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  for those who "grew up in the borg"

  by zev in

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  2. friends

  at this late, middle stage of my life, i've started wondering, now that i know what i know, about the things in my life that i "lived" with.

  having been raised all my life in the "borg" i have known nothing else.

  when questions began forming years ago, it started me thinking.

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  GermanXJW

  @Mulan
  Thankyou for your lines. These boards are really a great help. It's a new experience for me that there are people really understanding my situation - and reading things that could be me.
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  Gentile Times Reconsidered - Revised ed.

  by stevieb1 in

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  i was checking on amazon.com the other day and i noticed that there was a revised edition of co jonsson's book "the gentile times reconsidered".

  i have the 1986 edition which is 228 pages long, but i've heard that the new edition is 360 pages long.

  can anyone who has this new edition enlighten me as to what new information is i this superb publication?

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  GermanXJW

  Sorry, dungbeetle. I started my reply when there were no answers, had to interrupt and came back. Didn't notice that you have already provided the answer.
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  Gentile Times Reconsidered - Revised ed.

  by stevieb1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was checking on amazon.com the other day and i noticed that there was a revised edition of co jonsson's book "the gentile times reconsidered".

  i have the 1986 edition which is 228 pages long, but i've heard that the new edition is 360 pages long.

  can anyone who has this new edition enlighten me as to what new information is i this superb publication?

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  GermanXJW

  There are new sections, even new chapters, 30 illustrations. It includes the DF-story of COJ.

  Now, there are not only seven lines of evidence against the destruction of Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E. but there are fourteen lines of evidence.
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  Seen the GB Lately?

  by Prisca in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was wondering:.

  has anyone seen any of the governing body lately?

  how is their health?

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  GermanXJW

  I think Samuel Herd was at a DC in the past several years. He's GB now, isn't he? But a younger, "Nethinim" GB member, no?

  There are no Nethinim members on the GB. The Nethinim don't profess to be of the anointed. The GB still all profess to be of the anointed. (But at least one - Gerrit Lösch - was one of the Nethinim, started to take from the emblems and made it a GB member)

  BTW, how comes I'm always near confusing "Nethinim" with "Nephilim"? ;-)
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  for those who "grew up in the borg"

  by zev in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at this late, middle stage of my life, i've started wondering, now that i know what i know, about the things in my life that i "lived" with.

  having been raised all my life in the "borg" i have known nothing else.

  when questions began forming years ago, it started me thinking.

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  GermanXJW

  This is really an interesting thread. I was raised a 4th-generation-JW and I see so many descriptions fit me. Truly, there were some good things like learning to give a public talk or sitting quietly for some time and concentrate on a boring topic.

  But I think that severe damage has been done. I have to admit that I am not always sure if it was my parents, the JW or the mixture of both.

  I's already been said: what others think of me is always on my mind. I too have to prove my point right even when it's marginally.

  There is a lack of self confidence; the task to do things good but to stay humbly in the background: "Was not a big deal." That would do well in the congregation but gives you problems at work when others benefit from your achievements.

  Having always been an outsider I have problems to behave in a social environment. I feel that I still behave strange.

  I have problems to make decisions because I am not used to. When there were questions we used to look it up in the WT Index. That also touches moral values. I think I can't really say what's wrong or right on my own.

  Someone on a German board called it "social inbreeding". You don't get new views and cannot get futher.

  I am glad that I live in the Internet era and that I found out early in my life. Now, I am working hard and hope to overcome some things. But I'm afraid that the impact of a JW childhood will always be there.
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  WT U-Turn on "Great Crowd" (May 1, 20...

  by stevieb1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the following is taken from questions from readers p.31 of the my 1, 2002 watchtower.

  it is the wt response to the question: "when john saw the "great crowd" rendering sacred service in jehovah's temple, in which part of the temple were they doing this?".

  quote.

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  GermanXJW

  The German NWT renders the word differently in Revelation 7:9 ("Volksmenge" = crowd of people) and in Revelation 19:1 ("Menge" = crowd). But it is the same Greek word.
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  Memorial No Shows...Please Check in....

  by ISP in

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  2. friends

  well, i was tempted but i decided not to go to the most bizarre religious ritual of modern times....how about you?.

  isp

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  GermanXJW

  This was the very first memorial I have missed. Very strange feeling. I stayed at the office overtime. I think if I had been at home I would have accompanied my family. I even planned to be home on time but I think I subconsciously forgot about the time.
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  Who knows GB Member Gerrit Lösch?

  by GermanXJW in

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  2. friends

  i was told that gerrit losch was one of the nethinim before he became a gb member that means he was not of the annointed.

  my source told me he felt he was annointed but did not partake from the emblems because of his wife who has the earthly hope.

  but then he changed his mind and became a gb member.. is this true?

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  GermanXJW

  JT wrote:

  the concept is to keep the annointed at 144,000 still going to heavn, but change the FDS from only anointed to anyone faithful.

  Now it proves helpful that they applied the slave and the domestics to one group. This makes it easier to shift it to another group.
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  Who knows GB Member Gerrit Lösch?

  by GermanXJW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was told that gerrit losch was one of the nethinim before he became a gb member that means he was not of the annointed.

  my source told me he felt he was annointed but did not partake from the emblems because of his wife who has the earthly hope.

  but then he changed his mind and became a gb member.. is this true?

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  GermanXJW

  The Watchtower 1st January, 2000 (referred to above) states that David Splane was appointed a helper of the writing committee in 1998. In 1999 he became a member of the GB.

  All new GB members announced in this Watchtower were helpers of a committee before.

  But the announcement emphasized that they are all anointed Christians.
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  Who knows GB Member Gerrit Lösch?

  by GermanXJW in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was told that gerrit losch was one of the nethinim before he became a gb member that means he was not of the annointed.

  my source told me he felt he was annointed but did not partake from the emblems because of his wife who has the earthly hope.

  but then he changed his mind and became a gb member.. is this true?

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  GermanXJW

  The Watchtower 1st January, 2000 said in a a box "New Members of the Governing Body" on p. 29(I am translating from the German Edition):

  "The names of the new members - who are all annointed Christians - are Samuel F. Herd, M. Stephen Lett, Guy H. Pierce and David H. Splane."

  Gerrit Lösch was introduced in 1994.

  [edited for spelling]