Posts by NotBlind

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New Arrangement: All Can Listen In to Bethel Annual Meeting

by Red Piller in

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a letter read at our meeting.. .

our congregation is assigned a location (a nearby congregation) to listen (video, also?

) to the annual meeting.

NotBlind

OP is correct. Although the original letter DID say that tickets were going to be required to attend this year's annual meeting at the local AH or KH, a revised letter came out this week saying that the GB changed their mind and that tickets will no longer be required. So I guess any of us could crash the meeting and see what the big deal is.

Honestly, I think that it's going to be just as underwhelming as all the other 'special' events they hold, although it may prove to be a useful cure for someone with insomnia.

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Could The Watchtower and Awake Collapse?

by metatron in

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this is not a prophesy, folks, but rather a train of thought to pursue about the organization, especially in light of its recent legal problems.. could the magazines collapse?

the watchtower is published in 188 languages?

and the awake a rather huge number as well?.

NotBlind

Why haven't they dropped the Awake already? It could be easily done with the excuse that they need to focus on the Watchtower magazine now that it is printed in various versions. But they didn't drop it when they chose to print the Watchtower monthly instead of fortnightly. It is interesting to speculate as to why they didn't
One reason may be that we know how very proud they can be and to drop the Awake would be a bit of an embarassment. It is also a good way of using some of their good bethel writers who aren't of the anointed and can be allocated airy fairy topics without too much control.
The other problem that dropping it would mean they have to concentrate more of their efforts on the actual 'meaty' stuff and as they are not very imaginative these days it is a hard task for them. They couldn't even produce a substantive book this year.

If they drop a magazine, I believe it will be the public Watchtower. The 'downsizing' would be too psychologically depressing to completely shut down the Awake magazine, which has been printed essentially since 1919. They would just offer the dumbed-down Awake with a smattering of Bible articles with a majority of articles about natural disasters, Swiss cheese, and maybe a Young People Ask article here and there. The Watchtower would become a members-only magazine. It seems kind of silly to have two 'editions' of the Watchtower for two completely different audiences, the more I think about it.

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Do you know the oldest Kingdom Hall personally that still exist today?

by Iamallcool in

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this kingdom hall was built in the 1960's and they still meet there.

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NotBlind

I think there's a Kingdom Hall in Kennett, Missouri, that was built in the 1940's and has only been recently renovated.

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GB becoming more angry!

by truthseeker1969 in

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flipping through the wt and other artices it strikes me how angry the governing body is becoming and how they are using insulting words to describe anyone who "rocks the boat".. words such as diseased and vindictive are common place now and so petty.. it seems to me that these men may be allowing personal feelings to overcome their spiritual role that they are supposed to live by.. i have been out of the truth for 17 years and it is clear to me that they have lost the plot.. look at the generation flip flop.

why not just say, "brothers, we have no clue and therfore no clue about anything that has been taught".

assuming the role of jesus on earth is something no one should do as one look at corinthians clearly states that "gifts of prophesying would be done away with" in other words god said i will tell you not you me.. anyone else feel that the gb is angry?.

NotBlind

Just for fun, ask someone to name the theme of the last 4 Sunday talks given. Or ask them to summarize the previous chapter in the Congregation "Bible Study". Easily 98% will not be able to do it - yet the meetings are supposed to be so utterly "vital".

In my congregation, they won't even know the theme of any of the last 4 Sunday talks -- and that's two hours after the meeting. And I mean that!

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Wachtower says 97% of teens masturbate....is it realistic that 100% Witness teens don't?

by Witness 007 in

"young people ask" book admits 97% of youths masturbate...to put it into perspective, it's like saying 97% of the worlds population own a phone or a t.v!!

so is it realistic to believe these witnesses going thru puberty and teenage years won't on penalty of death?.

i always thought, if nearly 100% of teens do it isn't it normal?.

NotBlind

I sure hope to high hell they don't 'consider' this new YPA book at the Theocratic Misery School. Because the last time they did that back in the early 90's, we had to sit through four separate masturbation student talks on four separate weeks.

At least I didn't get that talk assigned to me. The ones who did get that 'privilege' wisely didn't show for their talk, leaving some schlub to be duped into volunteering for it. They got to choke their way (no pun intended) through five minutes of talking about the evils of masturbation.

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earthquake in IL back in the 1960's

by TotallyADD in

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i remember the fear i had, i thought i was going to die because the big a started.

all it was a little shaking of the plates and glasses in the cabinets.

it was 1967 or 1968 late fall on a saturday morning.

NotBlind

True, but none of these three earthquakes in Illinois ('68, '87, and '08) were on the New Madrid fault. These were actually in the Wabash Valley fault zone, which is well to the north.

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earthquake in IL back in the 1960's

by TotallyADD in

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i remember the fear i had, i thought i was going to die because the big a started.

all it was a little shaking of the plates and glasses in the cabinets.

it was 1967 or 1968 late fall on a saturday morning.

NotBlind

I don't remember it, but my parents do. I think that was the one centered around McLeansboro. More recently, I actually DO remember the ones in 1987 and 2008. Very minor earthquakes, really, but when you live in Illinois/Indiana, you aren't really used to those things. And the elders used the earthquake ad nauseum in talk illustrations for about two weeks following the event.

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Do yo know your options - Jan KM 2011 Answers?

by Sharpie in

hey i was wondering if anyone has the answers for this weeks km part do you know your options.

questions are-.

what is the main reason why jehovah witnesses refuse blood tranfusions .

NotBlind

Oh no - not again.

This is the exact same article - word for word - that was in the January 2009 KM and the January 2007 KM. These fools don't even have the ambition to change the words around when they reprint the same article every 24 months for the sheep to lick up.

I wonder if any of the rank-and-file even noticed.

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If you were in the Governing Body, how would YOU change the generation prophecy?

by sabastious in

i personally would lose the overlapping terminology and just say that the generation refers to the entire jehovah's witness movement.

jesus is basically saying that the movement would not be gone when end comes to fruition.

this will give us hope during the great tribulation because there will be times when our extermination seems imminent.. what about you?.

NotBlind

I would adopt Bert Schroeder's proposal that THIS GENERATION began in 1957 with the launch of the Russian Sputnik satellite - i.e. heavenly signs & celestial phenomena. That should buy them an extra 43 years.

It's no sillier than the current teaching.

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Is Your Favorite Kingdom Melody still in the New Songbook? Let's see

by cattails in

is your favorite kingdom melody still in the new songbook?

red - gone.

blue - changes to music or lyrics.

NotBlind

My favorite is the new song 92, "Flip the Bird".