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Can ANY JW provide Bible proof?
by BoogerMan inhitchins razor - "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
which bible verse/s conclusively prove the following claims?.
w16 november p. 30 par.
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Ptolemy's "Canon" unreliable .
by hamsterbait inthe "canon" of ptolemy cannot be used to reconstruct babylonian succession.
this is because it is an astronomical treatise.. it does not even pretend to be a history of the babylonian kings list.. ptolemy compiled his information to back up the (at that time) astonishing accuracy with which astronomical events could be predicted and traced using his model of the solar system expounded in the almagest.. so if no notable event happened in the reign of a particular king, he is not mentioned.. however events which could be traced to a date and time, are mentioned, and the king ruling at the time named.
this would facilitate tracing the records made by the babylonians who were expert observers of celestial phenomena.. the egyptian historical records also show 587 as the date of jerusalem being sacked.
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The ``Four Presidents" Book: Impressions, Anyone?
by Room 215 ini've just finished reading the ``four presidents" book and am ambivalent about it.
much of it strikes me as illuminating if overly anecdotal; its impact is for me vitiated by (1) the paucity of documentation and (2) the anonymity of its author and contributors, however sympathetic i am to their reasons.
perhaps the most valuable part of the book are the notes and their copious references in early jw literature to bizarre, now-discredited beliefs.. while much of it rings true and is consonant with my first-hand experiences, i find the allegations of incidents in which young bethel boys engaged in late-night homosexual limousine liaisons with wealthy new yorkers hard to believe (these were alleged to have occurred at a time when i was there at bethel, and would almost certainly have seen or heard of any such via the ``grapevine" to which i was as well connected as anyone).. readers out there, what are your impressions?
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Where did Scholar go?
by Amazing1914 income on buddy, you have some serious explaining to do regarding "presence" v coming.
what happened to ya, huh?
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The WTS twists Jeremiah 38:17 18
by Doug Mason intowards the end of zedekiah's reign, jeremiah pleaded with him, telling him to willingly serve babylon.
a period of 70 years servitude to babylon was already in place and jeremiah told the king that if he was not prepared to serve babylon, the city of jerusalem would be needlessly destroyed and his life would needlessly be taken.
but if zedekiah surrendered, not only would his life be spared, but the city would not be burned down.
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JW SCHOLAR TELL US WHAT PRODUCT ARE YOU SELLING?
by steve2 inis the product you're selling one of partial acceptance of the watchtower's teachings?
in that case, which parts do you suggest we accept and which do we reject?
or is the product you're selling one of full acceptance of the watchtower's teachings?
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An interesting Blog post
by Blotty inthis is quite an interesting blog post - somethings i find to be "ehh" and some with fundamentally flawed arguments.
but an interesting point of view and worth looking into (not sure if this person is a jw):https://jimspace3000.blogspot.com/2021/01/answers-to-10-questions-answers.html.
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Great news friends
by Beth Sarim inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cv4jxbapu.
eric wilson outlines how this book is being released again.. i have the 2004 edition.
which i purchased in 2018. was fortunate to obtain at a reasonable price, which i thought i totally lucked-out on because i thought it was never going to be released again.
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Couture's treatise refuted
by Doug Mason inyou can obtain a copy of carl olof jonsson's refutation of philip couture's treatise at:.
http://au.geocities.com/doug_mason1940/coutures_treatise_refuted.pdf.
(see note 53 in version 4 of carl's book gentile times revisited, p.
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Scholar,Where are U?
by badboy inscholar,i have got some question(s) for u. can u explain the first chapter of judges where it says that the israelites took jerusalem killing all its inhabitants but says later they didn't take jerusalem and in kings or samuel says that david took jerusalem.. please explain, scholar.
in man.. distress...in deliverence at hand!,.
(i have forgotten the exact title,but it was published 1975!).