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  Hello

  by John Doe in

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  i used to post on this site years ago.

  then, my login quit working.

  haven't been here in a long time.

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  slimboyfat

  Are you still taking questions?

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/192601/stump-expert?page=1&size=20
  
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  Ever-changing teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses - probably the most comprehensive compendium about Watchtower doctrinal changes

  by WTS Archive in

  1. watchtower
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  two days ago a new book was released for download, called "ever-changing teachings of jehovah's witnesses".

  it was originally written by a polish jw scholar (who never was a jw himself) włodzimierz bednarski, with a help from szymon matusiak, who was a jw and an elder, and is a result of years of labourious work to compile quotes regarding every single doctrine the book describes.

  it covers the most important changes in years 1879—2015.

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  slimboyfat

  See also pages 31 and 32 of The Divine Plan of the Ages.

  http://www.ctrussell.us/ctrussell/ctrussell.nsf

  One theory regarding the creation (excepting man) by a process of evolution, to which we see no serious objection, we briefly state as follows: It assumes that the various species of the present are fixed and unchangeable so far as nature or kind is concerned, and though present natures may be developed to a much higher standard, even to perfection, these species or natures will forever be the same. This theory further assumes that none of these fixed species were originally created so, but that in the remote past they were developed from the earth, and by gradual processes of evolution from one form to another. These evolutions, under divinely established laws, in which changes of food and climate played an important part, may have continued until the fixed species, as at present seen, were established, beyond which change is impossible, the ultimate purpose of the Creator in this respect, to all appearance, having been reached. Though each of the various families of plants and animals is capable of improvement or of degradation, none of them is susceptible of change into, nor can they be produced from, other families or kinds. Though each of these may attain to the perfection of its own fixed nature, the Creator's design as to nature having been attained, further change in this respect is impossible.
  It is claimed that the original plants and animals, from which present fixed varieties came, became extinct before the creation of man. Skeletons and fossils of animals and plants which do not now exist, found deep below the earth's surface, favor this theory. This view neither ignores nor rejects the Bible teaching that man was a direct and perfect creation, made in the mental and moral image of his Maker, and not a development by a process of evolution, probably common to the remainder of creation. This view would in no sense invalidate, but would support, the Bible's claim, that nature as it is today teaches that an Intelligent Being ordered it, and was its first cause. Let human reason do her best to trace known facts to reasonable and competent causes, giving due credit to nature's laws in every case; but back of all the intricate machinery of nature is the hand of its great Author, the intelligent, omnipotent God.
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  Ever-changing teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses - probably the most comprehensive compendium about Watchtower doctrinal changes

  by WTS Archive in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  two days ago a new book was released for download, called "ever-changing teachings of jehovah's witnesses".

  it was originally written by a polish jw scholar (who never was a jw himself) włodzimierz bednarski, with a help from szymon matusiak, who was a jw and an elder, and is a result of years of labourious work to compile quotes regarding every single doctrine the book describes.

  it covers the most important changes in years 1879—2015.

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  slimboyfat

  See page 6 of The Photodrama of Creation for example, under the heading "The Fifth Day or Epoch".

  http://www.strictlygenteel.co.uk/photodrama/1914_Photodramascenario.pdf
  
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  Ever-changing teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses - probably the most comprehensive compendium about Watchtower doctrinal changes

  by WTS Archive in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  two days ago a new book was released for download, called "ever-changing teachings of jehovah's witnesses".

  it was originally written by a polish jw scholar (who never was a jw himself) włodzimierz bednarski, with a help from szymon matusiak, who was a jw and an elder, and is a result of years of labourious work to compile quotes regarding every single doctrine the book describes.

  it covers the most important changes in years 1879—2015.

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  slimboyfat

  Disappointed it doesn't seem to document changes in view about evolution. But it looks very informative.
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  Why a drop of over 3,700 publishers in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

  by freddo in

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  looking at the figures for 2014 to 2015 the numbers have dropped from 180,343 to 176,585.. any idea why?.

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  slimboyfat

  Steve! Have you ever been to the Congo? Has anyone? I've never been to the Congo.
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  Question about 1940s Watchtower history

  by slimboyfat in

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  i was studying this fascinating composite graph of jw growth.

  lots of interesting things there.

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/demographics_of_jehovah%27s_witnesses#/media/file%3ajwstats1931-2015.png.

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  slimboyfat

  Rutherford can't have written Let God Be True since he died in 1942.

  But you raise an interesting point about the cut off for the anointed being moved from 1931 to 1935. I've never gotten to the bottom of why that changed or what the reason for either date really was.

  Some have pointed out that if they accepted mainstream Bible Chronology and Jerusalem fell 20 years later then they could say the Gentile Times ended in 1935. But since they've abandoned that date now there's no reason to fit it there. And even a "generation" from 1935 is now a bit of a stretch.
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  Why a drop of over 3,700 publishers in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

  by freddo in

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  looking at the figures for 2014 to 2015 the numbers have dropped from 180,343 to 176,585.. any idea why?.

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  slimboyfat

  It's the average figure so that doesn't explain it.

  I was going to suggest that the population of the country may have dropped at the same time (as has happened in some Eastern European countries) but quite the reverse, so that's no explanation. Between 2014 and 2015 the population of Congo jumped by almost 8 million from 69 million to 77 million. The jump in population, combined with the drop in JW numbers, meant that the population to JW ratio climbed from 321 to 375. That's a huge change for a single year.

  Maybe there was a mass defection or a rival religious group has been formed. It has been known to happen in Africa before.
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  Why a drop of over 3,700 publishers in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

  by freddo in

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  looking at the figures for 2014 to 2015 the numbers have dropped from 180,343 to 176,585.. any idea why?.

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  slimboyfat

  Is this a peak number of average number? Really lazy not to check myself I know.

  Because if it's the peak number it could be abnormally high or low because secretaries sometimes double count lots of publishers who submitted double reports in August, a common practice that has been discussed many times on the forum.
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  Wild speculation / fearless prediction: how to (continue to) ratchet up the flock's fear

  by sir82 in

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  i've been thinking: what with all the bunker videos at the rc, instilling fear and paranoia and excitement among the masses, what could the gb do as a follow-up?

  how do they feed the flame?.

  how about identifying the "king of the north"?.

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  slimboyfat

  Would be a wreckless provocation endangering hundreds of thousands of JWs in Russia.

  Yeah they might do it.
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  Now this is weird, ever heard of the "Mandela Effect" ??? What if... ?

  by Greybeard in

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  now this is weird, ever heard of the "mandela effect" ???

  i know how crazy it sounds but i got to tell you, this article about the governing body finally admitting the "faithful slave" was not divinely appointed by jesus in 1919 was epic to me.

  like a mandela effect feeling.

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  slimboyfat

  This Mandela effect is freaking me out!

  There's NO WAY Kit-Kat doesn't have a hyphen. Something seriously wrong has happened to this universe at some point: CERN or what I don't know what. Thanks for alerting us.