Newly Enlightened

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  Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, suicide attempt

  by RubaDub in

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  wow, just reported that paris was rushed to the hospital with slit wrists.. i normally have a lot to say but this one is a very sad situation.. rub a dub.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Here's an article about the incident questioning if the 'cult' of JW's had anything to do with it.

  http://www.charismanews.com/us/39785-did-cultish-religion-move-paris-jackson-to-commit-suicide?fb_action_ids=163350370509919&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
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  What about your vow to Jehovah?

  by a watcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did you get baptized without being dedicated?.

  why did you allow men to come between you and jehovah?.

  why were you serving jehovah at all?

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  Newly Enlightened

  A watcher is judging everyone on here, when he has no idea what most of our beliefs or faith in God is about.
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  What about your vow to Jehovah?

  by a watcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did you get baptized without being dedicated?.

  why did you allow men to come between you and jehovah?.

  why were you serving jehovah at all?

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  Newly Enlightened

  First of all, I was baptized a JW in 1979 @ 16 and dedicated my life to Almighty God, his son Jesus & the Holy Spirit thru God's word the bible and NOT to men in Brooklyn! It is because of THAT vow that i had to leave the WTBT$. I follow God as ruler rather than MEN!

  Even WT admits the name 'Jehovah' is invented so how can the TRUE God be named Jehovah?

  A watcher: Check this out: WT 1980 2/1 pg 11-13

  The

  DivineNameinLater

  Times

  THAT the divine name was used in early history is beyond question. But what about later times? Why have certain Bible translations omitted the name? And what is its meaning and significance to us?

  THE

  NAME“JEHOVAH”BECOMESWIDELY

  KNOWN

  Interestingly, Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican order, first rendered the divine name as “Jehova.” This form appeared in his book PugeoFidei, published in 1270 C.E.—over 700 years ago.

  In time, as reform movements developed both inside and outside the Catholic Church, the Bible was made available to the people in general, and the name “Jehovah” became more widely known. In 1611 C.E. the King James or Authorized Version of the Bible was published. It uses the name Jehovah four times. (Ex. 6:3; Ps. 83:18; Isa. 12:2; 26:4) Since then, the Bible has been translated many, many times. Some translations follow the example of the AuthorizedVersion and include the divine name only a few times.

  In this category is AnAmericanTranslation (by Smith and Goodspeed) with a slight variation of using “Yahweh” instead of “Jehovah.” Yet, one may ask: “Why have the translators done this? If using ‘Jehovah’ or ‘Yahweh’ is wrong, why put it in at all? If right, why not be consistent and use it every time it appears in the Bible text?”
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  WT should learn from this- "The importance of Mistakes"

  by Gojira_101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was interpreting a class the other day and the instructor brought in a dvd of john cleese (guy from monty python) giving a speech on "the importance of mistakes" here is the link to an excerpt from his speech http://my.ilstu.edu/~eostewa/art309/mistakes.htm.

  i did a quick search to see if i could find the full speech or the video online and i wasn't able to.. basically cleese was saying all people make mistakes, but his main point was it's how we handle the mistakes.

  if we admit our mistakes we can then deal with it, handle it and move on.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Great topic Sweetie. Yep, he's absolutely right. It's too late for WTBT$ tho, they're in up to their eyeballs.
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  When will the celebration of the memorial end?

  by ralphnathaniels in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when will the celebration of the memorial end?

  and why?

  i missed that part in the speech.. and i want to know :).

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  Newly Enlightened

  Welcome Ralph, glad to have you here with us. We look forward to hearing yuor story.
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  NEW video on Youtube MUST SEE! the elder's meeting is ridiculous!

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  brother of the hawk, newly enlightened & gojira, recorded an elder's meeting on 5/7/03.

  both does a great job of defending me and making the elders look foolish!.

  thank you raypublisher/jj and jwstruggle for the awesome job you did on it.. follow up story was not recorded but we will post it here hopefully over the weekend.. enjoy, it's pretty hilarious how they try to control us and come after me on a work of fiction!.

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  Newly Enlightened

  We're up to 3400 views.

  AWESOME! Thanks everyone.
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  I think a troubleshooter has been assigned to our congregation

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this new couple moved in a couple weeks ago.

  special/regular pioneers, he's an elder from bethel.

  i think he might have been a co at one time.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Interesting. I've seen this happen before, he's on a witch hunt.
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  Former Long Time Elder, New Member

  by James Jackson in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have served 20 years as an elder, 5 years as an ms. was on the district committee in 2010, held various positions on the district , circuit, and rbc level.

  probably been on more than 100 judicial committees and even an appeals committee.

  was the coordinator in our congregation and deleted because adult child was df ( i kicked him out at the time of his wrongdoing, but that wasn't enough for thr brothers).

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  Newly Enlightened

  Welcome James , glad to have you here with us. We were still 'in' until mother in law called everyone and told them we had gone 'apostate' just because hubby showed his non-JW brother, who in turned showed his mom, a WT article & pictures with subliminal images in them.
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  Help me in my quest to free my sister

  by Ed Daly in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi there everyone, looking for some advice on helping my sister who is studying the bible with a jehovahs witnesses to escape.

  shes been studying for over a year now and attends meetings occasionally.

  i have been looking for a way to help her for a while now and the answer fell into my lap last week, during her study last week she mentioned that her son was going to a birthday party.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Welcome Ed, glad to have you here on the forum with us.

  Just a thought, have your sister watch our video Ray/JJ posted for us on JWStruggle. It shows how controlling the Elders get in EVERY aspect of our lives, including writing a piece of fiction!

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Zw1N0R50s
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  Forum Policy: Off Topic Comments and Nonsense

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  some people didn't seem to get the message so i'll repeat it to make clear:.

  posting off topics comments and general gibberish / nonsense is something i class as spam and will not be tolerated.. any posts found will be removed and if it's repeatedly by the same poster then they will be deleted as well.. thank you for everyone else who uses the forum for proper discussion..

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  Newly Enlightened

  I guess that means the Whanker brothers video is a no-no guys.