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  ANNUAL MEETING LETTER - To Zimbabwe congregations

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a nonprofit corporation .

  watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania .

  private bag wg-5001, westgate, zimbabwe telephone 08677 004 012; 0772 472 403/4 .

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  The Fall Guy

  Thanks for the quick response.
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  ANNUAL MEETING LETTER - To Zimbabwe congregations

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a nonprofit corporation .

  watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania .

  private bag wg-5001, westgate, zimbabwe telephone 08677 004 012; 0772 472 403/4 .

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  The Fall Guy

  A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  

  WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  PRIVATE BAG WG-5001, WESTGATE, ZIMBABWE TELEPHONE 08677 004 012; 0772 472 403/4

  October 7, 2017
  

  TO ALL CONGREGATIONS

  Re: Annual Meeting Announcements

  Dear Brothers

  In order to put more emphasis on starting Bible studies and to reduce the amount of material that our brothers must read, the Governing Body recently made a number of exciting decisions. These were announced at the annual meeting of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania held on Saturday, October 7, 2017.

   Beginning January 2018, the public edition of The Watchtower will be published three times a year instead of six times a year. The same will be true for the Awake! For example, the first issue of The Watchtower for 2018 will be distributed during January and February. The first issue of Awake! will be distributed during March and April. Each is-sue will focus on just one main subject that will have broad appeal.

   The number of books, brochures, tracts, contact cards, and videos that will be featured in the field ministry is being reduced. Essential literature items and videos that have proved to be effective in the ministry will remain in our Teaching Toolbox.

   Beginning January 2018, specific monthly literature offers will be discontinued. More emphasis will be placed on starting and continuing conversations. Publishers will be encouraged to use good judgement in deciding which item from the Teaching Toolbox to offer and when. Periodic campaigns to distribute Memorial and convention invitations will continue as in the past.

   If the book What Can the Bible Teach Us?, which is the simplified edition of the Bible Teach book, is available in a particular language, then production of the Bible Teach book will be discontinued. Publishers may decide whether to transition Bible students to the Teach Us book now or to complete the Bible Teach book with the student. Until sup-plies of the Bible Teach book are depleted, publishers should continue to offer it to interested persons who show appreciation for the Bible’s message.

   A simplified edition of the book “Keep Yourselves in God’s Love” is being prepared. The new book will be entitled How to Remain in God’s Love. Once this new book is available in a particular language, production of the “God’s Love” book will be discontinued. Publishers may decide whether to transition Bible students to the new book or to complete the “God’s Love” book with the student.

   Encouraging reports about the activity of Jehovah’s Witnesses in other lands are now provided regularly by means of JW Broadcasting and jw.org. Therefore, the Yearbook will no longer be published. When the worldwide field service report for the 2017 service year becomes available, this information will be published in the “About Us” section of jw.org.

  Re: Annual Meeting Announcements October 7, 2017 Page 2

   The website will continue to publish the features “Activities,” “Bible Questions Answered,” “Frequently Asked Questions,” and “Young People Ask.” In addition, the web-site will regularly publish the features “Help for the Family,” “Imitate Their Faith,” “The Bible Changes Lives,” and “Was It Designed?”
  

   No new content will be added to the following features on jw.org: “Bible Character Cards,” “Family Worship Projects,” “Illustrated Bible Stories,” “My Bible Lessons,” “Picture Activities,” “Study Activities for Children,” study guides for What Does the Bible Really Teach?, Young People Ask worksheets, and the video series What Your Peers Say. However, the existing content will remain for now on jw.org.

  It is hoped that these organizational refinements will help us to focus on our goal of teaching “all those who [are] rightly disposed for everlasting life.”—Acts 13:48.
  

  We send our warm Christian love.

  Your brothers

  c: Circuit overseers

  Convention Committees Re: Annual Meeting Announcements October 7, 2017 Page 3

  PS to bodies of elders:
  

  Please arrange for this letter to be read to the congregation at the conclusion of the next congregation meeting. If the circuit overseer is visiting your congregation, he should read this letter at the conclusion of the meeting. At circuit assemblies and conventions, the letter should be read by the last speaker on the program at the conclusion of his talk. Thereafter, the letter should be posted on the information board. This postscript should neither be read to the congregation nor be posted on the information board.

  Congregations will soon receive their supply of issue No. 1 of the 2018 public edition of The Watchtower. As noted above, each magazine for the public will be distributed for a two-month period. Therefore, we have automatically increased your standing requests for these magazines. The service overseer and magazine coordinator (or magazine servant) should carefully monitor the distribution of magazines and adjust the congregation’s standing request to match actual needs.—See the October 20, 2015, letter to all congregations.

  When the congregation’s supply of Bible Teach books runs out, additional supplies should be re-quested from the branch office until you are notified that the supply is depleted. To make good use of remaining supplies of that book, the service overseer may choose to feature it in the congregation’s public witnessing activity. He may also direct well-qualified publishers to distribute copies of the book to institutions such as libraries, schools, universities, retirement communities, and nursing homes.—See the October 14, 2016, letter to all bodies of elders.
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  The Watchtower's Real Crisis

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when discussing the watchtowers financial problems, i've generally been of the opinion that they probably are not in a real financial crisis.

  i've come to believe that money may be something of an issue, but its wrapped up in a much larger problem.

  this came to me this morning when reading about the annual meeting.. i think the society's leadership is just plain out of ideas.

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  The Fall Guy

  Up until the early 2000's at least, (according to accounts published around that time) the org was raking in far more money in donations than its needed running costs. It was a lucrative money-making machine.

  Why would the mandarins within the WTBTS issue the orders to dismantle their money-making machine? No one can provide recent financial statements to show the org wasn't still receiving excessive contributions.

  Or is it the case that they were ordered to do so, by Wall Street creditors?

  Virtually every single "new adjustment" emanating from Brooklyn/Warwick in recent years has been money-driven. Either to save it or to get it.
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  Can Today's JW Logically Explain Their Beliefs?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was a jw, i relished explaining my beliefs and why we had the truth!

  lol.

  todays witness has no clue , in my opinion..

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  The Fall Guy

  When I was active, I was delighted to have the opportunity to discuss the scriptural teachings I had learned. Ominously, even J.W. elders who put themselves in a public place at a trolley will very quickly end a conversation and refuse to discuss any of the org's scriptural/organizational corruptions. They'll claim it's because they're not prepared to argue or debate.

  As moreconfusedthanever said, they'll terminate the discussion by saying you should visit their God-blessed website for answers.

  Every J.W. who uses this as a get-out-of jail-free-card is flagrantly rejecting the Biblical command for Christians to respectfully defend/explain their beliefs to anyone who demands a reason for such beliefs. (1 Peter 3:15)
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  2017 Annual Meeting

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. social
  2. current

  this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

  1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

  6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

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  The Fall Guy

  C'mon everybody, it's wonderful to see how the great increase is decreasing so quickly now, and fulfilling Isaiah 2:2 "In the final part of the days, The mountain of the house of Jehovah [the org] will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, And it [the org] will be raised up above the hills, And to it [the org] all the nations will stream."

  The charlatans in up-state New York - the WTBTS - are going out of the publishing business at warp-speed, because that cash-cow is suffering from rigor mortis.

  Electronic publications in exchange for electronic donations - that's the new game in Dub-Town.

  Schadenfreude on a Saturday night!
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  I'm starting a Counter-Watchtower magazine

  by Counter-Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  im starting a counter-watchtower magazine for everyone to give to their jw friends and family or just to give to those that come to your door.

  the first issue is about the history of pyramidology of c.t.

  russel and under the start of rutherford along with some other things like pointing out the fact that no one knows the translators of the nwt or writers of the watchtower, "the two very things relied on to teach you".. its writen in such a way to be very repectful but to make the reader think, and hopefully the light come on.

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  The Fall Guy

  Hi COUNTER-WATCHTOWER, welcome.

  I hope you have some success with your venture. Not many people will want to share their email with you due to anonymity reasons, (me included) but the PM facility here will do the job just as well for you.

  You have a PM.
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  U.K. NHS Attitude to Blood Transfusion and its Safety

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  while visiting someone at the local hospital i saw this leaflet " will i need a blood transfusion ?

  - patient information" .

  now i was raised in the belief that doctors are transfusion-happy and just give you one willy nilly if they operate , further that a trans.

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  The NHS site https://www.shotuk.org (Serious Hazards Of Transfusion) once cited various references to failings in blood management and the subsequent consequences.

  By law, U.K. hospital staff must now record every occasion when an instance of I.B.C.T. (incorrect blood component transfused) occurs. Unfortunately, such mistakes happen far more frequently than they should. (human error)

  Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) is very often fatal. (only 5ml of IBCT can result in TRALI)

  If the professionals have serious concerns about blood.........................
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  Just Got Dubbed..

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so there i was earlier today, enjoying a spot of lunch in a pleasant little cafe whilst out shopping, when up came a fella i vaguely recognised from the dim and distant past just as i was tucking into my highland soup with bread roll and butter..

  "i would never ignore you you know".. "eh?

  what" i ventured wondering wtf is this all about.

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  The Fall Guy

  So he wasn't a broth of a boy, then?
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  Jehovah (As Taught By JWs) Offers A Bum Deal

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i thought this during my wake up.

  if you think about it, jehovahs promise for the faithful is actually a bum deal.

  some would even say a con.

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  The Fall Guy

  Jehovahs - to be more exact, the org's promise (and requirements) for the faithful. Corporate diktats.

  Much of what the org tells the faithful is not based on scriptures anyway.
  
  
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  Who goes to heaven?

  by theplains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello,i found this on the jw site.https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/go-to-heaven/it says:"jesus said: "no man has ascended into heaven.

  (john 3:13) he thus showedthat good people who died before him, such as abraham, moses, job, and david,did not go to heaven.

  (acts 2:29, 34).

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  The Fall Guy

  Aren't there scriptures which say the righteous will inherit the earth, and live forever upon it?

  No heaven for the righteous, then.