so if its true that a new 2012 version of the new world translation is to be released at this year's dc what changes do you think they will have made?.
don't forget your square brackets for interpolations.. .
"this good news of the kingdom will be preached to all the [developed] world and then the end will come" - matt 24:14.
Are they really planning to release a revised NWT? I think it's a measure of how desperately they're rummaging around to come up with something fresh -- and substantial in appearance -- to satisfy the expectations of the rank and file. Gone forever, it seems, are the days when one or two large multi-hundred-page books with newly minted ideas full of dazzling "New Light", etc. would be released at one convention.
Yes, indeed, Freddie is a tough act to follow!
just a quick overview of some new light that is coming our way, forgive my posting via my cellphone.
audience is given ten questions and we have receved anwsers to r questions.. .
"we are stealing from jehovah, if we are worrying about problems in our life, congregation, or employment.
Yeah, heard the "shop-lifting" reference made by a Bethel speaker at a Special Assembly Day a couple of weeks ago... (Buckingham, Pa.)
i like the "sudductive woman with long dark hair", for one.
very funny pictures..
... dresses and/or skits (both well below the knees) for the JW ladies, jeans/pant suits for the worldly hussies!!
ok, i think the writing department has well and truly lost the plot now!.
on page 14 of the august 15th watchtower, there is an extensive section on the perils of the internet, with the caption "do you heed bible-based warnings about the internet?
" in large intimidating letters.
... I also think the internet pornography issue is a "Red Herring" invoked to cloak their real concern ...the JWs' discovery of sites like this!
ok, i think the writing department has well and truly lost the plot now!.
on page 14 of the august 15th watchtower, there is an extensive section on the perils of the internet, with the caption "do you heed bible-based warnings about the internet?
" in large intimidating letters.
Cedars: "For me, this paragraph pretty much sums up the Society's dilemma regarding the internet. They can't deny that they've come to rely on it operationally..."
... not to mention that they're about to significantly increase their operational usage of the internet as we learned on April 2.
i met up with "jabberwock" last night, who took me a real american diner here in new jersey.
it would seem the apostate community are the true "congregation", in that every time i meet with ex-jw's i am shown genuine hospitality.. jabberwock - thank you!!.
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I recommend Harold's in Edison for their outrageous deli sandwiches and Rutt's Hutt in Cilfton for their legendary hot dogs.
at some point in my life, i would really like to write a book about my jw experience and jw teachings in general.
however, if i did, i would preferably like to write from a unique angle that makes the book a little different from the many others out there.
i can imagine some being quite self-indulgent, and i would want to avoid that wherever possible.. i must confess, due to a variety of circumstances i am not well read when it comes to all the various ex-jw books out there.
A highly personalized biographical account, though out of print for some time, is Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's "Visions of Glory."
yes indeedy.
if you are fortunate enough to be approved you can report (as in be allowed to report) 15-minute increments.
i knew that older ones, for example, were encouraged to report even the smallest amount of service and the cong.
Kinda reminds me of the trouble I take to scrape the tiniest bit of peanut butter from the bottom and sides of the jar before I toss it into the recyclable bin!
have i missed something by not browsing each and every posting here?.
up till very recently, my two sons (one a jw and one, a non-jw) lived in the same community.
the never-baptized son decided to move to a different u.s. state and within a few miles of my home i'm a df'd person as of 33 years ago.
When I first read the headline of this thread, I thought it was about a kit designed to equip any JW to survive the three-day ordeal at the District Convention!!
in england was a jehovahs witness ...how sad .
telegraph.co.uk .
What a nightmarish tragedy; heartbreaking.... " I heared (sic.) this on the news, but the JW connection wasnt mentioned" so much for the "worldly press" sensationalizing the misfortune of the JWs.
