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  WT Nov. 1, 2011 (public) - When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed - Part 2

  by AnnOMaly in

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  2. bible

  out now.. yes, yes, yessssss!

  on p. 26-27 they talk about how the lunar positions on vat 4956 fit 588/7 bce!!!.

  "clearly, much of the astronomical data in vat 4956 fits the year 588 b.c.e.

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  When discussing the VAT 4956 tablet the article says (pg 25):

  "Because of the superior reliability of the lunar positions, researchers have carefully analyzed these 13 sets of lunar position on VAT 4956."

  The article goes on to say that the researchers' analysis reveals that "all 13 sets match calulated positions for 20 years earlier, for the year 588/587 B.C.E."

  On page 27 it is stated that "the lunar position in line 3 (of VAT 4956) finds an exact match on Nisanu 9 of 588 B.C.E. "Reference is then made to footnote 21 which mentions that "the previously mentioned analysis concluded that on Nisan u9, the moon was 2 deg, 04 minutes in front of and 0 degree below the star beta Virginis. It was considered and exact match."

  The article's conclusion concerning VAT 4956 depends entirely on the results of these reseachers!

  However, the researchers are NOT identified! We do not know who they are!

  The reader is supposed to simply accept the conclusions made by unknown persons!
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  "Never Watch the Television"

  by palmtree67 in

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  this is going around dubbie-land right now.. i find it extremely ironic that the jw's are passing around this video as proof that the society is right to warn them about restricting tv watching.. notice, the guy says "if you watch a movie, you should do so critically", among other gems that the jw's will not apply to themselves.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmbymkxgrv4.

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  Television is Satan's Eyeball!
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  "Forged" by Bart Ehrman

  by Dagney in

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  2. friends

  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062012614/ref=s9_simh_bw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=atvpdkikx0der&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0eppm5kwv5zydqhmh1ar&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1287771322&pf_rd_i=283155.

  has anybody read this recent book by erhman?

  wondering.. thank you..

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  Did anyone check out the "dot" link in my post above?
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  “Look! It’s our circuit overseer! Je- hovah has saved us!”

  by Slidin Fast in

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  you couldn't make it up.

  see today's wt .

  9 eldersonregionalbuildingcommittees and relief committees work hard to help the brothers.

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  Two observations.

  1. The Circuit Overseer is treated as a representative of Jehovah God. ("Look! It’s our circuit overseer! Jehovah has saved us!”)

  2. Jesus, the Christian's "Lord and Savior", is not mentioned at all.
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  "The Scholastic Dishonesty of The WATCHTOWER" as a pdf?

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  does anyone know if "the scholastic dishonesty of the watchtower", published by caris, has been made into a pdf?.

  there has been so much excellent material posted here as pdf files, but i forgotten if the above has been posted.. if it has been made available, is a currently active link for it that works?.

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  Just verified that the link works

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/ob14ll

  Sendspace might have been overloaded with simultaneous requests for this file.
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  "The Scholastic Dishonesty of The WATCHTOWER" as a pdf?

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  does anyone know if "the scholastic dishonesty of the watchtower", published by caris, has been made into a pdf?.

  there has been so much excellent material posted here as pdf files, but i forgotten if the above has been posted.. if it has been made available, is a currently active link for it that works?.

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  A Sendspace download link for the book:

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/ob14ll
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  Does anyone have a scan of the October 2011 KM?

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone have a scan of the october 2011 km?.

  i understand there are statements made by the watchtower about "higher education" in it..

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  Thank you Nebeska Nada.
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  Does anyone have a scan of the October 2011 KM?

  by VM44 in

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  does anyone have a scan of the october 2011 km?.

  i understand there are statements made by the watchtower about "higher education" in it..

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  Does anyone have a scan of the October 2011 KM?

  I understand there are statements made by The Watchtower about "Higher Education" in it.
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  Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (JW Speak)

  by Perry in

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  2. beliefs

  the sokal affair.

  the paper, transgressing the boundaries: towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity, was published in science wars in 1996. on the day of publication, sokal announced (in a different paper,) that the article was a hoax.

  he said that social text was a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense.

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  Jan Henrik Schön, Phd.

  Phd = Phony data?
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  "Forged" by Bart Ehrman

  by Dagney in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062012614/ref=s9_simh_bw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=atvpdkikx0der&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0eppm5kwv5zydqhmh1ar&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1287771322&pf_rd_i=283155.

  has anybody read this recent book by erhman?

  wondering.. thank you..

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  Bart D. Ehrman, "Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are"
  2011, ISBN: 0062012614, 320 pages

  It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better, that “writing in the name of another” was widely accepted in antiquity. But New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman dares to call it what it was: literary forgery, a practice that was as scandalous then as it is today. In Forged, Ehrman’s fresh and original research takes readers back to the ancient world, where forgeries were used as weapons by unknown authors to fend off attacks to their faith and establish their church. So, if many of the books in the Bible were not in fact written by Jesus’s inner circle—but by writers living decades later, with differing agendas in rival communities—what does that do to the authority of Scripture?
  
  Ehrman investigates ancient sources to:
  
  Reveal which New Testament books were outright forgeries.
  
  Explain how widely forgery was practiced by early Christian writers—and how strongly it was condemned in the ancient world as fraudulent and illicit.
  
  Expose the deception in the history of the Christian religion.
  
  Ehrman’s fascinating story of fraud and deceit is essential reading for anyone interested in the truth about the Bible and the dubious origins of Christianity’s sacred texts.