has anyone ever come across anyone named jehovah?
i've known a lot of hispanics that are named jesus.
i went to zabasearch to see what i could find and it looks like there are few people with the family name jehovah for instance i found a "henry jehovah" and a paulette jehovah".
Regarding our little mate Jehovah Wanyonyi: He is certainly better looking than Ted Jaracz and looks more intelligent as well.
Maybe we should get him to write the Wt - at least then we'll be able to get something resembling intelligibility from that magazine.
Cheers
lots of dubz running around now giving studies with the "learner mags" that all proclaim 1914 as the year because it marks the start of great suffering like wars, disease, greed, etc.
on an unprecedented scale.. in 1918, the spanish flu killed 2.5-5% of the world population (wikipedia).
ww1 which ended in 1918, cost 0.75-2% of the world population.
Mr A! I'm surprised at you!!
Don't you know that all things are relative and symbolic and all [other] things are symbolically relative? Any given number as processed by the WTS has certain in-built variables that make it subject to dissonant pre-cognition, wherin the pre-disposed mental conceptualization of the mature follower of the Clocktower movement can make it mean whatever it is required to mean. Any given number registering in a greater degree, in this case, 33% can by the genius of realtive symbolism, [or is it symbolic relativism?] be transformed into a metaphysical quantity less than the quotient, which in this case is .075%. Numbers are provided, not to enlighten, but to obfuscate, and, must be able, through theological alchemy, to prove whatever it is expedient at any given time to prove.
For instace, 2+2 does not necessarily always mean four. The WTS has been able to demonstrate, through the magical art of linguistic ambiguity, that symbolically it can either mean more or less than four when it is required to do so.
To truly understand any given set of numbers found in WT literature you need first to undergo an intense form of programming, amusingly called the "Home Bible Study" using some form of programmable material, such as "What the Thingame Really Really Really Teaches, Honest. Cross our Hearts At least Until At Least Another Publication called What The Thingame Really Really Really Really Teaches [revised edition] Comes Along"
It is only when you have truly grasped the meaning of this programming, that you will be able to see how marvelously these numbers fall into their obedient places. The greater is made to mean less than the lesser, and the lesser more than the morer. In fact, being properly programmed you will be able to prove that by the use of numbers, the world is flat today and square tomorrow. That you are neither here nor there. Not only are you Arthur and Martha, but neither as well.
Or something like that.
Cheers
i have edited a few books.
i have proof-read a few books.
i have written many articles in college and university.
Yep. I remember those WT studies of the 50s which seemed to go on interminably. Not only were they long, but they were optuse beyond belief. Freddy Franz in his prime could marshall the English language to such syntactical levels that made his studies virtually incomprehensible. He had a genius for taking the simplest of concepts, and with the masterful use of ambiguity, make it genuinely impenetrable.
His motto seemed to be: Why make it simple, when its so simple to make it complicated.
Actually my sympathies went out to those poor jerks who had the unenviable task of translating his words into another language. For that alone Franz should have been indicted for crimes against humanity.
Cheers
this forum is so popular that i thought i would post here and say man i would love some feedback and peoples thought on my table of who?
topic in the other room.
=-) corey ps.
Oh good. You're back.
I'm sure somebody'll see you right, mate
Cheers
this forum is so popular that i thought i would post here and say man i would love some feedback and peoples thought on my table of who?
topic in the other room.
=-) corey ps.
Huh?
Hope you wern't referring to me socks. I only bought 'em twelve years ago. Well... I did'nt actually buy 'em but what the hell who's missing 'em ....right?
Cheers
lol .
i was glancing through the active topics and read terry's thread this way.
had to do a double take--especially since i have had trouble identifying my emoticons accurately!
OK..OK.. so I'm a computer moron... what the hell are emoticons, and how do I get to love 'em?
Cheers
getting through to customer service on the first try and the customer service rep. actually knows what they are doing and have your problem resolved on the first try!!!!
woohoo!!!!!
......do the little things make you happy or does it take a lot?...and for yourself happiness is................?
......Being owned by a cat.
Cheers
the weather kept us indoors today.
baltimore got about 6 inches of snow today, so it was a good day to stay indoors.
the turner classic movie channel showed 2 fantastic 4 star movies...gone with the wind, and casablanca.
Any of the old black-and-white "Road" movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Oh and the lass who was with them... Dorothy Lamour?
Waddaya mean its cold? Certainly not from where I'm sittin' The temp was 40C yesterday [make that 101F to you Yanks] and here I am in my shorts guzzlin' all this beer. Pity.
Cheers, anyway.
skadi .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ska%c3%b0i.
isis.
Bast, cat goddess of Egypt. The Greeks identified her with Artemis from whence the notion of the nine lives associated with cats sprang. Artemis was said to be the mother of the nine muses, whose invention of the seven note scale led to our idea of "Music"
It was said that dogs have always been the companion of the human family, but Bast waited till the human species became civilized to begin to live with them.
Cheers
just in case some of the folks may have wanted this letter for their records.
at the bottom of this letter the watchtower states, "this new arrangement for publishing the watchtower will take effect in january 2008.. it is nice to know that the watchtower feels that armageddon can be delayed until then!.
please delete if already posted!.
Thanks Atlantis. This is an invaluable piece of history and has therefore been saved for future reference.
Interestingly I noticed the letter mentioned that the GB had "approved" this decision. I wonder if this meams what I think it means. Normally, when someone "approves" something, it means that the person is endorsing a decision that someone else is actually making. If the GB did not "make" this decision but merely "approved" it, does it mean that someone else, like their financial consultants, actually "made" this decision as a cost saving measure, then sent it to the GB for "approval" ??
Nah... could'nt be..could it?. The polite fiction in the WT arrangement is that the GB makes all the decisions............. even if they are men verging on senility isn't it?
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