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Please welcome my friend chaiyah
by unclebruce in
1. jw
2. friends
g'day chaiyah,.

welcome to jwd.

this place needs your broom of truth to sweep through it like there's no tommorrow!
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What is your favorite Bible Translation?
by Lo-ru-hamah in
1. watchtower
2. bible
do you have a favorite translation?

king james, niv, or others that i might not of heard of that are perhaps more poetically written.

or a style/version that you particularly like?.
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Maybe There's a Heaven...
by LittleToe in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i don't often open up discussions on my beliefs or experiences in life, but i feel a need, so please excuse me if you feel it untoward.

neither is this a poxy swan-song, i'm just opening up my heart a little.. today i had cause to reflect on a conversation i had with my [now ex-]wife shortly after my epithany.

everything was so new and unknown.
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A Message To All The Lurkers
by Anitar in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in recent weeks, i have seen several posters that some call the jw "lurkers," meaning the witnesses who read the articles of this site, and are perhaps questioning what the watchtower has been teaching them, yet are still very defensive of the watchtower's actions.

as a result, i have seen and participated in several heated debates.

it seems the main criticism of us is that we focus too much on the "negative," that we dig up the past too much, and worst of all, that we have nothing to really complain about, other than the personal vendettas some of us have against the watchtower.
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Secret Santa (Gift Exchange) 2006
by Angharad in
1. jw
2. friends
hope this hasnt been posted already, if it has someone tell me as i dont want to step on anyones toes !!.

well christimas will soon be here !!.

gadget did a great job of organising the forum gift exchange the last couple of years so i thought i would give him a break and volunteer to organise it this year.. for those that are new basically what it involves is that those who want to join in will post to this thread and then pm me their name and address.
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Revelation-Book Related Collages (Art)
by GermanXJW in
1. watchtower
2. bible
there is a german xjw-board at http://www.f25.parsimony.net/forum63052/index.htm (this is different to the one i normally refer to).. there appeared a member with the name '+' and presented very sophisticared collages for each chapter of the revelation-book.

(i would love to know who this is.).

they consist of quotes and pictures from this very book but also from very old (contradicting) wt-literature.
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Picture of Mouthy Granny Grace
by mouthys_gdaughter in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm mouthy's grand daughter... she emailed me and said y'all wanna see a picture of what she looks like.

in order to do that i had to sign up.

i hope she doesn't mind ;)
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NEW BOOK Take Back Your Life
by Lady Lee in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i emailed the publisher this morning and did not expect to hear from him at least until monday.

but i have my response already.. the book can be found at the publisher's website .

http://www.baytreepublish.com/take-back-life-fr.html.
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The Birth of Christ
by JamesThomas in
1. jw
2. friends
posting this under friends, as it is not about beliefs and religions.

the birth of christ.

there is that which is not a separate deity too small and limited to be present, but rather that which is presence itself.. there is that which is not a distant savior whose love is conditional and restricted to faith, but rather is the very presence of unconditional love itself.. there is that which is not a creatural spirit who offers peace for acts of faith, but rather that which is peace itself.. there is that which is not a god gleamed from a book believed by some to be alive and true, but rather than which is all-embracing life and truth itself.. there is that which is not a spiritual-being who some day may arrive, but rather that which is the living present-moment of beingness itself.. there is that which is not a separate lord who is holy and pristine, but rather that which is purity itself.
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The facts on crucifixion, stauros, and the "torture stake"
by Leolaia in
1. watchtower
2. bible
finally, i will look at biblical and patristic evidence bearing on the crucifixion of jesus in particular.

we need to examine the earliest known descriptions of the kind of crucifixion adopted by the romans and the specific terms they used to refer to it.

apparently the society believes that crux still meant "stake" in the second century a.d., when tacitus composed his annals.