Apognophos

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  This may help some JWs to think..

  by UBM101 in

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  just sharing this from an email i received:.

  most jw's will admit they have been wrong about past dates.

  i ask them "how many jw's left because of those wrong predictions?

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  Apognophos

  Indeed! Both Jesus and Paul seemed to say that each Christian had a responsibility to not stumble someone else. It was not a matter of "Well, if you're weak and don't understand why it's okay for me to eat meat offered to a false god, that's your problem". You had to consider how your actions could affect someone else's faith, even if they were "weak".

  Interestingly, JWs are strongly encouraged to follow this advice when it comes to letting themselves be trodden on in the name of forgiving and forgetting wrongs done to them by brothers, and when it means not watching/reading certain entertainment, but the organization itself doesn't seem to have to be concerned with how any of its actions (*cough*UN NGO*cough*) might stumble others.
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  Jan Awake to push the Web Site

  by konceptual99 in

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  just saw this posted on jwtalk.

  it's the cover of the jan awake in german.. the website we should remember!.

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  Apognophos

  Wow, that's a bit surprising.

  By the way, fun fact: Paul Grundy owns jwfacts.org too, so it can redirect to the .com, so if you were to write "FACTS" next to the "JW" on the cover, it would be a valid URL to take them to jwfacts.com.
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  Serena Williams admits to being possessed by demons?

  by Dis-Member in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  ala beyonce & lady gaga?.

  http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2013/05/serena-williams-explains-multiple-personalities/47701/.

  http://www.christianpost.com/news/serena-williams-reveals-split-persona-tequanda-is-not-christian-102329/.

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  Apognophos

  I don't find it that odd. We all have different sides to us. Recognizing and naming them is probably helpful for autotherapy.
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  Jennifer LoveGrove: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and writing

  by WinstonSmith in

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  2. current

  http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/10/08/jennifer-lovegrove-on-jehovahs-witnesses-and-writing/.

  jennifer lovegrove is the author of two poetry collections, the dagger between her teeth and i should never have fired the sentinel.

  and remember, you werent allowed to have meaningful contact outside of your community before then, so youre left with no one.. is watch how we walk autobiographical?

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  Apognophos

  Interesting, thanks. Despite her own disclaimer, she gave a very accurate view of the religion for the interview.
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  Comprehensive NWT Comparison Project (calling all technically skilled members)

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is anyone aware if this project is already being done by someone?

  if not, perhaps we can brainstorm how to go about this, now that the pdf for the revised nwt is out.

  a couple initial impressions:.

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  Apognophos

  Sorry I was away (sleeping) while you were posting MMM. Yes, I had a feeling the PDF might be a little trouble, but it's more than I thought. We're probably better off just waiting for the 2013 web version to go up. I'm sure they're working on it.

  That being said, I am confused about the markup you are getting. For instance, is each line of text stored separately or are paragraphs single blocks of word-wrapped text? I just don't get how the words "across" and "the" could be one word in the PDF markup unless PDF breaks a word at whatever letter it hits the end of the column. Is that how it works? The HTML export also seems to have misapplied bold tags everywhere for some reason. Even the markup I got from copy-pasting the rendered PDF into RTF was better than that (as seen in my first post). The only real problem with that approach was that some lines were out of order, which is obviously a deal-breaker for using that method.

  But in any case it's clear that their 2013 web version will be much easier to work with, so I'm content to wait until that goes up.

  Another thought I had is that the final product probably can't use whole verses when it lists differences, since that is likely copyright infringement. But we'll still want to work with it internally in whole verses so I have the proper context to determine the nature of the changes that I will be categorizing or grouping.
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  Comprehensive NWT Comparison Project (calling all technically skilled members)

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is anyone aware if this project is already being done by someone?

  if not, perhaps we can brainstorm how to go about this, now that the pdf for the revised nwt is out.

  a couple initial impressions:.

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  Apognophos

  Excellent, thanks for all your work so far!
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  Are MOST JW's lacking Moral Fibre ?

  by Phizzy in

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  2. friends

  i find that whether born in or converts, most jw's give their own conscience over to the gb (and writing dept) to dictate how they will react to any moral question.. they simply lack a conscience of their own.. this is not their fault, we should not look down on them for this, their conscience, their natural feeling of what is right and wrong has been:.

  stolen from them !.

  we all know how the cult does this to them, it did it to us, i really am almost in tears when i think that had either of my darling children needed a blood transfusion i would have resisted, believing what i have been taught all my life, that their eternal life was more important than their life now.. how can we persuade jw's to take back their conscience ?.

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  Apognophos

  Yes, because people are robots that can be forced to change their views by inputting contradictory facts. Thank God we don't have emotions like pride and fear and stuff like that.
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  Comprehensive NWT Comparison Project (calling all technically skilled members)

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is anyone aware if this project is already being done by someone?

  if not, perhaps we can brainstorm how to go about this, now that the pdf for the revised nwt is out.

  a couple initial impressions:.

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  Apognophos

  Heh, I was wondering if their site would have a problem with lots of fast queries. I'm sure they put some focus on security when designing it, considering their likelihood of being a target at some point.
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  WTS vs Faders????

  by El_Guapo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so an elder just dropped by my job, completely out of the blue.

  recepitionist called me over and there he was.

  he told about annual meerting and grey bible....etc.

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  Apognophos

  I don't remember hearing any such thing, so unless the recording proves me wrong, I have to wonder what that elder was smoking. Perhaps he was very confused and thinking of the Nov. 15 WT, as notjustyet suggested, but there's a big difference between something written in an article to be studied months from now, and something just said from the platform at the AGM.
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  Comprehensive NWT Comparison Project (calling all technically skilled members)

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is anyone aware if this project is already being done by someone?

  if not, perhaps we can brainstorm how to go about this, now that the pdf for the revised nwt is out.

  a couple initial impressions:.

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  Apognophos

  I am getting ready to set this loose on everything..

  That looks good, MMM! Let slip the dogs of war!
  @Anyone else: My scriptural examples are just hypothetical, parodying the simplified language.