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  Why isn't the story of SAMPSON quickly and clearly regarded a myth?

  by Terry in

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  judges chapter 15:.

  14 when he came to lehi, the philistines shouted triumphantly at meeting him.

  then jehovahs spirit empowered him,+ and the ropes on his arms became like linen threads that were scorched with fire, and his fetters melted off his hands.+ 15 he now found a fresh jawbone of a male donkey; he reached out and grabbed it and struck down 1,000 men with it.+ 16 then samson said: with the jawbone of a donkeyone heap, two heaps!

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  The story is a chronogical mess for me in trying to date certain texts in my book...Samson is very plainly a spin off of Hercules and his association with the 'Sea Peoples' is a good clue to the origins of the story. Some date it pre exiclic but I can't... to many Greek ideas and parallels in it.. which places it after 332 BCE (Alexander's conquest) Yet is follows the other judges perfectly which tell me the other stories like Gideon, Barek etc ae much older and the text was onlt finalized later.

  Also a BIG shocker in is the following chapter (17) a man steals from his mother the exact same amount of money as Samson was betrayed for... is he Samson's son?.... This story is set before where the Samson story is set chronologically... What is worse the following story Judges 19-21 is set as an apoligetic to David-Saul and follows from 18.... (The worst part of the bible to read.)

  I see no historical personage for Samson.... (Son of Sun)
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  DINOSAURS - What do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe?

  by Bloody Hotdogs! in

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  2. beliefs

  as part of my deconversion catharsis, i have been building a(nother) website to highlight some of the more ridiculous jw beliefs.

  im a looong way from done, but i wanted some early feedback on one article: dinosaurs.

  http://www.jwbeliefs.com/dinosaurs/.

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  Actually a few years ago an elder showed me the picture in the bible story book (1978) with the ark floating on the waters and people drowning.... there is an identicle picture in the 1983 You can enjoy life on earth forever-brochure... only in that picture two dinosaurs are seen...... So in 83 they felt dinos died in the flood!
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  Need a 1961 green JW bible.

  by dogon in

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  i have a family member that will not believe that the jws put a dinosaur in the front cover of thier bible.

  i am looking for a copy that has that map inside front cover with the raptor.

  if anyone has one they can sell let me know.

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  I have to ask the obvious. Why is a dinosaur on the inside cover of the bible so amazing? Dinosaurs are all through other books of the WTBTS...
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  Lets list everything that has pagan origins!!

  by song19 in

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  i have a feeling i am going to have to explain to my jw folks why i have decided to allow my children to participate in holidays at school.

  theyll probably be wondering too why i will get together with our non jw family for the holidays.. .

  we know jws avoid holidays because of their pagan origins.

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  Carrying the bride over the threshhold I understood to be about cleaness... imaging a 15ht century house with a literal threshhold... yeah.. it makes sense lol
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  Scientists Should Not Dismiss Genesis So Quickly

  by Chris Tann in

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  nasa discovery proves the bible scientifically accurate.

  the debate.

  for decades there has been a long standing debate between science and religion as to the validity of the biblical genesis account of creation.

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  This is a very tiresome thread to read through. It has already been debunked on here so I wont try. However I will point out that you failed to show how chapter 1 and 2 of Genesis fit together....since they dont. 2:4a-2:4b are a breaking point and a beginning of a new story.
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  As I move further away from theWT.....

  by Viviane in

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  i've, over the years, looked into many religions.

  obviously, from those that have seen me post here, i've become an atheist simply because i couldn't find any reason to believe in god.

  recently, though, over the past few months, a new change has started.

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  The progressive movement from religion to facts I enver understod...I was always taught JWs were fscts.. thr creation book etc... whenI found out facts were wrong...well//// no religion... so forget that BS
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  Muslim refuses to stand for the National Anthem

  by designs in

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  cleveland cavaliers basketball player dion waiters stayed in the locker-room during the national anthem at a recent game.

  asked why he responded 'i am rededicating myself to my muslim faith'.

  another basketball player recently refused to stand for the anthem while on the court and was fined by the nba, dion chose to remain in the locker-room.. have you heard of followers of islam refusing to stand for the national anthem or to say the pledge of allegiance on religious grounds.. .

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  Good.. fainalyl we can sperate Entertainment religion and politics.. Somene has sense... no wait he's a muslim...sad
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  Looking Back, Do You Ever Think You Loved Jehovah God?

  by minimus in

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  as a child, i was made to believe that i loved my mom and family and close friends but that i loved no one more than jehovah god.

  did you ever really love him?.

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  I never loved him I just saw him as a father.

  At 22 I ALMOST had sex with my then fiance....oh no I thought I was condemned to Gehenna... BUT.... I kept on until almost 32 before I foudn out Jeblooper is a fantasy,,,,
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  Im still young (19)....just reading Crisis of Conscious

  by Blackfalcon98 in

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  2. experiences

  hi guys, ive finally got a copy of coc from my local library, im on page 120ish and im really enjoying it!

  the thing that gets me now that im enlightened is how little the rank and file know about anything this organazation does!

  everything is so secretive and covered up behind a curtain.

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  I stay away from this book. Ray Franz was a born again.. thats means he left one cult and joined another... however in reading it I noted the history of JWS in the 1940s-1970s are 100% accurate
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  If you have been inactive for over a year can you get disfellowshipped?

  by cognac in

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  i've read conflicting things so was hoping to get this clarified.. .

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  I was inactive for 1 1/2 years and argued with 3 elders and was not dfed BUT I ut those elders to shame... two of them no longer serve (They know creation is a lie.. tjhey could not argue facts and left me alone... I have 2 brtohers and 3 sisters in my hall I kow are unbelivers and active today... I plan to bring more out slowly ...