Posts by Caminante

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Publications pdf request

by trackregister99 in

i collecting many pdf of watchtower publications.

and i get some by archive.org, but i found that other missing are in this forum.

but i found that many of senspace links are dead.

Caminante

trackregister99:

Creation (softcover reprint): www.jw-media.org/rus/publications/sce_e.pdf
Revelation Climax (2006): www.jw-media.org/rus/publications/re_e.pdf
New World Translation (2006): download.jw.org/files/media_bible/bi12_E.pdf

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.. barbara needs scans of the 2009 yearbook annual report which would show the numbers for the previous year of 2008. she is interested in finding out how many congregations there were in the united states and canada.

i don't have the 2009 yearbook or i would have already sent her the info.. .. could someone help us out with a couple of scans of that information?

Caminante

Canada:

Population: 33,223,840
Peak Publishers 2008: 112,092
Population/Publishers Rate: 296
Average Publishers: 109,086
Increase Percentage: n/a
Average Publishers 2007: 108,974
Baptized 2008: 2,232
Auxiliary Pioneers: 4,826
Pioneers: 8,791
Congregations: 1,330
Hours: 20,272,620
Bible Studies: 42,107
Memorial Attendance: 184,692

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2009 Annual Report needed!

by Atlantis in

hi friends:.

.. barbara needs scans of the 2009 yearbook annual report which would show the numbers for the previous year of 2008. she is interested in finding out how many congregations there were in the united states and canada.

i don't have the 2009 yearbook or i would have already sent her the info.. .. could someone help us out with a couple of scans of that information?

Caminante

Atlantis, here you go!

USA in the 2008 Service Year report:

Population: 300,337,769
Peak Publishers 2008: 1,105,789
Population/Publishers Rate: 272
Average Publishers: 1,059,253
Increase Percentage: 2
Average Publishers 2007: 1,042,528
Baptized 2008: 35,597
Auxiliary Pioneers: 44,406
Pioneers: 110,163
Congregations: 12,635
Hours: 217,881,267
Bible Studies: 603,313
Memorial Attendance: 2,418,903

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Is the NWT a translation or simply a rewording w/ edits ?

by mP in

did they really start from teh greek, hebrew and aramaic texts and translate or did freddy and the friends simply take other bibles and reword each and every sentence.

naturally during this exercise they would have altered the text to make it comptaible with their eschatology.

i think this best explains what really happen during those sessions as they had no literary skills they honestly couldnt read the originals.. .

Caminante

"Freddy" did have the skills to read ancient Hebrew, and he had studied two or three years of Biblical Greek. Moreover, he had a high ability of easily learning foreign languages, thus he became qualified to coordinate the translation project. They started translation in 1947 and released the complete Bible in 1961.

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Need help in identifying a Bible translation

by Caminante in

i'm working on transcribing the full 3 hour recording of ray franz's visit in romania of over five years ago and i realize he quotes from a pretty unfamiliar bible translation.

well, it's unfamiliar to me--it might not be for you though--and i don't seem to find it anywhere online.

as a clue, i have the verses from 1 peter 4:8-10. they read as follows: "above all, let your love for one another be constant, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Caminante

"The Inclusive Bible" seems to be too new. Ray's conference was on October 13, 2007. His Bible appeared relatively used.

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Need help in identifying a Bible translation

by Caminante in

i'm working on transcribing the full 3 hour recording of ray franz's visit in romania of over five years ago and i realize he quotes from a pretty unfamiliar bible translation.

well, it's unfamiliar to me--it might not be for you though--and i don't seem to find it anywhere online.

as a clue, i have the verses from 1 peter 4:8-10. they read as follows: "above all, let your love for one another be constant, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Caminante

Been there, transhuman68. It's none of those.

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Need help in identifying a Bible translation

by Caminante in

i'm working on transcribing the full 3 hour recording of ray franz's visit in romania of over five years ago and i realize he quotes from a pretty unfamiliar bible translation.

well, it's unfamiliar to me--it might not be for you though--and i don't seem to find it anywhere online.

as a clue, i have the verses from 1 peter 4:8-10. they read as follows: "above all, let your love for one another be constant, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Caminante

I'm working on transcribing the full 3 hour recording of Ray Franz's visit in Romania of over five years ago and I realize he quotes from a pretty unfamiliar Bible translation. Well, it's unfamiliar to me--it might not be for you though--and I don't seem to find it anywhere online. As a clue, I have the verses from 1 Peter 4:8-10. They read as follows: "Above all, let your love for one another be constant, for love covers a multitude of sins. ... As generous stewards of God’s manifold grace, put your gifts at the service of one another, each in the measure he has received." Upon searching in Google for these quotes I come across several Catholic resources, but none of them specifies the Bible translation used. Could you give me a hand here? Thanks a lot!

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Entire WT Library From Beginning

by admirmitch in

i had an idea to which i don't even know if it would be feasible but i'd like to throw it out regardless.

i figured this is the best place to post since this is the forum that gets the most traffic.

however, this question is tech related.

Caminante

Bobcat: Yes, the database in the MEPS Research Explorer does have all the publications the Watch Tower Society had ever published in digital form. It's not that huge. The English version of Watchtower Library 2012 has less than 140 MB of text-only publication data and a 153 MB large index of all the words used in the publications. I suppose that a full database would take up less than 1.5 GB. In contrast, the PDF publications posted on JW.org are much larger, only the Books and Brochures section of PDF files is somewhere around 21.5 GB.

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New Light on the New Light!!

by The Searcher in

just discovered that the 'new light' regarding the the identity of the 'slave' is not so new.

in the brochure "who are doing jehovah's will today?

", (brought out months before the annual meeting) it clearly states in the first paragraph in section 19 that "jesus would appoint the slave - during the time of the end!!

Caminante

This is consistent, since the new brochures were not supposed to be used in the ministry until after the Annual Meeting, usually there is an article in Our Kingdom Ministry outlining the most effective use of the new literature.

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"Last days" of John 6:53-57

by pixel in

reading this section from jwfacts http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/144000.php (thanks for that excellent website!

) i came across this scripture: .

john 6:53-57 "accordingly jesus said to them: "most truly i say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

Caminante

It doesn't refer to the anointed, because Jesus made the Kingdom covenant later, when he instituted the Memorial of his death.