Posts by City Fan

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What were you expelled for?

by Joker10 in

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why were you kicked out?

the honest truth.

exterminate ... exterminate ... EXTERMINATE - the Daleks are BACK !

by Simon in

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any other doctor who fans?

the new series is now going to have the daleks back in it .... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3535588.stm.

I've just read this. I can't wait for Christmas Day when the first episode is aired. I'm going to watch it with my 5 year old daughter from behind the sofa! Well I'll be behind the sofa, she'll be o.k. as she has no problems watching Buffy!

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What Country Are You?

by closer2fine in

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for fun: .

http://bluepyramid.org/ia/cquiz.htm.

closer

City Fan

I'm Brazil, apparently!

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Has author Vanderkam ever been quoted by the WTS?

by City Fan in

i don't have access to a watchtower cd but just wanted to know if author james vanderkam has ever been quoted by the watchtower society?

i've just lent one of his books to a witness friend and it may lend more weight to his more critical biblical arguments if he has been quoted by them.. thanks,.

cf.

City Fan

That's great - many thanks Corvin!

CF.

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Has author Vanderkam ever been quoted by the WTS?

by City Fan in

i don't have access to a watchtower cd but just wanted to know if author james vanderkam has ever been quoted by the watchtower society?

i've just lent one of his books to a witness friend and it may lend more weight to his more critical biblical arguments if he has been quoted by them.. thanks,.

cf.

City Fan

I don't have access to a Watchtower CD but just wanted to know if author James Vanderkam has ever been quoted by the Watchtower Society? I've just lent one of his books to a Witness friend and it may lend more weight to his more critical biblical arguments if he has been quoted by them.

Thanks,

CF.

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Contributions? Wait On Jehovah!

by metatron in

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clearly, there is every earmark of financial worries within the watchtower society.. even governing body members have expressed concern about falling contribution levels.

within congregations.

yet, for the faithful, the answer is simple: wait on jehovah.. .

City Fan

Proplog2,

Was it you who predicted that the end would come in 2002? What happened?

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The New Brochure - What are they thinking?

by czarofmischief in

let me just start off by saying that my mother asked me to read the new brochure.

she said, "i expect you will be critical of it.".

i said, "mercilessly so.

City Fan

Just an update on my previous comment about getting the new brochure from my mother.

I was at my parents house last night fully expecting to leave with the brochure. We got talking about who they'd seen at the assembly again. My mother even now has about 6 bible studies and is classed I suppose as one of the 'old-timers'.

She then tells me that all the new publications are rubbish! I got the impression that she feels they are too dumbed-down! Anyway, at least I didn't get the new brochure and I'm now determined to give her some reading material that may at least make her think.

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The New Brochure - What are they thinking?

by czarofmischief in

let me just start off by saying that my mother asked me to read the new brochure.

she said, "i expect you will be critical of it.".

i said, "mercilessly so.

City Fan

Czar,

I too have the joyous expectation of being given this spiritual feast of a brochure by my mother! I went out for a meal at weekend with my parents who were by then halfway through the District Assembly. After a couple of hours of them telling me how many of my ex-girlfriends had become missionaries or gone to Gilead, I'd had enough. (there will be a picture of one of them at the Gilead school in the Watchtower soon apparently!)

I told them I thought Genesis was a best efforts by goat-herders and that was all. So I am now to receive the new brochure which will put everything right!

If I'd not had that last glass of wine I might have kept my mouth shut. Anyway, I'm going to say to her that if she gives me the brochure then she has to read one of my books.

But which one? COC or GTR? Definitely too apostate. What about one of my bible commentaries? Definitely too 'Babylon the Great'. 'The Bible Unearthed' or 'Who wrote the Bible'? Far too 'higher critical'! My books on ancient astronomy and Akkadian texts will be incomprehensible to her. So it may have to be one of my Dead Sea Scroll books, one that has the 587 date in plus a few other things to make her think.

I just can't wait.

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587 BC for Total Dunderheads

by Farkel in

if you're a dunderhead on neo-babylonian history (like me) you've probably remained totally clueless whenever the subject of the chronology leading to back 607 b.c.

since i had nothing better to do today, i decided to finally take the time it takes to understand why dub chronology on that date is wrong.

this piece of information alone should give you a clue about how bored i am!.

City Fan

JCanon,

This must be a record for the most drivel you've ever posted in a single thread.

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587 BC for Total Dunderheads

by Farkel in

if you're a dunderhead on neo-babylonian history (like me) you've probably remained totally clueless whenever the subject of the chronology leading to back 607 b.c.

since i had nothing better to do today, i decided to finally take the time it takes to understand why dub chronology on that date is wrong.

this piece of information alone should give you a clue about how bored i am!.

City Fan

JCanon.

you don't understand the concept of double dating in the first place, so you're not in a position to criticize it

You don't understand astronomy, physics or mathematics so you're in no position at all to analyse these diaries.

It has nothing to do with any planetary references, ONLY LUNAR references

That is exactly what I said you used for your "double dating" rubbish. I said "he ignores every observation in this diary as yet another conspiracy and sticks with the lunar conjunctions which repeat every 19 years".

If you don't cut and paste then you certainly repeat yourself ad-nauseum.

The second thing of note is that any text that is created after the dates in question is easy to fabricate. You seem to think that copying information from old texts accurately and placing them in a new one and then putting a new king's year on the tablet makes it authentic

And what you fail to comprehend is that all these "created" texts follow the known algorithms for the slowing of the rate of the Earth's rotation. So do Chinese astronomical texts, so do Islamic texts, so do medieval texts etc etc. So to suddenly pick up Babylon and then drop it back down in Honolulu is simply ridiculous. How did the Babylonians invent texts that complied with the known rate of decline in the Earth's rotation? It doesn't matter which king is assigned to which year. The texts prove the known algorithms. But as I said your knowledge of mathematics is virtually non-existant so I expect you'll never grasp this concept.

But what YOU have to deal with is that you can get an astronomical program and look up 511BCE, after ajusting the lunar position per line 8 to 4 cubits below beta-Germinorum

It doesn't need to be adjusted. I've explained this to you a number of times and but you just simply don't understand Babylonian astronomy.

Line 8 places the moon 4 cubits below beta-Geminorum, which is not where it is when you locate from Babylon.

You're wrong. This line of the text is perfectly correct and confirms the date of this observation as 22 May 568 BC.

I feel like Einstein when he came out with the theory of relatively (even though it's not accurate, but, same scenario...)

There's nothing like modesty JC!

(BTW, I've tried to be as condescending in my replies to you as you are with everyone else.)