jehovah's witnesses claim no one is disfellowshipped for pursuing higher education.
somehow it seems there must be some halfwit sorry excuse for an elder somewhere who personally felt threatened by over educated young whippersnappers and decided to mark every nerd he could point his sweaty little finger with.
I don't know for America, but I can say in France, I never see by myself (since 1990) this staying away for high studies to be actual. I think this advice was never really followed by french JW. (All the JW I know, and was able to do it, made at least three years of University).
It's impossible to not make university here. Without high diploma, you can just live under a bridge. Or you have to be manual!
does shunning accomplish its objectives:.
make the person repent?.
deter others from committing similar offenses in the future?.
Hell, with all the weirdness coming out of WTHQ these days, it's like they're practically begging the faders, fakers, and fence-sitters to f**k off.
And they are begging the partakers too, as they call them mentally ill :)
physicists study famous historical myths for hidden truths.
the truth behind some of the worlds most famous historical myths, including homers epic, the iliad, has been bolstered by researchers who have analysed the relationships between the myths characters and compared them to real-life social networks..
I don't know why, i can't edit my post :
While writing, I finish my post in french...
the two sentence in french mean
1) link to a full directory of historic texts, and then a lot of ancient one
2) link to a directory of mathematical cuneiform tablet
physicists study famous historical myths for hidden truths.
the truth behind some of the worlds most famous historical myths, including homers epic, the iliad, has been bolstered by researchers who have analysed the relationships between the myths characters and compared them to real-life social networks..
on this subject, hopefully, it exists a lot of site really more serious than the funny zany links of gda.
1) About the sumerian civilisations writings, myths and legend :
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=all&charenc=j#
2) About the babylonian and akkadian civilisations writings, myths and legend (including Gilgamesh) :
http://hudd.huji.ac.il/ArtlidHomepage.aspx
3) About the kassites writings
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ckst/
4) About ancient mesopotamian writings and religion
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/cams/
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/cmawro/
5) About Assyrian writings
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/nimrud/index.html
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/
http://oatp.net/Download_texts/downloadtexts.html
6) About hellenistic mesopotamia writings and religion
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/hbtin/
7) About Hittites writings (in german)
http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/CTH/
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/anatol/hittite/cthtr/cthtr.htm
8) About persan writings :
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/iran/airan/apers/apers.htm
Sans oublier un catalogue assez fourni concernant toutes les périodes historiques, et nottament celles qui nous interessent ici :
http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/index.asp
a blog regularly updated about an impressive amount of university work available about this period :
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.fr/
Et pour ceux que cela interesse un repertoire des productions mathématiques en cunéiforme de ces périodes :
the international pink elephant committee has just awarded the 'watchtower society' the 'pink elephant' award for 2014. .
the committee's press release stated, in part;.
'... usually our ten committee members have to research a number of organizations to determine which one will receive the yearly award.
i stumbled across a scripture today.
it's numbers 13:33 "and there we saw the nephilim, the sons of anak, who are from the nephilim, and in comparison we seemed like grasshoppers, both to us and to them.. now if they honestly believed that they saw the nephilim, it would mean that some nephilim would have had to survive the flood or that the hijinks of the fallen angels before the flood, happened again shortly thereafter.
the only other thing i can come up with is that nephilim was some kind of generic word that implied giant proportions, but not necessarily the nephilim.. comments from the more educated appreciated.. silent.
And yes the library has great books there from Thomas horn and steve quayle.
ok, I see...
i stumbled across a scripture today.
it's numbers 13:33 "and there we saw the nephilim, the sons of anak, who are from the nephilim, and in comparison we seemed like grasshoppers, both to us and to them.. now if they honestly believed that they saw the nephilim, it would mean that some nephilim would have had to survive the flood or that the hijinks of the fallen angels before the flood, happened again shortly thereafter.
the only other thing i can come up with is that nephilim was some kind of generic word that implied giant proportions, but not necessarily the nephilim.. comments from the more educated appreciated.. silent.
Thanks for your input everyone. I personally think the Bible has a bit more credence so as to not be written off as a myth. I approach it as a book of truth and go from there.
Then why you ask first for educated people to answer you ? If you just wanted believer people to answer you?
i stumbled across a scripture today.
it's numbers 13:33 "and there we saw the nephilim, the sons of anak, who are from the nephilim, and in comparison we seemed like grasshoppers, both to us and to them.. now if they honestly believed that they saw the nephilim, it would mean that some nephilim would have had to survive the flood or that the hijinks of the fallen angels before the flood, happened again shortly thereafter.
the only other thing i can come up with is that nephilim was some kind of generic word that implied giant proportions, but not necessarily the nephilim.. comments from the more educated appreciated.. silent.
There are several archeologist on utube
Stop utube, read books....
i stumbled across a scripture today.
it's numbers 13:33 "and there we saw the nephilim, the sons of anak, who are from the nephilim, and in comparison we seemed like grasshoppers, both to us and to them.. now if they honestly believed that they saw the nephilim, it would mean that some nephilim would have had to survive the flood or that the hijinks of the fallen angels before the flood, happened again shortly thereafter.
the only other thing i can come up with is that nephilim was some kind of generic word that implied giant proportions, but not necessarily the nephilim.. comments from the more educated appreciated.. silent.
Certainly feel free to continue telling me that it's all lies and fables.
cofty didn't say it's lies or fables, he says it's myth. It's something totally different!
With me you will have a lot of book to read, my dear.
You can read this three books of the french (christian) anthropologist René Girard, who explain very great the power of the myth on a civilisation. There is no civilisation, even now, without its own foundation myth!
2. Things hidden since the foundation of the world
3. The violence and the sacred
The reading of these three very interesting books, will make you stop to think that myth are lies!
(you can read long excerpts of these books on amazon)
Do you think the Watchtower will arrange a low interest loan for me?
You'd better go at the bank ask the more expensive renewal credit : the interest rate will be cheaper...
