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  Awake Magazine - No Longer Being Printed?

  by JWTom in

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  2. friends

  someone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.

  maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.

  is this true?

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  mikeflood

  Maybe they are gonna print just one public Watchtower and one Awake each year...or make it biannual. Change coming for sure...
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  May JW Broaadcast - so bad, "it's not even wrong"

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.

  let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.

  france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.

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  mikeflood

  It reminds me....China....is...."the King of the East" ....or better....now is part of "King of the North"....don't give them any ideas.
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  Announcements and Reminders MAY 2021

  by cachito in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  parte de la informacion de los anuncios y recordatorios por parte de la watchtower mes mayo 2021traduccion:"3. agradecimientos por donaciones: elogiamos los esfuerzos de los muchos publicadores que se han adaptado a utilizar métodos electrónicos de donación para apoyar los intereses del reino, como por ejemplo utilizando donate.jw.org.

  se ha hecho un ajuste para unificar la forma en que se reconocen todas las donaciones recibidas en la sucursal.

  una vez que se reciba su donación, se le enviará un recibo por correo electrónico para reconocer el importe de la donación.

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  mikeflood

  I'll bet is gonna end in something like this: "Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most Highest God received 10 percent from Abraham....we are not under that, but what a lovable example for Christians. It is not at least that we should follow that example?

  If everything is gonna be electronic they could encourage the 'happy donor" at least to be at 10 percent.
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  Drastic Upcoming Changes? (accelerated by the pandemic)

  by JWTom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  good to see you again!

  much discussion now about the fallout that is coming due to impacts of the pandemic combined with the long-term downward spiral of jw.org.

  i am active as a pimo and my wife is pimi....much of our personal conversation and conversation with others in jw land focuses on how things will play out for jw.org in the next 12-24 months.

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  mikeflood

  The only thing that is for sure is that change is coming.

  I'll go for just making a semi monthly or monthly meeting mega church style using the Assembly Halls, KH are gonna be sold, big bucks over there. That way they could give a little rest to the RF and make them more mainstream.

  Declared that preaching served its purpose, just keep special campaigns like three times a year. No more reporting time because it ' drain resources'.

  And, yes, you're allowed to talk to a disfellonwship person, that is going to be a 'biblical' personal decision.
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  Big Cull of Foreign Language Groups and Congregations

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i overheard mrs eyeslice listening to '2021 governing body update 3' yesterday.

  apparently, they have started ditching foreign language groups and congregations as these weren't exactly roping anyone in.

  of course there is a positive spin on all this - '4,000 plus elders freed up to serve in local language congregations' and of course there has been immensely positive feedback from various branches about the benefits of this.. i suspect though there will be an awful lot of elders who were serving as king pins in these congregations who are going to have their noses put out by going back to local language congregations where they will barely be used.

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  mikeflood

  Under that logic, the next GB generation have a perfect reason to stop or redesign preaching altogether because if there are no more people interested in those biblical studies........let us redirect our efforts to something else.
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  What do you think will be different in the Organization after the pandemic is over?

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whether they go back to door-to-door or not, what will be different?

  do you think there will be a noticeable drop-off in attendance as we have read on here that many have left or faded?

  will there be a mass selling of halls?

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  mikeflood

  Ohhh...that's a good one. Let's see....there is no biblical justification about all those Kingdom Halls...we are gonna use the Assembly Halls instead...like you know, megachurches. Meet over there once a month beside regular assemblies, of course. And preaching? Do it a couple of times a year, in special campaigns. Simplification, simplification.
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  Covid Vaccine Passports

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you think of them?

  should a business or establishment require that you show proof that you have been vaccinated before they let you in?.

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  mikeflood

  Let me try some "Vdiot" style:

  Covid passports are, 'the mark of the beast, the mark of the beast, the mark of the beast' !!!!!
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  Congregation Letter - 2021 Magazines Delayed???

  by JWTom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we had a letter read in our cong.

  last week that said the public wt and awake would be delayed during the beginning of 2021. meaning we would just use the 2020 version into 2021 and there would be no new ones at the beginning of 2021 until an undetermined time sometime during the 1st half of 2021. at least that is the gist that i remember.

  it was in what atlantis provided but there was no further detail....very brief.. any more intel or speculation on this?

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  mikeflood

  Maybe they're gonna eliminate Awake or Watchtower public edition....or both....
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  Why Do Jehovah's Witnesses Dress Up For Meetings?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  library.

  books & brochures.

  who are doing jehovah’s will today?.

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  mikeflood

  It's gonna change eventually with GB 3.0 or 4.0, in rural Africa they don't enforce it, I think. When they realize that people run away from an strict dress code they are gonna relax it.
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  A Generation Change Again???

  by BereanThinker7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.

  does anybody have on info on this?.

  i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .

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  mikeflood

  Yes, Waton, but remember, it is just entertaining, to try to prove anything.

  For example, you could be bold and say 'Jerusalem destruction propehcy ' was the biblical type and now we are in the antitype.

  That keeps the RF awake, I guess.