Posts by dropoffyourkeylee

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Congregation Letter - 2021 Magazines Delayed???

by JWTom in

we had a letter read in our cong.

last week that said the public wt and awake would be delayed during the beginning of 2021. meaning we would just use the 2020 version into 2021 and there would be no new ones at the beginning of 2021 until an undetermined time sometime during the 1st half of 2021. at least that is the gist that i remember.

it was in what atlantis provided but there was no further detail....very brief.. any more intel or speculation on this?

dropoffyourkeylee

I'm looking at the jw app and it looks like the study edition of the WT for Jan 2021 is out there, which is for the WT study up to April 4, 2021.

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Listen Obey and Be Blessed

by Anna Marina in

thought i'd share if no one has done so already.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxf75u-xoji.

dropoffyourkeylee

This song is one of the few that doesn't use the name Jehovah, but does mention both Christ and Jesus, as well as God. So a non-JW editor seeking a song which may be palatable to evangelical Christians may have picked this song for that reason.

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The 1950s NWT (1984)

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

i did a video on this subject once but feel this is a noteworthy topic.

to be honest the old nwt has come under sonsiderable attack from fundie morons attacking it's nt which was translated with a few revisals in 1950.the truth is john 1:1 and 8:58 and other texts, though despite being odd, are within the translation rules as are the inclusion of the word {other} since this was stated in the forward as an interpolation.

jehovah in the nt is odd but certianly lacking as other translations have added more yhwh.. so the ot?

dropoffyourkeylee

The OT of the pre-2013 NWT was very literal, to the point of being overly tedious to read. I have an interlinear Hebrew Bible (Jay Green), which is laid out similarly to the NWT Greek interlinear. It has Hebrew to the right side of the pane with interlinear word for word and the Strong's number, and the Green literal translation in the left side of the pane. It reads very much like the NWT OT. Literal, wordy, long run on sentences and awkward verbs. It was a very formulaic approach that may be good for some study applications, but not for reading.

The NW NT was not as literal, with a lot more doctrinal bias.

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The Watchtower's Most Secret Book!

by Atlantis in

jw
friends

the watchtower's most secret book!.

the truth that gives you eternal life, bethel edition.

the truth that gives you eternal life was published on watchtower presses, and is not to be confused with the truth that leads to eternal life published by the watchtowerbible and tract society.

dropoffyourkeylee

A relation of mine worked in the bindery about then, and for a time worked on the embosser, which was the machine which put the gold lettering on the book covers. They did have occasional times where they would make something special for themselves. For instance, he made me a personal copy of the bible with a special cover. I think it was light blue, the color of the old Aid book, but on a bible. I don't think it was that unusual for them to make souvenirs like that, but I wasn't aware of making copies of non-JW books like the one described here.

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https://www.livekingdomhall.com/

by dropoffyourkeylee in

ok, here is something i had not heard of.

https://www.livekingdomhall.com/.

apparently the next step to becoming an online religion..

dropoffyourkeylee

After looking at the website, I'm not sure it is WT sanctioned

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https://www.livekingdomhall.com/

by dropoffyourkeylee in

ok, here is something i had not heard of.

https://www.livekingdomhall.com/.

apparently the next step to becoming an online religion..

dropoffyourkeylee

OK, here is something I had not heard of.

https://www.livekingdomhall.com/

Apparently the next step to becoming an online religion.

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Sandra Melgar convicted of murder in husband's brutal stabbing

by darkspilver in

fyihouston woman convicted of murder in husband's brutal stabbing.

wednesday, august 23, 2017jurors discount her claim that intruder was responsiblemelgar maintained her innocence in the dec. 22, 2012 killing, which occurred the day before the couple's 32nd wedding anniversary.http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/houston-woman-convicted-of-murder-in-husband-s-11954131.php.

sandra melgar guilty of killing husband, faking home invasion on houston couple's anniversary night.

dropoffyourkeylee

Dr Grande put out a video this week about the Sandra Melgar case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt60JrvrFcc

I find his videos interesting. I had not heard of this case, and was a bit surprised when he mentioned that she was a Witness.

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The Society and 1975.

by Lost in the fog in

stumbled upon this article - not that the wt society ever highlighted the date of 1975, but that was brothers running ahead... .

w68 8/15 pp.

494-501. https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1968602#h=1:0 .

dropoffyourkeylee

The WT's worst enemy is their own literature

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Zoroaster spoke thus

by Doug Mason in

the following is from: cosmos, chaos and the world to come (pp.

222-224), norman cohn.

yale university press.

dropoffyourkeylee

I have also read that the concept of the Devil came from Zoroastrian beliefs which the Jews picked up when they were in exile.

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Why Jehovah`s Witnesses are wrong emphasising the name Jehovah.

by smiddy3 in

hi friends, feel free to correct me where i`m wrong with this post.after all it`s just my observation of jw`s and the bible.. in the beginning of gods dealings with adam it was on a personal level , god to man so to speak.. god then dealt with humans via the patriarchs , then with the levi priesthood ,then judges ,( and a woman was a judge ) then kings ,somewhere in between all of this prophets played a major part ,and then came jesus christ the messiah.. and to my knowledge god has not validated a successor to him with any evidence i`ve seen .. jehovah`s witnesses claim to be christians but have with no new testament backing usurped jesus with jehovah.. this period of time ,until god says otherwise ,christians are to give honour and glory to none other than jesus christ .. that is the name that is above any other name until god says otherwise.

phil.2:9-11. not the name jehovah .the bible never says anything about a kingdom of jehovah ,the coming kingdom is the kingdom of jesus christ with his associate 144,000 earthly subjects.. this is just my understanding of what the bible actually says .. whether i believe it or not is another matter..

dropoffyourkeylee

Somewhere in Acts it says the name of 'Christian' was chosen in Divine providence. The JWs have for the most part lost sight of Jesus and the basic identity of Christianity.