Now look at the 3day fish swallowing a man story just for continuity of Jewish fairy tales over centuries. Makes the Ancient Aliens theories seem all the more plausible.
The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping
by FFGhost 46 Replies latest watchtower bible
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waton
travelling through a desert with no supplies.
Simon, Israel had the airborne, the Manna delivered daily and the quails, magic staffs to hammer water out of rocks too. ,
living in the center of the camp
FFG: in the center of the camp lived the priestly class, super clean. they must have dreaded the cloud lifting over the tented tabernacle and carrying that stuff through the sogging field, shallow swamp outside.
come to think of it, it is the original overlapping generation, the once that left were not the ones that arrived with 2 exceptions. The type guarantees that the old antitype hopefuls will not make it.
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waton
Given that the middle easterners were prime descendants of Noah, who had great success dealing with 9 month worth of feces of all species, -- The Israelites must have been right in their element, it is elementary wat
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shadowclone
Probably could prove logically that Israel never even existed
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Vidiot
Basically, the logistics of pretty much everything in the Bible is damn near impossible without either...
a) ...black-swan-type “worldly” elements, or...
b) ...magic.
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smiddy3
This thread/post should be a must read before anybody gets baptised as a JW or anybody else who takes the words in the Bible literally as GODS word.
Couldn`t GOD in all his power have provided latrines conveniently placed throughout the camp ?
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Diogenesister
....all this and the Sinai desert is only 130 miles long 🤮
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FFGhost
logistics for large armies
an incredible challenge to keep them supplied and fed.
Alexander the Great for instance had maybe 35-40,000 menWhat a wanker!
Zerah the Ethiopian would have wiped the field with him!
2 Chronicles 14:9:
Later Zeʹrah the E·thi·oʹpi·an came against them with an army of 1,000,000 men and 300 chariots
I always wondered about how they determined the lucky guys who got one of the 300 chariots. There were 999,700 who had to walk, poor blighters. -
inbetween09
Maybe God sent along with Manna and long lasting shoes also constipation , would also explain why most of them died in the wilderness ;-)
But seriously, a couple days ago, I mentioned that problem of practical application to my PIMI wife, as a little tidbit of helping her to wake up...
However, one excuse to it could be, that the "camp" mentioned just refers to the camp of their immediate family, ?
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FFGhost
could be, that the "camp" mentioned just refers to the camp of their immediate family, ?
The "Insight" book disagrees:
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000872
The size of this camp of Israel was very great. The above register figures total 603,550 fighting men, in addition to women and children, old folks and handicapped, 22,000 Levites, and “a vast mixed company” of aliens—perhaps all together 3,000,000 or more. (Ex 12:38, 44; Nu 3:21-34, 39) How much area such an encampment would cover is not certain; estimates vary greatly.
Gotta love how they sidestep the size issue - "estimates vary greatly". Yeah, not sure whether it would thousands or merely hundreds of square miles. In any event, the official WT position is that "the camp" is the whole thing, so "outside the camp" would be outside the big conglomeration of millions of people.