments here, i thought it was time for me to get a copy of "the silver sword" for my own occasional research and occult practices.

  so i thought i would see if jw.org would offer a way that i could purchase a printed copy (not digital) of the new world translation.

  as i browsed, it occurred to me that i might also like to have a copy of the... what was it?

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  The revised New World Translation and even some languages where their translation of the 1984 NWT (bi12) is being bound with similar gray deluxe covers are printed in-house at Wallkill, New York, and Ebina, Japan. Christian Greek Scriptures are printed as softcover books at any of the organization's printing branches.
  
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  When did WT recently change the Insight on the Scriptures -- that 31 year old Bible encyclopedia?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  2. scandals

  i would like to pinpoint when watchtower made a dramatic backward editorial change in their 31 year old insight on the scriptures, their flagship bible encyclopedia.

  below, number 1 quotes the insight book as it appeared in the original release back in june 1988.. 1.

  “this is also illustrated by what happened to the cities of sodom and gomorrah and their inhabitants.

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  The "Insight" volumes were revised twice. First of all, the electronic version was updated in 2015, then last year, the printed version was also updated, and the PDF's of the recomposed books are available on jw.org.
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses admit child sex abuse by Elders

  by Not_Culty in

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  The 1986 Watchtower article speaks about certain Governing Body members who had to resign due to rumored sinful practices: Leo Greenlees and Ewart Chitty.