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  New JW Bible nickname

  by JWOP in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had a face to face conversation with an active jw today.

  i was informed that they congregations don't like the new bible being referred to as the "gray bible", so some are starting to refer to it as the silver sword.. .

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  respectful_observer

  How about "Sixty-six Shades of Grey"?
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  What color is your bible?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what a great way to divide the sheep and goats, both within and outside the great flock!

  jehovah has given us new light.

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  respectful_observer

  Hey Christendomians! Are all of yalls bibles black? Cause apparently the rewson for jdub grey/grays is that they are the light and Christendom is the dark so they have dark ones. Straight from an elders wife, at my bible study. Maaaaaan.

  Oh, and I thought it was because the all that New Light TM getting brighter and brighter has caused the black to fade to a washed out grey.
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  I was wondering why did they pick a gray color on their new bibles?

  by Iamallcool in

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  if i was on the committee to choose colors, i will definitely turn down that really ugly color!.

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  respectful_observer

  I've heard witnesses calling it "the silver bullet" already.

  Seriously? Oh, dear lord.

  I saw a group manning a JW.org table yesterday and they all had their fancy new grey bibles in hand. I wanted to walk by and say "Heyyy...nice grey bible *wink wink*. But I just didn't want to get dragged into a convo about where I'm from, what cong., etc., etc....

  If I ever hear someone say that, I'll be forced to make some witty comment about beer (let me start thinking now...)

  
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  Email conversation with a colleague

  by zakharijah in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just wanted to share this conversation i had by email with a jw colleague last year at easter.

  (on my professional email address).

  or how can you say to your brother, allow me to extract the straw from your eye; when, look!

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  respectful_observer

  I know a "sister righteous" and she counselled me a few times too. She ( told me not to wear white socks because people would "think I was gay"

  None of the gay men that I know would ever wear white socks; they're way too fashionable (well except at the gym, I suppose, where they do spend quite a bit of time).
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  WTF... JW Library ranks #4 in the Top (Free) Charts on Apple Store for iPhone/iPad

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  checking out the apple store for any new cool apps, and lo and behold!

  i see that the wts has finally embraced that demonic form of information dispensing.

  and all jah's chil'ren are snapping it up.

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  respectful_observer

  iTunes review: "I am thankful to Jehovah for giving us such talented and dedicated brothers. If this isn't proof that we are in a divinely led organization, I don't know what is."

  WHHHAAATTT????? Being able to design a useful app is proof of divine leadership?!?! If that's true, then Steve Jobs must be so happy looking down on as a member of the 144,000.
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  A small observation from the AGM...

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...but it struck me as significant anyway.. i attended at a jw assembly hall, and was sitting behind a pretty typical jw family.

  2 kids about ages 8 & 5, frazzled hen-pecked husband, and....the mom.

  the lady of the house.

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  respectful_observer

  To the OP, the reactions you observed mirrored identically what I saw.

  - Everyone laughed way too hard at every joke a GB made.

  - Everyone was clap-happier than they are at the DC.

  - I just about died laughing when he finally announced the Bible and people audibly gasped with surprise. (Really??? Have you been living under a rock for the last 6 months? Have you not heard them making jokes for the last 2 hours about a lack of Bibles? Have you not picked up on the fact that they've spent the last 2 hours talking ONLY about Bibles and translations?)

  - Can't remember which one said it, but when he made the comment that these Bibles will be available for order starting in 2014...."100 years following Christ taking his throne", we giggled in amusement as we watched 75% of those in the auditorium turn and look at each other with eyes the size of dinner plates and mouth "WOW!!!"
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  AGM Release: The New, Improved New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

  by Oubliette in

  1. social
  2. humour

  this just in from the annual meeting: a new release of the new, improved new world translation of the holy scriptures.

  (reposted from http://m.imgur.com/a/crap8):.

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  respectful_observer

  That light gray is so ugly. What a terrible choice for a book cover. It really puts the "bore" in BORING!

  It was mentioned by more than one speaker/interviewee that Christendom expects that bibles should have BLACK covers in order to be legit. I suspect this is just one more way the Org tries to "separate itself from Christendom". Same reason they refer to it as a "Bible" but insist on imprinting the covers with "Holy Scriptures" instead of "Holy Bible".
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  Video feed crashed during agm. Everybody sent home

  by solomon in

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  2. friends

  the feed kept crashing this morning so after 3 hours they told everybody to go home.

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  respectful_observer

  It's a pity that Jehovah isn't powerful enough to maintain a high quality broadcast signal.

  Yet one of the GB speakers made the observation (not a word-for-word quote): "The Walkill printery generally has a hard time printing Bibles during the summer because of the humidity that works its way into the press rooms, yet during all of the overtime spent printing these new Bibles, they never once had to shut down due to humidity due to one of the mildest summers in recent history!" This comment was followed by quiet gasps of amazement as people around me drew the inference that Jehovah made sure Walkill got a low-humidity summer just so these Bibles could be printing.

  My other half just leaned over and said: "Or maybe it was just that the A/C worked as designed...."
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  What Will Be the Penalty For Using the Old New World Translation?

  by LostGeneration in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so who here wants to run an experiment?

  if you still attend the meetings, are you willing to cling to the "old" new world translation?.

  keep using it in front of all of the rest of the cultists.

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  respectful_observer

  "The elders may look at it as rebelliousness but the agm did say to hold on to your old nwt and use it for reference."

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  Exactly. Plus the NNWT is only available in English, so every single non-English J-dub will be using the old NWT for years to come.
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  Here's what you have all been waiting for - The Revised NWT

  by optimusprime in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the new bible is up at jw.org!.

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  respectful_observer

  I found Appendix A5 rather amusing...it is their defense of inserting the name "Jehovah" into the Greek Scriptures something like 230+ times. Their arguement was underwhelming at best.

  That being said, I was pretty impressed at the Apple version of the app. Being able to touch the verse in the NNWT and have ~5 different translations of that verse (including the Greek Interlinear) appear right next to it is pretty freakin' cool.

  Edit: I had to laugh when the brother walked through all the apps/devices. It felt like the Apple developers conference in SF. He should have been wearing black jean and black turtleneck!