Posts by Crazyguy

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Eden's snake

by Doug Mason in

in my study into the israelite and judahite salvations, i provided sources which tell us that the writers of the creation story at genesis 2 and 3 employed symbols associated with the goddess asherah, namely: eve, snake, and tree.. at present, i am researching satan and i came across the following from “the birth of satan” by t.j. wray and gregory mobley (pages 68-69 70).

doug.

even casual readers of the bible have heard about the story of the garden of eden (genesis 2-3).

Crazyguy

The story is a mish mash of Mesopotamian stories. In one story Adamu (Adam) is offered immortality by the sky gods but the god of the world Enki told him that if he ate the food offered it would kill him. Enki was a trickster god but also a god of wisdom and many scholars believe the story was telling how the god Enki did not want man to have immortality so he would not be like the gods. In the Gilgamesh story he retrieved a plant from a lake that would make him immortal but he took a nap first and a snake came along and ate it instead. Because a snake sheds its skin it’s has been associated with immortality.

In Genesis god creates Eve using a rib from Adam , in another story from Mesopotamia Enki gets healed by a female goddess which has something to do with his rib can’t remember the details but she becomes associated with a rib.

The tree of knowledge is all over the place in Mesopotamian stories. So is stories about Eden. The serpent in the story is probably not a Satan or a devil but a serpent god Ningizzida.

The writer of these stories in genesis clearly got a lot of details wrong in his attempt to put several stories in to one.

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The Perfect Storm in 2018?

by Wild_Thing in

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i have been sadly watching as the number of jws in other countries are decreasing (for the most part), while the numbers in the us are strangely increasing.

while i question the organization's self reporting numbers, i think 2018 may be the year for another mass us exodus.

leah remini's show will be focusing on jws in her show on a&e.

Crazyguy

Their definitely liquidating but I’m unsure if it’s do to a decline or coming decline of the cult that their preparing for or because they want to hide the money from pedophile attorneys.

The fact that their having one convention after another about being loyal, remaining in the faith, not leaving, please don’t go, is a bit of a tell.

Its also a bit of a tell that their numbers are crap, because if their growing like they claim why then have so many convention titles that seem to indicate the exact opposite.

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In one sentence, can you pinpoint a single event that woke you up?

by Brian J in

my turning point: serving on a child abuse judicial case.

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Crazyguy

Sorry ment to say Lett unlike the rest at Bethel did not think Armageddon was going to come in 1975.

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In one sentence, can you pinpoint a single event that woke you up?

by Brian J in

my turning point: serving on a child abuse judicial case.

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Crazyguy

Lett during a talked said he was considered an apostate while at bethel because he like the rest there didn’t think Armageddon was going to come in 1975. Growing up during that time but only about 7 in 1975 I remember them denying any of the 1975 Armageddon ideas came from bethel saying it was tough elders and cos making that claim. So during the talk I was like WTF?

Whats funny about it is I was several thousand miles away from home alone trying to get work to support my family then going to a regional convention praying that there would be some new info for me to provide me with some kind of pick me up or encouragement.

Brain J please give more details to your child abuse case that helped to wake you up.

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Since the Borg is so interested in money why not do the following to keep and gain new members:

by Sour Grapes in

make the taking of blood transfusion a conscience matter since the bible forbids just the eating of blood.. have youth programs for the congregations like basketball teams, baseball teams, etc.. still not allow the celebration of christmas and easter because of the pagan origins, but allow birthdays, mother and father day celebrations.

the cart people currently love baby showers to celebrate the birth of a baby but then they can't celebrate the birth date of the same baby one year later.. only have the best speakers give the talks on sundays.

too many monotone, just read the outline speakers now.. drop the members giving talks during the clam meetings.. allow the jdubs to count time to visit the sick, help the elderly with chores, to visit members in nursing homes.. not have meetings for service on saturday mornings.

Crazyguy

If they focused on a loving bunch of people in the organization and dropped all the nonsense they could retain most of the young and even bring in more members from the outside if they dropped or changed a lot of crap. This would help them, but they look at the numbers and just think they don’t have to do anything because of the growth.

This of course will be their doom because the growth is only in poor countries and they won’t be able to continue with only a bunch of very poor followers. But then again maybe they will if they continue to cut expenses.

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Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

by _Morpheus in

so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

post a pic of your ride.....

Crazyguy

I baught a bite last year, we got to live!

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How to start a Website?

by DATA-DOG in

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does anyone know the best way to start a website?

is wordpress good?

there’s going to be lots of things being sold on this site.

Crazyguy

If your going to do something anti JW have your hosting company in an offshore place like Iceland.

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Did the Jews invent themselves and Israel in response to Hellenism

by Crazyguy in

after alexander the great died a greek family called the ptolemy’s took over egypt and the area we call israel today.

they instituted a new form of god worship for their empire the worship of the king and a new god named serapis.

serapis was a combination of several egyptian and greeks gods combined into one god.

Crazyguy

The letter you mention is the one that sounds like pure Jewish propaganda. In the end I wish i had a time machine so I could go back and find out what was really going on.

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The Dark-Skinned Early Briton.

by fulltimestudent in

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i'm sure many others noted in yesterday's news feeds, that scientists deciphering the dna of the skeleton remains of a man thought to have died some 10,000 years ago in the south of england, have presented him as:.

as blue-eyed (now that's quite english) but as dark skinned.

and, that's not very english, to the horror of many.. (link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd/ ).

Crazyguy

They find fish living in caves that are blind but have eyes or the remnants of them. I too think humans migrated and when they got to northern places like Europe lost the need for so much pigment.

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$5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

by Sour Grapes in

a letter was read tonight in our kingdom hall that the money that the circuits in the indianapolis area had in savings to build a new assembly hall will now be transferred to the www to build kingdom halls in lands where they are needed and a new assembly hall for us will not be built.. we had a beautiful assembly hall near downtown indy that was paid for.

it was sold a couple of years ago.

we were promised a new assembly hall to be built in southern ohio near the indiana border but they can kiss that goodbye now.

Crazyguy

So what are they doing for a hall in that area now? I would think having and owning a hall would be a big money maker so why rent?