Posts by careful

g's lovely and loyal to the organization mother (due to many reasons), gave an unexpected reaction when i asked "how is brother w. our favorite co and friend since her early youth years?

is he still alive?".

she reacted "he is still alive, but sidelined like the rest of the old gard.

It makes you wonder whether the purge of the old ones was for more than just not wanting to pay their medical bills. Maybe they got rid of those in advance who would most have objected to so many of the recent changes?

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2018-List Of Publications Approved For Discard!

by Atlantis in

copy & paste;.

atlantis listed only one form which is the s-60-e--2/18, but there are several items in the zipped folder.. .

2018 list of publications approved for discard.

careful

Whoever this leaker is is Ghana, there must be a posse looking for him!

Thanks for the info.

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Can anyone name a single incident when bethel has fed the poor ever ?

by Chook in

charity is lacking from the house of god.

i remember reading once about some young pioneer sisters who needed emergency accommodation and where turn away from brooklyn because they weren’t special pioneers.

charity begins at home..

careful

I doubt this is what you are looking for, but once while I was pioneering and thus very poor, I visited Brooklyn Bethel and they fed me. It was my first dose of how crazy meals were there. Everybody had to wolf down the food and far more time was spent not eating (2 prayers, "discussion" of the daily text) than eating. I also once had a bro. living with me who had just left Bethel service. They guy would still gobble down his food at great speed and to him mealtimes were not a time to relax. He had no idea of the concept of enjoying food. It was truly sad.

I guess things have now changed in that regard, and that's good. For years it's been amazing to me how L-O-N-G it takes the WT leadership to learn something so obvious to others. They are especially so duhhh. Dump the pyramids, accept vaccinations, take certain scriptures at face value (Rom. 13:1, John 17:3), get rid of the crazy view of the ancient Hebrew verbal system (= proceeded to ___), accept alternative civilian civic service in lieu of military service, ENJOY A MEAL at headquarters, on and on the list can go. Who knows? Maybe one day they'll even admit that Jesus died on a cross or that the GB makes mistakes!

Wait a minute—am I dreaming?

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Charges of child Sexual Abuse Against Cardinal George Pell Dropped by the Prosecution.

by smiddy3 in

today it was announced after so many months?

/ years ?

that the allegations against cardinal george pell of child sexual abuse has been dropped by the prosecution.

careful

According to this article, just one charge has been dropped because a witness died, but the Cardinal still "faces a crucial four-week hearing starting in Melbourne in Monday to determine whether he stands trial." So it's not over yet.

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/2135428/australian-prosecutor-drops-sex-charge-against-cardinal-george

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A spy's life is a lonely one

by LevelThePlayingField in

so i have been awake since about this time in 2013, so about 5 years.

and the craziest thing about it is that now, no one, and i mean no one know's i am an apostate.

meaning, that i don't believe the jw minds set/beliefs at all, and no one knows it.

careful

DOC:

I know of an individual who was tracked down by doing this. An IT savvy Elder in his Cong compared IP addresses from the "apostate emails" to the IP addresses of everyone in the Cong who had sent him emails. BINGO! Now DFd.

Too bad the poor chap didn't use a proxy or tor, or better yet, some IP addy that could be tracked back to Bethel!

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Oh Boy! Beards are "stumbling blocks" again ... from Stephen Lett

by freddo in

jw
friends

so this week's midweek meeting video about stumbling others has lett spouting and gurning rubbish again.. if you can't take the whole 9 minutes go from 5:50 to get the context and 6:45 for the "beard" mention.. https://youtu.be/ezv1ici5cwo.

oh, well - at least they shoot themselves in the foot with this doublespeak.

single.

careful

Yes, they seem to be sending out two different messages about beards. Also noteworthy to me is the change in the rev. NWT at 1 Cor. 8:9. Old NWT: "this authority of yours": rev. NWT: "your right to choose"

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Recent New Testament translation causing a stir

by careful in

sharp-witted and well-educated eastern orthodox philosopher and theologian david bentley hart, now a fellow at notre dame, has produced a nt translation (yale univ press 2017) that is causing a major stir.

one-man translations are pretty rare any more, but this one is making a real splash, largely because it does not surrender to the group/translation committee mentality.. .

even though it's been out only a few months, it's already been reviewed several times in well-known publications.

careful

humbled, here's your plural:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incubus

There's even an antonym, succubus!

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Recent New Testament translation causing a stir

by careful in

sharp-witted and well-educated eastern orthodox philosopher and theologian david bentley hart, now a fellow at notre dame, has produced a nt translation (yale univ press 2017) that is causing a major stir.

one-man translations are pretty rare any more, but this one is making a real splash, largely because it does not surrender to the group/translation committee mentality.. .

even though it's been out only a few months, it's already been reviewed several times in well-known publications.

careful

The X on the cover is a cross formed by two nails of the kind used at the time of Jesus to put people on crosses. On the inside title page and under the title of each book (Matt. Mark, etc.) is a single horizontal nail.

One-woman translations include two old ones, the entire NT by Helen Barrett Montgomery in 1924, and the entire OT by Helen Spurrell in 1885. In modern times female Bible translators are certainly around but do not produce entire NT or OT translations. They do parts, often individual books in the form of commentaries. For example, Adele Berlin did the Anchor Bible volume of Zephaniah (1994), Carol Newsom wrote a volume on Daniel (The OT Library 2014), Margaret Thrall, the two volumes on 2 Cor. for the ICC (1994, 2000), and Karen Jobes has written commentaries on 1 Peter (Baker 2005) and 1, 2, 3 John (Zondervan 2011). The last was also on the committee that translated the NETS that Crazyguy mentioned (Esther).

I was wondering if I'd get much of a response from this post, given that so many here are atheist/agnostic, and/or are pretty anti-Bible. I appreciate the responses.