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  Brother Jackson visits the Italy branch

  by LaFrancia in

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  brother 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 in

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  it 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 in

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  2. bible

  the 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 in

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  2. current

  i'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 in

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  2. friends

  this 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 in

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  2. friends

  so, 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.
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  Is a piano inevitable?

  by slimboyfat in

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  i was at a concert last night and the presence and stature of the piano struck me.

  and i thought: if the piano wasn't invented when it was, would it have been invented by someone else instead?

  or if there was a world the same as our, except with a different history, would it have pianos now too or would it be modern world, similar in many respects, only without pianos?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I see that I commented on this in years past, though I don't specifically remember it. I would say that a stringed instrument is inevitable, with various strings tuned in harmony. This is a matter of physics. Creating a keyed device to sound the strings is also inevitable, given the human tendency to create tools. However, the piano as we know it with an equal tempered scale of twelve notes per octave is a modern construct that is not necessarily a foregone conclusion.
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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

  News in these parts (midWest US) is that security at Kingdom Halls is going to tighten up (largely due to the Hamburg shooting and others like the recent one in Colorado). They are already posting people at the entrances and have had security cameras up for a while, but supposedly something is going to change very soon. The elders here are going to an informational session today about the new protocols.
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  Witnesses and Consensus of Bible Scholarship

  by Band on the Run in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading the thread on female hatred in the wtbts.

  it seems that for most posters, paul's sayings in books that no reputable scholar now believes paul wrote are preferred over the nonsexist statements he made.

  he named women as important leaders and colleagues.

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  Does watchtower talk about history of canonization of the Bible?

  Not to my knowledge. Back in the day the SI book was used in the ministry school, and there was a bit of discussion about the canon, but that was years ago. There may be something in the Insight volumes, but it is not likely to find an audience in the current WT meetings.
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  Why didn't they just tell people Rutherford needed to move to San Diego?

  by SydBarrett in

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  2. friends

  from wikipedia: "rutherford had reportedly lost the use of one lung from pneumonia suffered during his imprisonment in 1918 and 1919. finding new york's winter weather "impossible", rutherford was encouraged by a doctor to "spend as much time as possible" in a more favorable climate.

  " why not just tell the people exactly what it says above?

  why all the mumbo jumbo about purchasing it for ancient worthies to be resurrected?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  It was deeded, if I remember correctly, in a trust in the name of Abraham, Moses, and the ancient worthies. A total fabrication, of course, no doubt to evade taxation on the property that was essentially his private residence. They made a point at the time that it funded by 'private donation' rather than using WT funds.