Fine story, thnx for sharing.
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How a Gay Jewish Boy from New England Came to Be and Leave the JWs (and what he did next)
by CalebInFloroda inborn in cambridge, ma to a liberal couple that escaped the conservative south, my parents raised me better than to become a jehovahs witness.
funny thing was they got mixed up in it first.. while that is a story for another time, i myself had to go along as the third of five children in my family.
dads job transferred him to texas and my mom worked fulltime herself, but eventually we found ourselves drinking the kool-aid of ambiguity intolerance and full-fledge belief that the bible was literal fact and that salvation was found only by those who were smart enough to enter the confines of the watchtower.. its weird how many people claim they fear children raised by two gay parents will grow up to be gay.
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The Treasures of Nimrud
by fulltimestudent inin happier days, the discovery of these treasures could delight the eye.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcfxv7jo04.
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The Biblical Archeology Society has assembled an overview of their previous reports on Nimrud. The link is:
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The Treasures of Nimrud
by fulltimestudent inin happier days, the discovery of these treasures could delight the eye.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcfxv7jo04.
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The above destruction in the view of the Biblical Archeology Review:
Assyriologist Echart Frahn, said in Yale News that, 'any major destruction at Nimrud or other ancient Assyrian cities in Iraq “would be one of the worst cultural heritage disasters of all times.”'
The building destroyed was, the "ninth-century North-West Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at the ancient Assyrian site of Nimrud." It survived for near 3000 years only to vanish in the cultural wars of the twentyfirst century.
The overview continued:
The ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud (known in antiquity as Kalhu) lies in the Nineveh plains on the northeast bank of the Tigris River, 20 miles from Mosul in northern Iraq. When King Ashurnasirpal II ascended to the throne (r. 883–859 B.C.E.), he relocated the royal court from Assur to Nimrud, establishing it as the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and rebuilding it completely, with lavish temples and a palace funded by his successful conquests. Many of the reliefs and statues excavated from Ashurnasirpal II’s Nimrud palace are now on display in the British Museum and elsewhere in the world.
I suggest that this loss, to our knowledge of the past, can only be compared to the crazed destruction of Graeco-Roman temples by the crazed Christians of the fourth century CE.
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A savage look at Aussie Politics
by fulltimestudent inif you're not up on aussie politics, then this may serve as a backgrounder:.
the hitler role is supposed to be the current prime minister, tony abbott.
abbott spent three years doing nothing but denigrate the previous labour government.
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and, a similar satire on Australia's housing bubble:
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A savage look at Aussie Politics
by fulltimestudent inif you're not up on aussie politics, then this may serve as a backgrounder:.
the hitler role is supposed to be the current prime minister, tony abbott.
abbott spent three years doing nothing but denigrate the previous labour government.
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If you're not up on Aussie politics, then this may serve as a backgrounder:
The Hitler role is supposed to be the current Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. Abbott spent three years doing nothing but denigrate the previous Labour government. He spliced into a populist nerve, that is that the electorate is rather pissed off with pollies, and he won the next election hands-down.
But from he who is given much, much will be expected. And, now is popularity has fallen badly.
Australia may be heading for lean times.
2007-8, Aussie iron ore companies unilaterally doubled the price of iron ore to China, setting off an Aussie boom, and telling the Chinese (rather superciliously), " You want to be a market economy, well this is a lesson in how it works!" Haha! In a few thousand years of market experience, when it may have been the world's largest economy, the Chinese have learnt a thing or two about markets. When their protests did not work - they paid for what they wanted, but quietly set about finding alternative suppliers. Having alternatives in place they started to downsize their Aussie purchases and the price has collapsed back to the level of 2007-8. Big trouble now, everything may be going down the dunnyhole. Hope not - I live here, but this humourous video pokes some fun at Abbott, and the way he's run his government.
Maybe is all karma- smile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIYorl3vEk
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http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/04/tony-abbotts-downfall/
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Jehovah's Witnesses ... Proclaimers of "soon, very soon" since 1879
by jwleaks inthe first edition of the watchtower magazine, july 1879, made the following comment on page 5 regarding how "soon" the end of this system will come:.
exactly 136 years later the latest edition of the watchtower magazine, july 2015, (paragraph 3) made the following comment on page 15 regarding how "soon" the end of this system will come:.
jehovah's witnesses ... proclaimers of "soon, very soon" since 1879.. .
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But isn't that the same deception that was used in early Christianity?
Luke 21:37 NIV:
32 “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
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The Treasures of Nimrud
by fulltimestudent inin happier days, the discovery of these treasures could delight the eye.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcfxv7jo04.
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But now - contemporary religion has destroyed the place where they were found.
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The Treasures of Nimrud
by fulltimestudent inin happier days, the discovery of these treasures could delight the eye.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcfxv7jo04.
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In happier days, the discovery of these treasures could delight the eye.
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Polytheism in the Book of Daniel, a late second temple religious document
by fulltimestudent inas jehovah's witnesses we committed ourselves to a blind belief in a monotheistic judaism that was automatically transmitted to a new religious organisation, started (we were taught) by jesus.. that's the premise which this thread will discuss.
i suggest that sufficient evidence is available to throw doubt on both those beliefs.
so this thread will argue (over about a week-hopefully) that:.
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There's not much more to be said, jhine.
It is difficult to know the personal conceptual view of 'God' held by any ancient writer. We may have a glimpse of how the Daniel writer saw God by closely examining the detail in the vision he imagined. Considering the likely late date of the book of Daniel - we would have to examine the books of Maccabees and the Dead Sea Scrolls, to observe other posibilities for changing concepts of God
TTTE may have approached this discussion as JWs often do, when talking to other (non-JW) believers and the argument gets difficult for them, they resort to arguing about words (it could be called, obscuration, which can have the meaning, 'to cloud over' grin!).
The discussion has been helpful in another sense, also, we can see the lack of logic in the concepts of God held by the witnesses. Stating that they are monotheists, and condemning 'polytheism,' they nonetheless believe that Jesus is 'a god.' Which leaves them in the precise position of most other polytheists by conceiving of 'Supreme Gods' and 'lesser gods,' just as (to use my previous illustration) Zeus is senior, in Hellenic thought, and Dionysus is lesser.
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For anyone seeking more information on the Canaanite God, El, there is in the JWD files an informative conversation between Mebaqqer2 and Leolaia, in a thread entitled, "Israelites so easily influenced by foreign Gods. Why?
The link is: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/220295/israelities-easily-influenced-foreign-gods-why?page=1&size=20
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Billed (in the west) as the world's strangest marathon - A North Korean event with over 600 foreigners
by fulltimestudent inmost may not want to enter, but over 600 non-nk did and it was won by an american:.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3035662/soldiers-watching-high-fiving-fans-ban-cameras-north-korean-marathon-inside-world-s-strangest-road-race.html.
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Camera were banned, but some seemed to have escaped that ban.
This seems to be a Russian video, posted on Youtube: