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  Watchtower Ambulance????

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  2. beliefs

  i never heard of it nor ever saw such a picture before.

  let's see who can come up with the funniest caption for one of these photos:.

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  Nick!

  Star of Life

  

  How come the WT is allowed to use pagan symbols? while threatening its members of disfellowshipment if they simply say "cheers" when dringing a toast, because of its relationship with ancient gods (Bacchus in this case).

  Why the WT can use the "Star of Life" symbol on its ambulance, disregarding its origin, as clearly stated in wikipedia !!!!
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_life

  ... The snake emblem is the Rod of Asclepius, widely used as the symbol of medical care worldwide. There are several theories as to its development, and it is named for the Greek mythology figure Asclepius, who was said to have possessed healing power, although it has been claimed to have origins from other sources, including a biblical story from Numbers and as a representation of the drawing out of a guinea worm.
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  Sex Offender Admits Breaching Order

  by Bangalore in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  sex offender admits breaching order.. http://www.manxradio.com/newsread.aspx?id=45134.

  bangalore.

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  Nick!

  Anyone has heard any news on this subject?

  The man had to appear for sentence on June 8th ....
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  Today is our 45th anniversary !

  by Nick! in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we are happy to share it with you !!!.

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  Nick!

  Thanks again ...

  talking about people who have been married for a long time, I guess that, inspite of our long time record, we have to honor those who have gone a longer strentch together.

  Yesterday evening I was chatting with Jim Penton, the author of "Apocalypse delayed", and as I was telling him about our celebration last week-end, I deared asking "what about you, Jim. how long have you both been married?", to my surprise he said ... 59 years !!!!

  We still have to drive a long way to match them: 14 more years to go!

  Lets cross our fingers.
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  Today is our 45th anniversary !

  by Nick! in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we are happy to share it with you !!!.

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  Nick!

  Thank you all for your congratulations.

  Sorry if I did not return your posts, but … we were busy celebrating for two full days, first with the family and finally with lots of friends, real ones, I mean!

  Just to satisfy the curiosity of Asilentone, we have no family in the USA. They are all in Europe, but you never know with the genes, they can fall anywhere!

  Thanks also to Rules & Regulations for the joke: really hilarious !

  AK - Jeff ... keep counting!

  Hope you also find the secret of a long and happy marriage!
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  Today is our 45th anniversary !

  by Nick! in

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  we are happy to share it with you !!!.

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  Nick!

  You are right Gregor ... it is just a transliteration from ... Italian.

  45° in Italian is equal to 45th, which I have not corrected.

  Thanks!
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  Today is our 45th anniversary !

  by Nick! in

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  we are happy to share it with you !!!.

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  Nick!

  We are happy to share it with you !!!

  How were we and how are we now?

  Here we are:

  Yesterday:

  

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  1945 “Consolation” (forerunner of Awake!) but in Dutch, in favor of blood usage

  by Nick! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on the italian forum, we are discussing the blood issue and one of the participants has posted a scan of portion of page 29 of the magazine consolation dated 1st of september 1945 in dutch language where the following translated statement appears:.

  god has never justified any arrangement on the use of blood.

  it is a mans invention who, like the pharisees, do not take into account the mercy and the love of jehovah.

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  Nick!

  Hi TD,

  thanks for the better transaltion done by your personal friend. It makes more sense now. I just translated it from the Italian translation of the Dutch, which may have lost some of the flavor of the orginal article.

  In trying to find out if a similar article exists in other languages, it would be nice if your friend could also translate the TTITLES which could help trace it in other languages.

  I can see that the date is NOT September 1st, but simply September, since there was, most probably only one edition per month.

  Thanks again.
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  1945 “Consolation” (forerunner of Awake!) but in Dutch, in favor of blood usage

  by Nick! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on the italian forum, we are discussing the blood issue and one of the participants has posted a scan of portion of page 29 of the magazine consolation dated 1st of september 1945 in dutch language where the following translated statement appears:.

  god has never justified any arrangement on the use of blood.

  it is a mans invention who, like the pharisees, do not take into account the mercy and the love of jehovah.

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  Nick!

  Thank you very much friends, appreciate all your efforts.

  I will try to trace the article in French, as we had all the magazine collection in the congregation here in Geneva.

  In the past, prior to 1980, Italian version of the magazines used to be published 6 months after, and French 3 months after the English.

  If I find anything in another language, I will et you know.

  Ciao!
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  1945 “Consolation” (forerunner of Awake!) but in Dutch, in favor of blood usage

  by Nick! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on the italian forum, we are discussing the blood issue and one of the participants has posted a scan of portion of page 29 of the magazine consolation dated 1st of september 1945 in dutch language where the following translated statement appears:.

  god has never justified any arrangement on the use of blood.

  it is a mans invention who, like the pharisees, do not take into account the mercy and the love of jehovah.

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  Nick!

  On the Italian forum, we are discussing the blood issue and one of the participants has posted a scan of portion of page 29 of the magazine “Consolation” dated 1st of September 1945 in Dutch language where the following translated statement appears:

  “God has never justified any arrangement on the use of blood. It is a man’s invention who, like the Pharisees, do not take into account the mercy and the love of Jehovah. To serve Jehovah with all our mind means not to exclude our personal understanding, especially when a life is at risk”.

  The participant who posted the scan pretends that the article appears only in the Dutch version of the magazine, and not in any other language.

  Anyone on this forum has any knowledge of this statement in Dutch or any other language?

  Would be nice to clarify.

  Thanks.

  Here is the link to the scan on the Italian forum.:

  http://forum.infotdgeova.it/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2680&p=33059#p33059
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  Want to read about those nasty disgruntled APOSTATES attacking Scientology and JWs. Priceless!

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for people with lots of time on their hands, here's a priceless blog article written to defend scientology against apostates.

  and guess what religion the author points to with the same problem?

  jehovah's witnesses, of course.

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  Nick!

  Is anyone else having trouble seeing all of this thread?

  Hi Jeff,

  I had the same problem and discovered that the reason is due to my browser.

  I normally use I.E. version 8 and using it, I can only see the upper part of Barb’s post.

  If you have the same browser, maybe it comes from there.

  What I did, is simply use Firefox version 3, just for this one post, and … it works!

  Of course there must be a reason, but I do not have the time to analyze it right now.

  Try it.

  Nick!