so being around this cult, i always found it interesting that the rest of christianity use ad/bc and the non christians use bce/ce.
i never put two and two together.
but, it dawned on me that once again there is hidden proof that the witness cult is and anti-christ cult.
I recently looked through a reprint of Ussher's Chronology and I am pretty sure he had the date 606 BC for the fall of Jerusalem. His work dated to about 1650.
As an aside, I was simply astounded at the monumental work he produced; it is really impressive for one guy in the 1600's. Many of the dates, etc have been proven incorrect, but it was an impressive work of scholarship for the time.
i have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.
does anybody have on info on this?.
i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .
I could see them coming up with a clever way to detach the generation teaching from 1914, so that the 'generation' would have a floating beginning point. Just a thought.
i have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.
does anybody have on info on this?.
i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .
The light keeps getting brighter, then dimmer, then bright, then dim. My head hurts
i picked a copy up at a flea market and can not remember what pages were supposed to be cut out.
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I gave away all my old books quite a few years ago. Maybe I missed my chance to make a few bucks, but I just couldn't stand to look at them anymore
jehovah’s witnesses facing norway data regulator’s privacy audit.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/jehovahs-witnesses-facing-norway-data-regulators-privacy-audit.
https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/datatilsynet-opnar-sak-mot-jehovas-vitner-etter-brennpunkt-dokumentar-1.15377099.
Thanks Was A New Boy for pointing me to google translate.
Got a laugh too! as the auto translate shows:
In “God’s Chosen One”, she and Ida Kårhus told that older men in the panty community asked detailed questions about their sex life.
LOL
jehovah’s witnesses facing norway data regulator’s privacy audit.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/jehovahs-witnesses-facing-norway-data-regulators-privacy-audit.
https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/datatilsynet-opnar-sak-mot-jehovas-vitner-etter-brennpunkt-dokumentar-1.15377099.
I'm interested, but the first news article requires a login. Does anyone have the text of the article?
The second is in Norwegian
so many changes in the 2013 nwt seem needless and spoil familiar phrases.
take isaiah 41:10 in the nwt classic rendering:.
do not be afraid, for i am with you.
I am always curious about questions like this, though I don't know Hebrew at all. I do have some reference books, where I see that the same Hebrew word appears later in the same chapter at 41:23. There the classic NWT read "that we may gaze about and see [it] at the same time" , whereas the 2013 version reads "So that we may be amazed when we see it", which seems quite a departure from the literal reading, even more than verse 10.
Just glancing at a few of the translations on my shelf, most of them read 'be not dismayed' or something like that in verse 10.
I would guess that the literal wording in verse 23 was excessively awkward and a change was definitely called for, and they changed the wording in verse 10 in sync.
i have never known the watchtower bible & tract society to use ad or bc, they have always maintained the bce and ce dating system.. i never thought about questioning it either, as it was no big deal.
however, i found one of the afa's latest news quite interesting... (american family association) is there a connection between the article below and the wts use of the bce/ce system?
is this evidence that indicates the wts is drawing attention away from jesus?.
The terms BCE and CE are becoming more common in all types of literature. The WT adopted the practice earlier than many, but they are not the only ones to use it
i came across this older wt which i assume c t russell wrote the article.
unlike modern practitioners of numerology who calculate a value for each letter of the alphabet, russell simply adds up the number of letters in each word to arrive at [horror of horrors] 666.. and he lists there on the page each one of the organisations that must accordingly be part of the great harlot with 18 letters [in english] in their titles, because 18 is clearly 6+6+6 or 666!
strangely he hasn't stopped to think about another possibility for an 18 letter title.
I've read similar things in other literature of the 1800's, so he probably was not the origin.
what is the purpose?
the skits are not real.
i have been assigned a reading again.
I believe that in its origin, the Ministry School was invented in the WW2 years to support the WT claim that all JWs (men only at first) were ministers and could then get classified (ie: Qualified to be Ministers) as a minister and thus get draft exemption. In the Walsh case they presented this argument to support their stand. There was even a written exam for a time.
The 'school' has morphed into something else over the years, but I think that was the original impetus to introduce it into the weekly meetings.
