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News of fires out of control in California
by ballistic in
1. jw
2. friends
hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..
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What the org SAYS, but what it really MEANS!
by BoogerMan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
w16 april p. 9 par.

17 being faithful gullible leads to god’s the cult's approval - thousands of young christian men and women are willingly sacrificing marriage or are not having children - at least for now - in order to serve jehovah the borg to the full.

older ones too may be sacrificing the time they could otherwise spend with their children and grandchildren in order to work on theocratic construction projects supply free labour or to attend the school for kingdom evangelizers receive deeper indoctrination and to serve in areas where the need for kingdom publishers more suckers is greater.
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Do children still get destroyed at Armageddon?
by Anony Mous in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.

i just can't easily find reference to anything.

this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.
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Changing the Date of the Memorial?
by KalebOutWest in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i noticed in the latest memorial invitation, the dates for the observance are odd--well far more odd than usual.. what i mean is that forever as i can remember, jehovah's witnesses use to advertise really big that this was nisan 14. they don't tend to do this anymore.. and being jewish, their dates now tend to align with passover, or at least with the second seder night of passover.. 2025: saturday, april 12 (nisan 15).

2026: thursday, april 2 (nisan 15/16).

2027: monday, march 22 (nisan 15/16).
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Beliefs clarified - A big fat WTF for 2025
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
jehovah’s witnesses have an official page for clarified beliefs they encourage elders, ministerial servants, regular pioneers, as well as all the rest of the elite, to keep up to date with:.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200277174.

2025 has a curious clarification:.
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The Curious Case of Cameroon in Africa in the World Report
by LaFrancia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we know that in africa warwick/watchtower is adopting a policy of more congregations with fewer publishers in each congregation.

this explains the growth of congregations in the 2024 world report.. cameroon world report 2019 vs. 2024.. with the same number of publishers the congregations grew by about 13%.. will there be many more curious cases out there?.
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1925--2025... 100 years since Rutherford promised paradise earth.
by Witness 007 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
rutherford wrote in 1925 "millions now living will never die"...they died.

he also promised that moses and david and all the old bible heroes would live with him in his mansion.

only he lived there till he died in 1942...100 years and not much changed..
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Threat of Deregistration in the Czech Republic
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
english translation of czech branch letter to congregations concerning the government looking to deregisterjw as a religion there.. .

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How are new Servants and Elders appointed?
by no-zombie in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
now that we have the tick-a-box field service reporting method, how are brothers measured fit for an appointment as a ms or elder?

has there been clarification in any of the recent elders schools or in meetings with the co?.
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Annual Report
by St George of England in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.

george.