Posts by disfellowshipped1

i used to think that before the governing body was introduced in the 1970's as we know it today, that they used that term for the 7-member board of directors.

but the article written by milton henschel in the '50s that was just posted showed another angle.

apparently all shareholders were the "governing body" and the board was their representative, just like later they would say that all anointed ones were the faithful slave and the gb was their representative.. the governing body at present has 402 members, who reside in 29 countries and elect seven ministers as a board of directors.

7 years ago

disfellowshipped1 7 years ago

*** w90 3/15 pp. 16-18 pars. 8-13 Cooperating With the Governing Body Today ***

Looking back in this “time of the end,” we are not surprised that the members of the Governing Body were at first closely identified with the editorial staff of the Watch Tower Society. . . . For years, the visible Governing Body came to be identified with the seven-member board of directors of this corporation established to publish the Bible study aids needed and used by the Lord’s people earth wide. The Society’s seven directors were faithful Christians. But their role in a legal corporation might have suggested that they owed their positions on the Governing Body to their being elected by legal members of the Watch Tower Society. Furthermore, by law such membership and its voting privileges were originally granted only to certain ones who made contributions to the Society. This arrangement needed to be changed. This was done at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania corporation of the Watch Tower Society held on October 2, 1944. The statutes of the Society were amended so that membership would no longer be on a financial basis. Members would be chosen from among faithful servants of Jehovah, and these have come to include many serving full-time at the Society’s headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, and in its branches throughout the world. Reporting on this improvement, The Watchtower of November 1, 1944, stated: “Money, as represented in financial contributions, should have no determining voice, should in fact have nothing to do with the filling of the governing body of Jehovah’s witnesses on earth. . . . The holy spirit, the active force which comes down from Jehovah God through Christ Jesus, is that which should determine and guide in the matter.” . . . Until 1971 those of the Governing Body were still identified with the seven members of the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.

https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/topic/51685-aus-watchtower-pdf-files/?do=findComment&comment=80597

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JW's Dancing at a Special Convention in Indonesia

by disfellowshipped1 in

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7 years ago

video: jw's dance at the jakarta, indonesia special convention.

things have really changed over there in jw land...... holding up phones like lighters now?.

7 years ago

disfellowshipped1 7 years ago

VIDEO: JW's Dance at the Jakarta, Indonesia Special Convention

Things have really changed over there in JW land...... holding up phones like lighters now?

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21st Century French Connection or How the French got the last Laugh against JWs in Russia

by Slidin Fast in

8 years ago

so, this journal mentions fecris, a french sponsored anti-cult ngo active in russia.

i for one knew nothing of that.

it seems that the much vaunted, long-winded financial victory in france kind of back-fired.

8 years ago

disfellowshipped1 8 years ago

The Russian Supreme Court’s July 17 ban on the Jehovah’s Witnesses was the result of a decades long conspiracy funded by the French government, blessed by the Russian Orthodox Church, and sanctioned by the Putin administration.
A French NGO — fully-funded by the French government with the aim of combatting religious minorities — partnered with the Putin administration and the Russian Orthodox Church to label non-Orthodox religions in Russia as extremist groups and eliminate them. The latest phase of that plan first garnered international attention with Russian authorities’ arrest of a Danish citizen.
https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/topic/41639-the-french-conspiracy-with-the-russian-orthodox-church-that-destroyed-the-jehovah’s-witnesses/

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Completing the Scan of All WT Publications - Bibles List

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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8 years ago

i am working with paul grundy from jwfacts and with the administrator of avoidjw.org, and they are ok with me doing the work that i am doing right now, which is to try and complete, as much as possible, the availability of everything the wt has ever published, in pdf format.therefore, i will start listing in this thread what i have not been able to find anywhere online.

please let me know where i can find the pdf's for the following:(now, i know that there are multiple versions of these and that there are some that seem the same but they are not.

i am looking for the wt published versions of these publications.

3 years ago

disfellowshipped1 8 years ago

Here is a copy....

https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/topic/37243-1961-new-world-translation/

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Any updates on the org's $4000 per day fine?

by The Searcher in

8 years ago

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/jun/24/ticker-judge-sanctions-jehovahs-witnesses/#.

it's heading towards $900,000 now..

8 years ago

disfellowshipped1 8 years ago

@Richard Oliver - Do you know more about how the International Nickel case is going?

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JW Facebook Groups

by Nevuela in

8 years ago

is anyone here familiar with the facebook group "jehovah's people: enduring these last days together"?

it's a closed group, so obviously you need to be a member in order to access any info or posts.

my anointed roommate is really frustrated because she's an admin and someone is taking miscellaneous posts from the group and posting it on their own page, which has the exact same name, minus the word "together.

8 years ago