hello folks, .
long time, no post .
so we checked in the next day and got her in a room.
Yizaman,
I just read your post about your wife. I am so sorry. What a terrible thing to happen.
I will be praying for your wife, the doctors and nurses will have the wisdom to know
what is best for your wife, and for you to have peace through this ordeal.
Love and hugs,
Velta
dear all, thank you for your warm welcome!
this is my story in short (pls excuse wrong spellings, english is not my native tongue and that it still became quite long).. i'm 34 and was born into the truth by parents who in their turn were baptist in young age.
i have one older sister who is currently serving at bethel with her husband and a younger brother who never embraced the truth (which was my big sorrow for many years).
Welcome, Newborn,
I totally relate to your name.
Love and hugs,
Velta
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This is only part of our group. Mark Johnson, the blond guy in the middle, was our Bethel tour guide and
we took him out to dinner at Mama Leoni's. I think this picture was taken somewhere on the streets of NY.
Apparently that part of NY was a "red light" district at the time. I know we really got an eye and earful that
night. Gays, prostitutes, fights, drunks in the gutter, you name it. I know I was scared and praying to Jehovah. hee hee
We took a trip to several cities and Puerto Rico (where Fred and Ray were doing a Convention) in 1978 and
took a tour through Bethel while we were there in NY. We had three days in New York and Fred arranged for us to
stay at a motel in New Jersey called "Liberty Motel". We found out why it was called that after a day there.
Our teenage boys took in the sights from our second story balcony and watched the "comings and goings" of
prostitutes and their Johns. We got back late from our Bethel tour and had to walk a long way from the bus, one
of the little girls had to go to the bathroom really bad and rushed back to the motel only to find we were locked out.
We had not paid our bill for that day yet. We had to wake up the manager and get it settled. It was a "pay by the day
or "hour" kind of motel which we were not yet aware of. We ribbed Fred about his choice of accomodations for us for years.
The first day there we took the Port Authority bus. I think we must have walked at least two miles from the motel to the bus. We caused
quite a bit of notice, since there were 13 of us walking down the sidewalk.(Hard to not notice hee hee) and one NJ man asked us what we
were doing in NJ and we said "we are from California on vacation". He said: "Geez, you came here from CA on a vacation?" Shows how
crazy JWs actually are.
Randy, you are saying what a problem the presses were, well our tour guide, Mark Johnson, told us what cutting edge
they were and how smoothly and seamlessly they ran. I guess he was their PR man. hee hee The public never hears
about or sees the probems.
I like the idea of a book. I don't have much of an imagination, but what about "Stop The Presses, Armageddon is Near".
Love you guys,
Velta
just wanted to say, "i love you!
" to everyone!.
(hey, it's friday ... i'm in a good mood!
Love you too, sac,
I CAN SEE YOUR WHOLE FACE!!!!
It is lovable.
Love, love, love,
Velta
i don't know whether anyone here has encountered a program called e-sword (with the hyphen in it like that).
it is bible study software that lets you install literally dozens of different translations of the bible to compare, plus dictionaries, maps, and commentaries (including historic commentaries like the ones ray franz describes in coc).
you can install both modern and historic translations, plus versions of the original greek and hebrew manuscripts as well as the latin vulgate and greek septuagint translations.
Heather,
Thank you so much for this post. I would be very interested in what the early Christians considered the Bible canon I am interested to know your research on Ecclesiastes also. Research
is on of my passions, however, I cannot read Hebrew or Greek, sadly. However, the Kingdom Interlinear was helpful when I did research on the word temple. Naos and hieron - I wish I had done more study on Bible languages when we first left the WT.
I think that even though the WT knows that Yahweh is closer to the name of God, they are locked into Jehovah because of their name Jehovah's Witnesses. How could they change, it would destroy their whole image.
This is an interesting post.
Velta
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Maybe I did it this time. Let me see. If they show up, I will edit them. Woo Hoo!!! I did it! Now there will be no
stopping me. LOL
Fred and Jeanne 1978 Fred at Bethel 1975? Maggie and Fred 1952 Cynthia and Ray Franz c. 1980
Pioneering in SF, CA When Ray came to dedicate our Assembly Hall in Yuba City, CA
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Yes, it is the same Fred Maes. I think God broke the mold when he made him.
I don't know of any other. hee hee
I would love to post the photos. If someone can tell me how.
I have them on a MySpace as well as my personal pictures, but
I just can't seem to get the gist of how to post them to JWD.
HELP!
Velta
is there a pdf of the kingdom interlinear?
if not can someone scan a few pages and post?
i need to show my wife that kyrios appears in the original text yet the wt changed it to jehovah.. any takers?.
Wow! possible-san,
Looks like you have every book the WT has written covered. I cannot read Japanese, but
looks like you have done a lot of research for us English-speaking XJWs. Arigato.
My granddaughter is teaching herself Japanese and want to go to Japan to the University.
Welcome to JWD.
Love and hugs,
Velta
so i wake with a bat in my bedroom,,,no idea how it got in,,,,got lights on, opened front door, dog in hand, pillow in the other,,bat, flew three times, from bedroom around thru living room to kitchen,,,then right out the door.
now i did ssome research online,,,,and it is a bad omen,,death,,,and the three times even more so of a more closer person to me.
do any of you have any other thoughts on this,,thank you.
Hi,
I am not wiccan, but my daughter's partner is. She says it means nothing.
Only that you had a bat in your house.
That is her take on it.
Velta
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I tried to put up som pictures.
JK tried to tell me how, but I guess I am a slow learner. Sorry they did not come up.
Velta
