Impact exposed

Picture Prompt Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently

     The new Bible, duh!  For those of you who are not Jehovah's Witnesses or couldn't make it to the annual meeting and are living under a rock, this past weekend a new English version of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released.  While it was already in readable English (instead of Olde English) certain verbiage has been updated (it's in "21st century English" to quote one brother).  My favorite example was 1 Samuel 14:11: "the two of them exposed themselves" became "then both of them revealed their presence".  I keep giggling.  Also, 'alien' becomes 'foreigner'.  No, Abraham did not become a LGM and the Isrealites were not surrounded by extraterrestrial visitors.  Bwahahahaha!  And so on.  And all those double negatives?  Poof!  Yes, reading level has changed.  It saddens me.

     Also, can we take a moment and ponder the amazing amount of work it took to broadcast the meeting to 1830 locations to reach an estimated nine and a half million people?  And it went off with barely a hitch (once the bugs were worked out on Saturday morning).  And everyone got surprised with Bibles.  Good job keeping things confidential Saturday and Sunday morning people!  I heard nary a peep.  I am duly impressed.