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  Will New Rules Bring JWs Together or Pull Them Apart?

  by doinmypart in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there's been a lot of discussion about the changes in the org.

  you might think all this would shake things up, especially for the older or super dedicated jws.

  but remember when gb decided all the khs and the bank accounts needed to be transferred/managed from the top?

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  Diogenesister - “Watchtowers land grabbing of kingdom halls etc was an outrageous stunt that should have caused massive outcry. The fact it didn't has more to do with the fact so much of that sort of thing is kept from ordinary JWs.”

  There’s another issue, too.

  The Org’s angry, panicked post-Menlo land grab shackled a massive ball-and-chain around their neck.

  If their charity classification were revoked, they’d suddenly have to pay property tax on billions of dollars worth of real estate.

  Hoser gets credit for originally pointing this out, BTW.
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  Trust Our (Neither Inspired Nor Infallible) Life Saving Direction?

  by Ron.W. in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wt 2013 11/15 p. 20. at that time, the life-saving direction that we receive from jehovah’s organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.

  all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.. wt feb 2017.

  "the governing body is neither inspired nor infallible.

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  Not even “trust”.

  Just “obey”.
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  A Positive Approach to discussing the changes - Gov Body Update Aftermath

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, just got off a very emotional, but positive call with my father.. this past weekend, he wanted to give me a call, but i was out of town at a wedding, so he said he'd call me later in the week.. he texted me the governing body update video with the recent changes and said, "i thought you might be interested in some of the changes that were just announced.".

  i'm tired of self-censorship, so i decided to reply as truthfully and respectfully as i could.. my reply to him:.

  it's interesting.

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  You were the bigger man and arguably showed more compassion than he did.

  Respect.
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  GB Update #2, March 2024: Women allowed to wear pants, no ties/coats required if not giving a talk, & now able to greet DF ones in the KH!

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you heard me correct, this is not a joke, and it is not april fools day!

  the asl portion of the governing body updated #2 (march 2024) has been released a bit early and someone caught it.

  summary: .

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  WingCommander - “…as usual, the JW leadership's dumbass policies have basically amounted to ‘shooting themselves in the foot’…”

  Par for the course when your entire ideology hangs on the assumption that long-term planning is impossible, and whatever mistakes you make will soon be irrelevant, anyway.
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  GB Update #2, March 2024: Women allowed to wear pants, no ties/coats required if not giving a talk, & now able to greet DF ones in the KH!

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you heard me correct, this is not a joke, and it is not april fools day!

  the asl portion of the governing body updated #2 (march 2024) has been released a bit early and someone caught it.

  summary: .

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  WingCommander - “…no doubt stems from the fact that people who are DFd and then step off the JW hamster wheel, very soon go onto the internet and learn ‘The Truth about the Truth’ and then never return…”

  Very true.

  Even though I just became inactive and faded, it was still a good year or so before I even considered reading XJW material on the net.

  If I’d resumed an active JW life after only three months or so, I might have never come here.
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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave? The recent changes and the Governing Body's 10 year plan

  by redsetter2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am sure we were all shocked at the governing body update #2 with the unusual and impulsive changes set forth.. i am an insider at whq, and when i was on reddit and in communication with avoidjw i explained to the best of my ability that the approach on disfellowshipping was going to change based on the new light at the 2023 agm, that the jubilee rumor was false, and there were going to be changes on how jws approached disfellowshipping in response to the norway situation if it didn't turn out in watchtower's favor.

  the decision came because of a legal blow to watchtower, not because "holy spirit" wad directing a faithful slave, who is going to become the "evil slave", more explanation on this soon.. everything i stated came true.

  i left reddit exjw community due to the immature and mentally unstable nature there, and yet as has been the case my words came true.

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  Whoops, that was meant to be a smartass response to astroblema’s post.

  Timing was off, my bad.

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  New light on shunning?

  by Mikejw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one theory why tony was booted out was because he was a stickler for not changing the shunning doctrine.

  he actually said the words we will never ever change it.. they are slowly deleting all of tony’s videos and now losing court cases and losing government hand outs in places like norway.. it’s looking very likely they will release new light on shunning policy after losing this latest one in norway.. .

  what are the odds they coincidentally get new light from jehovah and lighten up their shunning policy ?.

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  redsetter2 - “Tony's departure was a very small part of this. He knew these changes were going to happen anyway, he was simply trying to slow down the changes.”

  Huh.

  In light of all those incendiary comments he’d made over the years, most of us here figured he’d been angrily and stubbornly blocking the supermajority vote needed to implement the reforms, and was refusing to budge.

  If he really just had misgivings at the speed of their implementation, that suggests a much more level-headed stance than we thought…

  …because IMO, that speed is indeed fucking bonkers.

  I can barely imagine any scenario where it doesn’t all end in a hot mess.
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  Who really is the Faithful and Discreet Slave? The recent changes and the Governing Body's 10 year plan

  by redsetter2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am sure we were all shocked at the governing body update #2 with the unusual and impulsive changes set forth.. i am an insider at whq, and when i was on reddit and in communication with avoidjw i explained to the best of my ability that the approach on disfellowshipping was going to change based on the new light at the 2023 agm, that the jubilee rumor was false, and there were going to be changes on how jws approached disfellowshipping in response to the norway situation if it didn't turn out in watchtower's favor.

  the decision came because of a legal blow to watchtower, not because "holy spirit" wad directing a faithful slave, who is going to become the "evil slave", more explanation on this soon.. everything i stated came true.

  i left reddit exjw community due to the immature and mentally unstable nature there, and yet as has been the case my words came true.

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  Why didn’t you sent a PM?

  It might have been easier.

  😉
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  New light on shunning?

  by Mikejw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one theory why tony was booted out was because he was a stickler for not changing the shunning doctrine.

  he actually said the words we will never ever change it.. they are slowly deleting all of tony’s videos and now losing court cases and losing government hand outs in places like norway.. it’s looking very likely they will release new light on shunning policy after losing this latest one in norway.. .

  what are the odds they coincidentally get new light from jehovah and lighten up their shunning policy ?.

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  NotFormer - “… disfellowshipped are treated better than disassociated?”

  On paper?

  No.

  In practice?

  Abso-fucking-lutely.

  DAs are - except in rare occasions - “apostates”…

  …who are now Satan’s little helpers.

  Condemned murderers on death row would get preached to before a voluntarily DAed XJW.
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  Will New Rules Bring JWs Together or Pull Them Apart?

  by doinmypart in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there's been a lot of discussion about the changes in the org.

  you might think all this would shake things up, especially for the older or super dedicated jws.

  but remember when gb decided all the khs and the bank accounts needed to be transferred/managed from the top?

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  ThomasMore - “…JWs are already beginning to devour one another with criticism…”

  And we thought it was a trainwreck in the making before all this crap.

  When I take my over-90-year-old JW mom to the memorial, I wanna shave my beard and wear a tie, just to see WTF happens.

  😁