I assume someone from WT attends the reading of the will. Who is it? An elder, a CO, some especially selected person from the branch under whose purview this sort of thing is maintained?
What is the procedure?
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When The 'Tower Is Mentioned In A Will
by NotFormer ini assume someone from wt attends the reading of the will.
an elder, a co, some especially selected person from the branch under whose purview this sort of thing is maintained?.
what is the procedure?.
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The New Busy Work
by NotFormer infor a hundred years the slaves were kept from having the time and energy to question anything and associate anywhere where they might be exposed to alternative views by having to keep up the busy work of going door to door.
that avenue is drying up.
and policy is changing.. the wt needs new busy work to keep the sheep engaged without thinking.. the wt fancies itself as an up and coming movie studio.
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For a hundred years the slaves were kept from having the time and energy to question anything and associate anywhere where they might be exposed to alternative views by having to keep up the busy work of going door to door. That avenue is drying up. And policy is changing.
The WT needs new busy work to keep the sheep engaged without thinking.
The WT fancies itself as an up and coming movie studio. Why not encourage local congregations to also start making amateur video productions and upload them to YouTube? You can produce half decent content with little more than a phone. WT could handout suggested plots, Q&A suggestions, specific Bible dramas etc, along with guidelines: what should be said, what can't be said and leaving a bit of wiggle room for creativity and embellishment. Nothing gets uploaded without CO approval.
It could create a new level of engagement within the congregations and it goes without saying that new "privileges" will emerge that people can vie for. It would also create a new recruiting ground for Bethel. In the old days Bethel was a printing works. Now it could be seen as Jehovah's answer to Hollywood.
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The Jehovah's Witness religion has ''Jumped the Shark''
by RULES & REGULATIONS inwhat does jump the shark mean?.
the phrase “jump the shark” is a term in pop culture that originated from the tv show “happy days” and is used to describe a decline in quality.
it refers to the moment when a tv show or other product has reached its peak and starts to decline in quality.
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"Actually, they had very little time to "sit" as they were busy with the "privilege" of shoveling up the manure"
This is part of the genius of the WT. The busy work of going door to door was enough to distract from the fact that the end didn't come during several lifetimes.
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Irony can be fun. Rutherford expected to outlive the governments of the world; he didn't even live to see the end of Hitler's government!
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Waiting On Jehovah First Mentioned?
by Ron.W. inyes, waiting on jehovah for him to handle a problem/ doctrine etc.. when did the jw's first start saying that?
they've been saying it as long as i can remember.. what scriptures do they trot out to back that teaching up?
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Magnum, Mussolini made the trains run on time by figuring out what time the trains were actually arriving and adjusting the timetables accordingly.
Not sure how to stretch any analogy to the GB's situation though. 🤔 Apart from them being a bunch of fascists...
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The Jehovah's Witness religion has ''Jumped the Shark''
by RULES & REGULATIONS inwhat does jump the shark mean?.
the phrase “jump the shark” is a term in pop culture that originated from the tv show “happy days” and is used to describe a decline in quality.
it refers to the moment when a tv show or other product has reached its peak and starts to decline in quality.
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Actually, perhaps it's Cousin Oliver Syndrome. A TV show is usually dying when they introduce a new kid to try and inject some interest back in the show. WT jumped the shark when they introduced Sophia and Caleb.
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The Jehovah's Witness religion has ''Jumped the Shark''
by RULES & REGULATIONS inwhat does jump the shark mean?.
the phrase “jump the shark” is a term in pop culture that originated from the tv show “happy days” and is used to describe a decline in quality.
it refers to the moment when a tv show or other product has reached its peak and starts to decline in quality.
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NotFormer
They probably jumped the shark 🦈 when the GB started making televangelist 🧑🏫 style videos 🎥📼🎞️🎬. They wanted to show that they were down with the kids 🕺 and as cool as The Fonz, but proved the opposite. 🙄
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Has The Interpretation of the Beast Changed?
by NotFormer inmy understanding* is that the un is supposed to be the wild beast of revelation.
the un only came into being after wwii, so what was the beast before the new light came about?
i can't see a speculative organisation like the wt not having an interpretation of the beast before the un came into being.
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Vidiot, if only it was fun like that!
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Has The Interpretation of the Beast Changed?
by NotFormer inmy understanding* is that the un is supposed to be the wild beast of revelation.
the un only came into being after wwii, so what was the beast before the new light came about?
i can't see a speculative organisation like the wt not having an interpretation of the beast before the un came into being.
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I was after the tl:dr version, I seriously don't want to read that idiot's rantings. Is he saying the beast is the RC church and the Anglican church or the reformation churches or some sort of ecumenical council? Wouldn't that be the false prophet, the second beast?
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Has The Interpretation of the Beast Changed?
by NotFormer inmy understanding* is that the un is supposed to be the wild beast of revelation.
the un only came into being after wwii, so what was the beast before the new light came about?
i can't see a speculative organisation like the wt not having an interpretation of the beast before the un came into being.
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Russell died in 1916, so he wouldn't have had the then non-existent League of Nations in mind. Who or what did he think was the beast? I've been googling it, but most of the answers are about JWs, not bible students before Rutherford.