Posts by CuriousButterfly

I am not into opera but I always choke up when Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman sing this song. Their voices and the music are incredible, they truly talented.

"Time To Say Goodbye"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR9Nit-3VDg&feature=related

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Sound Booth 2010-11 DC Recordings!

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Do You Really Care About the People On Here?

by snowbird in

jw
friends

how they're feeling, coping?.

well, do you?.

thanks to those who respond.. syl.

CuriousButterfly

Same here, Mouthy was very nice to welcome me when I introduced myself also knowing I am a JW meaning NO harm but curious and wants to know the "truth".

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Do You Really Care About the People On Here?

by snowbird in

jw
friends

how they're feeling, coping?.

well, do you?.

thanks to those who respond.. syl.

Everytime someone has an experience or issue to tackle there are ALWAYS ones who comment with advice, a virtual hug or prayers being said. I believe people do care for each other because we all have lived or are stilling living with JWs.

I am learning A LOT from the members of this board, I may not chime in all of the threads but I do read most of them and try to digest the thought conveyed.

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was there a 1975 "scare"

by Lotus65 in

ive heard through different research ive done along with people ive talked too that there was a 1975 "scare" in which the time was supposed and the end was at hand

is that true

CuriousButterfly

One file is from the 10/8/1966 Awake (Special Issue) I cannot locate it in the WT CDROM. Would anyone know if this is in the actual bound volume?

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was there a 1975 "scare"

by Lotus65 in

ive heard through different research ive done along with people ive talked too that there was a 1975 "scare" in which the time was supposed and the end was at hand

is that true

CuriousButterfly

I found a thread with PDF files.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/171166/1/PDF-documentation-regarding-1975-prediction-in-WT-publications

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was there a 1975 "scare"

by Lotus65 in

ive heard through different research ive done along with people ive talked too that there was a 1975 "scare" in which the time was supposed and the end was at hand

is that true

CuriousButterfly

Is this the article that was being referred to?

*** w68 8/15 pp. 494-495 Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975? ***

Why Are You Looking Forward to 1975?

WHAT about all this talk concerning the year 1975? Lively discussions, some based on speculation, have burst into flame during recent months among serious students of the Bible. Their interest has been kindled by the belief that 1975 will mark the end of 6,000 years of human history since Adam’s creation. The nearness of such an important date indeed fires the imagination and presents unlimited possibilities for discussion.

2 But wait! How do we know their calculations are correct? What basis is there for saying Adam was created nearly 5,993 years ago? Does the one Book that can be implicitly trusted for its truthful historical accuracy, namely, the Inspired Word of Jehovah, the Holy Bible, give support and credence to such a conclusion?

3 In the marginal references of the Protestant Authorized or King James Version, and in the footnotes of certain editions of the Catholic Douay version, the date of man’s creation is said to be 4004 B.C.E. This marginal date, however, is no part of the inspired text of the Holy Scriptures, since it was first suggested more than fifteen centuries after the last Bible writer died, and was not added to any edition of the Bible until 1701 C.E. It is an insertion based upon the conclusions of an Irish prelate, the Anglican Archbishop James Ussher (1581-1656). Ussher’s chronology was only one of the many sincere efforts made during the past centuries to determine the time of Adam’s creation. A hundred years ago when a count was taken, no less than 140 different timetables had been published by serious scholars. In such chronologies the calculations as to when Adam was created vary all the way from 3616 B.C.E. to 6174 B.C.E., with one wild guess set at 20,000 B.C.E. Such conflicting answers contained in the voluminous libraries around the world certainly tend to compound the confusion when seeking an answer to the above questions.

4 In the previous article we learned from the Inspired Writings themselves, independent of the uninspired marginal notes of some Bibles, that the seventy years of desolation of the land of Judah began to count about October 1, 607 B.C.E. The beginning of this seventy-year period was obviously tied to its ending, that is, with the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C.E. So with 607 B.C.E. as dependably fixed on our Gregorian calendar as the absolute date of 539 B.C.E. we are prepared to move farther back in the count of time, to the dating of other important events in Bible history. For instance, the years when Saul, David and Solomon reigned successively over God’s chosen people can now be dated in terms of the present-day calendar.

5 At the death of Solomon his kingdom was split into two parts. The southern two-tribe part, composed of Judah and Benjamin, continued to be ruled by Solomon’s descendants, and was known as the kingdom of Judah. The northern ten tribes made up the kingdom of Israel, sometimes called “Samaria” after the name of its later capital city, and were ruled over by Jeroboam and his successors. By our applying the prophetic time period of 390 years found in Ezekiel 4:1-9 with regard to Jerusalem’s destruction the death of Solomon is found to be in the year 997 B.C.E. This was 390 years before the destruction of Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E.