Posts by New Worldly Translation

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How would a JW handle this? 587 proved correct date for fall of Jerusalem

by confusedjw in

so i put it out to you who believe the wtbts is the agent used by god's channel on earth based on the belief that in 1919 (3 1/2 years after the gentile times ended in 1914, per pastor russell) they were appointed the fds.. what if it was proved that not 607, but 587 was the date jerusalem was destroyed?

would that affect your faith?

would it matter that the teaching of 1919 turned out to be false?

New Worldly Translation

Scholar

The truth is that the same chronologists the WBTS adhere to for the year 539BCE for the fall of Babylon are the same chronologists they disregard for the year of Jerusalem's fall. There are many secular business records of the time that point to 587BCE and also astronomical data which can't be fudged also points to 587. If 607 is right then all the other cuniforms and tablets found with dates intact for accession years, battles etc must be wrong? (the tablet the WBTS rely on has the date part missing)

It's also true that the WBTS changed it's own dates from 606BCE to 607BCE when it realized 606 didn't fit it's own erroneous chronology for the gentile times. If you take a closer look at the chronology of the 3 1/2 times from 1914 to the time of various members of the GB being imprisoned then that doesn't fit either. But that's another subject.

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UDATE ON PANDEMIC AVIAN VIRUS..............

by Sunnygal41 in

u.s. to test bird flu vaccine as warnings spread government stockpiling antiviral drugs in case of epidemic

ap scientists test laboratory samples infected with the bird flu virus at the national institute of hygiene and epidemiology in hanoi, vietnam, feb. 22.

the associated press updated: 6:55 p.m. et feb. 23, 2005

New Worldly Translation

The UK government seems to be taking this Avian Flu pretty seriously. The chief medical spokesperson on numerous interviews said it's not a case of if it spreads but when. The govn't have also bought drugs for 15 million people to relieve the symtoms of the flu and are also looking into a vaccine. It's been said upwards of 10,000 people in the UK could die from it.

It does bare similarities with the SARS outbreak a few years ago though and that was quite well controlled in the end. There were many people affected of course but there wasn't the massive loss of life that was forecast as a worse case scenario.

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Clean Break!

by New Worldly Translation in

jw
friends

i've decided to da myself formally by writing a letter to my old cong.

i feel i need to leave my old life behind and forge a new one, which i don't feel i've been able to do since i left 3 years ago.

there has always been a hope in my family and jw's i was friends with that i would go back at some point.

New Worldly Translation

Doesn't matter if it is the far east or East Anglia

That's settled it - I'm off to Norwich!

Thanks for the Johnny Cash lyrics. I keep meaning to buy some Johnny Cash CD's but I always get a mental block when I go to the music store and forget what I'm looking for. Last time because I couldn't find what I wanted and didn't like to leave without buying anything I bought some south american panpipe music and Japanese Kodo drummer CD's (True. They're actually pretty good though)

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Clean Break!

by New Worldly Translation in

jw
friends

i've decided to da myself formally by writing a letter to my old cong.

i feel i need to leave my old life behind and forge a new one, which i don't feel i've been able to do since i left 3 years ago.

there has always been a hope in my family and jw's i was friends with that i would go back at some point.

New Worldly Translation

So many things and ideas to explore if you have the chance ya just go and make your own way out in the worldly world of the world

The travelling idea might come round sooner than I thought. I got a letter today saying I had got the boot from where I work!

I was on 6 month probabtion period but had been off sick with anxiety attacks and depression for the last 6 weeks. Fair enough I suppose, I didn't particularly like the job anyway. Hmm.. I've always wanted to visit the far east

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Do you tend to believe everything that you read on the internet?

by JH in

jw
friends

there is so much information on the internet.

how do you know what's true, what's exaggerated, and what's totally false?.

this for example...... would you classify this true, exaggerated or false?.

New Worldly Translation

It's certainly a very confused article. It starts by describing a pretty inane medical affliction, which may or may not exist. Then goes on some spiritual and mythical meanderings a few conspiracy theories and ends up trying to tie in quantum entanglement in particles, specifically Bells Theorem which was described using photon particles if I remember correctly. I'm not entirely sure what point the article is trying to get across.

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Clean Break!

by New Worldly Translation in

jw
friends

i've decided to da myself formally by writing a letter to my old cong.

i feel i need to leave my old life behind and forge a new one, which i don't feel i've been able to do since i left 3 years ago.

there has always been a hope in my family and jw's i was friends with that i would go back at some point.

New Worldly Translation

Hummm I have seen that red X somewhere before......... sorry I can't place where?

Haha.. yeah that's my alter-ego Mr Broken Link. Lets see if this works-

As regards my DA letter, well there's not much in it really. I thought about explaining why I was DAing and incidents that led me to leave and some of the pain being a JW has caused in my life. In the end though I just explained that I no longer wanted to be known as a JW and that I would like to DA myself from the org. I figured that it didn't really help me explaining myself to them and I don't suppose they really care that much either.

If the shunning part of the deal gets unbearable I suppose I'll go travelling for a year or so and figure out my plans when I get back. I've always wanted to do that and it might be the kick up the bum I needed. I'd rather it didn't come to that though.

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Clean Break!

by New Worldly Translation in

jw
friends

i've decided to da myself formally by writing a letter to my old cong.

i feel i need to leave my old life behind and forge a new one, which i don't feel i've been able to do since i left 3 years ago.

there has always been a hope in my family and jw's i was friends with that i would go back at some point.

New Worldly Translation

I've decided to DA myself formally by writing a letter to my old cong. I feel I need to leave my old life behind and forge a new one, which I don't feel I've been able to do since I left 3 years ago. There has always been a hope in my family and JW's I was friends with that I would go back at some point. When I visited my parents they sometimes would invite JW's round at the same time and while it wasn't particularly unpleasant I knew the motive was to talk me round. My mother is also in the habit of sending emails about the Truth, Armageddon etc and dropping hints about various girls in the cong asking about me. I'm not too bothered about being shunned by JW's as I don't really want any contact with them anyway. In my family I only really talk to my parents, brother and grandma who say they will never shun me anyway. I need to make my decision final. If there's any dubs monitoring this site here I am; I'M AN APOSTATE!

Aha, it's a poor pic of me - Asa from Leeds (anyone know me?)

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Witness: Dixon Said He Was The Devil

by nicolaou in

28/02/2005 newstalkzb one of the women allegedly slashed by antonie dixon says he often claimed he was the devil.

simonne butler has been giving evidence at the high court in auckland, where dixon is facing charges including murder and attempted murder.

ms butler has told the court she began dating dixon in 1997. she says he was often erratic, unbalanced and believed he was being followed.

New Worldly Translation

Yeah he's a complete screwball. To be fair he could have been mental with or without the JW's. In my experience the JW's attract as many mentally ill people as they make themselves with their doctrines.

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