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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  RayPublisher

  Good comments Flipper. I feel that being a part of AAWA should mean that Facebook is optional. If FB is REQUIRED then that excludes many for the reasons you outlined.
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  NWT bible is wonderful (quotes)

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  someone on the jw lovers kool aid site jw talk.

  net posted how wonderful the nwt bible is and put this list of all the scholars that love it.

  my recollection is that many of these were taken out of context anyone here up on this one?.

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  Thanks folks gonna check those out!
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  NWT bible is wonderful (quotes)

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  someone on the jw lovers kool aid site jw talk.

  net posted how wonderful the nwt bible is and put this list of all the scholars that love it.

  my recollection is that many of these were taken out of context anyone here up on this one?.

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  Someone on the JW lovers kool aid site JW Talk. net posted how wonderful the NWT Bible is and put this list of all the scholars that love it. My recollection is that many of these were taken out of context anyone here up on this one?

  Here's the "esteemed list":

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  Jason BeDuhn: "While it is difficult to quantify this sort of analysis, it can be said the NW[T] emerges as the most accurate of the translations compared."
  -Greek Scholar in his book: "Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament"
  
  Steven T. Byington: Of the NWT, "If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines."
  -Christian Century, "Review of the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures"
  
  Frederick Danker: "Not to be snubbed is the New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Rendered from the Original by the New World Bible Translation Committee."
  -"Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study"
  
  Alan S. Duthie: The "Jehovah's Witnesses' NWT,...is certainly not 'filled with the heretical doctrines'...even though a few aberrations can be found...but the percentage of the whole Bible thus affected... does not reach even 0.1% of the whole, which is very far from 'full'.
  -"How To Choose Your Bible Wisely"
  
  Rolf Furuli: "I read the English text of the NWT against the Hebrew text, word for word...the translators of the NWT have been extremely faithful both to their own translation principles and to the Hebrew text."
  -Lecturer in Semitic Languages at Oslo University
  
  S. Maclean Gilmore: "The New Testament edition was made by a committee...that possessed an unusual competence in Greek."
  -Andover Newton Quarterly
  
  Edgar Goodspeed: "I am...much pleased with the free, frank, and vigorous translation. It exhibits a vast array of sound serious learning, as I can testify."
  -Scholar and Bible Translator
  
  Samuel Haas: "This work indicates a great deal of effort and thought as well as considerable scholarship."
  -Bible Scholar in "Journal of Biblical Literature"
  
  C. Houtman: "The New World Translation of the Jehovah's Witnesses can survive the scrutiny of criticism."
  -"Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift", [Dutch Theological Magazines]
  
  Benjamin Kedar: "I find my feeling repeatedly confirmed that [the OT] reflects an honest endeavor to achieve an understanding of the text that is as accurate as possible....Giving evidence of a broad command of the original language...I have never discovered in the New World Translation any biased intent to read something into the text that it does not contain."
  -Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has a Ph'd from Yale
  
  Robert M. McCoy: "The translation of the New Testament is evidence of the presence in the movement of scholars qualified to deal intelligently with the many problems of Biblical translation."
  -"Andover Newton Quarterly"
  
  Dr. Bruce Metzger: "On the whole, one gains a tolerably good impression of the scholarly equipment of the translators."
  -Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Scholar in Greek, OT Studies and NT Studies in "The Bible Translator"
  
  James Parkinson: "The Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation offers a relatively accurate translation from a different theological perspective."
  -Author of "How To Choose a Bible Translation"
  
  J. D Phillips: "Last week I purchased a copy of your New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures of which I take pride in being an owner. You have done a marvelous work...but you have made a marvelous step in the right direction, and I pray God that your Version will be used to His glory. What you have done for the Name alone is worth all the effort and cost!"
  -J.D. Phillips was a Church of Christ Minister who knew Hebrew and Koine Greek
  
  Charles Francis Potter: In "the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures...the anonymous translators have certainly rendered the best manuscript texts...with scholarly ability and acumen."
  -The Faith Men Live By
  
  William Carey Taylor: The NT of the NWT contains "considerable scholarship."
  -"The New Bible Pro and Con"
  
  Alexander Thomson: "The translation is evidently the work of skilled and clever scholars, who have sought to bring out as much of the true sense of the Greek text as the English language is capable of expressing."
  -in "The Differentiator" (a private, published journal)
  
  Allen Wikgren: It is "independent reading of merit."
  -Scholar on the NRSV committee, as well as on the committee which produced the UBS Greek text
  
  Thomas N. Winter: "The translation by the anonymous committee is thoroughly up to date and consistently accurate...In sum, when a witness comes to the door, the classicist, Greek student, or Bible student alike would do well to place an order."
  -Professor of Koine Greek at the University of Nebraska

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  Will AAWA Become another cult?

  by His Excellency in

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  please sorry for english, i have only been learning for 18 months.

  everyone please think about it, and beware of any initiative designed to solve "a community problem".

  becasue russel also started his own cult on a similar premise like this , claiming to have all the answers to issues whose solutions seems obscured to the majority in his days, and here we are today, constantly bashing our fingers on the keyboard in a bid to finding comfort from the mess he had put all of us into.

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  @ His Excellency - You are being way too paranoid there is ZERO chance that AAWA is another cult or ever could become one.

  It's express purpose is to help ease the suffering of those that choose to leave the WT, and put peaceful societal pressure on the WT leadership so that perhaps someday the harmful policies will be eradicated. How can any one fault us for being a part of this?
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  Help to Reintegrate back into society for former Jehovah's Witnesses

  by BlindersOff1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  new video from jwstruggle.com.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4opsyf0xhye.

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  BTTT
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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  Full speed ahead on the AAWA Rocket!
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  in regards to AAWA

  by johnamos in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  oh how i wish i could just write out something that would cause you all to know and understand that what i say is true.

  or i wish i could tell yall that i am going to do something like cause an earthquake (with jehovahs spirit backing me) at a certain place and time, then after i posted such info then it occurred just as i said...then maybe you would listen and believe what i say.. .

  and even more so, your lack of knowledge and belief in jehovah and in his word the bible.

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  Johnamos do more research my boy have you even read Crisis of Conscience yet? Many of us have shown up late for the party that's okay just keep learning my man, AAWA is here to help us ALL.
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  When a new circuit overseer comes to town

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he usually stays with a elder/eldress who loves to gossip.

  before the co attends his first meeting he has a distorted view of the other members of.

  the congregation based on the negative comments of the eldress.

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  @ Punk - COW (co-ordinator's obnoxious wife)

  THAT MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD FOR REAL- THANK YOU!

  
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  Getting serious for Julia!!

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  no, there's no jc scheduled for me, though i've heard from a friend on the boe that the inquisitor is about to get inquisited himself.

  you will see who i mean in this thread: .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/246766/1/julias-inquisition-two-elders-the-full-version-i-want-you-all-to-see-this.

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  You are joining the side of the living, the stable, and the free of mind!
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  "I'll see you at the movies." RIP Roger Ebert

  by MrFreeze in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  years ago, i didn't care for roger ebert.

  i thought he was kind of a snooty film critic.. after watching films as sort of a hobby, i came to really appreciate his opinions on film.

  mainly, what was the film trying to do.

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  RayPublisher

  My favorite movie critic, who never had his nose up in the air. ...And a talented author. ...And a film scholar.

  RIP Roger