Posts by Journeyman

this guy: how embarrassing.it's also sad that when it was being filmed, no one thought to tell him "you don't have to over do it..they'll get the point.."now he lives forever in internet infamy.

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Journeyman

Hmm... I don't remember that campaign slogan: "New Labour, new wankers"?

But I suppose that's instead of the Tory Party, who are the same old wankers! 🤣

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Journeyman

2.penis master (level one)

That was never one of my favourite arcade games... 🤣

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New NWT

by NotFormer in

is it very different from the old version?.

has it changed much?.

how can i get a copy?

As someone has has no claim to being any kind of Hebrew or Greek scholar, I broadly feel that there is something more bland and soulless (nepheshless? pardon the pun) about the 2013 RNWT (Revised NWT, as I think of it).

The supposed benefit of more 'up-to-date' language is over-rated IMO, especially when accompanied by the general dumbing down of all the other teaching and meeting material from the org. What's wrong with encouraging readers to learn a bit more, improve themselves and stretch their linguistic knowledge rather than 'lowering' the standard of a text to the lowest common denominators? What next? Slang, street talk and gender-neutral pronouns?

The language of the 1950s-80s NWT, while perhaps a bit dated in places now, is a good compromise between the old texts of the likes of the KJV (which I do agree is less relevant today, and besides, is not really that accurate a translation by today's standards), and the contemporary free-translations of recent decades. It retained enough of the poetry and symbolic language of the text to provide colour and meaning, without being too obscure or complex in language or too far removed from the contemporary vernacular.

Now, the RNWT is too far in the opposite direction and as some have said, too many important contextual footnotes have been removed (eg: nephesh/soul, hades/sheol/grave, etc), and expressions and possible alternate or modern renderings have been interpolated directly into the text to lean towards current GB teaching and JW terminology. "Older men" to "elders" being just one example.

Also, working against the GB's claim of wanting to improve readability, some features which actually made understanding easier in the previous NWT have been removed, such as the plural YOU which was a useful feature, and the removal of which was never explained.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Journeyman

OMG please tell me you will post this on twitter so i can like it again and repost it .!
by the way thanks Journeyman for putting a Prostitute that is older then "20 ''years old...

Haha! I'm not on Twitter, but you're welcome to use that image as you like...

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Journeyman

Toblerone - those multiple "Faces of Lloyd" you posted earlier made me think of a 'popular' JW image: The foretold Seven-Headed ~~Horny~~ Horned Beast of Revelation!

I'm no expert in Photoshop or Gimp - (I mean the graphics program, not the sort of thing he is probably into) but here's my attempt to capture what I had in mind...

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May 23 Watchtower

by Listener in

study article 22 is headed.

"keep traveling on the "way of holiness".

this article states that since 1919, having left babylon the great in that year, jws today are traveling on 'the way of holiness" (a figurative highway) as it takes them through the spiritual paradise and leads them through to future kingdom blessings.. they say that 'preparatory work' of that highway began centuries earlier.

Journeyman

I don't have the patience anymore to go look for it, but I am a bit curious to know what old Chucky had to say about it.

"Ask, and it shall be given you" as it says somewhere!

http://www.thestudiesinthescriptures.com/Pages/English/Eng%20V1/Eng%20Vol%201%20Ch%2011.htm

Thanks for putting me on to that!

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Anthony Morris the III has been FOUND

by Terry in

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friends

note: photos can be found on the blue envelope channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nakezkhqbmtony and susan morris are living in lumberton, north carolina.

a real estate document on the robeson county website is filed:.

the religious order of jehovah's witnesses has provided a "life estate" for them.they can live in this townhouse until they are deceased or choose to move away and in either case the ownership becomes entirely the property of jehovah's witnesses.

Journeyman

I suspect nobody knew anything about his personal life or why he was back in London. Does the average JW know anything about AMIII?

On a deeper level, no, but the big difference between the time of Chitty and now is that back then the GB didn't set out to make themselves media stars, front and centre of all the output to the R&F with their faces all over a TV channel and website. The image that AMIII has projected to date via his talks and appearances has not been a very endearing and sympathetic one and will have created a lot of bad feeling among many people.

It's unfortunate for AMIII that he's being the "guinea pig" for this social experiment, but this will be a first in JW org history: how the R&F, exJWs and others deal with a high profile, public eviction from the inner circle of the JW world back to 'ordinary' life.

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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Journeyman

O.M.G he just release a new video on the Tony Morris news

Ok, well he's getting better. A mere 5 days late to the story this time!

does not give anyone permission to take matters into their own hands in a manner that is abusive or CRIMINAL

To be fair, he's said that sort of thing in the past about "aggressive activism", and I agree with him on that aspect.

But his theorising about the second home being for someone to keep an eye on AMIII is hardly radical or newsworthy. Several have already speculated that that could be one reason. That's the advantage of posting late - you can jump on the coat tails of what others have already said!

Lloyd is calling people “criminal defendants” again.

I wonder if that's just an attempt to cover for the failure of his case to date and try to make "mud" stick, or if it means he's trying to keep the case alive? Will we see more submissions? If so, I don't envy the staff in the Croatian court system!

Lloyd is projecting a lot by calling people things that he is.

That was my immediate thought. "Classic narcissist who loses it whenever people don't join in his abuse and toxicity"? Pots and kettles, most definitely!

And then of course he has to play for the sympathy vote with the references to being "triggered" and "hurt" while on a "family holiday". So predictable!