Posts by 88JM

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Aussie exJW Comedienne on BBC (Limited Time)
by berrygerry in
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2. entertainment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3srd.

deborah frances-white - online.. .

spot on - and funny..
88JM

Mirrored it on YouTube for when the BBC link expires in 29 days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYtiBZiGzcw
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UK Branch visit 2015
by tamagotchi in
1. jw
2. friends
anyone know anything about it?

apparently it's going to be broadcast live nationally to all the congregations this saturday
88JM

Does anyone know what happened (if anything) to Paul Gilles? I had "heard" he had a position change, and wondered if that was true. Or is he still the voice of UK Bethel?
He's in the start of this video from last May that's still on JW.org, so I assume he's not gone AWOL:
http://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/by-region/world/conscientious-objection-experts-video/
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UK Branch visit 2015
by tamagotchi in
1. jw
2. friends
anyone know anything about it?

apparently it's going to be broadcast live nationally to all the congregations this saturday
88JM

A week after the private broadcast it will be available on jw tv.
Really? That's good to know - will save me a bit of a headache - I've been figuring out all day how I was gonna secretly record it with sound and video (the sound bit is easy enough, but good video is tricky).
If anyone hasn't seen the interface the kingdom halls login to, it's a just a streaming video through Adobe Flash, very similar to Youtube Live streams. I haven't checked the format they're using, but I suspect it's chunked file parts rather than a static URL that I can more easily rip.
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UK Branch visit 2015
by tamagotchi in
1. jw
2. friends
anyone know anything about it?

apparently it's going to be broadcast live nationally to all the congregations this saturday
88JM

It's also being re-broadcast on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. as well for congregations who share a hall etc.
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"Neither can salt water produce fresh water." - James 3:12, RNWT
by 88JM in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i noticed this verse the other night and thought it looked so obviously ridiculously provably untrue that there must be something more to it.

surely even a bible writer must understand that desalination isn't witchcraft?.

new american standard bible:"nor can salt water produce fresh.".
88JM

I noticed this verse the other night and thought it looked so obviously ridiculously provably untrue that there must be something more to it. Surely even a bible writer must understand that desalination isn't witchcraft?
It seems that the NWT and RNWT butcher the translation though (the New American Standard Bible also looks bad):
NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (2013 REVISION):
"Neither can salt water produce fresh water."

NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES (1984 EDITION):
"Neither can salt water produce sweet water."

New International Version:
"Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water."

New Living Translation:
"No, and you can't draw fresh water from a salty spring."

English Standard Version:
"Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water."

New American Standard Bible:
"Nor can salt water produce fresh."

King James Bible:
"so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh."
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Huge Shift in Doctrine?
by Lemonp in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am not sure why more people aren't talking about this?.

the march 15 study edition of the wt has some major changes!

- all unbiblical "types and antitypes" are now dropped.
88JM

In other words, the GB reckon they will stop making up pretend explanations for biblical content??
Except when it suits their creationist millennialist ethnocentric exceptionalist end-time eschatology property investment kleptocratic timocracy.
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UK Big Money Winner Who Became Witness, Dies
by The Searcher in
1. social
2. current
viv nicholson won a fortune in the early 1960's on the british football pools, and many years later became a witness.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32278528.
88JM

I've heard a few public talks with her life story given as a warning example about materialism.
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The RNWT "Silver Sword" is taking its place in revised history.
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
it's no secret that i do not study for meetings, prepare for failed circus, conduct "mormon night", or read the bible much or pray anymore.

even so, i do keep a close eye on the goings on in dub-land.

i just noticed something interesting on the front page of the latest km.
88JM

rNWT is an acronym made up by exJW's - I don't think the WTBTS has ever used that officially, as a reference acronym.
On JW.org, the previous bible is referenced as "bi12".
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'great crowd' are in the temple (naos) but not in the new covenant???
by fukitol in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in one of the biggest about-faces in watchtower history, in a 2002 question from readers it was admitted that the great crowd is indeed in the temple itself (naos) in revelation 7. .

but notice the statement bolded below from that article comparing the great crowd to the proselytes in ancient israel.

the statement is made that the proselytes "submitted to the law covenant.
88JM

They couldn't afford the wine bill
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Online version of "Reasoning from the Scriptures" has deleted preaching reference to Muslims
by jwleaks in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the online version of "reasoning from the scriptures" has deleted the entry under "conversation stoppers" for when someone says "i'm a muslim".. online reasoning book.

for the record, this is what has been removed:.

*** rs pp.
88JM

I'm guessing it's also to do with them wanting JW.org to not get banned in certain countries with internet censorship that also happen to be Muslim countries. Some of what is said there could be deemed "blasphemous" and/or "apostate" which are capital offences in some countries.
I'm guessing the first thing any Muslim country is going to do in deciding whether to ban a website is do a search for references to "the Koran" and "Muhammad". The text there would be a major red flag.