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  Fearmongering : The greatest ploy the Watchtower Society uses against its faithful members

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "shortly, within our twentieth century*, the "battle in the day of jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of jerusalem, christendom.

  " (the nations shall know that i am jehovah; 1971; 2nd ed.

  fearmongering or scaremongering is the spreading of frightening and exaggerated rumors of impending danger or the habit or tactic of purposely and needlessly arousing public fear about an issue.

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  slimboyfat

  I’d need to analyse the corpus, but it does seem to me that pictures during my formative encounters with Watchtower artwork (1980s and 1990s) tended to depict JWs emerging from Armageddon chaos, whereas recent imagery tends to depict JWs caught up in the midst of Armageddon chaos.
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  Rough Draft Chapter

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a few of you are interested in our historical research.

  newly posted to our history blog is a mostly complete, rough draft of a chapter that will appear on separate identity, volume 2.

  [we are getting close ...].

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  slimboyfat

  I appreciate the level of detail in your work, but I do think more could be done to make the material relevant to broader themes and concerns. As a reader I am often wondering why this person is relevant or why is it important. Which is not the same as saying it is irrelevant or unimportant, just that good scholarship should make explicit the significance and connections to wider issues.
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  March broadcast - Tightpants Tony wants to be filmed in action

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  did anyone else notice this?.

  tony tightpants has the "morning worship" featurette in the march jw broadcast.. he appears to be hoping that someone will be videotaping the slaughter of 7 billion men, women, and children at armageddon.. quote is something like "we have some really good videographers here at bethel, but i don't think even they could capture what will happen.

  still, all things are possible with god..." (not exact, but that is the gist).. and of course morris imagines himself as one of the "anointed", who will be the ones, per wt doctrine, to conduct the slaughter.. it takes a special kind of hubris, arrogance, and sadism to wish that you yourself could be filmed in the act of slaughtering billions of people.. i've encountered a lot of jws with "dark souls", but based on his public comments, i'd say morris has teh blackest one i've seen.. if he says stuff like this for broadcast to 8 million + jws, what does he say in private?

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  slimboyfat

  I took “capture what will happen” to mean “portray now in fictional video format” rather than “film during it happening”.
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  New Upcoming Changes - No More Publisher Record Cards & Reporting Hours

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  publisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.

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  coming soon.. made this post 4 years ago, it happened - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/24020002/kingdom-consolidation-sales-coming-reliable-source.

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  slimboyfat

  It will be interesting if they abolish reporting time while trying to retain control of publishers preaching. Because I believe this would not work out as planned. No matter how much informal pressure is applied, if no hours are reported, JWs will take this as a signal to stop preaching. Just as they took the abolition of cover prices for the literature as a signal to stop paying for them. No amount of exhortations to voluntarily contribute to cover the cost of printing did the trick.
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  Do you know who wrote ...

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you know who wrote the 1959 watchtower book jehovah's witnesses in the divine purpose?

  anyone?.

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  slimboyfat

  I can’t see this name anywhere on the thread, but I noticed the other day that Ulysses Glass is credited as author of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Divine Purpose by Dr Bertil Persson in the book “Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe - Past and Present, Vol II”.
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  Short-sighted WT ?

  by Tech49 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it has always struck me that wt is so very short-sighted in many things.

  often, they are very re-active, and not so much pro-active in their reasoning and the way they plan for the future.. just thinking today, and have kicked this one around for a while now.. is the watchtower organization truly sustainable?

  is a new monetary structure on the horizon?

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  slimboyfat

  Tech I agree with your analysis 100%. Have you read my oeuvre on this topic? I encourage you to look into my oeuvre.

  In fact I wouldn’t dignify selling assets by calling it a “business model”. It is a firesale. It’s the absense of a business model. What will they do when the money runs out?

  I would add to your post that there is a lot more cuts they could make and assets they could sell. They still have around 20,000 employees in branches worldwide. If they are not publishing books and magazines any more, then what do they need so many employees for? For all their administration and video production, wouldn’t a couple of thousand suffice? So a lot more lay offs and branch sales may be in the pipeline. And KHs too. The only real question is will they manage it in an orderly fashion or will it be a disorderly crash?
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  Do You Condemn Anti-Semitism?

  by minimus in

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  i do .

  for me , it’s a nobrainer!.

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  slimboyfat

  The police escort protected the MP from now-Nazis. So not an example of Labour anti-semitism, obviously. Pretty weird that this should be offered as evidence of Labour anti-semitism.

  Where are the examples of anti-semitism abuse from members of the Labour Party? You’d think there would be tons of examples the way they talk about it on the news, but they never quote any actual instances.
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  Do You Condemn Anti-Semitism?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i do .

  for me , it’s a nobrainer!.

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  slimboyfat

  So is this all they mean when they talk about bullying and “vile abuse”? I thought it meant more than debate about criticising Israel. I thought it meant Larbour people actually calling Jewish people names and targeting them. That’s the impression I got from the news. But no actual examples.
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  Do You Condemn Anti-Semitism?

  by minimus in

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  i do .

  for me , it’s a nobrainer!.

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  slimboyfat

  I am aware that Jeremy Corbyn has supported Palestinians and this is controversial for some. There is lots of footage and evidence of this. Similar complaints are made about his support for Irish Republicans. People make up their own mind about that.

  Is that all they mean when they talk about Labour anti-semitism? Because I heard accusations of attacks, “vile abuse” and bullying. Are there any examples of this?
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  Do You Condemn Anti-Semitism?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i do .

  for me , it’s a nobrainer!.

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  slimboyfat

  The people making the accusations seems to be Blairites and others on the right of Labour who don’t wish to see Jeremy Corbyn become prime minister.

  But aside from motives and intrigues, I am actually interested to know what are they are talking about when they say some in Labour are anti-Semitic. Isn’t it customary to show some examples or evidence? I haven’t seen any. Where is it?