Posts by Newly Enlightened

Ok, now that I finally have my posts back. 10 is NOT enough! First off, 10 yrs ago Gojira & I started writing a fiction novel regarding ancient history, including the legend of Atlantis, phoenicians, Sumarian's etc, so we did A LOT of ancient civilization research. Including this area.

I don't know if the stone is a hoax or not, but just to share some interesting quick facts about a few things.

Sante Fe is the oldest U.S state capital. It was established in 1610. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico

There is evidence of people inhabiting this region since 2900 b.c. Chaco Canyon is a major central Native American ruins that is well known for its ancient observatory. So they watched the stars http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/canyon.html

The Rio Grande river was a major trade route. Even as late as the 1800's there are records of them having the large paddle boats on it. There is also the Salt Mission Trail: http://www.newmexico.org/salt-missions-trail/ I happen to live 5 miles from the Quarai Mission. But this was a major trade for the Native Americans and the Spanish.

Below is a picture of my personal finds on our property when we were building our house. They were found approx. 8 inches deep beside a circular rock foundation that was littered with pottery shards.

The surveyer/engineer that had to come and do our survey was the son of an archeology professor from the University of New Mexico, [ which he helped on many digs and did this as a serious hobby] I showed these 'Dart points' to, told me that the one on the left is the newer one. it is black obsidian and is fairly new at only 500-1200 years old. The one on the right he said was interesting, because of the material it is made from [I don't remember what he called it] but he said that one dates from 3500-5000 yrs ago.

With that in mind...

Hoax? Then it is even more amazing and miraculous because then that means that someone from PRE-Computers time knew the following:

"But there are those who think that a context does exist for the stone. James Tabor , chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, says that the archeological context is to be found at the top of the mountain, where there are the remains of dwellings and more Hebrew writings. The organization of the dwellings on the mountaintop plateau is reminiscent of Masada. But even more convincing to Tabor is the star map engraved on one of the stones that records a solar eclipse dated to Sept. 15, 107 BCE. That was the date of Rosh Hashanah of that year. All this adds up to a context compelling enough to rule out the possibility of it being a hoax , Tabor explained to me in a phone interview in February."

So think about this: Whomever carved those rocks had to have known about that solar eclipse and the position of the stars & zodiac constellations on 9/15/107 bce.

I correct the dates on our earlier post that the Boy Scouts cleaned the rocks in the 20/30's. It was actually the 50's. But still they were covered with lichens and the writing was inlegible. Lichens in this part of the Southwest are estimated to grow at approx. 1 millimeter per year! So do the math. A 6 ft rock covered by lichens in just a few decades? It would have taken longer than that to cover the carvings.

Jgnat: The tetragrammaton was not the Hebrew one we all recognize,

"The Hebrew letters are named Yod-Heh-Waw-Heh: ????; note that Hebrew is written from right to left, rather than left to right as in English. In English it is written as YHWH, YHVH, or JHVH depending on the transliteration convention that is used. The Tetragrammaton was written in contrasting Paleo-Hebrew characters in some of the oldest surviving square Aramaic Hebrew texts, and it is speculated that it was, even at that period, read as Adonai, "My Lord", when encountered."

The point to all of this? It could reasonably not be out of the realm of POSSIBILITY. That is all I am saying.

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What naughty things are JWs allowed to do?

by usualusername in

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12 years ago

in most healthy societies people are allowed to do naughty things without feelings of guilt.. .

what naughty things can jws do?.

my naughtiest moment was rounding up 55mins to an hr in my ministry!

12 years ago

Newly Enlightened 12 years ago

I ate a birthday cupcake in grade school and tried some wacky tobacky in Jr. high.

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Ok EVERYONE- want to know who is going to be reading this website and others?

by Newly Enlightened in

12 years ago

while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.

as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.

i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.

12 years ago

Newly Enlightened 12 years ago

Here's the 2 nd article regarding the child abuse, mental & physical. The translation has changed a little but it still has the psychologists saying that the fear the WTBT$ is instilling in small children is dangerous.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Fnyheter%2Fnorge%2F1.10651396&act=url

I wrote out my letter in the first Reps. box the I copy & pasted to each one and contacted all 4 of the Gov. Reps for New Mexico. But you could even do it in your word processor and then just copy & paste it to all of them.

Writing to the WTBT$ does NO good, I've seen that for years.

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Ok EVERYONE- want to know who is going to be reading this website and others?

by Newly Enlightened in

12 years ago

while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.

as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.

i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.

12 years ago

Newly Enlightened 12 years ago

Thanks for the thumbs up everyone. I don't have a copy of an actual letter that I sent them because I emailed it thru their generated web pages. But ALL government officials in the U.S have their own website.

The thing is, ONE letter, telling a government representative may not do anything, but imagine if they got THOUSANDS? If even 1/2 of the people on here contacted their gov. rep. and told them about the child abuse, not being allowed to vote for our Gov. Reps. & breaking up of families that JW's are responsible for, it might make a dent.

If there are any current JW's that still believe and are afraid that the Gov. is going to turn on religion and start the GT. Then how do you know this isn't how it all starts?

But Satan is not going to turn on his own org. That bible prophecy in Revelation was already fulfilled back in 67-70ce.

Something else also, if the Gov. did take down the WTBT$, guess what? All of you that have friends & family still in that won't listen to you about the real truth, if WTBT$ was gone, do you think they would listen to you now since the GB was WRONG about what was going to happen?

Just some thoughts. I apologize for the negative comment about everyone bickering, but I was just getting a little sick about the hundreds of comments and topics about AAWA.

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Watchtower Sells More Properties; 20 Henry Street Developer Shelly Listokin Buys

by Gayle in

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12 years ago

http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/58164.

does this mean there are 19 more brooklyn properties to sell??

thought i once read there were 34 properties.

12 years ago

Newly Enlightened 12 years ago

Plus, they cannot help anyone with charitable works because they're too busy doing the LORD's work! [Rolling eyes] They're WORSE than the Pharisee's!

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Ok EVERYONE- want to know who is going to be reading this website and others?

by Newly Enlightened in

12 years ago

while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.

as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.

i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.

12 years ago

Newly Enlightened 12 years ago

Thank you T.S! I realize how easy it is for all of us to become negative when we've all been thru so much with WTBT$ and the affect it has had on our lives.

Better daze: Here is one of them. I had to use Google translate to read them. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Fnyheter%2Fnorge%2F1.10651396&act=url

The thing about Ms. Grisham is, that this is her first term and on the T.V, they have her always giving interviews, with her being a concerned parent herself, how she wants to know what affects all of us as parents.

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Ok EVERYONE- want to know who is going to be reading this website and others?

by Newly Enlightened in

12 years ago

while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.

as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.

i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.

12 years ago

Newly Enlightened 12 years ago

It may be a generated letter, which is fine. But how can they just throw away or ignore the violent pictures from the children's book & dot to dots that I sent them?

It doesn't really matter what I got back, it's how they viewed those things i sent them that is the bigger question. I also threw in there the quote from the psychologists in Norway that said JW's were raising the next generation of serial killers.

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1947 Awake Says Excommunication is Unbiblical and Pagan!

by Ding in

14 years ago

january 8, 1947 awake!:.

excommunication is "altogether foreign to biblical teachings.".

it's an unbiblical roman catholic teaching by which "you are looked upon with the blackest contempt... being cursed and damned with the devil and his angels.".

12 years ago

Newly Enlightened 12 years ago

Great find Ding!

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Ok EVERYONE- want to know who is going to be reading this website and others?

by Newly Enlightened in

12 years ago

while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.

as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.

i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.

12 years ago

Newly Enlightened 12 years ago

I tried to make it as large as I could. Ok, try this one:

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