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Posts by ThiChi
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51WHAT KEEPS YOU HERE?
by plmkrzy ineither surfing the net using key words jehovah" .
or someone we know told us about it.
i found this place after logging on to watchers of the watch tower.
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Retrograde Evolution
by Derrick inadam and eve started perfect, but lost absolute perfection.
the bible's hebrew scriptures (or old testament) in the book of genesis 5:5 states that almost perfect adam lived over nine centuries until the age of 930. this can be likened to someone who was born during the dark ages in the year 1100 living until old age today, and finally passing away almost 30 years from now.
adam waited until he was age 130 before he and eve had their first child, whom they named seth.
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ThiChi
Jean Gilman
Review Staff ReporterJERUSALEM, Israel - The story of Noah and the Great Flood is one of the best known in the Bible. It is one of the first told to children, shared in Bible school classes, and a source of fierce controversy and debate for biblical scholars and historians.
Was Noah a real person? Did he build an ark to save his family from torrential flooding, or is the Genesis account just a fable? While some scholars fervently defend the Genesis chronicle, others challenge the scientific and historical credibility of the biblical narrative.
In 1872, George Smith, a researcher in the Assyrian section of the British Museum, made a chance discovery which raised the debate to a new level.
While sorting and classifying Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets found by earlier British excavators, his attention was captured by a line of broken text which seemed to be part of a myth or legend.
The sentence read, "On Mount Nisir, the ship landed; Mount Nisir held the ship fast, allowing no motion." Hurriedly, Smith glanced down the rest of the column and read an account of a massive flood which spanned the entire world, and a small ark which carried the sole survivors of the worldwide deluge to safety.
Smith realized at once that he had found an ancient version of the biblical account. Indeed, the flood narrative found by Smith proved to be part of a 7th century BC Assyrian version of what is known today as the "Epic of Gilgamesh."
"From the language of Smith's tablets," says biblical historian, Prof. Ory N. Mazar, "scholars knew that the story itself belonged to an era much earlier than the 7th century BC." In fact, linguistic evidence indicates that the flood story of the Epic of Gilgamesh must have been originally composed more than five hundred years before the Israelite Exodus from Egypt.
A 7th century BC Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet, above, contains part of the text of the "Epic of Gilgamesh". The epic parallels the Genesis account of the Great Flood and dramatically confirms the antiquity of the biblical narrative.
"However, there was a gap in the text found by Smith which could not be filled by any of the tablets in the museum," says Mazar. "And when he reported his discovery, public interest was so great that the London Daily Telegraph offered to equip an expedition to search for the missing tablets."
And thus began a long quest to discover evidence of the Great Flood, reviving the centuries-old search for tangible remains of Noah's Ark.
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Public opinion on the issue of Iraq???
by Celtic inwhen prime minister tony blair was 'summoned' to camp david a couple of day's ago, he looked succinctly uncomfortable when doing a press interview with president bush.
today, the prime minister faces the tuc conference, the main agenda covering the impending war on iraq.
british public opinion is very much for the action to not take place against iraq.
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ThiChi
Francois: I agree with you 100%. There was no problem when we saved their butts in WWII.......
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get me out of hear iam not a celebrity
by BIBLE BASHER ini wounder how many have asked this question in relation to the truth?
thousands, millions what do you think?
is the last to survive the winner?
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ThiChi
See! Matty brought us full circle! Good Job, Bro!
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Shepherding calls in a non-JW church
by Dawn ini have been reading through a number of posts here regarding shepherding calls in the past few days.
having always been the "troubled child" i sure received my fair share.
i got pregnant when i was 19 (unmarried) and know firsthand what a woman goes through during these so-called "shepherding calls" - having to tell every detail of your sex life to 3 old geezers, feeling dirty and worthless, and terrified of loosing everything if you're df'd.. i've been attending a non-denominational church now for a couple years and discovered that they also do shepherding calls (yikes!!
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ThiChi
""The songs are better too. Instead of self-glorification, glory is given to God.""
Very Powerful point!! Never looked of it that way..........Thanks
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get me out of hear iam not a celebrity
by BIBLE BASHER ini wounder how many have asked this question in relation to the truth?
thousands, millions what do you think?
is the last to survive the winner?
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ThiChi
Well, I think R. Franz was voted off first!
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get me out of hear iam not a celebrity
by BIBLE BASHER ini wounder how many have asked this question in relation to the truth?
thousands, millions what do you think?
is the last to survive the winner?
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ThiChi
Matthew 18:20
"Where Two or Three Hundred Million Dollars Are Gathered Together In My Name, There I Am."
GB Motto
Edited by - thichi on 9 September 2002 19:17:29
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I Just Ate A Bowl Full of Gold Fish!!
by orangefatcat inthats right i ate a bowl full of gold fish and they were delish and they were the cheddar cheese flavoured ones!
yum yum.
love, orangefatcat.
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ThiChi
Have a good cigar lately?
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Just The 2 Of Us.
by Englishman innumber 1 son is in australia.. number 2 son has a career, and next week moves into his own flat.. number 3 son leaves for uni at the end of the month.. our parenting days are coming to an end.
it's a strange feeling.
some excitement at the freedom, some sadness.. i'll keep you posted.. englishman.
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ThiChi
Hey, you got more time at the Pub and new places to visit! Its their turn to give up a little room&board!
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To Amazing and Others re Iraq
by Defender inin reply to your posts below, i thought a new post is merited.
it is really outstanding the transformation of persons who were associated with jws from neutral subjects to outright warmongers, especially those who used to profess brotherhood with christ.
while everyone is entitled to their opinions on matters of world politics, but to foster and promote bloodshed and destruction in the name of peace and pre-emptive defense runs jarringly against the grain of anything called christian.. .
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ThiChi
Need Evidence? France does not think you do......
France against publishing secret documents on Iraq's weapons programs
ADVERTISEMENT France said it was against publishing top-secret evidence on Iraq's alleged development of weapons of mass destruction, saying the public arena was not the place to wage such a campaign.
"These are not issues which we can deal with publicly. This calls for serenity and seriousness, and we should therefore beware of any leaks and any saber-rattling proposals," Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told France Info radio.
On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would in the coming weeks release damning information about Baghdad's alleged efforts to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, to prove the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
The foreign minister said that France and Britain had shared information on the proof of such a weapons program. and it "is out of the question to divulge these exchanges."
De Villepin said it was important to act responsibly in evaluating whether a "country could own chemical or biological weapons, and if it could turn into a threat."
He added it was important that France evaluate such risks together with its European partners.
"The international community is today very worried, which justifies our determination in the face of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."
Washington on Wednesday stepped up its war rhetoric, with President George W. Bush calling Saddam Hussein a "serious threat" and saying he would take his case against Iraq to the United Nations next week.
De Villepin said "France, the world, cannot accommodate such a risk, and that is why we demand with insistance the return of the UN (weapons) inspectors to Iraq and that the country conforms with the demands of the international community."
If it did, he stressed, it was up to the UN Security Council to decide on any international action.
UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in 1998 in the face of an imminent US and British missile attack on Baghdad, and have since been barred from returning despite insistent UN demands.