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Why using Jehovah for God's name is as good as using Yahweh

by oppostate in

in another thread i wrote some notes about why using jehovah in english is as good as using yahweh.

i'm starting a discussion on this topic because it sounds quite ignorant to hear people talk of the monk who started using it in latin without really understanding why the monk did so.. the spanish dominican monk, raymundus martini, in 1270, didn't get hoodwinked by an old jewish superstition about pronouncing the divine name with the vowel points of another word.. 1. first the vowel points of adonay and jehovah cannot be the same for grammatical reasons.

you just can't use the same vowel points because some vowels aren't paired with some consonants in pronouncing hebrew words.

oppostate

Thanks for your contributions to the discussion FayeD and Listener.

The WT wants to have it both ways it always wants the credit, and it always seeks to put the blame on someone else. Their writing department have become the masters of deception and they've had plenty of practice at it.

However, if you call it shallow scholarship for the Committee to use the word Jehovah in the New World Translation, then you will have to admit that it is due to the shallow scholarship of the Roman Catholic clergy of the thirteenth century
(The Watchtower 1950 12/1)

Just the way that letter appearing in the 1950 WT reads, it smacks of shoddy scholarship and lack of integrity in their publishing. Don't blame us, they seem to say, blame the ones we stole the ideas from. What a bunch of prideful incompetents!

After awakening to the WT's wiles and trickery just reading anything they print makes me nauseous. I do not trust anything they publish at all.

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I be damn, baseball in the Bible

by James Mixon in

i give you a hint.

who stole first, "eve".

so who stole second and.

oppostate

Funny!

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Probable Discovery of Life on Comet Philae

by cofty in

according to leading astronomers the probe philae that landed on the comet 67p last november may have discovered microbial life..... sadly neither the probe nor the orbiter rosetta are equipped to test directly but the evidence is interesting.

these are not easily explained in terms of prebiotic chemistry.

the dark material is being constantly replenished as it is boiled off by heat from the sun.

oppostate

The comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s black crust and other features are best explained by the fact that it has living organisms under its icy surface, they said.
Rosetta, the European space craft orbiting the comet, is also said to have picked up strange "clusters" of organic material that look suspiciously like viral particles.

Hmmm, looks like maybe Moulder was right when he said "The Truth is out there."
What with the black goo on 67P maybe being living organic material. Or it could be that the Engineers of Prometheus are up to their tricks.
If the black goo on 67P is viral and is brought here we'd may just need those Go-Bags the WT's been telling publishers to have at the ready lest the Zombie Apocalypse wreak havoc on this Old System.

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Orange, read sarcasm.

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Why using Jehovah for God's name is as good as using Yahweh

by oppostate in

in another thread i wrote some notes about why using jehovah in english is as good as using yahweh.

i'm starting a discussion on this topic because it sounds quite ignorant to hear people talk of the monk who started using it in latin without really understanding why the monk did so.. the spanish dominican monk, raymundus martini, in 1270, didn't get hoodwinked by an old jewish superstition about pronouncing the divine name with the vowel points of another word.. 1. first the vowel points of adonay and jehovah cannot be the same for grammatical reasons.

you just can't use the same vowel points because some vowels aren't paired with some consonants in pronouncing hebrew words.

oppostate

@Bonsai

I appreciate your words. I do feel that the WT is a full fledged cult by now, it is becoming obvious with every monthly broadcast at JW(dot)org in my opinion.

Evangelicals use the term Jehovah as well, and so do Mormons. Yeah, quite fundamentalist minded folks, I know.

But... Martin the monk (Ramdón Martí alias Raymundus Martini) did do a lot of research and he was known to be quite an expert in Biblical matters and Hebrew commentaries on the Scriptures: Torah, Talmud, Midrash.

Whether we agree or not with his views I would think we owe the Spanish (Catalonian) Dominican monk the respect worthy of a scholarly researcher who sought to refute what he thought as error with words rather than how his fellow religionists dealt with those of a different religious persuasion.

He spoke out against the "tiqqun soferim" or "corrections of scribes" which can be better termed corruptions of the text as Martin saw them. He was definitely a defender of the Hebrew text as and sought to clear out amendations, deletions and replacements by scribes from the Scriptures. I think we would do well to appreciate his dedication to that work for cultural and historical reasons even if we don't agree with his theology.

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Probable Discovery of Life on Comet Philae

by cofty in

according to leading astronomers the probe philae that landed on the comet 67p last november may have discovered microbial life..... sadly neither the probe nor the orbiter rosetta are equipped to test directly but the evidence is interesting.

these are not easily explained in terms of prebiotic chemistry.

the dark material is being constantly replenished as it is boiled off by heat from the sun.

oppostate

I for one welcome any news of such findings. It's an exciting time to be alive. The coming generations will definitely experience all sorts of marvels in the universe thanks to technological advances.

I wish I'm around to witness some of these discoveries and answers to questions like wormholes through Spacetime, String theory, Holographic universe and yes, even organic life in outer space.

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What do the words "An AVR Community" on the sign of the Rivercrest at Fishkill, Luxury Apts. mean?

by oppostate in

what do the words "an avr community" mean on the sign of the rivercrest at fishkill, luxury apts.

that the wt just purchased not long ago for us$ 57 million?.

[link to wt sign at the entrance to rivercrest luxury apts.].

oppostate

Thank you Matt.

AVR Realty seems like one of the big boys in real-estate judging from their online portfolio:

http://www.avrrealty.com/

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What do the words "An AVR Community" on the sign of the Rivercrest at Fishkill, Luxury Apts. mean?

by oppostate in

what do the words "an avr community" mean on the sign of the rivercrest at fishkill, luxury apts.

that the wt just purchased not long ago for us$ 57 million?.

[link to wt sign at the entrance to rivercrest luxury apts.].

oppostate

What do the words "An AVR Community" mean on the sign of the Rivercrest at Fishkill, Luxury Apts. that the WT just purchased not long ago for US$ 57 Million?

[Link to WT Sign at the entrance to Rivercrest Luxury Apts.]

This facility is for housing temporary worker volunteers who will commute from there to the Warwick WT's New World Headquarters.

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Celebrating small victories

by StarTrekAngel in

don't want to get into a lot of detail but it seems like my wife is finally having some flashes of awareness.

she's got them before, but not in very touchy subjects.

she was willing to seat down with me and look over some websites talking about some very controversial subjects that i do not dare to write about at the moment.

oppostate

For the time being, I am happy on sharing the good days with you all.

I'm very glad for you, STA.

I hope the progress to awakening continues.

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Why using Jehovah for God's name is as good as using Yahweh

by oppostate in

in another thread i wrote some notes about why using jehovah in english is as good as using yahweh.

i'm starting a discussion on this topic because it sounds quite ignorant to hear people talk of the monk who started using it in latin without really understanding why the monk did so.. the spanish dominican monk, raymundus martini, in 1270, didn't get hoodwinked by an old jewish superstition about pronouncing the divine name with the vowel points of another word.. 1. first the vowel points of adonay and jehovah cannot be the same for grammatical reasons.

you just can't use the same vowel points because some vowels aren't paired with some consonants in pronouncing hebrew words.

oppostate

Can I play another goofy video yet?

Be my guest but do so on another thread, will you?

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Why using Jehovah for God's name is as good as using Yahweh

by oppostate in

in another thread i wrote some notes about why using jehovah in english is as good as using yahweh.

i'm starting a discussion on this topic because it sounds quite ignorant to hear people talk of the monk who started using it in latin without really understanding why the monk did so.. the spanish dominican monk, raymundus martini, in 1270, didn't get hoodwinked by an old jewish superstition about pronouncing the divine name with the vowel points of another word.. 1. first the vowel points of adonay and jehovah cannot be the same for grammatical reasons.

you just can't use the same vowel points because some vowels aren't paired with some consonants in pronouncing hebrew words.

oppostate

I'm assuming you agree that saying "Jehovah" or adding it to verses in the Bible isn't really proof of anything.

Using Jehovah is proof of a consistent tradition in expressing Hebrew names like Jehoshaphat, Jehohanan, Jehu, etc.

If one prefers Yahweh then why not do as the Sacred Name Movement followers do and use Yah-shua, Yirmiyahu, Yeshayahu etc. ???