this isn't a jw experience, but for those of you that have been following my life, i thought i'd have a drink and share this strange event in my post-jw life.. for you wonderful newbies, you can catch up on highlights of my story in the few threads i've started here.
i'm finishing the junior year of my engineering degree and the classes are hard as hell.
i used to be among the smartest students in the room until i hit the 300 level university courses.
Hats off to you Billy, that's really great. I'm so pleased for you. Take every opportunity you can and you will go far, really far.
I'm going through something similar too and while it can be really hard, the doors that open can be amazing.
It just goes to show how many amazing brains the WT totally wasted and overlooked!
before, i was thinking, this whole thing with the character the writing department has must be a coincidence.
they must use other names?.
nope.
Andre was also a very lucky boy. Here's one of his adventures that we missed :
Andre was almost killed by a bomb that took the lives of several of his friends.
(g 6/11 p. 9)
think this may help all new members here and any lurkers in the back ground,who may be struggeling with the conscience.
i'am not a jw but when i came across this short vid my jaw was on the floor.
how can some body get away with such blatant lies and deception was beond me at the time, now i know differently.
The tablet is very important to chronology as it has specific dates on it. The borg just prefers to replace them with their own dates and then tell us we can't trust archeological evidence...
Still can't believe how blatant they can be. Thanks for starting this thread. It's excellent. Quite a gem.
This is the text quoted in the video and by the Awake article above (May 2009 page 11) :
Working at the British Museum, Assyriologist Michael Jursa has made a breakthrough discovery whilst examining a small clay tablet with a Babylonian cuneiform inscription. The document is dated to the 10 th year of Nebuchadnezzar II (595 BC). It names a Babylonian officer, Nebo-Sarsekim, who according to chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah was present at the siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC with Nebuchadnezzar himself. The tablet thus confirms the historical existence of the Biblical figure. Evidence from non-Biblical sources for individuals named in the Bible other than kings is incredibly rare.
Nebo-Sarsekim is described in the book of Jeremiah as ‘chief eunuch’ (as the title is now translated, rather than ‘chief officer’). The Babylonian tablet proves that his name was really pronounced as Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, and gives the same title, ‘chief eunuch,’ in cuneiform script, thereby confirming the accuracy of the Biblical account.
The discovery highlights the importance of the study of cuneiform. The British Museum’s collection contains well over one hundred thousand inscribed tablets which are examined by international scholars on a daily basis. Reading and piecing together fragments is painstaking and slow work, but cuneiform tablets are our only chance of obtaining knowledge of this fateful period of human history. Other discoveries made whilst examining tablets include an Assyrian version of the Old Testament flood story, observations of Halley’s Comet and even rules for the world’s oldest board game.
Dr Jursa, Associate Professor of the University of Vienna, has been studying tablets at the British Museum since 1991. He says of this discovery:
“Reading Babylonian tablets is often laborious, but also very satisfying: there is so much new information yet to be discovered. But finding something like this tablet, where we see a person mentioned in the Bible making an everyday payment to the temple in Babylon and quoting the exact date is quite extraordinary.”
Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper in the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum, commented: “Cuneiform tablets might all look the same, but sometimes they contain treasure. Here a mundane commercial transaction takes its place as a primary witness to one of the turning points in Old Testament history. This is a tablet that deserves to be famous.’
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Also on the subject of tofu, this is something I always ask for when I'm at a chinese restaurant, because on the rare occasion they have it on the menu, it is well worth having. It's a very simple tofu pudding that is served warm with some hot ginger syrup poured over it. I don't know the name of it as it changes from place to place, but it can be known as "DouHua" (pronounced Dough Hwa) meaning Flower of the bean. This is because it's fresh tofu bean curd that is in a soft almost jelly-like state and flakes as you pick it up with your spoon and just melts in your mouth. I just love it.
For those that don't like or think you don't like tofu, I would venture that for many it's because your basing it on the tofu sold in health food stores which I do agree is awful stuff and would advise giving it a wide berth.
I used to go to a place where they made their own tofu and there is nothing better than the fresh stuff. The varieties they sold were mind boggling. I'd also ask for some of the freshly made soya milk which would be steaming hot and so good when your freezing your butt off doing door to door in the depth of winter! (Cheap too!)
So Iamallcool and for anyone else interested, here's a recipe that is so good, and also so fast you could blink and it would almost be done.
You need to get hold of some soft Silken Tofualso known asTofu Flan. It's basically a soft tofu that's kind of wobbly. It's normally sold among the Japanese variety of Tofus and measures about 6cm x 4cm x 14cm. (I have some in my fridge so I just measured it for you!)
You will also need:
- scallions (chives)
- oil
- soya sauce
So all you need to do is:
- open the pack of silken tofu and tip it upside down on a plate or a flat bowl
- chop up some scallions (chives in UK), the green part
- sprinkle them over the tofu
- put three or four spoons of oil in a small pan
- heat it until very hot and then pour it over the chives and tofu. (You will hear them sizzle)
- sprinkle some soya sauce over that
Serve with some rice and steamed brocoli (or brocoli fried with a little garlic)
Enjoy!
Here's a picture I just found on the net:
there are many cultural differences between the general population of the us and europe, what about jws?
i have heard about such things as beards being allowed, movies that a jw cant watch in the us or would be frowned upon watching being ok, same with tv shows, and even the way they dress in public.
seems more laid back over there if this is true.. any truth to this?
I would retitle this more the differences between JWs in the US, UK and continental Europe. In comparison to continental Europe, the UK is much more like the US.
Some examples would be European brothers love of sporting jackets with colours on all spectrum of the rainbow, a notable example being COs who love giving their talks in lobster pink colored jackets. Yes, jackets and overlarge ones at that. In the UK and the US a brother would be slammed or not allowed to even say a prayer at a meeting if he wasn't wearing a matching suit. Tough one for those living on welfare or minimum wages. Same is true for colored shirts which in Europe can include bright purples, pinks, bright and dark greens and equally wacky ties. Unless things have changed in recent years, in the US brothers are expected to only wear monochrome aka white shirts. Looney Tune ties are probably off limits too.
In the US the memorial is the time to go out and buy a new outfit, whereas in Europe you may even be looked down on for doing so. The most you will see is a little extra attention on makeup and hair and for brothers a haircut.
Beards are a no no in the US. In Europe many young brothers sport a styled goatee. Beards are only off limits for giving talks at assemblies, so for those that have skin problems that mean they cannot shave, some of the better speakers are denied parts.
I believe panty hose are a big thing for sisters in the US. This is something never brought up in Europe and sisters rarely wear them in warm weather. Yes, short skirts (just above the knee even) and bare legs are common sights. It is the same for makeup, with sisters pretty much free to choose whether or not to wear it. Appearance is never really a subject of criticism for sisters in Europe. They pretty much do what they want.
Education as we know is off limits in the US and apart from a short window opening around 1995 is/was also off limits in the UK. In Europe, a university education is quite normal among JWs. Many go to university and relatively few appear to leave the organization as a result. There are even a small minority that do PhDs.
And finally I would say (and this is purely observational) that in Europe people tend to be more independent thinkers and don't really care as much what people think of them. They are less conformist and more direct in what they say. They have little problem saying what they think even if they know the person isn't going to like what they say.
I guess the further you get away from the centre point of GB influence/activity, the less hardline the JWs are. Perhaps a bunch of things get lost/toned down in translation too.
we had a bible study women who collected all the qaurter left bottles of coke and would "recycle" them into one bottle.
a couple we studied with would give us coffee with lipstick on the cup after removing the cigrette buts and a quick rinse!
a study gave me a glass of water which was brownish looking....tasted awful.
Reading this thread I could actually say yes to a lot of these things.
It brings back memories I hadn't thought about in a very long time:
- dog/cat peed on sofas
- cockroach infested places
- overcrowded places where everyone used the same mattress and bedding (but only during their allocated time space)
- studies that chain smoked (had to be desperate for time to sit through those)
- carpets that had turned into a layer of ground-in-dirt
- dirty glasses (could start a new thread on how to fake your drinking when declining a drink is just not an option)
- inedible food (had to master fake eating too)
- unfathemable stenches
- dripping noses
- people with TB coughing everywhere (great for those not vaccinated for so-called scriptural reasons)
looking at this thread by winstonsmith, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/249671/1/notes-from-2013-memorial-talk-appreciate-what-christ-has-done-for-you.
made me think, how is the memorial celebrated in different parts of the world?
do they all fall on this year's march 26?
The sun sets locally at 7:59 p.m.
What do they do in far northern/southern places where the sun barely sets?
apparently "prejudice" applies only to racial equality and has nothing to do with diverse sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
it's news to me, but that's the only way i can explain this latest cover from the society.. http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/86/wp_e_20130601.pdf.
cedars.
Absolutely love the photoshop remakes. Really great.
Right, so the WTS have published their amazing picture of a previously unheard of scenario - multi racial mechanics working and laughing together as equals.
Groundbreaking stuff! LOL!
Do you think we should break it to them gently that an even more shocking scenario exists? That of multi racial men and WOMEN mechanics working and laughing together as equals??!
Yes, shocking as this may seem, there are actually FEMALE car mechanics of all colours and races who are currently working alongside men as equals!!!!
Yes, gender equality is something they seem to have completely overlooked - and not just in this picture!
Oh and also found it funny that it happens to be a white guy at the center of attention = we aren't prejudiced but we still like our center guy to be white...
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Might want to shred them first...
...and if they don't shred...
...we will all know they are 'possessed'!
Now wouldn't that be an experience to put in the next yearbook.
