The very best of luck whatever happens, you are a 17 yr old who doesn't mess around. You have maturity beyond your years buit still know how to have a good time making *them* run circles around you. I always read you're posts even if i dont comment on all of them. I have the utmost respect for you Richie. Good luck
dorayakii
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UPDATE
by RichieRich inyesterday afternoon, i recieved 2 text messages from an anonymous source that read :.
(person that turned you in) i turned you into your brothers for your own good.
gal ?:?
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New Invitations for the "Deliverance at Hand" DC
by dorayakii in.
the front of this new watchtower-sized invitation features a common painting of the jw paradise and the theme of his years distirct convention, "deliverance at hand" emblazened across the front.
it looks like they're trying to work up armageddon fervour again.. .
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It's always the guy with Dockers, and an L.L.Bean shirt, doing gardening with his ethnic self, smiling, pushing a wheelbarrow around with tons of fresh fruit and vegetables. Like he just can't wait to eat that eggplant meddley again, for the 4 millionth time.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Actually the very theme is the reason i say that they're trying to stir up something. No other DC themes have been as direct... Deliverance is at hand!!
2006 Deliverance At Hand
2005 Godly Obedience
2004 Walk with God
2003 Give God Glory
2002 Zealous Kingdom Proclaimers
2001 Teachers of God's Word
2000 Doers of God's Word
1999 God's Prophetic Word
1998 God's Way of Life
1997 Faith in God's Word
1996 Messengers of Godly Peace
1995 Joyful Praisers
1994 Godly Fear
1993 Divine Teaching
1992 Light Bearers
1991 Lovers of Freedom
1990 Pure Language
1989 Godly Devotion
1988 Divine Justice
1987 Trust in Jehovah
1986 Divine Peace
1985 Integrity Keepers
1984 Kingdom Increase
1983 Kingdom Unity
1982 Kingdom Truth
1981 Kingdom Loyalty
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New Invitations for the "Deliverance at Hand" DC
by dorayakii in.
the front of this new watchtower-sized invitation features a common painting of the jw paradise and the theme of his years distirct convention, "deliverance at hand" emblazened across the front.
it looks like they're trying to work up armageddon fervour again.. .
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dorayakii
The front of this new Watchtower-sized invitation features a common painting of the JW Paradise and the theme of his years Distirct Convention, "Deliverance At Hand" emblazened across the front. It looks like they're trying to work up Armageddon fervour again.
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dorayakii
I heard that right up until as late as 1943, the Watchtower Society taught that Christ's Presence began in 1874. Are there any photographs or scans of articles written closer to 1943 that show this erroneous teaching?
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For those who speak french
by Genesis inhi sorry for my mistake, i should have read the posting guidelines, heres the original message : .
salut, j'aimerais savoir qui parle francais sur ce forum, je sais qu'il y a quand meme un petit nombre de quebecois (dont moi-meme, je suis au lac-st-jean) et de francais de france.
pour ma part j'ai fait les congregations suivantes : .
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dorayakii
One of the issues regarding this rule is that if we allow one other language then we have to allow many. And there is no way we could monitor those who might come simply to disrupt the safety of the forum.
Ben, d'accord, je concède. En fait je comprends parfaitement le risque, mais en tant que linguiste, j'aimerais bien voir representée tous les langues sur JWD.
Well ok, i see your point. Seeing as I'm a linguist, i love to see different languages represented on JWD, but i understand the risk quite well.
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The Watchtower transforms people into wussy !
by Genesis inhi there, i was just thinking about the whole thing.
when your are raised as a jw you cant have girlfriend or boyfriend and you must "feel that the other are superior than you", you must be very humble.
youve become an socially inadpted wussy.
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Thread resurrection... I agree to a certain extent with the title of the thread. Being associated with the Watchtower often produces extremes in behavior either being very stong and confident in life, or being very reserved in certain areas. Often these two traits can be interwoven with each other and manifest themselves differently in different areas of our lives. I myself am unusually confident in certain areas, but considerably less so in others.
Umm.. just to clarify for those who said that "seduction" is evil... in English the word has more of a negative connotation than positive. It can be the act of winning sexual favours from someone, dishonestly enticing someone into "wrong" behavior, and often involves suducing someone into an act that may be regretted... it often involves persuasion and manipulation...
In French however, the positive connotation of the word outweighs the negative. It can be to charm, to captivate, to attract... it is a Gallic art that utilises the 5 sences to engender attraction, as opposed to the Anglo-Saxon version of getting him/her in bed as quickly as possible.
(Of course thats an over-generalisation lol)
I dont want to enter a debate but "Innocence"is a turn off for women and its "Field Tested" by hundreds of people.
Umm... interesting but mnot entirely accurate statement.
well i was shocked, disgusted and put off Beyoncé when i read the lyrics of Destiny's Child's "Soldier" (and doubly so when i heard her mauled version of the song "Vois Sur Ton Chemin", hehe). She talked about "a rude boy thats good to me, with street credibility", with "grills gleamin' " (gold teeth), and "always talkin' that country slang we like". Does she really go for that type of man? The type of man who follows this aggresive "rude-boy" hip-hop style, who flaunts his ghetto-fabulous lifestyle by wearing gold grills? To me that's the most unattractive type of man in existence... but every girl or gay to him/herself...
She obviously doesn't rate humility or innocence very high up on her importance scale...
So although i do believe some women/men find "innocence" a turn-off, i think many (like myself) prefer a simple, honest and down-to-earth guy... its just a matter of choice... i do think though many people confuse confidence for agressiveness... and likewise, innocence is confused with weakness. Ce que tu entends dans les médias n'est pas toujours la vérité...
Aside from the ridiculous gay stereotypes of the masculine and feminine components of a same-sex relationship, i think gays also look for similar things in a partner to what hetero people look for. The problem is that men often don't know what women want, but try to impress them with displays they couldn't give two hoots about. In this post-modern media-controlled world, sadly to say, many people DO actually, actively seek out these stereotypes and in turn exaserbate them making them real.
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For those who speak french
by Genesis inhi sorry for my mistake, i should have read the posting guidelines, heres the original message : .
salut, j'aimerais savoir qui parle francais sur ce forum, je sais qu'il y a quand meme un petit nombre de quebecois (dont moi-meme, je suis au lac-st-jean) et de francais de france.
pour ma part j'ai fait les congregations suivantes : .
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dorayakii
Moi aussi, je parle français, mon adress email se trouve sur mon profil. J'suis anglais mais j'ai vecu à Paris pendant un an.
d'ailleurs, j'suis vachement impressioné par la vitesse que t'as quitté l'organisation. T'as vraiment du courage, félicitaions du fond de mon coeur. Que tu ne retourne jamais à cette secte dangereuse.
To ensure all users feel safe and keen to participate, please avoid: 8.Posting in a language other than English.
Umm.. well we're not plotting a terrorist plot, so you're all safe... and anyone is welcome to participate here... Its nice to show the multi-lingual capabilities of our "worldwide brotherhood" of JWD members.
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Dr Who
by mrsjones5 ini just saw the newest dr who...loved it, can't wait for the next episode.
are there any other dr who fans in the house?.
josie
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dorayakii
dorayakii ....Yeah they in fact made a point about mentioning the Dr.'s Northern accent....tried to listen for his vowels (i.e. saying "nut" like "put"). I really like Piper's character, do you know how long she'll be with the show? Hopefully more than just a few eps...
Yes Leolaia, the northern English dialects retain the oldest pronunciation of these vowels. "us" is pronounced [z]...
Watch out also for the long [a:] of southern England being pronounced as a short [ æ ] as in "bath"... which is a clipped version of the General American long [ æ: ] but unshaded, as GA [æ:] is, by [e]...
Also of interest is a final long [i:] of words like "study" being pronounced as a short [e]... eg. {stoo-deh}
Much of the series is shot in Cardiff, Wales... so you can hear the Welsh sing-song lilt if you're attentive, as well as a couple words of their own language...
VM44, i love those robots. I think that Dr. Who is an advert for UK tourism lol... you have St. Pauls Cathedral in the background... beautiful...
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YHWH - Ya'Wa' - revealed (Not Jehovah or Yahweh)
by hallelujah inboth the catholic and jehovah's witness anthropomorphisize yhwh, but in reality the word should be pronounced as yawa - or ya'wa'.. in ancient sanskrit, a short "a" is the default vowel.
this is not limited to sanskrit but is a universal and generic default vowel and the most common vowel sound in most languages.
the "h" simply means that the short vowel "a" is forcefully aspirated.
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"Da Sparat af da Lard as apan mahsalf, bacauz hea (or heach, because Hebrew has a penchant for pharyngeal sounds) hath anaintad mahself ta preach da gaspel ta da paar..."
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You lot are killing me of laughter... I'm so glad i clicked on this thread. I thought it was going to be another one of those Jehovah vs. Yahweh vs. Yehoo-wahwah-booga-booga threads... but its turned out to be quite entertaining. Hmmm.... where to start?... there are so many things to say. Every language does things in different ways, and although Sanskrit and the languages of the Indic branch of the Indo-European super-family do use the system of consonents, vowel diacritics and the default [a], many of the remaining languages of the world do not use this same system. The vowel [a] is not always default. In Proto-Indo-European for example, the original vowel was [e] from which in a later stage in its development was "coloured" to [i], [u] and [a] when it was influenced by 'rogue' sounds such as [y], [w] and the laryngeal {X}. The Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic super-family all use for the most part, tri-consonental roots, with vowels indicating nuances in tense, mood and aspect. In any language, vowels are much more fluid and subject to whimsical change that their cousins the mighty consonent. Even in English we note that in the Recieved Pronunciation of 1940's Britian, the word "that" was pronounced closer to "thet"... in only 60 years the situation has changed. The pure consonental system of Semitic langugaes must have arisen about 8000 years ago, waaaay before written records. We assume this because of the fact that the Semitic branch is distantly related to the Chadic, Egyptian, Berber and Cushitic branches of the same Afro-Asiatic super-family, and none of these languages use a consonental root system. In fact, even in modern Arabic, words representing the most basic vocabulary (m-t -to die, n-k-to have sex, s-h-to laugh) do not fit into this great consonental edifice, that must have developped after the coinage of these ancient, basic words. The consonental root structure, (one of the 'proofs' that Arabic speakers often use to argue that their language was created by God) cannot have had such an exalted divine origin, simply because there are related languages which are older than either Hebrew or Arabic which do not have this structure... the edifice must have arisen simply by the human need to regularise. For instance, if in English we spread by analogy the goose-geese, foot-feet pattern, we could easily create, book-beek. In fact, strange as it may today seem, in Old Enlgish, the plural of "book" was indeed "beek"... and like the irregular man-men, the plural of "hand" was "hend". In English, this process went the other way and the -s spread to become the dominant form for plural marking and vowel-mutation fell by the wayside. However in German, another vowel mutation spread from "Gast-Gäste" rejecting the -s ending in favour of forms like "Hals-Hälse", the plural of which was originally merely "Halse". Regularising of the vowel mutations in the Proto-Semitic language would have produced the original consonental root system. (We could for example in English say that the root words are g-se and f-t, and that the template _oo_ is singular, and the template _ee_ is plural, then spread that by analogy to all potential roots...) To give you a sence of the changes that can occur in 1000 years what alone 8000, is this sentence from the Old Englisc of about 1000AD
"Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum, Si þin nama gehalgod, Si þin nama gehalgod, gewurþe ðin willa, on eorðan swa swa on heofonum".
Needless to say an estabilished island people being invaded and occupied from nearby lands can produce such a different language in 1000 years, what about 8000 years of a nomad people, coming from Ur, enslaved by Egyptians, wandering in the desert, warring with and surrounded by the related but distinct Canaanite languages of Phoenician, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Aramaic, Assyrian and Babylonian? Would it not have produced at least slightly larger changes? Using these analogies, we can see clearly how and why the original vowels of Hebrew are completely beyond our grasp, having arisen 8000 years ago before written history. Given the age of the Semitic language family, the age of the myth of their principal deity ( recall Dei-wo-pater >> Zeus pater - Dyauspita - Jupiter that proves the antiquity of Indo-European mythology http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/108777/1900438/post.ashx#1900438) as well as the slippery nature of vowels, it is reasonable to even suggest that throughout time, YHWH was probably at least for some period of time, or even synchronically pronounced as Yahweh, Yehwah, Yahowah, Yaghwagh, Yahoweh, Yahveh or Yehowah in Hebrew throughout the ages... So maybe you are all right or maybe no-one is right... or perhaps it was pronounced Yehoo-wahwah-booga-booga at some point in history... Dorayakii, of the "ummm... or perhaps not" class...
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Historical Linguistics
by dorayakii ini just thought it would be interesting to give a bit of background on philology (the study of ancient linguistic texts) historico-linguistics (the study of the history and development of languages) and etymology (the history of individual words).
by analysing different languages, linguists were able to work out that many languages had a common root.
for instance, it was obvious that english, dutch, german, danish and swedish for example, are from a common root, because certain words closely resemble each other.. english drink.
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Wow, what an interesting and dynamic discussion, I didn’t expect it to receive so much interest. Umm, mustang, I really don’t speak any Mandarin or Cantonese at all, I just know that famous sentence. I believe the last "ma" in the sentence is toneless and is the question marker of which you speak. All the other components of the sentence have been accounted for: "maama mà màá de má ma" ~ mother-scold-horse-de-hemp-question…
Would I be right in assuming that the "de" here is the possessive marker? Or does it in fact give a progressive meaning to the verb "mà" ?
btw I’ve written double letters in order to represent accurately the tones on the forum; I wasn’t able to write the proper rising then falling or level tone accents.
