Posts by coalize

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Myths and Legends

by gda in

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..

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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 :

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dccmt/

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Watchtower Society wins the 'PINK ELEPHANT' award for 2014

by Esse quam videri in

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.

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I really don't know why, but this pink elephant will soon become my avatar in a lot of site! :)

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Is this proof that the flood was regional?

by silent in

jw
friends

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.

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And yes the library has great books there from Thomas horn and steve quayle.

ok, I see...

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Is this proof that the flood was regional?

by silent in

jw
friends

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.

coalize

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?

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Is this proof that the flood was regional?

by silent in

jw
friends

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.

coalize

There are several archeologist on utube

Stop utube, read books....

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Is this proof that the flood was regional?

by silent in

jw
friends

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.

coalize

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!

1. The scapegoat

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)

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Just in from France!

by Atlantis in

just came in from france... .. .

.. .. atlantis!.

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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...

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Is this proof that the flood was regional?

by silent in

jw
friends

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.

coalize

Comments from the more educated appreciated.

I'm not sure i qualify, but you can read the book of Israel Finkelstein, he is overqualified.

"The bible Unearthed"

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Poster country flags and privacy

by Simon in

the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

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Also, I can even see a kind of tradition or rite of passage developing, whereby whenever someone with the generic flag has fully extricated himself from Watchtower and is no longer afraid of or care about, being shunned or DF'd he goes into his profile and changes the flag from being generic to being his actual flag signalling to all that he is finally free, having fully escaped Watchtower's stateless "no part of this world" prison and rejoined the real world society of his homeland.

I really like this idea

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what DO current Jws say at doors?

by sowhatnow in

i mean, anyone with a real bible and half a brain doesn't need to log onto a website and read nonsense.. its not a bible study when you present someone a book or magazine to read along in.. its not the gospel, when its not about jesus.

so what is being pushed in the service meeting to be done at doors?.

and with what result expected?

coalize

At least something who didn't change since 20 years : the shitty sample presentations who can't work, never!