i watched this on bravo last night.
so what's yer favorite movie for spookiness on halloween?.
creature: "i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine.
I finally managed to see 'The Ring' (Japanese version) last night.
The rest of the family had gone to bed, it was quite stormy outside so I turned all the lights off and started to watch it.
I knew it was beginning to creep me out when I had to turn the lights up a bit half way through the film. Thought it was really good and would recommend it. It was a good change to some of the special effects type horror films out recently.
i watched this on bravo last night.
so what's yer favorite movie for spookiness on halloween?.
creature: "i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine.
dr - 28 days later is on my want list.
nilfun - those are two of my faves.
I also like The Wicker Man and Jacob's Ladder.
i watched this on bravo last night.
so what's yer favorite movie for spookiness on halloween?.
creature: "i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine.
Valis,
I'll let you know when I've seen it at the weekend. I was just told by a friend that the Japanese version was better.
i watched this on bravo last night.
so what's yer favorite movie for spookiness on halloween?.
creature: "i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine.
Love horror films. I have this one to watch this weekend. Don't know what it's about and I bought the Japanese original rather than the Hollywood remake.
Alien terryfied me when I first saw it - but I was only 13 years old!
i am a jehovah?s witness that has had a lot of doubts the past 5 or 6 months.
i don?t know where to turn or what to do.
i have given my all to jehovah and am scared that if this is not the truth then where will i go.
Welcome to the forum What The!
Here are a couple of websites I found helpful when I left the Watchtower society.
http://www.geocities.com/osarsif/index2.htm
Enjoy!
can someone find the link to the thread with the latest illustration of armageddon?
i need to take it to my children's psychologist.
Never seen that first picture either - it's a disgrace.
Wouldn't the kind of destruction depicted in these pictures kill most, if not all, JWs as well. The dead look like they're about to rise up and wreak havoc in a George Romero zombie movie.
i took another exam this morning and passed it (despite being destracted from my one night of revision by a programme on 'centrefolds' last night .
070-229: designing and implementing databases with microsoft sql server 2000 enterprise edition.
070-315: developing and implementing web applications with microsoft visual c# .net and microsoft visual studio .net.
Very well done Simon.
You're also very close (I think) to becoming an MCDBA. I think you just need the database admin exam. But very well done. The MCSD course is much harder than the MCSE.
http://members.aol.com/ps418/dan.html
failed apocalypticism: the book of daniel
the book of daniel is cited by apologists and conservative christians as an example of fulfilled prophecy.
Devon - good article!
If you read Daniel chapter 11 up to verse 39 it's a very detailed description of the Syrian Wars up to the desecration of the temple by Antiochus IV Epiphanes in December 167BCE. Unfortunately for Daniel from verse 40 on he tries to move into the area of real prediction and fails miserably. There was no third Egyptian war and also he gets the death of Antiochus completely wrong.
In fact most of this chapter isn't really prophecy at all. Like most apocalyptic writers of the time, including writers of many of the dead sea scrolls, he thinks he is living in the latter days and applies previous bible prophecies to his time. Although Numbers 24:24 was written about mercenaries from Kittim (Cyprus) in the Negev fighting against Assyria, Daniel applies this verse as being fulfilled when the Roman fleet defeats the Seleucid fleet in 168BCE.
He also wrongly applies the stories of Nabonidus' 7 years of illness in Tema to the more famous Nebuchadnezzar. He even repeats some of the lines of the prayer of Nabonidus in chapter 5.
i've learned a ton on this forum and elsewhere which pretty much disproves noah's global flood to me personally?.
long before this as a dub though one thing always bothered me about the account and how unreasonable it seemed even if you discount the animals.. .
noah had three sons in 600 yrs (noah got it even less than me), his sons did not have any children before the flood.
Those who say they were built after the flood by Shem or Melchizidek don't mention how that's only two or three centuries after the flood tops, and how could Egypt have furnished the Pyramid builders with 100,000 men every three months if all human beings were destroyed by the flood only two centuries before?
Biblical chronology says the flood happened about 2350BCE. Egyptian chronology gives us the date of 2604-2581BCE for the reign of Khufu (Cheops) when the Great Pyramid of Giza was finished. The Great Pyramid was built just over 200 years before the supposed flood of the bible. The Egyptians have no record of this flood event and the pyramids show no sign of any damage that would have been caused by this catastrophe. Here are just a few events that occured before the supposed date of the biblical flood. 3372BCE the first date of the Mayan calendar. 3000BCE the Phoenicians settle the eastern Mediterranean coast. 2697BCE Huang-ti dynasty established in China. 2500BCE Knossos built by the Minoans on Crete. The Minoan empire thrived for almost 1000 unbroken years until the explosion of the volcano on Thera (Santorini) destroyed it. There is no geological evidence for a worldwide flood but plenty of evidence for local flood disasters. Before the end of the last ice age a land bridge existed between Asia and North America allowing humans to migrate to the American continent. As the ice glaciers started to melt around 9500BCE then sea levels worldwide began to rise. One such local flood event occured at the Black Sea around 7500BCE. The Black Sea was much smaller fresh water lake at this time as can be seen by ancient beaches and water channels 150m below the present day surface. Mollusks discovered on these ancient beaches are freshwater varieties and are carbon dated to around 7500BCE. The earliest dated salt water varieties are dated to 6900BCE. As the glaciers of northern Europe melted the Mediterranean Sea level rose until it started to pour over the natural dam of the bosphorus turning the fresh water Black Sea lake ino the salt water sea we have today. This killed all the fresh water species in the lake and displaced humans living by the ancient coasts. It is well known that river basins are subject to continual flooding and modern dams are built partly to stop these catastrophes. The Nile and Mesopotamian basins were no exception. So it's no coincidence that the earliest flood legend is Mesopotamian. In it Uta-Napishtim tears down his reed house (common in Mesopotamia at the time) and builds a reed boat to escape the flood.
how many of you believe in the adam and eve story?
how many of you believe the bible explanation as to ...why we are suffering and dying?
to begin with, the legend of
SJ,
I've appreciated your comments. Again looking at Geneis 2:14 I see some translations say the Tigris "flows east of Assyria", some say the Tigris "runs eastward to Assyria" and some e.g. the Revised Standard Version say the Tigris "runs along the east side of Asshur". Of course I'd prefer to use "runs along the east side of Asshur".
But rivers do change their courses over time. I've found a map in the book 'Babylon' by Joan Oates which shows the courses of the Tigris and Euphrates from the 3rd millenium BC compared to modern times, and they are quite different. I'll just quote a little from the book:
"Archaeological surveys and historical sources both confirm this pattern of shifting water-courses and associated concentrations of population... It is clear too that at no time did the Euphrates occupy one single channel. In the earliest period for which we have evidence there seem to have been three major branches running through Kish, Cutha and Jamdat Nasr, settlement having been heaviest along the easternmost branch. By the 3rd millenium the Kish channel was undoubtedly the most important, just as Kish was the major city. The earliest documentation for the then apparently minor Babylon branch comes later in the 3rd millenium; it was not until the end of the 2nd millenium that this channel became the most important of the Euphrates courses. It remains today an impressive river, although the main Euphrates channel now flows even further to the west."
