Posts by wannabefree

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Day 2 of the Convention is over ... what's missing?

by wannabefree in

day number 2 is done.. there was an audio drama, sure, it adds some excitement, hey, its different.. final talk "stay close to jehovah, as jeremiah did" ended with the release of the book ... god's word for us through jeremiah ... not a verse by verse consideration of prophecy, rather, what we can learn from jeremiah's life as a prophet, considers information from jeremiah and lamentations.

(of course informed readers of this site knew of this release already.).

noticibly missing ... jesus christ ... to me it was painfully obvious.. one talk i think was numbing our mind to accept the generation bomb tomorrow.. i couldn't help but realize that throughout the convention so far, the vast majority of scriptural references are from old testament (yes, it was hard not to say hebrew scriptures, so i just did).. i didn't realize it so much in the past, but it seems like jehovah's witnesses are trying to accomplish what the nation of israel couldn't, follow laws.

wannabefree

Why am I going? I have only been awakened recently and have immediate family ... plus I promised Yknot

I have been recording.

I sure could use that massage.

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Day 2 of the Convention is over ... what's missing?

by wannabefree in

day number 2 is done.. there was an audio drama, sure, it adds some excitement, hey, its different.. final talk "stay close to jehovah, as jeremiah did" ended with the release of the book ... god's word for us through jeremiah ... not a verse by verse consideration of prophecy, rather, what we can learn from jeremiah's life as a prophet, considers information from jeremiah and lamentations.

(of course informed readers of this site knew of this release already.).

noticibly missing ... jesus christ ... to me it was painfully obvious.. one talk i think was numbing our mind to accept the generation bomb tomorrow.. i couldn't help but realize that throughout the convention so far, the vast majority of scriptural references are from old testament (yes, it was hard not to say hebrew scriptures, so i just did).. i didn't realize it so much in the past, but it seems like jehovah's witnesses are trying to accomplish what the nation of israel couldn't, follow laws.

wannabefree

Day number 2 is done.

There was an audio drama, sure, it adds some excitement, hey, its different.

Final talk "Stay Close to Jehovah, as Jeremiah Did" ended with the release of the book ... God's Word For Us Through Jeremiah ... not a verse by verse consideration of prophecy, rather, what we can learn from Jeremiah's life as a prophet, considers information from Jeremiah and Lamentations. (Of course informed readers of this site knew of this release already.)

Noticibly missing ... Jesus Christ ... to me it was painfully obvious.

One talk I think was numbing our mind to accept the generation bomb tomorrow.

I couldn't help but realize that throughout the convention so far, the vast majority of scriptural references are from Old Testament (yes, it was hard not to say Hebrew Scriptures, so I just did).

I didn't realize it so much in the past, but it seems like Jehovah's Witnesses are trying to accomplish what the nation of Israel couldn't, follow laws. It seems so obvious now. Didn't Jesus free us from that?

Plenty of guilt to go around ... Jeremiah was single (while no RULE is made to stay single today, a brief comment) advantages of single and/or childless life obvious.

Jehovah blessed a Pioneer with new tires ... too bad about the 4 that got killed when their car went out of control and landed upside down in water and the recent young man who got hit by the car and pinned to the wall ... don't cry, the tires were important.

What else ... ? It hurts to try and remember.

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I'm so miserable since leaving the JWs

by keyser soze in

jw
friends

i can barely stand it.

does anyone else feel this way?.

for instance, i have a four-day weekend from work, which means i had today off(with pay, thank you very much).

wannabefree

There were a couple of different ones interviewed who's father left the truth ... was that you?

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It's May, It's May!!!! DCs start 5/21!!!!

by yknot in

here ye, here ye..... citizens of the world and those who are 'served' by the slave.

yes the time at hand grows near!.

the 2010-2011 dc season begins preaching loads of fear!.

wannabefree

On my way to the convention!

Perhaps I can end all of the pain I have been experiencing over the past 5 months and plug myself back into the matrix!

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Anxious about meeting...

by gutted in

i know there are other topics related to this, i started one earlier similar to this but here goes anyway.. so i skipped a couple of meetings of the co visit to hang out with some "worldly" friends and we went out of town.

i think some of my closer "friends" at the hall found out from my family and now i am dreading going to the next meeting and hearing their encouring "where were you!?"..

it fills me with anxiety.

wannabefree

just say ... "... I know, I wasn't able to make it, what did I miss? wouldn't it be nice sometimes to be able to be in two places at the same time?" ....

DEFLECT! You don't owe excuses or explanations.

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sneaky photo used in the new york magazine story

by Aussie Oz in

anybody else notice this?.

.

oz.

wannabefree

Mad Sweeney: You may not like the NWT, but it is a translation.

From "Truth in Translation" ....

Like the NAB, the New World Translation is a product of a single Christian denomination, in this case, Jehovah's Witnesses, through their publishing arm, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York.

Because of its association with the Jehovah's Witnesses, the NW is often and readily pointed to as an example of a translation which must have a theological bias, unlike the supposedly objective, neutral, and scholarly Bibles more widely used today. The attention to bias is heightened by the fact that the theology of hte Jehovah's Witness does not correspond to that of mainstream denominations. This difference creates a hostile atmosphere in which representatives of that mainstream theology charge that any variation in the NW from more familiar translations must serve the ulterior motives of distorting the "truth". But the facts are that all of the translations considered in this book are products of people with theological commitments, that ll contain biased translations of one sort or another, and the NW deserves to be assessed for accuracy by the same standards applied to others.

The NW's text-base is the Westcott and Hort edition, which is the foundation of modern critical editions, and closely related to the more recent Nestle-Aland and UBS texts. It stays true to this text-base, and does not draw in readings from the inferior traditional text, as happens with the NASB, AB, and LB. The NW is a formal equivalence translation, with occasional ventures into dynamic equivalence where the meaning was felt to be obscured by potential misunderstandings of Greek idiom.

This approach puts the NW very close to the NRSV's principles of "as literal as possible, as free as necessary." But the NW is free of the shadow of King James, and so reads quite differently than the KJV - dependent NRSV. One systematic peculiarity of the NW is the substitution of "Jehovah" for "Lord" in well over two-hundred verses.

The NW New Testament was first published in 1950, and was most recently revised in 1984. The members of the translation team remain anonymous, just as they do for the NKJB and the Lockman Foundation's NASB.

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sneaky photo used in the new york magazine story

by Aussie Oz in

anybody else notice this?.

.

oz.

wannabefree

If the photographer arranged to go out with a pioneer it is very likely they had that kind of Bible. I'm just saying, if they did that in my hall, the chance would be greater to see the cover shown than the one on stock NWT's as nearly every pioneer has one like that and many of the publishers do too.

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Change in distribution of Kool-aid issue of WT, get them like your KMs from your Service Groups Overseer

by cattails in

not only is there a change in the way the magazines for field service are distributed to publishers.. there's news of a change in distribution of the study issue of the wt.

from now on a publisher will.

get them like they get their kms, that is by having their service groups overseer hand deliver them.. another way to exercise control for control's sake and make the sgos busier and feeling more and.

wannabefree

humorous to see someone show up to their meeting with a printed copy (printed from the PDF file), with answers highlighted

I have done that when I couldn't find my magazine.

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sneaky photo used in the new york magazine story

by Aussie Oz in

anybody else notice this?.

.

oz.

wannabefree

In case you are not aware ... many get the New World Translation bound together with the Reasoning book by book binding companies, it requires a new cover, this isn't a deception, it is quite common. Most of the 20 pioneers in my hall have a Bible like that.

In fairness, it is a translation of "The Holy Bible", as far as I know, there is not one translation that is the "Holy Bible Translation".

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Change in distribution of Kool-aid issue of WT, get them like your KMs from your Service Groups Overseer

by cattails in

not only is there a change in the way the magazines for field service are distributed to publishers.. there's news of a change in distribution of the study issue of the wt.

from now on a publisher will.

get them like they get their kms, that is by having their service groups overseer hand deliver them.. another way to exercise control for control's sake and make the sgos busier and feeling more and.

wannabefree

We don't have our KM's hand deliverd by Service Group Overseer. The are always left out near the literature counter with family head name on top copy to be picked up.