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  Annual Report

  by St George of England in

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  the latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.

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  NotFormer

  Diogenesister: "I think it makes sense given the world at the moment, wars in the middle east and the (sorry cant get rid of this silly face) Ukraine etc make people nervous, theres lots of talk in the media about "WW3" etc together with inflation and food prices etc"

  Wars in the middle east, the Russian threat, inflation, talk about WW3. I'm old enough to remember similar fears in the 70s. Lots of idiots with their fingers on buttons back then, too. Let's hope that these "interesting times" will blow over in similar fashion.
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  1925--2025... 100 years since Rutherford promised paradise earth.

  by Witness 007 in

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  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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  NotFormer

  In my contact with JWs during the 1990s, I got to thinking. "The WT says it's the Ark. Noah took 120 years to build the Ark. Add 120 to 1914 , and you get 2034. I never posted that thought to this or earlier boards (wasn't one called H2O, or some such? 🤔) because, to be quite frank, I didn't want to give the WT any ideas.

  Thinking about it further now, 1919 is the true foundational date. That would have been when the WT was declared to be the Ark, typologically* speaking. So, WT gets a further reprieve, with their final date stretched to 2039, once you add the 120 years.

  * Or is that antitypologically? I never understood that earlier JW stuff about types and antitypes. 🙄 Neither did the current GB, apparently; they've declared the whole concept null and void.
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  Costume dramas at conventions

  by AdamCzarnobay in

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  are convention dramas still a thing or have these been replaced by videos of dramas recorded in the usa?.

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  NotFormer

  "what jonahstourguide means is that the videos in the 2024 district convention focusing on Jesus were made with Australian actors in the roles, just check out the angel Gabriel's accent in them!"

  What was the reasoning behind having it outsourced to a different branch? Was it Australian Bethel who was responsible for making it? Or did they just get a bunch of Australian people to film it in the American video facility for some unknown reason? The more I find out, the more questions it raises.
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  My story of becoming a circuit overseer after Kin Suen visited our congregation.

  by ExCircuitOverseer in

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  here is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.

  my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.

  i had actually become a circuit overseer!

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  NotFormer

  "Looking back as I woke up I really I thought I could bring the organization down in a year. Wishful thinking and lack of knowledge of how strong the organization is. I thought if I could convince a few people it would snowball. It never happened."

  The whole religion is based on: "If you see something that causes you to doubt, look away!" That impulse is ground into JWs from day one. You saw a lot of things over the years that you could no longer "look away" from.

  Unfortunately, those you thought would be honestly interested in TTATT, were well conditioned to look away, and would have ignored you as just another opposer. The WT is good at what it does (in some areas, anyway).
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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.

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  NotFormer

  "WT used to be proud of this difference..."

  They still proclaim pride in their differences, but a lot of those differences are being whittled down to the point of non-significance. This so called difference is just one among many.
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  The CHRISTIANITY gravy-train mob......

  by BoogerMan in

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  .......and one or two other lucrative individuals!

  https://www.heraldweekly.com/meet-the-wealthiest-religious-leaders-in-the-world/61?xcmg=1&_d=d.

  happy to be fleecing the sheep who leave the folds of the multi-billion dollar "established" empires - like wtbts..

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  NotFormer

  I'm not convinced by their figures. Especially the ones for Osteen and Joyce Meyer. Those look seriously low. And the figure for Kenneth Copeland? Laughable! That bastard himself brags that God made him a billionaire.

  As to the one and two million dollar net worth after forty or so years in a ministry: So what? It could mean that the family home that they bought all those years ago happened to be in the right suburb for the property boom.
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  Threat of Deregistration in the Czech Republic

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  english translation of czech branch letter to congregations concerning the government looking to deregisterjw as a religion there.. .

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  NotFormer

  "That explains a lot."

  That was unnecessary, Syd.
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  Costume dramas at conventions

  by AdamCzarnobay in

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  are convention dramas still a thing or have these been replaced by videos of dramas recorded in the usa?.

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  "Governing body members sign gift Bibles for public officials"

  How far does this tradition go back? They're a whole lot of questions raised in my mind when I see this. When did it start? When did they feel comfortable showing the R&F that they were doing this? Who else do they sign things for? What else do they sign? Do they still do it? Are there more such photos?
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  Costume dramas at conventions

  by AdamCzarnobay in

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  are convention dramas still a thing or have these been replaced by videos of dramas recorded in the usa?.

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  NotFormer

  jonahstourguide: "All videos are made in U.S. or in the case of Jesus advertisements, Australia."

  Can you explain/expand this statement a bit? I've never heard of the last part.
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  Threat of Deregistration in the Czech Republic

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  english translation of czech branch letter to congregations concerning the government looking to deregisterjw as a religion there.. .

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  NotFormer

  Once again blood and shunning come back to bite them on the bottom. 🙄 Archaic stupid doctrines forced upon them by long dead autocrats, weaponised to the nth degree and enforced by a legal department which is terrified of the consequences of winding them back at all, because that would prove that those doctrines were wrong all along, and unnecessary for the correct worship of Jehovah*.

  FFS, abolish the HLCs already, Watchtower! 😡😤😠🤬

  *Jehovah, the mediaeval scribal error