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  Reasons for Intense Feelings?

  by robhic in

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  i read the thread that beryblue started above and some of the responses made me wonder.

  most people responded regarding loving jehovah out of fear.

  i am not now nor ever was a jw but these responses were similar to something a friend said the other day (and other times, too).. she is a jw since 2000 and is 42 years old with a disease that keeps her homebound and quite frequently bed-bound.

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  This truly baffles me

  by robhic in

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  how can an organization... .

  ... that supposedly holds so dearly and so steadfastly to the teachings of a certain book (the bible) subvert and change that book?

  isn't that not only hypocritical but heretical?

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  More New Testament and Inclusion of name Jehovah

  by robhic in

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  i read with much interest all of the replies to my original question in another thread.

  i downloaded one of the books suggested and compiled what i could.

  now, as i checked around for sources to prove that i was right and that the nt was jehovah-less, two people mentioned wt sources that i would like verified: 1 - "the watchtower march 1, 1991 p. 28 states that jehovah is not found in the nt.

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  "Jehovah" in the New Testament

  by robhic in

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  i just got a return visit from a couple of jw that visited me last month.

  all was very nice and friendly.

  i have inadvertantly agreed to a study of sorts and figure it might be an interesting challenge for me to try out my newfound knowledge/information with them.

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  The cross -- new light?

  by robhic in

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  i could swear that i read here a while back that the wts was softening their position on the cross.

  i searched the different forums but either i am completely mistaken or my search technique sucked.

  i found nothing relative.. anyway, can anyone shed some light (new or otherwise.... thanks,.

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  Persecution?

  by robhic in

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  i am not now, nor have i ever been a jw but i have seen their propensity to try to play up being persecuted.

  a friend of mine who is a jw (and the reason i sought out these message forums) made it abundantly clear that she thought (and i guess was encouraged to think) that most everything was persecution because "people hate jw's.".

  now, from my experience i can say that i don't think people actually hate jw.

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  Special Meeting on 4/27/03 ?

  by robhic in

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  a friend told me she wanted to attend a special meeting today, sunday april 27. her health has been bad for the last few months so she hasn't attended anything except the memorial in about 6 months.

  why this meeting was referred to as "special" wasn't mentioned.. since the jw like to march in lock-step uniformity, i am assuming this meeting is going to be the same country (world) wide?

  is a local meeting being special allowed if all other meetings are not (for the most part)?

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  "Special Meeting" 4/27/03 ???

  by robhic in

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  my friend who is a jw happened to mention to me last night that there is a "special meeting" today, sunday 4/27/03.

  i know the jw do things in a lock-step, uniform way so i wondered if this is an organization-wide special meeting or could it just be a local one?

  is a local meeting that isn't in accordance with country- or world-wide uniformity allowed?

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  "Special Meeting" on Sunday 4/27/03. How special?

  by robhic in

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  a friend of mine who is a jw told me last night that there is a special meeting today that she wanted to attend.

  since her health in the last few months has prevented meeting attendance (other than the memorial) i wonder why she is so determined to make the meeting today, sunday april 27, 2003. could it just be a local thing?

  do the jw do that or is every meeting in lock-step with all the meetings in the country if not the world?

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  King James Bible and the WTS

  by robhic in

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  i could swear i saw a quote or something saying that years ago (obviously before the nwt) the wts considered the king james version of the bible as the best one available.. i posed this question on another group and so far have had no luck.

  it may have very well been on this site somewhere but i have back-tracked as much as i can and still haven't found the post i saw this in.

  anybody have any ideas or know where this statement can be found?

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