Just ran across a 60 minutes report about a financial manager in the LDS who blew the whistle on LDS investment practices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_Fhq7sEHo
I'm not sure when it aired, but from the dialogue, it was after 2018.
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LDS Church Investment Practices - 60 minutes report
by dropoffyourkeylee injust ran across a 60 minutes report about a financial manager in the lds who blew the whistle on lds investment practices:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_fhq7seho.
i'm not sure when it aired, but from the dialogue, it was after 2018..
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Revelation book
by Gorb indo you remember the jw.org book of revelation and how many times we had to study it?
in retrospect, all those hours turned out to be for nothing, the explanation of the prophecies is now completely outdated..
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dropoffyourkeylee
I have always suspected that the only reason it was studied multiple times was that they had printed up way too many of them and had a huge inventory they had to get rid of. They knew most of the JWs would get a new one for the study, and there was no market for them in the field (they were too embarrassing to offer to the public, and this was before the donation arrangement in the US).
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New World Translation is not much different other translations
by Abraham1 inkey scripture 2 timothy 3:16 should have been translated as “every scripture inspired of god is also profitable for teaching” like many other serious translations (such as american standard version ; douay-rheims bible etc) as it is what the greek text says.. this is in harmony with the contents of bible and also with the writer paul himself who knew after his departure ‘even from his own number men will arise and distort the truth.’ (acts 20:29-30) for example, verses such as romans 7:19 is such distortion.
such verses cannot originate from real paul who was “holy, righteous and blameless.” (1 thessalonians 2:10) hence paul had the freeness of speech to tell others to be “blameless” like him (1 thessalonians 5:19-23; ephesians 5:24) there are many things in the scriptures which are not inspired such as words of satan, words of job’s wife and his false friends, words of judas, lot’s daughters …etc.
apostle peter never disowned jesus because if he had done so, his contemporaries would have interrupted him when he rebuked jews, saying: “you disowned the holy and righteous one and asked that a murderer be released to you.“ (acts 3:14) his listeners would have asked him “what right do you have to reprove us for ‘disowning jesus” when you yourself have done it first?” all such verses or accounts were later adoptions.
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I stand corrected DJW, thanks. The Diaglott did not use the Westcott and Hort. My copy of the Diaglott dates to 1942 as published by the WT. The title page says it 'according to the Recension of Dr. J.J. Griesbach', and states it used the Vatican Manuscript 1209.
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New World Translation is not much different other translations
by Abraham1 inkey scripture 2 timothy 3:16 should have been translated as “every scripture inspired of god is also profitable for teaching” like many other serious translations (such as american standard version ; douay-rheims bible etc) as it is what the greek text says.. this is in harmony with the contents of bible and also with the writer paul himself who knew after his departure ‘even from his own number men will arise and distort the truth.’ (acts 20:29-30) for example, verses such as romans 7:19 is such distortion.
such verses cannot originate from real paul who was “holy, righteous and blameless.” (1 thessalonians 2:10) hence paul had the freeness of speech to tell others to be “blameless” like him (1 thessalonians 5:19-23; ephesians 5:24) there are many things in the scriptures which are not inspired such as words of satan, words of job’s wife and his false friends, words of judas, lot’s daughters …etc.
apostle peter never disowned jesus because if he had done so, his contemporaries would have interrupted him when he rebuked jews, saying: “you disowned the holy and righteous one and asked that a murderer be released to you.“ (acts 3:14) his listeners would have asked him “what right do you have to reprove us for ‘disowning jesus” when you yourself have done it first?” all such verses or accounts were later adoptions.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Concerning the choice of the Wescott Hort text, (I am not defending it), the history of the WT is that the early Bible Students in the Russell days used the Wilson Diaglott, which at the time was one of the only interlinears available for the NT. Wilson used the Wescott Hort text. Fred Franz, a product of the thinking of the 1800's, used the same text and basically made the NWT Interlinear a copy of the Diaglott with changes to suit himself. This work was done in the '40s, and the NWT NT came out in about 1950. The American Bible Society, the Nestle/Aland text and later improvements all came into use later. -
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Brother Jackson visits the Italy branch
by LaFrancia inbrother jackson visits the italy branch.to all the missing brothers and ex-brothers greetings stay healthy!this week brother jackson from world headquarters is visiting rome and bologna where the new branch will be built (by now the watchtower has turned into a multinational construction company and the old days are just a beautiful faded memory).the bethel of "italian/dissident/fugitive/spiritual" witnesses (active, but who do not agree with the organization's policies and directives because they are unscriptural) which has only a virtual location on the internet, (john 4:23, 24) will inform with a simple report this weekend.these are routine visits, but sometimes information of interest to the lord's servants can come out by mistakegreetings.
stay healthy!
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dropoffyourkeylee
I thought the new branch had been built and the branch had already moved out of Rome to the new facility in Bologna. I was in northern Italy near Rimini about 5 years ago and spoke with a brother who had worked on the new branch (his English was passable). I must be wrong, so please update.
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ECHR rules against Jehovah's Witnesses: forbidding field service notes was not an act against religious freedom
by Festus init only took 23 years but on 9th of may 2023 echr came to conclusion that forbidding the "namelists" was not an action against religious freedom.
echr's judgments are binding in all eu states.. jehovah's witnesses v. finland (coe.int).
the news made headlines in finland as well.. finland did not violate jehovah's witnesses freedom of religion, european court rules | news | yle uutiset.
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dropoffyourkeylee
GDPR came along in 2016 and became enforceable in 2018. So it has been a while now, but the OP's '23 years' must be a typo.
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The Watchtower—Study Edition | May 2023
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower—study edition | may 2023. .
study article 21. how jehovah answers our prayers.
14 a sister named soo hing felt that jehovah helped her by means of her doctor.
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dropoffyourkeylee
Poetzinger was at Brooklyn in the 70’s. I met him once, he was actually standing on the sidewalk close to the Bossert holding the magazine in street work. Hard to believe nowadays, but true. My dad recognized him and stopped to introduce himself.
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Biden running in 2024 🤣
by LoveUniHateExams ini've filed this under news and world events, although i could've posted it under entertainment, lol.
apparently, joe biden will be seeking re-election for another term in the white house.. this, despite a recent poll showing that 70% of people don't want him to run again.. biden just has to be the worst president i've seen.
his gaffes, over-relience on a prompter, and, more than any other president, his refusal to answer journalists' questions, all go to make him top of the list in terms of bad presidents.. it will certainly provide entertainment, if nothing else..
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dropoffyourkeylee
I think age will be an obstacle to voters supporting his candidacy. Maybe that is unfair, but it is just a fact of life that declining cognition, lower energy, and death comes to us all. He's 80 now, would be 82 on Inauguration day 2025.
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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body
by WingCommander inthis has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.
this is not a joke.
anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
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dropoffyourkeylee
There was a video shown in the midweek meeting this week and it looks like it was from around the time of the 2014 convention. It showed Anthony Morris and his wife in the door to door work.
The midweek meeting video this week showed did clearly show him in field service (probably a staged scene, since it was shot from inside the home from the perspective of the householder). Regardless, the fact that the WT decided to leave it in and not edit it out seems to be a message that he and his wife are out in a congregation somewhere and in good standing. At least that seems to me to be the message they are trying to convey. Whether it is true or not is another matter.
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Why Not Celebrate Christmas?
by Mum inso, jw's don't celebrate christmas or other holidays.
as bill cetnar once said, there are two reasons for everything: the reason they tell you, and the real reason.
they will tell you it's because christmas is "pagan" and can lead to all sorts of licentious conduct (like drinking too much macallan scotch?)..
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dropoffyourkeylee
I have always maintained that the Christmas and Birthday bans came as a result of the 1920's spit of the WT believers into the breakaway groups of Bible Students, of which there were several. The LHMM, the Dawn group, etc. Well over half the Bible Students of the time left the WT and joined the other groups. It split many families right down the middle. I believe Rutherford came up with the holiday-ban for the single reason of isolating his WT-followers so as to not be influenced by their family members who left.