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  WT admitted "Jehovah" is not God's name...

  by Watkins in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if i remember right(unlikely, lol) it was a one-page article about the tetragrammaton which concluded by saying that even though "jehovah" was 'probably' not an accurate pronunciation, it is a widely-recognized and accepted english transliteration of the divine name.

  i was thinking it was on the last page or maybe the back cover of a wt pub - maybe a watchtower.. can someone please direct me to the publication it was in?

  i read it when i was still 'in' and it made me stop and think about how much emphasis the wt puts on that name, all while knowing it's not the name.

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  InquiryMan

  My memory served me right:

  (from Wikianswers):

  Hebrew had no vowels. This was unsatisfactory to those who wanted to pronounce the unpronouncable name of God. Their solution? By combining the vowel signs of 'Adho.nay and 'Elo.him' with the four consonants of the Tetragrammaton the pronunciations Yeho.wah' and Yehowih' were formed. The first of these provided the basis for the Latinized form "Jehova(h)." The first recorded use of this form dates from the thirteenth century C.E. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican Order, used it in his book Pugeo Fidei of the year 1270.

  As such, the form "Jehovah" is of late medieval origin; it is a combination of the consonants of the Divine Name and the vowels attached to it by the Masoretes but belonging to an entirely different word.
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  WT admitted "Jehovah" is not God's name...

  by Watkins in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if i remember right(unlikely, lol) it was a one-page article about the tetragrammaton which concluded by saying that even though "jehovah" was 'probably' not an accurate pronunciation, it is a widely-recognized and accepted english transliteration of the divine name.

  i was thinking it was on the last page or maybe the back cover of a wt pub - maybe a watchtower.. can someone please direct me to the publication it was in?

  i read it when i was still 'in' and it made me stop and think about how much emphasis the wt puts on that name, all while knowing it's not the name.

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  InquiryMan

  I remember reading in WT literature that the transliteration Jehovah was first used by a Roman Catholic munk in a work called Pugeo Fidei, if my memory serves me right.
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  Being a JW Used to Be Fun :-)

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .

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  InquiryMan

  I do not want to get back either, cause I made a decision that took years to accomplish. But I still see my Jw-background as an ingrained part of me and do not regret either.
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  Being a JW Used to Be Fun :-)

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .

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  InquiryMan

  I guess it was worse living a double life...
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  Being a JW Used to Be Fun :-)

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .

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  InquiryMan

  Good guess
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  Longform article on the JW: 'In the Belly of Jehovah'

  by nomoreklondikes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some of you might know me from this thread.

  i wrote a longform article, 'in the belly of jehovah', on the jehovah's witnesses for an australian magazine, which today has been published online: .

  http://theliftedbrow.com/post/88214463157/in-the-belly-of-jehovah-by-pete-nicholson.

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  InquiryMan

  I agree, it was a very good article. It is always best to allow things to be seen from the angles of JWs as well as former witnesses.
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  New "theocratic history" book for witnesses?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i have heard a few of us talking about a newly released book to replace or add to the proclaimers book?.

  is that correct?.

  if so, i wonder how much they have re-written history to cover the real truths?.

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  InquiryMan

  Scan, pdf, anyone?
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  Being a JW Used to Be Fun :-)

  by snowbird in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .

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  InquiryMan

  I remember a lot of happy times, field service, get togethers, assemblies, international assemblies, meeting "brothers and sisters" abroad in many countries, attending meeting in other countries/taking part in field service in other countries, reading the magazines, yearbooks...

  Also: Most witnesses I knew (living in Scandinavia) read newspapers and followed the news...some people more than average, some people less. But it was not a trademark being a witness and being ignorant.
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  Helsinki Times Article: "The End of the World" - Lengthy interview with many former JWs

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/10435-the-end-of-the-world.html.

  the end of the world.

  last autumn, jussi k. began to plan his disassociation from jehovah's witnesses.

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  InquiryMan

  Follow up:

  http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/10438-raesaenen-people-must-not-be-punished-for-leaving-a-religious-community.html
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  District Assemblies, Were they a Financial Burden to you? They Cost $1200 to $2000 in some lands!

  by RottenRiley in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why does the watchtower place a harsh burden on it's low-paid and low-skilled army of witnesses?

  the district conventions don't really add much value, you have witnesses making minimum wage with both husband and wife working while the elite witnesses can afford to burn a ton of cash making the poor witnesses feel worse about themselves.

  i remember, some of the really poor witnesses would bring their own "cooker" to the motel to make "top ramen" and mac&cheese" while the company men had the elites take them out for "surf and turf" and other great feasts, the poor witnesses get the shaft was they are told how lucky they are to financially struggle to afford to pay for their hotels.. .

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  InquiryMan

  I have never heard anyone complain about financial burdens when I was a witness. But I do come from a country where there is far more egalitarity and where people can live a decent life even when having so called minimum wage jobs... So I reckon this is a much bigger problem in the US.