I think the biggest change was stopping charging for the literature in the 1990s. Until that point Watchtower was effectively a publishing company and their entire culture (including counting time, placements, return visits, and so on) reflected this. In some ways not counting time is the logical (if much delayed) consequence of no longer functioning as a publishing company.
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Just read that Carl Olof Jonsson died yesterday
by slimboyfat infor newbies, who was carl olof jonsson?
he was a jw in sweden who was challenged by a householder in the 1960s, who pointed out to him that secular history books don’t agree with watchtower that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, but instead place the event 20 years later.
the reason the date is important is because it is the starting date for jw chronology which leads to 1914 as the end of the gentile times, and the beginning of the last days, as jws understand it.
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As I recall (I’m too lazy to look right now) yes Jonsson did question the whole concept of “Gentile Times” including the WT interpretation of Luke 21. He didn’t advocate simply shifting the chronology 20 years forward to 1935, or whatever. His argument was that the whole chronological endeavour was flawed on many levels, the date of the destruction of Jerusalem being just one.
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No more REPORTING field service!!!!!!!!!
by BoogerMan inthis is going to break the hearts of a lot of uber-jw's!
reddit has now removed the video link of samuel herd telling jw's they will no longer have to report time or placements - just tick a box which says "active.".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdshyx79rm&t=13s.
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Well this is going to mess up the nice graphs
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2023 WTS Annual Meeting?
by careful inthe first saturday in oct. is coming up soon.
that's when the org holds its annual meeting.
not that many years back, it used to be hyped beforehand with favored ones getting special invites.
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I wonder, was there any reference at all, even a very oblique one, to the removal of AM3 from the GB? You’d think they might make some kind of vague reference to it, if for no other reason than to avoid the impression that are embarrassed about it.
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I doubt he will post more videos, he’s clearly fed up. But he’ll still collect the money, always.
Earlier somebody said it’s possible to restore the view of dislikes on YouTube. Can somebody explain how that’s done? I’m curious how many dislikes he’s getting.
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Did you say gifted liar? I thought you said especially grifted liar. 😉
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In a way this was so predictable. He’s a toom tabard, an empty shirt, pure empty bluster. Of course he would half-heartedly start proceedings, take fright at the cost, give up, yet pretend it was happening anyway. Of course he would still solicit donations to fight a nonexistent legal case. Of course he would, and of course he did. It’s so him. What a joke.
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What is it? Don’t leave us dangling!
Looking at his comments, he’s taking advantage of some pretty hurt individuals:
The time will come, Lloyd, when your voice will be needed stronger than ever. I’ve had a lot going on in my life the past 2 years…moving back and forth across the country twice, changing jobs, and I haven’t been able to devote a lot of time to watching videos but my support and pledges won’t stop. Your page, you, your distinct voice helped wake me up entirely. I’ve watched this channel for YEARS and you have help us not feel alone or like we’re going crazy. Please please please think about all the hundreds you’ve helped. Let that energy outweigh the negative energy. Your time will come again. It will. Rest assured. This is a “sifting out” time lol 😂 Your voice is stronger than ever to those that truly matter. I’m very emotional now. I wish things would go back to normal. But please, take care of yourself. I’m about to finally watch the convention rebuttals for this summer. You are my friend and you don’t even realize it. I wish you nothing but the best. I’m sure we’ll hear from you soon and just go with the flow….watch what happens. Good ALWAYS prevails over evil. ❤️
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I've also come off Twitter which has been very much beneficial to my mental health.
Pretty ironic since if he had heeded Kim’s advice to get off Twitter in the first place he might not be in this mess.
As it is he’s losing patrons at a rate of about 1 a-day at the moment. The month-end drop could be pretty big.
The ironic thing is that he still has more patrons than other ExJW YouTubers, and he could still salvage the situation for himself if he really wanted to. All he would have to do is acknowledge mistakes, make a genuine apology, and put in some hard work. Yet because of who he is the chances of that happening are close to 0% and the downward spiral will continue.
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Hemorrhoid Evans is s a nobody, hardly even a has-been, more like an almost never was. An infected pimple on the ex-JW communities ass that keeps re-emerging every so often to beg for more money and squirt forth a gooey diatribe of gibberish.
You’re too kind.