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  The Reason Behind Recent Watchtower Changes

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  eric wilson's video is worth a view.. https://youtu.be/iil4fryuczk?si=f566n0tdqgpqc2ok.

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  Mikejw

  Lawyer quote:

  "The F&DS class area a theological arrangement. And to understand what that means, think of a musical arrangement, you can listen to it, you can read the sheet music, but the sheet music isn't the music. You can have a recording of it, but it doesn't exist."

  What a load of hot steaming lawyering manure.

  I have always noticed and admired in a way how the branch office has its own version of reality. Everyone else is a guest in their reality.

  As an elder of many years myself I often noticed an official request or even a legal demand to something that I personally would not question or delay in getting it done. But the branch does not comply or even reply sometimes.

  I was surprised at the time, I didn’t even think that was an option to not reply and keep ignoring the letters.

  The branch office really does have its own reality and everyone else just has to accept that. If they say they are like a piece of music that can be in the page when it suits and they want free money from the government but then they are like music that can’t be recorded when they don’t want to take responsibility for anything they don’t like
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  Conscription FEARS to END? Jehovah's Witnesses in EUROPE?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.jwupdates.com/post/conscription-fears-across-europe-could-end-jehovah-s-witnesses.

  as the clouds of war are gathering fast over the european continent many countries including britain are contemplating a return to conscription and some form of mandatory military service.

  considering the fact that the watchtower fought long and hard especially in europe for the right of its believers to abstain from military service it is very interesting to see how this new development will affect the watchtower across europe.

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  Mikejw

  Jan you must have your head under a rock.

  How could you possibly not know?

  Its in all the papers. All the news everywhere has had this as one of the top stories. The Metro in London has a big spread with lots of opinions. They think the new woke agenda conscription will not work.

  They say the woke these days if called up for conscription would want to have gender neutral clothes be wrapped up in cotton wool, stay in bed until they felt like getting up and then winge and cry that it’s not fair the Russians are shooting at us🤣

  Hard times create hard men, then hard men create soft time. Soft times create soft men and then soft men create hard time and the cycle repeats.

  We have a society of soft men now and next comes hard times.
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  Conscription FEARS to END? Jehovah's Witnesses in EUROPE?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.jwupdates.com/post/conscription-fears-across-europe-could-end-jehovah-s-witnesses.

  as the clouds of war are gathering fast over the european continent many countries including britain are contemplating a return to conscription and some form of mandatory military service.

  considering the fact that the watchtower fought long and hard especially in europe for the right of its believers to abstain from military service it is very interesting to see how this new development will affect the watchtower across europe.

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  Mikejw

  Here in the UK all the papers and news is talking about conscription coming back.

  I think the situation is far worse than most realise and war between east and west is inevitable. It’s kind of already started but in a couple of years it will be clear. UK&USA plus Israel and their allies against Russia&China and the Muslim countries plus their allies.

  m China are waiting for the West to run out of resources fighting for Ukraine and the Middle East problems before they choose the ideal time to retake Taiwan.

  Yes there will be a conscription in most countries. There will be alternatives like working in hospitals or firefighting.

  Or go to prison which many brothers will do because they feel working in other area’s support the war effort.

  I can see this in a few years from now
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  Geoffrey Jackson goatiegate Part 2

  by Tahoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from ske graduation this past weekend.

  (sent from a pimi).

  from ske on zoom: .

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  Mikejw

  I doubt the three pictures with the goatie they were fake
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  Geoffrey Jackson goatiegate Part 2

  by Tahoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from ske graduation this past weekend.

  (sent from a pimi).

  from ske on zoom: .

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  Jackson has a new talk on the front page without a beard
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  My grandmother called my mother

  by Anony Mous in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i’m just posting this as a warning to lurking jws.

  if you’re still on the fence, here is a story.. my grandmother, now in her 80s hasn’t talked to anyone in the family for over 20 years ever since my mother was the last one of her children that left ‘the truth’, she had sent my mother a card to never talk to her again.

  so here we are 21 years later, she gets a call out of the blue that she needed help, she hadn’t been able to get into her kitchen.

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  Mikejw

  What annoys me is when adult children ask the congregation to take care of their aged parents.

  The Bible says it’s the responsibility of the children doesn’t it?

  often brothers and sisters in Bethel or busy with some work for the org are told not to stop working for the org but instead ask the local congregation to look after their parents
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  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Mikejw

  Scholar Are you serious or a troll? You genuinely still think Jerusalem was destroyed in 607? You think that 7 times prophecy for Nebuchadnezzar had a second fulfilment and can be made into 77 weeks or years and that pointed towards 1914 when the Bible was written? You actually believe that?

  
  

  And because that prophecy pointed towards 1914 that was going to be the year that Jesus waited until to this year to be called Michael the archangel to finally battle with Satan and the demons and throw them out of heaven.

  
  

  Then using a totally random other obscure part of the Bible come up with three and a half years later which should be 1917/18 but let’s stretch it to 1919 and say this is the year that Jehovah chose his one true religion on earth?

  
  

  You genuinely believe all of the above? If so then you do not live up to the name you have chosen for yourself
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  Is The GB Paranoid? And Should They Be?

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the gb seems to have a bunker mentality, that they are special, and that the world is out to get them, so they tend to keep within their tightly controlled, protective environment.

  bottlegate proved that there is some danger outside of the rarified atmosphere of their echo chamber; you never know when a camera might be trained on you, or that someone might recognise you as being something more than plain old "joe citizen".

  further, tm3's new address was quickly found and distributed, and (as i understand it) someone drove to his gated community to tell the security guard that tm3's "ass is grass".

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  The GB do have access to the secret bunkers and a few others at the very top including some top financial supporters.

  They all know it’s not true the JW doctrine and they also know it’s the best way to keep donations coming in to support their luxuries.

  Not only luxuries like staying in hotels paid for by block booking regional conventions, flying first class paid for by donations, but also the reverence and respect they get from rank and file.

  Everywhere they go they get treated like royalty. The best food the best gifts.
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  Is there “new light” on 1914?

  by wallsofjericho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’m hearing paraphrasing like “we just don’t know” .

  is this regarding 1914?

  or micheal the arch angel?.

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  Mikejw

  Scholar am I correct in thinking that you believe the JW 1914 doctrine?
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  Thoughts on annual meeting “new light”

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i finally saw the annual meeting video part 2.. this is the one with the “new light” on who might survive armageddon, vs. those who do not.. in summary, for those of you fortunate enough not to have to sit through it, it’s something like this:.

  old light: once the “great tribulation” starts, that’s it for non-jws.

  the “door of the ark” is closed.

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  Mikejw

  “They could have simply stated that non-JWs (whatever their status) could theoretically believe/repent and get saved after seeing proof that the WTS had been right all along (which even has legitimate Biblical precedents, “

  This is what they basically said without putting so bluntly. They said in other words it’s ok to wait until the great tribulation starts then start to believe.

  As has been said on Reddit you don’t want to waste time sitting on the ark when the flood may not come for a long time or may not come at all.

  Br Jackson said the door of opportunity will be open until after the great tribulation clearly starts.

  Most people are thinking like me, I don’t think the world will flood (or events JW predict) so why waste time sitting on the ark why not get on with your life now.

  If we got it wrong and the events do start to happen like JWs say then the door is still open.