While I was still a JW I preferred the New English Bible and the Today's English Bible to the NWT. However, today there are many excellent translations available. The New Jerusalem Bible, The Revised English Bible, and the Stone Edition Tanach are my favorites.
Athanasius
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What Bible do you like?
by Tristram inhaving read nothing but the nwt all my life, i am interested in getting a couple other translations to see their interpretations of the scriptures.
i really don't have any idea where to start.
i have heard the niv has a distinctly "conservative evangelical" bent which doesn't really interest me, but what translations have you used that you like?
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Did You Know Elder & M.S. Wannabees?
by minimus inweren't they sickening??
always trying to curry favor with the elders and circuit overseers.
most of those that could never quite make the grade couldn't for a reason.
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Athanasius
Hey Minimus, I remember that 70s DC demo. You didn't perform at the DC in the Oakland Coliseum did you?
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Be Honest: Did You ACTUALLY Report Accurate Field Service Time?
by minimus ini bet most people did not.
i think nearly everyone counted time spent on breaks.
or sitting in the car for an hour and a half while the elders did a "shepherding" call.
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Athanasius
I always rounded up. If I got 1 hour 30 minutes, I'd round it up to 2 hours. That was a common practice back when I was a JW.
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How "old" is the oldest person who lived in your family?
by JH ini was just wondering how old can a person live.
my grandmother lived up to 97, almost 98. .
those born in 1914 are 92 years old and some are still alive.. i guess that no one lived over 120 years since the flood.. how "old" is the oldest person who lived in your family?
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do you?
by purplebunnyfoofoo in.
believe that gods name is jehovah?
do you still use it as his name?
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Athanasius
No and no. Yahweh is probably a more correct pronunciation of the Divine Name.
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describe yourself...
by Calliope income on, be vain for a moment.
maybe you haven't posted your picture because you're trying to maintain some level of anonymity, .
maybe you have posted your picture... .
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Athanasius
Thats me in the picture. It was taken a year after Armageddon, and since we don't age in the New System, there hasn't been a need to up-date the photo.
Sorry to hear about the raccoon Robdar. I have several on my property and they have never given me any trouble. The deer can be pests, especially when they eat my cucumber plants. But the wild turkeys are the worst, wish they would learn to clean up after themselves. Fortunately my neighbors and myself all believe in live and let live, so nobody harms the wildlife.
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Can you admit that you "used to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses"?
by undercover ini was reading about minimus' trip to the hospital and his telling them that he "used to be a jw" but he would take blood now if needed.. it got me to thinking; i don't like telling people that i used to be a jw.
that's in my past and i prefer to keep it there.
if asked about my upbringing or religious preference, i usually just comment on being brought up in a strict religion but i got over it..and then try to change the subject.
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Athanasius
The subject rarely comes up for me. Most of my friends and co-workers know that I am an Episcopalian. However, last year a co-worker's daughter married a JW. The way she described her new son-in-law, he didn't sound very "theocratic." However, the groom's parents were devout JWs and my co-worker was doing all she could to accommodate them at the wedding ceremony and reception. So I told her that I understood her dilemma as I had been raised in that religion. I wasn't embarrassed to mention my former religious affiliation, nor did it raise any eyebrows. People often change religions, its no big deal.
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Would you still be a JW
by purplebunnyfoofoo in.
would you still be a jw if you had not been disfellowshipped?
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Athanasius
I left voluntarily after reading Crisis of Conscience, which confirmed that the JWs didn't have the "truth." Though not DFd, I'd never return to the Watchtower dictatorship.
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Describe your Spirituality after Leaving JW's please
by esw1966 inwhat has been your attitude toward religion after leaving jehovah's witnesses?.
did you search for religious truth?
scoff at religion?
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Athanasius
The first three years after leaving the Watchtower I didn't attend any religious services. I spent my time working and completing my education. Time was also spent meditating and reflecting on myself and my spirituality. I prefer being part of a community to being a hermit. So I began my spiritual journey, during which I visited the Bible Students, the Unitarians, the Church of Religious Science, just to name a few, before becoming an Episcopalian. What appealed to me about Anglo-Catholicism was the emphasis on Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. Reason is something you don't find in the Watchtower. The Episcopal Church isn't perfect, in fact it has some serious problems and divisions at present. But for now it is my spiritual home.
However, each one has to make their own decision regarding spirituality. What works for one might not work for another. The important thing is to use your new found freedom to make the decision that is right for you.
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About half the DF's go back? Really?
by AuldSoul inj.r. brown said about half the df's go back.
i know some who went back and promptly faded, some who went back and were "bt" jws (barely there), a few who went back and quickly got df'd again usually before they even got privileges back.. but the one that takes the cake (in my opinion) is the former po of my parent's congregation who had been giving dc parts for years getting disfellowshipped a couple of months after giving the rousing talk, "abhor what is wicked, cling to what is good.
" only after his reinstatement did i discover that was his third df.
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Athanasius
Can't say what its like in the congregations right now, but in the 70s and early 80s when I served as an elder about 50% of those DFd applied for and were re-instated. Women were more likely to return than men. In fact there were only two men who got canned during this time who were re-instated. Apparently these two guys weren't really "repentant" because after associating for a while one guy left his wife for another woman and got canned a second time. As far as I know he is still out. I don't know the details about the second guy, but he too was DFd a second time. However, he was eventually re-instated. I think he is an elder now.Do they still use the term "re-instated?"