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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  markweatherill

  One thing about Lloyd, he will never use such hackneyed outworn cliches as:

  'I'm better than that' or 'You deserve better than that'

  Never!

  
  
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  Souls on Ice

  by peacefulpete in

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  2. beliefs

  you may have seen the story of the couple who just gave birth to twins who developed from embryos frozen for 30 years.

  i'm delighted for the parents and hope the twins grow to be healthy.

  it does pose some questions for those who insist embryos are in fact humans with souls.

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  markweatherill

  It does pose some questions for those who insist embryos are in fact humans with souls.
  

  Not really. We can theorise that the 'soul' is also frozen in time.

  That idea does raise some questions, doesn't it?
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  Noah's Ark - Kentucky

  by BoogerMan in

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  regardless of belief/non-belief in the bible account, why is the ark nearly always depicted by both believers & non-believers as a huge boat, with a rounded hull & stern, and a tapered bow?

  https://arkencounter.com/ .

  the ark was crate shaped according to the measurements.

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  markweatherill

  There's a reason why boats and ships look the way they do, and not like big square crates...
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  markweatherill

  I would actually like to see Lloyd's 'act' but I don't think he could top the sheer performance art of his famous livestream.

  But, armed with a little 'dutch courage' and faced with a deafening silence to fill, who knows what stream of consciousness might spill out of his mouth?
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  Apostate Hunter?

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone heard of this jw guy?.

  apparently he writes a weekly (weakly?

  ) blog as well as having written this book where he claims he disses the claims of "apostates".. to know what apostates are saying he has to be engaging with them or tuning into websites like this one, contravening the gb's direction not to do so.

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  markweatherill

  I never heard of this person but had a brief look at his Twitter feed (true tom harley) and his blog (tomsheepandgoats.com). I think we have discovered a literary giant of the calibre of Lloyd Evans.
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  Another diabolical, disingenuous, nutcase illustration

  by Beth Sarim in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this has been weighing on my mind all day,.

  i just have to vent and get this off my chest.. the latest jw brainwashing, indoctrination session i think it was a broadcast.

  toward the end where the speaker was spouting-off about being in a 'race' again and 'enduring until the end',.

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  markweatherill

  

  waton4 days ago

  Paul was referring to the faithful ending of his own life

  Bingo!

  'Endure until the end. Not the end of the race, of course. Your end.'
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  New method to absolutely date Fall of Jerusalem.

  by waton in

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  2. current

  for what it is worth to those interested.

  1914.. tel-aviv university.

  "biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagnetic field data.

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  markweatherill

  1914 is not based on the fall of Jerusalem.
  

  Isn't it based on 607BCE plus 2520 years = 1914CE...?
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  Not Reporting Child Abuse Should Be Prosecuted

  by usualusername1 in

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  anyone who works with children and does not report child sexual abuse should be prosecuted, the final report of a huge, seven-year inquiry has recommended.. this could be huge for elders in the uk.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63318342.

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  markweatherill

  Just for clarity, the inquiry is IICSA.
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  Is most of the promotion of creationism, not just that by the WT, charlatanism?

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. watchtower
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  is most of the promotion of creationism, not just that by the wt, charlatanism?.

  https://www.fullmoon.nu/sources.bak/chapter%2010/part%202/gish%20exposed.html [which has an article called "creationism: bad science or immoral pseudoscience?

  - (an expose of creationist dr. duane gish)"] says the following.. 'a look at the "scientific" creationist movement and a close examination of the tactics of a well-known and influential creationist will reveal that the creation "science" movement gains much of its strength through the use of distortion and scientifically unethical tactics.. .... with the facts explained and the lawsuits won, scientists declared victory and returned to their labs and offices.

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  markweatherill

  Evolution can not explain
  

  Well, yes it can, whether you accept it or not.

  And then the question is whether you accept, or don't accept it, based on knowing what the explanations are, or based on refusing to know what the explanations are.
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  Was Jesus the Messiah circumcised ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. bible

  has this question ever been raised before by jehovah`s witnesses?

  and what`s the significance, if any ?.

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  markweatherill

  After reading about the Orthodox Jewish practice of sucking the blood, I sure view the practice as barbaric.

  I think medicine and hygiene have moved on from the times when circumcision had any demonstrable benefits.

  As to the original question, the practice of complete removal of foreskin was apparently not practiced in Jesus' time. That was introduced around the 2nd Century. So Jesus' circumcision was not what is done today.

  And God's edict to Abraham about circumcision was some while after Adam.