Don't guess many people will spend 7 minutes listening to this, but it does have a certain novelty value, and in view of the epic throwing some light on the bible story:
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Listen to the, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," spoken in a reconstruction of its original language,Akkadian
by fulltimestudent indon't guess many people will spend 7 minutes listening to this, but it does have a certain novelty value, and in view of the epic throwing some light on the bible story:.
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/hear-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-read-in-the-original-akkadian-language.html.
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Are the GB very intelligent men with higher than average IQ? Or are they stupid men who were put in their position by sheer “LUCK”
by John Aquila inare the governing body of the wt wickedly smart with extremely high iq or are they leaders of the wt because they were at the right place at the right time.
(in other words, pure luck )-think lottery.
ive seen them talk in jwtv and you can never convince anyone in the whole world that these guys are in the same category as someone smart or cunning like jim simons who founded renaissance technologies or bill gates.
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Basic education + unsophisticated thinking = A Christian, according to 1 Corinthians 1:26.
(in case you've forgotten that text reads:
For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, NASB )
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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?
by LaurenM indo any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?
even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.
the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.
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Another poster said:
Can you not fathom a being greater than humans that may be millions of years beyond our knowledge?
If he's such a clever bastard, then he should find it easy to talk down to us.
But if you're conceptualising the god of the bible in this statement, then the YHWH/jesus combo god shows a distressing tendency to think on a purely human level. Which of course, is natural, because the history of the YHWY/jesus is totally imagined. Not one of his/her described actions (miracles) can be supported by observation.
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JW's won't like this but the Guardian says, "Now for the good news: things really are getting better"
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/11/news-isis-syria-headlines-violence-steven-pinker?cmp=share_btn_fb.
now for the good news: things really are getting better .
friday 11 september 2015 04.00 edt .
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Its no use talking to the silly buggers -
but you could ask them if they'd really like to live in the kind of world that the early Christians lived in?
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World Wide Construction comes to a Shuddering Halt - Jehovah's Blessing has Evidently been Suspended!
by Slidin Fast inthe chelmsford project in the uk has already come to a halt and every one has been sent home.
the bethel family in london is to be cut by several hundred.
my impression is that most ambitious youngster in the org dream of being involved with the building program.
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DJS: As some have already pointed out, starting these projects without the upfront capital makes no sense. If they didn't have it and hoped to get it, they are financial fools.
Who said they were the brightest of the bunch?
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Xi and the IT world
by fulltimestudent inchina now has more internet users than any other nation.. china had 618 million internet users by the end of december 2013, a 9.5 percent increase over the year before and a penetration rate of 45.8%.
[3]by june 2014, there were 632 million internet users in the country and a penetration rate of 46.9%.
the number of users using mobile devices to access the internet overtook those using pcs (83.4% and 80.9%, respectively).
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The other big news (so far, anyway) is that Boeing will build a new factory in China. (To the disgust of Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, playing his populist card again).
From BBC News:
Boeing will open a plant in China in partnership with state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac).
The new factory will focus on painting and assembling twin-engine 737 aircraft manufactured in the US.
Chinese firms also agreed to buy 300 Boeing jets, in deals worth about $38bn (£25bn).
The announcements coincided with a visit to the US by China's President Xi Jinping, who toured Boeing's Washington state factory on Wednesday.
The plan to open a plant in China has received criticism from the head of Boeing's biggest union and Donald Trump, who is seeking nomination as the Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
Mr Trump said the plant would take jobs away from the US.
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Xi and the IT world
by fulltimestudent inchina now has more internet users than any other nation.. china had 618 million internet users by the end of december 2013, a 9.5 percent increase over the year before and a penetration rate of 45.8%.
[3]by june 2014, there were 632 million internet users in the country and a penetration rate of 46.9%.
the number of users using mobile devices to access the internet overtook those using pcs (83.4% and 80.9%, respectively).
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China now has more internet users than any other nation.
China had 618 million Internet users by the end of December 2013, a 9.5 percent increase over the year before and a penetration rate of 45.8%.[3]By June 2014, there were 632 million internet users in the country and a penetration rate of 46.9%. The number of users using mobile devices to access the Internet overtook those using PCs (83.4% and 80.9%, respectively). (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_China )
So it's interesting to examine the photo op taken during President Xi's West coast of the USA visit.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (front row, center) posed for a group photo with Chinese and foreign CEOs and executives at Microsoft's campus in Washington on Wednesday during an internet industry forum, as part of his first official state visit to the US.
Xi will meet US President Barack Obama later in the week to discuss a range of thorny issues from cyber hacking to the devaluation of the yuan.
In Chinese politics, the positioning of officials in photos is often highly symbolic.
The Chinese leader is flanked by IBM's Ginni Rometty (left) and Microsoft's Satya Nadella (right) - respresenting two of the biggest investors in China among US technology companies.
To ensure that no one, especially American social media companies, forgets the central role played by China's dissent-stifling Great Firewall, which is manned by tens if not hundreds of thousands of online censors, the only other government official in the front row is China's internet czar Lu Wei (fourth from right).
Apple has not invested anywhere near as much as Microsoft or IBM, but China now ranks as its biggest market so CEO Tim Cook also wins a place in the front row (third from right).
Pony Ma Huateng (second from right) is the founder and chairman of China's social and gaming giant Tencent, which operates the hugely popular WeChat and QQ mobile messaging platforms.
Facebook has been blocked on the Chinese mainland for years but co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who has an estimated net worth of around US$37 billion, is reportedly working hard to find a way back in.
He also speaks Mandarin and has an ethnically Chinese wife, which may explain how he squeezed into the far left edge of the coveted front row. Note also the bold red tie - a common trope among senior Communist Party officials in China.
Between Zuckerberg and Xi stand the chiefs of China's two biggest e-commerce titans, testament to the power they wield both personally and professionally.
Second from left is JD.com's Liu Qiangdong. Fourth from left is Jack Ma Yun, the former English teacher from China's verdant Hangzhou in Zhejiang province.
Ma rose to become one of China's richest men after his group Alibaba, which runs the phenomenally successfully Taobao and Tmall online marketplaces, recalibrated the way Chinese shop - and helped them save money in the process. Note he is the only man in the picture not wearing a tie.
Curiously, Lenovo, which acquired IBM's PC business a decade ago to emerge as one of modern China's biggest success stories, only merits a spot in the second row. CEO Yang Yuanqing (third from left, red tie) is now, whether he likes it or not, straddling a sunset industry. -
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World Wide Construction comes to a Shuddering Halt - Jehovah's Blessing has Evidently been Suspended!
by Slidin Fast inthe chelmsford project in the uk has already come to a halt and every one has been sent home.
the bethel family in london is to be cut by several hundred.
my impression is that most ambitious youngster in the org dream of being involved with the building program.
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Do you think that Yahweh is teaching them something ???? ROTFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
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Christian Life and Ministry
by Gorbatchov inof course we were all surprised by the new wts move with the christian life and ministry meeting.. today i googled the term christian life and ministry and got a direct link to evangelical churches.. so, does this mean anything?.
gorby.
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Are we seeing a re-run of the spiritual earthquakes in the Worldwide Church of God, after founder Herbert W. Armstrong died?
Christianity is a joke, is it not?:
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Child care and abortion - two examples of the complexity of the issue
by fulltimestudent inin a perfect world, one would hope that no woman would need to consider an abortion.
there is unfortunately, no perfect world and there does not seem there will ever be a perfect world.
so consider .... 1. a child rape case in paraguay.. ... but the plot unfolding in paraguay is so dark and twisted that it is currently tearing the south american country apart.it began on april 21 when a mother brought her 10-year-old daughter to a public hospital.
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talesin: Is this the photo you were posting, FTS? : )
That's the one, Talesin. and thank you for teaching me something I've sometimes struggled with.
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azor: Dammit you made me cry. My daughter is 6.
Not sure which segment of my post brought you to tears? Possibly both.
But, since putting the information (for this thread) together. I think that the image of the two young girls may be a greater cause of sadness. I (because I'm continually dealing with different cultures in my studies) know better than to impose my cultural constraints on to other people's cultures. And, I also appreciate that visual aids (photographs and film) can misinform as well as inform, but those two little girls will have a lifetime in front of them, tied to a decision that their families have made for them.
At some point they will reach puberty and likely fall pregnant, their still immature (physically) bodies will have to bear the physical strain of the pregnancy and giving birth, bringing the likelihood of physical damage and bladder incontinence, all without the medical assistance taht was likely available to the first girl in Paraguay It is reported that as a consequence, the Ethiopian girls will probably stink of urine and be rejected by their husbands (unless, somehow surgical assistance becomes available), and spend the remainder of their lives in a socially unacceptable situation.
A hopeless, depressing problem for them and for those of us who understand what is happening. The Yahweh/Jesus combo god has afflicted so much sadness on his poor bloody creation, has he not?
