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  How my awakening began.

  by MissDaSilva in

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  about a month ago i started having a clear out of old clothes, books and bric a brac etc….. i don’t know what came over me but i decided to chuck out all my old jw literature because we literally have no more room.

  it started with magazines, then books, ministry literature and once i started, couldn’t stop.

  weird right?

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  I had a bookburning some years ago. All the hardbound books, bound volumes, all of it
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  Where is Tony?

  by Athanasius in

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  on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

  in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  In the absence of actual verified reports, it is easy to assume the worst. I have thought all along that the reason might be a more mundane reason. He might have health issues that require expensive treatment, and he is one of a very few full time servants who has VA benefits, which could even include long term care.
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  2023-12-15--Beards-BOE!

  by Atlantis in

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  governing body update #8. beards--see page 3 #2. page 1.--https://imgbox.com/qs27zbgh.

  page 2.--https://imgbox.com/r4jz1fvm .

  page 3.--https://imgbox.com/wynbxegx .

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  NF: exactly, Rutherford wanted to make his religion different from the Bible Students and many of his changes were just that. Reject Christmas, Holidays, the cross and crown, beards, all of it.
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  Where is everyone? 😆

  by MissDaSilva in

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  i had a day off today and needed to get some errands done in my local town.

  2 carts have allocated here but i never ever see anyone out, even on very nice days.

  70% of the congregation don’t work.

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  I have found the ‘block contact’ function on my phone to be very effective
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  Anti-gravity in the new world!

  by BoogerMan in

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  from golden age, march 24, 1926. https://jws-library.one/?file=data/1926/g_e_19260324/g_e_19260324.html#bookmark22.

  "many have wondered how accidents would be avoided during christ’s kingdom, since we are told that nothing shall then hurt or destroy.

  most accidents are due to gravitation and its effects.

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  if two autos with occupants each suddenly reduced their weight to only a few ounces above atmospheric pressure when approaching each other, they would bound apart like toy balloons and no one would be hurt.

  This is such a hilarious statement! There isn't even any pseudoscience they could have been thinking of that would make this sound possible. Wow

  I think Clayton Woodworth was the editor of the Golden Age during this time. One weird dude.
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  If 1914 gets tossed

  by Leathercrop in

  1. watchtower
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  it feels like the change in reporting of hours becomes a fundamentally bigger deal every day.

  the weight and importance placed on quantity was enormous, and now it's just gone.

  even tho most witnesses really didn't keep "accurate" records so to speak hehehe.... this could very well be a precursor to even bigger doctrinal changes, like 1914. damn, would would happen then?.

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  I think the SDA church still believes in their 1844 doctrine (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

  I expect the WT will find a way to explain away the 1914 doctrine and hang onto some vestige of it, while stripping away any prophetic significance.
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  One paragraph for Pyramidology , Governmental Authorities and Charles Taze Russell

  by Longlivetherenegades in

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  kudos to @terry on this one.

  watchtower july 15, 1952 page 426......... however, coming from apostate religious systems these brought with them many beliefs and practices which were, in fact, just so much wood material, hay and stubble.

  among such were the beliefs that it was necessary to develop a beautiful character to get to heaven and that that was a christian’s chief duty; the notion that christians must appear sanctimonious and pious, evincing more concern over what men thought than over what god thought; false teachings such as that the political powers of this wicked world were the “higher powers” of romans 13:1 who must be obeyed even though they contradicted god’s expressed commandments; that a pile of stone in egypt constituted a witness to jehovah (isa.

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  It seems a bit strange that as late as 1952 (post-Rutherford) there was still a distinction being emphasized between Russell's time and beyond.

  Some time ago I did a lot of reading of the post- Russell literature (both WT and non/former WT) and came to the belief that

  much of the dialogue as in the '52 WT quote in the OP were part of a broader debate between the WT-adherents and the

  breakaway movements. Particularly the Dawn movements and the LHMM, both of which were led by former Bible Students from the

  Russell period and were publishing magazines. It was a sort of intellectual sparring between the WT writers (Franz mostly in this time period)

  and the Bible Students (the 'evil slave' as they were labelled by the WT at the time).
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  The FDS Photoshop

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. bible

  for those interested in the latest version of the faithful slave.

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  from the february 2024 watchtower .

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  Don't they have regular governing body meetings, like every week or something? Admittedly some are out travelling sometimes, or otherwise not in the same location every time, but surely they could get them all together at one time for a photo.

  It just comes across as stupid.
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  The FDS Photoshop

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
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  for those interested in the latest version of the faithful slave.

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  from the february 2024 watchtower .

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  Why they can’t get them all in the same room and take a photo is beyond me.

  Hilarious!
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  C.T. Russell, Occultist

  by metatron in

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  one aspect of the watchtower's history that has never been.

  adequately explained is russell's fascination with the occult.. the end of the 19th century saw the prominence of many occult.

  were obsessed with egyptian symbols and magick based on the.

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  If one rejects the testimony of his associates, including P. S. L. Johnson and C. Woodworth, one must provide solid reasons for doing so. We see no grounds upon which to reject their testimony

  I used to have some of P.S.L. Johnson's books in his 'Epiphany' series. I found it an insightful read, as I think they give a view of what the thoughts and beliefs of the early Bible Students which were not printed in WT literature. Johnson was one of the early 'Pilgrims', a person who traveled as a sort of evangelist to the various Bible Student ecclesias by their request (a bit like a circuit rider). He was very popular as a speaker and had quite a following, later breaking away and starting the LHMM. He was definitely an intelligent person, though by modern standards his writing comes across as odd and a bit loony. It is clear from his writing that he and the Bible Students of the time believed Russell to be 'that servant', and that Russell tacitly agreed. No question.