due to last years success, i will post everything related to the 2017 regional convention in this thread.. to start us off.... thanks to exjw reddit user ich3b we have advance notice of the theme (this is not a joke!).
the theme for the 2017 regional convention is: "don’t give up!” .
as always, if you have access to confidential materials you would like to leak but need to protect your identity, pm me or email me: wifibandit1 (at) gmail.
Ok here's one for you music fans out there. Sunday morning program, second video, when the sister is looking through her old photos: what's the name of that famous instrumental tune this video is sooo clearly copied from?
I think it's from the 70s. It's something that was played a lot on BBC Radio 2, as the theme to one of their programs I think.
Thats the trouble with instrumentals: hard to search for them on the Internet!
i have seen a few comments about the nwt being an altered version of the bible and i must admit that when they released the new one it did not sit right with me.. i want to read the bible but not the nwt.
i also do not want to read one that has the thee and thou and ye etc because that will do my head in.. what translations do you recommend?.
If you understand Patwa, then I'd go for Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment (JNT) as it makes Bible reading so much more fun, especially when reading Jesus' words with a Jamaican accent!
You can read it online here:
https://www.bible.com/versions/476-jnt-di-jamiekan-nyuu-testiment
i'm just curious with all the happy clapping that is now going on with the singing at the conventions.
what has been the reaction to it with the r&f.
has anyone ever commented that it reminded them of a pentecostal revival meeting.
We've got ours to come. I think I'll be out and about town and say that I've listened to it online!
march 22, 2017 to all convention committees re: discontinuation of physical distribution of convention releases.
Old news!
truth, that is verifiable facts as opposed to belief, is a vital part of the cultural narrative and operation of modern humanity.
truth does not require a lot of defending because it can stand happily on its own two feet.
it takes little effort or money to be spent in affirming it.
The Greek word ἅγιος (hagios, that we also use for "holy") just means "to set apart", "different".
The fundamental (core) meaning of 40 (hágios) is "different" – thus a temple in the 1st century was hagios ("holy") because different from other buildings (Wm. Barclay). In the NT, 40 /hágios ("holy") has the "technical" meaning "different from the world" because "like the Lord."
[40 (hágios) implies something "set apart" and therefore "different (distinguished/distinct)" – i.e. "other," because special to the Lord.]
Source: http://biblehub.com/greek/40.htm
Loses most of the magic when you strip away the WTS interpretation, doesn't it?!
today i read some postings about the changes in jw land, moving to a evangelical organization, and i have to say that jw.org is more and more recognizable in the genisis video clip jesus he knows me.. back then way overdone, now much like jw.org.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=35k6vqrt67g.
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That's so true. Love this song!
https://www.facebook.com/jw.0027/videos/799049613609936/.
the video was posted directly to a pro-jw facebook page.
i cant believe what i'm hearing... actually, nothing surprises be about this cult anymore.. didn't they say to the judge in the arc that they dont discourage college?.
That's rich coming from Mr "Watchtower doesn't own me" Lösch!
june 27, 2017 to all congregations in britain and northern ireland re: donations to regional conventions using jw.org.
june 27, 2017 to all congregations in ireland re: donations to regional conventions using jw.org.
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I've just noticed that the UK letterhead has changed; no mention of The Watchtower at all! Is this due to the current UK Charity Commission investigation? Have they changed the name of their financial side of the organisation again?
How come there is a different letterhead for Ireland? That branch doesn't even exist anymore as far as I'm aware!
in the latest 2013 revision the footnote of john chapter 8 states; a number of ancient and authoritative manuscripts omit vs 53 (of chapter 7) to chapter 8, vs. 11.. yet the 1984 revision quotes a similar footnote, however the passage of scripture is included in the text, albeit separately at the bottom.
this passage of scripture is about the scribes and the pharisees who brought a woman that was accused of adultery before jesus to test him on the punishment to be meted out.
then came his famous reply; let the one of you that is sinless be the first to throw a stone at her.. i just found it interesting that the wtbts would leave this out in the latest revision.
Actually this is one thing of the few things they actually got right. See this article:
https://bible.org/article/my-favorite-passage-thats-not-bible
It is an important point to note that although the story of the woman caught in adultery is found in most of our printed Bibles today, the evidence suggests that the majority of Bibles during the first eight centuries of the Christian faith did not contain the story. Externally, most scholars would say that the evidence for it not being an authentic part of John’s Gospel is rock solid.
How, then, has this passage made it into modern translations? In a word, there has been a longstanding tradition of timidity among translators. One twentieth-century Bible relegated the passage to the footnotes, but when the sales were rather lackluster, it again found its place in John’s Gospel. Even the NET Bible (available at www.bible.org), for which I am the senior New Testament editor, has put the text in its traditional place. But the NET Bible also has a lengthy footnote, explaining the textual complications and doubts about its authenticity. And the font size is smaller than normal so that it will be harder to read from the pulpit! But we nevertheless made the same concession that other translators have about this text by leaving it in situ.
I believe it’s time for us to own up to our tradition of timidity and recognize that this has not helped the Church in the long haul. It’s time to close the gap. I am calling for translators to remove this text from the Gospel of John and relegate it to the footnotes. Although this will be painful and will cause initial confusion, it is far better that laypeople hear the truth about scripture from their friends than from their enemies. They need to know that Christ-honoring, Bible-believing scholars also do not think that this text is authentic, and that such a stance has not shaken their faith one iota. No cardinal truth is lost if these verses go bye-bye; no essential doctrine is disturbed if they are cut from the pages of the Word of God.
the watchtower has held for many years that jesus died on a stake and held strongly to this teaching.
w 1951 3/15 the above agrees with the new world translation of the christian greek scriptures in its appendix, page 769, in saying that the instrument upon which jesus was nailed was a stake without a crossbeam, and not the religiously represented “cross”; and that the greek word used for that instrument in ancient time meant a “stake” and not the conventional religious cross.
they are no longer certain on this point.
I wonder if there are any half worldly couples who agreed to name their kid Stavros in honor of all the arguments they have about Jesus.
Or in honour of the creator of the Daleks!
