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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

They are okay sentences, Vintage. 👍
11530
It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

Vintage the sentence (“Police police police police police.”) means: police that police police also police police.
An even better one, if you’re American and can use the word “buffalo” as a verb:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

Honestly I don’t know whether he will be a good standup or not.
That having been said he’ll be crap.
For when he flounders maybe we should donate worthy jokes. Here are a few of my finest:
Did you know there are only 3 million chickens in the UK? That’s a poultry amount.
Did you hear the latest theory the JFK assassin was from Cornwall? Others are saying that’s just a Cornish patsy.
Did you know that - “Police police police police police.” - is a grammatically correct English sentence? Not funny, but true.
Did you know Jesus had a motorbike? Mind the time he rode into Jerusalem in his Triumph.
How do we know Moses wore a wig? Because sometimes he appeared with Aaron and sometimes without.
Some people say that Satan wears a wig, but there will be hell toupee for whoever started that rumour.
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Future
by punkofnice in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i wonder what this earth will really be like in 500 years from now?.

what are your thoughts?.
slimboyfat

In the year 2525 will man still be alive?
(Probably not because they will have eliminated the need for males and a female super-race will reign)
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Real Book titles
by punkofnice in
1. social
2. humour
i wonder if real book titles should be entitled according to our opinions?.

eg.. plato's republic.

i'd call it: some geezer in a toga mincing around a pond talking idealistic nonsense.
slimboyfat

How to Avoid Huge Ships
https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336
I can’t improve on that book title!
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2013 New World Translation
by Jerome56 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
on their website in the video "organizational accomplishments" watchtower devotes this segment to praising the superiority of the new world translation.

about half way through, david splane relates the reason for a change in wording from the old 1984 nwt reference bible to the 2013 revised nwt.

he said this was because of the recent discovery of an older manuscript that contained the greek word for overseer that was unavailable when the reference bible was being compiled.
slimboyfat

Thanks for the detailed explanation Earnest. 👍
A related, and perhaps more significant change between the 1950 and 2013 versions, was the complete removal of the word “elder” in 1950 (apart from the instances of elders in heaven in Revelation) and its reintroduction in 2013 revision.
It’s ironic that Splane says Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t change the Bible to suit their beliefs because, when the NWT was first released in 1950 Jehovah’s Witnesses had abandoned congregation “elders”, and more specifically “elective elders”, a term and arrangement that Rutherford had undermined as being anti-Theocratic. So when the 1950 NWT uniformly replaced of the word “elder” with the descriptor “older man”, it was reflecting JW practice at the time which had no position of “elder” in the congregations. Jehovah’s Witnesses reintroduced the “elder arrangement” (this time minus democracy) in the 1970s, so it made sense to restore the word “elder” back again in the 2013 revised NWT in favour of the idiosyncratic 1950 NWT rendering “older man”.
For example the 1950 NWT at Titis 1:5 read:
For this reason I left you in Crete, that you might correct the things that were defective and might make appointments of older men in city after city, as I gave you orders.
Whereas the 2013 NWT reads:
I left you in Crete so that you would correct the things that were defective and make appointments of elders in city after city, as I instructed you
11530
It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

The signing the name at the end thing … I think there was a time when the forum allowed you to choose a sign-off name thing for the end of your posts that added automatically, so it might be an echo of that. Some of us used to style ourselves as being of a certain “class” the way that Watchtower had “anointed class”, “John class”, “other sheep class”, and so on. Some would declare themselves of “the evil slave class”, a term Watchtower has since demoted. Or we would make up our own: “slimboyfat of the ‘my Watchtower is always underlined’ class”, and so on.
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2013 New World Translation
by Jerome56 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
on their website in the video "organizational accomplishments" watchtower devotes this segment to praising the superiority of the new world translation.

about half way through, david splane relates the reason for a change in wording from the old 1984 nwt reference bible to the 2013 revised nwt.

he said this was because of the recent discovery of an older manuscript that contained the greek word for overseer that was unavailable when the reference bible was being compiled.
slimboyfat

The 1950 NWT used the Westcott and Hort Greet text that does not contain the word “overseer” in the verse.
The older manuscript that Splane was referring to was probably P72, a papyrus that was discovered in 1952, that includes the word for “overseer” in the text.
The 2013 revision of the NWT used updated Greek texts NA28 and UBS4 that include the word for “overseer” partly on the basis of P72.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_72
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If not the WT/JW relgion where else are 'we' to go? Why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism?
by Disillusioned JW in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sometimes jws wonder if the wt/jw is not the truth, 'then where else are we to go?

' i say 'why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism and why not a secular philosophy which teaches a way of life?

' what do you folks say?.
slimboyfat

Wherever I go, there I am
11530
It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
slimboyfat

Wow such self righteousness in such a nasty person. What an endearing combination.