Posts by erynw

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The Ten Plagues of Egypt

by LtCmd.Lore in

edited to remove my book of bs quote.

here are the ten plagues:.

1: water turned to blood.

erynw

You do not think that the Exodus account has any grounding in historical fact?

Yep, you are 100% correct. I do not.

As the OP stated, the inconsistencies are too great to make sense.

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The Ten Plagues of Egypt

by LtCmd.Lore in

edited to remove my book of bs quote.

here are the ten plagues:.

1: water turned to blood.

erynw

There are records that are very suggesitve.

Weren't we supposed to burn them, or at least get rid of them? Oooh boy, I do crack myself up sometimes.

Burn, you need to read what you are quoting. You can't, even though the Society does it on a regular basis, pull information out of context and present it as fact. And I quote from the link YOU provided:

Fringe historians often compare the content of this papyrus with Exodus, the second book of the Bible [1]. Similarities between Egyptian texts and the Bible are easily found, and it is reasonable to assume Egyptian influence on the Hebrews, given their at times close contacts. But to conclude from such parallelisms that the Ipuwer Papyrus describes Egypt at the time of the Exodus, requires a leap of faith not everybody is willing to make.

And here's the footnote reference for the above:

[1] Influenced by the revisionist historians of the second half of the 20th century who could not find any archaeological proofs for the historicity of the earlier Bible stories, their value as historical records came to be doubted. Before that time most Egyptologists, having grown up in the Christian West, accepted these accounts as being, at least in part, historically correct.

Sttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerike one!

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Fun with "IFs"

by 5thGeneration in

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if you carried a cigar in your mouth but never lit it would you still be judicial?.

if you masturbated to an x-rated movie at a doctor's office for a sperm sample would you lose your privileges?.

if everyone sat for the national anthem and you stood would it be wrong?.

erynw

If I tell a married elder to kiss my ass, and he does, is that adultery?

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Merry Xmas!

by bluebell in

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friends

i do not post very often anymore but wanted to say merry xmas and happy new year to you all

erynw

Merry Christmas back atcha!

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GREETINGS, WISHES, AND LOVE TO MY JWD FAMILY!

by Utopian Reformist in

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dear family:.

i want to apologize for my long-term absences.

i miss communicating with all of you.

erynw

Peace to you and yours Mario.

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Great Film Lines !!!

by cluless in

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friends

from throw a long rope .. ....if its black white ..right wrong or something in between if theres a wrong you fight it.

if you dont you become a part of it.. that aint so hard to figure is it?.

any great lines fom films come to anybodys mind?.

erynw

Yippee-ki-yay, Mother f***er!

Bruce Willis - Die Hard

(kind of loses something with the asterisks)

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Something(s) I always wondered about...

by KenseiShimonzu in

was,if jehovah was going to bring about armegeddon to destroy the "wicked"humans who may live an average of 75 yrs +/-,who may not even know of him in their lifetime..why would he allow satan,who was directly associated with him,to exist for as long as he has?..seems to me,it would have been an instantaneous destruction because he already knew better..it would have been worse than blasphemy.. he even allowed him complete control over the earth to do as he wishes...also,if he isn't destroyed at some point,how would humans know?

no human can see spirit creatures..therefore there could be no proof that he didn't exist anymore(i.e a body).

another thing that has always bugged me about that whole scenario..why would "jehovah" the supreme creator,have the need to justify his right to rule,to a lesser spirit creature that he created...i liken it to a son telling his father that he knows better than the father about how the household should be run....sort of a moot point.

erynw

Could be, my opinion of course, that the bible is a collection of fables and fairy tales and that's why it makes no damn sense.

(Your actual mileage may vary, deity may not be exactly as described or even exist, actions may be misrepresented, misattributed or lied about, obfuscating poetic language may be used in descriptions, words such as 'anything', 'proof', 'know', 'true' may be misused/redefined.)

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Church of the Nazarene (edit to FRIENDS OF THE NAZARENE)

by Gringa in

does anyone know when this church was founded and who founded it?

this is a spin-off church from the jws.

i had almost forgot all about this group.

erynw

The carbon based unit that gave birth to me was (I assume still is) CON. They're not like JWs. Only thing I really remember weird about them, but is probably common place to a lot of two-faced religious entities is, they were not allowed to go OUT and see R rated films, but it was ok to rent them and view them in the provacy of their own home.

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