i am not talking about the one that the org came out with in 2010. i am talking about a new one that just came out.
it is completely different or is it just the 135 songs from the 2010 songbook plus the 16 that they have rolled out since then?
my head is spinning!.
It is unusual because the brown songbook seemed to be around for decades.
I wonder if this is the reason why the new song book was replaced:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/285087/pornography-on-back-songbook-sing-jehovah
That and David Splane fancies himself a maestro.
i am a born in that goes back to the 1960's i am in a very zealous congregation with super dub elders.
i have been inactive for 3 years and only go to about 2 meetings a month.
i made my displeasure known about the overlapping generation b.s.
My opinion: they are too stressed and busy and there are bigger fish to fry.
i have had a conversation this evening with a jw friend i have known since childhood.
he is of the opinion that armageddon will have come and gone within the next 5 years.
are the jws now pinpointing 2020 as the supposed year?
In the mind of many JWs, it's always sometime in the next five years. This five years perpetually rolls forward and 40 years passes without them remembering this.
‘scientology: a war without guns’ airs on abc news’ ‘20/20,’ friday, january 6. posted 1/5/2017 .
‘20/20’ reports on ex-members of the church of scientology: those who are crusading against it and others who still practice outside the church .
actress leah remini sits down with anchor dan harris to discuss her fight against the church.
I hope one day she comes after Watchtower when she's done with Scientology.
http://watchtowerdocuments.org/the-fbi-wanted-jw-leader-jo…/.
the fbi wanted jw leader joseph rutherford arrested.
in a memorandum dated march 28, 1941, the director of the federal bureau of investigation strongly suggested that joseph f. rutherford, then president….
This is amazing history.
hi guys.
a fellow ex jw shared this with me.
haven't time to read them yet (i'm using my phone to go on internet).
Awesome find.
in next weeks bible study session for the cult, it says of a march 15, 1926 watchtower, “the faithful will be volunteers .
to tell this message to the people.” so i got to wondering what the ... was all about.
so i happened to have that watchtower, and this is what it actually says.. “the faithful will be volunteers in the day of god's wrath to tell this message to the people.” .
They love the dot dot dot.
recently attended a special assembly day.. guest speaker was thomas chicky, a member of the us branch committee and the head of the us ldc (which has replaced the rbcs).. the last talk of the day is scheduled for an hour.
it was the usual boring mumbo-jumbo.
he appeared to have blasted through his hour-long outline in just about 45 minutes, so he "treated" us to informal comments on recent developments.. he commented on the new wt complex in fishkill ny.. then he dropped the bomb (well, to anyone with ears and at least 2 functioning synapses).. the following is not a word for quote, but presents the gist of his comments:.
http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com/topic/27709#.WGwU6C3R9ki
Reading about the million dollar commission a paper salesman got every year in dealing with Watchtower makes me wonder how many are profiting from "Mother".
my daughter asked if anyone has heard anything about a 'big announcement' being made sometime this week in congregations in canada and possibly beyond... in her words "it's like a biggggg long thing, they cut out part of the book study for it and people heard it was a historical thing"... any ideas?
could it be the mexican branch closing or the theme of the convention?
or something else?
A 90th anniversary of a convention that was the 6th trumpet blast?
This reminds me of the line from Spaceballs, "I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate"
a circuit overseer friend of mine serving in latin america called me today to say hi.
i asked him what's new and he dropped the news that they have received notification that the branch in mexico will be closing!!
this branch also called the central american branch (although located in mexico) oversees all of mexico's 800,000+ publishers plus all 7 countries of central america of over 100,000 publishers.
I could see a time when as the rumor was years ago, the CO ends up being drawn from a local elders on a rotating basis, a kind of super-COBE who travels within the circuit they live in.
Of course, one way or another, these COs would be accountable to Watchtower. They would not have autonomy. Watchtower fears schisms and keeps a tight reign to keep this from happening.
