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Jason David BeDuhn quotes from Truth in Translation--Part 2
by sd-7 intruth in translation: accuracy and bias in english translations of the new testament by jason david beduhn, pages 16-17:.
"we return to our example, 1 thessalonians 4:3-6.... "n[ew] w[orld translation]: for this is what god wills, the sanctifying of you, that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you should know how to get possession of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in covetous sexual appetite such as also those nations have who do not know god; that no one go to the point of harming and encroach upon the rights of his brother in this matter..... "the kjv, nw, and nasb offer very literal translations...as a result,...the nw sounds stilted and wooden...[here, beduhn compliments the nw for using the term "nations" instead of "gentiles"...continues...see?
he's even-handed, whereas my idea of even-handedness involves slapping the wts with both hands an equal number of times...] the kjv and nw retain the archaic english word 'fornication', while the nasb uses the modern expression 'sexual immorality', which is generic enough to cover most possible meanings of the original greek term.".
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Huff Post article on JW sister who married outside the Borg
by dozy inhttps://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/love-jehovahs-witnesses-the-moth_uk_5c8a6905e4b0fbd76621a50f.
an interesting read......
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Human Origins- An Interesting Website
by metatron inhttp://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general-human-origins/what-we-discovered-about-ancient-human-origins-year-and-what-still.
this is an interesting website that features new claims and discoveries about human origins.
i believe it has great value in supporting the view that human descent is not a simple 'adam and eve' situation and that our ancestors may have looked quite different from us.. neanderthals had huge jaws, more powerful arms and a bony browridge that may have made look bestial.
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-NCC 2010 Report: An Actual Increase in US Church Membership including JWs due to an influx of ...
by AndersonsInfo ini've been away so i don't know if this report has been posted on jwn recently.
however, i just want to mention that i recently heard from a credible source (circuit overseer) that the main increase of jws in the united states is among the spanish.
this fits with what this report suggests about the increase in us church membership is mostly due to an influx of immigrants.
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JWs and the Arts: The Muse Executed at Armageddon?
by truman inthe recent thread about some jw's reaction to the movie avatar made me flash back to some of my own misgivings when i was a jw about the wts's relationship to the arts.. .
jws are always ready to denounce any work of the human imagination that hints at ideas outside their narrow dogma.
movies whose titles have hindu etymology and which feature alien blue pagans are only the most recent.
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"KEEP ON THE WATCH" tick tock tick tock
by apocalypse inget your field service time in, tick tock tick tock.
it's half past meeting time tick tock tick tock.
gotta study soon tick tock tick tock.
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2021- Circuit Assembly
by bats in the belfry inis it just me, or do they really have increased the number of speakers of color?.
gearing up for more increase in africa perhaps?
(hint: jw box).
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"The Science of Why We Don't Believe in Science"--and why JWs resist the truth about the "Truth"
by Cadellin inthis recent mother jones article is pretty illuminating as to how defense mechanisms kick in when cherished beliefs are threatened by new information.
all the responses discussed--discrediting the source, denying the validity of the evidence, etc.--are, no surprise, exactly the strategy employed in wt publications discussing biblical criticism, evolution and other contradictions to the wt worldview.
what i found interesting was that such emotionally-driven responses feel like rational responses to the individual because the emotion to preserve belief systems kicks in before the analytic response.
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Where's Cadellin?
by Cadellin inokay, i was just thinking about that lawn ornament gnome that ends up having its picture taken in all these exotic places and i realized that my poster name is kinda like that.
in how many exotic, far flung places does my poster name appear on someone's computer when he or she checks into jwn to see the latest and thinks to him/herself, "oh, look, cadellin posted less than a minute ago!
tell me where "cadellin the name" is right now... .
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Any Report On How Many Baptized At The Tacoma Dome Convention?
by Justitia Themis inwere they children?
ages?
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