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  Babylonian Business Records

  by VM44 in

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  i have read that thousands of babylonian business records exist on clay tablets, and that these alone provide proof that the year 607bce is not what the watchtower claims it is.. since business is conducted on a day to day basis, these records should provide a continuous record of each babylonian kings reign.

  is there a summary of the babylonian business records?

  in particular, a timeline showing the number of business tables in existence corresponding to various kings and dates within a king/s reign?.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  As far as I know (I never was that avid a reader of WT stuff) an attempt at refuting the tablets was in the 1981 Book Let your Kingdom Come

  *** kc p. 187 Appendix to Chapter 14 ***

  Business tablets: Thousands of contemporary Neo-Babylonian cuneiform tablets have been found that record simple business transactions, stating the year of the Babylonian king when the transaction occurred. Tablets of this sort have been found for all the years of reign for the known Neo-Babylonian kings in the accepted chronology of the period.

  From a secular viewpoint, such lines of evidence might seem to establish the Neo-Babylonian chronology with Nebuchadnezzar?s 18th year (and the destruction of Jerusalem) in 587/6 B.C.E. However, no historian can deny the possibility that the present picture of Babylonian history might be misleading or in error. It is known, for example, that ancient priests and kings sometimes altered records for their own purposes. Or, even if the discovered evidence is accurate, it might be misinterpreted by modern scholars or be incomplete so that yet undiscovered material could drastically alter the chronology of the period.
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  Did the bookstudy overseer ever phone you for your "time" and nothing else?

  by truthseeker in

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  this happened fairly recently.

  my book study overseer who never calls if i am absent at the meeting, will call me with clockwork regularity at the beginning of the month and ask for my field service report.

  has this ever happened to you?

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Lately yes, thats the only reason. Other elders supposedly care more and are always making sheperding calls.

  In this one congregation where I was an MS, the reporting was so bad that the secretary easily had between 20-30 publishers a month who failed to report right away. My job as assistant was to bug those people and get their time etc. before the 6th. I felt like suck an annoying bugger. I was grateful to this one hard-line CO that took over. He said it wasn't the secretary's job or mine to go chasing people around but the book study overseers. Not fun looking like anal time cops is it?
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  DNA - belief destuction

  by donkey in

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  the single largest reason to decimate my belief in jw?s and all biblical faith occurred when i discovered some facts about our cells.

  specifically a part of the cell called mitochondria.

  mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because their primary purpose is to manufacture adenosine triphosphate (atp), which is used as a source of energy that the cell uses.. as humans one inherits one?s mitochondria only from one's mother, this finding implies that all living humans have a female line of descent from a woman whom researchers have dubbed mitochondrial eve.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  FunkyDerek: Nice explanation of why "Adam" and "Eve"didn't necessarily have to hook up.

  But I get your drift LittleToe, so you might like pondering over the chromosome counts between humans and other primates. All the great apes apart from humans have 24 chromosomes (24 paternal + 24 maternal). There's a pretty good case for human chromose 2 being a fusion of two of those 24 chromosomes, resulting in our set of 23. (they found matchups in banding patterns)

  Usually when you have gametes (sperm and ova) with unbalanced numbers of chromosomes (like 23+24), it results in less fit offspring. It would hinder successful reprodcution. But if both the male and female had 23, the line should easily take off. That's one very likely factor in the speciation of humans from other primates. So along the lines of your other question: When did those two hook up?

  Now I admit I haven't kept up to date since I graduated, so I defer to FunkyDerek or others who might have more recent info that could reinterpret/correct all of the above.
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  The horror of blimps

  by pr_capone in

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  i posted this about 2 years ago and just came across it again today.

  its definately worth re-posting.

  last week while travelling i stopped at a zany brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  That was one side-splitting story! I want a blimp now!I wish I read it yesterday night. It woud have made me feel a whole lot better after that long messy day with the flooded basement.

  I'm so glad you reposted it for us newer ones here.
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  DNA - belief destuction

  by donkey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the single largest reason to decimate my belief in jw?s and all biblical faith occurred when i discovered some facts about our cells.

  specifically a part of the cell called mitochondria.

  mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because their primary purpose is to manufacture adenosine triphosphate (atp), which is used as a source of energy that the cell uses.. as humans one inherits one?s mitochondria only from one's mother, this finding implies that all living humans have a female line of descent from a woman whom researchers have dubbed mitochondrial eve.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Seattleniceguy

  Sorry for the delay. I didn't check back on this thread till this morning.

  Lynn Margulis is the person who proposed the modern take of endosymbiosis. She laid out the evidence for it, in her book Symbiosis in Cell Evolution published in 1981 by Freeman, New York. There was a second edition of the book around the early 90s. I know she has a more recent book out called Symbiotic Planet but I haven't read it yet.

  But if you have access to the journal Science, then you may find the following paper interesting, since its based on more recent evidence.

  Mitochondrial evolution. Science 283 :1476?1481 (1999)
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  9/11 Conspiracy?

  by mkr32208 in

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  i don't usually go in for conspiracy stuff in fact i'm usually something of a cynic!

  however this has me interested!

  have any of you seen the documentary "9/11 conspiracy, in plane sight?

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  According to his book, there were several occassions where we could have prevented 9/11. Sheer bureaucracy helped allow 9/11 to happen.

  Well a sore point with me is how the Minnesota FBI had Moussaoui and his computer in late August, but they had their requests to access his computer files turned down, not once but twice, by FBI headquarters and the Department of Justice.
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  Internal Reaction to Monthly Awake

  by ezekiel3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well the news is getting around within the congregations about the awake!

  going to a monthly beginning 2006.. some reactions from active jws:.

  one sister actually dances a jig.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  My sister whose also a pioneer knew about the change for several weeks. Her words:" I'm glad. It's time I can spend reading something else, like some of the classics" - She be blood after all.
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  Wilma Flintstone, is She Hott or What?

  by prophecor in

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  the new mrs. flintstone just got a perm, along with jane jetson and velma from scooby doo............ & they look mavalous!!

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Well, I think Meg (from Disney's Hercules) has all those other animated chicks beat. She's witty, got attitude, shows a level headed cynicism (but has alotta), and is a classical beauty.
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  DID OUR PARENTS REPLACE BIRTHDAY OR CHRISTMAS GIFTS WITH ANYTHING ELSE?

  by diamondblue1974 in

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  what about it...i know for me i got gifts throughout the year but i didnt get as many as my friends did on their birthdays etc....what about you...do you or did you replace b/days and christmas gifts or celebrations with anything else whilst being a jw and in particular anything as personal....

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Never got any replacement xmas gift.

  But my mom did secretly go around the birthday bans for about 6 years in a row. The month always varied and the gifts were usually not that expensive, so pop never suspected. But no matter how small, they were ultra cool cuz it was forbidden.

  It stopped once we were in middleschool though.
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  The Moral Bankruptcy of the Governing Body!!!!!!!!!

  by frankiespeakin in

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  do you feel the gb is morally bankrupt?

  to lie to those that put great trust in them is a sign of moral bankruptcy.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I once thought the GB were deluded, maybe even crackpots, but at least they were sincere in wanting to help others. But I no longer have that illusion:

  • they equate being judged a sheep (ergo saved) with how well people treat/take care of them materially - What self serving god-complexed power mongers!
  • being able to own property was more important than having Mexican publishers use the Bible at the KH - interesting "spiritual" priorities
  • even more sickening was the double standard between what was prohibited in Malawi and overlooked in Mexico - Then they even hypocritically become an NGO for the UN.

  Whatever reasons people posit for the actions of the GB, I see one common imperative - Their wants and needs take precedence to those of others, and others are just a means to their ends.