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  Professors and Students Defend Evolution

  by Sea Breeze in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_w9vtzj0a&ab_channel=livingwaters.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc_W9VtzJ0A&ab_channel=LivingWaters
  
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  The Cross in Pompeii & Herculaneum in 79 AD

  by Sea Breeze in

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  can someone please tell the wt janitor to turn the lights off when the last jw leaves the watchtower after learning that early christians used the cross as a christian logo of sorts?

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  Fisherman,
  
  Are you familiar with the Alexamanos Graffitti?
  
  
  

  The Alexamanos Graffito, dating from c.200 or earlier, is an interesting early parody of Christianity.

  This early graffito (wall-scratching; singular of graffiti) was discovered in 1857 in a guardroom on Palatine Hill near the Circus Maximus in Rome, and is now in the Palatine Antiquarian Museum.

  The drawing shows a man with an ass's head being crucified, to which a youth is raising his hand as if in prayer. The text in Greek reads:

  ALE XAMENOS SEBETE THEON

  which means, "Alexamenos worships his god."

  Before Christianity, the Jews had already been charged with worshipping an ass; this was probably the basis of this accusation being directed at Christianity.

  The criticism is mentioned in several early pagan and Christian works. Minicius Felix sought to refute the pagan notions that "the religion of the Christians is foolish, inasmuch as they worship a crucified man, and even the instrument itself of his punishment. They are said to worship the head of an ass, and even the nature of their father" (Octavius, IX). Tertullian mentioned that the pagans think "our god is an ass's head" (Apology, XVI).

  The graffito also represents how contemptible and absurd the idea of a crucified god was to pagan thinking. Perhaps a century earlier, St. Paul had remarked that the crucifixion was "unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness" (I Corinthians I.23).

  The "Y" in the upper right of the picture might be a representation of a cry of anguish. As a "Y" has also been found on a tablet relating to the worship of the Egyptian god Seth, some initially argued that the graffito shows a worshipper of Seth. This does not seem to be a commonly held opinion today, however.

  According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, this drawing is also significant in that it shows the crucifix was in figurative use by Christians at this early stage, which is where the caricaturist would have gotten the idea.
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  The Cross in Pompeii & Herculaneum in 79 AD

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can someone please tell the wt janitor to turn the lights off when the last jw leaves the watchtower after learning that early christians used the cross as a christian logo of sorts?

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  Sea Breeze

  More info here.

  Also, Bruce W. Longenecker who is professor of early Christianity and W. W. Melton Chair of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, (also formerly taught in Britain at St. Andrews, Cambridge, and Durham Universities) makes a solid case for Christianity in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
  
  The apostle Paul reports Christians just a few miles away... so there is attestation. Supposedly he found 18 crosses.

  
  
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  What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  2. scandals

  i was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.

  in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.

  her husband was a ms. both were df'd.

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  At the last congregation I attended, a good friend of mine (who had three kids) had his wife run off with an elder (who had several kids). She apparently wanted an elder husband and my friend was far to down-to-earth to ever be an elder.
  
  He left the troof. About the time I returned to town from going to college, I was riding a crotch rocket motorcycle and pulled up next to him in a convertible at a red light. We both looked and each other and said at the same time "pull over".
  
  It was game on after that. We had a good time hanging out for a while. He remarried not too long afterwards. Me too about 5 years later.
  
  His ex wife and her elder husband successfully destroyed the lives of 7 kids for a while... but hey; they are still in the troof. That's all that matters right?
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  The Cross in Pompeii & Herculaneum in 79 AD

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
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  can someone please tell the wt janitor to turn the lights off when the last jw leaves the watchtower after learning that early christians used the cross as a christian logo of sorts?

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  Can someone please tell the WT janitor to turn the lights off when the last JW leaves the Watchtower after learning that early Christians used the Cross as a Christian logo of sorts?
  
  
  
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  What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  i was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.

  in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.

  her husband was a ms. both were df'd.

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  I wonder if anyone has been disfellowshipped for saying that the WT is number 2 ?
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  WT on Steroids

  by Anna Marina in

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  wt is a cult - the presenter talks about a 'covidian cult' - it looks like wt on steroids.

  https://youtu.be/ajmnzulexim.

  see what you think..

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  Cultlike conflicting directives that create cognitive chaos

  Us vs. Them mentality

  Crazy, useless behaviors like wearing masks while walking outside or alone in your car
  
  I see the similarities.... never made that connection before.
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  Installation of Yahweh alone

  by Doug Mason in

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  2. bible

  i have released my latest study for your criticism, corrections, and advice.. “installation of yahweh alone”.

  yahweh’s journey from local warrior god assigned to weather and storms to his installation as the universal deity -- and the people who put him there.. available at: https://www.academia.edu/s/e1d2a5b016?source=link .

  doug .

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  Sea Breeze

  I couldn't open your link. But this is an amazing map illustrating history. I highly recommend it.
  
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  What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.

  in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.

  her husband was a ms. both were df'd.

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  Sea Breeze

  Wow! I'm sure these stories are just the tip of the iceberg. I officially left with the generation change in Nov. 1995.

  But in the months leading up to that, I was rapidly coming to the conclusion that the Kingdom Hall was simply too hostile of an environment for me to exist in.
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  My 20 year anniversary

  by new boy in

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  after being a jehovah's witness for 52 years, today marks my 20 year anniversary of being out of the borg!

  i turned in my letter of disassociation on september 18th 2001. it was read to the congregation on september 19th, my wife's birthday.

  of course the years have had its difficulties but it has also had many wonderful experiences and epiphanies.

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  Cheers !