I just saw a Feb 1, 2006 watchtower. there were 8,524 memorial partakers. Isn't that a bit high? What is the societies view on the 144,000? I always thought that in order to be one of the annointed you had to have been alive back in 1914 and able to understand the events unfolding at that time. Has the definition changed? there is no way over 8,000 people are alive still from back then . They would have to be over 100. Does anyone have the last dozen years totals on the partakers ? Shouldn't it be rapidley declining?
annalice
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How many left of 144,000?
by annalice ini just saw a feb 1, 2006 watchtower.
there were 8,524 memorial partakers.
isn't that a bit high?
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Cheap Looking Bibles
by annalice ini have not been to a kingdom hall for several years now.
just the other day my inlaws sent my husband a new watchtower society bible .
it has the cheapest plastic cover i have ever seen.
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annalice
I have not been to a kingdom Hall for several years now. Just the other day my inlaws sent my husband a new watchtower society bible . It has the cheapest plastic cover I have ever seen. Have they done away with the leather bound bibles? This one is so cheap I'm embaressed to show it to anyone. Not that I have much use anymore to show a bible to anyone. But anyway what is happening to the societies books ?are they lacking in funds to make nice books anymore?
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Yoga
by CeriseRose inokay i got back from the doctor yesterday, and in the past 11 months, without doing anything in particular for diet and exercise, i've lost 12 pounds.
12 pounds!
i've been overweight my whole life and being able to "live" while losing is huge.. i joined curves and will be doing that 3-4 times per week.
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annalice
I have done Yoga , but what I found that I really like is Pilates. The gym that I went to combined yoga moves and pilates workouts on the mat. I went down one dress size in a couple off weeks and my core muscles are very strong now. I have not had to go to the chiropractor since I started the Pilates. Many off the older women in my class have reported that they have gained at least a half and inch back in height since starting . Its very good for your body and there is no hard impact on the joints. There are a lot of Videos out there offering this type of workout. I would try looking for yoga or pilates videos on Amazon.com. Then you will be able to read the reviews of others who have already tried them.
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Does God have a Dimmer switch?
by annalice inone thing that never made sense to me when i was a jw.
why is god always making the light brighter?
is it on some type of dimmer switch?
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annalice
One thing that never made sense to me when I was a JW. Why is God always making the light brighter? Is it on some type of dimmer switch? Can HE only turn the the ligth on real slowly? When his chosen people finally appeared at the turn of the century why didn't they just get the info given to them all at once? Why is that stupid light getting brighter and brighter? When will it be fully turned on? This is something that I would really like to know?
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newest JW video?
by annalice ini"ll start by telling you that i was over at my brother in-laws house the other day with my husband.
while there my four year old niece was showing me her new disney video.
my sister in-law turned to my niece and said " sarah , why don't you tell your aunt about the scary video you saw the other day.
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hi every one. I"ll start by telling you that I was over at my brother in-laws house the other day with my husband. While there my four year old niece was showing me her new Disney video. My sister in-law turned to my niece and said " Sarah , why don't you tell your aunt about the SCARY video you saw the other day. Tell her about the scary part". So my niece turned to me and said " OHHHHHHHHH it was sooooooo scary , the people were all on the road and the earth opened up and they all went AHHHHHHHHHHHHH and fell down into SHEOL! " I couldn't believe at first what i was hearing so I turnedto my sis-in-law and said "what the heck is she talking about?" So she say's " oh thats from the newest wacktower video. She watched it with us the other day". All i can say is that I felt sick to my stomach. Nothing like getting the fear into the child when they're young. Ibrought it up to my husband when were in the car after and he tells me I"m always making a big deal out of nothing, and blowing things out of proportion. Does anyone out there have a nice solid brick wall I could bang my head on???? So any way back to the video . what is this video called ? whats it about?
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Question on the NWT translation
by Nowhere inone intresting thing is that both the kingdom interlinear and the nwt is based on the greek text of westcott & hort.
that is a good text, and was the text for about two generations.
but today no one except the watchtower society bases their translation on that text.
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annalice
While researching different bible translations I found an article titled "Why So Many Versions ?" By Daniel B. Wallace, Ph.D. His research is on modern bible translations. He goes into which ones are are faithful to the original and should we use the ones that are translated word-for-word or phrase-for-phrase? He writes about several different versions including the NWT. When writing about the NWT he says this " Finally, a word should be said about the NWT by Jehovah's Witnesses. Due to the sectarian bias of the group, as well as to the lack of genuine biblical scholarship, I believe that the NWT is by far the worst translation in English dress. It purports to be word-for-word, and in most cases is slavishly literal to the point of being terrible English. But, ironically, whenever a sacred cow is demolished by the biblical writers themselves, the Jehovah's Witnesses twist the text and resort to an interpretive type of translation. In short, it combines the cons of both worlds, with none of the pros. In his summary he says its best to own versions that offer word-for-word translations and also some that use phrase-for-phrase translation
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I'm back from my vacation in HELL
by annalice inso i've been gone this past week .
i was on a vacation with my husband an his whooooooooooooole family who are allllllllllllllllllllll very very devout witnesses.
so i decided to take along one of my harry potter books to read.
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So i've been gone this past week . I was on a vacation with my husband an his whooooooooooooole family who are allllllllllllllllllllll very very devout witnesses. So i decided to take along one of my Harry Potter books to read. Oh the looks i recieved when i brought that book out . nobody said anything but there faces said it all for them. Everyone else there was reading there watchtowers and the latest releases from the assembly and there i was the Black sheep of the family with my EVIL little h.p book. OHHHHHHHHHthe horror!. I think I've been away from the whole witness thing for a good long time now, because when my sister in law said that she brought along her yearbook to read I though she was talking about her school yearbook. DUHHHHHHHH.My mind is really getting cleared of all the witness mumbo jumbo. I was a good little girl and kept my mouth shut when my sisinlaw was saying that at the book studies they seemed to be going over the same stuff all the time and my faher in law proceeded to tell her "oh maybe you don't understand what they're talking about or why they are making us study these things but you have to understand that those men down at bethel know soooooooooo much more than we'll ever know and they are so much smarter than us and if thats what they want us to study then they must have a reason and so we should just do it and not question it" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! if they tell you to jump of a bridge you'll prob do that too? So any how i just needed to vent . i was a good girl for my husbands sake but I WILL NEVER GO ON VACATION WITH THEM AGAIN! NEXT time i'm heading to Ireland. ON my own for some peace and quiet.
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accepted till the borg says you're not!
by annalice inmy husband just called me from mass.
where he is attending the convention with his family.
he was telling me who he had seen there and he mentioned a paticular brother that i would love to see again face to face so i could knee him where the sun don't shine.
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look I'm just telling the story as it was told to me. But of course since my friend is df'd that automatically means she's a liar and her ex the still good witness only tells the truth right. Comforter why don't you test my story and see if your head fits in a toilet? What do you think ? when men abuse women they only do things that aren't disgusting? Are you a moron? Or haven't you learned to think for yourself yet? prob. both .
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accepted till the borg says you're not!
by annalice inmy husband just called me from mass.
where he is attending the convention with his family.
he was telling me who he had seen there and he mentioned a paticular brother that i would love to see again face to face so i could knee him where the sun don't shine.
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My husband just called me from Mass. where he is attending the convention with his family. He was telling me who he had seen there and he mentioned a paticular brother that I would love to see again face to face so I could knee him where the sun don't shine. So I said to my husband " you didn't say hi to him did you??" and of course his answer is "well yes of course I did why wouldn't I ?" HMMMMMMMMMMM? Maybe its because his wife who is one of my best friends was verbally and physically abused by him ? And when some one holds my friends head in the toilet to get her to agree to try to be a better witness wife so that he can become an elder . I don't know about any of you but I get really steamed. My friend has left the jerk and while hiding from him at a non jw's house she became romantically involved with the man . Her ex found out where she was and came when she wasn't there and broke the front door down and gave her boyfriend a nice black eye. She is now dissfellowshiped for cheating on her husband and he is dating a 19 year old ,secretly untill the divorce is final ,and he is moving towards being an elder. I was soooooooooo mad that my husband who knows this whole story actually conversed with this slimball and to my friend he won't even say "hi". So I hung up on him. He knows the guy is a jerk but until the elders say he is df''d everyone will treat him so wonderfully and to my friend they will shun and avoid like the plague.You could'nt actually think for yourself and decide not to talk to him could you ? That would mean using your own brain for once? All I can think of is " OH my god that was me at one time I shunned people without even thinking about it ". I just heard the word df'd and that was enough. I wish i could find those people that over the years were df'd from my cong. and were never heard from again. I wish i could ask them to forgive me for my blindness. So thats all ,sorry for writing so much but this is my venting place. If i can't vent from time to time I think I would go off the deep end.
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Age Sex Location Occupation Anyone?
by Perfection Seeker in.
33 female iowa massage therapist happily married no children (yet).
anyone else?
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annalice
29, female ,married( for the moment) , artist painter , upstate New York.