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  Coming soon: Governing Body Update #4

  by ukpimo in

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  the upcoming governing body update, set to be released on friday this week, will feature a bearded samuel herd.. jwtalk website revealed the leak, so this thread will be used to speculate the content of the update and discuss the actual contents after its release..

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  NotFormer

  To the tune of Surfin' Bird:

  Well, everybody's heard about the Herd

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  Don't you know about the beard?

  Everybody knows that the beard is the weird!

  When the Herd, Herd, Herd is the word.
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  Stupid dumb ass changes yet blood and 1914 no change???wtfge???

  by Witness 007 in

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  yeah wow women can finally wear pants and men beards...but 1914 is still a date not accepted since charles russell times and blood fractions are evil!!.

  are they crazy!!!

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  NotFormer

  Russell's first prediction was for 1874, IIRC (correct me with the proper year if memory is faulty). Nothing happened then. Eventually that date was replaced by 1914. And nothing happened then*, either. A world war where most of the world's population survived isn't the destruction of the world's nations in Armageddon, succeeded by God's eternal kingdom on Earth. That was what Russell predicted for 1874; it was what he predicted for 1914. It didn't happen either time.

  * Not what he was predicting, anyway.
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  WT CONVENTION RELEASE LIFE OF JESUS

  by blondie in

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  https://wawa-news.com/index.php/2024/06/14/episode-1-of-jesus-christ-series-set-for-release-at-gfl-memorial-gardens-june-14-16th/ .

  episode 1 of jesus christ series set for release at gfl memorial gardens june 14 – 16th.

  in new south wales, australia, there exist replicas of regions once visited by the most notable prophet who ever lived.

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  Carla, I get the feeling that they loathe Jesus in the same way that they loathe children. Both inevitably have to be acknowledged as an uncomfortable reality but both get in the way of the money-making worldwide work.
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  JWs Tortured in Russia

  by blondie in

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  https://www.upi.com/top_news/world-news/2024/06/16/russia-tortures-jehovahs-witness/3971718239875/ .

  russia is amping up to severe torture for jws.

  i don't think this is appropriate behaviour for anyone..

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  It's sad to see the R&F suffering for their personal faithfulness to a doctrine and actions they are forced to adhere to, when the leaders who demand this level of faithfulness would sing like a canary if they were subjected to the same treatment. Remember Erich Frost handing over the names of his fellow JWs to the Gestapo, even without being tortured? Then, in the 50s, he gets to share the convention stage with Knorr.

  Imagine your favourite GB member being subjected to what the current Russian JWs are going through. Do you think that they might fold like a seven high poker hand*?

  *I'm not saying most of us wouldn't. Just that the GB have a bunker to hide in, currently protected from persecution by the freedoms afforded them by a government they despise. It must be comforting to know that you are safe from the consequences of rules you impose on others.
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  Rutherford himself as Jesus on the Jordan?

  by Sektenkult in

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  Is the book an actual German edition? If so, how the heck did they get it into Germany (1942, remember?). Or is it an English language edition that happens to be owned by someone who posted about it in German?

  ETA: And why stroke his ego in that way in the same year that he was on his deathbed?
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  JWN staying at the top of Google Search

  by blondie in

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  i noticed awhile ago jw.org was first; now jwn is back being first.

  what determines that?.

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  NotFormer

  It's still number 3 on my tablet's google search. JW.ORGy is still number one.

  I just realised as I was writing this, that my saved search is "Jehovah's Witnesses online"*, so that may have something to do with it. I tried that on Bing on my PC and got page after page of official WT pages. I had to use "Jehovah's Witnesses discussion". At least this is number one when searching that way.

  * Why keep doing it this way? I guess I got used to it 🥴
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  Rutherford himself as Jesus on the Jordan?

  by Sektenkult in

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  Actually no-zombie, your scan showed up a bit better than the first one. It really does look somewhat like Rutherford.

  I wonder if he posed for that image? 😸
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  WT CONVENTION RELEASE LIFE OF JESUS

  by blondie in

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  https://wawa-news.com/index.php/2024/06/14/episode-1-of-jesus-christ-series-set-for-release-at-gfl-memorial-gardens-june-14-16th/ .

  episode 1 of jesus christ series set for release at gfl memorial gardens june 14 – 16th.

  in new south wales, australia, there exist replicas of regions once visited by the most notable prophet who ever lived.

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  "It will bring people in..."

  Really? Film and television as media are dying in their own right. Furiosa and The Fall Guy are reputedly not particularly bad films, but bombed at the cinema. Dr Who and The Acolyte are failing dismally to attract audiences, despite those franchises previously having huge fanbases. Simply making a film or a TV episode is not going to draw crowds.

  "Build it and they will come" isn't working for mainstream media. Why would it work for the JWs?
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  WT CONVENTION RELEASE LIFE OF JESUS

  by blondie in

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  https://wawa-news.com/index.php/2024/06/14/episode-1-of-jesus-christ-series-set-for-release-at-gfl-memorial-gardens-june-14-16th/ .

  episode 1 of jesus christ series set for release at gfl memorial gardens june 14 – 16th.

  in new south wales, australia, there exist replicas of regions once visited by the most notable prophet who ever lived.

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  "Just gotta have a little patience. They’re new at it."

  New at noticing Jesus?😳😱 You got that right!
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  When JW.org drops 607BCE...

  by Nathan Natas in

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  probably everyone else thought of this long ago, but i, being an "independent thunker" thunk of it just a coupla weeks ago.. we all know that since the year zero (on the fredfranzian calendar) the wtb&ts has defied archaeology and insisted that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, even though the physical evidence shows that 587 bce is a more likely date.

  in fact, the book "the gentile times reconsidered: have jehovah's witnesses been wrong all along about 607 bce?

  " by carl olof jonsson and rud persson made this conversation public.. it is a difference of 20 years.

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  NotFormer

  "starting your own nutty sect? you need to work on the head canon a bit more though methinks."

  Yes. If you reject the superstructure, you should also reject its foundations.