David_Jay
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A Special Thanks ESPECIALLY to ATHEISTS
by David_Jay inas most of you know there has been a rise in antisemitism in the world as of late, especially in the united states where i live where many of our jewish community centers and schools have been subjected to bomb threats.
around the world many jewish cemeteries have been vandalized too.. while i have left the forum earlier this year due to a need to move on with my own healing path (and realizing this forum is doing quite well with the many bright minds already among the crowd), i have briefly returned mainly to write this note of gratitude (though i did post a few times too while i have been here).. it has been touching and very helpful when muslims, christians, and people of other faiths have stood with those of us in the jewish community to protest this wave of hostility against my people.
there have been many public displays of solidarity with us against these acts of hatred and prejudice and some personal notes from friends letting me know i am not alone.. some of you have been among those who have voiced your concern for me and other jews during this time.
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Watchtower Magazine Covers I'd Like to See
by David_Jay inthe watchtower announcing jehovah's kingdom:.
"1914--the generation that will not pass...wait a minute.
"who really is the messiah?
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Evolution, Critical Thinking, and Other Things the JWs Never Told Me
by David_Jay inafter reading several threads on the topics of evolution and theism, i thought i would share what happens to you when you go to college and get a real education on things: you learn that some of the arguments and stands of jehovah's witnesses are moot to begin with.
i never double-checked the "modus operandi" about many things, and boy, did i have some real learning to do.. for instance, why are jehovah's witnesses so against evolution?
it only proves their point.
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Orthodox Jews Recognize Christianity as 'Willed By God' as Catholics Call Jewish Covenant "Irrevocable"
by David_Jay into date, over 50 jewish rabbis from around the world have added their names to an historical statement in response to ongoing jewish and catholic relations which have proved successful since the vatican released nostre aetate some 50 years ago...and the number is growing.. in the first days of december of 2015, about 24 orthodox rabbis signed a "statement on christianity" released by the israel's center for jewish-christian understanding and cooperation, with the vatican releasing its own document entitled "the gifts and the calling of god are irrevocable" just one week later.
both statements recognize each other's religion as divine, from the same source, and part of the same (albeit mysterious) providential economy of redemption from god.. while not totally new, especially since the papacy of st. pope john paul ii, the vatican document is a substantial culmination of formal statements and studies that came before over the last half century.
especially from the largely ignored but striking significance of the pontifical "the jewish people and their sacred scriptures in the christian bible," the new 2015 document is a reiteration of all that has come before in one place, resounding the previous scripture-study statement that the church holds that the jews are still the covenant people of god, that the covenant has never been revoked, and.... "in the past, the break between the jewish people and the church of christ jesus could sometimes, in certain times and places, give the impression of being complete.
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Did You Know You Can Have Seizures While You Sleep and Not Know It?
by David_Jay ini have to take some time off even from some of my favorite activities for a while...that means here...until i can adjust to a new medical therapy.. i just learned today that i have nocturnal epilepsy and have been having seizures almost every night for several decades!
wow!
just started medication that will mess me up when it comes to processing my thinking and typing for a while, so until that straightens out i will just have to read for now.. but look it up.
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Jehovah's Witnesses May Have to Look for a New Whipping Boy Due to New Evidence About Catholic Church
by David_Jay in“the bbc is right to recognise that the libel that catholics said and did nothing against nazism is precisely that, a collective libel.
i am grateful to them for doing so.”--lord alton of liverpool.. so reported the catholic herald (uk) on friday, 9th of december 2016 after the bbc admitted it greatly underestimated the catholic church's opposition to hitler during the shoah.. the bbc’s internal watchdog has found that a programme wrongly accused the catholic church of “silence” about the holocaust.. after pope francis’s visit to auschwitz in july, bbc one’s 6pm news bulletin carried a report which stated: “silence was the response of the catholic church when nazi germany demonised jewish people and then attempted to eradicate jews from europe.”.
in response, the cross-bench peer lord alton of liverpool and fr leo chamberlain, the former headmaster of ampleforth, made an official complaint.. nearly six months later, the bbc’s editorial complaints unit has now concluded that the item was unfair.
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What Are We Now?
by David_Jay inhow do we rate after leaving the watchtower?
are we very different people after we have walked out our last meeting at the kingdom hall?
or are we essentially a "mad-lib" version of what we claim we once were, that we have merely "filled in the blanks" with our latest set of convictions and still think we have the truth, are right and others wrong, and feel we must promote our new "truth"?.
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The "I" in Jehovah's Witness Religion
by David_Jay in(yes, i am taking to and about you, "a believer.
ever notice how proponents of jehovah's witnesses tend to say almost the same thing when pushing their views on us?
"i have been doing this study of religion and i have come to these conclusions...".
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Major Protestant Bible Gets approved Catholic Edition
by David_Jay ina very different way of doing things compared to the nwt of the jehovah’s witnesses, one of the most popular translations in the protestant world now has a formal catholic edition (and thus will drown the nwt further below the growing numbers of this new bible edition).. originally released to the english-speaking catholics in india, and soon to be released in the uk and the united states, tyndale publishers has received an imprimatur for their top-selling new living translation (nlt).. one of the best-selling bibles in english, the nlt was originally designed to be a revision of the popular living bible.
however, as the revision work grew, the nlt became a translation in its own right.. not understanding what was involved, originally tyndale attempted to release a catholic edition of the nlt in the 1990s in the usa.
it failed because the translating team and publishers, who at the time were mostly evangelical protestants, didn’t comprehend the way catholic books get published and why catholic faithful tend to put so much faith in the “official stamp” of an imprimatur.. afterwards the translating team behind the nlt decided to bring their translation into the realm of interconfessional cooperation by building a team of translators from various christian traditions and denominations.
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If Jehovah's Witnesses Had a Creed
by David_Jay ini believe in jehovah god, sovereign of the universe,.
and in his son, jesus christ our lord,.
who was conceived of the holy spirit, born of the virgin mary,.