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  Who invented the seven -day week??

  by jam in

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  i remerber reading somewhere, our week of seven days.

  has no astronomical basis.

  it does not divide exactly into.

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  snare&racket

  No... You don't understand, your using my answer which uses the term 'applications' and along with your ignorance decided this is it's only function. Servers run off atomic clocks. Today's Internet could not work without synchronised time I.e. atomic clocks.

  Despite your untruths, gps and today's satellites depend on atomic clocks, this also impacts on the Internet as well as the obvious such as cell phones. To repeat ..... No atomic clock.... No gps.

  I love how you have changed your stance from, 'your talking devil lies' to 'your technically correct, but one could argue if one was being annoying that these items cold exist but just not work as well if....' but even this stance is incorrect.

  The earth is crap at keeping time. We are awesome. Try setting your pc to time settings based on the sun and see how you get on.

  Bye x

  P.s. for anyone unsure, just go read up on this and decide for yourself, as to the original post, we do not live in a 'hand crafted like watch' galaxy, with perfectly working luminaries shining down accurate time. It's all balls n gas... Kinda like some people down here.
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  Who invented the seven -day week??

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remerber reading somewhere, our week of seven days.

  has no astronomical basis.

  it does not divide exactly into.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  snare&racket

  No... You don't understand, your using my answer which uses the term 'applications' and along with your ignorance decided this is it's only function. Servers run off atomic clocks. Today's Internet could not work without synchronised time I.e. atomic clocks.

  Despite your untruths, gps and today's satellites depend on atomic clocks, this also impacts on the Internet as well as the obvious such as cell phones. To repeat ..... No atomic clock.... No gps.

  I love how you have changed your stance from, 'your talking devil lies' to 'your technically correct, but one could argue if one was being annoying that these items cold exist but just not work as well if....' but even this stance is incorrect.

  The earth is crap at keeping time. We are awesome. Try setting your pc to time settings based on the sun and see how you get on.

  Bye x

  P.s. for anyone unsure, just go read up on this and decide for yourself, as to the original post, we do not live in a 'hand crafted like watch' galaxy, with perfectly working luminaries shining down accurate time. It's all balls n gas... Kinda like some people down here.
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  New To Studying

  by DylanBeam in

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  hi, i am new to studying with the jw's and would like to know they best way to start.

  any suggestions?.

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  snare&racket

  So here's where my brain went

  1) 'Taking shots at' is a nautical term....

  2) Boats are nautical

  3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8T095mFdW8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  Xxx
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  If You Wanted To Corrupt A Jehovah's Witness How Would You Go About It?

  by minimus in

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  i'd like some ideas..

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  snare&racket

  Tell them to continue exactly as they are.

  Who on earth wants to corrupt anyone? Inform them, help them, support them, respect them..... Wait or them.
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  Who invented the seven -day week??

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remerber reading somewhere, our week of seven days.

  has no astronomical basis.

  it does not divide exactly into.

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  snare&racket

  That was rhetorical ...... I don't care.

  Also....

  http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-the-Atomic-Clock&id=2115231
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  Who invented the seven -day week??

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remerber reading somewhere, our week of seven days.

  has no astronomical basis.

  it does not divide exactly into.

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  snare&racket

  I totally meant to say '365 days ish'. Totally fluffed the line, we can measure year length in the coral I mentioned, obviously not week length, just to prove I had a brain fart mid fact. I was making the point that we can't use earths orbit as a timepiece as it is not a constant. We know it is slowing.

  I hate using wiki, but I have as much interest in defending my obvious facts (simple google search) as I do in saving unicorns, so...

  The development of atomic clocks has led to many scientific and technological advances such as a worldwide system of precise position measurement (Global Positioning System), and applications in the Internet, which depend critically on frequency and time standards.

  As for everything I mentioned running off atomic clocks, I'm repeating a journal I read. The Internet is used to manage the stock market therefore the time has to be as accurate as possible for all markets, your Microsoft windows/mac clock is set via an atomic clock if it's hooked to the net. The Internet uses atomic clocks. Gps would not work without atomic clocks due to the need for accurate triangulation, the time is used to measure distance and speed. Cell phones require satellites all of which are now kept in orbit via atomic clocks, used for positioning and orbit alterations. TiVo was of course a joke (if you were intending to reply with the fact it wasn't funny....go shoot yourself) however, TiVo receives its time input from the Internet, which has its time dictated via atomic clocks.

  So where did I go wrong matey? Or are you just one of those guys?
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  New To Studying

  by DylanBeam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, i am new to studying with the jw's and would like to know they best way to start.

  any suggestions?.

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  snare&racket

  All those scriptures refer to god commanding slavery, genocide, infanticide, rape etc.... I don't remember that being a topic in the reasoning book.
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  New To Studying

  by DylanBeam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, i am new to studying with the jw's and would like to know they best way to start.

  any suggestions?.

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  snare&racket

  Decisions in life come no bigger than your world view. After 25 years indoctrinated with a false one may I suggest 3 things.

  1) effort

  2) check every piece of 'evidence' you are presented with. Even if you are thrown several 'facts' in one paragraph, spend as many hours as required to examine all the evidence of each. Most importantly when a scientific reference (quote or explanation) is given to you, ask or find the original source of that information and ensure firstly that it has not been misrepresented (in my experience this was the case more than not), secondly check the alternate views of the matter for yourself (many cults expect you to not know how, a good start is google scholar). Third CHECK the date of the evidence! Many....'cults' and apologists, refer to 'science' from the 1800's in order to find support for their views.

  Both of these things will see you in good stead' but finally....

  3) recognise your right to decide for yourself what is the best evidence, trust nobody but yourself. This is important Dylan, you will soon be told that to do this is wrong. That's when the wool goes over the eyes....

  Snare x

  Here are some scriptures to help start your next bible study session ....

  Exodus 21:2-6

  Leviticus 25:44-46

  Exodus 21:7-11

  Proverbs 29:21

  Proverbs 29:19

  Zechariah 13:7-9

  Colossians 3:22

  Jeremiah 51:20-26

  Zechariah 14:1-2

  Jeremiah 11:22-23

  Deuteronomy 20:10-14

  Judges 21:10-24

  Numbers 31:7-18

  Deuteronomy 22:28-29

  Deuteronomy 21:10-14

  Judges 5:30

  Judges 9:42-49

  Numbers 5:11-31

  Numbers 25:1-9
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  Who invented the seven -day week??

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remerber reading somewhere, our week of seven days.

  has no astronomical basis.

  it does not divide exactly into.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  snare&racket

  Hey jam,

  We no longer use the earth as a time piece as it is not accurate. We now use atomic clocks, without which the Internet, cell phones, satellites, gps and TiVo could not exist. Leap years, daylight saving etc etc is all due to us humans trying to make our orbit suit our lifestyles, hardly ideal. As for 7 day weeks and use of lunar months, we have the Babylonians to thank. ( those pagans really thought of everything!)

  The earths rotation around the sun has been slowing, we know this from such evidences as million of years old coral in Australia. It's gradually slowing down, I believe in part due to the tidal pull of the moon, and is only currently 7 days (ish.... Very ish)
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  Who designed cancer?

  by snare&racket in

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  one thing i regret, is not listening to the questions in my head whilst a jw.

  one i didn't ask until years after leaving was....who designed disease?

  of course the first thing to realise is the complexity of disease, the histology, pathology and aetiology.

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  snare&racket

  Wow, the JWs did a great job of teaching people how to divert difficult questions...

  For believers out there, who do you think designed cancer, trisomy 21, tuberculosis, cholera, cystic fibrosis..... etc?

  P.s. I understand the WT set a bad example with regard to referencing, but Wikipedia is not a legitimate source. Papers with a wiki reference would be rejected.