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  Noah's Missing Dove, Tower of Babel and Sumer

  by doubtful in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was reading genesis again today - chapter 8 and 9. and here are two additional curiosities i found now that the blinders are off.. 8:12 - apparently noah releases this mischevious explorer dove, who in verse 12, ends up never coming back.

  this raises three questions.

  for one, why would noah have to send out a bird three times to explore for dry land in order to see if it was safe to exit the ark?

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  The tower of Babel- full of holes?

  by highdose in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was thinking the other day about the tower of babel ( like you do) somthing that always puzzled me about reading the account in our modern day times is that we have today buildings that would have been vastly taller than the tower of babel.

  even if purely because the materials needed to build modern sky scrapers have to be light in order to acheive that height.

  accient heavy bricks just wouldn't have done it.. just why was god so threatened by a building???

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  The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories

  by RunningMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  over the years, i have posted all of the chapters from my atheist's book of bible stories on this site.. however, since the original posting, many of the chapters have been polished and updated.. the complete book is now available for downloading, if anyone is interested: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qwpjol.

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  What to do - my heart is broken - I feel like a hollow shell ....

  by muslima in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  nothing in side.. i will give you all the short storyl i was married to an elder - had 3 beautiful chilren -- after 17 years of mariiage -- i couldn't take it all any more.

  i bailed when my youngest was 11, 13 and 16.. it was my intention to be no religion at all.

  i abhor organized religion.

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  Black Man

  Bumping it back up because I have been wondering how this has turned out.
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  No wonder most of of you guys think us jw's are idiots

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as a teenager back in the 1970's i once asked the question, how can they declare peace and security if the king of the north [soviet union] is to storm with many chariots?

  i got the "what kind of question is that?

  " response.. then in the 1980's i said "if it wasn'nt for the 1914 generation dying off, i don't see the slightest indication that babylon the great is going to be destroyed anytime soon.

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  Ever read back your own posts and thinking WTF?

  by DeWandelaar in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as time goes forward people tend to change... expecially if you get out of a cult.

  your brain for some reason gets de- and reprogrammed and you get other insights and new opinions.

  you become a other human.. when reading back some of my previous posts (of about a year ago) i could not help but have a wtf-moment... i even felt a sudden way of "shame" of all the bullshit i was writing.. if you want to read some of mine just check my posts of about a year back.

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  That's called GROWTH. Nothing to be embarrassed about.
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  What's With INVISIBLE ??

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the 'dubs' came by today just as the wife and i were on the way out.

  we chatted a few moments and the two guys wanted to know if i had any questions about the bible.

  so i asked them to drop by in a day or two and they left me with two thin magazines and a book they jokingly referred to as "the gold nugget.".

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  Excellent post!
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  Governing Body member Sam Heard at our Assembly

  by problemaddict in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  nice enough gentleman.

  the parts were pretty watered down.

  mom asks him if he is ready.....did he clean off all the dirt?

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  Black Man

  What mind-numbing brain-dead style anecdotes. And to think I used to lap up these kind of examples that Herd used. And like JWFacts said, what morbidly disturbing examples to use. And the audience laughed............DISTURBING.
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  From Noah's Ark to Australia - Awake! Jan. 8, 1969 pp. 5-8

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, how did the kangaroos get from noah's ark to australia?

  i'd never found any references in watchtower litteratrash, until i stumbled upon this farticle "from noah's ark to australia" in the 1969 awake bound volume.

  most of it is wordy and rather pointless, so i only typed two middle subheadings for consideration:.

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  exJW Psychology 102--How to Ask a Question When Questions Aren't Allowed

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  now that enough time has passed and i've moved away, i think i'm overdue to share some of the stories from my fade.

  i've mentioned some of this before, but i think it deserves its own thread.. we all would like to be able to freely ask questions about jw beliefs and get our family and friends to really think about certain questions.

  however, when you're a baptized jw, you really can't ask any good questions or you'll get the "apostate" label slapped on you!

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  Black Man

  Love this thread!