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  70 weeks prophercy

  by KSFernando in

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  according to the daniel's 70 weeks propercy, it ibegins from the going forth of the word to restore and to rebuild jerusalem.

  as per the bible writer nehemiah, the word went forth to rebuild the walls around jerusalem iin the month of nisan,* in the 20th year of artaxerxes the king.nehemiah 2:1.. therefore the propercy begins in the month of nisan (march/april).

  propercy begin .

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  Propercy Begin March / April 455 BCE

  Also, the 20th year of Artaxerxes I was 445 BCE, not 455 BCE.
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  Are Neck Ties going to be a thing of the past for field service?

  by Atlantis in

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  are neck ties no longer needed in field service?check out the top photo on jw.org!..petra

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  Meh. When I see a jw.org pic of 'sisters' wearing pantsuits in FS or to a meeting, then my eyebrows will twitch into life.
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  is this where Beliefnet went?

  by OutInTheCold in

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  hello, some of you old friends and not so much.

  i'm wondering why my 13 year-old account from beliefnet is in your database.. interesting.... so that's how you get your numbers for "members".

  from other forums.. lol.

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  is this where Beliefnet went?

  Beliefnet's still around.
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  Rolf Furuli's accusation about VAT 4956 being tampered with?

  by possiblepineapple in

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  i'm sorry but can someone here explain what this is about.

  i saw someone on here called scholar on here saying that it somehow destroyed both coj and hermann hunger but how?

  how does rolf furuli know that it was tampered with?

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  It depends on the tablet.
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  Rolf Furuli's accusation about VAT 4956 being tampered with?

  by possiblepineapple in

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  i'm sorry but can someone here explain what this is about.

  i saw someone on here called scholar on here saying that it somehow destroyed both coj and hermann hunger but how?

  how does rolf furuli know that it was tampered with?

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  Yes, various kinds of errors come up on other tablets too. They are not uncommon. On VAT 4956, for example, there are a range of them - words missing, repetition (dittography), ones that we would now call 'typos' ...
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  Former Austria and Switzerland branches update!!

  by Viva la Vida in

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  the wt branches in switzerland and austria were sold and now they are being develop into apartment buildings.. check the projects on the following links:.

  switzerland: http://www.vbarch.ch/aktuelles (7th picture from top).

  austria: http://www.wvg.at/projekte/13g40.

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  Rolf Furuli's accusation about VAT 4956 being tampered with?

  by possiblepineapple in

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  i'm sorry but can someone here explain what this is about.

  i saw someone on here called scholar on here saying that it somehow destroyed both coj and hermann hunger but how?

  how does rolf furuli know that it was tampered with?

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  LOL @ Kurt.

  Are those two diary lines at all significant?

  PP - There are 30-40 observations on the tablet which, taken together, cannot fit any other year than 568/7 BCE. The two problematic ones (Obverse, Lines 3 and 14) contain observations of the Moon relative to beta Virginis. Unfortuntately, these observations are a day out from what they should be. Either those observations were allocated to the wrong day, or they confused gamma Vir. with beta Vir. (interestingly, a similar error with the same stars occurred before on an earlier tablet). Those who want to undermine the credibility of VAT 4956 applying to 568/7 BCE home in on these two errors as if they alone overturn its entire dating.
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  Yet another problem for Watch Tower Society apologists

  by Jeffro in

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  amos 1:1 is set during the reigns of both uzziah and jeroboam (ii), "two years before the earthquake".. geologists* have dated this earthquake to around 760bce, with an error margin of plus or minus 25 years.. *steven a. austin, gordon w. franz, and eric g. frost, "amos's earthquake: an extraordinary middle east seismic event of 750 b.c.

  " international geology review 42 (2000) 657-671. y. yadin, hazor, the rediscovery of a great citadel of the bible (new york: random house, 1975).

  i. finkelstein, "hazor and the north in the iron age: a low chronology perspective," bulletin of the american schools of oriental research 314 (1999) 55-70. d. ussishkin, "lachish" in e. stern, ed., the new encyclopedia of archaeological excavations in the holy land (new york: simon & schuster, 1993) vol.

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  Well, now we're cooking with gas.
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  Rolf Furuli's accusation about VAT 4956 being tampered with?

  by possiblepineapple in

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  i'm sorry but can someone here explain what this is about.

  i saw someone on here called scholar on here saying that it somehow destroyed both coj and hermann hunger but how?

  how does rolf furuli know that it was tampered with?

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  Didn't the idea of them referring to other kings kind of get thrown out by COJ when he contacted the British museum about it or something?

  COJ has consulted professional cuneiformists to enquire about questionable readings on various tablets, whether it was to do with, say, a king's name or year or month or whatever, and he has published their answers either in his book or online.

  How does the backwards calculating thing even work?

  Lunar and planetary movements have repeating patterns that can be worked out, or at least approximated, mathematically. One of Furuli's hypotheses is that the Seleucid astrologer-scribes could have retro-calculated the planets' positions to fit with a chronological scheme they subscribed to.

  It makes no sense

  It's totally bonkers.

  Isn't it pretty clear the astronomical data fits 567, not 587?

  The diary? Absolutely - despite the two problematic lines.

  Also is there any chance that Hermann hunger will respond to these new revisions?

  I don't know.

  Although I get the feeling R.F will never concede so we'll never see the end of his ideas

  No, Furuli will never concede. He's locked himself into his beliefs and he's gone too far now to back down.

  IMHO, based on what I've observed through his three editions, for every revision he publishes in response to the criticisms he's sustained, he makes his mess worse. In this latest edition where he addresses Hunger's review, I see him scrambling around, backpedaling on his past accusations (which are retained in this book, clear as day!) then making more, further contradicting himself, further obfuscating, and presenting more embarrassing misunderstandings and errors of fact. Hunger has spent a great deal of his precious time on Furuli already and I wouldn't blame him if he decided not to squander any more of it. Besides, with this latest edition, I think Furuli has dug a sufficiently deep pit for himself all on his own.
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  They made me throw away a windchime!!!

  by quellycatface in

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  i had a lovely mirrored windchime in my house.

  my study conductor told me it attracted deemunz and i threw it in the trash.

  i've since bought another.. what's the reasoning behind that idiocy??

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  I always loved my wind chimes - even as a loyal dub. I didn't care what any busy-body brothers thought. If I lived in Thailand or somewhere like that, I may have been more cautious about having them because of their common religious use there and the wrong message it might send out, but otherwise ... pfft, I like them, I'm having them, so sue me. I loved my stick incense too.