Posts by BereanThinker7

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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

by Quendi in

i know this has been discussed before, but i want to reopen the topic.

i am currently reading ray franz's memoir crisis of conscience and ran across this footnote with respect to the new world translation of the holy scriptures:.

"the new world translation bears no translator's name and is presented as the anonymous work of the "new world translation committee.

BereanThinker7

For the "old testament" I still often use the NWT, for the "new testament" I have found the Revised English Version quite nice. It is a version the also restores the Divine where the tetragrammaton originally appeared, the usually use Yahweh.

I think obviously using a variety of translations is best to get a real sense of things. You can find the REV here. . . https://www.revisedenglishversion.com/ and they have a user friendly app for mobile, that I find much less annoying than jw.borgs app lol

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The Site is Going Down!!!

by BereanThinker7 in

so i'm sure many of us here have used the site https://ad1914.com/, apparently the domain had expired.

this site was instrumental to my waking up.

i have been able to use it to direct others to as well since it had a large collection of matters dealing with the validity of the "gentile times" claim.

BereanThinker7

Glad to see the site back up! Time to dig into some obscure research again lol!

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The Site is Going Down!!!

by BereanThinker7 in

so i'm sure many of us here have used the site https://ad1914.com/, apparently the domain had expired.

this site was instrumental to my waking up.

i have been able to use it to direct others to as well since it had a large collection of matters dealing with the validity of the "gentile times" claim.

BereanThinker7

So I'm sure many of us here have used the site https://ad1914.com/, apparently the domain had expired. This site was instrumental to my waking up. I have been able to use it to direct others to as well since it had a large collection of matters dealing with the validity of the "gentile times" claim. It also had a lot of great first hand experiences.

I would hate to see it disappear. Anyone here no who runs it?

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Does anyone know what became of...

by sooner7nc in

ray franz's personal secretary charles ploeger?

funny thing is that my boss and good friend is his nephew..

BereanThinker7

bump???

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A Generation Change Again???

by BereanThinker7 in

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. .

BereanThinker7

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. . " You really think everything you teach now is truthful and needs no changing?" Just for a teaching I have brought up in the past, to change the very next month lol.

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Anybody Here That Still Wouldn’t Take or Give Blood?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i would think that the first thing to go for ex jws is the blood ban.

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would you take a transfusion or give blood now!.

BereanThinker7

I wouldn't have any problem with it, although I would prefer to go bloodless or store my own preferably if I could choose. However, for me, somewhat ironically, it was one of the last things to go when I woke up. I don't think it was something I was particularly interested in and once I really considered it, it was so obvious that its not wrong to use blood, it was embarrassing.

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United Nations puts up old 2004 letter regarding Watchtower's association with DPI-NGO

by pistolpete in

several young jws on reddit have written the united nations asking about watchtower's involvement with the united nations.

they been seeing to many apostate sites sitting at home because of covid.

as a result, the united nations has re-posted the old letter explaining the situation on their site.

BereanThinker7

comment for later reference

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Speaking with Demons

by BereanThinker7 in

having learned more actual christian beliefs since awaking from the org, looking back we had such strange and unhealthy obsession with demons compared to any other denomination that i know of.

i recently remembered this article from when i was a kid.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101986604?q=talk+to+the+demons&p=par#h=23.

BereanThinker7

random update, it appears maybe this was the original articles writer??? if so then he would have been from Galesburg , IL.

https://obituaries.galesburg.com/obituaries/register-mail/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-h-anderson&pid=164976491&fhid=10620

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Old Literature

by RolRod in

jw
friends

what did you do with your jw literature when you left?

kept it, sold it or dumped it?

BereanThinker7

I really wish people when are waking up would realize as more and more of the witness literature becomes online only the org will do their best to destroy their past.

Save what you have even if only to give away (or sell) to other activists. The physical copies of literature is evidence the org cannot change if you preserve it!!!

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2 Watch Tower Magazines published at the same time

by RolRod in

we all know that the name "watch tower" is not unique to the society.

there were papers that used that title prior to the society.

but did you know that the advent christian church (to which russell affiliated with) published a journal called the watch tower?.

BereanThinker7

pretty cool stuff, i love the historical aspects of that era