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  Poster country flags and privacy

  by Simon in

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  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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  Worthing, West sussex?
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  Your explanation for a total contradiction in the New World Translation.

  by Johnny Brown in

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  "for if you publicly declare with your mouth that jesus is lord,+ and exercise faith in your heart that god raised him up from the dead, you will be saved.

  10 for with the heart one exercises faith for righteousness, but with the mouth one makes public declaration+ for salvation.

  11 for the scripture says: no one who rests his faith on him will be disappointed.+

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  So many ex JWs become atheists

  The real question is : how it's possible than some ex-JW don't become atheist? They doesn't have enough of these deplorable brainwashing fairy tale that are all religious spiel ?
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  Just in from France!

  by Atlantis in

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  just came in from france... .. .

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  are they saying you could ask or apply for a loan? 

  
  

  No, what's about, it's you can propose them a no-interest loan.
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  Has anyone ever gotten disfellowshipped for going to University?

  by SonoftheTrinity in

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  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.

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  coalize

  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! 
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  Is shunning effective?

  by rebel8 in

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  does shunning accomplish its objectives:.

  make the person repent?.

  deter others from committing similar offenses in the future?.

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  coalize

  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 :)
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  Myths and Legends

  by gda in

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  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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  coalize

  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

  
  
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  Myths and Legends

  by gda in

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  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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  coalize

  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

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  2. beliefs

  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

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  2. 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

  1. jw
  2. 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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  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?