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Hailstones?

by NotFormer in

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when i was interested in things jw two decades or so ago, i never came across these mentions of hailstones.

it crops up so often now that it's almost a meme!

when did it become a thing in jw speak, and what does it refer to?.

I don't think they are going to officially announce the start of the Hailstone message since they haven't said that the GT has started. But they use it as a motivator to ramp up the recruiting work and possibly to introduce new ways of doing it. They are just preparing the sheep at the moment saying they need to prepare to be strong because one day they may have to deliver a Hailstone message

What is it that would cause the younger brother in the broadcast say he was scared about delivering a new witnessing method and hide the JW logo when a policeman walks past?

My guess is that they are going to be told to actively approach the public.

I think this might be illegal in certain areas and it will get them into trouble from the police. At the best, they could be seen to be a public nuisance. But this is why the Watchtower didn't introduce this when cart witnessing began.

It won't be easy work for the JWs anymore. Many will hate it, from feeling uncomfortable to fearing it.

Their plans of this Bible bashing method of recruiting may backfire with more JWs giving up and that's why they have to push this hard and instill even more fear into them. They likely anticipate this will motivate many JWs to return.

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New brochure Make Disciples was it worth the suspense?

by Tahoe in

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courtesy of reddit.

Listener

They are beating the domestics, telling them to get more followers. It's the current theme that they are really ramping up now.

The monthly broadcast is out and Cooke is presenting it. They are going on a campaign with a stronger message, not the hailstone one but a firm message. It sounds like it's going to be as hard hitting as the one they did in Quebec in the 1940s. It's going to incite fear (possibly of authorities but any fear will do) and courage into the followers.

The next step is the Annual General meeting which is supposed to be this Saturday.

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Goodbye Mother

by punkofnice in

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friends

so my mother passed on 20 aug 23 from the big c. i was there when she went.

that was indeed very traumatic.

i won't go to describe it.. dad went 17 years ago so there's just me now.

Listener

Very sorry to hear of your loss Punkofnice

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Is Tony Morris a Nonce / Pedophile

by MebyonKernow in

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this has just been posted on youtube regarding tony morris and the reason why he was removed as a gb member and 'relocated'.is tony morris a pedophile / nonce?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahj9vxygkelet me know your thoughts down below.celtic.

Listener

Diogenesister - I don't believe there was any I'll intention but it didn't take long for someone to go after him.

Let's see if the Watchtower, with it's multi million dollar backing steps up to protect him and his family. Surely they have this responsibility.

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Selena Vertolomo "The Mower" and her sister Sherrie call into The Six Screens TIME STAMP 2:53

by RESPECTFUL OBSERVER in

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selena vertolomo, former jehovah's witnesses who was sexually abused in watchtower, went to visit tony morris in north carolina.

selena and her sister call in and explain their position.

callers dial in from around the world and ask plenty of questions.

Listener

Respectful Observer - are you Rick Fearon?

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Is Tony Morris a Nonce / Pedophile

by MebyonKernow in

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friends

this has just been posted on youtube regarding tony morris and the reason why he was removed as a gb member and 'relocated'.is tony morris a pedophile / nonce?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahj9vxygkelet me know your thoughts down below.celtic.

Listener

Diogenesister - " I'll get a ton of shit for saying this but it was totally irresponsible for 'Blue Envelope' to sit on his land registry access waiting for a hit on Ant Mo's name, then publicise his address for the sake of a video"

I don't recall the Blue Envelope giving out his address at all. He did provide enough PUBLICLY available information that his address was made even easier to find. When this was pointed out, he immediately took steps for it to be a little more difficult to work out from his video.

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Is Tony Morris a Nonce / Pedophile

by MebyonKernow in

jw
friends

this has just been posted on youtube regarding tony morris and the reason why he was removed as a gb member and 'relocated'.is tony morris a pedophile / nonce?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahj9vxygkelet me know your thoughts down below.celtic.

Listener

There's a poster on Reddit by the name of MyLittlePIMO who has written an interesting post which includes the following comments -

Salena's claims have gone mainstream viral, with 1.1 million views on TikTok. [Source Video] In this video, she approaches the Kingdom Hall in the neighborhood where Tony Morris III now lives and tells them him a message that "his ass is grass". Her main claim is that she was sexually abused, Tony Morris personally knew about it and was involved in some way.
This is an appealing and catharctic video for those of us that have suffered at Watchtower's hands, and it's understandable that it is going viral.
But if you read/watch all of Salena's content, some of the claims are...incredibly outlandish.
She's claiming that the Zalkin Law Firm is deliberately is hiding victims (i.e. in on the conspiracy?), Watchtower is murdering people and scrubbing it off of Google, Watchtower burned down her house twice to cover her up and then tried to poison her. She says she was personally invited to sit down and participate in a cover up. [Source: Reddit] That Tony's match-blowing talk was a message to tell people to burn down her house, some JWs sacrifice babies to Jehovah. [6:00 in this TikTok]. And that she was personally aware of a pedophile ring that, to quote, "the truth of it is the scope of it was so large it covered 80,000 locations. So in 80,000 locations children are knowingly being preyed upon by child predators." (For context, there's only 120k Kingdom Halls in the world IIRC.) [Source: Tiktok] .
She also claims in the text of another TikTok in 2021, that, to quote:
I have 34,000 individual pages detailing JW CSA cases just like mine. They can never shred them, and they’ve already been read through, sorted, and sent to 18 other countries’ human rights’ diplomats, 6 leading research universities, and about 40 devoted writers and journalists. The USA is very slow to show anything on media
When people ask her for evidence, she responds with sarcasm or tells them to Google it.

It's more than annoying when you get idiots on Youtube that congratulate her, claiming she's so brave and has a lot of guts and promote her tik tok, without seeing the real problems, verifying the information or using plain old common sense.

She may well be a CSA survivor but she doesn't need promoting, she needs help.

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Tony Morris replaced - by ANOTHER teleprompter reader!

by BoogerMan in

the whitewashing of tm111 from jw history continues - tending to confirm that he was booted.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ghbhv6961a.

i'm pretty sure the cult got him to sign a nice nda - in exchange for a lifetime residency in the house bought by wt..

Listener

Fisherman - Does wt still teach this gb special communication with God? Please show

What do you mean by 'still teach'. Since you agree that they have taught it then your question should be when did they stop teaching it, if ever.

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Awake! No.1 2023, A United Nations Advertisement?

by EasyPrompt in

awake!

magazine no.1 2023 and united nations promotions.

page 3, "world meteorological association".

Listener

They are showing them in good light by explaining what good they are doing. They are very much supporting them. There is no negativity against these organisations. Even lockdown was beneficial, they say.

The only negativity they show is by saying that not enough is being done but that is absolutely no different to what these very organisations state also.

In fact, they promote these organisations as being part of the solution rather than part of the problem. They explain it is only the abuse and exploitation that God will put to an end and that it is possible for the earth to rejuvenate with the right actions. That is what they explain these organisations are doing.

The last part of the article states -

God has designed the earth with built-in systems that can withstand the impact of sensible human activity. The Bible foretells that Jehovah God will, at his appointed time, put an end to the abuse and exploitation that has damaged our planet.—Revelation 11:18

It will be interesting to see if JWs are keeping up with Jehovah's chariot and embrace this support or work against their own organisation by pretending it doesn't exist.

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Truth about Covid vaccines

by Kosonen in

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friends

i hope the truth about the covid vaccines becomes public knowledge as it does now in australia.

senator malcom roberts tells it all in his speach.

https://youtu.be/vrlm8ybdhiy.

Listener

I would hate to be a person, in whatever capacity, who imposed this on any other human being.