i was going through a few websites and isolating text of the 'deuteronimist history' for my channel on youtube today when i opened a tab to jw.org to see if they had actually dome anything in a few days.
to my surprise up popped the new bibles.. no for many year the only one they had was nwt 1984 and as of 2 years ago the rnwt with audio coming in slowly.
(the guys that do ezra are crap and lett ruins mark) a week or two ago they started adding a study bible starting with matthew.
Biblegateway.com is the way to go. They have over 50 different English translations. They'll never be caught dead with the NWT though.
As for me, I used to use the American Standard Version when I was in the Witnesses which was actually printed by the Watchtower. It was identical to the NWT in size and onion skin pages but had a brown cover (instead of the green). And no, they did not change any of the text (Like John 1:1).
how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.
how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.
how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.
I woke myself up. It wasn't doctrine or teachings that got me to question them but their arrogant self worship elevating the Watchtower to God's position. Something just didn't feel right. It was affecting me to the point where I was having anxiety attacks out in field service.
I also had a strong curiosity as to the older literature and was beginning to build a collection. Money kept me from purchasing the original bound volumes from the 1870s to 1916. If I would have had a bigger collection it probably would have gotten me out much sooner than I had.
I also read some apostate books by Christian Fundamentalists on doctrinal matters but that did not convince me. So I was not necessarily vulnerable to the ranting and raving crowds. And I was exposed to them and even accepted some of their literature on the day of my baptism.
In the long run it was my sense of integrity and rational intuition that got me out.
hi all - thought you might be interested in the instructions for the answer sheet for the new meeting - full document to follow:-.
"our christian life and ministry meeting answer sheetfor use by meeting chairman for weeks of january 4-25, 2016source material: new world translation of the holy scriptures [nwt] and thewatchtower [w].instructions: these review questions correspond to material found in treasuresfrom gods word.
well in advance, the meeting chairman should ensure that theelder or ministerial servant assigned a part during treasures from gods word willconsider the question and answer for the week.
sir82, the phrase "Present Truth" (both words capitalized) was very common in the Watchtower literature back in Russell's day. The Finished Mystery book had it in its text over 60 times. Most fanatical JWs would feel at home back then no matter how alien some doctrines might be.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3270999/has-biblical-city-sodom-monstrous-site-jordan-matches-descriptions-area-destroyed-god.html
i made a medium level mistake at work today, and when i make mistakes it really shakes me up and takes me a long time to recover.
it completely rattles me, makes me feel awful about myself.
my mind keeps going back to the mistake reliving how i could have let it happen.
That describes me too Faye. I've been clinically diagnosed as having OCPD. I too relive things from my youth decades ago.
I think it's a neurological issue with most people. Our brains are simply different.
based on what we've seen, it seems to me that of the seven, splane and jackson are the smartest; herd, lett and morris the least intelligent; and sanderson and losch somewhere in the middle.
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what's your impression?.
.............Impressions of the Governing Body; who's smart, who ain't?
lately my mental health has been rapidly declining.
i have anorexia and deppression, and my anxiety has become overwhelming.
i have been to many doctors/therapists in the past, but because i have not been magically cured my parents dont want to get me any more help.
thank you all for your sincere encouragement during these last few weeks.
finally, she is at peace.
i was with her , holding her hand when she died.
Sorry for your loss minimus. You were there with her. That's the most important thing.
lately my mental health has been rapidly declining.
i have anorexia and deppression, and my anxiety has become overwhelming.
i have been to many doctors/therapists in the past, but because i have not been magically cured my parents dont want to get me any more help.
that darn satan keeps confusing those horsies in apocalypse - they seem to be going in reverse.. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-hunger-calamitous-famine-eradicated-last-50-years.
Welcome to the forum Dummheit. Tell us a little bit more about you when you're ready.
