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  Looking For Your Words of Wisdom and Encouragement

  by new boy in

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  this one seems to sum up what religious ideologies have given the world.. i have very deeply looked into the endless destruction and genocide that religious ideologies and dogma have inflicted upon human beings.

  i have seen how damaged human souls are, how deeply depressive, meaningless, and prone to exploitation are the lives that many live.

  religious dogma is at the root of this epidemic meaninglessness.

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  I have twisted the meaning of 1 Cornthian 1:22 The Jew 9relgious people) require a sign... yeah the supernatural... the Greek (thinking people) seek wisdom. Yeah you keep doing that and anything not proven that seems beyond the natural world IS part of the natural world you just don't understand it yet wait a few decades.
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  How did ancients know entire Earth was covered by water?

  by Bad_Wolf in

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  entire world used to be covered by water.

  i am not talking about the 'great flood', but on earth's formation itself.

  the bible talks about earth being only water and then god making dry land appear.

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  I don't know who says the world was covered with water 4.4 billion years ago but that is unlikely since the world was in formation.. think cascading impacts and a molten mess. Also 4.2 billion years ago any dry land was obliterated when the moon was formed by collision ...

  The author of Genesis 1 uses a Greco-Mesopotamian model which always starts with water
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  A weird nut funny voice in the JW dramas

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

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  many who have been a jw since the 70- 80s remember the jw dramas coming out yearly.. today they are movies but to the topic.... many of the voice actors are the same.. one however is plain odd.. lets list his roles as i remember:.

  the exodus drama: janes.

  gideon drama: an anger worshiper of baal.

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  BTW you can add Doeg the Edomite to the list of Joel Adams i noted that today. (I noticed the drama voices since I have downloaded then and fused them together with audacity for my wife (still a witness) and find many of them very humorous. (Try the channel Watchtower Radio on youtube).

  Anyway i notice that Job in the new RNWT audio has a reader for Bildad is the same reader as the drama actor for Joshua Job 8. Wonder what his name is. We have already IDed two voices...The voice of Jehovah would be nice.. he had a weird accent through the bass effect
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  The Dead Sea Scrolls - did the Qmran sect influence Jesus and the early Christians?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the small sect that lived in the qmran area (and who 'owned' the documents known as the dead sea scrolls), is important if we want to understand the religious thinking in the form of judaism practised in the first century ce, and therefore the starting point for the development of early christianity.. what did jesus know about the essenes who were at least in some sort of association with that sect?.

  if early judaism was truly monotheistic, how can we relate some of these thoughts to that concept?.

  from document iiq17 viii: "they bless and praise the god of gods ..." (note the translators(geza vermes) use of a capital g, why did he decide to use a capital.

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  I will go a step further and say that the beginning Essenes produced Daniel and the Book of Enoch both works influenced Christianity
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  A weird nut funny voice in the JW dramas

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
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  many who have been a jw since the 70- 80s remember the jw dramas coming out yearly.. today they are movies but to the topic.... many of the voice actors are the same.. one however is plain odd.. lets list his roles as i remember:.

  the exodus drama: janes.

  gideon drama: an anger worshiper of baal.

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  HowTheBibleWasCreated

  Maxwell Friend is Moses.. l
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  A weird nut funny voice in the JW dramas

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
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  many who have been a jw since the 70- 80s remember the jw dramas coming out yearly.. today they are movies but to the topic.... many of the voice actors are the same.. one however is plain odd.. lets list his roles as i remember:.

  the exodus drama: janes.

  gideon drama: an anger worshiper of baal.

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  Thats him joel adams lol... So he did give a talk
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  A weird nut funny voice in the JW dramas

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many who have been a jw since the 70- 80s remember the jw dramas coming out yearly.. today they are movies but to the topic.... many of the voice actors are the same.. one however is plain odd.. lets list his roles as i remember:.

  the exodus drama: janes.

  gideon drama: an anger worshiper of baal.

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  Many who have been a JW since the 70- 80s remember the JW dramas coming out yearly.. today they are movies but to the topic.... Many of the voice actors are the same.

  One however is plain odd.

  Lets list his roles as I remember:

  The Exodus drama: Janes

  Gideon drama: an anger worshiper of Baal

  Job Drama: I think Bidad

  In the Elijah drama he is Jehosaphat

  Now in the dramatic bible reading of Job 1,2 he is Satan

  Now many would suggest this guy is dead by now but I don't think he is. See the RNWT audio book of Job has him as athe voice of Eliphaz.

  IF anyone forgets his weird voice check out Job chapter 4 on the audio.

  Now my question is ...

  Whoever this guy is..lol... did he ever give a talk... and did anyone take it seriously.... I never heard this high up brother give a talk and if he had I would have remembered it as a joke!

  Anyone have his name?

  Any talks?

  I give him credit for being creepy.
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  Did Ancient Jewish Worshipers Ever Make Changes to the "Holy' Scriptures?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  if you have the time and the means to visit israel right now, you can see something that few modern people have seen.. at the israel museum in jerusalem, a very special document will be on display.

  the museum's website heading describes it as:.

  genesis retold: an exceptional dead sea scroll.. .

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  Lets answer two points that are wrong:

  1. Have the OT manuscripts been changed.

  Likely. One only needs to compare the LXX to the Masoretic text to see this. While in the past many held the MT to be older now that is slowly falling away. Indeed the Septuagint is shorter in many places and besides that>>>>

  2. The Torah predates written Hebrew language...WRONG! The oldest texts in the bible are from Judges 5 and Exodus 15 and possibly Psalms 45. The former two are in very old Hebrew predating 800 BCE but not going before 1000 BCE. The majority of the books from Genesis-2 Kings shows major Hellenistic influence from the beginning to the end. (Even the creation story in Genesis 2-3 is pulled not from the Epic of Gilgamesh but from Berosses Histories (which uses the Epic))

  I will also mention that the Dead Sea scrolls community were a cult even weirder then Jehovah's Witnesses and their changes to any texts were more messianic and Apocalyptic then anything. The books of Enoch and Daniel were likely from that community.

  As for Hebrew being the original language that is kind of laughable since the older languages are well known.
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  Writing a story

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

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  i was listening to the audiobook of the silmarillion at work awhile ago and noted that the 'creation story' basically included, god, the devil, angels and even a special people (elves).

  (btw gandalf is obviously a jesus-like figure).

  i got to thinking that much of the prose of the bible could easily be reworded.. after all bibles like the world english bible are copyright free.

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  Yeah I forgot about Jefferson. The way he does it makes that book look like the Gospel of Thomas lol. As for living a good life I would think if you remove every reference of God from Ecclesiastes it would be good.
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

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  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  Eividence? Where. All matter, energy, forces are reduced to the biggest jumble of mess called the standard model. It is so bad that the only way it can be explained is using string theroy. So I ask you does God sit around plucking strings and creating a mess? Because that is what our universe (and likely all the multiverse) is a mess.

  BTW this god created the 2nd law of thermodynamics so you CANT live forever lol