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  Translators left without guidance!?

  by anointed1 in

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  if good news is to be preached in all nations, translation becomes a must, and translating is as important as original writing.

  hence logically speaking, god should ensure that translation of the bible is done with utmost care.

  but evidence suggests that god showed no interest in translation.. here is one example of luke 23:43. this is very significant in view of the importance of the subject:.

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  Kepler,

  amazing wealth of information--thank you for that.

  I have always felt that scriptures are like a forest--it contains both harmless animals and carnivorous ones, herbals and poisonous trees, pure water bodies and dirty ones ...
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  Translators left without guidance!?

  by anointed1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if good news is to be preached in all nations, translation becomes a must, and translating is as important as original writing.

  hence logically speaking, god should ensure that translation of the bible is done with utmost care.

  but evidence suggests that god showed no interest in translation.. here is one example of luke 23:43. this is very significant in view of the importance of the subject:.

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  anointed1

  If good news is to be preached in all nations, translation becomes a must, and translating is as important as original writing. Hence logically speaking, God should ensure that translation of the Bible is done with utmost care. But evidence suggests that God showed no interest in translation.

  Here is one example of Luke 23:43. This is very significant in view of the importance of the subject:

  The Curetonian Gospels read "Today I tell you that you will be with me in paradise", whereas the Sinaitic Palimpsest reads "I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise". Likewise the two earliest Greek codices with punctuation disagree: Codex Vaticanus has a pause mark in the original ink after 'today', whereas Codex Alexandrinus has the "today in paradise" reading.
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  The spirit that guides JW org

  by anointed1 in

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  we can draw a parallel: the democrats lost the us presidential election, and they started blaming everyone else (including foreign powers) except themselves.

  they forgot the reason for their own victory before—it was the direct and proportionate result of the poor performance of the then ruling party.

  and now after 8 years of mess, people voted for a change.

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  problemaddict 2

  Both see the mistakes of others, yet do not see the mistakes of themselves.

  This is the parallel I could draw
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  The spirit that guides JW org

  by anointed1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we can draw a parallel: the democrats lost the us presidential election, and they started blaming everyone else (including foreign powers) except themselves.

  they forgot the reason for their own victory before—it was the direct and proportionate result of the poor performance of the then ruling party.

  and now after 8 years of mess, people voted for a change.

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  fukitol,

  JWs obsession with negative points of others have more to do with Theory of Evolution (rather than with their Bible). From the earliest days, man's existence depended on his ability to detect and keep himself safe from unpleasant events and danger. Therefore, our brain evolved such that it could pay better and more attention to all unpleasant stimuli. This tendency then seems to have generalized to all stimuli that evoke negative feelings. So, whenever there is anything negative in others life they focus on it with all their attention and energy and in the process develop an obsession towards it.
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  An Obvious Omission in the J.W.'s Good News!

  by The Searcher in

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  as baptized or unbaptised witnesses, no one ever discussed or even mentioned (at least in my jw experience) this topic: .

  "we are preaching about the good news of the kingdom.

  why do we preach about only one hope - living on earth?

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  The very first words Jesus used was about Heavenly Hope:

  “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven"

  followed by earthly hope

  "Blessed are the meek,
  for they will inherit the earth." (Mathew 5:3, 5)
  
  
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  The spirit that guides JW org

  by anointed1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we can draw a parallel: the democrats lost the us presidential election, and they started blaming everyone else (including foreign powers) except themselves.

  they forgot the reason for their own victory before—it was the direct and proportionate result of the poor performance of the then ruling party.

  and now after 8 years of mess, people voted for a change.

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  anointed1

  We can draw a parallel: The Democrats lost the US presidential election, and they started blaming everyone else (including foreign powers) except themselves. They forgot the reason for their own victory before—it was the direct and proportionate result of the poor performance of the then ruling party. And now after 8 years of mess, people voted for a change. Here who is at fault is too obvious, yet party concerned is not willing to admit!

  JW org built itself on the failed prophecies and false teachings of others. But now they find themselves in the same situation they were accusing others in the past. In fact, no religion has made such serious folly as JW org did with the year 1914 (something Newsweek magazine described as “the lie of the century), yet party concerned is not willing to admit!

  The fundamental error JW org made seems to be this: they lost the overall picture that life as a whole is as good as it can be, the parts of life are as good as they can be, so we should love, or at least accept, every part of life. Every action or happening is like sprouting of a seed which happens because of many causes and forces coming together, hence there is logic in everything we see and do. In the overall perspective, everything in the universe has rational and logic attached to it. You cannot say dirty mud is bad and lotus is good because there is no lotus without dirty mud! In big picture, even atheists are God’s gifts to mankind because without them religious leaders would freely perfect their ego and wickedness, and mankind would have been reeling under the iron hands of religious bigots.
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  Aron-Ra: Meteorology and the Flood

  by schnell in

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  a few days ago, aron-ra posted a new video commencing what he promises to be a new series debunking the noachian flood.

  he did this despite the fact that every adult should know it didn't happen, and yet many do.. i'd like to remind everyone what the insight book says: .

  the genesis account of creation tells how on the second “day” jehovah made an expanse about the earth, and this expanse (called “heaven”) formed a division between the waters below it, that is, the oceans, and the waters above it.

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  There are some difficult questions if flood account is true:

  1) 8.7 million species to be loaded in 7 days

  2) Complete burden fallen on the lone righteous family (the wicked died within minutes)—something that should not happen when God Almighty directs matters

  3) Flood did not cleanse the earth permanently, soon earth filled with violence again

  4) China’s history remained untouched by Noah’s flood

  5) Jesus had totally different picture about Noah’s flood and the reasons that led into it (Mat 24:36)
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  Disfellowshipping - Quid Pro Quo - Satan's Accusation

  by doublespeak in

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  if under jw doctrine, satan's accusation is that a human serves god for the purpose of what he can get out of it, does the disfellowshipping arrangement, exercised to the degree that the governing body deem to be appropriate, support this charge?.

  taking for granted the jehovah’s witnesses are god’s chosen organization; on the assumption that the angels (who apparently cannot read heart conditions) looking upon humanity who are making a stand for the issue of sovereignty , are unable to discern those who are in the religion because of their family and friends.

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  valid point indeed. If applied indiscriminately, everything people do will come into question. Even from those in the GB to those who zealously cooperate with elders do so because of privilege-mindedness--exactly what Satan theorized!
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  elders are leaving me alone. what to make of this?

  by nowwhat? in

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  i am a born in that goes back to the 1960's i am in a very zealous congregation with super dub elders.

  i have been inactive for 3 years and only go to about 2 meetings a month.

  i made my displeasure known about the overlapping generation b.s.

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  anointed1

  If you really doubt on any of the teachings, you are treated as irretrievable (from their point of view) and extremely lucky (from larger perspective)
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  An interesting reasoning for the existence of God (from JW public talk)

  by anointed1 in

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  i was on an official tour last week to another part of my country.

  on my way to the hotel, i noticed sign-board of jw kingdom hall.

  i thought i would attend sunday meeting as i knew no one would recognize me.. seeing “a new-comer” in the audience, public speaker adapted his material making it especially appealing to me.

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  onager,

  our updates keep changing. Here is an interesting read:

  http://gizmodo.com/we-were-very-wrong-about-the-number-of-galaxies-in-the-1787750693