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  Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

  by Simon in

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  2. friends

  (the david bowie song in case you're wondering).

  there seems to be a lot of talk and speculation about the changes that are coming at the next district conventions.

  there have certainly been quite a few articles and talks (esp.

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  TheOldHippie

  Changes will NOT come at district/regional conventions. If they did, some would receive the news before others, and the South Americans would have to wait half a year to get it because their conventions are held is what is Winter on the Northern half. Changes come either at the annual meeting or in the study WT - or on the tv channel.
  
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  Andromeda awaits the "Great Crowd of Other Sheep"

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the great crowd, the other sheep will live forever on planet earth.. years will move from centuries, millennia, and millions of years to billions of years.

  after 4 billion years, the sky will fill as their milky way galaxy and its neighbouring andomeda galaxy collide, with amazing changes in gravitational forces.

  what an amazing sight!.

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  Move on to another galaxy, to another planet, colonise it. And perhaps some day it will be clear that we will be transformed to spiritual beings. Or perhaps we can explore the other possible Universes, the parallell ones that perhaps exist. There are endless possibilities in an endless future, my friend. In an endless Universe, everything than CAN happen, WILL happen.
  
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  DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

  by cantleave in

  1. social
  2. current

  an incredible lecture that uses statistics to show that the world is much better than many people think.. the challenge of population explosion - has been solved.. the challenge of extreme poverty is within our grasp.. the challenge of climate change - well that's something we need to focus on,,,,,,,,, take an hour watch this, it dispels the doom and gloom preached by many.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fack2knc08e.

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  TheOldHippie

  splash, "Living standards increasing all over the world"

  .... and especially so in Syria, Iraq, Northern Nigeria and other vast areas under IS attack ...........
  
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  77-year-old Jehovah's Witness murdered by her bible study.(Japan)

  by jwstudy in

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  2. scandals

  19-year-old girl arrested for killing 77-year-old woman in nagoya.

  crime jan. 28, 2015 - 03:00pm jst .

  nagoya .

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  smitty, "Knowing also how Jehovah Witnesses reason , sadly to say they may be thinking , she had a hidden sin that was uncovered and Jehovah punished her .Their was a reason he did not  protect her."

  Shame on you, shame on you.
  
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  No such thing as history

  by woodforde in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why do you think it is that wts limit accessibility to watchtowers and awakes to only issues since year 2000 on jworg?

  a whiff of something slightly orwellian?

  not a case of re-writing history but nixing it altogether?

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  TheOldHippie

  They are all there, on the CD-Rom. I am surprised at how much IS published on the .org, such as KM, study WTs etc.
  
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  Saturday morning JW knock knock

  by FirstLastName in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was home on saturday morning, around 10:30 a.m. when i heard my doorbell ring.

  i checked my security monitor and could see two jw women at my door.

  i breathed in deeply.my husband works a graveyard shift and was sleeping.

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  It is a bit strange that ALL door-to-door JWs than are mentioned here, are like these, "Two women were there, the one that was holding the magazines was very nervous. Her voice quivered and as she spoke to me she showed me a page in the Watchtower and read a quote." They are always very nervous, have nothing to say, and just push magazines. Strange. Very different from the ones I encounter. But then maybe your stories are a bit "coloured"?
  
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  Asking for confirmation: Bethel factory in Germany

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in january 2015 my devout and longtime 'in the truth' jw relatives (50+ years) went to the german bethel factory in selters.

  they were shocked seeing an near empty factory floor and were told that some printing presses supposedly have been sold to 'worldy' companies.i got to hear the stunning admission out of their mouths: "we left with the impression they are closing up shop".just whoa!

  to me it sounds like a firesale - "because everything must go" (die hard iv).. has anyone else seen the factory in that condition?

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  DEFINITELY an overrated personal opinion. The German plants are printing like never before. Must have been either the oldest equipment having been sold, or some specific, fringe-like equipment. Friends of mine were there a few months ago and told me it was business and man power like never before.
  
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  Recent recollections from the regional convention.

  by ulises225 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  short story long, i've been out for 6 months now, my family are studying with the witnesses and they believe that is the true path but sided with me when i was disfellowshipped, they made it very clear they were not going to shun me and now i'm taking steps to make them realize what this religion really is about, meanwhile, it made my mother happy to know i went to the regional convention in a city where i don't know any witnesses which made it easier for me, anyways.. during one of the talks one of the speakers mentioned that convention where rutherford changed the name of "bible students" to that of jehovah's witnesses, and he said that the even was broadcasted worldwide through the radio, none of this is news, however he said that at that hour of the day when the announcement was given, witnesses in japan were trying to get the radio signal fixed so they could hear the talks given by rutherford, basically he said they failed to fix the radio signal but "miraculously" the signal was ok during the announcement so witnesses in japan got to hear the announcement, broke in tears and then the signal was gone again.. now that i know how the organization conducts itself i know this story is pure nonsense but if we examine this and please correct me if i'm wrong the data given by the speaker proves the story to be false by itself.

  first i remember that it wasn't until knorr sent missionaries to japan that witnesses began to appear in japan, i remember a video where lloyd barry speaks of missionaries arriving to japan in the 40's and he said there were only a handful of witnesses whereas the speaker at the convention mentions "how many brothers in japan gathered to hear the radio broadcast by rutherford" second, the speaker is part of the branch committee in mexico so he ought to know that what he was saying was not true at all.. anyways this is my first post.

  i will try to do this regularly, and if someone is from mexico i'm up to meet anyone.

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  TheOldHippie

  Ever heard about this trifle called "World War II"? Almost all Japanese JWs went passive, and among those still being active a lot left, so if you had bothered to read the YB on japan, you would have found the answer to your huge puzzle.
  
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  Excusing the JW Child Abuse Scandals.

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my question is prompted by a post of terry's on his own thread about a parable for jw's.

  in that post terry shows how the standard jw response to any report of sex abuse within the borg is to use the "no true scotsman" fallacy.. i.e "he was not a real jw".. my question is for some time in the future, when the true, horrendous, extent of abuse within the borg is public knowledge, and the cognitive dissonance grows for jw's about this being endemic in "god's organization" for so long, how will they excuse it, or explain it, then ?.

  how will they push away the obvious conclusion that jehovah must have approved of this going on, or he would have rectified it, not left it to the courts to pick up the broken pieces years later ?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Yes it does, Africaman, and that is acknowledged by the WT.
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  Abuse among JWs once again highlighted on national TV / Norway

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the major commercial tv network in norway, has once again highlighted abuse within religious communities.

  the only group not willing to reveal any information on abuse cases is jehovahs witnesses.

  this case is highlighted very prominently on their web site today and will most likely be on their evening news tonight (i reckon).. http://www.tv2.no/2014/12/01/nyheter/overgrep/6261340.

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  TheOldHippie

  And the articles make clear that the abuse cases they refer to, took place many years ago. And between the lines claim that JWs must profess it to the elders if they felt "lust" during intercourse with their spouse ......................................