I like the Berean Study Bible a lot over at Biblehub.com because it's quite readable but similar to the ESV and the NASB.
oppostate
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Which English Translations of the Bible are you Favorites, and Why?
by Disillusioned JW inwhich english translations of the bible are you favorites, and why?
my favorites include the (english) revised version bible (of 1881-1885) and its apocrypha (of 1898), the american revised version bible (of 1898, it close to the american standard version), the american standard version bible (of 1901), the new american standard bible - updated edition, the new revised standard version bible with the apocrypha, the complete bible: an american translation (it includes the apocrypha), and the twentieth century new testament.
i also use others beside those.. they are my favorites because i consider them to be highly accurate, and also they are either very literal (but not so literal as to be hard to understand) or they use functional equivalence.
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20 Years Occupying Afghanistan, Nothing Achieved
by Simon inso the occupation of afghanistan is coming to an end and, as predicted, they achieved absolutely nothing in that 20 years apart from:.
the death of 2,300+ service personnel and tens of thousands more seriously maimed or injured.. handing $billions or even $trillions of taxpayer dollars to defence contractors (so the military industrial complex wins, even if the military doesn't have a clear victory).. has this lengthy but short-term military occupation really changed anything in the country?
it doesn't appear so.. i said at the time that the us wouldn't have the staying power to enact real change.
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oppostate
Well, one thing was certainly achieved, thogh, the war equipment manufacturers did get barrel$ of billion$ out of the war.
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Vice President Kamala Harris…your thoughts??
by minimus ingood pick?
bad pick?
helpful to president biden?
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oppostate
Kamala Harris is way too conservative! I would have loved Bernie as President and Elizabeth Warren as VP
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The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,
by Sea Breeze inhonda vfr 750.
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In a VW Jetta on Rt 91S in VT dreaming of the Autobahn.
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Recently appointed Elder and his Regular pioneer wife wake up in 10 minutes and walk away.
by pistolpete ini been seeing several experiences by jws who are waking up very quickly.
not years, not months, not even days-----but minutes.
it seems that all the hypocrisy of the watchtower is becoming more obvious to the members.
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@slimboyfat
Yeah I am also on double secret probation and havent been able to start a thread in several years. I guess you have to have a conservative Trumpian leaning record of repentace to get back into graces.
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GOTCHA!
by JTrottigy inso i noticed one of the members here came to my jwtalk website, where i am an important administrator, and tried to join my site.. i check in here every so often and i was able to deduce that person was an apostate fraud, likely bent on polluting my site.
i denied their request to join.. ha!
gotcha!
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oppostate
Good catch Simón, the Jtrottigy guy is boasting yet makes himself a hypocrite by being on an apostate site himself. Not very faithful and loyal. If his elders found out he wouldn't be acting so boastful and cocky!
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UFO's or Unidentified Aerial Fenomena....
by mikeflood inwhat do you guys think....the topic seems to being on fashion lately.
some in the borg told me one time "of course, they are for real, they could be angels, demons".. .
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oppostate
Read the other myriad of similarly titled topic threads on here.
Then again go watch some of the FringePop321 videos on YouTube.
Mike Heiser's "Unseen Realm" is certainly out of this world in a very identifiably demonstrable and Biblical way.
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Governing Body; Villians or just Deluded?
by pistolpete inare you sometimes dumbfounded at the direction the governing body takes?.
thousands of documents proving 607 bce is wrong, yet the gb sticks to the date, why?.
the generation that would not die, yet they continue by introducing an overlapping generation.. disfellowshipping at a time when everyone is leaving, not a good idea, yet they continue to disfellowship.. here is a video that addresses these questions.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbgeqhp9o9i.
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oppostate
Governing Body; Villains or just Deluded?
I'd say "Deluded Villains".
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oppostate
And they don't want the rank-and-file to look too pretty.
Well, Greenlees certainly liked his young Bethelite page-boy assistants looking pretty.
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This is how stupid college kids are today
by mickbobcat innot only college kids but a lot of liberal idiots adults.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-knh46tlcwm.
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oppostate
The only thought more appalling than how idiotic some college students and liberals sound is the stupidity of conservatives who don't even qualify to be in college and say ten times more idiotic things than liberals do or say. E.g. most anything on showing up on OAN and Fox News commentaries.