Posts by mindnumbed

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Questions about limits and why I can't view some topic categories

by Faithful Witness in

i'm kinda new here.

will the daily limit ever increase above 10 posts, and 1 new thread per 24 hour period?.

also wondering... i'm unable to view "best of topics... first stop for new visitors.

mindnumbed

Strangely .... you can get into the 'Best of Topics' category as long as you are NOT logged in.

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Here's what you have all been waiting for - The Revised NWT

by optimusprime in

the new bible is up at jw.org!.

can anyone save me the stress of listening to the self-appointed faithful & discreet slave for 3 hours, and give a clue as to roughly at what point in the proceedings was the derogatory term 'bum witnesses used, and by whom?

i'd really love to extract that comment and send it to a weakening witness, to highlight the judgmental arrogance and name-calling being displayed.. many thanks in advance folks!.

mindnumbed

I assumed that the term used and put in quotes by the blogger "bum" was his own euphemism summing up the thought relayed by the speaker.

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The NWT is almost readable now (some random thoughts)

by slimboyfat in

i guess there will be lots of interesting little changes, but perhaps the most significant change in the new version of the nwt is overall readability.

there were many, many passages of the old nwt that were virtually incomprehensible unless you had read some watchtower commentary explaining what on earth they were trying to say.

take 1 cor 7:36 in the old nwt for example:.

mindnumbed

verse 16 keeps undeserved kindness while other translations tend to use the same word (grace) thoughout.

Heaven forbid (or Governing Body forbid) JW's start running around saying "grace" instead of "undeserved kindness", it would make them sound too much like other Christian faiths and the R&F might start thinking they are good enough to have a relationship with God without them!

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NI NWT John 1:1 still says "a god" ... but ....

by mindnumbed in

there is now a footnote that offers the alternative "was divine" ... which is the preferred rendering of jason d. beduhn ph.d. as stated in his book truth in translation.

mindnumbed

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AGM - did anyone miss this?

by Anony Mous in

according to the live blog: god's will to be completed by the end of the millennium.

very casually said by louche (;-)).

i think this is one of those things that is supposed to rile up the r&f.

mindnumbed

He was simply saying it would take the whole of the thousand year reign for Jesus to sort out the earth, which is what JWs have taught for decades already.

Thousand years = millenial reign - millenium

He's simlply referring to fulfillment of 1 Cor 15:28 (see Watchtower 9/15/2012 Peace for a Thousand Years - and Beyond!)

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Funny FB comments about Annual Meeting

by Comatose in

i just looked and found some real epic fb posts... oh lordy.. here are a few from my stream, post yours!.

alan xxxx.

xxxx are you at the morning one are they getting it fixed i started crying i felt so bad for all the friends and for the governing body as well xxx.

mindnumbed

All I'll say is WOW!!!!!

EPIC!

I cried!!

Blessings only keep getting better!

Kinda leaves you speechless other then wow.

I can't wait till we can talk about it...

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NEW EDITION OF BIBLE?

by The Searcher in

if there is a new version of the nwt, does anyone know the reason why?

changes/copyright problems?.

mindnumbed

i liked the cover

you can't judge a book by it's cover

(sorry, couldn't resist)

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The new translation of John 17:3 seems like a major shift.

by paul from cleveland in

up until now, everlasting life was dependent on "taking in knowledge".

it was a perfect fit for a publishing house to interpret that scripture that way.

if we didn't keep up with the endless stream of publications from the watchtower our salvation would be in jeopardy.

mindnumbed

Freddy Franz did whatever he could to make the JW's peculiar and different from everyone else. GB 2.0 seems to be trying to bring the religion more mainstream with Mormon type PR and softened approaches in public edition magazines ... and now a Bible that in some ways is more in line with other translations. Did they change John 1:1 to Jesus being "divine" instead of "a god"?

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The new translation of John 17:3 seems like a major shift.

by paul from cleveland in

up until now, everlasting life was dependent on "taking in knowledge".

it was a perfect fit for a publishing house to interpret that scripture that way.

if we didn't keep up with the endless stream of publications from the watchtower our salvation would be in jeopardy.

mindnumbed

... and 1 Corinthians 13:4 ... Jehovah's chariot has caught up with translations done by Satan's system by using the term patient instead of long-suffering

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013%3A4&version=NASB;NLT;NIV