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  Is the Daily Text being phased out?

  by Quarterback in

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  what's going on with this?

  the brother taking the group can't mention it.

  it now is tuck away in silence.. do you think that the gb is trying to phase the printing of this book?.

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  "Pilot Project" - Jehovah's Witnesses in Manhattan, with your new host... Robert Warren!

  by cedars in

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  2. friends

  yet another video effort by the society to be apparently pulled off jw.org and given an audience on youtube.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbohitd8goi.

  my observations.... despite obvious attempts to garner praise, the feedback robert gets from passersby is far from glowing.

  at best, it can be described as neutral, with none of those chosen to comment seeming to know anything about jw beliefs.

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  It wouldn't surprize me if they got this idea from the baptists...

  http://olivebaptist.org/Resources/Missions/NYC-2012-August-Trip.pdf
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  Let's Discuss Ray Franz's Books

  by Recovery in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been repeatedly pleaded with to read the books of ray franz in my short stay on this board.

  apparently these are all the all-powerful, wt crushing arguments, that lead so many to leave jw's and become ruthless opposers of god's people.

  we can discuss any claims/statements/scriptural arguments presented in either of his books, as long as it somehow proves jehovah's witnesses are not god's people.

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  Recovery... why are you discussing this subject with known apostates? why are you even a member of this board? Don't you know that this is against Watchtower policy and could lead to your DESTRUCTION in Armageddon?
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  Anthony Morris III publicly admits that he doesn’t enjoy Field Service

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  2pm, january 9, 2010 san juan, puerto rico.... jws from all over the island take turns to use the biggest coliseum in the caribbean (jose miguel agrelot coliseum).

  the big event... a brief 2-hour assembly featuring brooklyn bethel celebrities including anthony morris iii.

  there had been a lot of excitement building up in the days preceding this event as there were rumors circulating that the society had a very special announcement to make.. after 2 ambiguous talks from 2 bethel speakers, anthony morris iii finally takes the stage and everyone is so thrilled to see him up close or on the big screen behind the stage.

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  Afreeman... I was still in (with very little doubts at the time) so I didn't record it... I never recorded anything in my life for that matter... I simply took notes (which I'm very good at)... had I'd known then what I know now, I would have defintely recorded it and uploaded it to YouTube... oh well... it would have been the ultimate classic...
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  Anthony Morris III publicly admits that he doesn’t enjoy Field Service

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  2pm, january 9, 2010 san juan, puerto rico.... jws from all over the island take turns to use the biggest coliseum in the caribbean (jose miguel agrelot coliseum).

  the big event... a brief 2-hour assembly featuring brooklyn bethel celebrities including anthony morris iii.

  there had been a lot of excitement building up in the days preceding this event as there were rumors circulating that the society had a very special announcement to make.. after 2 ambiguous talks from 2 bethel speakers, anthony morris iii finally takes the stage and everyone is so thrilled to see him up close or on the big screen behind the stage.

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  2PM, January 9, 2010 San Juan, Puerto Rico…

  JWs from all over the island take turns to use the biggest coliseum in the Caribbean (Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum). The big event… a brief 2-hour assembly featuring Brooklyn Bethel celebrities including Anthony Morris III. There had been a lot of excitement building up in the days preceding this event as there were rumors circulating that the Society had a very special announcement to make.

  After 2 ambiguous talks from 2 bethel speakers, Anthony Morris III finally takes the stage and everyone is so thrilled to see him up close or on the big screen behind the stage. After a brief introduction, he starts rambling incoherently about faith, field service and slowing down. I could barely understand him. Was he drunk? Who knows? Anyways, about 10 minutes into his talk (when he almost had everyone asleep), he asked this very strange question:

  “Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you enjoy having to get up early every Saturday morning to go to field service?”

  Strangely, less than 1/3 of those in attendance actually raised their hands... of course, all the ass kissers in the first 20 rows raised their hands. Tony’s bizarre response to this weak show of hands was:

  “Well that’s a lot more than I had anticipated. I certainly don’t enjoy getting up early to go to field service. What with all the not-at-homes and sometimes offensive people you run into in the territory, it really takes a lot of faith to endure. But it’s something we all have to do.”

  That’s right, the one person in the entire coliseum who is supposed to enjoy the Saturday morning JW ritual, publicly admitted that he really doesn’t enjoy it. I was there... I heard it loud and clear.

  The funny thing is that the Spanish translator fumbled through his translation which was completely different than what Tony said. But over 90% of the JWs in the audience really didn’t need a translator and everyone immediately started looking at each other in utter disbelief.

  When this ambiguous and brief assembly was over, everyone walked back to their cars asking each other: "What was that all about?" since they all expected a special announcement, a new book or something that would justify renting out the biggest Coliseum in the Caribbean... but it turned out to be more of the same BS.

  Anyways… just thought I’d share my Tony the Terd experience…
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  Governing body member engaged... Again!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.

  it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.

  what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!

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  I'm guessing Geoffrey Jackson wasn't a part of the 2/3 Governing Body that approved the November 15, 2012 Watchtower article on "Singleness"... so much for UNITY in Jehovah's "organization"...
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  A little example of how severely the contributions for the Society are drying up

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just a little tidbit from the congregation i attend..... the congregation has approximately 120 publishers.. well over 1000 magazines per month are picked up, not to mention all the books, brochures, and tracts that are picked up.. there was a "local needs" part on the service meeting recently, asking for more contributions.. it seems our congregation has averaged just about $300 per month contributions to the "worldwide work" over the past year.. .

  assuming 1500 magazines / month, that's just 20 cents per magazine - and that completely ignores all other literature that is picked up.. the last price the magazines had, 20+ years ago, was 25 cents per issue.

  with inflation that would have been about 50 cents each now.. just another sign of how severely the contriutions to the society are drying up..... .

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  If every JW donated just $3 USD per week, the WT would easily clear $1 Billion per year in revenue...

  (7,000,000 JWs X 52 weeks X $3.00 = $1.09 Billion)

  and that's just one source of revenue... add to that their Worldwide Casino Hedge Fund earnings, the Brooklyn fire sale, KH sales, Branch closings, etc... yeah, contributions are NOT what they used be in years passed, but they're still raking in the big bucks... let's not kid ourselves.
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 08-12-2012 WT Study (SHORTLY)

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com.

  http://www.jwsupportforum.com/index.php.

  http://www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com/.

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  You gotta love paragraph 5... it tries to give the impression that 1914 brought about some mystical fulfillment of Bible prophecy regarding the US and the UK... In fact, the WT writer makes a sad attempt to convince readers that the UK and the US formed some kind of special bond in 1914 and jumped into WWI holding hands... But the reality is that the US didn't even get involved in WWI until the war was already in its 3rd year and even then they were not a part of the "Triple Entente" (the alliance between Britain, Russia and France)... in fact, the US didn't really formalize an alliance with the UK until many years AFTER the conclusion of WWI.

  Attention WT writers: Maybe you should put your UN Library Card to good use and do some real research before publsihing such nonsense...
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  Attention Governing Body: October 2, 2014 is only 940 days away...

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in 1823, john aquila brown (a man who is not mentioned in any wt publication) came up with a bizarre mathematical calculation which totalled 2,520 years (in an unauthorized attempt to predict the end of the gentile times).... several religions recycled this bizarre calculation, including the adventists and the bible students... when armageddon didn't come on the variety of early 20th century dates predicted by several "dooms-day" religions of that time (including charles taze russell's bible students who predicted that the big a would start in 1914), they all finally realized that this 2,520-year calculation was nothing more than arbitrary mathematical speculation derived from erratic biblical extrapolation.... except for the bible students who continued to move up the date for armageddon 2 more times (1918, 1925) and then decided to use wwi as the starting point for the "last days".. all the while, one thing that seems to remain intact is the october 2, 1914 date.

  oddly, for the watchtower bible & tract publishing cult, this particular date still marks the end of the 2,520-year period (that john aquila brown referred to in his bizarre 1823 book "the even tide")... again, no mention of this in any watchtower publication.

  but, for jws, that date still remains the starting point for the period of time often referred to as the "last days" or even "the generation that shall not pass".. because of this, the governing body has been forced to change the definition of "the generation that shall not pass" countless times since the early 1970's.

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  David H. Splane

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  david splane is a member of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.. he became a full time minister in september 1963. a graduate of the 42nd class of gilead, the jehovah's witness missionary school, he served as a missionary in senegal, africa, then for 19 years as a travelling overseer in canada.

  he and his wife, linda, have been at bethel (jehovah's witness headquarters) in the united states since 1990, where he has worked in the service and writing departments.

  since 1998, he had been a helper to the writing committee.

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  I hear he likes to dance too.