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Personally I can’t in my wildest dream imagine how this post got so many people this riled so quickly. Especially, when you consider some of the past topics and related post that have made their way through the forum.



to tell mr conley (the other JC) that he riled everybody on the forum just adds another feather in his cap. that is his sole purpose for existing. if the moderators were to investigate every destructive, antagonistic outburst on these forums they would find john at the heart of each of them. if he did not actually start the dissension then he's there in its midst piling on flammable fuel then fanning the flames. i, for one, am tired of his badgering fellow forum members. his ego-maniacal mouth has driven people, that i can name, away from pg music. that translates to lost revenue to peter. how much longer will peter tolerate his attitude? i have considered quitting these forums due to his badgering people that i happen to love. he has learned to leave me alone but i refuse to remain silent any longer. peter?

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I can actually turn you in circles with descriptions of Hebrew translations and etc. but do you really want that level of boredom?



mr conley, sir, i can hardly dispute the logic of that statement! you are a 32nd degree "circle turner" blue ribbon winner, guinness book record-holder, undisputed world record champion "circle turner." sad thing is, i still love you dearly. i think i'll send you an aluminum canoe paddle so you can keep raising the stink to nostril level. surely you have a doctorate in stink stirring along with your innumerable academic accomplishments. if it is delivered by two elderly, stove-up jehovah's witness ladies armed only with a bible, don't run them off of your "kingdom" again. you'll have to sign for it.

the first rule in teaching is...turn the students in circles. - dr. john conley (aka the other jc)
second rule: don't teach, confuse.



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john, with your vast linguistic talents, knowledge, and background, tell me please...why does my bible show the divine name, jehovah, nearly 7,000 times while yours shows it only 4 times or not at all? which of us has "grieved the holy spirit by adding to or taking away from god's word?" (Deuteronomy 4:1-2) . . .. 2 YOU must not add to the word that I am commanding YOU, neither must YOU take away from it, so as to keep the commandments of Jehovah YOUR God that I am commanding YOU.

my goal is to win hearts not arguments so let the readers discern which of us has the true bible based evidence to share. "as for me and my household, we shall serve jehovah!"

an interesting preface to the revised standard version (RSV) reads: "when the word LORD (all capitals) appears it means JEHOVAH. jehovah's witnesses did not write the RSV or any of dozens of other translations that render the divine name faithfully throughout. certainly, with your superior language skills and academic accomplishments, you already know that. it is true that, due to the many documented errors in the king james version (KJV), jehovah's witnesses endeavored to do a modern english version (new world translation, NWT) which is well respected by modern bible scholars like yourself for its candor and accuracy. up to that printing (about 1950) we used the KJV and we are generally comfortable in any bible translation.

(1 Corinthians 8:1-3) . . .. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone thinks he has acquired knowledge of something, he does not yet know [it] just as he ought to know [it]. 3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him. . .

personally, i have many different bible translations that i use in my door-to-door ministry (in imitation of the 1st century apostles and that other JC) and personal bible studies. many newly interested ones prefer to confirm what i teach them by first seeing it in their own bible so i carry several popular translations in my saddlebag. when they see it written in modern-day english they ask for a copy of the NWT which i generally give to them as a free gift. we have no paid clergy class to "fleece the flock" so small donations support our worldwide work.

you obviously know the physical persecutions upon jehovah's witnesses in canada during ww2. our women were gang raped, real property illegally taken, our children expelled from your public schools, brothers fired from their jobs, refused food at grocers, many were forced out of their homes then beaten or raped then tarred and feathered all because we respected the bible view on christian neutrality. it's all well documented in the public record but you already knew that, right? so we continue going from door-to-door seeking those right-hearted ones "who are sighing and crying over the detestable things" going on in the earth. obviously there are "sheep" remaining or jehovah would tell us to stop harvesting. judging by our phenomenal growth we are striking a responsive chord worldwide. meanwhile, in nazi germany, jehovah's witnesses were sent to death camps and crematoriums for refusing to go to war and kill their "more civilized" canadian brothers.


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