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  1. Arauna
    It has a lot to do with the holding of the festival and Cyrus' attendance of it to be crowned "King of the four corners of the earth!" If you just look up the numbers/dates and do not understand the culture then you are lost! It is about the Babylonian traditions and its importance in the social life of the nation, its acceptance of the new kings (satrap and emperor) and the most important festival to be attended by Cyrus. To dismiss it is an ERROR!
  2. Arauna
    Smart people can write so that even challenged people can understand what they are trying to say. The better pone understands a subject, the simpler one can explain it.
  3. Arauna
    This is a blatant lie - Your speak of your own originality as it is you who wish to paint JWs as idiots. Even the silliest people know that the earth and heavens cannot have been created in 6000 years. However, JWs accept that the earth itself was prepared in 6 epochs called "days" and the entire period of preparation of the earth is also called a day. I have seen very little debunking and much more insults any very little science coming from you! You have not yet explained the Cambrian explosion...... One layer of earth wherein all the different animals appear fully formed. Can you explain this process? Please debunk this without insults and without exulting in your superior intellect... or changing the subject because you usually answer with an unrelated question. first there was energy - then came all the "other" stuff. That is what happened on earth as well. After the cooling of the atmosphere the expanse had to be cleared up for the light from the sun to shine through.
  4. Arauna
    As well as matter forming from the 'controlled' energy.
  5. Arauna
    With how many years is it out?
  6. Arauna
    This why your arguments are useless. You do not definitely know for sure if the seven years accounts for madness or if it includes the years that nebuchadnezzar did duties for his father as regent. As I said..... he went to war in the name of his father..... Too many assumptions. Like evolution these scholars are too cocksure...... It is merely a useful tool. Astronomical dating can be a powerful tool for establishing absolute chronologies, but... it can easily produce precise and impressive looking results based on invalid assumptions – results so precise and impressive they may not be questioned by scholars in other fields. —John Steele, "The Use and Abuse of Astronomy in Establishing Absolute Chronologies."
  7. Arauna
    China only does predatory loans. Unfortunately you think so much of your own opinions that you believe only that which confirms your own opinions. You are tremendously contentious because of this. I have LIVED 45 years in Africa and still have many friends and relatives there. So why would I argue with a smartypants? You also cloud your own judgement by saying Amerika is promoting bad stories about China and Africa to draw attention away from it's own deeds. The truth is: in Africa itself - it's people do not care about America - they are trying to survive all the time while their corrupt leaders are selling them out to China. Rare minerals and other natural resources are already in the hands of China. They do not care what USA thinks. In actual fact the problems in Africa have always been UNDER REPORTED.......... the suffering, wars, genocides, predatory loans by China and UN...... USA only happened to focus on it now because it suits them........ it does not mean it has not been ONGOING. Today 300 boys abducted in Nigeria..... why this got publicity heaven knows because the abduction of girls has been an ongoing problem as well as the destruction and murder of entire christian villages. China has also been a problem for quite some time....... and they have said nothing. I feel sorry for the Chinese citizens.... who have to deal with the CCP and its military who have infiltrated every sector of life in China and doing the same in other countries. It is its military wing which has been donating money to US universities and lending money to other countries.....
  8. Arauna
    Thank you Anna. I have seen so many articles with similar content from reputable news sources. The UN recently also condemned this. ..... which was surprising because they use China as a model. I have also seen more stories about the organ harvesting despite the fact that journalists cannot enter China without being followed around by secret services. Only "responsible" journalists allowed which means: pro-CCP journalists
  9. Arauna
    You say many things without giving dates. Nabopolassar was getting old and his son was already presented as king (very important event) and married to the median princess. I speak from memory when I allege that nebuchadnezzar fought several battles in the name of his father when his father was alive. If I remember from the studies I did years ago he received the news of his father's death when he was at carchemish. (This according to secular history).
  10. Arauna
    ???
  11. Arauna
    Besides I have been reading up about the syncronization of all the middle eastern civilizations and their important dates - how all of them have been synchronized with the Egyptian dates so that they all make sense when put into one time-line. Every time on this forum I have brought attention to this you have outrightly rejected the thought.... but anyone who has studied some Egyptology knows about the controversies surrounding this egyptian chronology. Even the Hittite dates are synchronized to fit in with Egyptology's chronology..... and there are errors. So all time-line synchronized with it are not accurate. Although egyptologists reject the bible and only accept secular dates...... their entire egyptian chronology is based on a single date they assumed to be correct when champollion lifted a single "biblical king" from the bible to pin his entire chronology on it - shishak. It is quite ironic that they accept a WRONG biblical king to base their entire incorrect chronology on yet reject the bible. BUT champollion's unfortunate choice has put the middle kingdom out by more than 350 years and the new kingdom by 20 years. Because of this, I only accept biblical chronology and very careful with the accepted secular "scholarly" dates. They have been synchronized with incorrect Egyptian dates. I had a struggle to copy (stuff hands) the first 2 paragraphs under Egyptian chronology on wikipedia. It brings attention to the fact that there is NOT consensus on the secular egyptian dates. Please look it up. You will see that biblical chronology is NOT the same as the secular chronology - no matter how hard you try to converge them. The battle of Josiah against Egypt took place 629 BCE when Josiah was killed. The Egyptian king then took time to install the youngest son of Josiah on the throne. 3 months later he was removed and jehoiakim was made king.... he ruled for 11 years before being removed by Babylon and replaced by Sedekia - who was dethroned in 607 BCE. Many rebellions and changing of vassals. Quite a lot of biblical events between these 2 dates too! Secular date for carchemish between Nebuchadnezzar and Necho ii is 605. Secular dates do not allow for detailed biblical events because it rejects the bible. What chronology would you say is more reliable? Biblical or secular.
  12. Arauna
    You tend to use the "old publications" and not the newer evidences provided by the insight book etc. - so I do not trust you when you quote watchtower. I have seen in the past how you cherry pick the "old publications". So you need not quote them again.
  13. Arauna
    You know nothing about me. My science education comes from reading science - as I have an interest in it. I can give you many reasons why I do not believe in evolution and most of them you will not find in a watchtower publication...... lol.
  14. Arauna
    Neshamah means ' breath ' in its restricted sense. Ru'ah has a much wider application. It is an "active" wind or energy which brings visible results. It is always in motion and cannot be controlled by humans..........whereas "power" - can be latent or active..... so much for your lumping of all 3 words together in such a sloppy way.
  15. Arauna
    There are many respectable scientists who are JWs and many other scientists who are Christians. They find the statements in the bible , which borders on science, highly compatible with science. You make many wild, arrogant, statements without giving proof. You come across as patronizing - as though you are the only one who understand science. Science is only a tool to understand the natural world. It is not a God and not an explanation of everything as you pretend it to be. As I pointed out earlier - scientists are just imperfect men who can make errors and are prone to ego, lying, evil , professional jealousy greedy...etc. just like any other educated or uneducated person. (This Corona virus fiasco is a good example of science or rather, the scientists who run the science. And it seems they think they can run the world under a technocratic - corperatocricy in future under the UN...... lol. We know, bible prophecy indicates a major failure for humankind and their science.) Evidence is there that atheists make science their God..... but it is an extremely imperfect God. Science lacks the mathematic formulas to connect the different sciences together and cannot even explain the energies that exist - such as magnetism and how it connects with weak and strong energies and gravity - to get to one conclusion for the universe and earth. There are string theory and quantum theory - all theories that give a little explanation and are NOT compatible.... they give explanations only to a certain point ...... and then it lacks that which is needed to explain it all. Do not pretend here on this forum that science has the answers - it only pretends to have the answers. The reality is - is it extremely DEFICIENT. I have not seen any "scientific " argument from you which is based on science- you mostly revile others... that is all. You are a perfect advertisement for your godlessness. I suggest you read up on that history and your eyes will open up. I am not here to teach a person who makes wild statements. I like to speak to logical, human being which is prepared weigh evidences. Even in modern times there is a flat earth society..... so what do you think they believed 4000 years ago? I said moses was educated. It is interesting to read the construction dimensions given for the tabernacle.... either moses or God gave those dimensions and they seem accurate and detailed.. Come to think of it - even the arc built by Noah is very much a stable construction - similar in dimension to the large modern ocean liners..... just to give 2 examples. I think you are unscientific - and your dismissiveness makes you so. A true scientist searches for the truth and follows it - wherever the conclusions may lead him to. You are too scared to do that. You may just have to re-evaluate your false claims
  16. Arauna
    The culture of the Babylonians were so set in its traditions that to deviate from it would create unrest with the people. Nabonides was hated by the people because he did not attend the festival of Akitu. He was shirking his duty with the God of the city and could bring great misfortune to the people - such was the superstition. The festival of Akitu was centered around the King as representing the deity if the city - Marduk.... and a great king (if he was smart) would definitely attend this and allow himself to be crowned. it was a time of great festivity and the people participated... so if it did not take place they would feel bereft of its significance. It is similar to Alexander the Great being crowned in Egypt according to Egyptian customs.... not his own customs. This brought him much respect in Egypt. He was later buried there. Akitu was held for 14 days and started in the first day of NISSAN. The cultural history of the period tells me that Cyrus would have had himself crowned as 'king of the four corners of the earth' at this festival. Assyrian kings also had themselves crowned there. it was the most important festival on the pagan calendar.
  17. Arauna
    True - but you demeaned the questions asked by the bible writer. It is clear that Moses was a thinker and was also an educated man - having access to the highest education of the time, as well as a man who communicated with jehovah. A sheeple can come to the same conclusion..... Anyone can see mostly order in a universe where things can go badly wrong if there were not cycles. Ancient star watchers (priests) knew which morning star was on the horizon every day of the year. They made advanced calculations regarding the stars and wrote it all down. Any anomaly was noted so as to link it with earthly events - so as to be able to make predictions. They knew how trustworthy the events in the skies were - recurring year after year. In job we find description of natural cycles such as the water cycle etc. Your skepticism blinds you to many realities of the past.
  18. Arauna
    As I said before - the spirit is " projected energy" to accomplish a purpose. Spirit and power are related. To deliberately ignore that connection is like reading excellent evidence that evolution is not possible and then to go ahead and ignore it. What if you "think" you are brilliant and not a savant. I will take an idiot - savant any time. If later he lost the help of God - it does not demean the work he did. However, the NW translation has been revised on 2 occasions I am aware of.
  19. Arauna
    Most stars stay in orbit so as not to create chaos. We see occasional changes - which is entropy - it leads to chaotic incidence. The universe we can see with our eye is mostly organized with each star in its (orbit) place. If each moved where they please we will see continual explosions/fusions etc. So this verse is asking us to "think" about what we see.
  20. Arauna
    The bible is not a science manual. It is a book which gives us the history of how God is still on track to reach his final outcome of his purpose - while allowing wicked mankind to rule themselves with their own governments of choice in the interim period. God just steps into humankind's affairs when his final purpose is in jeopardy. Describing his power/dynamic energy/ projected energy / spirit is just inviting us to look around us and open our eyes. To make sure of the evidences of his existence and power. "Not one if them is missing" means that God can count billions of stars....... something I doubt any human can do without a computer. So we are asked to ' think' about things. The same issue still exists today. Human rule, or acknowledgement of the sovreignty of God. Now, at the apex if human discovery, when science and tech has become the new God of the 4th industrial revolution, people look to science and technocracy to fix all the problems on the globe. Yet at present we face the biggest threat to the continuance of human existence than ever before due to humankind's mismanagement of things, our own selfish desires for power and control.
  21. Arauna
    The bible is a book of education for all people to get a glimpse into the ways of God in order to honor him in the right way. It should elevate the mind with good insight into the world and moral principals to guide the reader to distinguish right from wrong so that they walk in justice...... and in this way make their paths straight and successful. In no way does it dumb us down.... but lifts up. This I have often seen in Africa where some people have little secular education and yet are able to soar above superstition etc.
  22. Arauna
    But you forget that his "Spirit " is always projected with a specific purpose in mind. So when you pray to Jehovah for spirit it should have a sacret purpose in mind and you will definitely receive spirit for this purpose. (Sorry that my answers are intermittent today as I am applying for residence in Albania and going in and out of appointments today). Your definitions of active force definitely indicates that energies are used for different purposes - so jehovah does give constant attention to his living and inanimate creation. Bringing about change in line with his purpose.
  23. Arauna
    Years ago I did I study on the word 'spirit' and came to the conclusion that it meant "projected energy". .......jehovah's power / spirit is always active and directed - regarding our physical realm never in a dormant state. In the bible the words for power and spirit are closely associated. Every piece of the visible universe has Jehovah's active energy in it. I came to the conclusion that the universe would collapse if Jehovah withdrew his 'energy' from it because all matter is energy in one form or another and it is many of these different energies which scientists have not yet come up with ONE formula to describe it all. This is the illusive or magic formula these scientists are searching for, when 'sheeple' like me can come to good conclusions about it by studying the bible - the book scientist disparage. But Mr AlanF is turning the conversation away to another aspect - to get a 'spiel' on the translation of a 'word' in Isaiah 40 to disprove the "power" which in this case means "truth", of God's word. He disparaged the bible above by giving incorrect quotes from his memory. I answered with 3 short refrences from the bible..... Please Mr Alan F explain to me why you did not find it appropriate to rather ask about the translation of the word "nothing" in the following scripture written by Moses under inspiration 3,500 years ago? job 26:7 " He stretches the northern sky over empty space, suspending the earth upon "NOTHING". Scientifically - we no there is. With the naked eye, it really hangs on nothing.
  24. Arauna
    What outsiders do not understand is that tribes in Africa vote according to tribal parties. Everything is partisan. That is why there are always low-key genocides going on. Elections are always unfair even if they are certified by so-called independent watchers. This is how Mugabe ruled for 37 years and could starve all the tribes that voted against him.
  25. Arauna
    LOL......so she is wrong in saying they do not do their civic duty......... except, not voting for her. This is a problem in Africa..... if you do not vote, you are persecuted, if you vote wrong, you are also persecuted.... so it is good that this civic duty is one JWs refrain from. No mark of the beast.
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