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  Pagan Origins

  by tinker in

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  2. beliefs

  a currently active jdub acquaintance occasionally stops by to say hello and we share a wee dram or two.

  after the general small talk of new cars, exotic vacations and sports we often get into the "why" we are xjubs.

  he is a well educated publisher who holds a phd in child psychology.

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  Like baptism, for example?

  You can't know how you're example is true!

  For example, it's very interesting to read all the books of the British assyriologist Theophilus Pinches, especially this two ones :

  1) The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia

  2) The Religion Of Babylonia And Assyria  

  and the transcript of a conference he gave : Assyro - Babylonians and Hebrews - Likenesses and contrasts

  
  

  With these books, you understand very well, than almost all about the hebrew religion, came from the babylonians... like Abrahm came from Ur...

  And then, ironically, all about christianity, and about JW doctrins, have, in fact, pagan origins !
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  New layout feels very chaotic

  by EndofMysteries in

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  i don't really know how to describe the feeling but i'll give examples, but the new layout to me makes it feel tiring being on for too long.

  1. there is the top menu, then a big add between that and the next part, a big ad between the bottom and where you reply, then on the right column you either have 2 ads on top or some type of summary, then ad, then either related posts or other areas.

  there are no borders, the adds have the same color and text type but larger font, and it all seems chaotically merged into one thing where you need to constantly sort out what you are viewing.

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  Couldn't there just be the thread topic shown rather than the topic and lines of text??

  J-DUBBED, for that, you just have to select "none" in the "snippet" part at the top right of the list of topic
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  Contact me for forum issues

  by Simon in

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  2. announcements

  i am going to switch the site over in the next hour, if you have any problems then contact me ([email protected]) and include as much information as possible about what is wrong, what you were expecting, what browser and version you are using etc... i'll also be monitoring the logs to proactively spot issues.. please be patient - i may be working on issues in preference to replying so don't get antsy if you don't get an immediate reply :).

  unless there is a catastrophic problem i'll probably try and work through any issues but if things do go pear shaped when i might switch back to the old site.

  if this happens then anything posted on the new one *may* be lost so hold off posting anything important without keeping a copy just in case.. .

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  I have the same kind of problem in the WYSIWYG editor.(on chrome)

  The smileys have a strange behaviour too. You put one, And they repeat automatically when you start a new line.

  At the end, you must to make the formatting of your post at the end, if you don't want to struggle with it.
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  Poster country flags and privacy

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  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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  2. bible

  just came in from france... .. .

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  coalize

  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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  2. beliefs

  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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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does shunning accomplish its objectives:.

  make the person repent?.

  deter others from committing similar offenses in the future?.

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  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

  1. social
  2. current

  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/