Yeah right, and then Hollywood excreted U-571, a rather revisionist 'recognition' ... It does have a rather impressive soundtrack though.
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Mancunian Mathematician and code breaker ... died 50 years ago today
by Simon inhow times change !!.
alan turing, founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, strange visionary and a gay man before his time died 50 years ago today.. he played a major role in the wwii war effor, being instrumental in cracking the enigma code.. http://www.turing.org.uk/bio/part4.html.
society wasn't ready for his lifestyle though and he ended up taking his own life after establishment harrassment.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/07/manchester_honours_turing/.
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bank/credit-card accespoint in JW-convensionhall
by Ozner inthe 2 jw convension-halls in the netherlands have now a bank/credit-card accespoint to give contribution to the wts with your bank or creditcards.
do you know this happens in other country's?
it is really strange to see that brs&srs are giving donations with their visa & mastercards.
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they claim not to ask for money
Did you ever see this? It's published by the WBTS in English and Spanish but AFAIK it's not generally available.
http://www.angelfire.com/home/cynicus/pdf/CharitablePlanning.pdf
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"British Fine Cuisine"
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A Review By Carl Jonsson Of Rolf Furuli'sBook On Chronology.
by hillary_step inthis may already have been posted, but if not i am sure that carl jonsson will forgive my linking his review of furuli's book from another site,.
http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/furulirev.htm .
best regards - hs.
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Listen boofhead. Finegans's book on chronology is far superior to the Jonsson drivel in fact in regard to Nt chronology he has moved closer to the WT chronology according to his second rdition. In fact Finegan has had both of his editions peer reviewed so when will Jonsson do the same.
I challenged you to indicate exactly where Carl's work deviates from the generally accepted timeframe for the neo-Babylonian chronology and as I expected you didn't come near to answering the challenge. Apparently you do get inspired by my description of your own verbal diarrhea you spout here, notwithstanding the fact that what you designate as 'drivel' appears to be in close harmony with the opinion and writings of what generally acknowledged and peer-reviewed scholars have produced. To illustrate that point I've taken the liberty to pull a few publications of my shelves, some of which have been referred to earlier, and just made a little comparison between the 'drivel' of Carl O. Jonsson, as found on page 235 of the 3rd ed. of The Gentile Times Reconsidered. Even people who are not well versed in scholastic chronology can see that there's virtually no difference between these various learned sources. Oh, and they do recognize the foul stench of the rotten pack of red herrings that you keep dragging around.
Therefore, please enlighten us: what exactly would be the purpose of reviewing this chronology for the neo-Babylonian kings as published in the work of Carl O. Jonsson? Why would any scholar spend more than 0.7 seconds of brain energy to review what is commonly considered as well established facts? Exactly where does the chronology as presented in GTR deviate from what is common acknowledged? If you really want and dare to challenge the scholarly works of Kugler, Thiele, Sachs, Hunger, Wiseman, Walker, Finegan, and many others --- indeed including a mr. Jonsson --- please do so. Don't lie to us by giving the impression that the work of mr. Jonsson is in any way dissonant with all these recognized scholars. You know very well you can not and you dare not either, and therefore resolve to name calling. Is that really the best you can do? I guess it is, since it is exactly what your mindcontrolling cultleaders in Brooklyn have done to those that eventually distinguished the lie from truth.
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GTR-3 HdO-44 HBC CAH-III EB2K4 EWP2K4 Nabopolassar accession year 625 c. 626 626 first regnal year 625 -624 625 last regnal year 605 -604 605 c. 605 605 Nebuchadnezzar accession year 605 c. 605 605 first regnal year 604 -603 604 last regnal year 562 -561 562 c. 561 562 Awel-Marduk accession year 562 c. 561 first regnal year 561 -560 561 last regnal year 560 -559 560 c. 560 Neriglissar accession year 560 c. 559 first regnal year 559 -558 last regnal year 556 -555 c. 556 Labashi-Marduk accession year 556 first regnal year 556 -555 last regnal year 556 -555 Nabonidus accession year 556 c. 556 555 first regnal year 555 -554 last regnal year 539 -538 539 539 Cyrus of Persia accession year 539 539 539 first regnal year 538 -537 538 last regnal year 530 -529 c. 529 GTR-3 The Gentile Times Reconsidered, 3rd revised and expanded edition, Carl O. Jonsson, 1998, p 235. HdO-44
Handbuch der Orientalistik: Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia, vol. 44, Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, 1999, p. x, xii. HBC
Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, 2nd printing, Jack Finegan, 1999, ยง 429-454. CAH-III
The Cambridge Ancient History: The Assyrian Empire, vol. III, J.B. Bury, S.A. Cook, F.E. Adcock (ed.), 1960. EB2K4
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, DVD Ultimate Reference Edition, 2004. EWP2K4
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A Review By Carl Jonsson Of Rolf Furuli'sBook On Chronology.
by hillary_step inthis may already have been posted, but if not i am sure that carl jonsson will forgive my linking his review of furuli's book from another site,.
http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/furulirev.htm .
best regards - hs.
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If anyone has an agenda it is Jonsson and this is plainly evident in the introduction to his editions of GTR. If you have published then you appreciate the importance of a review so get Jonsson off his backside and get it done.
I have challenged you before to discredit a well-known scholar especially in the field of biblical chronology, such as Jack Finegan, to the same extent that you discredit Carl O. Jonsson. You know very well that Finegan and Jonsson agree on the dates and/or periods involved here. And yet you continue to throw mud at Carl and his 'hypothesis', his 'chronology' etc. It only requires a few mouse clicks to see your disgraceful and frankly moronic exchange at Channel C with Carl. It seems your spiel is that by using Carl as a proxy you think you can get away with your mudslinging and highly unprofessional and unworthy behaviour towards all of the generally acknowledged and accepted scholarly work concerning the neo-Babylonical timeframe. Some time ago you were confronted here by a lady going by the alias of Alleymom. Anyone here can lookup that thread and read your glowing defense and repartee of the simple explanations based on your master's writ.
Nevertheless I'm still indebted to you: each time I read your drivel and am confronted with your haughtiness, I bless the day when I left the Watchtower organisation, since your pitiful specimen showing the effects of careful indoctrination and exposure to fundamentalistic megalomania, belongs to the best uncompromising anti-propaganda for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society available today.
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Making 607 crumble
by ellderwho induring my eight month long study with "elder bob" (moms husband) we have batted around many subjects to say the least.
but the one that really stands out is the dreaded date of 607 bc.
im sorry i just will not let up with this date, and him having to prove it can stand.
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Once more the sound of running weaselfeet is drowned out by crickets...
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Good Grief.
by Englishman ini'm absolutely stunned by this.. a bunch of girls - well, 30-somethings anyway - down the pub have admitted to rubbing hemorrhoid cream around their eyes so as to look younger.. apparently, the salve's shrinking properties is great to reduce eye-bags and crows feet better than anything on the market.
it's also extremely cheap compared to facial creams.. anusol rules!.
englishman.
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... rubbing hemorrhoid cream around their eyes ...
Makes me wonder about the 'eye' that gets the regular makeup ...
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URGENT ALERT !!! Please Read
by Amazing inmy e-mail account has been compromised.
as a result, i am no longer getting any e-mail or even junk mail ... so someone is re-directing all my e-mail.
also, some of my e-mail are missing, especially in certain sensitive files.
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Whereas LavaSofts AdAware is pretty thorough in cleaning up an infested machine I'd suggest you ALSO have a look at a programme called Spybot SD. It can be found here. Interestingly enuf it will often find some more critters, even after you've run the Lavasoft thingy. Anyway, I use both. Just my .
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Thanks for the CD, whomever sent it
by Yerusalyim ini received the marley cole triumphant kingdom searchable cd in the mail today...any idea who sent it?
thanks!
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Anyone who wants to share an ISO?
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JWs and breach of private employer info
by journalist ini'm a journalist working on a story about jws who have released to the watchtower society confidential information acquired from their employers about fellow members.
this could be medical information or any other private information that an employee believed revealed sinful behavior and had to be reported.
the story will look at the employer's exposure in such instances and how to guard against it.
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The key points being:
But if a Christian feels, after prayerful consideration, that he is facing a situation where the law of God required him to report what he knew despite the demands of lesser authorities, then that is a responsibility he accepts before Jehovah.
There may be occasions when a faithful servant of God is motivated by his personal convictions, based on his knowledge of God?s Word, to strain or even breach the requirements of confidentiality because of the superior demands of divine law.
Although 'a Christian' is required to keep the congreation clean, the responsability for him breaking the law of 'lesser authorities' is on him, and on nobody else. So the elders, the congregation, and most certainly 'Mother', all wash their hands in innocense, and praise in solemn unisono any 'Christian' ratting on his fellow-'Christian' for his efforts to keep up with 'superior demands of divine law'. They'll probably visit him in prison once or twice...
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