Posts by FFGhost

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Memorial this year?
by carla in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
how are they handling the memorial this year?

zoom or open kh's?

how do they reject the wine & bread in their own home?
FFGhost

Yes, on zoom, and each family provides their own emblems.
At least 80% of the JWs I know will eat & drink them within seconds of their zoom cameras going dark.
Somehow, the bread and wine are only "holy", somehow it only really "counts", if you eat the bread & drink the wine....at the exact "right time".
If you eat & drink at 7:45 PM (during the meeting) then you'd better be "anointed" or you will be "partaking unworthily" and Jehovah will smite you.
If you eat/drink the identical items at 8:15 (after the meeting), though, hey, just a nice little snack.
And don't get me started on the sheer absurdity that each family will go through to appear to be "passing the emblems" to each other.
The goofiness of the whole thing is just incomprehensible to anyone who's never been a JW.
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Life of a pioneer
by road to nowhere in
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2. beliefs
the song this week.

it has to be hands down the stupidest one ever.
FFGhost

Oh I dunno, they had one about a singing literature cart on one of the early JW Borg-casts a few years back.
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A Generation Change Again???
by BereanThinker7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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. .
FFGhost

utterly nonsensical notion
With all due respect, "one generation consists of 2 overlapping groups and thus can extend for 150 or more years" fits quite nicely within the "utterly nonsensical" spectrum.
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A Generation Change Again???
by BereanThinker7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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. .
FFGhost

Oh please please please let it be true!
No one - I mean NO ONE - shoots themselves in the foot (feet?) so phenomenally as those guys.
Fingers crossed!
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How Do You Think Election Votes Should Be Counted?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
do you think voters should be required to prove that they are legitimate?.
FFGhost

How do you get a down vote for nominative statements of fact that can be verified from your state's body of revised statutes?
Facts are becoming increasingly irrelevant on this site....
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JWs getting into film production what could go wrong
by mickbobcat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so the cult is getting into film production.

i saw evans piece on the jws opening a studio in australia.

one thing i see is if they use the people who are drawn to acting one they will create internal stars.
FFGhost

people who are drawn to acting and are natural at it are many times have homosexual tendencies.
Fascinating.
What can you tell about them by measuring the shape & size of their skull, and counting the bumps?
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“Do not gaze about!”
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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.
FFGhost

It would be one thing if anyone on the RNWT committee had any training in Biblical or Greek, or hell, any real (from a university) training in translation in general, and could justify their rewording.
But the RNWT is, as best as I can piece together, a bunch of guys reviewing Fred Franz's 75-80 year old notes from the original NWT, and then brainstorming what "sounds better" in modern English, with a preference toward phrasing that is "easy to translate".
So you end up with a translation based on notes from an older translation based on one guy's (maybe two guys if Gangas was involved) intermediate understanding of Biblical languages.
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What is the JW view on the vaccine rollout?
by MebyonKernow in
1. jw
2. friends
out of morbid curiosity...what is the jehovah's witnesses current view about the vaccine rollout?is the watchtower society advocating the position to take the covid vaccine?

is it a personal 'conscience' matter?

how many jws are refusing the vaccine does anyone know?
FFGhost

They have sent out letters to be read to the congregations stating that the vaccines do not contain "blood fractions", and that deciding to take or not take the vaccine is up to each JW.
That's the "official" position. Individual JWs are as loony / unloony as any other individuals - some are quite vocal about their position as anti-vaxxers, others are pro-vaccine, etc.
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“Do not gaze about!”
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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.
FFGhost

The most egregious tampering, IMHO, was Micah 6:8.
Original NWT:
He has told you, O earthling man, what is good. And what is Jehovah asking back from you but to exercise justice and to love kindness and to be modest in walking with your God?
Revised NWT:
He has told you, O man, what is good.
And what is Jehovah requiring of you?
Only to exercise justice, to cherish loyalty,
And to walk in modesty with your God!
Just absolutely butchered. What a beautiful thought, to "love kindness". And now it is rendered as "cherish loyalty" which as you can imagine, they have already used repeatedly to underline their core message of "OBEY US or die".
Even the exclamation point at the end irks me. "I'm sure the original Hebrew writer would have put an exclamation point in there, if he would have been writing a thousand years in the future when they actually, you know, existed."
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The Bible speaks of the "Unforgivable Sin" ? What is it ?
by smiddy3 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do any jehovah`s witnesses or ex jehovah`s witnesses even know what that sin is ?.

why is such a statement in the bible if its not identified what that sin is ?.

were the authors of the book just playing with peoples heads ?
FFGhost

the "Unforgivable Sin" ? What is it ?
If you were to ask Tony Morris, he'd probably say it was finishing off the last of the McCallan without offering to buy him some more.