Loesch stated as a reason that many who had served for a long time and were advanced in years, had died recently. He gave that as a contributing reason.
TheOldHippie
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List of Branch Offices and Country Offices of Jehovah's Witnesses
by cedars ini'm trying to put together a comprehensive master list of watch tower society branch offices that corresponds roughly with the figure published in the worldwide report.. i feel it would be useful to monitor the number and location of existing branch offices, because i believe the distribution of branch offices worldwide is a good indicator of the society's financial wellbeing.
we now seem to be entering a period of branch office closures, with last year seeing an unprecendented 16% reduction in branch office numbers over the year before.
it will be interesting to see how things develop moving forward, but i'm hoping that by keeping a list of the offices we will be better placed to keep track of the "retreat" if branch office numbers continue to dwindle.. here we go.... .
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List of Branch Offices and Country Offices of Jehovah's Witnesses
by cedars ini'm trying to put together a comprehensive master list of watch tower society branch offices that corresponds roughly with the figure published in the worldwide report.. i feel it would be useful to monitor the number and location of existing branch offices, because i believe the distribution of branch offices worldwide is a good indicator of the society's financial wellbeing.
we now seem to be entering a period of branch office closures, with last year seeing an unprecendented 16% reduction in branch office numbers over the year before.
it will be interesting to see how things develop moving forward, but i'm hoping that by keeping a list of the offices we will be better placed to keep track of the "retreat" if branch office numbers continue to dwindle.. here we go.... .
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TheOldHippie
There is no Denmark branch, but there is a Scandinavia branch.
This Scandinavian branch (which you call Danish but which it is not) also serves Iceland, which you have forgotten.
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King of the North - Missing in Action
by scotoma inthe watchtower seems to have lost track of one of their favorite endtime players - the king of.
how could they let such an important component of their prophecies vanish.. .
growing up in the 50's and 60's i fully believed the watchtowers scheme for interpreting daniel.. and it was quite believable back then.
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TheOldHippie
Just a small addition: There is in the literature and in talks mentioned the possibility that Russia or forces within Russia as it is stated, will appear as the infamous King, so the Russian connection has not been completely shelved. (And the Putin-Orthodox connection is a mean one.)
But as you state, all the way down to the end of the 1980s, it fit oh! so well.
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"8 Ways To Give Us Your Cash" - the desperation in the latest Watchtower is tangible!
by cedars ini know gayle has already started a thread on the latest november 15th watchtower article that mentions the article on donations, but i thought a thread with a more specific title might be in order just to drive the point home for any lurkers.
i hope gayle doesn't mind!.
i've been banging the drum for a while now about what i view as the obvious signs that the watchtower is in a state of decline.. i have written the following blog articles on the subject.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/branch-closures-and-fire-sales-a-growing-trend-for-the-society.
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TheOldHippie
There are two brochures,
- Charitable Planning to Benefit Kingdom Service Worldwide (2000, revised 2004)
- Planned Giving to Benefit Kingdom Service Worldwide (1994)
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I can't sleep because I just received a very shocking news more than few minutes ago
by Iamallcool ini know a very young brother that got married in june of this year.
they are now divorced that fast.
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TheOldHippie
Some are more easily shocked than others ..................
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New light or did the speaker just pull this out his wazoo?
by pubtruth ini went to the last day of the dc here in west palm beach, just to make my mother company.
wow, what a difference can a year outside the lie can do to perception.
it was the same crap as you'd expect but there is a plot twist: the speaker was so into the talk he was actually starting to shout and wound up mentioning that they now know how many angels will be needed to destroy everyone at armaggeddon.
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TheOldHippie
Not mentioned, must have been one speaker's own calculator.
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The Governing Body intends to announce significant changes in academic literature (DOCTRINES) - Brazil
by Dogpatch indear randall.
good morning!.
here is the daniel of brazil (former bethel).. this week at the forum of former jehovah's witnesses had an interesting news!
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TheOldHippie
"In addition, three members of the Branch of Brazil were invited to special training in the United States during the months of July and August 2012."
No reason to tie that up to the upcoming ZO visit. Branch members are regularly called in for training, there is a new Branch servant school. If Brasil has a high percentage of df/da, then that specific Brasilian problem will be discussed at the meeting, but don't expect anything global to come out of that. Different countries - different problems - different solutions. While much is centralized, much is also left for the different countries and different congregations. There is a balance between interference and no interference.
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Joseph Rutherford and Pastor Russell audio recordings
by Gnosis injust wondering if anyone around here has managed to find any audio recordings of speeches or lectures given by pastor russel or joseph rutherford.. also would like to know if anyone has discovered any available recordings of "wbbr" which was formerly the radio station of jehovah's witnesses.. if you've found any mp3 format recordings please let me and readers of this thread know by posting available material.. thank you !.
i found a lecture titled "religion as a world remedy" by judge rutherford:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqnfueadssu.
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TheOldHippie
As for Rutherford, you could search at ebay.co.uk (or ebay.com) and you will find that almost all of his speeches as well as recordings have been made available on CDs - mp3 - and are for sale for very little money. When it comes to Russell, the Photo-Drama of Creation is likewise available on CD/DVD, and there are parts of it where Russell appears "live"; some of the Angelophone Records are also available, and on some of them, brief lectures by Russell were combined with the songs and hence available.
Just start searching and PayPal-ing!
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The Governing Body intends to announce significant changes in academic literature (DOCTRINES) - Brazil
by Dogpatch indear randall.
good morning!.
here is the daniel of brazil (former bethel).. this week at the forum of former jehovah's witnesses had an interesting news!
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TheOldHippie
Changes in or dropping door-to-door is no reason for a special meeting or course. It is stressed on a weekly basis that one should look for alternatives to d-t-d work as people are not at home etc. And changes in conventions or meetings or other organizational stuff is no reason for special meetings. I don't think this is anything but a normal course, but IF something special is to be discussed, then it HAS to be something "theological", some doctrinal change, as all other things are easily dealt with thru letters or talks and are unimportant as such. A pioneer school of one week's duration is to be held in December, likewise in January, so there are no signs of any revolution at the doorstep.
I wonder how many times I have read here that the CO arrangement is going to be dropped "next year" .............
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Why did Jehovah's Witnesses release the Byington and New Jerusalem Bibles in the early 70s , and forget about them in the 80s?
by Balaamsass inandover townsman, andover, ma.
july 26, 2012. dalton column: lawsuit concerns one of town's most interesting yet forgotten.
bill dalton.
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TheOldHippie
JW never released the New Jerusalem Bible. They released the Byington and the KJ versions. (Apart from a few other releases back around 1900.)