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  Why the name change from Watchtower Bible College of Gilead to Watchtower Bible School of Gilead?

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
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  did too many jehovah's witness kids get curious about wanting to go to a real college?.

  they really don't give an explanation, it's like old light and new light, one reads the new light, and .

  in the spirit of loyalty, the subject gets dropped, and there's no more talk about the old name again.. .

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Just glancing through the names of the '47 yearbook page shown a few posts back, there are a number of well known Bethelites listed. To me it is clear they were trying to legitimize the Bethelite's claim that they were ministers, even though their job may have been nothing more than running a printing press 40+ hours a week.

  W.E. Van Amburgh - a JW dating back to Rutherford years or before. I think he was a printing plant administer. He may have been on the Board of Directors at some point.

  Clayton J Woodworth - infamous for being the loony editor of Golden Age; before that he was a co-author of The Finished Mystery. This guy was really a crackpot.

  Arthur Worsley - I think he was still living into the '80's, as I heard his name bandied about during that time. I forget the details.

  Richard Wheelock - I don't remember the details, but he was mentioned by Ray Franz in one of his books.
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  Why the name change from Watchtower Bible College of Gilead to Watchtower Bible School of Gilead?

  by was a new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  did too many jehovah's witness kids get curious about wanting to go to a real college?.

  they really don't give an explanation, it's like old light and new light, one reads the new light, and .

  in the spirit of loyalty, the subject gets dropped, and there's no more talk about the old name again.. .

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Back then is was all about getting exemption from the draft for their 'ministers'. The list of names, the assertions that their college was a ministerial college, the whole charade.
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  New blood card

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all elders just got letters about this new blood card system .

  “language-coordinating congregations will receive separate parcel(s) containing the revised durable power of attorney for health care (dpa-e) for all congregation(s) in their literature group.“.

  my questions are - why the revision and what has been revised?.

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  New blood card

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all elders just got letters about this new blood card system .

  “language-coordinating congregations will receive separate parcel(s) containing the revised durable power of attorney for health care (dpa-e) for all congregation(s) in their literature group.“.

  my questions are - why the revision and what has been revised?.

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  New blood card

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all elders just got letters about this new blood card system .

  “language-coordinating congregations will receive separate parcel(s) containing the revised durable power of attorney for health care (dpa-e) for all congregation(s) in their literature group.“.

  my questions are - why the revision and what has been revised?.

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  New blood card

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all elders just got letters about this new blood card system .

  “language-coordinating congregations will receive separate parcel(s) containing the revised durable power of attorney for health care (dpa-e) for all congregation(s) in their literature group.“.

  my questions are - why the revision and what has been revised?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Here is the new blood card, I have blocked out the personal info of the owner (not me)

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  200-Year Anniversary of The Even Tide (1823) by John Aquila Brown

  by Chevelle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is my first post.

  i am a pimo who has been lurking for a while and i hope to make new friends here.. for now, i would just like to highlight that this year marks 200 years since john aquila brown wrote that crazy book(let) of speculations that charles taze russell practically copy/pasted into his "studies in the scriptures" which eventually affected all of our lives in one way or another.. cheers.

  chevelle.

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  Thanks for bringing up the subject of John Aquila Brown. No doubt the Adventist beliefs of William Miller, Charles Russell, and all the others would never have taken root without Brown.

  I do think it has roots earlier than that. Not long ago I got a chance to look at a copy of Ussher's Chronology (reprinted in modern text) and it hit me that the time calculations of the Adventists were made possible by Ussher. It is a phenomenal book, wrong in places, but still quite an impressive book for one man to accomplish in the 1600's.
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  Removing verses form the NWT

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jw org has removed certain verses from their nwt version, claiming usually that what is removed is not found in the oldest mss, that claim is fair enough, until you ask a simple question, this :.

  " if you are going to remove interpolations from the bible, where do you stop?"..

  the org.

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  Concur with Nikolaus. The WT sided with the ideas of textual criticism when they elected to use the Wescott Hort text for their translation of the NT. There are only a few post 1900 translations which have ignored textual criticism and continued to use the Textus Receptus.
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  GB Update - Meet the new GB members

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i overheard my wife listening to '2023 governing body update #2, presented by kenneth cook jnr.

  a few points i got from it.. new hour requirements.

  quote "with the new hour requirements for pioneers, many us us can share in the pioneer work.

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  Funny as well how Jehovah seems to love mainly white men who speak English. There is just one token Black American on the body, the rest being white to the sore. For a religion that claims a presence in over 200 lands it is strange there are no Japanese, Asians, Black Africans, Indigenous Americans or Polynesians amongst 'God's special one'

  Well stated.

  One could add the obvious, no women at all.

  How any organization can tolerate such a lack of diversity is a mystery.
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  Mass Shooting at Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany

  by EdenOne in

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  2. current

  mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.

  at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.

  single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  For one, I am in favor of the KHs having security at the doors nowadays. Likewise for all churches. It isn't just the JWs; it is a problem all across the spectrum, US and elsewhere. Guns easily obtained, fringe/extremist ideas accessible on the internet; lots of of angry and disenfranchised people out there. It's a societal problem that needs to be solved.