Topics Started by Jeffro
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Independent Thinking
by Jeffro ini decided to do a search of the watchtower library cd on the phrase 'independent thinking'.
only three times is it ever spoken of as being a good thing.
and those three instances are quite telling about the insidiousness of all of the other times that jw publications consider independent thinking to be such a bad thing.. .
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NWT Revisions
by Jeffro inthere is mention on a wikipedia article that there was a 2006 revision of the nwt.
is this true?
what differences are there?
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Blogs
by Jeffro inhow many people around here maintain a blog?.
i've been hosting a site for about 2 years, with a 'proper' wordpress blog for about half of that time, but no one really seems to know it exists, and i only get about one hit per day (apart from a few search engine crawlers and the odd hacking attempt).
i initially set it up chiefly as an academic exercise to learn a little about php and sql servers.. unfortunately my life hasn't been incredibly remarkable (or rather, the remarkable things have not been things i've wanted the world at large to know about), so i haven't had a great deal of feedback (apart from the 607 article posted there), though i've put a few posts on my recent holiday on there.. if you want to have a look, or you're just feeling particularly bored, it's here.
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"Jehovah God"
by Jeffro inthe expression "jehovah god" has always seemed strange to me.
even when i was a jw, i found the term awkward, and never used it myself.
both words are nouns intended to be synonyms of each other, unless the name "jehovah" is being used as an adjective, which is also weird.
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"This Generation"
by Jeffro ini know the witnesses changed their 'generation' definition in 1995 to get away from being tied down to the literal generation of people who saw 1914.. but applying their definition of the word to matthew 24:34 makes the verse meaningless, regardless of whether the original text grammatically allows for their interpretation.
there is no point in saying "this generation will by no means pass away" if 'generation' merely refers to an attitude of people which may remain the same for any ongoing period of time.. there is simply no point in saying it unless it was intended to refer specifically to a literal generation of people who were alive at the time.
of course, there is no validity to their 1914 doctrine anyway, but nevertheless, they are inextricably stuck with it..
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"Keep on asking"
by Jeffro ini was thinking about luke 11:5-9, and how it really is bad, bad advice.. instead of encouraging individuals to ask for something, and then have the faith that things will work out for the best - though not necessarily as they may want - the particularly poor advice of this passage not only condones a selfish attitude of pestering god/others until they get what they want, but when put into practice, it also encourages anxiety induced by expectations of unfulfilled hopes..
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JW Weddings
by Jeffro inat every jw wedding i ever went to, the celebrant has always said without fail that "the bride and groom have requested that no rice or confetti be thrown".. is this spiel used everywhere?
is it actually a request of the bride and groom, or is it just bombastically imposed by the elders (i.e.
a lie)?.
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Roll call - scholar? thirdwitness?
by Jeffro inscholar and thirdwitness seem to have disappeared.. scholar hasn't said a word since being unable to provide a single reference from the society's literature, despite his claims that such references exist, to indicate anything other than speculation that places the return of the jews in 537bc.. thirdwitness hasn't been able to provide any valid rebuttal - hasn't even tried - to the analysis i have made of his (he claims to be the author) 607 website..
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607 website - part 6
by Jeffro inpart 6 in the series.
part 1:http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/118445/2082380/post.ashx#2082380.
part 2:http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/118507/2083398/post.ashx#2083398.
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607 website - part 5
by Jeffro inpart 5 in the series .
part 1: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/118445/2082380/post.ashx#2082380.
part 2: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/118507/2083398/post.ashx#2083398.