Did you know that the ages are completely different in the Septuagint than in the Masoretic text?
If you add up all of the patriarch's ages, in the Septuagint you end up with almost 2000 years extra!!
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The Ages Of The Biblical Patriarchs
by JW_Rogue inso i've been reading the imitate their faith book (because my wife wants to) and keep coming upon these ridiculous ages for the bible patriarchs.
now i know wt takes everything literally but there has got to be some explanation that makes more sense.
why would the bible writers create these obviously false ages?
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Spanish defenders of the Watchtower? (Or other languages!)
by slimboyfat inare there any unofficial watchtower defenders publishing in spanish?
i'm doing a survey and i think i've got most of those writing in english covered.
then there's gerard gertoux and a few others in french, furuli from norway, matteo pierro in italian, johannes wrobel and others in german.
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ILoveTTATT2
As Hilde said, Testigo Humano. I know he visits this site... it's fairly obvious since things that are originally only on this site "somehow" end up on his.
He runs a website called "Replies to Professional Apostasy".
Not really a scholar, just really bad attempts at defending the WT. Very easy to disprove.
Unlike Furulli or Stafford, which, it seems like they actually have a good defense.
I know of no one else really in the Spanish side of things.
As to your question, MOST DEFINITELY, Spanish is THE largest language in the JW world. In fact, Spanish speaking JW's outnumber English speaking ones almost 2 to 1. -
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JW.Org new video
by LevelThePlayingField inthis is a new video put out by the borg.
i have nothing to say negative about it actually.
it's only 2:34 minutes long and helps you learn the books of the bible and the basic contents of them and is done very well.
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ILoveTTATT2
You're kidding right?
I'd rather have my kids memorize actually useful things... instead of the names of "books" of a very disgusting book once you actually read it. That book has led to so many people being killed, manipulated, beaten, etc...
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I just found out that my youngest brother committed suicide
by SnakesInTheTower inmy middle brother called me a couple of hours ago.
our youngest brother, josh, who was 38, was found by his friends in his apartment.
he hung himself.
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No more printing of WT and Awake in my country.. Shit just got real
by cognitivedizzy inguys .
a letter was just read in out kh stating that all printing of wt and awake is ceased for the coming year and we will just place tracts on fs, countries which were cared by our branch will be cared by other countries...along with this they read the new fs form and stuff about reporting links of videos wtf..lol.
i can't tell which country perhaps that will give away a lot, any one with a similar information.
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ILoveTTATT2
So... can someone please confirm this 100%?
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Document Blood Transfusion Deaths - please help
by Lee Elder inthe vast majority of deaths from the blood policy are undocumented because they are simply not newsworthy.
if you know of a death or serious injury/disability related to the blood policy, please help us document it.
send as many details as you can recall.
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ILoveTTATT2
Unfortunately, I made the terrible mistake of not documenting the sources... they were in newspaper archives from my university. -
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Document Blood Transfusion Deaths - please help
by Lee Elder inthe vast majority of deaths from the blood policy are undocumented because they are simply not newsworthy.
if you know of a death or serious injury/disability related to the blood policy, please help us document it.
send as many details as you can recall.
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ILoveTTATT2
I made a spreadsheet and got 90 names... I got tired from searching so many newspapers...
NAME AGE AT EVENT DATE FROM NEWS DATE EVENT DATE DOB DOD STORY Young man 19 Argentina 2012-11-06 Accepted BT, survived Rachel Underhill ? UK 2010-02-10 ? Almost died Haldor Mickelson 67 Minnessota 1979-12-10 Almost died, received oxygen transport substitute Woman 63 UK 2014-12-09 2014-02-20 2014-02-20 Died refusing a Blood transfusion Woman Michigan 2014-12-01 2007 Died refusing a Blood transfusion Joshua McAuley 15 UK 2014-11-23 2010-05-18 2010 Died refusing a Blood transfusion Allison Mallender 44 UK 2006-12-29 Died refusing a Blood transfusion Emma Gough 22 UK 2007-11-05 Died refusing a Blood transfusion Stephen Jehu 1 Australia 1960-03-24 Died refusing a Blood transfusion, father was on trial for manslaughter Sara Cyrenne 12 Ontario 1981-09-13 1980-03-01 Died refusing a BT Frederick Charles Garthe 54 Australia 1956-04-16 Died refusing BT Elizabeth Burgers 28 Australia 1979-07-06 Died refusing BT Avril Stevens 24 Australia 1965-06-10 Died refusing BT Veliza Humphries 37 UK 1960-07-07 Died refusing BT Woman 44 Australia 1974-06-03 Died refusing BT Nicola Gleff 35 UK 1991-03-23 Died refusing BT Girl 8 Honduras 2014-10-31 2014-10-30 Died refusing BT Woman 61 Spain 2009-07-06 Died refusing BT Bárbara Falcón 30 Argentina 2014-05-10 Died refusing BT Maria Irene 74 Argentina 2013-04-02 Died refusing BT Iris Fracalossi 35 Argentina 2012-06-05 Died refusing BT Camilo Zampini 36 Argentina 2011-01-16 Died refusing BT Yawinky Spencer Reyes 19 D.R. 2011-01-21 Died refusing BT Angela Soza 26 Uruguay 2014-03-02 Died refusing BT Dennis Lindberg 14 Washington 2007-11-29 Died refusing BT Édison Arévalo Tituana 47 Ecuador 2013-09-22 2013-07-08 Died refusing BT Man 67 Argentina 2011-04-06 Died refusing BT Anita Brown 25 California 1980-06-22 Died refusing BT, had cancer, could have been operated on if she allowed BT Adeline Kweku Keh 40 UK 2014-11-13 2014-11-10 Died Refusing BT, Mother, died at childbirth Rachel Ridell 32 New Zealand 2014-10-21 2011-01-01 Died refusing BT, non-practicing JW Juliana Bonfim da Silva 13 Brazil 2014-08-13 1993-01-01 Died, Doctors not guilty of murder for not giving BT Boys 1 Vancouver 2014-05-14 2007-01-01 Died, Sextuplets born to JW's refuse BT, Judge orders BT Boys 1 Vancouver 2014-05-14 2007-01-01 Died, Sextuplets born to JW's refuse BT, Judge orders BT Girl 1 Texas 1952-04-29 Father arrested for trying to prevent daughter from getting BT Girl 1 UK 1953-11-06 Father denies BT to daughter Julie Pennoyer UK 2014-04-24 2014-04-01 Hemosep, new "cell saver" that includes clotting factors (General) USA 2014-11-10 Hopkins report: BT results in more mortality Girl Mulder 1 Australia 1960-05-31 Judge ordered BT Girl 1 Colombia 1995-05-30 Judge ordered BT Alfonso Cáceres 17 Colombia 1996-09-19 Judge ordered BT Smock 1 Indiana 1960-01-16 Judge said must have BT Michael Pen 10 Seattle 1961-03-03 Judge said must receive BT Sarah Mary Thorne 1 UK 1965-12-09 Judge said must receive BT, it was too late, she died Boy 2 UK 2014-12-09 Judge said must receive transfusion Boy UK 2014-11-23 2014-03-01 Judge said must receive transfusion Girl 15 Manitoba 2009-06-26 2005-01-01 Judge said must receive transfusion Boy 13 UK 2014-08-01 2014-08-01 Judge said must receive transfusion Boy 1 UK 2014-08-01 2014-02-01 Judge said must receive transfusion Girl 10 South Africa 2014-06-01 2014-06-01 Judge said must receive transfusion Girl 1 Toronto 2014-05-22 1995-01-01 Judge said must receive transfusion Teenager 17 Australia 2013-09-27 Judge said must receive transfusion Boy 2 Texas 2012-05-10 Judge said must receive transfusion Lydia D'Andrea 2 Massachussets 1965-05-12 Judge said must receive transfusion Stephanie Charalambous 2 Cyprus 1990-06-18 Judge said must receive transfusion Richard Fellows 45 Connecticut 1965-06-15 Judge said must receive transfusion Boy 17 Australia 1961-08-03 Judge said must receive transfusion Jamie Ward 6 Australia 1975-10-30 Judge said must receive transfusion, made a ward of the state but BT was not needed after all Man UK 2014-05-09 2014-02-01 Man cut his wrists, JW, refused BT John Edwards 58 UK 2008-06-08 Might have died Arlene Hansler 15 Ontario 1970-09-07 Might have died Ronald Cull 27 Australia 1955-12-26 Might have died Woman Colombia 1999-01-24 Might have died, need brain surgery Juan David Suarez 1 Colombia 2004-02-10 Might have died, needed heart surgery Kymberly 12 Chicago 1990-05-13 Mother abducted child to avoid her having BT's... Mother homeless, JW Dewall girl 2 Ontario 1970-04-09 Mother abducted child, child given BT Willimina Anderson 29 New Jersey 1964-06-27 Mother and child survived, Supreme Court ordered BT Mitchell Anderson 1 New Jersey 1964-06-27 Mother and child survived, Supreme Court ordered BT Boy UK 2014-11-08 1973-01-01 Parents left a boy because he had a BT Eeva-Liisa Pirttinen Finland 2014-04-24 Put baby at risk because of no BT Deanna Crigler 32 Alabama 2014-11-10 Remission from Leukemia no BT: lucky 5% vs 90% Ashya King UK 2014-09-13 Said publicly would allow BT for his son Boys 1 Vancouver 2014-05-14 2007-01-01 Sextuplets born to JW's refuse BT, Judge orders BT Boys 1 Vancouver 2014-05-14 2007-01-01 Sextuplets born to JW's refuse BT, Judge orders BT Boys 1 Vancouver 2014-05-14 2007-01-01 Sextuplets born to JW's refuse BT, Judge orders BT Boys 1 Vancouver 2014-05-14 2007-01-01 Sextuplets born to JW's refuse BT, Judge orders BT John Vellisarakos 58 Australia 1954-06-29 Stabbed, almost died because of no BT Madalyn Lim 26 Australia 2014-12-09 Successful Heart Surgery Lewis Carrey 54 California 1972-07-19 Successful Heart Surgery Pablo Albarracini 38 Argentina 2012-05-01 Successful Surgery, received a bullet to the brain Elizabeth Deno 43 New York 1957-11-22 Survived Lowest known Blood levels (General) Australia 2014-05-20 Two JW's decide Blood Management for Australia -
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Corpus Linguistics - Text Analysis of All Watchtower Publications since 1800's
by objectivetruth ini've been working on a side project for a while.
the goal of the project is to create a comprehensive database of all publications throughout history.
with this database i will be able to instantly find trends in text,sentiment of writing, methods used, and scriptures emphasized.. essentially i will be able to put a word like "apostate" into my tool, and instantly receive a report showing every time the word (or similar words) has been used in all publications since 1870.. i will also be able to create reports showing word density used in publications over time.. so i'll be able to see that the word "governing body" has increased in usage 25% year over year since 1975.. or i will be able to analyze the november 2014 wt and run an algorithm that helps to determine, what the tone and motive of the writing is.. the thing that i am most excited about is the ability to instantly find every occurence of a scripture in every publication.. this will be a great tool to find flip flops in doctrine as well as inaccuracies in biblical interpretation.. i will for sure publish all interesting findings here.. .
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ILoveTTATT2
Hi LAWHFol!
That's awesome! Can I help you somehow to put in the data previous to 1950?Thanks!
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Corpus Linguistics - Text Analysis of All Watchtower Publications since 1800's
by objectivetruth ini've been working on a side project for a while.
the goal of the project is to create a comprehensive database of all publications throughout history.
with this database i will be able to instantly find trends in text,sentiment of writing, methods used, and scriptures emphasized.. essentially i will be able to put a word like "apostate" into my tool, and instantly receive a report showing every time the word (or similar words) has been used in all publications since 1870.. i will also be able to create reports showing word density used in publications over time.. so i'll be able to see that the word "governing body" has increased in usage 25% year over year since 1975.. or i will be able to analyze the november 2014 wt and run an algorithm that helps to determine, what the tone and motive of the writing is.. the thing that i am most excited about is the ability to instantly find every occurence of a scripture in every publication.. this will be a great tool to find flip flops in doctrine as well as inaccuracies in biblical interpretation.. i will for sure publish all interesting findings here.. .
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ILoveTTATT2
Hi,
I would like to resurrect this thread. Is the OP still around on JWN? I cannot PM since my PM is broken, but I really would like to see this project come to fruition.
Thanks!
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Hours will be going up
by pbrow injust got done watching parts of the october episode at jdub.broadcasting and it looks like the definition of "sacred service" is getting an update.
construction work, helping out fellow dubs, even helping out non-beliebers and opposers will soon be adding up to record progress for publishers... gett ready for a huge increase in hours being reported.... can you hear it now??
my how jw.org provides.... pbrow.
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ILoveTTATT2
I don't want to see the full hour... can someone please let me know where the "update" is?