four boe letters.
read and discuss:.
requesting where can we find answers to lifes big questions?
So, now we know the first release at this year's district/international conventions:
T -36
As T-30, 31, 32, 33 and 34 were duly released at last year's conventions, later came T-35 (aka Kingdom News 38) and now T-37 has been announced to be released in June...
the missing tract will probably be shown at the conventions...
LL
have you heard what the "big announcement" is to be this week.
supposedly the bethel homes will get some announcement today and the congregations will announce the new something by the end of the week..
wow, jwn is late on this, the internet is already brimming with the newsannounced at Morning Worship today:
BSCC and BSSB united to Bible School for Kingdom Publishers allowing also single sisters to attend (up to 65 years)
LL
first 30 min announcing a collection of bibles collected from r & f that is to go on display at bethel.
also accounts of how they "miraculously" received bibles that they didn't think they could get - eg.
geneva bible.. now - watchtower study review as there is no meeting tomorrow..
I'm still waiting for David Splanes latest "Brothers, we love this teaching!"-explanation beforeAnthony Morris concludes this meeting.
LL
i heard this from a "friend of a friend of a friend...." at least 3 or 4 intermediate steps before i heard it.. so it is likely distorted, but i'll throw it out there in case someone in or near sweden can clarify it.. .
i heard that the wts branch in sweden instructed all jws there to "get rid of" all (empahasized all) of their printed literature, and rely exclusively on the content of jw.org for their literature.. .
that's the entire extent of it - i also got a few speculations about "what it might mean" (the society is expecting persecution!
Tack dismissing servant
Do you have any information on the composition of the new Scandinavie Branch Committee?
LL
i'm trying to put together a comprehensive master list of watch tower society branch offices that corresponds roughly with the figure published in the worldwide report.. i feel it would be useful to monitor the number and location of existing branch offices, because i believe the distribution of branch offices worldwide is a good indicator of the society's financial wellbeing.
we now seem to be entering a period of branch office closures, with last year seeing an unprecendented 16% reduction in branch office numbers over the year before.
it will be interesting to see how things develop moving forward, but i'm hoping that by keeping a list of the offices we will be better placed to keep track of the "retreat" if branch office numbers continue to dwindle.. here we go.... .
the Czech Republic is served by the Slovakia branch and
Togo is served by the Benin branch
doesn't Puert Rico care for several Carribbean countries?
@TheOldHippie do you know the names of the Scandinavia Branch Committee members and who serves as the coordinator?
LL
the wt study edition is getting a facelift for the new year.. the january issue had been posted on jw.org but.... the boes hadn't received notice by letter of such a change.. the wts likes to play up every opportunity to have a new release.. this time the jw.org techies jumped the gun and went on to post.
the issues for download according to their established schedule.. unfortunately, they went ahead of the fds/gb who too late .
realized the cat was out of the bag, sort of saying.. well, it got pulled off the website, for now at least.. what's so secretive about it?.
i guess that was an error who prompted the issues to be "on" last week; according to schedule the january, 15th issue shouldn't be posted earlier than this week.
anyway, the german issue seems to be translated from the simplified english edition for quite some years...
LL
the drama was really ridicolous, man, but i noticed, in some of the jw objected to it as well,.
first of all my wife, she said it doesnt feel right, and she strongly disliked the music (she has no idea of my being at this forum btw).
then some friends, who also complained about it, but just to us, because they know, we do not judge them for their questions and almost doubts on some things.... i m sure there were more, but they just dont think out loud, and keep it to themselves.... anybody similar experiences ?.
that wasn't the horrific song they played after the drama...
originally posted about here:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/173648/1/sales-of-bethel-premises-and-transfer-of-millions-to-brooklyn.
...but i thought it deserved its own thread.. there is a letter from the madrid bethel branch to all spanish congregations posted here (written in spanish, of course):.
confirmed
the organization obtained two new large printing machines
one to be installed in Brazil, the other one in Germany, with Germany taking over all printing operations from the Italy and Spain branches
since the website jw.org went live with the recordings of "wts" and "awakes!
" it was releasing issues months ahead of the printed magazines.
however, the process seems to have slowed and stalled.
watchtower december 15 delayed, same for printed issue scheduled for delivery last week here, since magazine contains yeartext, which was released at annual meeting last weekend
has the watchtower given up trying to discredit the carbon-14 dating method?.
w08 11/15 The fragment was carbondated at that time... (the French Watchtower says "dating with carbon 14"
so it is accepted proof now
