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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  eyeslice

  So, let's just summarise here. There have been well over 400 posts against this topic but only one fact.

  The only fact we know is the very short announcement 'Brother Anthony Morris III is no longer serving as a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses.'

  Speculation, not known facts at this point;

  1. He was pushed out. No evidence.
  2. He'd had enough and so just stood down. No evidence.
  3. He's an alcoholic. Yes, he was seen purchasing whisky but why we don't know and to simply imply he is an alcoholic wouldn't stand up in a court of law.
  4. He's ill. No evidence for that. Even if he were to die in the next few months, this in itself wouldn't make this the reason he stood down/was removed.
  5. He's a lose cannon on the GB. No proof of that. No flies on the wall here I guess.
  6. He's an apostate. No facts one way or the other.
  7. There is pressure on him because of some involvement with CSA cases, i.e. in covering them up. No evidence to my knowledge, certainly it doesn't appear he has been named in any specific cases against the Watchtower Society.

  So, we are in the totally in the dark and all we are left with is the brief announcement. Maybe things will be so hushed up by those at the top that we will never find out.

  Many here, myself included, don't have time for the guy but that in itself doesn't make any of speculation above any more factual.
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  "Mankind's Search for God" book

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

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  2. bible

  this book was published around 1990, but was never studied (to my knowledge).

  does anyone know the reason why?.

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  eyeslice

  I have just checked jw.org and see that the Mankind's Search for God book is still in their online library.

  It has chapters on many of the world's larger religions and also deals with the Reformation.

  What is interesting is that all of the paragraphs do have 'study' questions, but like most here, I can't recall it ever being studied at the group level.
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  Do Masks really help in preventing respiratory infections? Recent study reviewed

  by Reasonfirst in

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  in the recent coronavirus scare, masks were promoted as one way to minimise possible infection.

  a study, reviewed yesterday by an english medical commentator, dr john campbell, says, no!.

  watch what he has to say on this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3vy2lyqn1a.. the study he reviews can be found at: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.cd006207.pub6/full.

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  eyeslice

  I sort of agree and would add that there was no science behind the 2metre/6ft social distancing rule. It has been since found that airborne viruses if sneezed out can travel far further than that.

  Still if I am in supermarket queue and someone behind me has COVID then I would prefer they wore a meal and kept their distance.

  The mask and distancing things were at least signals to be careful during the early stages of this devastating epidemic.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  eyeslice

  also won’t be an elder or able to do microphones 🤣
  

  Makes me smile and brings back memories. When I stepped down as an elder, a year went by and I wasn't assigned any talks on the school, asked to open or close in prayer, nothing. I queried this saying as far as I was concerned I was in 'good stand' - so guess what? They asked me to do the microphones occasionally.

  Good luck to Tony with that; at least I'm a bit more nibble on feet than he looks.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  eyeslice

  llubrevlis2000
  

  All ex JWs would treat TOMO3 like a proper celebrity if he did another Ray Franz I would donate as would many many people and if he wanted to go a speaking circuit perhaps someone like Kim Silvio could organise and I’m sure we could all donate
  

  this could be huge

  Somehow, I just can't see it.
  
  Anthony M III is no Ray Franz. AMIII has always come across to me as bigoted and narrow minded. The debacle back in the 1970's was due to a number of individuals who dared to do their own research and to begin questioning a number of core beliefs. Essentially, they became Christian liberals, not a description I would use in relation to old Tony.
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  eyeslice

  Everything here is very speculative until more is revealed or known about the situation.

  Personally, I don't buy the stepped down for health reasons or personal reasons as that would totally go against the 'Faithful and Discreet Slave' doctrine they have conjured up. If Christ has selected old Tony, then being closer to death means being closer to the heavenly reward as not just one of the 144,000 but of the specially chosen FDS (may be there are even two classes within the 144,000 lol).

  On the other hand the FDS doctrine can be bent to show the FDS is a 'flexible' arrangement for dispensing 'spiritual food at the correct time' and therefore can be and is a much a body that changes regularly.
  
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  Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

  this is not a joke.

  anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!

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  eyeslice

  I find these very terse announcements very strange. No mention of something like 'we thank brother Morris for all his hard work over the years and appreciate the input he has had to the GB.'

  It's akin to the short of announcement made when they disfellowship someone, 'brother/sister so-and-so is no longer one of JWs'.

  They are either totally ungrateful or something is amiss.
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  Second school

  by llubrevlis2000 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has the auxiliary class or second school been done away with?.

  when i grew up in my congregation we even had three schools, so three bible readings and three lots of student assignments.. after covid it seems everything is easier, less assignments now some only seem to get one or two per year.. being an elder is much easier these days, everything is done for you.

  meetings are full of videos and q&as need no preparation you could take a watchtower or cong book study with zero preparation and most midweek meetings have q&as that requires no preparation .

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  eyeslice

  When I was 'school overseer', our congregation once had a main school and two additional schools.

  Also, in those days each student had a counsel sheet and they were expected to work through all the points, with the school overseer marking each point of counsel good, weak or improved.

  Now a days, the talks are just a parrot repeat of some video or other and I don't think anyone is asked to work anything, just a general chat about the pre assigned point they were supposed to be working on.
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  No more public WT & Awake?

  by mikeflood in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you guys noticed, this year 2023 no more public edition magazines...i wonder how they are gonna spin that fact.

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  eyeslice

  Wasn't it claimed that the Watchtower was the most widely circulated magazine in the world at one time? Greater than the Readers Digest?

  In fairness, in the last 25 years, print has fallen out of favour as the internet has taken over.
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  JWs and the constitution of the United States

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jws will not salute the flag.

  however they will support the us constitution which gives congress the right to establish the military and to declare and to make war.

  isn’t that tant amount to supporting the country going to war?.

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  eyeslice

  Does anyone know if this was just a written pledge? I see that someone, a notary, witnessed some of these.

  So did that involve having to verbally take the pledge in front of an official and even in front of the US flag perhaps?