Sorry that was my mistake. I didn't realize they normally hold a special meeting after the memorial and I also thought the memorial was held in April. It seems the memorial will be held at the end of March in 2013.
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The Governing Body intends to announce significant changes in academic literature (DOCTRINES) - Brazil
by Dogpatch indear randall.
good morning!.
here is the daniel of brazil (former bethel).. this week at the forum of former jehovah's witnesses had an interesting news!
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The Governing Body intends to announce significant changes in academic literature (DOCTRINES) - Brazil
by Dogpatch indear randall.
good morning!.
here is the daniel of brazil (former bethel).. this week at the forum of former jehovah's witnesses had an interesting news!
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Atlantis has just posted a BOE letter regarding the memorial next year. There is to be a special meeting held just before the memorial, around the 1st April.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/230204/1/2012-August-1-BOE
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The Governing Body intends to announce significant changes in academic literature (DOCTRINES) - Brazil
by Dogpatch indear randall.
good morning!.
here is the daniel of brazil (former bethel).. this week at the forum of former jehovah's witnesses had an interesting news!
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Here's a theory -
There was some speculation here that the org were going to release a new book last year but dropped the idea. The did not bring out a new book this year either. It was pointed out that any doctrinal new light is first exposed at the assemblies. It also appeared that there was going to be some new revelation about the toes of the statue in the book of Daniel but that fizzled out as well.
If there is a significant change in doctrine then it would cause a lot of debate even amongst the GB, after all there are at least 6 people to convince and they would need to iron out all the kinks to get the story to flow logically which would take some time.
What better way to test new doctrine than for a JW of some standing to expose the ideas on apostate boards. Where else do they get moe 'insight' and commonsense logical discussions?
I think if there is new doctrine then we have already been exposed to it and the revealer is 20571point428571. He declares himself as an anointed JW in good standing. He joined both here and on topix just over a year ago and has been writing heaps about new interpretations of prophecies in Revalation and other bible books.
20571point428571's basic idea is that all the prophecy fulfillments of Revelation and other books which the org has identified were simply a minor fulfillment. That is everything from 1914 were correct but just identified on a minor level. In the near future we are looking at these prophecies coming to fruition again but as a major and final fulfillment.
With this strategy the org can declare that most of the things they have already interpreted are in fact all correct and valid but because they were just a minor fulfillment they must now look at a new fulfillment of these prophecies. This gives them a completely new slate upon which they can rewrite their interpretations. They could still brag that they are the only one true religion as they were the only ones that have been able to identify this minor and major fulfillment and there would be no need to back peddle on 1914.
This also gets them over the hurdle of re-identifying the King of the North and the two witnesses.
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District Convention Points Saturday 21-07-2012 New Light? Governing Body Is Our Mother?
by Bubblegum Apotheosis ini have been trying to wrap my head around the talk that introduced the slave as our mother?
the brothers at bethel are worried that we are not treating our spiritual mother with respect.
jehovah is our father, the faithful slave (the governing body) is our spiritual mammy.
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The talk is here and includes commentary
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It's a longshot, but does anyone know what this old tool/part is?
by ataloa ini've googled this a couple of weeks; but still have no idea.
found this when i tore an old building down.
anyone have an idea?
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The screws on one side of the handle might suggest that it was attached to some other item.
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Is the Governing Body overdue to make new appointments?
by cedars ini'm doing some research for a new blog article on the governing body.
it's in a question-and-answer or "faq" format, and attempts to give simple but well-founded answers to most questions that people could conceivably ask about the governing body.. one thing i noticed when looking at the history of the governing body is that we seem to be in the middle of a lengthy "dry spell" when it comes to making new appointments.. gerrit losch is currently the longest-serving member having been appointed in 1994. however, his appointment came at the end of a 17 year period in which no appointments were made.
this contrasts notably with the remarkable six-year period between 1971 and 1977 when 15 members were added.. since losch's appointment, 4 members were added in 1999 (herd, lett, pierce and splane) and 2 more recently in 2005 (morris and jackson).. the seven year spell since the last appointments were made has seen the deaths of barber, barr, jaracz, shroeder and sydlik - cutting the number of governing body members almost in half.
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The Finance Department would advise that new members are cost too much whereas they need to cut costs.
The Legal Department discourage new members because it means there are more persons they must influence.
The GB may be finding it difficult to be in agreement on their choice of new members.
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The great unanswered question - WHO chose the Governing Body to serve as representatives?
by cedars inwho is the governing body?.
put simply, the governing body purports to be a small group of anointed men (currently numbering 7) who represent a much larger group (numbering the thousands) of anointed individuals living on earth today.
in nearly every reference to their position of oversight over the worldwide brotherhood, the governing body refer to themselves as being representatives.... .
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I should elaborate.
He considers himself a very dedicated JW and fully defends their teachings. I don't think he has ever said that he is one of the anointed but his last thread here shows he considers himself to be one. His only JW crime evident from his writings is that he is 'running ahead' of the GB. It would appear that he feels that if the GB has lost it's way then it would be the responsibility of the F&DS as a whole/individually to try and remedy this.
The F&DS existed well before the GB did but 'anointed' JWs have always accepted the authority of the WTBTS/organization which later on established the GB. If as a group they no longer do accept the lead then they may well do something about it and they would not be acting in an unscriptural manner, unless they went against scripture. The GB would have no authority to stop this from happening and would have to step down.
He has been writing blog type posts for some time now and at a guess I think he has become frustrated, like hitting your head against a brick wall. But his case is not isolated. There are other JWs that feel the GB is not doing their job properly and no doubt there would be other 'anointed' JWs that feel the same way.
He had stopped writing for a month or two and only came back to post a petition that he was putting to the GB and now it would appear that he doesn't want to engage in any discussion about it.
I am just looking at this from a 'JW' perspective but have different views regarding the reality of the F&DS and what it means to be anointed. It is interesting to see the frustration within the organization and in this case from a person who considers themself to be a current anointed JW.
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The great unanswered question - WHO chose the Governing Body to serve as representatives?
by cedars inwho is the governing body?.
put simply, the governing body purports to be a small group of anointed men (currently numbering 7) who represent a much larger group (numbering the thousands) of anointed individuals living on earth today.
in nearly every reference to their position of oversight over the worldwide brotherhood, the governing body refer to themselves as being representatives.... .
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I thought the post made by 20571point428571 when he was addressing the GB was interesting - "WE KNOW JEHOVAH CAN RAISE ANOINTED FROM THE STONES, BUT WE ENTRUST HE WILL CONTINUE TO USE THE GB, WE KNOW HE WILL USE THE FDS, THAT IS A PROPHETIC GUARANTEE, THE GB IS NOT PROPHETIC, SO YOU HAVE TO GUARD YOUR PRIVILEGE WITH A ZEAL TO PROTECT THIS POSITION."
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Any new light on windows in the KH
by jam inremodeling is being done on the kh in my area.. friends have come to me inquiring about the remodeling.. it,s been two months.
first they ask , why no windows.. i told them some kh have windows.
soon after windows.
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With so many window cleaners in the KH it's surprising there are no windows.
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yesterday @ congregation part 2
by Gorbatchov init was an inspirational evening at the meeting yesterday evening.
there was a nice comments @ congregational bible study (former bookstudy) about listening and obying the slave.
"if we are told to go left, we are going left, if we are told to go right, we are going right".. the comment was welcomed by the book study elder of course.
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They should have stuck to the road that's straight and narrow.