Hang on he did act before the Tower of Babel was completed did he not ?
Dead right! That's very obviously why it didn't get as far out as Voyagers 1 and 2.
(Just joking!!!!!!)
fourty years ago nasa sent two probes that were to go on a mission ,voyager 1 and voyager 2 in two trajectories through our solar system getting what information they could from the planets they passed close by.. 40 years later they surpassed all expectations and are still sending signals back to earth.. voyager 1 has actually gone into what is termed interstellar space that is it has exited our solar system free from the constraints of our own sun having travelled some 13 billion miles from earth.
voyager 2 which was on a different trajectory will soon itself leave our solar system and go into interstella space having travelled some 11 billion miles from earth so far.. both of these satellites/probes carry messages from the world of humans / governments to whoever might find it (alien life forms ) if they exist and find these probes.. my attention is drawn to the bible account of the tower of babel which really couldn`t have been that high seriously.and yet jehovah god felt threatened by what man could achieve if they had one universal language ?.
what must he be thinking now i wonder ?.
Hang on he did act before the Tower of Babel was completed did he not ?
Dead right! That's very obviously why it didn't get as far out as Voyagers 1 and 2.
(Just joking!!!!!!)
a fair bit of time was spent discussing the (one) scripture in the bible that "proves" that when the bible touches on scientific subjects, it is absolutely correct.
this was at the most recent clam meeting this past week.
from isaiah, the reference to the "circle" of the earth.
Until into the 20th Century, the more fundamentalist elements amongst South Africa's Afrikaner population believed Isaiah 40:22 "proved" the earth is flat.
After all, every bloody fool knows that a circle is flat!
Chad Morgan!!!!
Don't forget Geoffrey Jackson!
i've been trying to get my hands on this book and read a review that i thought was interesting.
an anonymous person reviewed the book on barnes and noble and said .
"jonsson book deals with babylonian tablets.
The problem here is that Carl Jonsson don't know Akkadian. Also, some of these tablets that he refer to has problems
To put things very mildly, this reviewer casts grave doubts on his own abilities, before picking apart anything Carl Johnsson may have said!
just finished a 7-day cruise from nyc on norwegian cruise line (ncl- gem).
this is my first cruise in 30 years, so my past experience does not count.. overall, a great experience.
ncl does a great job.
It has never actually appealed to me, but then each to their own! That being said, my wife and I have agreed to next year join a friend on a cruise to mark his 60th birthday.
I didn't see Kevin Bloody Wilson's name mentioned on anywhere?
The "Deep things of Jehovah" would make Jack and the Beanstalk seem a very intellectual work!
(Although when old Crazy Fred was at large, some of their utterances did at least have some appearance of depth).
a new article by s. sparrow, published today at ajwrb, investigates dr. joachim boldt, one of the watchtower's “bloodless medicine” experts.
a notorious “medical pretender” who has exposed jw's to additional needless risk.
watchtower continues to cite this source, and fails to expose him as a fraud.
Yet another example of the WTS's use of psuedoscience.
Yet another case of unless it's corroborated from another source, disregard anything you hear (or read) from that lot!
since leaving the jws i have become fascinated by the lds church, because of the similarities both organisations have.
in reading x-mo forums i get the impression that they tend to be not as bitter and as twisted as xjw.
this is surprising as i think the lds is a bigger con than the jws.
While I have known a number of LDS people, I have yet to meet an ex-Mormon, so cannot comment there.
From all that I have been able to glean from observation, the LDS is quite family-oriented. That does contrast strongly with the JWs, whom I consider to be extremely unfriendly toward families (I could almost write a book about that, but not right now!)
Noteworthy, too, I think are certain remarks recalled by Raymond Franz in Crisis of Conscience.
According to him, the WTS's then president, Nathan Knorr once even volunteered that " the Mormons look after their people better than we do."
Another once highly-placed Jehovahs Witness, WC Stevenson, summed up the whole JW experience as follows (quoting from his 1968 work Inside Story of Jehovahs Witnesses):
"No other religious group would demand so much from its members, in return for so little."
This may well explain why ex-LDS people don't harbour the same ill-feeling towards the religion as we ex-JWs tend to do.