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  Did You Know You Can Have Seizures While You Sleep and Not Know It?

  by David_Jay in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i have to take some time off even from some of my favorite activities for a while...that means here...until i can adjust to a new medical therapy.. i just learned today that i have nocturnal epilepsy and have been having seizures almost every night for several decades!

  wow!

  just started medication that will mess me up when it comes to processing my thinking and typing for a while, so until that straightens out i will just have to read for now.. but look it up.

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  Asking a Jew about the Name "Jehovah"

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses...that's the trademark of the religion, the use of the name "jehovah.

  " if there is anything jws and non-jws can agree on is that this one thing sets them apart from everybody else.. i have only had witnesses come to my door less than five times since i left in the 1990s.

  i guess they don't work the territory i live in often, or perhaps after that first time (which was still after the year 2000) they have marked the words "jew who knows a lot" or something in their notes on my address.

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  Have Jehovah's Witnesses Become Boring?

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  okay, that new video about 1975 has got people talking, and yes, the child abuse cases will always require us to remain vigilant...but after my having left in the late 1980s/early 1990s, it seems all the real "exciting" stuff is gone.

  when i left the witnesses were still preaching that the "generation that was old enough to understand the events of 1914" will not pass away before armageddon comes.

  no blood cards were our badges (not that stupid jw logo) and that card meant what it said, "no blood"!

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  Watchtower Magazine Covers I'd Like to See

  by David_Jay in

  1. social
  2. humour

  the watchtower announcing jehovah's kingdom:.

  "1914--the generation that will not pass...wait a minute.

  "who really is the messiah?

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  The Pagan Origins of the Memorial Observed by Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  “we don’t celebrate holidays because god doesn’t approve of any celebration that is rooted in pagan customs and manmade traditions.” (see here for a similar jw response.).

  if you were once an ex-jw like me, you have probably said something like this out in field service to someone who asked the question: why don’t you people celebrate holidays?

  as the witnesses' official website states in an faq about not celebrating easter:.

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  A Special Thanks ESPECIALLY to ATHEISTS

  by David_Jay in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as most of you know there has been a rise in antisemitism in the world as of late, especially in the united states where i live where many of our jewish community centers and schools have been subjected to bomb threats.

  around the world many jewish cemeteries have been vandalized too.. while i have left the forum earlier this year due to a need to move on with my own healing path (and realizing this forum is doing quite well with the many bright minds already among the crowd), i have briefly returned mainly to write this note of gratitude (though i did post a few times too while i have been here).. it has been touching and very helpful when muslims, christians, and people of other faiths have stood with those of us in the jewish community to protest this wave of hostility against my people.

  there have been many public displays of solidarity with us against these acts of hatred and prejudice and some personal notes from friends letting me know i am not alone.. some of you have been among those who have voiced your concern for me and other jews during this time.

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  Where We Jews (and Religionists) Have Not Been So Forthcoming

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  because i feel some people have become confused in thinking that i am promoting religion or thinking that being jewish is some type of special gift that makes me better, i am writing to tell you that i don’t feel this way.

  think of this as your christmas gift (or chanukah or festivus or whatever).. despite the fact that i too practice a religion, i also think atheism is a purposeful and noble use of the mind.

  too often people with a religion have only bad things to say about atheism and atheists.

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  Why Jehovah's Witnesses are WRONG about Christmas

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as you know (and are probably tired of hearing me repeat), i’m jewish.

  yes, i was a jehovah’s witness when i was a teenager and into my 20s, but returned to my roots and now celebrate chanukah when the holiday season comes around each year.. so why am i writing about christmas?

  well, that’s because i thought i would share something about how jehovah’s witnesses teach against christmas.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses May Have to Look for a New Whipping Boy Due to New Evidence About Catholic Church

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  “the bbc is right to recognise that the libel that catholics said and did nothing against nazism is precisely that, a collective libel.

  i am grateful to them for doing so.”--lord alton of liverpool.. so reported the catholic herald (uk) on friday, 9th of december 2016 after the bbc admitted it greatly underestimated the catholic church's opposition to hitler during the shoah.. the bbc’s internal watchdog has found that a programme wrongly accused the catholic church of “silence” about the holocaust.. after pope francis’s visit to auschwitz in july, bbc one’s 6pm news bulletin carried a report which stated: “silence was the response of the catholic church when nazi germany demonised jewish people and then attempted to eradicate jews from europe.”.

  in response, the cross-bench peer lord alton of liverpool and fr leo chamberlain, the former headmaster of ampleforth, made an official complaint.. nearly six months later, the bbc’s editorial complaints unit has now concluded that the item was unfair.

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  Major Protestant Bible Gets approved Catholic Edition

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a very different way of doing things compared to the nwt of the jehovah’s witnesses, one of the most popular translations in the protestant world now has a formal catholic edition (and thus will drown the nwt further below the growing numbers of this new bible edition).. originally released to the english-speaking catholics in india, and soon to be released in the uk and the united states, tyndale publishers has received an imprimatur for their top-selling new living translation (nlt).. one of the best-selling bibles in english, the nlt was originally designed to be a revision of the popular living bible.

  however, as the revision work grew, the nlt became a translation in its own right.. not understanding what was involved, originally tyndale attempted to release a catholic edition of the nlt in the 1990s in the usa.

  it failed because the translating team and publishers, who at the time were mostly evangelical protestants, didn’t comprehend the way catholic books get published and why catholic faithful tend to put so much faith in the “official stamp” of an imprimatur.. afterwards the translating team behind the nlt decided to bring their translation into the realm of interconfessional cooperation by building a team of translators from various christian traditions and denominations.