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  Applying the facial hair change in New Order portrayals

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a hard time watching the org's vids and reading the publications.

  however, that's not the case with others here.

  hence this post.

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  slimboyfat

  There’s a black brother in the new system with a discreet beard with has face pointing the other way on page 10 of the November 2024 Watchtower.
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  Applying the facial hair change in New Order portrayals

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a hard time watching the org's vids and reading the publications.

  however, that's not the case with others here.

  hence this post.

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  slimboyfat

  Scrap that, there’s a picture of a father in the new system with a beard on the very next page of the January 2025 Watchtower. Don’t know if that’s the earliest. I can’t post the picture because I think we’re limited to one picture a day on here.
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  Applying the facial hair change in New Order portrayals

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a hard time watching the org's vids and reading the publications.

  however, that's not the case with others here.

  hence this post.

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  slimboyfat

  There is an image of the new system in the January 2025 Watchtower with clean shaven brothers. So the June 2025 Watchtower may be the first depiction of a beard on a member of the great crowd in the new system.
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  Applying the facial hair change in New Order portrayals

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a hard time watching the org's vids and reading the publications.

  however, that's not the case with others here.

  hence this post.

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  slimboyfat

  careful, I’ve had a quick scan through recent literature to try to answer your question. I see lots of images of elders with beards now, in fact it’s almost as if it’s a requirement these days. But specifically on the new system, I only found one image so far, of a father in the new system with a beard in the June 2025 Study Edition of the Watchtower. There may be more, this is just the first one I came across.

  
  
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  Applying the facial hair change in New Order portrayals

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a hard time watching the org's vids and reading the publications.

  however, that's not the case with others here.

  hence this post.

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  slimboyfat

  Perhaps there should be an updated graphic where all the brothers are lining up in the new system to get tips from the pirate about his epic beard 💡
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  Applying the facial hair change in New Order portrayals

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a hard time watching the org's vids and reading the publications.

  however, that's not the case with others here.

  hence this post.

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  slimboyfat

  For shaved resurrected pirate see here

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4790047430672384/who-will-resurrected-righteous-unrighteous?page=2
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  slimboyfat

  You’re actually making me feel a bit sorry for him. Didn’t expect that. lol 😂
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  Zechariah 12:10 Corruption in the NWT

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here's a question for those who still support watchtower on this forum.

  why did watchtower leave out the word "me" in zech.

  zechariah 12:10 reads like this: .

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  slimboyfat

  14,000 words in a couple of hours. That’s a Masters thesis in a lunch break lol 😂 Yeah that’s about as legit as your dodgy claims about Zechariah 12:10. 🙄
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  Applying the facial hair change in New Order portrayals

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a hard time watching the org's vids and reading the publications.

  however, that's not the case with others here.

  hence this post.

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  slimboyfat

  Remember the pirate who was forced to shave his beard? Maybe he’ll be allowed to grow it again! 😁
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  Zechariah 12:10 Corruption in the NWT

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here's a question for those who still support watchtower on this forum.

  why did watchtower leave out the word "me" in zech.

  zechariah 12:10 reads like this: .

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  slimboyfat

  It's just a "but he farted too" kind of argument.

  Most of your posts come across as pretentious farts to be honest.

  there’s no rule that says if someone else translated it a certain way, that automatically makes it legitimate.

  Not just someone else, but all modern Catholic versions translate it similarly to the NWT. (Plenty of non-Catholic versions too, of course) Are you claiming that all modern Catholic versions somehow agree with the NWT in offering a translation of Zechariah 12:10 that is not legitimate?

  You talk as if all the scholars that translate similar to the NWT are somehow ignorant of the reasons you give for your rendering, but their comments and explanations demonstrate that they are fully aware of the type of arguments you make, they just disagree with them. They find the contextual considerations, variants, LXX reading, John’s quotation, plausible emendation compelling reasons for the renderings they give.