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  Insight Book on CD-ROM under CHRONOLOGY different from print version.

  by ithinkisee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 453 (vol 1) of the printed books states:

  a babylonian clay tablet is helpful for connecting babylonian chronology with biblical chronology.

  tebet, night of the 14th, two and a half double hours [five hours] at night before morning [in the latter part of the night], the disc of the moon was eclipsed; the whole course visible; over the southern and northern part the eclipse reached.

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  The german WT-Lib from 2003 does not contain the equivalence for "evidently" but gives the straight expression of "can be identified".
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  was tobacco use common before deuteronomy?

  by apostlestate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  if it can be proven that tobacco use was a practice before all the o-so-explicit cleanliness laws in deuteronomy then god's silence on the matter could be deemed as proof that he did not mind such things.. anyone know if tobacco use has caveman roots?

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  I think you won't need to go that far back. If it was common in 1st century why is it not mentioned in the NT if this should be as bad as other DFing reasons (like fornication).
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  Ted Jaracz mystery.

  by imfreeimfree in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ted jaracz mystery.. in another thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/108263/1.ashx willyloman said:ted jaracz was the bethel celebrity on the program.

  in a concluding talk, he scolded today's elders for being so preoccupied with entertainment and said, "why in our day, we didn't need entertainment.

  " he went on to tell the bothers they should fill their free time by going back and reading all the wts' publications, back to 1919.

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  I don't think the are really going to read those old books. It could go like this: TV is bad but the old books are boring - so what should we do? Let's do some bible-riddles...
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  Quote: It is not necessary for Bible translators to know Hebrew and Greek.

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just found some very revealing information in the branch organization manual.. 1. they admit that bible translators do not need to know hebrew or greek.

  2. they admit that the reason the authors' names are omitted is primarily to protect the organization and the authors from liability.. all bold letters are original... i added the yellow highlight and red text.. branch organization manual: page 25-5.

  46. bible translation: when there are sufficient.

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  I read on the talk page of the german wikipedia it is not neccessary "because they have a trained team to coordinate original translation" - however this should work. Rumors say the german NWT is done by a single sister knowing english only.
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  What were you disfellowshipped for?

  by Kristofer in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i recently had a discussion with a witness friend (i'm a secret) and she claimed that witnesses only get disfellowshipped for being unrepentant for immoral acts.

  i am curious to know from those who have been disfellowshipped, what was it for?

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  I am DFed mainly for apostasy - to be more precisley: for meeting with apostates. But as i did not want to go without any hint for the brothers and sister i wrote a letter to most of my congregation. I mentioned that no formal bibletext normally used for DFing would apply on my situation (2 John 9; Titus 3:10, 1.Cor 5:11, 1.John 2:18,19). So it was only driven by the elders as i even did not spread any info about my doubts (only with a close friend who also left the org)

  In view of my activities during the JC they concluded with following reasons:
  Apostasy, slander and causing division (2.John 9-11; 1.Cor 6:10; Romans 16:17,18)

  "slander" because i wrote the brothers the outcoming of the JC was settled even before starting it. (so where is the slander? I am DFed)
  "Causing division" is very funny, because this was only due to my letter which wouldn't be sent if JC had not been started. It must have been a main theme in the congo for some time.
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  Two new publications available in German

  by reexaminer in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  two new releases in the german language: .

  pay attention to yourselves and to all the flock (gebt acht auf euch selbst und auf die ganze herde) .

  organized to do jehovah's will (organisiert, jehovas willen zu tun) .

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  Hey that's cool, your site could become the number one resource for WTS-Publications.
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  Your first talk at the Theorcatic Ministry School, do you remember it?

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i do, i had to read ezekiel 9: (1-11)

  and he proceeded to call out in my ears with a loud voice, saying: have those giving their attention to the city come near, each one with his weapon in his hand for bringing ruin!

  there were six men coming from the direction of the upper gate that faces to the north, each one with his weapon for smashing in his hand; and there was one man in among them clothed with linen, with a secretarys inkhorn at his hips, and they proceeded to come in and stand beside the copper altar.

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  June 12th, 1989: Zechariah 4:1-14 “Not by a military force, nor by power, but by my spirit,” Jehovah of armies has said.
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  My website: www.reexamine.org

  by reexaminer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings.. i have started a project that i hope will stay online for times indefinate, even to times indefinate.

  you can find it at www.reexamine.org .. i started working on it in october and it is still a work in progress, however because of the shut down of the website located at http://quotes.watchtower.ca i felt that i should release the site in "as-is" condition, instead of waiting until it was completely finished.. currently, there isn't a lot of content in the 'wiki' section of the website.

  hopefully in the next few days and weeks that will change, however there are still programming issues that i have to work out before that can happen.

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  Have we not forgotten non-English speakers?

  I think it was some babel-translation but not a real multilingual plattform.

  But as it is mentioned: are there any plans to make the download section multilingual?
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  Warning to the Watch Tower - Mirror of Truth

  by phoibos_2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  they will never prevent the truth about their satanic religion.

  http://watchtower-quotes.ath.cx/ .

  keep cool .

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  That's too funny Did you forget that (the real) phoibos and me are running the technical part of the german DB?
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  Warning to the Watch Tower - Mirror of Truth

  by phoibos_2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  they will never prevent the truth about their satanic religion.

  http://watchtower-quotes.ath.cx/ .

  keep cool .

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  mineralogist

  It is not the WTS which made it, the person did fool us - is it already april 1st?

  definition of troll: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll