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  Hebrew language question?

  by Crazyguy in

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  vowel points were not added to the hebrew language until from what i have read the 10th century ad.

  so how can anyone properly translate this language and the older canaanite dialect properly?.

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  In modern Israel people speak a modern version of Hebrew. Their modern writing system has no vowel points. The modern Jews understand and communicate just fine with no vowel points. If you grow up speaking a language, which writing system is used for it is quite flexible. It does not necessarily need a system with all the sounds indicated in its writing system.
  

  Language is primarily a spoken phenomenon. There are people who know their language just fine but are illiterate. Since Hebrew has continued without break for centuries, it's always had a intelligible life, with or without the vowel sounds being written down.

  Sure, there will be a few instances where words will be lost or confused, as Earnest demonstrates, but the Jews I know do just fine with both modern spoken, and ancient biblical, Hebrew.
  
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  AAAAAAAArrgh!

  by zeb in

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  sir simon,.

  how many dozen bloody times do i have to do the capcha thing before i get in.

  one round of street signs or cars and that was it.

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  AGREED! This has become a real pain...

  
  
  
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  the life saving message

  by jookbeard in

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  the life saving message of death and gloom brought to a town centre near to you!.

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  Thanks for this. Look at what current WT policies have brought about!
  
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  Can someone tell me why Joan's ark and the flood not true and impossible?

  by Gokumonkey in

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  hey everyone.

  i have a question and i hope i'm not confusing this with something else i heard.

  while watching ex jw videos on youtube many of them talk about how noah's ark and the flood didn't happen and it's impossible.

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  Gokumonkey,

  The main reasons for difficulty with the traditional interpretation of Gen. have been stated by others above: the biodiversity on the planet today, and geological issues.

  How did so many species that are found in remote, specialized parts of the world get from the Middle East (Mt. Ararat) to Antarctica, Madagascar, Cuba, Australia, Tibet, and so on? Why is it that places like those islands just mentioned have so many unique species on them, so many, in fact, that they are known for the phenomenon?
  

  If the ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat and it was a global flood, that is, if the waters covered the entire globe, then how could much higher mountains like the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas exist?
  

  It's important to remember that the ancient people who are responsible for composing and preserving that part of Genesis did not conceptualize the world like modern people do. Ask yourself: did such Middle Easterners back thousands of years ago know about the civilizations in the Americas or in the far East like Japan? If not, then how did they understand the word "earth" in Hebrew? It was certainly not like people today do! The Hebrew and Greek words for "earth" also mean simply "land." If you read the Gen. account of the flood and simply fill in "land" everywhere you see "earth," you can get a better understanding of how an ancient reader was thinking, and also why so many scholars today understand the Genesis flood as a local phenomenon, not a global occurrence.
  

  Does this help?
  
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  New NWT, then and now - a comparison of the 2013 NWT, 2013 vs 2017.

  by MeanMrMustard in

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  acts 2:9. old text:.

  acts 2:10. old text:.

  acts 2:11. old text:.

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  Thx, MMM. BTW, have you ever tried shaving in the dark? How about sleeping in the park?
  
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  Watchtower's new revenue stream, tourism!

  by nowwhat? in

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  come to "witness world"!

  at our new lakeside corporate resort we have a bible museum!

  take a picture with caleb and sofia!

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  I wonder if they'll tell each tourist group half way through the tour that the contributions for meeting the expenses of hosting their tour, $75,000 per group, is falling short, and that Jehovah has loving seen to it that contribution boxes are conveniently placed throughout the complex.

  "We know you'll do the right thing, brothers."
  
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  JW's Dancing at a Special Convention in Indonesia

  by disfellowshipped1 in

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  video: jw's dance at the jakarta, indonesia special convention.

  things have really changed over there in jw land...... holding up phones like lighters now?.

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  JB:

  I cant believe there would be a DC in Indonesia with over 40k in attendance in Jakarta, a Muslim country
  

  I met a large group of high school students from Indonesia who were attending school all year long in the USA and Canada, at their government's expense. All were nominally Christian. Since I had the same idea you do about Indonesia being a Moslem country, I had to ask them about it. They replied that it is Moslem only in certain substantial geographical areas, and that significant portions of the population had converted to the Dutch Reformed Church while the land was a Dutch colony. In fact, they told me that was the thing to do in pre-WW II Indonesia if a person wanted to rise up on the socio-economic ladder. Some told me of business contacts with Europe that their families still had that had begun when their ancestors "went Western," including converting to the church. I couldn't help but ask if any of them knew about JWs. Some knew about the local Kingdom Hall, but that was about it.
  
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  Where is the Annual Meeting 2017?

  by pomo6780 in

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  hmm, it's taken the big gb a long while to approve the annual meeting to be uploaded to their beloved tv.jw.org site.

  well.... from what i've read, it looks like they'll probably have to cut out a lot of embarrassing bits.

  wonder how lett's "immorality ... i mean immortality" would look on an official society video?

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  Perhaps they are planning on cherry-picking individual bits, broadcasting them later, and billing them as things "special" as they love to do.
  
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  Reversing magnetic fields

  by careful in

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  for the first time scientists have successfully reversed a naturally occurring magnetic field.

  it could have multiple implications:.

  https://www.natureindex.com/article/10.1063/1.4974994.

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  For the first time scientists have successfully reversed a naturally occurring magnetic field. It could have multiple implications:

  https://www.natureindex.com/article/10.1063/1.4974994
  
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  Sound familiar?

  by careful in

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  worth taking a look.

  the similarities with the wts cannot be missed.. from the ap and now in local news outlets:.

  http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article186281383.html.

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  Worth taking a look. The similarities with the WTS cannot be missed.

  From the AP and now in local news outlets:

  http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article186281383.html