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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  April 2023

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  study article 19. how can we strengthen our faith in jehovah’s promise of a new world?.

  17 many servants of jehovah have applied jehovah’s counsel to “keep in expectation”​—even for decades.

  louise, for example, began serving jehovah in 1939. she says: “at that time, i thought armageddon would come before i finished high school.

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  hoser

  Is Louise still alive?
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  Request For: Not a Religious Society for Public Worship!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  facts for shareholders-1917-november-15th.

  the watch tower society is not a religious society for public worship, such as a church, but is a business corporation, not for profit, and statutes requiring religious corporations of that nature to have three directors in pennsylvania do not apply.. .

  scan: click image to enlarge.. https://postimg.cc/vgw9vymx.

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  hoser

  This was about a year after chucky died and Rutherfraud was trying to steal the assets of the watchtower.
  The 3 directors in Pennsylvania probably wanted someone else to be president. Joe wanted all the power for himself.
  He did a corporate takeover and changed the direction of the religion forever,
  
  
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  This week's Watchtower Study - don't complain if ...

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  don't complain if you get kicked out of bethel after 23 years (it's really a blessing to be assigned back to the field) and don't complain if they sell your kingdom hall even if you have just invested your time and energy renovating it.. so encouraging?.

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  hoser

  I’ve got jw relatives approaching 60 wanting to retire and it probably won’t happen. Never bethelites but pioneered and eldered most of their adult lives
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  This week's Watchtower Study - don't complain if ...

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  don't complain if you get kicked out of bethel after 23 years (it's really a blessing to be assigned back to the field) and don't complain if they sell your kingdom hall even if you have just invested your time and energy renovating it.. so encouraging?.

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  hoser

  Sell your house and you’ll feel so much better. Said by a circuit overseer that never owned a house.
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  Are JWs breaking the law?

  by Indoubtbigtime in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  everytime a publisher moves congregations they have a confidential letter of introduction sent from one body of elders to the other .

  this letter contains some very very sensitive information like if they had sexual problems or mental health problems or if they self harmed etc.

  most people don’t know but they can request or insist on seeing this information through a freedom of information request .

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  hoser

  They are only breaking worldly laws so they don’t count. Gods law as recorded in the bible overrules any man made governmental law.

  Havent you read 1 Peter 4:20 where in detail the apostle commands the congregation to keep detailed records of illegal drug use and drunken bouts. It also states that publisher hours should be kept indefinitely as it is an indicator of a persons spiritual health.

  Psalms 69:69 also talks about keeping records of sexual sins, even from decades prior. This scripture also indicates that elders should share this information with their busybody wives as it can be used as leverage in the field service car groups.
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  Front row seats watching the collapse of watchtower

  by Indoubtbigtime in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m a pimo ministerial servant and i won’t fade because i want to keep my front row seats watching what happens next few years.. my predictions are that this current governing body will slowly die off and the current younger helpers will be the next gb.

  they will eventually have new light that they were wrong about 1914 and the overlapping generations.. the new light will be something on the lines of the last days are now because of king of north king of south pushing each other etc etc.

  they will do their very best to burry old literature and try to change the past trying to make it sound like they were right all along just as they have done for 150 years now.

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  hoser

  The numbers are padded every step of the way.

  Publishers pad their report

  secretaries pad their report

  circuit overseers pad their report

  branches pad their report

  The whole organization is a farce. The fear culture has taught everyone to lie.
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  Seems to be a census on vaccine status

  by Indoubtbigtime in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the upcoming km school for all elders and servants is going to be in person only with no provision for video conferencing.. only fully vaccinated may attend.

  meaning if you missed your last booster you are no longer fully vaccinated.. every coordinator of body of elders has to ask every single ms and elder if they have kept up with all their boosters and are fully vaccinated or they can’t attend.. this seems to be a census the gb want to know how many are keeping up with booster shots.

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  We are zoomers and generally soft shunned. We like it this way.
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  burning another bridge

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i feel like i am burning another "friend" bridge.

  i just can't seem to keep the lies the wt prints to myself!

  i don't know how the pimo do it!

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  Long Hair Gal:

  “The second type of response indicated that other JWs were not really sympathetic - almost like it wasn’t really ‘important’ what happened to me in my life!! This was a real eye-opener and I was glad I followed my gut all those years ago!”

  The witnesses that reacted this way probably experience being a witnesses different than you and I do. If you are not well connected in the Jehovah’s Witness religion you are treated like garbage.

  You as a single woman were near the bottom of the jw social caste system. Myself, as a child of financially poor, low hour publishers was also near the bottom but I’d be slightly higher than you because of my gender.

  Life is like this as humans inside and outside the “truth” like to make social distinctions among themselves. The far majority of people are hypocrites treating some people good and some people bad based on their perception
  
  
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  Should Jehovah's Witnesses Trust the Governing Body?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if there is evidence that jesus invisibly chose specific men at headquarters in brooklyn new york in 1919 to be his faithful slave and that mandate and ability passed on to future directors...then the answer might just be a resounding maybe.. what is the evidence for this invisible appointment and what is the evidence that this is just watchtower mythology?.

  i hope jws like scholar and fisherman will explain why the trust the gb.. i must be honest, i see no evidence at all to put trust in either the 1919 selection or the current men taking the lead in warwick.

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  Can you trust your local elders?

  Should you trust their superior officers?
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  JW Broadcasting - simply a platform for narcissists?

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one thing i notice from sitting through a number of broadcasts is just how much these guys love their titles.

  it's always brother such-and-such, member of the gb, helper to the teaching committee, etc.

  it's never simply brother such-and-such, a local elder with such-and-such congregation.. it seems to me the witnesses are pretty quick to pick up on catholics who call their priests father, which at the end of the day is in much the same vein simply a title.. i suspect these titles point to a huge amount of narcissism of the part of those who revel in such titles, certainly it doesn't seem to fall in line with christ's advocation that the greatest amongst you should be be the least.

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  hoser

  You can tell if a CEO is a narcissist by the size of his photo on the company’s annual report.