try again rodent!!.
i reckon the pronunciation of the yhwh is purely an accident of how european languages evolved.. jerome said that some ignorant ones when reading the lxx pronounced the yhwh as 'pipi' as they thought the square hebrew letters to be greek ones.
so we know manuscripts existed in his day with the letters.. in latin it was written iehovah.
I have heard that "YAHOO" may be the correct pronunciation of YHWH.
For hundreds of years only the High Priest would pronounce the name and that was only once a year.
Many Hasidic Jews do not say out loud, adonai or elohim but HASHEM (meaning THE NAME) in place of YHWH and do not even write GOD in English but G-D instead.
try again rodent!!.
i reckon the pronunciation of the yhwh is purely an accident of how european languages evolved.. jerome said that some ignorant ones when reading the lxx pronounced the yhwh as 'pipi' as they thought the square hebrew letters to be greek ones.
so we know manuscripts existed in his day with the letters.. in latin it was written iehovah.
What we are typing are "Latin letters." Roman numerals are not used much today.
are you coasting along day by day taking it as it comes?.
are you planning for emergencies and setting aside for the unexpected?
sacrificing here and there to have something later?.
My purpose is to be happy and never again sacrifice myself for another organization or human being.
what has given you the greatest peace of mind?
must one initiate their own exit or does it matter that a jc pushes an issue?
df or da or fade?
I could only achieve closure once I realized that Jehovah's Witnesses are not the truth.
Until I read Crisis of Conscience I was convinced that the Watchtower Society was God's channel of truth but individual Elders were screwing up by not following the Bible and the Watchtower. It was only after reading the experience of Ray Franz that I understood the Elders were acting wrongly because they had been taught wrongly by the Watchtower Society.
The weight of the world lifted off my shoulders and I have never looked back or been happier.
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this was pretty fun.
http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm it said that the chance of my god being real was 0.7 what did you get?
Took one hit and bit no bullets.
I have no Deity but my patron saint is Ayn Rand.
when you were before a judicial commitee for whatever reason...did they try to get you to see the error of your ways and thus save you from destruction at the big a...or were they just happy to let you die.. .
i have a theory that goes like this...if you are sorry they think that you are not and df you...if you are not sorry they make an attempt to try and save you because its a kind of feather in their cap.. .
i was sorry...so sorry i thought i deserved to be df...and said that i expected to be..and they later told me i said i wanted to be df...which i didnt..(i was a mental and emotional wreck on the night of the jc although i tried to portray otherwise)....but even if i had, surely they had some responsibiity to try and 'readjust' me.. .
About a year after I was disfellowshipped for the last time two Elders who had been very good friends of mine stopped by to ask if I wanted to get re-instated. They looked very surprised when I said, "no thank you, I am doing fine."
when you were before a judicial commitee for whatever reason...did they try to get you to see the error of your ways and thus save you from destruction at the big a...or were they just happy to let you die.. .
i have a theory that goes like this...if you are sorry they think that you are not and df you...if you are not sorry they make an attempt to try and save you because its a kind of feather in their cap.. .
i was sorry...so sorry i thought i deserved to be df...and said that i expected to be..and they later told me i said i wanted to be df...which i didnt..(i was a mental and emotional wreck on the night of the jc although i tried to portray otherwise)....but even if i had, surely they had some responsibiity to try and 'readjust' me.. .
Most of the Elders on my judicial committee genuinely tried to help me. One Elder was overjoyed at the chance to kick me out. He hated that I would publically disagree with him and that many members of the congregation would come to me for help before going to the Elders. He had a huge smile on his face when he told me he could not wait to tell the Circuit Overseer I was disfellowshipped.
i always liked what richard dryfress said in the movie "alaways", when he found out he was dead---"wow!!
!-----what a jerk i turned out to be"!!!!.
my mother's head stone says---------"i told you i was sick"!!
Since many people have told me they want to dance on my grave, I will be buried at sea.
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any suggestions?
i'd like to have several different ones, but what is a fairly good version to start using out of the gate?.
I like the NIV. It is the version I used the most after leaving the Watchtower.
Baptized November 25th 1973. CO Floyd Kite (spelling?) gave the baptism talk.
I was disfellowshipped and re-instated on the same day in November 1981 then disassociated myself in August 1984 was re-instated January 1985 then disfellowshipped for the final time July 1 1988.
September 1990 I realized the Jehovah's Witnesses are not "the Truth"
