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  Are you socially retarded? - For the newbies

  by Billygoat in

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  don't let this title startle you.

  i'm not starting a flame war.

  this is something that i've thought a lot about since i have two dogs.

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  This is something that I've thought a lot about since I have two dogs. My male dog was abused when I got him. He was 5 years old and a total ragamuffin. So dirty and ugly he was adorable. I fell in love with his gentleness and sweet smile. (For those of you that don't know, yes, dogs do smile!) But I quickly realized Henry was not socialized very well. Basically, he'd never had much interaction with people so he was frightened of them. Although I took him home, bathed him, groomed him, and loved on him, he would shy away anytime I leaned down to pet him. He had learned somewhere that a human hand reaching down to him was going to hurt him. After having him for over two years, he's FINALLY (and slowly!) getting better. He follows me around and is a total mama's boy, but he still occasionally acts scared when I pet him or yelps when I try to play with him. Although he's getting used to me, if someone else comes over that he doesn't know, he hides under the bed. He attempts to protect me by barking at the intruder, but he does it from under the bed. LOL!

  Sounds great! What kind of dog is he? Sounds you have done a wonderful job. Working as a Vet Tech I know we love animal owners such as yourself that are so caring!

  I had 4 Goldens at one time and I remember the female was so noisy and she would bark and bark but then turn around to look at the male (Max) to see if he "had her back" so to speak :)
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  On Cockroaches:

  by SixofNine in

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  don't be overly frightened.

  remember, they're just as afraid of you as you are of them..

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  Who is the Cockroach class? I guess we could call the 'anointed' the Locust Class. Now that the 'anointed' are getting older, the WTS has the 'given ones' to help out the governing body. These would fittingly be the 'Creeping Unwinged Locust Class." That leaves the 'other sheep,' the vast majority of JWs in the Cockroach Class.

  *** w92 5/1 11 Keep Close in Mind the Day of Jehovah ***

  9 Listen now to "the word of Jehovah that occurred to Joel": "Hear this, you older men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this occurred in your days, or even in the days of your forefathers? Concerning it give an account to your own sons, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to the following generation. What was left by the caterpillar, the locust has eaten; and what was left by the locust, the creeping, unwinged locust has

  eaten; and what the creeping, unwinged locust has left, the cockroach has eaten."-Joel 1:1-4.

  10 This is a campaign extraordinaire, one that will be memorialized for all time. Wave upon wave of insects, most prominently locusts, devastate the land. What does this mean? Revelation 9:1-12 also speaks of a plague of locusts, sent forth by Jehovah under "a king, the angel of the abyss," who is none other than Christ Jesus. His names Abaddon (Hebrew) and Apollyon (Greek) mean "Destruction" and "Destroyer." These locusts picture the anointed remnant of Christians who, now in the Lord's day, go forth to devastate Christendom's pastures by completely exposing false religion and proclaiming Jehovah's vengeance upon it.

  11 As indicated by Revelation 9:13-21, the locust plague is succeeded by a huge plague of cavalry. How true this is today, as the few thousand remaining anointed Christians are reinforced by more than four million "other sheep" together making up an irresistible cavalry! (John 10:16) They unite in proclaiming Jehovah's stinging judgments on Christendom's idolaters and on those who 'do not repent of their murders nor of their spiritistic practices nor of their fornication nor of their thefts.' Clergy-both Catholic and Protestant-who have actively supported the murderous wars of this century, as well as pedophiliac priests and perverted TV evangelists, are among those against whom these judgment messages are directed.

  ~Bugs
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  Help! Rev. 1:11, someone expain?

  by FRUSR8TD in

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  so here i am just reading my the book of revelation in my bible (nkv)..and i'm thinking "how can they read this and not see that jesus and god are the same?

  so i get out my wife'ss bible (nwt) and boom there it is...my bible has the alpha and omega refrence in rev 1:11...hers does not.

  i then take a look at rev 22:19 and there it has the punishments for adding or deleting anything from this book.

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  It's not quite clear to me whether your interest is in Rev.1:11 or the entire book of Revelation. But in general the textual support comes from p18(third/fourth century), p24(fourth), p43(sixth/seventh), p47(third), p85(fourth/fifth) Aleph(fourth), A(fifth), C(fifth), P(ninth), 046(tenth), 051(tenth), 052(tenth), 0163(fifth), 0169(fourth), 0207(fourth), 0229(eighth), 1006(eleventh), 1611(twelfth), 1841(ninth/tenth), 1854(eleventh), 2030(twelfth), 2050(1107), 2053(thirteenth), 2062(thirteenth), 2329(tenth), 2344(eleventh), 2351(tenth/eleventh), 2377(fourteenth).

  Rev.1:11 is supported by Aleph, A, C, 1006, 1841, 2050, 2329, 2351 as well as the Old Latin, Syriac and Sahidic versions. Edited to confirm that "Alpha and Omega" in Rev.1:11 has no uncial support.

  Phew! Hope that sets you in the right direction.

  Earnest

  Thank-you very much Earnest! This information will be very helpful... I love investigating into the manuscripts and the evidence for them. Sorry I didn't back to you sooner to thank you for the indepth response. Have you done any study into the opposing material for manuscripts Aleph, C, etc?

  Thanks again!

  ~Bugs
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  pets

  by Realist in

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  hi everyone,.

  quick question...are jw discouraged from having pets?

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  quick question...are JW discouraged from having pets? when yes ...why???

  In the 4 years I have worked as a Vet Tech we have never had any JW clients, not to my knowledge or Doc's anyway. We are nosey about those kinds of things We don't do a whole lot of blood transfusions and I don't think JW's allow them for their pets either but I could be wrong.

  ~Bugs
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  Why Ex-JWs Will Never Go From Door to Door

  by comforter in

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  jehovah's witnesses proclaim the good news of the kingdom under the power of god's holy spirit.

  jesus commanded his followers to preach in the most distant parts of the earth and promised them that the spirit of god would guide them in this life-saving work (acts 1:8).. without the spirit of god, one cannot continue preaching about jesus and god's kingdom (matthew 24:14).

  one surely will not have god's spirit if one preaches a negative message (against jehovah's servants) from door to door.

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  Are you saying that all jw kids are just going from door to door to keep parents happy? Hogwash and horsefeathers.

  They make good sales pawns.
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  Why Ex-JWs Will Never Go From Door to Door

  by comforter in

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  jehovah's witnesses proclaim the good news of the kingdom under the power of god's holy spirit.

  jesus commanded his followers to preach in the most distant parts of the earth and promised them that the spirit of god would guide them in this life-saving work (acts 1:8).. without the spirit of god, one cannot continue preaching about jesus and god's kingdom (matthew 24:14).

  one surely will not have god's spirit if one preaches a negative message (against jehovah's servants) from door to door.

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  am not here to peach. You Know taught me the folly of doing that in this place. I am just in this place to set the score straight. The Bible tells me to set opposers straight and expose their errors. I am not being hypocritical. We will provide comfort through discomfort.

  Why preach a kingdom you will never see, or understand according to the Bible? John 3:3 says that quite plain.

  John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
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  How many Artists here? Which field of Art?

  by invisible in

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  i know i asked this absolutely yonks back, then by the name of celtic, but with so many newcomers here i thought no harm but to ask once again.. how many artists do we have here or working in art related fields including film, music, theatre, environment, gardening, sculpture, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photograpy etc etc?.

  what hobbies do you have?

  how do you see your future artistic horizons opening up?

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  I am a model
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  Help! Rev. 1:11, someone expain?

  by FRUSR8TD in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so here i am just reading my the book of revelation in my bible (nkv)..and i'm thinking "how can they read this and not see that jesus and god are the same?

  so i get out my wife'ss bible (nwt) and boom there it is...my bible has the alpha and omega refrence in rev 1:11...hers does not.

  i then take a look at rev 22:19 and there it has the punishments for adding or deleting anything from this book.

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  As the text containing Alpha and Omega in Revelation 1:11 has no uncial support or any manuscripts prior to the ninth century it clearly lacks authority and that is why it is not included in most recent translations including the NWT.

  Thanks for the correction on Aleph, A and C. I am looking for source materials to study on this particularly Revelation manuscript evidence for the ones you mentioned. Could you give me some suggestions on ones (source material) you recommend or have used?

  There are many Syriac and Latin translations from as far back as the SECOND CENTURY that agree with the King James readings. For instance, the Pashitta (145 A.D.), and the Old Syriac (400 A.D.) both contain strong support for the King James readings. There are about fifty extant copies of the Old Latin from about 157 A.D. Then Ulfilas produced a Gothic version for Europe in A.D. 330. The Armenian Bible, which agrees with the King James, has over 1,200 extant copies and was translated by Mesrob around the year 400.
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  Help! Rev. 1:11, someone expain?

  by FRUSR8TD in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so here i am just reading my the book of revelation in my bible (nkv)..and i'm thinking "how can they read this and not see that jesus and god are the same?

  so i get out my wife'ss bible (nwt) and boom there it is...my bible has the alpha and omega refrence in rev 1:11...hers does not.

  i then take a look at rev 22:19 and there it has the punishments for adding or deleting anything from this book.

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  I'm thinking we have a case here of variant texts used in translation.

  I don't know because but the oldest manuscripts (A, B, Aleph, C, and D) do not contain even one verse of Revelations. They are missing all 22 chapters of Revelations as well as the first 45 chapters of the Bible. These are the manuscripts the newer versions are based on. I am researching to see what families of manuscripts the newer versions used for the missing chapters.

  ~Bugs
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  porn over at "JustJW's"

  by professor in

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  at least we're not that bad!.

  http://groups.msn.com/justjws/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-gb

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  Yikes! (no I wasn't looking in the mirror this time)

  ~Bugs