The Puerto Rico Branch will close next month...
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List of Branch Offices and Country Offices of Jehovah's Witnesses
by cedars ini'm trying to put together a comprehensive master list of watch tower society branch offices that corresponds roughly with the figure published in the worldwide report.. i feel it would be useful to monitor the number and location of existing branch offices, because i believe the distribution of branch offices worldwide is a good indicator of the society's financial wellbeing.
we now seem to be entering a period of branch office closures, with last year seeing an unprecendented 16% reduction in branch office numbers over the year before.
it will be interesting to see how things develop moving forward, but i'm hoping that by keeping a list of the offices we will be better placed to keep track of the "retreat" if branch office numbers continue to dwindle.. here we go.... .
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Special Assembly in Puerto Rico Coliseum to annouce Branch Closure
by Calebs Airplane inso, 2 weekends ago, my wife is showing an apartment to a potential buyer in the financial district of san juan and walks the buyer over to the balcony to show her the awesome views.
the buyer looks down at a crowd approaching puerto rico coliseum (aka jose miguel agrelot coliseum) and asked my wife: "are those jehovah's witnesses?
" my wife looks down from 19 stories up, notices the "pioneer pace" of the crowd and says: "yes.
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So, 2 weekends ago, my wife is showing an apartment to a potential buyer in the financial district of San Juan and walks the buyer over to the balcony to show her the awesome views. The buyer looks down at a crowd approaching Puerto Rico Coliseum (aka Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum) and asked my wife: "Are those Jehovah's Witnesses?" My wife looks down from 19 stories up, notices the "pioneer pace" of the crowd and says: "Yes. But they only use the coliseum a few times a year." The buyer responds: "Thank God".
Anyway, cutting to the chase... my wife called me after the buyer signs the contract and asks me if I knew what was going on in the coliseum since she can see J-Dubs all over the place (from 19 stories up). She also mentioned that the assembly appears to be less than 2 hours long and she'd already seen 2 crowds so far with a possible 3rd crowd starting to arrive. My wife and I have been out for several years and I had no idea what this was about so, later that day, I called my co-worker who is starting to fade (thanks to me). He tells me that the main purpose of the 1 hour 45 min program was to have have a few Brooklyn bethelites announce the closure of the Puerto Rico Branch. They threw in the Watchtower rag study for good measure and a talk.
While the Brooklyn bethel guys talked about the closure of the Puerto Rico Branch, they also mentioned that the big guys (Parkin and Truman) will be sent to Brooklyn bethel for whatever few years of life they have left (so much for life in a tropical paradise). So the English-to-Spanish Watchtower magazine translating department (the one that changed Steve hit Selma to Steve got furious with Selma) will obviously be closed down and the translation for the Watchtower rag will now be done in Spain.
What I want to know is this... Is it a NEW thing to rent entire coliseums just to announce the closure of a branch? I've never heard of this... please do tell...
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Former Elder Michael J Norris IN CUSTODY
by Tylinbrando infbi and santa barbara agents arrested michael at the airport.
he is locked up in santa barbara county jail.
he awaits bail hearing and i intend on presenting evidence to revoke his $250,000.00 bail.. thanks to everyone for your encouragement and support!.
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Calebs Airplane
I see... I guess he's arrogant as well...
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I am totally confoused who is the Faithful and Discreet Slave Class?
by booker-t ini have been hearing and reading on websites about some "new light" jws are saying concerning the faithful and discreet slave class.
it sounds like the same information they have been saying for years.
i was always taught the faithful and discreet slave class is the annoited governing body members dispensing food at the proper time for the non annoited jws.
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Who really is the Faithful and Wise Servant?
That's easy... 8 dudes in Brooklyn, NY:
- Mark Sanderson
Anthony Morris III
Stephen Lett
Gerrit Losch
Samuel Herd
Geoffrey Jackson
Guy Pierce
David Splane
see illustration on page 29 of the April 15, 2013 Watchtower magazine booklet.
- Mark Sanderson
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WT Society, Travel agency? Latest money making scheme?
by dropoffyourkeylee inrecently there was quite a buzz at the local hall of people applying to be a specially approved candidate to attend an international convention overseas.
one person i knew applied to go to the assembly next year in south africa.
she was elated to find she and her daughter-in-law were accepted for the south africa site.
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Calebs Airplane
You too can feel special for only $10,000... (meals not included... oh, and please remember to use only one sheet of toilet paper when using the lavatories at the assembly)
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John Aquila Brown ?
by eva luna ini was wondering if anyone has a pdf of the book,.
'the even tide' by.
john aquila brown.. it is out of print it seems.
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Calebs Airplane
John Aquila Brown is the man who started it all (50 years before Russell started the Bible Students)... Brown came up with a theory on the length of the Gentile Times (360 X 7 = 2,520 years)... Russell then ran with it 50 years later and gave it a starting point of 606 B.C... But the WT has managed to keep this quiet (except for a very brief mention in the Proclaimer's book which they know that no one will actually read)...
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WT Flip-Flops on JesusÂ’ InspectionÂ… Was it in 1918 or 1919?... Did the WT PASS or FAIL?
by Alfred inthis is utterly ridiculous.... .
the more i research this particular subject, the more flip-flops i uncover.
it seems the fds cant even make up their minds regarding what happened in 1918 (or should i say 1919?).
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I guess the final verdict is that the year was 1918 and that they PASSED inspection ???
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I ran into an active JW...surprised
by nolongerconfused inso as you all know, i have fully faded...i'm completely out and have not told the elders or da myself...just faded 100%.... so i run into an active jw, different congregation, and as i walk past him i say, "hey so and so, how are you doing?
"....he looks down, doesnt dare look at me in the eyeball and keeps walking...then a split second later he turns around and says, hey man, aren't yuo disfellowshipped?....
i was like wtf?...lol, i said "not that i know of"...i asked him who told him such thing?...he wouldnt tell me who, but he had "heard"...so i just left it at that and told him if he wants to know then to contact my ex-elders.... my thing is, could the elders have df'ed me without me knowing it?...i have not been accused of their so called "apostasy", nor have i received a letter requesting info or to set up a meeting, nor a call...the coordinating elder (formally president/presiding overseer) still texts me all the time saying hi etc...no religious texts or anything like that).
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The term: To disfellowship in spanish congregations...
by suavojr inin the english congregations they used to announce that brother x has been disfellowshipped.
but in the spanish congregations the announcement was made using the word expulsado (spanish)= expel in english.
when i look up the word disfellowship, this is what i found:.
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Aside from the WT's hang-up with the word "excomunicar" used in some worldy religions, I think the main issue that the WT has had with translating the word "Disfellowship" into Spanish is that (in many regions in South America) it is actually translated "Desasociado" which translates back into English as "Disassociated"...
So DF'd would actually be the same as DA'd by dictionary definition in many regions... For obvious reasons, they needed to come up with a word that wouldn't come back as DA'd... hence, the word "Expulsado"...
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Watchtower Cult Shuts Down Websites To Coverup Pedophilia Letters
by Bangalore inwatchtower cult shuts down websites to coverup pedophilia letters.. http://www.cyberwarzone.com/watchtower-cult-shuts-down-websites-coverup-pedophilia-letters.
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bangalore.
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Calebs Airplane
Change Name...
I don't think you'll find too much disagreement with what you've stated about replacing older instructions with updated instructions. However, if the primary purpose is to hide the way things have been done before a particular statute of limitations expires, then that's extremely dishonest and sinister...
Many of us on this board possess physical evidence that clearly proves that the Watchtower Corporation has been guilty about repeatedly lying and covering up its dark past. One of the ways they've been to successfully do that is by sending BOE letters instructing them to destroy or discard certain literature or older letters.
By doing that, they have been able to misrepresent what they actually predicted would happen in 1914... also, they've been able to successfully deny that they have never claimed to be inspired (when they actually did), and they've been able to hide all of their ridiculous teachings, flip-flops and false predictions about Armageddon. All of this has been possible thanks to these BOEs that have essentially instructed elders worldwide to grab shovels and bury the past...
just saying...
CA...