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  Melbourne Australia International Convention

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so, just curious in advance....is there anyone from our forum who will be attending the melb convention?.

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  Just tell them that you were stopped whilst coming back from the toilets and asked if you could volunteer for the rest of the day and just head off.
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  Watchtower circulation jumps up!

  by factfinder in

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  the jan. 1, 2015 w shows an updated printing of 52,946,000 copies each issue in 228 languages.. this is an increase of 7,002,000 copies per issue over last year, this is the biggest increase i have seen in the printing of the w per issue for any one year.

  thus, including the study edition over 70 million copies of the w are now being printed each month.. .

  i wonder if awake!

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  We should be expecting them to have an increase. When they reduced the number of pages they said that this would allow them to transalte it into more languages. The increase would be due to the mags being printed in new langauges and being made available to individuals who would not have been recieving them before.
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  Knorr on 1914: "I don't know." - Mouthy Alert!

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  dear mouthy and other denounced ones,.

  you may find this double standard $%^@#@*&!

  "in 1975, knorr made a remarkable and candid statement to the governing body, which confirmed his growing disillusionment until his death two years later: ["]'"there are some things i know --- i know that jehovah is god, that christ jesus is his son, that he gave his life as a ransom for us, that there is a resurrection.

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  Coco, you haven't aged a day.

  I love the comment above from James Wood.
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  GB Doesn’t Believe in 1914 Anymore – My reasoning

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard a lot of talk over the last year or so if the gb will eventually ditch 1914 and some have even made the claim that most, if not all of the gb do not believe in 1914. ive given this some thought and in the past i wasnt sure.

  this annual meeting puts 100%, without a doubt in my mind that the gb do not believe in 1914. id even go as far to say that they talked about that date and have a game plan in mind.. here is why i feel this way:.

  there were a lot of changes with the parables at this annual meeting.

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  They knew the generation teaching had failed and they had two choices, change the meaning of generation or change the start date of 1914. They were so determined to keep the start date that they performed mental acrobatics in coming up with their new definition of generation.
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  Could it be the number of jw under 5 million?

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was thinking about this last night, in the year book they publish the number or peak and average publishers.

  as we know a publisher could simply be a child getting out in service regularly.

  if two parents baptized have to small children that are publishers then they are counted as four.

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  They announced at this years annual meeting that they could now officially report that the number of JWs was now over the 8 million mark. The GB member couldn't contain himself when he was talking about the field service figures from August but the actual figures would take a little longer to calculate.
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  Anthony Morris III delivers judgement on Branch at Annual Meeting

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is part of the speech that anthony morris iii gave during his time in the limelight at the 2014 annual meeting.. at 3.16.32 of the recorded meeting.

  "what role do those with an earthly hope play?

  oh oh ho veeeery important role, very important.

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  The GB members are always saying how much they love their followers and yet they turn around and are very critical of some Brothers who are not able to defend themselves.

  Even though we do not know what happened, any of the brothers of that branch would know as it appears that Anthony Morris III was not, and has not been discreet about the situation.

  When you have an organization starting to turn on itself then you know that it only encourages followers to leave.
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  Anthony Morris III delivers judgement on Branch at Annual Meeting

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is part of the speech that anthony morris iii gave during his time in the limelight at the 2014 annual meeting.. at 3.16.32 of the recorded meeting.

  "what role do those with an earthly hope play?

  oh oh ho veeeery important role, very important.

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  This is part of the speech that Anthony Morris III gave during his time in the limelight at the 2014 Annual Meeting.

  At 3.16.32 of the recorded meeting. "What role do those with an earthly hope play? OH oh ho Veeeery important role, very important. This illustration, the sheep and the goats teaches us that those with the earthly hope have the honor of loyally supporting Christ’s brothers I remember telling a friend of mine once where i wasn’t treated too well in this particular Branch territory, and I said to my friend, well it’s not me they need to worry about, it’s my Big Brother, THAAATS who they better worry about. Yeh, hmm, we had to pray for those brothers over there, (LAUGHS)."

  In other words - you bully, you better be nice to me or I'll stick my big brother onto you.

  It would appear that the Branch wasn't co-operating with the wishes of the GB.

  How sick is it that one of the very top leaders of this organization get's on a stage before hundreds of his followers and damns a Branch of it's very own organization. What a snake. He points the finger within his own organization and says that they will have to worry about Jesus' judgement. All through the public talk the GB members talk about the wicked slave as being hypotherical as well as various other mentions of wickedness in other parables, it just doesn't relate to them.
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  Female presenter on JW Video

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a video on jw org titled "what happens at a kingdom hall?

  " i wouldn't suggest that you watch it as it's pretty sickly, as usual they are praying on emotions in order to encourage people to attend their halls.. the video is presented by a female but does show her face.

  it just seems weird that they have allowed a woman to star in this very prominant role.

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  Dalerivers Listener, I just watched that video twice (curses)and I saw women giving comments, women in the KH audience, but no woman actually presenting the info, though I obviously heard her voice. Did we see the same video?

  I'm pretty sure it is the same video. A female is presenting to the viewer, all the way through the video, what takes place in Kingdom Halls. You can't see her.

  This video has just been released and I cannot find another video on JW org where they have a female presenter.
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  Female presenter on JW Video

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a video on jw org titled "what happens at a kingdom hall?

  " i wouldn't suggest that you watch it as it's pretty sickly, as usual they are praying on emotions in order to encourage people to attend their halls.. the video is presented by a female but does show her face.

  it just seems weird that they have allowed a woman to star in this very prominant role.

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  There is a video on JW org titled "What happens at a Kingdom Hall?" I wouldn't suggest that you watch it as it's pretty sickly, as usual they are praying on emotions in order to encourage people to attend their Halls.

  The video is presented by a female but does show her face. It just seems weird that they have allowed a woman to star in this very prominant role. The subject of the video is directed to non JWs. I guess they see this as a preaching work to the public and not a teaching work to other JWs and therefore is okay for a woman to perform. However, JW org is for both public preaching and personal JW teaching, just as they would recieve in the congregations. The organization is dullying the line between what is now acceptable for a JW female.
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  SPANISH KINGDOM HALLS BEING SOLD-OFF?

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  according to the letter (link below) out of 705 kingdom halls in spain, 295 are being disposed of.. if someone can translate german/spanish, it would throw some light on the specifics.. http://www.bruderinfo-aktuell.de/index.php/brief-zum-koenigreichssaalbauprogramm-in-spanien/#more-948.

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