Hi, Br Hiro..

Thank you for confessing your candid experience. I myself went to the US in 1986 and I observed how sever the race feeling among people there. Jehovah's Witnesses are one of the good examples the harmony of all peoples are well kept.

Today I went to the meeting and your brother was kindly beside me and honestly speaking I was encouraged by the presence of Mr and Ms Takesaka your brother.

As was always the case with me I was completely absorbed in the meeting.
and I was notified the Tuesday meeting will be integrated into Thursday meeting as of next January.

My return will be next March or April I hope. I will keep on attending the meeting two times in a month till then.

I hope our Bible study shall resume sometime next year and it will be dug deeper into the core than ever.

Mer

I can't post a reply to your comment for unknown reasons. I posted it in my newest journal instead. Here's my reply. Please make a further comment if you have in my recent journal so that everyone can share the idea. Sorry for your convenience.

It's rainy today, but a public holiday, so I'm staying at home.

Word and language are imperfect tools. What we are driving at by means of language cannot be categorically expressed well, so we are essentially all lying. Before we stop trusting someone, we need to stop overly trusting the role of language first. It's much better and constructive to give up our putting too much trust in language than to lose our mutual friendship. We sometimes might have told someone a lie, but that is just a part out of many true stories we have told each other. Forgive ourselves.

Let me check! Good job!!

mercedo
3:13pm It's rainy today, but a public holiday. My wife had to work a while but now she got home.

As I sent you earlier, word and language are imperfect tools. What we are driving at by means of language cannot be categorically expressed well, so we are essentially all lying. Before you stop trusting him, you need to stop overly trusting the role of language first. It's much better and constructive. It's much better to give up your putting too much trust in language than to lose your friendship with him. He sometimes might have told you and your former friend a lie, but that is just a part out of many true stories he has told you. Forgive him.


Nov 17, 1:09am

Word is an imperfect tool. He mightn't have meant to tell a lie. The same word can mean always both positive and negative. I would try to take his word affirmatively if I were you.

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Thanks so much Br Hiro...it was a great day today. I think I was welcomed more than before.

I feel very secured since you took seated beside me. I was able to ask questions after the meeting naturally, too.

I am able to follow the meeting without preparation, or I must say I'm already familiar with the contents of the meeting because I learned a lot about faith before. I thought about it thoroughly so I'm sure I have already fully prepared. Please understand!!

As to translation..since New World translation is virtually a work by one man with four associates. He hadn't gotten a formal Hebrew education. On the other hands, other major translations are the work of more than 100 scholars. One of my very close friend who majored Greek even says there's a lot of misinterpretations in NWT version Greek scripture.

The problem is those misinterpretations made the word of God unnecessarily difficult to understand. I think Bible is much easier than NWT. I feel some expressions are sircumlocution. I make it a rule to refer to 5 or 6 different versions in search of what God really wanted to says.

That's what I think honestly, but that does not mean to undermine the great effort Jehovah's Witnesses have made. I like Witnesses people. Let's try to make progress together. I think we have to keep on changing to a better direction to be a better Christian.

Keep in touch..

Mer

kona_yuki_jp:I agree with what you think. I wish you could write something about "omoiyari", it's one thing i like in most Japanese.

Thank you very much for your comment. I really appreciate that! One of the troublesome problems Japanese terms have is they have to express their idea in a few limited sounds. The term 'omoi-yari' could mean 'a heavy spear' although I know it means 'consideration' The same thing might say when I saw the term 'omote-nashi' in TV commercial. It must have meant ' hospitality' but I thought it ' without face' , so scary!! Do you think we have considerations in this real world? We are surrounded by just too many ignorance. Really nasty age indeed, but I find an oasis when I correspond with a friend.

You write to me whenever you want. I sometimes check here or ...I'm glad to reply to you.