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  Snakes walked on legs till the Eden curse Watchtower belief till 1974!!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower 1964 page 352 "....before god cursed it the snake had legs that elevated it off the ground.

  god transformed its body so that it ceased to have legs and could move on its belly.".

  book "gods eternal purpose"1974 - "god did not put a curse on the whole serpent family...it had only been victimised by satan...".

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I think it fair to say that the JWs got the snakes-with-legs belief from the general religious beliefs in the 1800's, which Creationists still believe.
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  Japan closed 638 Congregations why??

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  japan had huge publisher growth till the year 1998.. 1998 - 222,912 publishers 3802 congregations.. 6 years passed.. 2004 - 217,555 publishers (-5,357) 3,164 congs.

  what was the reason?

  "this generation of 1914" failed doctrine or the internet..

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  A quick look at the population figures, for 1998-2021, approximately with rounding of numbers

  Population -0.8%

  JW publishers -2.4%

  JW congregations -16.8%

  Apparently the population of Japan peaked about 2009-2010 and has been declining ever since. The JW decline is outpacing the general population decline
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  Biblical Anachronisms in JW Literature

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in a recent post ffghost made a comment about how they're always inserting modern concepts into biblical narratives to make it relatable to jw's organization.

  here are some that come to mind:.

  - the capitalized term "governing body" when referring to the older men in jerusalem (really just another group of christians that paul outspokenly disagreed with and didn't look to for approval).

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Showing Jesus and the apostles as white men. Of course the WT is not the only religion guilty of this.
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  Biblical Anachronisms in JW Literature

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in a recent post ffghost made a comment about how they're always inserting modern concepts into biblical narratives to make it relatable to jw's organization.

  here are some that come to mind:.

  - the capitalized term "governing body" when referring to the older men in jerusalem (really just another group of christians that paul outspokenly disagreed with and didn't look to for approval).

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  Showing groups of first Century Christians in which reading from a codex or scroll was common. This implies a few things which are anachronistic. That the majority of people were literate (most were not) and that possession of a scroll or codex was common (being copied by hand, they were quite expensive and out of reach of most of the populace)
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  Anthony Morris Mormon background, does anyone here have any more information?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  do you have any information on tony's family history and mormon background?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I seem to remember that one of the GB members had a Mormon background, but for the life of me I cannot remember who it was. It was discussed on this board at the time. I don't know if it was Morris or not.
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  Does anyone know why cart witnessing is not allowed at the moment??

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  considering it is contacted in the open and i see other people engaging outdoors on other sales activities why is cart witnessing still not allowed?

  are there any updates as regards returning to this activity any time soon ?.

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  My JW-pioneer wife seems to like the zoom witnessing. They just spend about 3 hours in the morning chatting on zoom about whatever they want while copying out a type of form letter in longhand. Utterly a waste of time, but I don't hear any complaints about it.
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  McFree v. Watchtower!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  mcfree v. watchtower.

  a us federal judge has ruled against watch tower pennsylvania, denying their dmca subpoena to identify the creator of the jehovah's witness parody videos known as "dubtown.. .

  see last page (page 20).

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The Bottlegate Irish song gave me a good laugh, with that little toy flopping about
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  Electronic Frontier Foundation v Watch Tower Society

  by Corney in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  [disclaimer: the headline is slightly misleading since the eff itself doesn't participate in the case, so read more below].

  it's not a secret that during the last two years watchtower obtained nearly 40 dmca subpoenas requiring google, facebook, instagram, twitter, soundcloud, scribd, reddit and other isps to provide personal information of users that allegedly infringed the society's copyright.. since subpoena proceeding is ex parte, almost all the requests were granted.. but one of the affected users contacted, on advice of youtube's legal team, the electronic frontier foundation (eff), and the foundation found a law firm ready to represent him pro bono, namely garvey schubert barer:.

  youtube's legal department emailed the user on or about july 10, 2018, five days before the subpoena's return date, stating that it would comply with the subpoena unless it received a file-stamped motion to quash "or other type of formal objection before july 20, 2018.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I got a laugh out of his animations, and I hope he makes more.
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  Apparently the most exhaustive list of English-language exJW books (primarily memoirs) published this millenium

  by Corney in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...is found in a recent journal of cesnur article:.

  abrahams, kyria.

  i’m perfect, you’re doomed: tales from a jehovah’s witness upbringing.

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  "...published this millenium"

  "Ex-Member Accounts from New Religious Movements: A Compilation, 2000-Present"

  I hadn't looked at the OP article until Corney posted this clarification. <thanks> I see that J.Gordon Melton was a co-author of the article. I have seen his work before and was favorably impressed.
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  More cracks in the dam - WTS pleading for elders "in their early 20s"

  by FFGhost in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have another post here about how the wts is reeling from covid, as reflected in their abysmally catastrophic service report:.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6315842470936576/annual-service-report-yet-another-analysis-big-trouble-wts.

  here's another rupture showing.. in the latest "announcements and reminders" to elders, there is a paragraph with these sentences:.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  There was a time in the '50's and '60s that they appointed 20-somethings as Congregation Servants and even Circuit Overseers. Maybe they are going back to that