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Annual Meeting live updates
by ukpimo in
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i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.
ukpimo

Some points from the annual meeting:
President: Gage Fleegle
Symposium by GB
Our Privilege to Glorify Jehovah - Gerrit Lösch
New kid video “Become Jehovah’s Friend - The Greatest Act of Love”
Gerrit Lӧsch announced that two additional brothers have been appointed to serve as members of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Brothers Jody Jedele and Jacob Rumph.
Opportunities to Glorify Jehovah in Bethel and Theocratic construction - Jeff Winder
GB has decided to lower the minimum age required to join Bethel from 19 to 18.
Opportunity to glorify Jehovah in the field - Mark Sanderson
Minimum age to participate in the kingdom evangelizers school has increased from 23 to 21
Don’t be surprised by sudden changes - Jeffrey Jackson
Video with a retrospective of teaching updates since 2021
Change of understanding: The destruction of Babylon the Great will be all countries willingly giving their power over to the united nations to destroy it.
Those who can post the names of the speeches in the comments and a brief transcript will be helpful. I will gradually add them to the main text of this thread.
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Annual Meeting live updates
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.
ukpimo

I have always speculated that the mods on exjw reddit are half exjw and half pimo (ie. Actually pimi pretending to be pimo, there are plenty of those about).
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Annual Meeting live updates
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.
ukpimo

They won't change the link. They never do. Rest assured they will only bother taking "action" if the whole video is copied and posted on YouTube. Other than that, they can't stop anyone from abusing the link as they may see it.
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Annual Meeting live updates
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.
ukpimo

TonusOH
Sometimes I wonder if the GB want exjws to watch these events so that they can respond in "theocratic warfare".
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Annual Meeting live updates
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.
ukpimo

slimboyfat
Yes, anyone can watch. And yes we are entering a back door.
This link was leaked publicly on reddit a few hours ago, but it has been leaked via dms on reddit for a few days now. If Watchtower was that eager to change the link they would have done it by now. Then again, I doubt they would drastically change things before the annual meeting. Likely there will be a witch hunt for the leaker after the event.
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Annual Meeting live updates
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.
ukpimo

I have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:
Annual Meeting Live Link
The meeting will begin at 9:45am Eastern Time, for those of us in the UK, that will be 2:45pm.
Please be ready to post any live updates on this thread for tomorrow.
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WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...
by careful in
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2. beliefs
... is just three weeks from this saturday.

the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.
ukpimo

I will create a new thread.
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October Elder's Letter Delayed- Big Announcement at Annual Meeting
by Newly Enlightened in
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https://youtu.be/93h5zpbil6k?si=ffatfxjuxmj_na9i.
ukpimo

It is all speculation. We will find out for certain tomorrow. It doesn't appear likely the meetings will "slim down" as the first 2025 midweek meeting workbook has been released with no apparent changes. Lessons we can learn from the Bible will be the next CBS book middle of next year.
The only apparent change we can see thus far is that on the jw.org servers Sing Out Joyfully will extend the number of songs to 200 (it says songs 1 to 200), which is ironic because the whole point of the first revised songbook in 2009 was to avoid having too many songs to sing. The brown book Sing Praises to Jehovah had many songs I never got to practice or even learn.
Other than this, the rest remains to be seen.
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WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...
by careful in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
... is just three weeks from this saturday.

the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.
ukpimo

The Governing Body will definitely reel out a new Revelation book. Seeing how the organization is going now with editing and revising books digitally, I reckon it will be their last Revelation book.
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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting
by slimboyfat in
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say it ain’t so!

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in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?
ukpimo

My prediction is that it will refer to the "sealed" Jewish Christians from the first and second centuries, including some gentiles, as it appears to indicate resurrection. Whereas the Great Crowd is depicted in terms of survival, coming out of a great tribulation, which would involve anyone confessing faith in Christ whose destiny is Paradise on earth.