Ann O'Maly

Now yes. Possible future technology? http://www.space.com/32026-photon-propulsion-mars-three-days.html Maybe not in our lifetime. Little steps. They'll likely try out a small colony on the Moon first.

This Scripture was particularly targeting the Docetists. Christians considered them heretics because they believed Jesus only appeared to have a human body but wasn't actually a physical being: therefore, Jesus didn't really suffer and die as a human but just gave the illusion that he did. The context of John's words makes it clear who he was warning about: 2 John 7 - "For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those not acknowledging Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist." Those who promoted Docetist views were wicked, according to John. This is NOT a text about judicial action, disfellowshipping and all infractions of Bible principles as perceived by the JW organizational hierarchy.

You may have missed where Jay Witness said he didn't agree with his friends counting time for this. So it's an open question he's asking rather than an 'obsession.'

From http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/clergypriest-privilege.html I think this is part of the problem in the JW system and with this case. Another part of the problem is who initiated each meeting with the elders and for what purpose. The judgment denying the Congregation's motion to exempt the elders from disclosing the crime (because of their claim to clergy-penitential privilege) makes some notable observations. See http://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/download.aspx?ID=235880

Use up Earth's resources for commercial gain and then start on Mars? It doesn't sit right.

If the Bible teaches that YHWH is God and God is our Father, is it appropriate to address Him with His name all the time? If I addressed my parents by their names, I would have been told off!

Depends what you mean by 'colonize.' Scientific outposts like in Antarctica, sure. Rich tourists, frackers and commercial geology surveyors? No.

Anyone know what the 'Youth Emergency Assistance' group stands for? Is it similar to the one in CA that helps homeless youths whose families have kicked them out?

'Jehovah' is just the anglicized version of the Name which was adapted from the Latin version of it. Many other languages don't have the hard English 'J' sound anyway - they have a 'Y' (ya) sound instead (like the Hebrew letter 'yod'). The 'W' is from the Hebrew letter which is pronounced 'vav.' Whether the original Hebrew Name consisted of two or three syllables, and which are the correct vowels ... that's for people with far better knowledge than I to debate. But what we have is an approximation. Imho, sometimes people can become too obsessed with trying to figure out the 'correct' pronunciation. If pronouncing the Name 'just so' was that important, you'd think the method would have been preserved in the Bible for posterity.

Indeed. Are Cats For True Christians? - http://www.jmm.org.au/articles/13394.htm

@Ross Tinney The Org. cannot help but be political. It has fought for religious and conscientious freedom before governments and in the courts. It exercises positions of governance and has organized control over a human community (JWs). It has lobbied for zone changes in Brooklyn. This is all 'politics.'

JTR - It sounds like you need a jw-archive/internet break. Go walk in the countryside, visit with flesh-and-blood friends, enjoy reading a real paper book on something not JW. Hopefully, you'll be back to your impish self before long.

Wait a minute. When did the 'whom' become a 'what'?

The tablet pictured above corroborates the biblical account of the 597 BCE* seige and surrender of Jerusalem when Nebuchadnezzar took King Jehoiachin, the royal family, and 18,000 exiles to Babylon - "all Jerusalem." He also stripped the temple of its treasures. Cf. 2 Kings 24:8-17. http://www.livius.org/sources/content/mesopotamian-chronicles-content/abc-5-jerusalem-chronicle/ --- * 617 BCE Watchtower time

No. Because this: https://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/tag/brien-foerster/ and this: http://www.peruthisweek.com/blogs-calm-down-the-paracas-skulls-are-not-from-alien-beings-102258 *Steps into the JW paradigm for a moment* Anyway, if they are 3000 years old, they post-date the Flood. Isn't official Org. teaching that the Nephilim were wiped out by the Flood? What were descendants of an extinct race from the Middle East doing in Peru?

This relates to a different Jah-Jireh home than the one I linked to.

They are a great idea and there are many good points about them. But there have also been and continue to be weaknesses in their standard of care at times. Some of the UK ones have been found to be operating below expected standards. http://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/new_reports/AAAC7117.pdf

That's rather careless of the journalist. The memo does not say to make sure all records relating to child molestation are in harmony (period) - which may suggest 'in harmony with each other' or some sort of evidence tampering. The full sentence is: "Make sure all records relating to child molestation are in harmony with ks10 2:16, point 3, and 5:39." (See attached Watchtower memo.) IOW, the records kept are to be in harmony with the instructions in the Elder's handbook, Shepherd the Flock of God, which stipulates that records relating to child molestation are to be kept indefinitely and are NOT to be destroyed. Personal elders meeting or other personal notes on individuals are to be destroyed, however. 2015_Audit_Checklist-UK.pdf

The easiest solution is that Nehemiah was counting the Jewish way - Tishri to Tishri (Babylonians and Persians counted kings' reigns from Nisan to Nisan). So the Nisan in Neh. 2:1 didn't ring in a new regnal year (21st year) by Nehemiah's reckoning, but stayed within the Tishri-Tishri 20th year. This is the conclusion of some respected Bible scholars and chronologists, e.g. Edwin R. Thiele. "Historical evidence points to 475 B.C.E. as the year of Artaxerxes’ ascension to the throne." [w06 2/1 p.8] That's incorrect. Historical evidence points overwhelmingly to 465 BCE as Artaxerxes I's accession year. But that's a whole other discussion in itself.

http://www.jah-jireh.on.ca/index.html