"Why using jehovah for gods name is as good as using yahweh"
because they are both irrelevant monikers for an acient bronze age goat herder god. Call it whatever you want, it dosent exist and therefore dosent care.
_Morpheus
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Why using Jehovah for God's name is as good as using Yahweh
by oppostate inin another thread i wrote some notes about why using jehovah in english is as good as using yahweh.
i'm starting a discussion on this topic because it sounds quite ignorant to hear people talk of the monk who started using it in latin without really understanding why the monk did so.. the spanish dominican monk, raymundus martini, in 1270, didn't get hoodwinked by an old jewish superstition about pronouncing the divine name with the vowel points of another word.. 1. first the vowel points of adonay and jehovah cannot be the same for grammatical reasons.
you just can't use the same vowel points because some vowels aren't paired with some consonants in pronouncing hebrew words.
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How do you feel about exJW's who resist our efforts to effect change?
by nicolaou ini've met a few.
i'm not talking about the jw who, whether df'd or not, falls off the radar and just gets on with living a normal life - good luck to them and may there be many more!.
i mean the former jehovah's witness who is now enjoying all the benefits of a cult free life thanks to the efforts of many bloggers, posters and activists, but is critical of the efforts of someone close them to free more jws.
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_Morpheus
Perhaps consider that much dissent expressed between exjw's isnt that people shouldnt be helped to see TTATT but rather the means and methods. I frequently argue against radical (offensive) methods like crashing the memorial as being counter productive. Methods like asking thought provoking questions, having web sites like this and jwfacts are awesome, imo.
I also understand that not all will leave or even want to leave the cult. It IS their choice. Its reality. That dosent mean im counter productive to the exjw cause.
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The "generation", how long, oh Jeehoober???
by DATA-DOG inhow long till the wtbts gets wise and reverts to boozerford's more plausible explanation of "generation"??
let's "face the facts" ( lol!!!
) and admit that this is the best explanation that the wtbts ever had.
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_Morpheus
144k can never be symbolic. The whole dubbie theology is based on two classes. They are elite because of it -
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What Road Would You Choose---IF?
by John Aquila insay you could go back in time to when you were 15 years old.
no watchtower in your life.
but the experience you have now you could keep.
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_Morpheus
Are you suggesting that we would know then what we know now...? If so im inventing the internet and google and buying tons apple stock.
If its just asking what we think we would would have done if we didnt have the cult.... Im not actually sure my life would be better.
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OK so the GB are shaming Bros who don't "reach out" but would they ever consider this?...
by purrpurr ini note on here the feedback from the currently ongoing conventions that the gb are heavily trying to guilt and shame any brothers who are not ms or elders.
i agree with most posters who reckon this shows just how thin on the ground they are for ms and elders but... my question is.
how comes that even though they are so desperate they still will not allow women to fill those roles?
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_Morpheus
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Olympus camera program
by zeb ini have just lost hours collating, editing hundreds of images on this useless s*** program.
its called olympus viewer 3 and it decided to shut down and wiped out my work.
this was part of a business i was creating.. back ups i never stood a chance no more olympus cameras for me.
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_Morpheus
Yea Olympus was big player long ago but has never been able to gain a good standing in the digital world. Even a basic nikon or cannon digital slr comes with good editing software and is well worth it. I love film for its retro cool but it simply dosent stand up in convience or even quality in the digital age
*edited to add: if you like the camera dont give up it. Just get better editing/organizing software. Theres lots of free/paid options that wont crash on you.
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On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin
by Perry inchild murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
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They dared !
by coalize in.
i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!
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On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin
by Perry inchild murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
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_Morpheus
What i wonder, DJS, is if its really intelligence or is it education? In other words, is it people incapable of learning and reasoning or is it people simply never guided to use their brains fully? Ive known plenty of very intelligent people in the wt org. Doctors and lawyers and engineers etc etc.... Although they do tend to be liberal about org rules, so maybe thats an indicator that they are intelligent, that they can reason on the stupidity of cult rules even while indoctrinated -
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Return to Jehovah -
by coalize injust because i'm an hopeless curious, and it's a bunch of year i didn't open a wtbts book, i downloaded right now the new booklet "return to jehovah" in french (my language).. i read the 3 first lines, and i was already bored.
what is this childish way of speaking ?
it's me, it's just the french translation or it's the case in another language too?.
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_Morpheus
Its not written so simply in english but in the end the result is the same: who could ever go back, really, after realizing its all nonsense?