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  OK, spill the beans, which one of us wrote into Biblical Archaeology Review this month about the pronunciation of YHWH?

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

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  here's the subject:.

  the "q&c" questions and comments section of the journal 'biblical archaeology review' (one of my favorite magazines), jan/feb 2013 , p. 68, someone from illinois wrote the following question:.

  quote: "we've often heard that 'jehovah' is an amalgamation of the unpronounced tetragrammaton (yhwh) and, when spoken, is pronounced "lord" (adonai).

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  The very name is a vestige of the Hebrew god's progression from polytheism to monolatry, and finally, to monotheism....
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  October 15 Study WT, Page 17 Story: "Richard, Lowell, Ramon, Bill:" A Gay Subtext?

  by Room 215 in

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  i don't now whether anyone else read that article, but several of the photos , and the comments under the subtitle "happy marriages" wherein the happy quartet suggested that they acceded to marriage only when uber-zealot females who took priority over physically attractive girls could be found.... made me wonder... hmmmm... .

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  I intended no reproach; for all I know they're fine people... I've come to believe that being gay is a genetic predisposition more than a lifestyle choice. At the same time, for anyone who has spent some time at Bethel, where homophobia is pervasive, the suspicion that some, if not many, celibate gays are present in the family, is not new.
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  October 15 Study WT, Page 17 Story: "Richard, Lowell, Ramon, Bill:" A Gay Subtext?

  by Room 215 in

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  2. bible

  i don't now whether anyone else read that article, but several of the photos , and the comments under the subtitle "happy marriages" wherein the happy quartet suggested that they acceded to marriage only when uber-zealot females who took priority over physically attractive girls could be found.... made me wonder... hmmmm... .

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  I can't help but sense that these Bethel "lifers" succumbed to peer pressure to "Straigthen up and Fly Right" ... at least one of those photos is a little too touchy-feely for comfort, IMHO
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  October 15 Study WT, Page 17 Story: "Richard, Lowell, Ramon, Bill:" A Gay Subtext?

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't now whether anyone else read that article, but several of the photos , and the comments under the subtitle "happy marriages" wherein the happy quartet suggested that they acceded to marriage only when uber-zealot females who took priority over physically attractive girls could be found.... made me wonder... hmmmm... .

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  I don't now whether anyone else read that article, but several of the photos , and the comments under the subtitle "Happy Marriages" wherein the happy quartet suggested that they acceded to marriage only when uber-zealot females who took priority over physically attractive girls could be found.... made me wonder... hmmmm...
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  JWs exposed in Norway

  by InquiryMan in

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  during the past week, 17 different articles on various practices of jws and comments to those, have been published on the web page of the norwegian equivalent of the bbc, nrk: http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.8397366.

  in addition to this a special news programme with a discussion on sexual abuse and jw was broadcast on nrk2, and p1 contained an interview with an ex-jw on its weekly news summary programme.. it seems the expose is continuing..

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  The neighboring Scandinavian coutnries would seem to be a good place to start.
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  Here's A Pictorial Antidote To WT's "Wicked World" Rhetoric.....

  by Room 215 in

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  http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-year.

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  A second try.....

  http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-y
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  Here's A Pictorial Antidote To WT's "Wicked World" Rhetoric.....

  by Room 215 in

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  http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-year.

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  http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-year
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  How many exBethelites?

  by Christ Alone in

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  i'd just like to see who here has served at bethel, including myself.

  this may be useful for those that have specific questions about bethel, but don't know who of us actually served there.

  could we hear from those that served at bethel and where you served?

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  Christ Alone, looks like you should revise the list to include yourself, Borges and Tiktaalik
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  worn out ministerial servant!

  by El_Guapo in

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  wow, Snakeface; what a dramatic "crash-and-burn" experience! Sounds like newbie El Guapo (welcome to the forum, by the way) can certainly relate to it!
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  Modern-day Noah rebuilding Ark in Maryland

  by Simon in

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  this hillarious.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20649021.

  "i am just like noah," greene says.

  "they're laughing and mocking just like they did noah.

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  Hey guys, not so fast.... he may get the last laugh! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/evidence-noahs-flood-ark-real-robert-ballard-archeologist-titanic_n_2273143.html?1355183096&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing9%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D243741