SECULAR EVIDENCE and NEO-BABYLONIAN CHRONOLOGY (Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, etc.)

[JW Insider]

2 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

There are a lot smarter people than the likes of, you

Billions of people may be smarter than me. But it doesn't require as much smarts as you probably think it does to understand this.

4 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

Do the math.

I did. It was pretty simple.

4 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

You stated you are attending college

No, I never said I was attending college. I haven't attended college for many years. If you were confused about the university account I use for JSTOR, etc., I have stated that it was an "alumni" account. Alumni means I already finished.

8 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

because you missed out on a wonderful life made in HOLLYWOOD.

Is that why you think people go to college? How did that work out for you when you went for those PhD's? I pioneered my way through college. I took 7 semesters of Hebrew, and I thought that my computer science degree would result in more choices of part time jobs, to continue pioneering. Instead I ended up with full time jobs, and retired about 10 years ago. No more college for me.

17 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

Essentially denying you a good future as if life has guarantees. Have it mean, something other than to boost your bruised ego.

If you are continuing to project, I apologize for bruising your ego.

19 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

God knows it, why continue to hide and lie to him, Adam.

Who is this Adam? Is this supposed to be another name you are guessing is me? If so, wrong again.

 

[JW Insider]

9 hours ago, César Chávez said:

The text V AT 4956 from year 37 of NEBUCHADNEZZAR II, which we have already discussed above, reports an 'eclipse that failed' for 4th July, -567. An eclipse was expected, but none occurred.

Yet the Watchtower says it is a fact that this eclipse actually occurred: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200274030/7/0

*** w11 11/1 p. 25 When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?—Part Two ***
It is a fact that a lunar eclipse occurred on July 4 (Julian calendar) of this month during 568 B.C.E.

So who is right? Your source or the Watchtower?

(By the way, you have had about a 100% failure rate so far in all of your attempts to give evidence for your false assumptions. If I remember correctly, this has also been true of every post you have ever made on this subject in every place on this forum on every occasion when it came up.)

Edited to add that the mistake made by your source [H. van der Waerden] is a common one that John Steele has explained and I see that others have also explained the same mistake.

[JW Insider]

52 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

The failure rate of 100% comes from you, since your ignorance can't calculate and comprehend what failures there are for VAT 4956. You attempt of misrepresentation of Watchtower literature that you already deploy is just one more example of your desperation to cling on to your false claims. 

I see you didn't dare answer the question: Who is right? Your source or the Watchtower?

Your source, H. van der Waerden, said it was the eclipse that failed, "An eclipse was expected. But none occurred." Yet the Watchtower says it was a fact that this same eclipse did occur.

All you could do instead of answering the question, is to claim that I misrepresented Watchtower literature in desperation. So who is desperate here to misrepresent the Watchower just because they are so desperate to claim that COJ was wrong?

From what I have seen so far, 100% of the things COJ says about the Neo-Babylonian evidence is 100% correct. I am pretty sure you probably already know this yourself, which is why no one has even tried to quote any specifics from COJ. You seem to prefer only vague claims. And now that you have finally claimed that this quote from 1974 is something he missed, you find out that the Watchtower didn't fall for this mistake claimed by your source, and neither did COJ.

So you say I am misrepresenting the WT on this point, but you won't dare to say how.

[JW Insider]

40 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

By whose standard of interpretation. If I use your misrepresentation of the Watchtower illustration, then I can say, you're extremely wrong.

I see that, again, you didn't dare answer the question: Who is right? Your source or the Watchtower?

As usual, you are using "wordplay" (by your definition) to avoid and evade answering the questions. Let's see if you are able to answer directly:

Did your source say that there was an eclipse reported for July 4, -567 that failed? Did it say that an eclipse was expected but did not occur? It's a YES/NO question so a simple YES or NO should suffice.

But I can pretty much assume that you will not stand by what you wrote when you quoted the author. I think you will either find an excuse to ignore this question or you will use "wordplay" to evade it, or backtrack.

On 1/6/2021 at 3:31 PM, César Chávez said:

Eclipse that failed    The text VAT 4956 from year 37 of NEBUCHADNEZZAR II, which we have already discussed above, reports an 'eclipse that failed' for 4th July, -567. An eclipse was expected, but none occurred.

And the second part of this question is this:

Did the Watchtower claim that an eclipse did in fact occur on that date? A simple YES or NO should suffice.

*** w11 11/1 p. 25 When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?—Part Two ***
It is a fact that a lunar eclipse occurred on July 4 (Julian calendar) of this month during 568 B.C.E.

[Srecko Sostar]

47 minutes ago, César Chávez said:

Srecko, LEARN! About what you are up voting, you are now looking stupid!

Looking? Perhaps depends on your glasses :))

[Arauna]

22 hours ago, Srecko Sostar said:

ooking? Perhaps depends on your glasses

Lol - that is my turf.  My eyes are so bad I cannot do the research like I used to..... I write from memory alone.

[Srecko Sostar]

6 minutes ago, Arauna said:

Lol - that is my turf.  My eyes are so bad I cannot do the research like I used to..... I write from memory alone.

Yes, with ages our sight getting weak. 

[Arauna]

17 minutes ago, AlanF said:

Try acting within your limitations.

And let you get away with your lies - even my memory is better than your insults - which provides no evidence