did anybody see 20/20 investigation discovery earlier this evening?
it was all about kelly jarka who is serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife.
took place in murietta, california.
Drugs, failing business, money from criminal means, I think infidelity.
What not from a fine brother like elder Kelly Jarka....... impossible ! are elders are never crooked businessmen, adulterers, drug takers and alcoholics.
Are organization which is Jehovah's , is perfectly clean from these kind of people.
You may find though these kinds of individuals inside Christendom's group of religions because they don't have god's guidance and blessing.
i haven't attended the meetings on a regular basis,since about 2008. a meeting period in about 2 years.. .
probably 6 months ago i ran into a brother, whom was working at a local grocery store.
he was making a delivery as a vendor,somehow we got to talking,religion came up and he found out i am a jw, though i told hime i no longer attend.
I NEVER thought I'd look at some of these people as nuts,crazy,or just plain silly.
Nah their just poorly educated people who have been emotionally manipulated and exploited by a devious and conniving
religious publishing house.
Stupid could also be used depending on their expressed actions.
Most JWS have been cultivated into organization by using tactics of fear and most remain there as well under that same premise.
Here's another fact from the bible itself
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Ah ... 15 cubits is only @ 300 inches or 25 feet.
It only took 25 ft. to cover the mountain tops did it now
I didn't say that civilizations existed throughout the flood, this would not be possible.
Your comment if any has no relevance, I just pointed out a fact, not a hypothetical suggestion but fact
with evidence to back it up. I'm beginning to think you have some sort of mental problem.
Do you accept the known fact of human ignorance in mankind's past history ? ( Truthseeker )
It doesn't matter if you shift the date over 50 years or even a 100 years.
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I like to hear your explanation of why civilizations existed right through the flood of Noah .
Your just reiterating the mythological stories of the ancient Hebrews, thats not an answer to anything.
Its derisive but not an answer.
There are flood myths from many different cultures. A common theme in the stories is the idea of punishing mankind for his sins while saving just enough people to start a better race.
China
We can see those elements in the Chinese myth where Gong Gong, so ordered by the head of the gods, created a flood as a punishment for human misbehavior. It lasted 22 years, until the hero started to dam the waters. The hero was killed for this act, but from his corpse sprang a son who finished his father's project.
Rome
The Greco-Roman story, recounted by Ovid, is another tale of collusion among the gods to punish evil humanity. Jupiter persuaded Neptune to flood all the earth except for the summit of Mt. Parnassus. There Deucalion and Pyrrha arrived by boat. The childless couple repopulated the earth by throwing their "mother's bones" (stones from "mother" earth) behind them. The stones became people.
Babylon
A Babylonian story with modern theme tells of the attempts by the gods to limit human population. Their third attempt was a flood, against which one of the gods (Enki, who sided with mankind more than the others), told Atrahasis to build an ark and load it with his family and animals.
When the flood ended, Enki made some women barren and created stillbirths to prevent further overpopulation problems.
Similar stories come from all over the world, leading many to conclude that there must have been an actual catastrophic flood. (www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/199604/0276.html) Geologic evidence points to the fact that the Mediterranean basin, once dry, underwent a major upheaval and flooding. Maybe it didn't last the 22 years of the Chinese version; maybe it didn't even last the 40 days of the Genesis version, although that would certainly be possible; maybe it only lasted the seven days of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but I'm sure, if it's anything like what we're going through now, it felt like an eternity without sunshine.
I think the whole story is story out a flood because these people experienced floods every so often. They associate in their minds as floods being the wrath of god for misdeeds.
Correct thinking Frankiespeaken, just as earthquakes, lightening, thunder were perceived to come from gods from various
cultures around the world, devastating floods were also perceived to come from gods as acts of vengeance and anger.
The fact that there is evidence that civilizations carried on right through the supposed time of the flood, brings credence that the
the story of the flood was just a story. The reason and purpose of the story was to accomplish a sense of relevance to the god
these people were selectively worshiping.
One thing that religionists never acknowledge in acceptance is mankind's history of ignorance about the world they were living in.
Which says quite a lot about their own intellectual honesty when you think about it.
Gods played a much needed role for the ancients because they gave understanding and reason for things which there was no knowledge of.
The Sun being the mostly chosen object that was deemed a god. The moon being the newly born son of god .
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