It's Jason BeDuhn. I have his book truth in translation, he makes some interesting points. He basically says the nwt is one of the more accurate translations of John 1:1. (I've spent the last 10 minutes looking for it but can't find it right now) I wanted to quote the part where he talks about how the nwt is, at least in the verses he tested for accuracy, mostly bias free. I'll keep looking for the book
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Did Jason B Dunn say the "New World Translation is the most accurate translation there is?" Why make a new Bible than?
by MagicMItchJensen inthe circuit overseer mentioned something about the nwt being the most accurate translation according to professor jason b dunn, i heard this nonsense before but never really dug deep in to this topic because non of us really had a choice as jws but to accept all their random musing of our uneducated leaders as factual.
1. if the new world translation was the picture perfect translation of all the bibles and we went door to door telling everyone we had the "most honest bible", why did they change it to a paraphrased version?
what success have you had getting jehovah's witnesses to address why they tinkered with the new world translation, it was suppose to be the best translation and now it's turned in to a very loose paraphrased version.
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New Thought About Active J.W.'s
by The Searcher infrom my own observations & conversations with selected active j.w.
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I couldn't agree more with the comment by Traveb. He/she mentioned they were in California, but I think it's the same in any urban areas in a blue state. I call them social or ethnic witnesses. It describes about 75% of people here, and 95% of people under 30. With the big push to get screens and projectors into the halls, it's not hard to imagine a good percentage of meetings will just be streamed from corporate HQ within 5 years. -
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What should I ask Richard Dawkins tonight?
by the comet inmy amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
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Sorry for the typos..to late it edit. They asked DO you value evidence? I really liked that point, made me think of trying to tell people about ttatt. -
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What should I ask Richard Dawkins tonight?
by the comet inmy amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
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So a few of the highlights, at least for me anyway. Dawkins and Peter boghossian talked about what's the harm in moderate or liberal type religions? The short answer, because you're still perpetuating a falsehood, and to especially teach that to children is wrong. he gave as example, imagine a child's mind like a computer, kids will accept what adults especially their parents teach them at a young age, just like a computer accepts information that you put in it. Religion is like a virus that infects a child's mind and they pass it along generation after generation. Another question they posed and talked about was so you value evidence? If evidence is presented do you change your beliefs to match it or do you dismiss it because it doesn't fit your beliefs.
Dawkins was also asked if you had a time machine what time period would you go back too? He didn't say what I I thought he'd say. He said he would go back to the origin of language.
Overall it was a really cool experience, and I'd love to go see him sometime again
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What should I ask Richard Dawkins tonight?
by the comet inmy amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
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Well last night was a pretty cool experience. i didn't get a chance to ask my question, it was a packed house, 800+ people were there, but something else pretty neat happened. When I walked into the venue, within 2 minutes I run right into a faded jw that I know. He was obviously pretty surprised to see me there. What was neat was he had just got done with a meet and greet with Dawkins prior to the event. He got to chat with Dawkins, introducing himself as a former jw. He said Dawkins had a pained look on his face and said, "oh, I'm sorry, are those people as terrible as I hear"? He asked if he was being shunned by his family, just because he had a different view of the universe then them. A nice un-witness was given to him.
when I have a bit more time I'll recap a few points that I really enjoyed from the evening.
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What should I ask Richard Dawkins tonight?
by the comet inmy amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
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What should I ask Richard Dawkins tonight?
by the comet inmy amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
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I was hoping that the awake had a quote from him. I think I'm going to try and ask him about that and if he knew and what he thinks about it. -
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What should I ask Richard Dawkins tonight?
by the comet inmy amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
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My amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear Richard Dawkins tonight! He is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session. Anyone have any suggestions for questions I could ask? Anything I think up I'm sure he's heard a million times before. -
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Plastic Surgery?
by John Aquila inin my area, a lot of the young jws, especially girls are getting breast implants, nose jobs, chin implants.
asian jws girls get eyelid surgery, and one girl even got her legs lengthen 5 inches making her about five feet nine inches tall the male jws are getting hair transplants and nose jobs.
and nobody in the congregation says a word, including elders.
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It's pretty common in my area. It's kinda a don't ask don't tell policy. A sister may show up one day at the hall looking "enhanced" but nobody is going to go up and ask her anything, they'll just don't what jw's do, gossip behind her back. -
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Our hall is asking for money...
by thedepressedsoul ini guess the branch isn't happy with the amount being sent each month since we are way lower than our loan amount.
we now have to another financial survey to see the max amount that can be given.
it is "encouraged" for all to be in attendance and give much forethought and consideration to the amount you can donate each month.
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Funny story about my hall and this money stuff. We haven't had a mortgage for 10+ years so after the letter was read slips of paper were handed out. The instructions were to put down how much you can give them hand them into your service overseer. I just threw my anyway, didn't want to mess with it at all. Anyway a month went by and I didn't hear anything about it, come to find out when they tallied up all the slips the amount was greater than any amount they had ever received in a single month. I thought did one or two put down huge amounts, throwing the whole thing off? I asked an elder about it, his take was "nobody wanted to look cheap while handing in their slip." They ended up having to do another survey at the last minute and now I think we're sending in something like $600 a month.