as a member on bart ehrman's blog, i am able to ask him direct questions.is jehovah in the bible?.
question:.
how firmly grounded in reality is the claim of jehovahs witnesses that the divine name (jehovah) belongs in the new testament?.
Finklestein, I think that the use of the word 'Jehovah', within the Millerite movement, was already well established by the time that Russell got his feet wet in the proverbial muck of bible prophecy.
George Storrs published the Bible Examiner in 1843 until 1880. His text is liberally sprinkled with the word 'Jehovah'.
could he be the next "celebrity" jw?
:-) .
https://www.facebook.com/jwmediawatch/timeline.
Simon Cowell?
Huh.
He would do anything, including accepting a JW bibble, to get a photograph op with two young women. The photo says way more about Cowell than it does about the JWs.
as a member on bart ehrman's blog, i am able to ask him direct questions.is jehovah in the bible?.
question:.
how firmly grounded in reality is the claim of jehovahs witnesses that the divine name (jehovah) belongs in the new testament?.
Finklestein: Does anyone have any old WTS. articles that used Jehovah or relating to when and how the WTS started to use Jehovah ?
Charles Russell used the word 'Jehovah' when referring to God.
In the January 1884 Zion's Watchtower, 'Jehovah' is used 61 times.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=zion%20watchtower
All early Russell literature uses the word 'Jehovah'.
However, I believe that it was Da Judge who made the use of the 'name' into what it is today.
similarities between, jw:ism, stalinism, putinism, and mullahism, popeism and maoism..
all these leaders has been elected by un elite group controlling big values in form of real estate, bank account, enthusiastic voluntary working task forces, almost willingly to die for their leaders.
the workers (slave class), is never ever supposed to question the leaders decisions.
I am only preparing for an University Essay
Okay. :)
For which university class? Sociology? Political Studies?
Have you been introduced to Michel Foucault? His analysis of power and how power is maintained by the structure of the panopticon is vital to understanding the nature of political leadership and how totalitarian regimes emerge.
similarities between, jw:ism, stalinism, putinism, and mullahism, popeism and maoism..
all these leaders has been elected by un elite group controlling big values in form of real estate, bank account, enthusiastic voluntary working task forces, almost willingly to die for their leaders.
the workers (slave class), is never ever supposed to question the leaders decisions.
Is there anyone who can find even more similarities? I would like to add also new Ideas about these kinds of leadership, to an essay I am working on..
Bugbear, are you submitting this essay somewhere? Are you writing it for a particular reason/venue/class?
:)
have you heard about this?
in the future google might sort website links by how accurate the information is.
it would definitely put the jw.org website near the bottom of the list.. http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2015/03/06/38933/fnc-hn-20150306-morano.
It is not censorship.
Turning over the ranking system to an entity like Google makes it very vulnerable to powerful entities influencing those rankings.
Money talks and bullshit walks.
take a look at the linked ap photograph and tell me what you think:.
- miss black u.s., miss black georgia and miss black teen .
what would the likes of al sharpton say if the hallowed event this weekend at the edmund pettus bridge in selma, alabama had been attended by a miss white u.s., miss white georgia and miss white teen?
Simon: I think the only fact that makes it remotely acceptable is that it's a minority group.
That is exactly why groups of people marginalized have separate competitions. It is because the white majority (by majority - I mean the majority of power) take up too much space and are based on white-privilege standards. The separate competitions are designed to allow space for those who are discriminated against in the general population.
I personally think it is negative because it just reinforced differences and promotes that idea that skin-color-based discrimination is acceptable.
That idea, "that skin-based discrimination is acceptable", is already prevalent in the population at large. If that idea wasn't already there, these "skin-based" competitions wouldn't be necessary.
*And about the use of the term "Bloody Sunday" - I was somewhat confused - I thought this thread was about events 110 years ago in 1905 - I didn't know that "Bloody Sunday" was being appropriated by the black population. I guess I can learn something new every day.
have you heard about this?
in the future google might sort website links by how accurate the information is.
it would definitely put the jw.org website near the bottom of the list.. http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2015/03/06/38933/fnc-hn-20150306-morano.
Oh my.
What could possibly go wrong?
Big Brother, indeed. Now a person can just turn over their brains to the Big Google God in the CyberSky.
Ranking on the internet translates into high censorship.
I do not think this is a good idea. Not at all.
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20150307/news/150309486
DataDog: If they would continue to mainstream; clean up the Pedo issues, and do some actual charity, then I could almost contemplate remaining a dub. If they did those things, they would more closely resemble all other Xian sects.
Yeah, then all you would have to do is ignore the doctrine that states everybody else except JWs are rotting bird food and only the JWs are elite - they are special.
And, you might have to ignore the whacked out beliefs respecting blood. No other Xian sect has strange blood beliefs.
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20150307/news/150309486
There are good reasons why religious organizations received tax exemptions from the federal and state governments, said Zaino. They generally contribute to the local community by providing a place of worship and by serving the homeless.
But...who are the 'homeless' that the Watchtower are 'serving'? Are the homeless all those worker drones that get free housing and food inside the WTS compound? Because, the Watchtower certainly doesn't serve homeless people unless they are wearing a blue badge.
And that is another thing. Do the Watchtower workers have to declare their food and housing as 'taxable income'? I worked on a crew once that supplied food at lunch time. I had to pay tax on what the food was worth.
