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  Message from Designer Stubble to the former JWR members

  by Designer Stubble in

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  message from designer stubble to the former jwr members.

  first of all i am glad to see that many of you have found your way to this great forum, facilitated by simon.

  i am sure that after the dust of the jwr shutdown has settled, you will find this to be a good new home.. i would like to apologize for the sudden closure of jwr.

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  slimboyfat

  I never read the forum at all. Did anyone ever write anything on the site that was worth keeping? Those who ran the site apparently didn't think so.
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  Aid to Bible Understanding - can you help summarise any useful sections?

  by Fernando in

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  randall watters presents the fascinating backstory of the "aid book", and the brouhaha surrounding it, in this article:.

  "the watchtower bible and tract society: the critical years 1975-1997".

  so far it seems the project to research and write the "aid to bible understanding" revealed serious doctrinal and institutional flaws that the gb wanted to preserve nonetheless.. it seems what ray franz and his team were learning, and were largely blocked from presenting:.

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  slimboyfat

  It's also interesting to note what they left out of the Aid/Insight books. In particular they left out many of the speculative interpretations of Daniel and Revelation and the type/anti-type interpretations. A tacit admission even then, that most of this stuff would likely be scrapped at some point, so was better left out of their version of a Bible Encyclopedia if it was to have any longevity.

  Come to think on it, and without checking, I don't think there are entries for "this generation" or the UN as the "scarlet-coloured beast" either. They probably knew they'd have to revise the first, and didn't want to promote the latter in such a formal statement of doctrine.

  Also absent is any discussion of disfellowshipping or congregation discipline, which they claim is completely Bible based. If it's Bible based then why not discussed using Bible terms in a Bible dictionary?

  I should have checked before making these points but I think they're correct.
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  Which Governing body member will die next?? Will things change?

  by Witness 007 in

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  i will review this post when it happens so.....prophecy time!

  who will guess correct!

  my $50 is on theodore jarc born in 1925?

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  slimboyfat

  The launch pad was the name for a cemetery where prominent (anointed) bethelites were buried in New York?
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  Aid to Bible Understanding - can you help summarise any useful sections?

  by Fernando in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  randall watters presents the fascinating backstory of the "aid book", and the brouhaha surrounding it, in this article:.

  "the watchtower bible and tract society: the critical years 1975-1997".

  so far it seems the project to research and write the "aid to bible understanding" revealed serious doctrinal and institutional flaws that the gb wanted to preserve nonetheless.. it seems what ray franz and his team were learning, and were largely blocked from presenting:.

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  slimboyfat

  I think the major thing that arose from the Aid book research was the replacement of the congregation overseer with the new elder arrangement in the congregations, and the replacement of the presidency with the governing body as the centre of power in the organisation as a whole.
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  Which Governing body member will die next?? Will things change?

  by Witness 007 in

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  i will review this post when it happens so.....prophecy time!

  who will guess correct!

  my $50 is on theodore jarc born in 1925?

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  slimboyfat

  When I saw the thread title I thought to myself that's a bit crass I wonder who is involved in this discussion. And I open the thread and there is me, ha!
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  When was the first annual report first issued?

  by no-zombie in

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  the earliest wt annual service report i've found was in the january 1, 1948 issue for the 1947 service year.

  was this the first annual report?

  or where there earlier ones in other publications?.

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  slimboyfat

  Good question, worth investigating. There were various kinds of statistics in different forms in the Yearbook right back to the first one in 1927 I think.
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  How long does it take to get a response from the branch office?

  by Homer notsimpson in

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  does any one have any experience with writing to the branch office?

  i know they're busy, but while reading through the shepherd textbook, it says to write to them quite a few times.

  so if a body of elders write to the branch office, whats the usual wait time for a response?

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  slimboyfat

  Depends what you're asking:

  How can I donate my life savings to the worldwide work? Instantaneous

  have you noticed that the 1914 chronology doesn't work for this or that reason? Somewhere between six months and never.
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  the 2013 NWT in Dutch ---- when ??

  by menrov in

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  we are almost in 2017 and some 3 to 4 years have passed since the release of the 2013 revised nwt.

  also, i am supposed to believe much money has been spent on rto's.

  and as the end is even closer, i should have access to the "best translation ever" in my own language...how else can i be saved???.

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  slimboyfat

  When was the last Dutch revised version? Some languages apparently incorporated some of the NWT 2013 revisions before the new English version came out.
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  SCOTLAND: Livingston Kingdom Hall

  by darkspilver in

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  i think this deserves it's own thread, so as not to get mixed-up tl;dr - go to the bar charts at the end...picking up on jambon1's comments:.

  the one in the op - livingston, was a merge to the newly built assembly hall in the same area.

  i think three congs share that building now.. nice wee scoop up of the cash from the sale of livingston and whitburn.

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  slimboyfat

  I've been to that assembly hall, it's been there a few years now. Very basic, quite small, like an oversized KH, in the middle of nowhere.

  It means congregations in Scotland no longer use public town halls for assemblies, which they had done for over a century. At least town halls had character, and were located in the centre of towns. Just one more "simplification" that makes the JW existence even more bland and unappealing.
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  2017 Yearbook - Still Waiting

  by berrygerry in

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  https://www.dropbox.com/s/t06777k65p11e53/20160521e.pdf?dl=0.

  may 21, 2016. we are pleased to inform you that electronic versions of the annual items for 2017 will be made available for download on jw.org beginning in october of this year.

  this includes examining the scriptures daily—2017 and the 2017 yearbook of jehovah’s witnesses.

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  slimboyfat

  Don't see it on the website.