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  Yahweh and Baal

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is what we can read from the jewish encyclopedia:.

  the name ba'al (), apparently as an equivalent for yhwh, occurs as an element in a number of compound proper names, such as jerubbaal, ishbaal, meribaal, etc.

  some of these names, probably at a time when the name of baal had fallen into disrepute (comp.

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  Isn't "baal" just one of several words for "Lord"? So then shouldn't we expect to see it used differently in different contexts?
  
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  "Freeness of speech"

  by Wonderment in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this was posted on another thread (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6040010839031808/christmas-tree-word-appreciation), but wondered about how others here would see this with one experience i had as an elder now as ex-jws.. when we were jw's we had to be extremely careful with what we said around the brotherhood.

  if someone said anything out of the ordinary, relationships among the involved were halted immediately, or were never the same afterwards.

  in this place, one can say almost anything without the fear of having a truck run over us.

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  I left before the emphasis on strict standardization became the norm, before that directive on closely adhering to the public talk outlines. I was speaker coordinator and scheduled myself to speak out in places where the bros. knew I added interesting material to the outline and I scheduled bros. into our congo who I knew worked up a lot of their own research. In both cases the publishers clearly appreciated it. I both had many people come up to me afterward with positive comments about my own material and I witnessed publishers at my home congo do the same to bros. who did likewise. Such ones were more apt to be invited out to eat too, or I'd get requests to invite them back. But I know what has happened since with the GB and their lackeys being obsessed with controlling every bit of everything. FEAR is the power structure's motivation for all things: "we must be in control!"
  

  We used to have several musician bros. to who would play piano or other instruments during the songs at meetings. Again the congregation loved it, singing more from the heart, but those went by the wayside too with those generic recordings. The GB and their lackeys are absolutely set on making everything generic (boring) and lacking in any semblance of originality. Hence the plummeting in real interest and, now, in results from the ministry! DUHHH.
  
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  Names of GB's wives?

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  does anyone know the names of the gb members wives?

  where could i find them?

  just curious!.

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  According to this anti-tight pants Tony's wife is named Susan as well.

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20150515/remembering-first-love-for-jehovah/
  

  More are given here.

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2000007
  

  There was some rumor here that Geoffrey Jackson had married 2-3 years ago along with a pic, but I don't think the woman's name was given.
  

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/264961/fds-gb-member-geoffrey-jacksons-wife-looks-young?page=3&size=10
  

  Mark Sanderson is single, I think.
  

  Curious, EQV, why is this important to you?
  
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  Jesus 40 day fast, what really happened?

  by Formerbrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-march-2016/questions-from-readers/.

  did satan physically take jesus to the temple when tempting him?.

  put simply, we cannot be certain whether jesus actually stood in the temple or he did so only by means of a vision.

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  The Cotton Patch Version reads here:

  Then Jesus was taken by the Spirit into the country, to be given a test by the Confuser. And after a forty-day fast he was plenty hungry. Well, the Confuser comes around and said to him, "So you're God's Head Man, huh? The order these stones to become pones." But Jesus told him, "The Scripture says, 'A man shall not live on pone alone, but on every word falling from the lips of God.'"

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  Again, the Confuser gets him way up on a high mountain and points out to him all the nations in the world and their splendor, and he says to Jesus, "Now if you'll just let me be boss, I'll turn all this over to you." Then Jesus tells him, "Scram, Satan!"
  

  That clears it up, eh?
  
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  JW's have he lowest tolerance for LGBT

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to a pew research survey ... and it has evolved little since 2007.. eden.

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  SBF:

  When ... JWs are the only ones left discriminating

  Like the Mormons, the Southern Baptists, the Missouri Synod Lutherans, the Presbyterian Church in America, and in the UK the Plymouth Brethren? Don't hold your breath waiting for any of these groups to budge on homosexuality.
  
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  Latest article about Warwick polution

  by ttdtt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.recordonline.com/article/20151214/news/151219671/0/search

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  Doesn't this just show how the GB does not think things out? Duhhhh---"some chemical company has some land for sale. Let's buy it!" Not a thought of it possibly being polluted in spite of a chemical company having owned the land.
  
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  2015-12-16-BOE Instructions For Recommending New Congregations!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2015-12-16-boe.

  instructions for recommending new congregations click the green download button.

  http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/v8exeat petra!

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  Stuck,
  

  The reason for the lack of a usual sign off statement is that this is not a letter. It looks like a page out of some procedural book.
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  Reveal News: How Jehovah’s Witness leaders are responding to child abuse scrutiny by Trey Bundy

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.revealnews.org/blog/how-jehovahs-witness-leaders-are-responding-to-child-abuse-scrutiny/.

  by trey bundy .

  december 14, 2015 .

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  Wow, that the GB would send one of their number to this branch to "deal with" the matter is the most revealing thing. Why did they do this in Portugal and not elsewhere?
  
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  In Associated Press today

  by Gayle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d926d4a36d614dfe969eba2b632fb3ce/jehovahs-witnesses-could-get-1-billion-nyc-properties.

  hopefully, some jws will read this, and question how the wt is getting all this money, and question where is it really going?.

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  Thanks for the link. No real news though...
  
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  Can somebody explain the songs and songbook obsession?

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been out a while and have only put in a rare appearance at a memorial or brief visit at a convention/assembly to keep people off my back, so i haven't kept up on the songbook.

  but one thing i've noticed that the org.

  has been doing that they never did when i was in is all these "supplemental songs" that keep appearing.

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  Wow, the response has been rich. Thanks! The role of Splane is news to me. Updating it to make it match the revised NWT is also logical. Thanks for the old recordings too. Are those archived on JWdotnet?