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  Sodomite resurrection flip-flops -- recent WT confession?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  within the last few years i understand watchtower has issued a concession (no apology) of minor proportion.

  they don't admit to the avalanche of some 8 sequential positions (yes, no, yes, no, ...) of, "will the sodomites receive a resurrection?".

  i think they admit to about three of them.

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  Bobcat

  Len:

  See here for a thought on this.
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  How would you compose these facts into sentences?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please make one sentence each from the following sets of facts:.

  1) a man: he's cynical/he's old/he's a bachelor/he's grizzled.

  2) a boy: he owns a schwinn bicycle/he's 10 years old/the bike is blue/it's a christmas gift/it has three speeds.

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  Bobcat

  CoCo:

  I composed my sentence kinda in a hurry, as I was on my way to doing something else. So I didn't have time to put in my reasoning.

  • From the seat of his blue 3-speed Schwinn, a Christmans gift, the 10 year old boy saw his 'hope'; Mary, the one from Maple street, with her long curly red locks, a sophmore, strolling alongside her cynical, grizzled old bachelor of an uncle.

  I think the basic idea behind my use of adjectives was grouping them into 'families.' For example, for the man, "grizzled" and "old" describe his appearance, "cynical" is an attitude (and I may have needed a comma between "grizzled" and "old" (not sure). Similarly, Mary's description breaks down to "location" (from Maple Street), "age" (a sophmore), and "hair" (curly, red, and long). For the bike, 3-speed desribes its mechanical operation, whereas, that it was a Christmas gift describes how the boy received it.

  I could see where the adjectives might be grouped into different families and introduced in different order based on the view of the writer and how he/she wishes to compose the sentence. Language, and the use of it, is an amazing gift/talent.

  The semi-colon I used might have better been a colon. To me, semi-colons seem to seperate thoughts, not necessarily directly related. Colons, on the other hand, seem to directly point (sort of like an arrow) to the thought that follows. I don't know if that is official use of them. But that is how my mind sees them.

  When I first composed it, I wasn't sure if you wanted 3 sentences (for the man, girl, and boy) or just one that encompassed them all. Looking at your first post again, it appears you were looking for a seperate sentence for each. So my composition suffered a little from lack of attention to detail. But it was fun trying to compose them all together into one.

  Take Care
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  How would you compose these facts into sentences?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please make one sentence each from the following sets of facts:.

  1) a man: he's cynical/he's old/he's a bachelor/he's grizzled.

  2) a boy: he owns a schwinn bicycle/he's 10 years old/the bike is blue/it's a christmas gift/it has three speeds.

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  Bobcat

  As Sybok (from Star Trek 5) said (to Co Co), "We only seek your infinite wisdom.".

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  How would you compose these facts into sentences?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please make one sentence each from the following sets of facts:.

  1) a man: he's cynical/he's old/he's a bachelor/he's grizzled.

  2) a boy: he owns a schwinn bicycle/he's 10 years old/the bike is blue/it's a christmas gift/it has three speeds.

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  Bobcat

  From the seat of his blue 3-speed Schwinn, a Christmans gift, the 10 year old boy saw his 'hope'; Mary, the one from Maple street, with her long curly red locks, a sophmore, strolling alongside her cynical, grizzled old bachelor of an uncle.
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  the new jw bible and the verses they removed

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i noticed they removed several important ones like mark 16:9-20 acts 8:37 and romans 16:24, so how does one find out if there is any relevance to them removing these verses and others.

  they of course say these verses were not found in the oldest manuscripts so how can we see if they are correct or lying??

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  Bobcat

  Interesting Catholic Forum thread where the WT as a bible society and the revised NWT is discussed (here).
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  Now predicting increase of anointed?

  by jgnat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i came across this nugget in the may 2014 issue:.

  "are you moving ahead with jehovah's organization".

  ....at one time, the anointed remnant were like the little one, but their number grew as other spiritual israelites were brought into gods organization.

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  Bobcat

  I was wondering what that rattling sound was in my head. (See here. I'm one of the crazies. )
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  Were the JW Judicial Instructional Videos Leaked on Purpose?

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am just putting this out there.

  notice how they repeatedly stress that the proceedings are not a trial or legal proceeding?

  is this their way of putting out their position so that they have a legal defense against challenges of those disfellowshipped?

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  I kinda think they don't want the elders to think of a JC in terms of a legal trial. Maybe some elders were viewing the accused as a person with 'rights' and requiring 'due process.' Maybe the Society feels that that is behind some of the spate of merciful attitude that has gotten hold of some of these Judicial Committees. Perhaps they see some elders holding themselves to the same standard of proof that courts hold themselves to.
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  Quantum world POSSIBLY affects the macro world

  by John_Mann in

  1. social
  2. current

  migration via quantum mechanicsa perplexing property of quantum mechanics could be allowing birds to see and navigate the planets magnetic fieldsone-fifth of earth's 10,000 bird species migrate over great distances, crossing seemingly insurmountable obstacles as they follow the seasons.. demoiselle cranes fly to altitudes in excess of 20,000 feet as they pass over the himalayan mountains.

  the arctic tern travels from pole to pole in pursuit of an endless summer, a distance of some 40,000 miles.. scientists have long speculated that certain animals are making use of magnetic fields to find their way, but biologists are mystified as to how they might do it.. now some answers might be coming from one of the most perplexing interactions in physics.. quantum entanglement dictates that if two electrons are created at the same time, the pair will be entangled so that whatever happens to one particle affects the other.

  otherwise, it would violate fundamental laws of physics.. the two particles remain entangled even when separated by vast distances.. http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/pia-entanglement1.cfm.

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  Bobcat

  John:

  The two particles remain entangled even when separated by vast distances.

  I brought up this idea (here) on this thread and Caliper linked to an article on it (here). An interesting idea.
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  Now predicting increase of anointed?

  by jgnat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i came across this nugget in the may 2014 issue:.

  "are you moving ahead with jehovah's organization".

  ....at one time, the anointed remnant were like the little one, but their number grew as other spiritual israelites were brought into gods organization.

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  Bobcat

  I haven't seen the context in the WT but I don't think this is new. I think what they are saying is that early in the 20th century anointed numbers grew as they were gathered into the WT organization A few grew to thousands. Then the increase continued with the gathering of the great crowd.
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  A demon possessed hoime, allegations of infedelity, slander and other cool stuff

  by confusedandalone in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok so i am sure some of you saw th eletter my mom wrote.

  i simply responded with:.

  mom,.

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  Bobcat

  CAA:

  I feel for you. It's WT induced insanity.

  Take Care