easier to translate
sbf: perhaps sadly true, at the price of pithy understandings. remember in bethel, agony over the word "awe" to be rendered into a simpler language with the same deep meaning.
Posts by waton
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22“Do not gaze about!”
by slimboyfat inso many changes in the 2013 nwt seem needless and spoil familiar phrases.
take isaiah 41:10 in the nwt classic rendering:.
do not be afraid, for i am with you.
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waton
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Memorial this year?
by carla inhow are they handling the memorial this year?
zoom or open kh's?
how do they reject the wine & bread in their own home?
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waton
The passover was actually a family affair. Jesus, not being married, did it with his friends.
The zomm wt mode of doing it comes actually closer to that ideal; also, Jesus passed the emblems to people with an earthly hope,
Ray Franz and friends did an apart celebration too, and thousands do it every year privately after "the meeting".
This new private setting, with camera off is the golden opportunity to act out your great beliefs in privacy.
A better cook might actually do the baking for you. openly.
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A Generation Change Again???
by BereanThinker7 ini have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.
does anybody have on info on this?.
i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .
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waton
With all due respect, "one generation consists of 2 overlapping groups and thus can extend for 150 or more years"
FFG: In the bible story, that wt writers use to underpin this doctrine, Joseph in his generation died young, only 110 years old. Pharaoh, his fathers closer to 150. (they all were closer to wt perfection, to the talking snake timeline).
Even today, if you live in southern France, Sardinia, Okinawa, you can easily have 110 year old *** contemporaries like Joseph, and of course their timeline can span 200+ years.
The wt generation problem is not the overlap of old contemporaries. it is the anointing.
Jesus' contemporaries, as he predicted, had to die after the end of jerusalem's great tribulation. The wt generation, has to die before the great tribulation, because they are partaking in, they are causing it from heavens above.
The current wt generation is not the last.
*** old age caused by evolutionary perfecting, Healthy old men having children with younger ladies, passing on proven healthy genes.
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Watchtower Changes Position On Sodomites
by Sea Breeze inwhy all the flipflops?.
1886 sodomites resurrected = yes!“thus our lord teaches that the sodomites did not have a full opportunity; and he guarantees them such opportunity… it implies their awakening, their coming from the tomb.”—the divine plan of the ages, 1886, pp.
110-111 (view pdf of these pages).
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waton
Recently Steven Lett said that homosexuals would return in the res. With the same desires
BB, that shows that the GB, from heaven, thinks they can continue by guilt, control the hapless meek on earth.Imagine a perfect, strapping, joung 900 year old with raging hormones, but not legally able to procreate. ?
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Hip Hip Hooray yyy
by smiddy3 inhi friends i`ve finally got an appointment to go to hospital tomorrow ,pre-admission for my hip replacement surgery.. so if you don`t hear from me ever again ,it means i`ve carked it .lol, should i even joke about that ?.
so its goodnight from me till who knows when ?.
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waton
You are in good hands there, good sleep, soon, no more pain there at all.
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Magadan
by molybdenum init seems that g. jackson got confused during his presentation relating to jesus and his going to magadan.
( check out lloyd evans "magadangate") but the jw community seems very hesitant and quiet on this apparent "faux pas".
has anyone had any feedback from jw's that you know on this or are they just sweeping it under the carpet as being nothing of particular note?.
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waton
it is a town in Russia, but sounds like the Philippines. actually it is mangaldan. there. An assembly site with toilets with full horizon to horizon sky view. but a notch up from the stick carrying israelites
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A Generation Change Again???
by BereanThinker7 ini have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.
does anybody have on info on this?.
i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .
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waton
They need Fred Franz.
3M : wt teaches that FF is actually available in heaven for consultation. but it is not rocket science.
The generation has to be alive during Christ's presence, ( The Jerusalem crowd in 30 CE was).They must survive the great destruction, (some from Jerusalem did)
They must pass away after they witness this greatest of disasters. They all did.
so: who is left? clue?
can't be the anointed, why?
can't be the eternally faithful sheep, why?
can't be the goats why?
Using these scriptural criteria, we can instantly prove the Governing body wrong. now, and even before their supposed next move!dooykl: enjoy the mind game instead!
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Watchtower Changes Position On Sodomites
by Sea Breeze inwhy all the flipflops?.
1886 sodomites resurrected = yes!“thus our lord teaches that the sodomites did not have a full opportunity; and he guarantees them such opportunity… it implies their awakening, their coming from the tomb.”—the divine plan of the ages, 1886, pp.
110-111 (view pdf of these pages).
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waton
there will be no same sax marriages in the resurrection. no hetero either.
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A Generation Change Again???
by BereanThinker7 ini have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.
does anybody have on info on this?.
i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .
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waton
The carrot looks too juicy to care about the fact that the stick dangling it keeps changing.
Even to see the carrot you really need a telescope, it might be 54 light years away, @ 2075, the end of the lifespan of the last group of the overlapping generation.
Just buying a better telescope will not help.
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A Generation Change Again???
by BereanThinker7 ini have heard a few whispers that once again they are going to be changing the generation teaching.
does anybody have on info on this?.
i would love to be able to hit my family with a. .
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waton
If that happens , it will be a repeat of the of the "superior authorities" surprise
All humans move through time together. To pick one stream, in wt's case "the anointed" does not change that fact.
The authors of "Jesus'" biography set the time frame. The generation ends after all these things have occurred.
The current "anointed" wt generation ends well before the final fun. Armageddon. it is too short, not to long.
best bet, pick another stream, existing besides the annoying anointed, the old timers in general.
the talking snake said a lie -- you will not die. no matter what generation you belong too.
wt writers speculated before to make that generation Hiroshima's, or Gagatin's Glen's.