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  Interesting bit of Watch Tower history

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  two images of allegheny city and a challenge.

  see https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/ the newest post.

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  About ten to fifteen years ago there was a guy who self-published/ reprinted Angels and Women (with some modifications) and had it for sale on Lulu. I don't recall his name, but for some reason he credited me (or rather a webpage I had authored) in helping him to identify the author of Seola. She was Ann Eliza Brainerd (Mrs J.G. Smith). I think she was deceased by the time the Bible Student reprinted and revised it as Angels and Women. The republished Angels and Women was a thinly disguised advertisement for Russell's Studies in the Scriptures, with numerous footnotes directing the reader to the Studies.

  As a youngster I used to read all kinds of science fiction, and the SF of the late 1800's was kind of fanciful to modern readers, but Seola was not unusual for the time. In my opinion, Mrs. Smith's fiction fell into the SF genre of the pre-1900 time period and was simply that, works of fiction.
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  Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’

  by LongHairGal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.

  (i don’t go on jw dot org).

  it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.

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  My guess is that the WT is only interested in having the JW name the WT as heir to any remaining retirement funds in their wills
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  Interesting bit of Watch Tower history

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  two images of allegheny city and a challenge.

  see https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/ the newest post.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Cool,

  The second article about Angels and Women was interesting too. I'm sure that book has been discussed on this site before. I have read it from a library loan. My mom read it about the time she was studying in the early '60s, apparently her teacher thought at the time it was good reading for her bible study.

  I looked for a copy of Seola some years ago but wasn't able to find one. I do have another book by the same author Mrs J G Smith. I think it is called 'Atla'

  Fanciful fiction of the time period
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  Maddison, WI Shool Shooting - 3 Dead

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  like the one in tennessee, this one in maddison, wi, was done be a female.

  the police chief points out that: .

  “yes, i don’t know whether [the shooter] was transgender or not, and quite frankly, i don’t think that’s even important.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Awful. My deepest condolences to the families of the deceased and injured.
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  Pidgin English

  by markweatherill in

  1. social
  2. humour

  https://www.jw.org/hwc.

  i just discovered this translation into 'hawai'i pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.

  they even dubbed the caleb and sophia cartoons into this dialect.. not because i look down on pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways..

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I had a subscription to the Solomon Islands Pidgin Watchtower way back in the Eighties. As kids we had great fun with it.
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  new book

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you may be interested in this research: https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2024/12/grave-matters.html.

  this is a brief history of the watch tower cemetery where russell is buried.

  i read it this morning.

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  Cool! I was at the site last year and I'm glad to see some history about it. I'll have to check it out.
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  Convention attendance

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just heard from a pimi cousin who recently attended a convention, and remarked about the low attendance.

  peak was about 500. i remember that circuit, in years past, had attendances of 1000+.

  it's been over a decade now since i last attended a jw convention.

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  In these parts they gerrymander the circuits so that the one-day convention has a similar attendance as they used to. The local congregation has been moved to different circuits twice that I recall in the last three years.
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  Any information about a special talk on Marriage in December 2024

  by insearchoftruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  two folks from the local kh visited the house yesterday looking for my wife who is an on again off again baptized jw.

  wife was not available so they asked me to tell her about a special talk on marriage next week.

  any outlines available for this ‘special talk’ or could this potentially be a local issue?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Maybe this is their way of announcing the 'noo lite' on husband/wife sex relations.
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  Why are the Governing Body Members always in-house New York Bethel members?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower—study edition | february 2024.

  ''we are pleased to inform you that two additional brothers have been appointed to serve as members of the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses: brothers gage fleegle and jeffrey winder.

  both brothers are anointed christians who have a long history of loyal service to jehovah.

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  If clones can be happy, I guess that's what it looks like
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  Shunning--newest directive

  by stan livedeath in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so just what is the latest directive on shunning?.

  asking for a family member.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The disfellowshipping/removal thing has happened so fast that the print- WT has the word DF but by the time it was studied they had to edit it out of the online version. Wow, unreal.