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New NWT
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is it very different from the old version?.

has it changed much?.

how can i get a copy?
NotFormer

I never thought of the cash handling aspect.
It's an interesting situation in this town. Not only do the dubs have a literature rack, but so do other groups. The Open Brethren have a table, giving away not just tracts, but full copies of the NKJV. There's even a bloke with a table set up to sell socialist literature and books. This usually happens on Saturday. A few times I've seen another group that I assume is not the Brethren because they have Gideon bibles, a guitar and are singing much more modern choruses than what the Brethren usually sing at the their services. I think they're from the main Pentecostal church in town.
Perhaps I could appeal to their pride: "There are so many people giving away bibles, but I have heard that yours is the most accurate and true to the original souces!" 😁😆
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New Version of NWT
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
how does it compare to the old one?.

has anything changed much?.

how do i get a copy?
NotFormer

I'll have a look on yt
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2023-August-S-147-Announcements And Reminders!
by Atlantis in
1. jw
2. friends
page 1. https://imgbox.com/32tnfnel.

page 2. https://imgbox.com/f8jh7e0m .

page 3. https://imgbox.com/chjmr4km .
NotFormer

What are these donation resolutions? Are they a pledge to give a certain amount? Are they individual pledges, or is it at the congregational level. Is the amount really decided by the elders as to how much they can shake-down the congregation for, or does Bethel decide how much they expect each congregation to cough up, while pretending that it is the elders' decision?
My understanding was that donations were tied to the literature. That each JW was expected to take and distribute a certain amount of literature and were expected to "donate' a certain amount for it. Now that they're not printing hard copies of the magazines (or even issuing the magazines on a fortnightly basis anymore) how are they maintaining the donation levels?
Will the GB ever decide to announce the "new light" of tithing?
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New NWT
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is it very different from the old version?.

has it changed much?.

how can i get a copy?
NotFormer

Damn! This was an unintentional repost; I thought the first one wasn't going through.
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New NWT
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is it very different from the old version?.

has it changed much?.

how can i get a copy?
NotFormer

Is it very different from the old version?
Has it changed much?
How can I get a copy? A hard copy, that is. The JWs sometimes have a trolley/cart in my local town centre. Could they get me a copy? Would they charge me for it, or expect a "donation"?
I could possibly call the local congregation but I don't want to end up on their radar.
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May 23 Watchtower
by Listener in
1. watchtower
2. bible
study article 22 is headed.

"keep traveling on the "way of holiness".

this article states that since 1919, having left babylon the great in that year, jws today are traveling on 'the way of holiness" (a figurative highway) as it takes them through the spiritual paradise and leads them through to future kingdom blessings.. they say that 'preparatory work' of that highway began centuries earlier.
NotFormer

"1956: The sanctity of marriage is clarified"
What do they mean here?
What are their examples of"non-abhorrent pornography"?
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New Version of NWT
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
how does it compare to the old one?.

has anything changed much?.

how do i get a copy?
NotFormer

How does it compare to the old one?
Has anything changed much?
How do I get a copy? A hard copy, that is. The local JWs sometimes have a trolley/cart set up in my local town centre; might I be able to obtain a copy from them?
I could always call the local congregation, but I don't want to be on their radar.
Would they charge me for a copy, or would they expect (or "encourage me to give") a donation?
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Tattoos
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was wondering about the jw attitude towards getting tattoos.. redditors suggest that the only jws who have them would have got them before they were baptised.. jw.org gives a meally-mouthed "true christians wouldn't" response.. but no-one (that i've seen so far) answers the question i'm actually asking: is getting a tattoo after being baptised a disfellowshipping offence?.

if not disfellowshipable, how would a typical jw congregation treat someone who got a tattoo after baptism?

would they really treat it like it is a conscience issue?.
NotFormer

Careful, thanks for searching out and posting those images. Not a fan of tattoos myself so no matter how cool some of them seem, I would never get anything like that done to myself 😱 The t-shirts suggest that the PIMI types are getting bolder than they were 20 years ago, when I still had anything to do with the dubs. I doubt that they would be worn on field service though; it's still suits and ties, isn't it?
The stuff I read online suggested to me that it would be officially considered a "conscience issue", but I guess that privately, people would be judged as "spiritually immature". Thanks Journeyman, for reminding me of that term!
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New Bible Translation from Warwick: The G.B. Revised Edition
by BoogerMan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
only a matter of time!

here are just a few examples of what is inferred now, but will become 'new lights.'.

i'm sure thousands more verses will be 'refined.
NotFormer

How do the GB pronounce "Warwick"? The British (and Australian) way: phonetically spelled as "Worrick"? Or like Dionne Warwick ("War-wick")?
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Memorial Attendances 2020 to 2023
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
following from the convention attendance thread i looked back on my notes to see the memorial attendances over the pandemic.

this is what i found.

i don’t have any pre-pandemic attendances but i’d estimate them around 80 to 90 or so in recent years.
NotFormer

Is 80 to 90 a normal congregation size, pre-pandemic? I would have assumed larger than that 🤔.