One thing, large population movements even in neolithic era can be easily to trace from archaeology. We know movement of ancient Greeks from Balkans, Sea People who ravished Levant, Scythians who raided Persian Empire, Goths who crossed Danube. Yet, we cannot recover any evidence of large movement of Jews from Egypt. We are not talking about tribal family, but according to OT up to 1 million people. For comparison, barbarian raid upon Western Roman Empire in 405 which pretty much destroyed Roman position in western Europe had 200,000 people.
Posts by kaik
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23Interesting article about the evidence of the Jewish Exodus
by cappytan inthe reality is that there is no evidence whatsoever that the jews were ever enslaved in egypt.
yes, there's the story contained within the bible itself, but that's not a remotely historically admissible source.
i'm talking about real proof; archeological evidence, state records and primary sources.
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After leaving what did you Major in?
by Luther bertrand ini am curious if my observations are correct.
i noticed alot of exjws end up majoring in the social sciences.
i am also interested in what educational choices people have made either while fading or while completely out.
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If I would have to do over again, I would go for undergrad in earth science with specialization on oil exploration or remote sensing, and go for postgrad in project management or MBA in that field.
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After leaving what did you Major in?
by Luther bertrand ini am curious if my observations are correct.
i noticed alot of exjws end up majoring in the social sciences.
i am also interested in what educational choices people have made either while fading or while completely out.
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I went to STEM, my undergrad is IT and computer programming, and my Masters is related to Earth Science/GIS/computer programming. I am thinking to go for PhD in GIS and remote sensing (have mind set up either in VT, GMU, University of Colorado, Maryland, or UT in Dallas) or go for another master that would be related to IT/CS.
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My old computer is dead: long live my new CHROMEBOOK
by Terry ini had my previous toshiba laptop plugged into the wall five days ago when a sudden electric storm drove a jagged bolt of electricity earthward and fried my hard drive.
i posted my sad status on facebook.
guess who saw it?
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The best laptop I ever owned, was Toshiba. My mom's husband managed to drop it from the table on the floor and cracking the motherboard. I replaced it with Samsung, and this was the worst laptop ever. On my second year, it caught on fire by the charger. While I backing up data regularly, I lost collection of JW files that I downloaded couple days earlier. I use also Cloud so, I have now my school projects stored there. One things I learned that paying $$$ for laptop is not that worth. -
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Please, tell me.
by andrewlya inhi, i am a christian and i would like to know jehovas witness's belief in god and whether you believe jesus is god.
please, any statements back up with biblical verses,thank you and god bless, in jesus's name.. i am new on here, so please be patient with me :).
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Andrew, this is ex-JW forum, but you will run into JW who are still a member of the organization on this site. In general JWs do not have strong doctrine on divinity of Jesus. I grew up in WT as JW and we were never groomed to believe that Jesus was important for relationship with God.
As LG had said, JWs believe in one God, creator and originator, name Jehovah. They do not believe in Trinity or anything else divine except the father. Jesus is a first creation, but salvation is achieved by association with WT. Only small group of people will benefit from a personal association with Jesus, which is the 144,000 who are the spiritual bride who will live in heaven.
JW are not traditional Christians, so unlike mainstream Christianity that believes that "Jesus saves" it is the Watch Tower that saves, because it is like of Noah's Ark carrying faithful through Armageddon to salvation.
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How many of you are health nuts?
by Harvard Illiterate 411 inthere was/is a sister in my old hall who was a pharmaceutical sales rep and she was a huge proponent of anything in the drug industry.
when someone had a headache, she was the first to say "take an asprin.
" now my husband and i are what you might call old hippies.
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talesin, I believe there is a difference between organic as pushed today versus natural. Natural food is considered unhealthy by organic standards http://www.organicitsworthit.org/natural/natural-vs-organic. For example my granny baked bundtcake with six to eight eggs. They had smoked house with curing and aging sausages and bacon. It had salt as preservative. They did not know anything fat-free, sugar free, cholesterol free, gluten free. All was naturally produced from the environment. Butter was deep yellow and when it was fried in smell nicely. Today's butter tastes like paraffin. When I am buying a stuff I avoiding anything that has xyz-free on the product label. -
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Strange people you have studied WT and Bible with.
by kaik inwhen i look back into era when i conducted bible studies i recall several nice people, but also weird and strange.
my last bible study was with couple who were the new capitalists; people who earned a lot of money often by illegal means.
i am sure they were dangerous, but i have not perceived that way.
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Interesting picture from media. After Slovak election week ago, hard core fascist party will be sitting in parliament in Slovakia. The scariest thing is that one in four people under age 30 voted fascist party. This is fascist rally pic from Slovakia and this dude will be leading one of the largest party there into European parliament.
20something years ago, I studied with guy whose grandpa was dressed in such uniform and saluting with German's SS groups in Slovakia. I just could not studied anymore with such family, and they really liked WT publications.
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Did any of us ever enjoy meetings?
by stephanie61092 inthis is a legitimate question.
did any of us ever find real joy in being at the meetings?
did any of us ever finish a meeting and think "i feel so enriched"?
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I disliked assemblies. I like the first one I have ever attended because it was new to me. But the enthusiasm evaporated after the assembly. Meetings were alright, depending on who conducted them. We had one very motivated elder who was excellent orator and was like father-type middle aged man. Not much totalitarian and dogmatic. However, when you got some of the brainwashed fanatics to control the show it was boring to outright terrible. But at leas there was family so it was a lot of eye to eye communication. My mom insisted to sit at the last row so we could not be watched by rest of the KH. -
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How the Churches got the ‘End of the World’ wrong in 1492.
by fulltimestudent inin 1453 constantinople (also known as byzantium), the last remnant of the once mighty roman empire was a christian island in an islamic sea.
the city had been seriously weakened during the holy fourth crusade (1202-04), when fellow christians of the catholic brand had besieged the city, captured it, and savagely sacked it.. ( who needs enemies when you have christian friends?).
a miniature of the siege, artist unknown.
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In 1419, Catholic preachers from Dominican monastic orders, excommunicated by Rome, predicted the end of the world. They identified several places where people would be saved while rest of the humanity will die in the Armageddon. First, nobody took them seriously, it was just after Council of Konstantz that dealt with Schism, but as the deadline approached, mass panic hit Kingdom of Bohemia and some places in Holy Roman Empire. People as far from France, England,and Belgium arrived into Bohemia to survive. When the day approached tens of thousands people flocked in hot July days into selected placed to watch the world burn. One place had 40,000 to 60,000 people crammed up to the hill to get a better view. Day came and went and no Armageddon on sight. Hundreds of thousands people abandoned their properties, fields, farms, castles, and businesses for nothing. Subsequent fighting devastated much of Central Europe in war lasting till 1434, where Dominican monks were the prime target of revenge.
Medieval Europe had many dead-end visions. After Frankish empire collapsed, there was hysteria as well around 843. When Goths sacked Rome, the world thought the end was near. St. Augustine wrote his monumental book, City of God under the influence of the event. Many people calculated their prophecy year from the bible. The event from 1419 was also calculated from the Bible.
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The changing world - The Chinese in the west.
by fulltimestudent ini was hosing the garden at the front of our apartments earlier this morning, and this large gang (20-30 people) of elderly chinese went past, picking up rubbish in the street.
it suddenly clicked that this was 'clean-up australia' day.
what interested me was the involvement of this group of elderly chinese, and i assume that this is likely happening across sydney in all the many suburbs that have become 'chinese' in the last 35 years.
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My experience with Chinese and generally Far East people is positive. There are some things I do not understand culturally, but in school I was very good friend with Chinese/South Koreans who were extremely gifted in math and computer science. First they were distrustful but when I helped them with humanities and philosophy classes, we did study groups together and helped to get through college. I worked with several Chinese who studied in USA and were excellent workers. However, my neighbors.. different story. They are extremely unfriendly to rude and they loiter into my backyard. In Czech Republic and Hungary there is a lot of Chinese and Vietnamese and they are well assimilated and considered as ideal immigrants.
