Newly Enlightened

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  I'm glad no one was hurt because I find this freakin' hilarious

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  no wonder albuquerque's car insurance is so high!.

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  No wonder Albuquerque's car insurance is so high!

  
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  My Story - a (kinda) newbie from the UK

  by wizzstick in

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  after lurking for 7 and half years (is that a record?!

  ) its time for me to say hello.. so who am i, and whats my story?.

  im a born in jw, with all my siblings, mother, wife and children in.

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  Welcome! Glad to have you here with us.
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  New WT teaches Faithful slave appointed over belongings is a FUTURE event, do they know what this means regarding themselves now?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  this doctrine change is very interesting.

  the july 2013 study watchtower pages 8 para 17 and 18 makes these statements....... .

  """"we understood that the arriving mentioned.

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  Newly Enlightened

  If you notice those verses in Luke, it's the evil slave that says 'My master is delaying' so that slave has an issue with time and thinks the master is delaying when the master never really said when he was coming back. In fact, it mentions that he comes back at time when the slave is not expecting him. And the slave has started to beat his fellow slaves and get drunk.

  Just my thoughts.
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  Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, suicide attempt

  by RubaDub in

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  wow, just reported that paris was rushed to the hospital with slit wrists.. i normally have a lot to say but this one is a very sad situation.. rub a dub.

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  Here's an article about the incident questioning if the 'cult' of JW's had anything to do with it.

  http://www.charismanews.com/us/39785-did-cultish-religion-move-paris-jackson-to-commit-suicide?fb_action_ids=163350370509919&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
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  What about your vow to Jehovah?

  by a watcher in

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  did you get baptized without being dedicated?.

  why did you allow men to come between you and jehovah?.

  why were you serving jehovah at all?

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  A watcher is judging everyone on here, when he has no idea what most of our beliefs or faith in God is about.
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  What about your vow to Jehovah?

  by a watcher in

  1. watchtower
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  did you get baptized without being dedicated?.

  why did you allow men to come between you and jehovah?.

  why were you serving jehovah at all?

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  Newly Enlightened

  First of all, I was baptized a JW in 1979 @ 16 and dedicated my life to Almighty God, his son Jesus & the Holy Spirit thru God's word the bible and NOT to men in Brooklyn! It is because of THAT vow that i had to leave the WTBT$. I follow God as ruler rather than MEN!

  Even WT admits the name 'Jehovah' is invented so how can the TRUE God be named Jehovah?

  A watcher: Check this out: WT 1980 2/1 pg 11-13

  The

  DivineNameinLater

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  THAT the divine name was used in early history is beyond question. But what about later times? Why have certain Bible translations omitted the name? And what is its meaning and significance to us?

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  NAME“JEHOVAH”BECOMESWIDELY

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  Interestingly, Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican order, first rendered the divine name as “Jehova.” This form appeared in his book PugeoFidei, published in 1270 C.E.—over 700 years ago.

  In time, as reform movements developed both inside and outside the Catholic Church, the Bible was made available to the people in general, and the name “Jehovah” became more widely known. In 1611 C.E. the King James or Authorized Version of the Bible was published. It uses the name Jehovah four times. (Ex. 6:3; Ps. 83:18; Isa. 12:2; 26:4) Since then, the Bible has been translated many, many times. Some translations follow the example of the AuthorizedVersion and include the divine name only a few times.

  In this category is AnAmericanTranslation (by Smith and Goodspeed) with a slight variation of using “Yahweh” instead of “Jehovah.” Yet, one may ask: “Why have the translators done this? If using ‘Jehovah’ or ‘Yahweh’ is wrong, why put it in at all? If right, why not be consistent and use it every time it appears in the Bible text?”
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  WT should learn from this- "The importance of Mistakes"

  by Gojira_101 in

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  i was interpreting a class the other day and the instructor brought in a dvd of john cleese (guy from monty python) giving a speech on "the importance of mistakes" here is the link to an excerpt from his speech http://my.ilstu.edu/~eostewa/art309/mistakes.htm.

  i did a quick search to see if i could find the full speech or the video online and i wasn't able to.. basically cleese was saying all people make mistakes, but his main point was it's how we handle the mistakes.

  if we admit our mistakes we can then deal with it, handle it and move on.

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  Great topic Sweetie. Yep, he's absolutely right. It's too late for WTBT$ tho, they're in up to their eyeballs.
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  When will the celebration of the memorial end?

  by ralphnathaniels in

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  when will the celebration of the memorial end?

  and why?

  i missed that part in the speech.. and i want to know :).

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  Newly Enlightened

  Welcome Ralph, glad to have you here with us. We look forward to hearing yuor story.
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  NEW video on Youtube MUST SEE! the elder's meeting is ridiculous!

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  2. experiences

  brother of the hawk, newly enlightened & gojira, recorded an elder's meeting on 5/7/03.

  both does a great job of defending me and making the elders look foolish!.

  thank you raypublisher/jj and jwstruggle for the awesome job you did on it.. follow up story was not recorded but we will post it here hopefully over the weekend.. enjoy, it's pretty hilarious how they try to control us and come after me on a work of fiction!.

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  Newly Enlightened

  We're up to 3400 views.

  AWESOME! Thanks everyone.
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  I think a troubleshooter has been assigned to our congregation

  by hoser in

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  this new couple moved in a couple weeks ago.

  special/regular pioneers, he's an elder from bethel.

  i think he might have been a co at one time.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Interesting. I've seen this happen before, he's on a witch hunt.