I am on both sides of the fence with this one. I like the freedom of being able to participate in them, i.e. saying "happy birthday" or "merry christmas" without the guilt but I don't really get into the whole celebration part. Maybe because I wasn't allowed to do it the first 40 years of my life. I actually went to a birthday party last night but didn't find it particularly fun, but that could have been due to the people throwing the party and the guests that were there.
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Do You ENJOY The Holidays & Birthdays Now That You Can Celebrate Them?
by minimus inwhether it be father's day, mother's day, christmas or even a birthday, do you actually enjoy the celebrations, the spending of $$, and all that these festivities entail?.
or would you rather be a jw (just) for those times and not deal with it all?.
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Another JW in the news
by TweetieBird inhttp://www.news-journalonline.com/breakingnews/2010/06/man-follows-wife-with-tracking-device-slashes-new-boyfriend.html.
i know this guy and he is one of the meekest, mildest guys i ever knew.
he just stepped down as an elder recently to work on his family life.
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TweetieBird
UPDATE: Apparently, (from someone in his hall) he has been exonerated. Charges were dropped against him so I can only assume that the knife belonged to the boyfriend originally and he was defending himself. According to the paper, his wife said that John pulled the knife so she must have lied to side with the boyfriend. As I mentioned before, he really is a stand up guy and I really could not imagine him doing something like this.
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Another JW in the news
by TweetieBird inhttp://www.news-journalonline.com/breakingnews/2010/06/man-follows-wife-with-tracking-device-slashes-new-boyfriend.html.
i know this guy and he is one of the meekest, mildest guys i ever knew.
he just stepped down as an elder recently to work on his family life.
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TweetieBird
I know that sometimes people are not as they appear but this was really a stand up guy. I think he snapped personally. I'm so sad for him and his family.
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Another JW in the news
by TweetieBird inhttp://www.news-journalonline.com/breakingnews/2010/06/man-follows-wife-with-tracking-device-slashes-new-boyfriend.html.
i know this guy and he is one of the meekest, mildest guys i ever knew.
he just stepped down as an elder recently to work on his family life.
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TweetieBird
I know this guy and he is one of the meekest, mildest guys I ever knew. He just stepped down as an elder recently to work on his family life. I'm in shock, never would have thought him capable of this.
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Please accept my apology for being an elder and participating in Judicial Committees
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TweetieBird
As a person on the receiving end of a judicial committee, I forgive you!
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Pelosi Prays To Saint Joseph To Pass Health Bill!
by minimus ini just saw that on drudge report.. omg.
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TweetieBird
Really? Why Bolivia?
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Pelosi Prays To Saint Joseph To Pass Health Bill!
by minimus ini just saw that on drudge report.. omg.
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TweetieBird
God help us if the health bill passes. What would be a good country to move to?
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More than 50 Jehovahs Witnesses arrested in Russia for taking part in a public protest
by behemot inhttp://www.asianews.it/news-en/more-than-50-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-arrested-in-russia-for-taking-part-in-a-public-protest-17853.html.
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TweetieBird
What happened to "waiting on Jehovah" to straighten things out? Where is their faith? For years JW's were under ban in many different countries and they quietly went about their preaching work without drawing attention to themselves. This is not the organization that I grew up in.
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Jehovah's "name" real or not?
by highdose inis the name jehovah as gods name without dispute?
has the wtbs ever addmitted any where that gods name is not actauly known?.
need references for a project of mine please!.
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TweetieBird
Did a search in Strong's Concordance one time and came across this little tidbit. I must say that I have had a difficult time praying to "Jehovah" since I read this. I guess that's why I don't really pray anymore, too confused.
"Some Christians, especially Jehovah's witnesses, use this name for the Heavenly Father. However, every scholar and every reference book I have ever checked on "Jehovah" (including Jehovah's witness tracts) has said that this is not the way you pronounce His name! First of all it is impossible because of the fact that the Hebrew language has no "J" sound! According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1991 under the heading "Yahweh", here is how this name came into being:
"The Masoretes, who from about the 6th to the 10th century worked to reproduce the original text of the Hebrew Bible, replaced the vowels of the name YHWH with the vowel signs of the Hebrew word Adonai or Elohim. Thus the artificial name Jehovah (YeHoWaH) came into being."
So we see here one of many confirmations that the name Jehovah is not really His name at all! But it is a artificial name that was invented by man. Does man have the right to change the name of the one who created him? I think not! But that is exactly what has happened here.
Now let's look a little more deeply into this name Jehovah. Notice that many Hebrew names contain the first part of Yahweh's name which is Yah. This is true in the name Isa-YAH (Hebrew: YeshaYAH), which means "Yah is Salvation". Also in Jeremi-Yah (Hebrew: YermeYAH), Obadiah, Zechariah, and so on. Taking this knowledge, apply this to the name Je-hovah with Jeh being the first part of His name. First of all it doesn't add up when it comes to the names of these prophets. (Isaiah's name isn't IsaJEH) Second, the Hovah part of Je-hovah means RUIN and MISCHIEF in Hebrew according to Strong's Concordance #1943:
#1943 Hovah, another form for 1942; RUIN:-MISCHIEF"
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TweetieBird
Great game.