Posts by googlemagoogle

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Oh my goodness...it's my birthday!

by TresHappy in

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well actually it's thursday - but i will be off the board for a day or two while i am celebrating!

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alles gute zum geburtstag! herzlichen glückwunsch!

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ok. i "won" a "fully favorable" social security disability claim on august 29, 2005. from there it takes 2 - 6 months to receive a letter outlining just how much i will receive in back pay and in monthly.. today i got an envelope with $29,794.00.

no letter, no nothing!.

oh, my, cawed!.

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jehovah's always blessing his apostates.

congratulations!

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Name one thing.....................................

by defd in

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you like about one person here.

d.

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i like abaddons ability to still sound intelligent while being stoned.

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How do you explain bible prophecies?

by ithinkisee in

you know the ones ... how alexander the great was supposedly predicted in advance .... how daniel interpreted dreams and foretold bablyons destruction ..... how cyrus was named years in advance .... how jesus fulfilled so many hebrew scriptures prophecies ...... how do you explain this?

conspiracy by the early church?

conspiracy by the 70 scholars of the lxx?.

googlemagoogle

especially matthew had the "jehovah's witnesses syndrome" with prophecies. anything about jesus he linked to some OT text, prophecy or not. funny thing is, he even applies some prophecies that are not even in the bible.

anything that happens to you today can be linked to some old bible text. probably also to some book of mormon or quran text. or bagavad gita text. or even to some shakespear text. how often did something happen to you that was similar to a movie you've seen? "wow, that's just like what happened to ... in ...". but is this really a prophecy?

strange how scripture is interpreted that different to a movie.

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How do you explain bible prophecies?

by ithinkisee in

you know the ones ... how alexander the great was supposedly predicted in advance .... how daniel interpreted dreams and foretold bablyons destruction ..... how cyrus was named years in advance .... how jesus fulfilled so many hebrew scriptures prophecies ...... how do you explain this?

conspiracy by the early church?

conspiracy by the 70 scholars of the lxx?.

googlemagoogle

erm.. can you name one prophecy in the OT that points to jesus? can you show me one detailed prophecy that was written in advance at all?

even if - if a fulfilled prophecy would make the bible "true", would a unfulfilled prophecy make the bible "false"? because i know a lot of prophecies that never became reality.

ithinkisee, add this page to your bookmarks: www.skepticsannotatedbible.com - there's a special section for "prophecy".

you may always want to take a look at members.aol.com/ckbloomfld

or better yet: www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/prophecy.html

and another really interesting thing, ithinkisee, which helped me a lot: talk to a jew about prophecies that are supposed to be fulfilled by jesus. this is so interesting and eye-opening. make sure you read this story, if you don't already know it, it might show you what i'm talking about: the messianic rooster - this sure is funny as hell.

i just want to add one of my favourite misinterpretations of jesus-prophecies:

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

this usually is applied to jesus by christians. however, there was no king in isarel back then, there were (supposedly) hundereds of years until the first israelite king appeared (at least according to the date many christians apply to this book) and he definately was not from the tribe judah. and we all learned that judah was not reigning until jesus supposedly came. the scepter departed from judah many times, when assur destroyed jerusalem for example, and later the scepter was taken away at all and never returned, when the babylonians came.

additionally: later in samuel it is stated that jehovah doesn't even want a king for israel. now that's funny, aint it? what's the scepter for then?

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More bones of hobbit-sized humans discovered

by zagor in

more bones of hobbit-sized humans discovered .

by patricia reaneytue oct 11, 9:57 am et .

australian scientists said on tuesday they have discovered more remains of hobbit-sized humans which belong to a previously unknown species that lived at the end of the last ice age.. professor mike morwood, of the university of new england, in armidale, australia, stunned the science world last year when he and his team announced the discovery of 18,000-year-old remains of a new human species called homo floresiensis.. the partial skeleton discovered in a limestone cave on the remote indonesian island of flores in 2003 was of a tiny adult hominid, or early human, only one meter (3 feet tall), that would have walked upright and had a chimpanzee-sized brain.. morwood and his team said it represented a unique species of early humans that evolved to a naturally small size because of environmental conditions and the isolation of the island, which was also home to exotic creatures such as miniature elephants and komodo dragons.. but critics suggested the small hominid was not a new species and was more likely a pygmy human or a creature that suffered from a form of microcephaly, a condition that causes an unusually small brain.. "the finds further demonstrate ...(it) is not just an aberrant or pathological individual but is representative of a long-term population," morwood and his team said in a report in the science journal nature.. chinless wonders.

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And they can determine all this from a jawbone, arm bone and other bones? What other bones?

that's a good question. as i'm too lazy to research at the moment, i'll look forward to tetragod's explaination :-)

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did you kow.....

by mormon 4 life in

did you k_ow that 1 of the gover _ody's left the org he co_verted to lds........sorry my _utt_es are _ot worki_g propley

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the church's that are found by man and not by GOD will fall(drop)

hmmm. so whe_ will that happe_? is there a_y timespa_ for the fall? _ecause the catholic a_d orthodox churches, the jews, the muslims, the _uddhists, the hi_duists a_d what _ot have _ee_ here for quite some time _ow...

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DO said:

by googlemagoogle in

do said, 20 years ago some 10% of raised young witnesses left "the truth".

i agreed.

50% too many that stay.

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I guess the kids in my congo are just too spineless to make a stand...

it's hard to grow a spine when growing up in the "truth". and it's even harder when you first realize that.

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To what extent do JW believe in Ghosts/demons/wicked spirits

by gaybeat in

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i'm pretty confused by the fact that my mom says jw do not believe in ghosts, yet a sister commented about seeing things flying inside a householder whom performed witchcraft.

to me it was sort of hinting to ghosts or demons are visible to the eye or maybe it was bats?

also i remember one time in bible study, someone was saying how wicked spirits were bothering a family, and so they had to burn all their books on harry potter, and other ghost stories and after that the spirits stopped.

googlemagoogle

exactly. they just dont call em "ghosts" because it sounds too childish. as if "demons" doesn't...

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DO said:

by googlemagoogle in

do said, 20 years ago some 10% of raised young witnesses left "the truth".

i agreed.

50% too many that stay.

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DO said, 20 years ago some 10% of raised young witnesses left "the truth". now it's about 50%. that's 50% too many he said.

i agreed. 50% too many that stay.