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  If you're "anointed" don't seek out other "anointed" so says the Watchtower January 2020

  by RolRod in

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  when i was affiliated with the witnesses, there were barely 6,000 who profess to be of the anointed remnant.

  i recently read somewhere that today there are over 20,000 who profess to be anointed.

  that figure may be more when you consider those who meet and partake privately for fear of the stigma of claiming to be anointed.

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  JWs meeting -- and talking independently -- in small groups -- is anathema to a paranoid Governing Body; it's probably the real reason they dismantled the old midweek Book Studies in private homes.

  When he introduced the so-called "new Light" in 2013 limiting the FDS to just the Governing Body, Splane hinted that it would hopefully end the nuisance of having to deal with letters from the field submitted by the (newly demoted) individual anointed JWs, writing in to offer their independent "revelations" or "New Light" suggestions, etc. "Thanks but no thanks" was his implicit message.
  
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  Wt. April 2020 Revised Joel Prophecy

  by BluesBrother in

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  2. bible

  if this has been posted before, then my apologies..... article in april ‘20 wt changes the view of the locust swarm prophecy...formerly believed to describe the worldwide preaching by anointed.

  ”simply put, these verses refer, not to our zealous preaching work, but to the activity of the babylonian army that invaded jerusalem in 607 b.c.e.”.

  they also tie in the giving of holy spirit to the congregation at pentecost and thereafter.. the article is available to read in full on our least favourite website.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-april-2020/an-attack-coming-from-the-north/.

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  Another of David Splane's brain farts.....
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  3 New Letters Arrived!--2019-December!

  by Atlantis in

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  2019 december brd newsletter.

  https://docdro.id/odvxhqr.

  2019-s-1-e-congregation field service and meeting attendance report.

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  Very interesting. It's been some time since they've abandoned the focus on information to the general public in their Sunday talk subjects in favor of "reaching to the choir."

  Tme was when we speakers were counseled not to lace our public talk with esoteric JW jargon ("theospeak") that would not be understood by the uninitiated.
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  2034 - A Future History of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by slimboyfat in

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  i don't know what i am talking about... read this post at your peril.

  back in the 1960s there was, seemingly, a brief period of relaxation in authoritarianism among jehovah's witnesses.

  those who have read raymond franz's 'crisis of conscience' will have heard the story about dan sydlik's remark about the need to 'open some windows to let some air in here'.

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  slimboyfat - "...some new 'prophet' will need to come forward from among them! A replacement for Freddy is still awaited..."

  Pseudo-sophist David Splane is currently trying on Freddie's mantle for size. He's the architect of the "Overlapping Genrations" fiasco and the 2013 demotion of all the anointed from being included as comprising the "Faithful and Discreet" slave....it's no longer a FDS "class" or a "John class" just the 8 teletubbies in Sterling Forest (Warwick). .
  
  
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  10 Year Growth Chart

  by HiddenPimo in

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  here are some visuals to help show what is going on with the jw numbers game.

  i am not a numbers guy and there maybe a few errors (info directly from grand total pages on jw.borg).

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  Demographic stagnation, or losses, in wealthy, Internet-accessible countries are being offset by increasing in poor nations, which works out to an unsustainable business model....
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  Set ptermber AT study article: "Armaggedon Is Good News!

  by Room 215 in

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  omg, is this the apotheosis of bat-shit craziness or not?

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  Yep, sir82; distilled to its essence, it's "Join Us or Die!"
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  FOOD FOR THOUGHT November 3, 2019 WT Study Article (September 2019) JAH VALUES HUMBLE SERVANTS

  by blondie in

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  blondie’s food for thought, 11/03/2019 wt study article, jah values humble servants, september 2019. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-september-2019/jehovah-values-his-humble-servants/.

  opening comments/food for thought.

  i first asked myself, why does the wts sometimes use the word “servant” then “slave”?

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  Yes, that paragraph 15 caps a theme carried over from the previous WT, a campaign to tamp down the resentment of being booted out of Bethel, reassigned, or removed from one's position and complaining about it.
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  Set ptermber AT study article: "Armaggedon Is Good News!

  by Room 215 in

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  omg, is this the apotheosis of bat-shit craziness or not?

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  Sorry about the mangled headline... I must admit that I never fully bought into the literal belief of global genocide, and used to argue that all of that "blood up to the horse's brible was "symbolic imagery."
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  Set ptermber AT study article: "Armaggedon Is Good News!

  by Room 215 in

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  omg, is this the apotheosis of bat-shit craziness or not?

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  OMG, is this the apotheosis of bat-shit craziness or not?
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  January 2020 Watchtower - the anointed

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it's very odd that the jan. 2020 watchtower was nearly 3 weeks later than normal.

  another odd thing about this watchtower is that it has two articles (about the anointed) that is very similar to two articles they wrote only four years earlier.the fact that they have even reprinted two articles that are only four years old suggests that they continue to have numerous problems surrounding their teaching's of the anointed and problems with those claiming to be anointed.here are a few of the differences between both the 2016 and 2020 articles -2016 watchtower states.

  anointed christians need to be taught by jehovah just like everyone else.. 2020 watchtower statesof course, anointed christians need to be taught by jehovah through the congregation just like everyone else.. four years ago, they acknowledged that it was only jehovah who were teaching the anointed but the newest watchtower now states that it is through the congregation.watchtower 2016 states there will be 144,000 ruling with jesus in heaven.

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  Why is it that this conjures a mental image of a bunch of old codgers bumbling about in a nursing home dining room when the lights go out?