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  The Global Flood

  by coldfish in

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  i've just read an intersting article on the flood to do with dates and whether is was truly global or a regional flood.. http://www.commentarypress.com/essay-flood.html.

  my father used to be an elder for many years and the flood was one of the things that made him walk away not just from the jw but also belief in the bible.

  he was hung up on issues like the flood taking place about 3500 bc and how that fit in with the pyramids.. i don't know much about egyptian history or the ages of the big pyramids, but his reasoning was if the flood wiped out every human on earth except noah etc then at 3500 bc there were only 8 people on earth.

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  But I think He was precise enough to catch our attention.

  Well there's your answer folks, the Almighty was precice enough to get our attention. Well done God for nearly getting it right.

  Is anyone else seeing in their minds the bit from Life Of Brian, where the mob is chasing Brian through the market asking for a sign?

  Show us a sign, oh lord!

  Silence, shallow one, has he not already given us the Sandal?

  Follow the Gourd!

  Look how he has arranged the heavens so that they almost line up every now and again! Now that's a sign!

  ig.
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  The Global Flood

  by coldfish in

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  i've just read an intersting article on the flood to do with dates and whether is was truly global or a regional flood.. http://www.commentarypress.com/essay-flood.html.

  my father used to be an elder for many years and the flood was one of the things that made him walk away not just from the jw but also belief in the bible.

  he was hung up on issues like the flood taking place about 3500 bc and how that fit in with the pyramids.. i don't know much about egyptian history or the ages of the big pyramids, but his reasoning was if the flood wiped out every human on earth except noah etc then at 3500 bc there were only 8 people on earth.

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  iggy_the_fish

  ditto, nice post City Fan.

  a christian - you need to read City Fan's post carefully and make sure you understand it properly. No planet is exactly a sphere, and no planetary orbit is exactly a circle. When you see figures for diameters on websites, you're looking at averages and approximations - NOT exact numbers. When you quote them here as exact numbers, you just look silly. Abaddon's right on this one, and you're just going to have to swallow it at some point I'm afraid!

  The sun-moon diameter ratio is APPROXIMATELY 400, NOT EXACTLY 400. Please stop saying that it's exactly 400, based on approximations you've lifted off websites.

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  Eddie Izzard is a God!

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i can't be the only eddie izzard fan out there!

  some of his bits: .

  "here we go: don't do bad things, only do good things.

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  naaah, only joking...
  
  It absolutely cracked me up when he did this "Just heard Englebert Humperdink died" after the interval of one of his shows. Actually, it sounds a bit sick just written here in cold black and white, but it was very funny - trust me. One of those things where you just had to be there I suppose. He kept it up for about 15 minutes, with the "only joking - no seriously" hand gestures.
  
  Jesus - I wish I hadn't started this now! I'm trying to describe a visual gag on a message board. D'OH
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  Eddie Izzard is a God!

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i can't be the only eddie izzard fan out there!

  some of his bits: .

  "here we go: don't do bad things, only do good things.

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  I just saw a news report saying Englebert Humperdink has died....
  
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  Read the bible to your girlfriend and avoid late night TV.

  by IronGland in

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  if you are courting, be determined to remain chaste, even when talking on the phone.

  an engaged christian woman named leticia says: "my fiance and i have read together bible-based articles on staying chaste.

  we appreciate the way they have helped us maintain a clean conscience.

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  "You can successfully expel unclean thoughts from your mind by dwelling on upright things."
  
  There you go lads, stop dwelling on your upright thing and start dwelling on upright things instead.
  
  IG.
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  End of the World

  by jwcurious in

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  i'm new here, i married a jw and i have just started attending the meetings, and it confuses me alot.. but back to my question, my grandmother once told me that jw's in the 50's proclaimed the end of the world and sold all their personal belongings and went up on a mountian and waited for god, has anyone else heard of this?

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  garybuss - Seriously?!? They sat in a coffee shop and awaited the final mighty wrath of the Ancient of Days?
  
  Blimey O'Reily, that's proper nuts!
  
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  APOSTATES SLOGAN------------------

  by vitty in

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  -----------someone was going to an assembly to picket, and asked you to write an slogan which would really make a witness think or question what would you write?

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  "YOU ARE NOW READING APOSTATE LITERATURE" Not very constructive I know, but should freak a few out! ig.
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  Say Something Jehovah's Witnessy........

  by minimus in

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  i know there's no such word as "witnessy" but this can be a fun thread.

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  "...now did Noah reject his assignment,

  since he never had built arks before?"

  Arks! he he he!
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  Dinosaurs, Aliens and the Watchtower

  by figureheaduk in

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  does anybody know what the watchtower's teachings on dinosaurs are (except for the ones that make up the governing body!

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  In the late 80's, I think teachings on aliens went something like:

  The test of Universal Sovereignty (TM) (i.e. whether we follow Satan or Jehovah) is being played out here and now on earth. Therefore, we can be the only fleshly conscious beings in the whole universe (otherwise our little test of sovereignty here on earth could not be described as "Universal"), so there aint no aliens.

  I dunno what the current theory on aliens is though, maybe something equally as daft.

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  Whats the best anti-war film?

  by sleepy in

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  just watched the "thin red line" last night, a very artisticaly shot film with great music, that shows the mental aguish suffered by soldiers in war.the contrast between the peace and beaty of the island and its people and the war being fought makes you wonder what war is all about.. it makes me wish that people would sit down and think about what they are actually doing when they talk of sending people to kill for their country..

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  Apocalypse now (I love the smell of napalm in the morning!) of course.

  How about "Oh, What a Lovely War"? Haven't seen it since school, but I remember enjoying it then. Must see it again sometime.

  ig.