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Russia online
by Drue inthank you for this board i was enjoying many of the posts here for some time.
being from russia, i also enjoy this melting pot atmosphere of the fearless norse, nonchalant aussies and unostentatious americans and i really do like your britishers jolly good sense of humour.. and then comes slang: i was enjoying deciphering all the btw fyi imo imho acronyms.
today that i think i understood what lol means i decided to sign in.
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A quote from wt literature that I liked
by Drue inwhile the society have certainly printed much regrettable material i believe it is fair to admit that there was fine material too as was noted by other posters in different threads almost all of us were initially attracted to jws and i trust it often was because of good stuff printed.. one quote from the commentary on the letter of james i found appealing:.
discussing james 3:17 the book says:.
the wisdom from above makes a person reasonable, yielding, moderate or forbearing, not fanatical in his zeal .
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a plane crash in siberia
by Drue indont really know why i'm posting this on a jw forum.
i found the story very sad.
i work for an airline and live not too far from the place of the accident.. .
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The Saddam Hussein Interview (British Channel 4)
by Drue inthe saddam hussein interview.
at the weekend, the veteran labour politican tony benn travelled to baghdad to meet and interview the iraqi president.
tonight we hear why - according to saddam - iraq has no interest in war and possesses no weapons of mass destruction.
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Take pride in being organised?
by Drue intake pride in organisation?.
could it be that jehovah gave the law to the israelites not so much as a blessing but also as a curse to teach them that 'organised religion' is not so good after all?.
jws as an organisation take pride that they are organised, presumably, mirroring gods arrangement with israel (literal israel = fds, gentile supporters = "great crowd", the 'nephinim' and 'sons of the servants of solomon' = jw administration from the number of the other sheep [see wt april 15 1992], 3 yearly festivals = 3 yearly jw conventions and assemblies etc, jewish priestly mediatorship = wt borg (see, i used this word :)).
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New World Translation Greek Scriptures in Russian
by Drue inthis summer the wt is releasing their new world translation greek scriptures in russian.
i have known this for a while but obtained a copy only today.
since there is no full nwt in russian yet, the old testament is taken from traditional russian synodal version in one volume with new testament in the nwt rendering.. the first impression is that this is quite a fresh translation as compared with the most widely used russian version that uses archaic words and expressions and that is perhaps stylistically similar to english king james version.. jehovah is used 237 instances, as in the english variant of nwt.
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anyone in or around London, UK?
by Drue ini am a former jw from russia (disassociated due to conscience reasons a year ago).
i will be on business in london, uk late april-beginning of may and will have a week off after may 3. i would like to meet some witnesses/ex-witnesses while im in the uk, but i dont think i know anyone in the london area or around.
please drop me a line at [email protected] if you might like to meet.
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Baby gets five transfusions while in the womb
by Drue inbaby gets five transfusions while in the womb .
a baby is doing well after undergoing five blood transfusions while still in the womb.. doctors carried out the transfusions after discovering toby panther's blood group was incompatible with his mother.. tina panther had started to produce antibodies which slowly attacked toby's red blood cells, turning him anaemic.. experts put a needle through tina's womb and through toby's tummy into a vein in his liver at london's university college hospital.. each transfusion, which used an ultrasound to guide the needle, risked miscarriage.. miss panther, 39, didn't know until she was five months pregnant that she was going to have a baby.
toby was born in january weighing 5lb.. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_270303.html?menu=
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Leo Tolstoy letter
by Drue inheres a letter a famous russian writer leo tolstoy wrote to his accusers when he was excommunicated from the russian orthodox church.. i find the parallels in the churchs dealings with him remarkably similar to those of the wts when accusing the so-called apostates of being proud, rebellious etc.. ironically, the letter is reproduced in the official web-site of jws in russia ( http://www.jw-russia.org/eng/frames/press.htm).
to people in russia the wt evidently try to present themselves as fighters for religious freedom and tolerance (whereas making the russian orthodox church appear as enemies for such freedom).
jws do not acknowledge that their shunning policy is much more unkind than rocs attitude and that they do deny people who disagree with them the same privilege roc denied to tolstoy.. the bold in the text below is mine.. .