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  What book/s do new converts study now?

  by erynw in

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  just curious.

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  Just curious.
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  NWT on WT CD 2006

  by erynw in

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  is this version the same as the interlinear version?

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  Yes.

  Remember that there are two editions of the KIT. The first was published in 1969, and is now out of print. The second edition was released in 1985 and is still available, though difficult to obtain. The English text of the KIT 2 is the same as the NWT which is available on-line and on the WT CD.

  The 1984/85 edition of the NWT is now the official standardized version, since with the death of Milton Henschell all the former members of the original Translation Committee of 1950 are now deceased. This naturally means that no further revisions can be made.

  Cheers

  Thank you. I've been out of the Borg for so long I had forgotten there was an interlinear version until I started reading posts here.
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  NWT on WT CD 2006

  by erynw in

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  is this version the same as the interlinear version?

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  Is this version the same as the interlinear version?
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  JUST FOR FUN: Pranks you've played (computer or other)

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  so the post from firenbandits http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/134960/1.ashx and the subsequent story reply had me thinking this would be a fun thread.. to start, i've copied a couple of the replies that were on that thread that had me dying laughing....and then one of my own.

  what's the greatest prank you pulled or you seen pulled on someone (or pulled on you?)...

  hope this brings smiles and lots of replies..... snakesinthetower (of the prankster sheep .

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  I put a real estate "Sold" sign in front of the County courthouse...the picture made the paper.
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  Bad biblical names for a child

  by erandir in

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  the practice of choosing biblical names for children is present in many forms of christianity.

  in latin america, countless boys are named jesus either as a first name or second name.

  there is even that singer jesus jones.

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  Knew a dub who named her three sons Jamin, Jared, and Joel.
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  Music!! Who's your Favorite Top Ten Rock Groups or Solo Artists All Time?

  by flipper in

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  mr. flipper here again gang!

  so who do ya like all time?mr.

  flippers list is as follows, almost in this way.

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  I haven't thought of a top ten list but when I was studying, an elder from the local congregation "dropped by" for an unannounced visit and I had Van Halen's "Running With The Devil" screaming out of the speakers.
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  real questions from the readers

  by bigdreaux in

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  i have really been enjoying all the parodies of questions from the readers.

  but, sometimes, it's just to easy.

  missanna was sent a watchtower from her "loving".

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  Sister Confused: So Brother Elder, with the recent question concerning caffeine, is it ok to drink root beer?

  Brother Elder: What? You want to drink beer?

  SC: No, root beer.

  BE: Beer?

  SC: ROOT Beer.

  BE: Beer is the root of all evil.

  SC: No, no, it's root beer, not beer. Is it ok to drink root beer?

  BE: You seem to have issues with the Society's instructions. Let me quote from Hallucinations 4:12, "Abstain from free thnking." So, do you still want to drink beer?

  SC: You've never heard of root beer? It's a soda, like coke, but made differently.

  BE: You do coke?

  SC:
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  How Would You or Did You Leave The Organization??

  by minimus in

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  by choice, with a little help from the elders, faded slowly, disassociated????

  how'd you get out?

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  For me it started when I became "friends" with a bible study. He truly was just a friend. We spent a lot of time together talking, movies, etc. He was close to my age as others in the Geriatric Ward reminded me too much of my grandparents. Anyway, I was called in the dreaded back room one day by an elder and warned of my too oft association with a single man, being as I was a single woman and the elder actually said to me, "It starts out as an innocent friendship and then one day, say, a pencil drops to the floor, you both go to pick it up, and there you are." I said "Where are we?" He just gave me a knowing look and I said, "I'm going to take picking up a pencil as my clue that we're going to have sex?!" Boy, have I missed out on a lot of opportunities for sex!

  I was disfellowshipped 23 years ago, not over my relationship with this bible study. I was a pioneer, began struggling internally with all of the crap everyone here has mentioned. I also knew that my sexual preferences would not change and I couldn't stay in an organization that considered me evil and I felt that I could no longer live a double life and be happy. I felt like a huge hypocrite. Long story short, I didn't confess, I wasn't repentent, and I have not been back.
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  Gratitude for shunning?

  by JK666 in

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  we have all seen the negatine aspects of the jw's shunning da/df people.

  i have experienced the hardship emotionally of being cut off from friends and family that are still in the organization.

  i do not minimize how much this hurts.. but .

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  Been 23 years for me and I don't regret never going back. I have a new family of choice.
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  Scan of the latest "Questions From Readers"! OH EM GEE!

  by deaconbluez in

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  Almost had me there! I haven't seen any of the previous "articles" so I was reading with shocked amazement, until I got the good stuff. Too funny!