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  Questions about god's name

  by Jankyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a couple of questions for the research-bunnies on the board--there are so many of you who've spent so much time studying both the bible and jw beliefs, and it's an incredible resource for the rest of us.

  i used to know the jw line on some of this stuff, but since i left in my late teens and am now moving into middle age, i've forgotten a lot.. first, i know that the nwt inserts "jehovah" every time the old testament uses the tetragrammaton (yhwh).

  my question is, what is the basis/claim they make for inserting "jehovah" into the new testament?

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  Just realized I don't know my mother's birthday!

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading another topic (in the private forum, so i won't disclose), and i realized that i couldn't send my mother birthday greetings if i wanted to--or if she'd accept them.

  i don't know when her birthday is!

  i know it's some time in late august and i know the year.. but we never celebrated birthdays, so i don't know the date.

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  Local JW elder can't be bothered to fill in the blanks

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i go through the press releases for a local media outlet.

  in this morning's batch was a "post-convention release" from a local jw re the "deliverance at hand" convention at the cow palace in sf last weekend.. .

  it's a template from the wts, but this bozo didn't fill in the right blanks!

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  Celebrating my birthday...

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, all.. i celebrated (yes, indeedy, right down to cake and singing) my 45th birthday on saturday, and i learned a few things in the process.. my partner, who is appalled that i never had a birthday party or presents as a child, decided to make my birthday a week-long celebration.

  each day, i had another gift--little things that she knew i'd like, like a box of almond roca, a little plastic moose (i love moose-s), and a book about natural ways to get the slugs out of my garden.

  and each day, she made up a little poem about how glad she was that i was born.

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  Five years for me

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yep, it's been five years since i joined jwd.

  and still only a senior member.

  that would be because i generally only post when i have something to say.. i was on h2o many moons ago (also as jankyn), and i used to lurk on witnet (which i found hilarious, particularly the way that lisa--ldh--would mess with jw heads).

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  Former JW writes on Pledge of Allegiance

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from the current issue of the sacramento news & review:.

  http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2003-11-06/essay.asp.

  essay .

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  What do the Catholics & JWs have in common?

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  while discussing the current state of affairs re: pedophilia in the catholic church with a friend, i started talking about the same situation within the jws.

  she asked me, what do the two have in common that makes it possible for molestations to be covered up and denied?

  in short, what do they have in common that has allowed them to get away with it for so long?.

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  "Give back the rib"

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today's sacramento news & review (my hometown free weekly) has a story about different ages of feminist, and one of the twenty-somethings is an ex-jw.. http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1362042.

  jenn kistler | 20s.

  give back the rib.

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  For NorCal folks: Was Jimboys' Tacos started by a JW?

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, folks.

  i just had someone mention casually that the jimboys' tacos chain was started by a jw.

  i was curious (we were talking about jimboys' dumping recent issues of the sacramento news & review because of a photo of two gay men on the cover... see story here: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1040008).

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  New novel with major JW themes

  by Jankyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those who might be interested: i recently read an advance review copy of a new novel, <i>by way of water,</i> by charlotte gullick (blue hen press, 2002).

  pretty good first novel, i'd say, but the most interesting thing for me was that the characters' involvement with jehovah's witnesses was a main theme for the novel, and not merely a minor plot point.. set in northern california in 1977 and told through the eyes of 7-year-old justy, the novel tells the story of the unravelling of a family because of the violence and alcoholism of the father and the alienation that the mother's involvement in jws causes.

  it's also fairly accurate about the religion--only big gaffe i caught was singing from a brown songbook, when in 1977 we were all using the old mauve <i>singing and accompanying yourselves with music in your hearts.</i>.

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