Welcome to the board, dfed!!!
It's an honour to post in the thread of our newest instant celebrity! Almost 6,000 page views in a few hours!!!
Cheers!!
Neo
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290New brother in here!
by defd inhey yall just wanted to say hi.
today is my 1st day here.
i hope this is a good site for jehovahs people.
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Awake Moving To Monthly Publishing
by Valis ini just recieved this note from one of our faithful and discreet slaves... keep an eye out for the march 2005 km.
word is that the awake will only be published once a month starting in january 2006.. sincerely,.
district overbeer.
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Neo
Hello dostprefer. Welcome to JWD!! I encourage you to read more of the site, so you'll get a hang of what goes inside the mind of the posters here and how we have a comprehensive view of the Witness world, since we were both inside and outside the organization. Standing back and having an outside view of the org clearly shows that decadence is befalling the Watchtower.
You could start by the extensive analysis about the monthly Awake found in the thread WTS Official Spin on monthly Awake: 'More emphasis on the Bible!'
Neo
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EX JW threatens to blow up convention withh 2000 JW's!!..........
by nicolaou inarmed man threatens jw assembly.
rome : an armed man threatened to blow himself up in a hall in rome saturday where around 2,000 members of the jehovah's witnesses church were holding a meeting, italian media said.
after jumping onto a stage in the hall, the man issued the threat and claimed he was carrying explosives.
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Neo
Hi nicolau, there's a discussion going on about this topic at Italy: Man Threatens to Blow Self up at JW Meeting of 2,000
Neo
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taste death
by peacefulpete inwe are familiar with the expression in mark 9:1 that some standing there "would not taste death at all" and it seems clear that the original hand of mark intended it to be a message of imminent return of christ.
later the line was reinterpreted as a vision of jesus in the so called trasfiguration.
my interest now is in the phrase "taste death" and how it was used by the gospel thomas.
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Neo
euripedes,
It obviously works as a Semitic metaphor--I was unaware of its pervasive use in rabbinical literature. The expression geuomai thanatou in Greek has a precedent, however, in Leonidas, a third century BCE epigrammatician/poet, as well as in Greek inscriptions. This is clearly analogous to the Hebrew expression ta'am mi'tah (or however you want to transliterate it), and the verb ta'am (taste) does appear in other metaphors, such as Psalm 34:9 and Proverbs 31:18.
The idea behind the use of this word taste obviously connotes experience in some way, such as taste of knowledge or taste of YHWH.
Earlier scholars and commentators such as Chrysostom, Alcuin, Aquinas, and Luther in Lectures 131 believed that the expression might mean that Jesus "tasted death" in a sampling way, as a physician might taste bitter medicine in order to convince those who are sick to taste it. The expression "bitterness of death," i.e. something susceptible to taste, appears in 1 Samuel 15:32 and Sirach 41:1. I think you've already remarked on "seeing death in Heb. 11:5.
Oh, boy, I was looking exactly for this, i.e., a Hebrew parallel to the Greek "tasting death." I was not sure if Ta'am would be a valid word to use in this expression, but it makes all the sense. Thank you very much!
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Italy: Man Threatens to Blow Self up at JW Meeting of 2,000
by blondie inman threatens to blow himself up in rome
26 february 2005 16:44
reports from the italian capital, rome, say an armed man has threatened to blow himself up in a hall where around 2,000 members of the jehovah's witnesses church are holding a meeting.
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Neo
I noticed the Australian incident too, but it's only mentioned in one news source and seems untied to what happened in Rome. Hope we get some additional info on that.
Neo
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Comments You Will Not Hear At The 2-27-05 WT Study
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the february 27, 2005 wt study (january 15, 2005 issue)
end in 1925. christ completes his conquest.
are jws the only ones who think we are living in the time of the end?.
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Neo
Thanks for including your research methodology, Blondie!
These last two study articles really make me wanna puke. They're horrible, even hardcore dubs have a really hard time to put up with this.
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Italy: Man Threatens to Blow Self up at JW Meeting of 2,000
by blondie inman threatens to blow himself up in rome
26 february 2005 16:44
reports from the italian capital, rome, say an armed man has threatened to blow himself up in a hall where around 2,000 members of the jehovah's witnesses church are holding a meeting.
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Neo
Another news source:
Man arrested after threatening to blow himself up at Rome sect meeting
ROME : An armed man threatened to blow himself up in a hall in Rome Saturday where around 2,000 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses church were holding a meeting, Italian media said.
The man barricaded himself inside a room on the first floor of the building after threatening the crowd, according to Sky's TG24 news channel.
Police later managed to arrest him after the hall was evacuated.
Armed with a pistol and with electrical wires protruding from under his jacket, the man, identified as Angelo Cicero from a town near Catania on the southern island of Sicily, had jumped onto the stage at the hall used by the Christian sect and threatened to blow himself up.
But after his arrest police did not find any explosives on him and his pistol was empty.
Cicero gave no reason for his threat but he had been expelled from the sect last year and has tried several times to be readmitted.
He was known to the police for a number of felonies, including robbery. - AFP
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/134638/1/.html
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Italy: Man Threatens to Blow Self up at JW Meeting of 2,000
by blondie inman threatens to blow himself up in rome
26 february 2005 16:44
reports from the italian capital, rome, say an armed man has threatened to blow himself up in a hall where around 2,000 members of the jehovah's witnesses church are holding a meeting.
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Neo
Source: http://www.repubblica.it/2005/b/sezioni/cronaca/filibasilio/filibasilio/filibasilio.html
Please bear in mind that the following is just a rough electronic translation of a page in Italian, from the mildly weird Babelfish Altavista translation service.
Cicero angel has made irruption in the cult place
The hostages freed from the participation of the police officersRome, threat is made to explode in the center of the witnesses of Geova
Arrested the man: it did not have explosive and the gun was dischargeROME - Fear but no serious consequence for the action of an armed man of gun that, today to Rome, has made irruption in knows it of the Reign of the Witnesses of Geova in Hegel large square in the zone of Casal de' Crazy where numerous persons found themselves, children comprised. The crowds but, after a raid, have been immobilized from the police enforcements. And it is uncovered that the belt that carried was not explosive and that the gun was discharge.
The man, Angel Cicero, 33 years, it has made part of the witnesses of Geova, from which it would have been esplulso in order to have had problems with the justice. Being to the first news, Cicero would have tried of being riammesso between the witnesses of Geova, also through gestures demonstrated to you. Without to succeed to us.
Therefore today the man has asked to speak from the podio for the main hall. "Ve I to it will say when Armageddon will arrive" I have said to the assembly showing to hundred of persons a gun beyond to one I wrap with belt on the life connected to a zainetto that he carried to the shoulders. "I know when the end of the world will come, Geova is with me, who goes via will not receive the salvation. Fatemi to speak, fatemi to say what I must say otherwise I make to explode. Attended that they are a former brigatista ", has said. Then the threats: Cicero has shown a gun, later on turned out without loader, while in it knows it diffused the fear.
To that point the hundreds of persons who found themselves to the entire one of the building are, however, all resolutions to escape. With he they are remained only little persons whom they have tried to make to reason it. Until that it has not been immobilized from the police officers. Cicero, handcuffed, has been carried via on one gazzella of the police officers. According to the first information, the man did not have explosive while the gun was lacking in loader.
Cicero has been stopped with the accusation of person seizure. In past center of the Witnesses of Geova in Australia had had one.
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Italy: Man Threatens to Blow Self up at JW Meeting of 2,000
by blondie inman threatens to blow himself up in rome
26 february 2005 16:44
reports from the italian capital, rome, say an armed man has threatened to blow himself up in a hall where around 2,000 members of the jehovah's witnesses church are holding a meeting.
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Neo
bttt for a fresh page with embedded link
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Italy: Man Threatens to Blow Self up at JW Meeting of 2,000
by blondie inman threatens to blow himself up in rome
26 february 2005 16:44
reports from the italian capital, rome, say an armed man has threatened to blow himself up in a hall where around 2,000 members of the jehovah's witnesses church are holding a meeting.
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Neo
Check some dubs fleeing from the Assembly Hall! (and taking the rest of the day off... )
Inside the AH:
Rome's mayor:
Isolating the area:
