Posts by FreeTheMasons

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WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...

by careful in

... is just three weeks from this saturday.

the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.

The Date for the Memorial is WRONG this year!

by Kelley959 in

an interesting video was on youtube with a person claiming that the memorial date for 2024 was wrong.

so i consulted three different jewish calendars online and sure enough, he appears to be right.

i went back to 2014 and forward to 2027. they have the future dates listed.

FreeTheMasons

Sometimes scholars have their heads so far into a book that they forget to look up.

Even a kid can figure out when the moon is full.

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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting

by slimboyfat in

say it ain’t so!

.

in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?

FreeTheMasons

(For comparison, here are two photos of AH Macmillan, the first is with Grant Suiter when Grant was secretary-treasurer. Grant became secretary-treasurer in 1947.)

It doesn't appear to be the same man. The facial angles and glasses are different.

How interesting it would be to peruse the list of voting members from any given time period in Watchtower history.

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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting

by slimboyfat in

say it ain’t so!

.

in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?

FreeTheMasons

Those photos you mentioned are from videos taken in the late 1930s.

(Here is a better screenshot...)

The video that screenshot is taken from can be viewed here:

https://youtu.be/F7AV6-UT6BM?si=pRz3SwZjRpHMHwQM

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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting

by slimboyfat in

say it ain’t so!

.

in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?

FreeTheMasons

Fleetwood Mac had a cool album called "Rumours" - one of the songs was entitled "Never Going Back Again."

Another was "I Don't Want To Know."

Hey, I think I would like to know, maybe "@vienne" knows...who are these people in these pictures here? Rumour has it some of them are associated with the "upper eschelon" in the Watchtower hierarchy and their relations have some say in the Annual Meeting type decisions...

https://jws-library.one/?search=rothschild

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WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...

by careful in

... is just three weeks from this saturday.

the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.

FreeTheMasons

@Jeffro, are you speaking on behalf of Watchtower? Do you have insider information because you are part of the Watchtower hierarchy?

If you have evidence of your statement, perhaps you'd be willing to present it.

Last I knew, there were also JWs in Korea. And Ireland. And Switzerland. And many other places that own pieces of the companies listed in the JW Holding group.

Perhaps you'd like to read some more information here before speaking any further...

https://qr.ae/p2HMMY

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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting

by slimboyfat in

say it ain’t so!

.

in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?

FreeTheMasons

...speaking of Beth-Sarim and Bethel...during the time of the Annual Meeting/Fall Equinox there are typically other "celebrations" the voting members of the Watchtower take part in.

Only those "anointed" into that layer of the organization will attend.

("Happy Mabon.")

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Is there a 'for dummies' on Robert Hendriks thread?

by carla in

can anyone give me a rundown or send me to a thread on the robert hendriks thing?

he was recently 'dismissed' from bethel and was pid (public information department?

) i'm not even sure i have this right..... thanks much.

FreeTheMasons

Hi, Diogenesister🙂

That video was from the 2023 "Patience" con-vention in Portland Maine.

Robert gave the Sunday Public Bible Discourse: "Will God Act in Your Behalf?"

It would have been prior to all the online stuff about his "demise" although I wouldn't trust what was said on EXJW Reddit about him since the supposed "authority" on the situation has been caught lying and making stuff up multiple times.

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WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...

by careful in

... is just three weeks from this saturday.

the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.

FreeTheMasons

Wonder if they'll talk about their business

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Mandated Shunning is a Crime

by Lee Marsh in

mandated shunning is on the rise around the world with devastating effects on millions of people.

shunning that is mandated by organized groups to its members is a form of both physical and psychological violence against those people being shunned and cut off from their family and life-long relationships.

mandated shunning means that the shunning is ordered from the top down.

FreeTheMasons

"Sharing Bible truths"

WT, by their own admission,

haven't been sharing Bible truths

which is why they keep changing their doctrines.