Posts by Barrold Bonds

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How do I find a JW kiosk? Are they only in major metro cities?

by Faithful Witness in

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just curious if there might be one in my area of central michigan?

are they set up in fixed locations?

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Barrold Bonds

My local hall has one. I have no idea why. It's a small town with just a few thousand people. The downtown area is practically a ghost town. The only place where people go is Wal-Mart, and JW's aren't allowed to preach there. The cart just sits there in the library collecting dust.

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brazen conduct, dissensions

by hoser in

as predicted by jwn loose conduct has been replaced by brazen conduct.

galations 5:19 2 peter 2:2 .

a catch all phrase for apostates.

Barrold Bonds

Yeah I was thinking about that yesterday. Loose conduct is stuff of a sexual nature. Brazen conduct is like, almost anything. So they literally changed the meaning of a scripture to mean something completely different.

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Beginning of Electronic Assemblies?

by Fading Begins in

do you think this could have been an experiment to see how smoothly these events can be processed, and what the reaction is from the rank and file?

it would sure save a lot of money if events like this could replace at least the one day circuit assemblies.

there has to be some recognition that the "flock" is becoming weary and they don't have the funds to be travelling to these events.

Barrold Bonds

kiddingme: you can already email people digital copies of literature and count it as a placement.

as for electronic assemblies, it's a definitely possiblity. i think they might use this hardware for more 'special meetings.' It seems like a waste to install all this stuff and only use it two days a year.

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Newly released New World Translation still full of numerous errors and abuses

by yadda yadda 2 in

thought i'd start a thread discussing all the scriptures where the watchtower translation committee has taken liberties and abused verses they've translated in the nwt.. worst of all are the numerous places in the christian greek scriptures where 'jehovah' has been inserted where the tetragrammaton or any equivalent of it does not occur in any extant mss and where the context could just as easily mean, or even more likely mean, the identity being spoken of is jesus christ rather than the father.

although in many places out of the 237 in the nt where they have done this the identity is clearly or most probably the father (jehovah) as distinct from the son (jesus), there are dozens of occurrences where this is not the case.. here are a whole lot more scriptures abused by the translators of the nwt, copied from the freeminds website (article written j bowman, scholar):.

adding words.

Barrold Bonds

I'm not surprised at all by that. It's pretty hilarious that we have to use the dumbed down version for everything. Are they preparing a Reference Bible version of this? I ask because I was always 'taught' to use the reference bible for everything as much as possible. This obviously would be a bad idea now since it's all different now.

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Newly released New World Translation still full of numerous errors and abuses

by yadda yadda 2 in

thought i'd start a thread discussing all the scriptures where the watchtower translation committee has taken liberties and abused verses they've translated in the nwt.. worst of all are the numerous places in the christian greek scriptures where 'jehovah' has been inserted where the tetragrammaton or any equivalent of it does not occur in any extant mss and where the context could just as easily mean, or even more likely mean, the identity being spoken of is jesus christ rather than the father.

although in many places out of the 237 in the nt where they have done this the identity is clearly or most probably the father (jehovah) as distinct from the son (jesus), there are dozens of occurrences where this is not the case.. here are a whole lot more scriptures abused by the translators of the nwt, copied from the freeminds website (article written j bowman, scholar):.

adding words.

Barrold Bonds

so which bible is supposed to be used for meetings and when giving talks ?

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Meetings Started Thursday on East Coast.

by Bubblegum Apotheosis in

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update, there is more new light than you can handle.

mother was allowed to attend a special pre-screening broadcast and she was so happy to hear about the new changes and all the light.. .

i won't spoil any of the good-stuff, you have not heard anything dear friends!

Barrold Bonds

bubblegum is literally insane. hth

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New Revised NWT Inspection Project

by dontplaceliterature in

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anyone here interested in splitting up the new bible by books to compare it to the old one and see if there are any significant changes they are hiding in there that weren't announced at the annual meeting today?

it'll be available for dl from jw.org on monday....

Barrold Bonds

wow that's fuckin ugly.

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AGM is not streamed live, but a download.

by SyntaxError1974 in

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there have been several posts where individuals are asking if it is possible to hack into and watch the agm as it is streamed to the conventions.

i say it is not streamed live like many are assuming, but a recorded download played for the audience.. why?

a live stream has many possible points of failure.

Barrold Bonds

prono, who told you the annual meetings were on fridays? It's been on saturdays for like at least 30 years. if you don't believe me dig through the old watchtowers that contained the notice of the annual meeting. always a saturday. plus i was at bethel for a few years so i've watched a few of these meetings.

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