This time: All Nations will hear the Good News then the end will come. Anyways, he was asking do I think the end was near. Why did I explain to him that the JWs, by Bible definition, haven't reached all the nations yet...the proceed to break out the Greek dictionary and explain what the word Nation really means in the Greek (Ethnos). The dude seem pretty depressed when I shwoe dhim that and explained about the 'lost' tribes in Africa and South America that probably haven't even heard teh word of God yet.
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Why do I always end up crushing a JWs psyche?
by A-Team inthis time: all nations will hear the good news then the end will come.
anyways, he was asking do i think the end was near.
why did i explain to him that the jws, by bible definition, haven't reached all the nations yet...the proceed to break out the greek dictionary and explain what the word nation really means in the greek (ethnos).
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.....if the Memorial is in march thsi year, I'm going to have a field day when the WItnesses come to my door.
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My very 1st trip to the hall....EVER!
by A-Team in....to sum it up, what a snoozfest!
i guess that i have went to a different kh, because i wasn't greeted with love, but only by 2 people.
part of this may have been i decided to keep my full beard.
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....to sum it up, what a snoozfest! I guess that I have went to a different KH, because I wasn't greeted with love, but only by 2 people. Part of this may have been I decided to keep my full beard. Anyhow, I was surprised at the many empty seats I spotted, and how evryone tended to sit towards the back. Anyway. The 1st song was KM 217...Those songs were drier then a 2 dollar steak, we'll leave it ta that. There is no Praise and Worship in the service, atleast from the hour that I stayed. That was followed by prayer, and one thing I noticed is that is how they keep on talking about 'the world' and how to keep them same from it. IMO, if you are a Christian, you shold be praying for the world, point blank.
Then the Public Talk. The 3 people that went with me got really disinterested within the 1st 5 minutes. I tried to keep interested, but it was dry. People didn't respond at all, no Amen, Hallijuah or any other types of vocal feedback from the cong. Just simple mind control nodding with everything the speaker said. At the end, we couldn't take it any longer and left. They claim to had 95 people there, but IMO, it looked more like 50, no more then 60.
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Need Help.....My assignemnt in school ths week....GO TO A KINGDOM HALL
by A-Team in....yes, believe it or not, i do have to sit in on a full meeting on sunday at the local kingdom hall, and do a report on how they run their services.
i do have a few questions: 1. what id considered approbate dress for females (i will have 2 females with me) 1a.
do i have to shave my beard to 'blend in' 2. normally to church, i have a brief case with note pads and my bible....is that a tad too much to carry into a hall?
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I never was a JW, and the JW population, in my city, is kinda pissed at me because Im a Christian and will not endorse their views because I feel they are not 100% right on everything.
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Need Help.....My assignemnt in school ths week....GO TO A KINGDOM HALL
by A-Team in....yes, believe it or not, i do have to sit in on a full meeting on sunday at the local kingdom hall, and do a report on how they run their services.
i do have a few questions: 1. what id considered approbate dress for females (i will have 2 females with me) 1a.
do i have to shave my beard to 'blend in' 2. normally to church, i have a brief case with note pads and my bible....is that a tad too much to carry into a hall?
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School report/research. I haven't told this board that Im in my last year of Minister's school,and one of ur projects this year is to observe all denominations and religions and see how things are done.
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Need Help.....My assignemnt in school ths week....GO TO A KINGDOM HALL
by A-Team in....yes, believe it or not, i do have to sit in on a full meeting on sunday at the local kingdom hall, and do a report on how they run their services.
i do have a few questions: 1. what id considered approbate dress for females (i will have 2 females with me) 1a.
do i have to shave my beard to 'blend in' 2. normally to church, i have a brief case with note pads and my bible....is that a tad too much to carry into a hall?
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It's actually 6 of us in our group, and I need to know the dress code for females, since we don't know the dress code for them. And no, I can't be a new face, because the COngration has alot of my former students in it...and they KNOW that I'm just a Christian.
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Need Help.....My assignemnt in school ths week....GO TO A KINGDOM HALL
by A-Team in....yes, believe it or not, i do have to sit in on a full meeting on sunday at the local kingdom hall, and do a report on how they run their services.
i do have a few questions: 1. what id considered approbate dress for females (i will have 2 females with me) 1a.
do i have to shave my beard to 'blend in' 2. normally to church, i have a brief case with note pads and my bible....is that a tad too much to carry into a hall?
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....Yes, believe it or not, I do have to sit in on a full meeting on Sunday at the local Kingdom Hall, and do a report on how they run their services. I do have a few questions: 1. What id considered approbate dress for females (I will have 2 females with me) 1A. Do I have to shave my beard to 'blend in' 2. Normally to church, I have a brief case with note pads and my Bible....is that a tad too much to carry into a hall? 3. What else do I need to do to blend in and NOT to bring attention to myself?
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I just can't shake this feeling about the word Jehovah, and Now I know why
by A-Team inhad to do a little historic research to find out that jehovah is actually 2 hebrew words compounded: yah(h) and hovah.
yah(h) means: "i exist," "i am," "i create," or "i will be or bring into being.
hovah means: ruin, mischif, but yet,it's root, havvah,translates as: "calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
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Ok, screw it, I think we are better off calling YHWH the following:
God
Almighty God
Father God
Father in Heaven
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I just can't shake this feeling about the word Jehovah, and Now I know why
by A-Team inhad to do a little historic research to find out that jehovah is actually 2 hebrew words compounded: yah(h) and hovah.
yah(h) means: "i exist," "i am," "i create," or "i will be or bring into being.
hovah means: ruin, mischif, but yet,it's root, havvah,translates as: "calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
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After thinking about it a little bit, I think if JWs say "Jah" or "Yah", I think it would be acceptable, because that actually means I AM. But when you attach Hovah to it, then you will get into much trouble.
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I just can't shake this feeling about the word Jehovah, and Now I know why
by A-Team inhad to do a little historic research to find out that jehovah is actually 2 hebrew words compounded: yah(h) and hovah.
yah(h) means: "i exist," "i am," "i create," or "i will be or bring into being.
hovah means: ruin, mischif, but yet,it's root, havvah,translates as: "calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
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My take on this is that Jehovah is just an artificial name that dosen't fit the actual name of the ALmighty. And to say that JWHW is his name is very inaccurate, as the J vouel wasn't created until around the Middle 2nd Millennium. YWHW is the most accurate English spelling, with Yahweh being a more accurate pronounication then Jehovah.