i just came from the meeting and was told that the new world translation is the best in the world according to jason beduhn.
the nwt does go all the way back to the original languages.
the nwt does not change words to support doctrines.
To restore something, it must have been in some state of existence to be restored to. Which earliest manuscript had the divine name?
It requires translators to translate something. Who are the translators of the NWT, and what are their credentials that demonstrate them to be qualified translators?
Until you get honest answers (and not evasive shuffles) to these questions, then the claim that the NWT is the best translation has no substance.
this is a melancholy day for me.
over the past few years i have been studying american politics and have enjoyed learning perspectives from different ideologies.
i personally lean towards conservative values when it comes to creating legislature, however i am socially liberal.
By the way, I do live in a figurative bubble. Almost everyone around me owe their house, or their cars, or have credit cards maxed out, or are not prepared for retirement, or have to borrow for their children's higher education. Not I. I have zero debt and don't expect to have any until the day I die. I am not rich, but I live by a philosophy of self sufficiency and personal responsibility. I suppose in the U.S. that makes me weird, strange, a bubble dweller.
That makes you out to be very odd, different, and perhaps unAmerican to not be in hock for a set of McToys and other distractions. Don't stop doing that though. It's okay to be different.
what's your prediction?.
The economy will be better for some, remain about the same for others, and get worse for the rest.
It's a good time to choose which group you will be in.
Funny, a Windows 8 thread morphs into a linux thread.
I started linux with Mandrake about 12 years ago. I had an Amiga before that and got spoiled in my expectations so that Windows seemed to be such a dog to use. Linux was a good choice, but it lagged in apps for a long time so I have always set up a dual boot system for almost every machine I have. This means carving out 16 GB of space for linux and installing it there. I use Ubuntu, never tried Mint, but I am sure I would like it too. The Ubuntu apps center is well stocked with items that you would recognize in Windows. Firefox, Chrome, OpenOffice, Stellarium, Pidgin (chat), Audacity, VLC media player are all there, and lots of other stuff. One linux only app that is indispensible for me is Openshot video editor. All free and easy to install with a few clicks. If you use your PC just to go on the web and to manage pics from your camera, and write a few papers now and then, there is no reason to pay Microsoft to do any of those things.
i lost one, and i am saddened by it.
i may disagree with friends over politics and/or religion, but the only reason i would cut off a friend is if they betrayed me.
anyone else lost friends or cut off friends because of politics or religion?.
You don't lose friends over an election. You might lose some people, but not friends.
You have a certain station in life, a business in a certain industry, or a job. You have a family situation, and certain values. When you vote, you try to match up the candidate or proposition to your interests. Sometimes it is a tight fit, most of the time it is somewhat nebulous. You do what you have to do, and your friends understand that, even if they come down on a different side of it.
The wingers don't get that very well. It's personal, and it is mostly about knocking down the other side at whatever cost.
today is my one-year anniversary of joining jwn.
it has been quite a journey from being disfellowshipped and functionally agnostic, to searching for answers about 607 bc and ttatt, to my journey to mainline christianity, to working toward get reinstated and fading, to finding that i still had lost my best friend, but in the end, finding jesus fill that role.
a year ago today i would have never imagined walking into a church, or getting baptized again, this time in the name of the father, son and holy spirit, not in the name of an organization.
I bet you never imagined you would bear a striking resemblance to the Centauri ambassador to Babylon the Great 5.
i think that we are a little crazy but we bought a bar in wisconsin last week.
here is a picture of my wife behind the bar.. .
i still work for my jw family, but my wife is going to run the bar.. .
Good move, next to a golf course. 19th hole, can't go wrong with that.
Why can't the Watchtower Society do the Christian thing and just pay the woman already?
Oh, that's right. There aren't Christians running the tower
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There was a little community, not even large enough to call a town, called Geluksburg, in the Berg. There is a story about a man who lived there, who had the phone company renting space to put a box on his property to serve the phone exchange in the community. They paid him about $10 a year or so for this rental. One year they were late with the check, so he got angry and went out to the box and chopped the wires, cutting the community's phone service out. The phone company called the police, and the man told the police to [have intimate relations with] themselves. Eventually they got that sorted and got phone service restored.
African cowboys
The Homestead, a great place to stay while exploring the area. Tell them Kurt and LouBelle sent you.
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Not quite ready to leave the Berg, so here are some more pics. Here you can get a sense of the vast open spaces there.
