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——————————————————- It’s not about David respecting the blood of his enemies, or any animals slaughtered for food, or our respecting the blood. It’s not REALLY about real blood. God does not collect it into some big celestial swimming pool and swim in it. He considers all blood his personal property to teach us respect for the fact that He is the source of all life, but knows we cannot eat sunlight, so licenses the management of life to us. That’s why animals have no restrictions on blood. BECAUSE they are not being included in the Ransom. The Mosaic law is not in force now, but the underlying principles still are. That’s what “Abstain from blood” means.

As long as people in general exclude scriptural principles, who cares?

…. consider the time from the beginning of the first hemoglobin molecule metabolizing sugar and oxygen to Moses as preschool and kindergarten, but as soon as humanity learned to “do basic math”, figuratively speaking, bathe more or less regularly, and not poop in the middle of the tent it was time for God to introduce them to a new concept (for them) now that they had centuries of experience as a frame of reference to integrate with…. Now it was time for some more abstract concepts …. about life and death … about responsibilities to God …. about respect for God in a violent and crude world, and to teach the Jews basic background information about how in the future the blood of one man was so valuable that God would accept such a simple thing to rescue the entire human race that respected that blood. Sorta like once you have the 12x12=144 table down pat …. going on to Algebra I.

Sometimes, when you read something, or somebody tells you something, it makes perfect sense. Other times you get the uneasy feeling it’s somewhere somehow you were being observed through binoculars by a duck. …. there is an actual Latin word for this, but it escapes me at the moment. You probably remember the scripture that says, paraphrased, “… you must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk .…”. The instant I read this scripture, many years ago, I understood why God would command such a thing, and I wholeheartedly agreed with it at the same level of seriousness that I instantly understood that it was intended. Occasionally over the past 50 years, in discussing other subjects, I would mention that commandment, and was genuinely stunned that others did not also instantly “get it”. It made no sense to them. If you are going to KILL an animal for food … what’s the big deal how you cook it? The younger animal is food. The mother’s milk is food. What’s the big deal? Neither one knows or is capable of comprehending WHAT is done with their being a resource. Just as soldiers become soldiers for dozens of different reasons, even among soldiers, sometimes what is a moral necessity for one is incomprehensible for another. The SYMBOLIC ( … if you will, the SPIRITUAL …) value of blood is unique, because by example and by edict from God, it is a common theme that runs throughout the whole Bible. It’s clear that we have permission to use as food anything that walks, crawls, swims or flies, including (if you can overcome the strong CULTURAL taboos, like when Jerusalem was under siege) people … presumably bled out from war wounds. Some people would rather starve to death …. and have. The prohibition against blood is consistent in principle throughout the entire Bible, but what convinced me was the example of King David, a soldier who slaughtered men and animals by the thousands … himself … personally … in hand to hand and eyeball to eyeball combat. When he in laying siege to a city remarked he was thirsty, and the only close by water was in a well near the city walls, two of his men risked their lives in a hail of arrows, spears, and rocks to bring him back a bucket of water. David did NOT drink the water. He poured it out on the ground, not because it was blood, or even blood fractions, but because it REPRESENTED the lives of his two soldiers, the EXACT same way that blood represents all air-breathing (pneuma=air) souls. In 1960, when I first read that, I instantly “got it”, the same way I instantly understood about the “boiling a kid in it’s mothers milk”. That’s why, for me, it is just as much respect for the IDEA, or SYMBOLISM of respecting that which Jehovah God has clearly stated is his jealously guarded personal property, as well as actual blood. Some people “get it”. Some people don’t.

What makes that funny is that it is a “revealed truth” that we all know is true, but never verbalized.

Elon Musk recently opined that what makes things funny is that they have a “revealed truth” in order to be funny. Something that everybody “knows”, but never thought about. I agree with this. The Babylon Bee is a religiously oriented web site that excoriates EVERYBODY, but one might suspect favors Jehovah’s Witnesses only because they seem to have the same clear vision of “Core Truths” that JWs have. They have produced a series of five short YouTube video clips about “Californians Move To Texas” that has MANY subtle screamingly funny “revealed truths”. Well worth the time to watch at least three times each, if for no other reason than understanding what makes something funny!

…. kinda makes you wonder if Santa Clause and Jesus got into a fist fight … who would the children root for?

I did a search of “The Babylon Bee” site for Jehovah’s Witnesses ….. there’s MORE!! … one of my favorites …..

I seriously doubt that with those vague, general, non-specific, word salads anyone cares except you, Georgie.

Over the years I have immensely enjoyed the continuous religious satire of “The Babylon Bee”, as they have excoriated and sometimes figuratively disemboweled Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, and Mega churches, the idea of a burning hell, and doctrines galore. Today, it was Jehovah’s Witnesses turn, and it was painfully funny! I had to ask ChatGBT what a “J-Dub” was, because I thought it was an insulting term. Then I had to think about that answer until it made sense ChatGBT: “The term "J-Dub" likely originated as a casual and abbreviated way for people to refer to Jehovah's Witnesses. It's a combination of the letter "J" from Jehovah and "Dub" from the "W" in Witnesses, creating a more informal and nickname-like expression. Informal language and slang often evolve naturally within communities, and this appears to be an example within the context of Jehovah's Witnesses.” As a small boy I had an uncle always referred to as “DubaGee” and many years later I figured out it meant W. G. for William Garrison something, the W. being pronounced “DubbaYuu” With that insight, I find the ChatGBT EXPLANATION very reasonable.

jealousy, Et tu Brute’? (… and your first sentence “Some of us might just think that certain individuals undoubtedly have a place in the world of cinema.“ makes no sense at all.)

i had to look that up ….

… sorta like skipping praying at breakfast if you use whole milk in your Count Chocula cereal ?

… I was just getting ready to reply something I thought was profound, wise, insightful and wrong. …. but then the idea occorred to methat we have never seen MM and the Big L in the same post…. Coincidence?

… I was just getting ready to reply something I thought was profound, wise, insightful and wrong. AND VIOLA! The Roadrunner clip!

it may be an urban legend, but it is my understanding that the coyote in the last episode did get to catch and eat the Road Runner. The BIG question for me this morning is …. “How does an A.I. develop a sense of humor?”.

… I was just getting ready to reply something I thought was profound, wise, insightful and wrong.

Speaking of ideas … it just occurred to me that if somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy there is a species of sentient Octopus Aliens with 8 legs, perhaps they were created like Adam and Eve without sin but ate of the forbidden lobster and were expelled from the Crystal Lagoon and the blessings of their Creator were removed from them, and the were condemned to shrivel up and die. But God had mercy on them and sent his Son to redeem them and reconcile with God. Would that Redeemer be Jesus with two arms and legs, or have a different name and have eight arms and/ or legs? Hmmmmm … perhaps that’s a question best asked in “Questions From Readers”.

…. that’s why at birth each new human child should be issued a puppy, and on their 13th birthday be given a cat, or a box turtle.

Bullwinkle the Moose attended Wossamotta U, a fictional university in the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" animated TV series.

I am not a “specist”. Although I do not object to being, most of the time, at the top of the food chain. Although I am prejudiced that human dams are just as important as beaver dams.

Isaac Asimov wrote more than 400 books in his lifetime … he would write 8 hours a day, five days a week, sometimes six. When my three children were younger, they each knew the Three Laws of Robotics by heart.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/vaccinated-people-more-likely-to-suffer-blood-disorders-ear-disease-studies-5535789?utm_source=brightnoe&src_src=brightnoe&utm_campaign=bright-2023-12-04&src_cmp=bright-2023-12-04&utm_medium=email&est=BsdRb9gjAdO%2BBeMMXjqlceQtelgPeLGQ%2Fg20e1SK3I6j9lIOEWaXidFLDDo%3D A bit extra on Covid shots and blood diseases ….

Not surprising …. in any organization where there is plenty of Free money and the only competency test is “good intentions”, liberal scum will rise to the top. I betcha Job’s three companions originally came over for a free meal.