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  A Seal Ring bearing King Hezekiah's found in Jerusalem excavation, with ankh symbol and winged sun

  by fulltimestudent in

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  from a story in the jewish press:.

  quote: "the city of david excavations of the jerusalem hebrew university on mount ophel, at the foot of the southern wall of the temple mount compound, have yielded a sensational discovery: a seal (bulla) with the name of king hezekiah (727-698 bce).".

  "king hezekiahs bulla was discovered in a garbage heap that was dumped during or shortly after hezekiahs time, from a royal building that was used to store food.

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  Hezekiah King of Judah
  

  1 And it was in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, the king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz the king of Judah, became king.

  2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

  3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like all that his father David had done.

  4 He abolished the high places, and smashed the monuments, and cut down the asherah, and crushed the copper serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the children of Israel were burning incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

  Except on his ring, where he kept a sneaky Ankh , just in case!!
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  I never understood field service...

  by Joliette in

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  it was always boring, and i was afraid that i was gonna get attacked by a dog.

  i actually almost got attacked by a rottweiler once.

  i didnt get paid for it, nobody listened to us, i actually had guys make passes at me while i was out doing street corner, i was always afraid i would get grouped and raped.

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  Kaik it sounds like you were in paradise...Carpathians..summer morning..a good friend...a nice pack lunch...hot cup of tea..mmmm..I can just smell it❤
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  Feeling rejected

  by Esmeralda001 in

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  just a little disclaimer: english isn't my first language (i'm from france) thus the poor writing skills.here is the situation: i'm not a jw.

  however, i'm in the process of becoming one.

  in fact, i'm studying with the jw's, and i'll proceed to become an unbaptized publisher as soon as i finish the first book.to make a long story short i was introduced to the truth when i was 18een.

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  What an odd post. You claim difficulties with language "influent, 18teen" then make grammer 'mistakes'only an extremely fluent people make, knowing they do so eg "good of a person". Oh well, I guess you have your reasons. Also does any newb JW attempt to dress "sensually?" too?

  Ps it's 5 yrs to become an MD
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  Feeling rejected

  by Esmeralda001 in

  1. jw
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  just a little disclaimer: english isn't my first language (i'm from france) thus the poor writing skills.here is the situation: i'm not a jw.

  however, i'm in the process of becoming one.

  in fact, i'm studying with the jw's, and i'll proceed to become an unbaptized publisher as soon as i finish the first book.to make a long story short i was introduced to the truth when i was 18een.

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  What an odd post. You claim difficulties with language "influent, 18teen" then make grammer 'mistakes'only an extremely fluent people make, knowing they do so eg "good of a person". Oh well, I guess you have your reasons. Also does any newb JW attempt to dress "sensually?" too?

  Ps it's 5 yrs to become an MD
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  YMCA ? Are we allowed to go there or not?

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  half of our congregation goes there to work out because of the good pool facilities and prices, and the other half think that it's wrong due to it's old charter.

  but no one is enforcing the wrong or right of it.

  i'd be interested in knowing how this is being applied worldwide.

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  Young Men's Christian Association.....and though shit if two pioneers couldn't be a member who the hell could!

  I'm still pissed about it!

  Exactly Gordano - at least a little bell went off in your sensible head though - definately an improvement on my numbskull!
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  YMCA ? Are we allowed to go there or not?

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  half of our congregation goes there to work out because of the good pool facilities and prices, and the other half think that it's wrong due to it's old charter.

  but no one is enforcing the wrong or right of it.

  i'd be interested in knowing how this is being applied worldwide.

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  they are not upheld by the true God, who told his servants: "Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. . . . Therefore get out from among them, and separate yourselves." (2 Cor. 6:14-17)

  Boy I'm slow. It's literally taken me 40 years to see the absurdity of the JW take on 2 Cor 6.14. They were talking about becoming yolked with PAGANS, NOT CHRISTIANS. Oh yes, I must NEVER go to the YMCA, I might meet a...,er...Christian!!! I cannot believe how barmy it is!!!!

  IF...you ACCEPT the ransome sacrifice of Christ you are...wait for it....a Christian!!

  So what if some of the doctrine you may have confused or different...NOONE is a perfect Christian!!!How did I allow those cruel dividers of men turn me against other proffessed Christians, after all I cannot read someone else's heart & mind who was I to judge!
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  new religious wave of young? 90 baptized at assembly

  by prologos in

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  isis has it's young warriors, jw?

  last weekend in a "developing country", at a ~ 3500 attendee assembly, 90, mostly young were baptized, ratio 46/44 female - male ratio.

  internet savvy population.

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  Which country.

  How developing.

  I mean in some developing countries over 90% of the population don't have electricity.
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  Sometimes I think Jehovah's Witnesses overuse the word "historic"

  by slimboyfat in

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  at the beginning of the may broadcast stephen lett said this was a historic broadcast.

  he explained that every member of the governing body had hosted a show and they were starting over again.

  that was all the explanation he gave.

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  Don't you mean histrionic.

  "The sky is falling in!"
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  Sometimes I think Jehovah's Witnesses overuse the word "historic"

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  at the beginning of the may broadcast stephen lett said this was a historic broadcast.

  he explained that every member of the governing body had hosted a show and they were starting over again.

  that was all the explanation he gave.

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  I do remember the publications using the words..

  How so? though.

  Teadious....
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  FB experience

  by WasOnceBlind in

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  so on last saturday, one of my good child hood friends (i consider her like a real sister) who is da posted on facebook that she was going to be having a birthday party for her son.

  well another person we grew up with immediately posted a comment about how she should know better then to celebrate bdays and referenced 2 peter 2:20-22 (about being like a dog turning to its own vomit).

  i countered with with luke 11:37-49 and didn't hear back.

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  I wonder what day is Jehovah's birthday - you can be sure he's killed someone on his birthday. He's done it practically every other day of the year.

  Boy I'm bored.....