Attended the meeting tonight, filled in for a sick person, nailed the reading..got asked where i was and one elder was pretty condescending...sarcastically responded with "oh really?!?! You were sick?!?! You had germs?!?! You had germs?!?! I gave him the "whaaaaaaaatheFfffffff" face. it was creepy as hell. Then i really enjoyed our "Bible" (but not) study about the ranks of rank and file dubs....again 4 scriptures read. Then i enjoyed my reading of course and a sisters talk about how the bible talks of the true religion.....oh then of course the "how luke 24:44 and galatians 4 prove Jesus is the messiah" talk. He talked about prophecies leading to Christs haptism, anointing, death. And said this was historical evidence because people alive at that time died believing this was true and died because of believing it...which demonstrated their conviction that it was, in fact, true. Of course no physical evidencw has been revealed to prove certain aspects but that wasnt brought up. The next talk encouraged more to move permanently to other language speaking areas...and i left before local needs....by that time i felt claudtrophobic, hot, feverush, and sweaty....
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by DS211 inattended the meeting tonight, filled in for a sick person, nailed the reading..got asked where i was and one elder was pretty condescending...sarcastically responded with "oh really?!?!
you were sick?!?!
you had germs?!?!
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Dr. Hans Kristian Kotlar supports creation.
by Darkanyons inhello gents and ladies.
whats your take on this article on jan 2014 awake?.
did your view of evolution change?.
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good point guys...see? More WT goggle-izations being revealed...i learn some new "vital" (ha) truth everyday on here
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Richard Dawkins on religion and ethics
by DJS indawkins: religion no moral compass.
by jason miks.
a number of readers noting your skepticism over religions role in society ask whether an absence of religion would leave us without a moral compass?.
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Biblical archeology--Sun God found in synagogue and misc other findings
by DS211 inthis is from an emil i got from biblical archaeology society.. first person: the sun god in the synagoguehershel shankss first person in the november/december 2013 issue of bar hershel shanks 12/02/2013.
the 92nd street y in new york city called me a few months ago, asking me to speak.
medusa carved in stone at the chorazin synagogue.
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This is from an emIl i got from biblical archaeology society.
First Person: The Sun God in the Synagogue
Hershel Shanks’s First Person in the November/December 2013 issue of BAR
Hershel Shanks • 12/02/2013
The 92nd Street Y in New York City called me a few months ago, asking me to speak. We discussed possible topics, and I finally chose “What’s a Greek God Doing in an Ancient Synagogue?” They also agreed to my asking two real experts to join me on the platform: Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Steve Fine of Yeshiva University. We had a good time—and so did the enthusiastic audience—but we didn’t solve the problem, at least to my mind.
The mosaic pavement from the Beth Alpha synagogue in Israel.Art Resource, NY
I, of course, had been thinking of the mosaic pavement of the Hammath Tiberias synagogue on the Sea of Galilee. It wasn’t only that there was Helios, the Greek sun god, riding his four-horse chariot (quadriga) right there in the middle of the zodiac, but it was featured in the center of the floor right behind a mosaic of the Torah ark that was flanked by two large menorahs. Below the Helios mosaic was an inscription thanking the good Jews who founded or contributed money to the synagogue.
But that was just the beginning. Mosaics with Helios in his quadrigawere featured in half a dozen synagogues in Late Antiquity (fourth–seventh centuries C.E.) sprinkled around upper Judea. And if you try to limit things geographically, I’ll call your attention to a text-only zodiac in the mosaic floor of the ancient synagogue at Ein Gedi on the shore of the Dead Sea.
Helios is shown in one ancient synagogue excavated in Sepphoris. Gabi Laron/Courtesy Zeev Weiss
In one ancient synagogue excavated in 2000 in Sepphoris, Helios is transformed; instead of his image there is only a sun disk—driving thequadriga.a It’s almost as if the congregation was feeling a little guilty about having a picture of the sun god on the synagogue floor and alleviated their guilt somewhat by picturing only the sun itself driving its chariot instead of the face of the Greek god.
Every attempt to limit our subject has failed. It wasn’t just Helios or the zodiac. In another ancient synagogue (at Chorazin), it was Medusa. Medusa was a mythological female monster with snakes for hair. Looking at her would turn you into stone. Fortunately, she was slain by Perseus. Thereafter portraits of Medusa would be a talisman that protected from evil. Maybe that’s why Chorazin’s congregants put her in their synagogue, as a protection against evil. In any event, there she is, carved in stone, plain as day.
IntMosaic from Huqoq: An Inside Look at Discovering Ancient Synagogues with Jodi MaMedusa carved in stone at the Chorazin synagogue. Todd Bolen/bibleplaces.com
Just south of Chorazin is the justly famous ancient synagogue of Capernaum, so often associated with Jesus. (A building under the Capernaum synagogue may be the synagogue in which the gospels tell us Jesus preached [Mark 1:21; Luke 4:31–36; John 6:59].) Over the beautifully carved main entrance to the upper synagogue—the remains of which tourists marvel—are a series of wreaths that were once upheld by little nakederotes, or winged cupids associated with love and sex. I say “were” because they aren’t there any more. In the eighth century some iconoclasts dug out the offending erotes. We know that they were there, however, because the iconoclasts left the wreaths and the wings of the little figures.
Sarcophagus featuring Leda and the Swan in Beth Shearim catacombs. Hershel Shanks
As long as we’re on the subject, let’s go to the imposing Jewish catacombs at Beth Shearim. Beth Shearim is where the Sanhedrin, the rabbinic high court, moved after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 C.E. That’s where Rabbi Judah haNasi, the compiler of the Mishnah, the first comprehensive Jewish law book, lived. Beth Shearim is famous for its underground cemetery; that’s where Jews wanted to be buried when Jerusalem was no longer available. The catacombs are filled with Jewish symbols. It also has an imposing engraved sarcophagus featuring Leda and the Swan. In Greek mythology the swan is the form that Zeus took so that he might seduce (or rape) the king’s daughter, the beautiful Leda. The Irish poet William Butler Yeats captured the moment in a sonnet:
The sun god Helios under St. Peter’s in Rome. Scala/Art Resource, NY
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
The ancient sculptor of the Beth Shearim sarcophagus has caught the couple in flagrante delicto!
Lest you think that all this is confined to Judaism, let me close with a picture of Jesus—under St. Peter’s in Rome, no less—portrayed as the sun god Helios.
What does it all mean? I confess I can’t make much sense of it. Maybe some of our readers can.
Tell me whatchas think..
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Congress Meeting On Alien Life
by metatron inhttp://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/12/05/odds-of-alien-life-very-high--house-panel-hears.
typical partisan idiocy but at least they discussed it.. .
metatron.
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Humans are 6,000 years old...promise!
by notsurewheretogo inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25193442.
this kind of satanic propaganda is obviously satan "misleading" and changing the evidence to suit...and boy is he good at it and very busy doing it!.
leg bone gives up oldest human dna.
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Lol...oh boy
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Dr. Hans Kristian Kotlar supports creation.
by Darkanyons inhello gents and ladies.
whats your take on this article on jan 2014 awake?.
did your view of evolution change?.
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Oh i know rainbows existed before.but not according to scripture..im just referring to this
Gen 9:. 13 I put my rainbow in the cloud, and it will serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
two things..1) rainbows arent mentioned till after the flood nor is the covnany connected with it. Now this was a promise her never destroy the "earth" (same word for land) again by flood. If it is local flood then this, to me, is a false promise. Unless im missing something. And 2) if its a global flood theres seems to be evidence to contradict how many animals existed on the entire planet and how certain animals got back to where they were from (kangaroos or koalas, etc).
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Dr. Hans Kristian Kotlar supports creation.
by Darkanyons inhello gents and ladies.
whats your take on this article on jan 2014 awake?.
did your view of evolution change?.
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Agreed jwfacts..but the scriptures say it and the context sheds light on what else may or may not be false
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Dr. Hans Kristian Kotlar supports creation.
by Darkanyons inhello gents and ladies.
whats your take on this article on jan 2014 awake?.
did your view of evolution change?.
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Daniel--but doesnt the scripture bring out after the flood God gave us a rainbow to show there would never be a flood like that ever again that he would use to cause such destruction? if earth means land, and its just a local flood wouldnt that be a lie? There have been hundreds of local floods since then...we would have to see whether there has been any in that area since that time but there are plenty more floods that caused just as much destruction and death as a local flood....
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'Evolution' of the Creative Days length
by Syme inwe all know that wts likes to distance itself from the young earth creationists, who believe in the literal 6-day creation.. so are we supposed to be something fundamentally different from the yecs?
not so much.... i did some research some time ago about what the society believes abouth the length of the creative days.
this is what i found:.
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So before i read it...is it true or false. Id sure hate to waste all that time.
