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  How smart were the ancients?

  by Coded Logic in

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  growing up as a jw, i always thought the ancients were scientific morons who knew next to nothing.

  ashamedly, i used to run around citing isaiah 40:22 as proof of the bible's 'divine authorship' because it talked about "the circle of the earth".

  as though this were somehow an unknowable before spaceflight.

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  waton

  is translated into French by JWs with the word "ancien".:

  TFA:"Les anciens" old time elders will appear to be smarter and smarter compared to the new crop of jws, once all the wonderful changes come into play. (see the "new instructions" thread).
  
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  LDS leader James J. Hamula excommunicated

  by oppostate in

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  lds leader james j. hamula excommunicated.

  http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/faith/lds-leader-james-j-hamula-excommunicated/article_bc1f3f66-b315-5f2d-bf6e-473eef082209.html.

  in a rare action taken by the senior leadership of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, a disciplinary council was held for general authority seventy james j. hamula, and he has been excommunicated from the lds church..

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  waton

  LDS leadership regards "intellectuals" as the greatest threat to their religion. If a high level apostasy scandal was threatened in his case, perhaps he was framed to shame him on a personal matter. With Mormons many females past, modern snooping, that should not be difficult.

  would be a great ride, gaining freedom via the escort route!
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  New Instructions?

  by FedUpJW in

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  i may have missed it, but i just heard from a local elder that there are "new" instructions for how the two one day assembly's are to be conducted and handled......fifty-nine pages worth.

  he said they will now all be put on the same as the regional conventions.

  did i miss that letter/orders from "mother"?

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  waton

  If true, more jws will be turned into drones, becoming disenfranchised slaves, devoid of any originality. The ancients will appear to be smarter and smarter.
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  How to lock down the internet - As in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

  by fulltimestudent in

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  how do you allow a localised and controlled use of an intranet, allowing people to access a controlled flow of information, but preventing them from accessing information from the external internet (world wide web)?.

  not long ago, computer engineers at enno rey netzwerke in the german city of heidelberg were able to examine an ullim (nk brand name) tablet.

  what they discovered is that all the (western) efforts to leak anti-regime information into nk, to take advantage of a perceived increase in computing in nk, are likely useless as the regime's scientists and engineers have been able to modify the hardware and software to virtually close off information not approved by the regime.

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  waton

  Voice from the past: To me, this is an amazing zing. The Nazis had issued the mandatory 'Volks -Empfaenger" a basic radio that could not receive foreign stations. But they had mobile units that could detect dedicated people who had superhet radios tuned to BBC. superhet units that had to be custom build, for some of which I was used as an innocent 10 year old to smuggle on the railroad to wealthy customers.
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  Genesis chapter one can make your life meaningful and joyful

  by venus in

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  literal reading of genesis chapter one brings no benefit because you would see god as speaking to fishes and birds (genesis 1:22) which we know is not possible.

  however, with “a king’s mind” if one looks for the implied truth behind its literary allusions it may bring immense benefit.

  (proverb 25:2) for example:.

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  waton

  venus, try to read David Jay's posts, he has many "read between and above the lines" thoughts on Genesis here.

  Careful with mirrors, they reverse images, some distort the distances, ---take care!
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  How smart were the ancients?

  by Coded Logic in

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  growing up as a jw, i always thought the ancients were scientific morons who knew next to nothing.

  ashamedly, i used to run around citing isaiah 40:22 as proof of the bible's 'divine authorship' because it talked about "the circle of the earth".

  as though this were somehow an unknowable before spaceflight.

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  waton

  Bible writers just were not among the smart ones, or the most avid readers of science news. like the authors of the first century scripts that offered the fake news of Satan showing Jesus "all the kingdoms of the earth from a really high mountain" on a clear day. Einstein predicted bending of light rays around globes much later.
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  WT shooting themselves in the foot, or rather the mouth, finally

  by oppostate in

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  "stop the presses!".

  awesome blog article at bereans.net !.

  http://beroeans.net/2017/08/07/stop-the-presses/.

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  waton

  And they'd believe it the instant they read it.

  and prepare a pretentious comment to prove their ueber unity with whatever is dished out, "do it ,whether it is logical or not" as demanded ,but doctrines are fun to poke holes into, a laugh.
  
  
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  WT shooting themselves in the foot, or rather the mouth, finally

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "stop the presses!".

  awesome blog article at bereans.net !.

  http://beroeans.net/2017/08/07/stop-the-presses/.

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  waton

  Comparing humans to sheep cheapens the concept of the status of creatures. whether they are anointed, other, black, lost, whatever. It is fishy, Why did the man not use carpenter illustrations instead? "if I had a hammer''"
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  DId you ever fall asleep at the meetings, Assemblys??

  by karter in

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  if i'm tierd i fall asleep anywere so the meetings ect were no diffrent my wife would always try to wake me but im a deep sleeper.

  karter .

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  waton

  A certain individual always slept at a certain time, meeting or not, but he had a explosive sneeze. remark about that: XYZ sleeps at the meeting, but he does not let anybody else.sleep for long.

  sleeping at meetings has great benefits, assures a resurrection, it did for Eutychus!
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  How smart were the ancients?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
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  growing up as a jw, i always thought the ancients were scientific morons who knew next to nothing.

  ashamedly, i used to run around citing isaiah 40:22 as proof of the bible's 'divine authorship' because it talked about "the circle of the earth".

  as though this were somehow an unknowable before spaceflight.

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  sbf has a point: watching modern day masons with copper age tools try to dress and then erect a mini pyramid showed, that it would have taken more man hours to sharpen the tools than do the work. but they did it, not slaving either. Must have been the water canopy effect, the flood happened ~ at the same time.