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Since the time that the supposed Hunchback of Notre Dame swung from the bells in the bell tower, CLERGY has been afforded special dispensations by the civil authorities.
Even the civil authorities are in many governments referred to as "ministers".
In Richmond Virginia, circa 1965 Pioneers, those who spent 100 hours a month in the ministry .... and BEFORE the idea was promoted that we were "ordained" ministers .... and LONG before the GB started promoting the idea that those involved in lawsuits were "Clergy", these Brothers WERE granted exemption to military service with a "4-D" classification as "Ministers of Religion"
I WAS THERE AND SAW IT.
I was threatened with five years in the Federal Penitentiary, and when I told them I was ready to go ... I got the "I-O" classification, and exemption as a conscientious objector.
 

Now that I read again it seems that it had nothing to do with that 🤭
 
Do left and right brain dominant mean anything? Why viral shoe illusion theories don't really work
The message read: “if ur right brain is dominant, u will see combination of pink and white color,and if ur left brain is dominant, u will see it in grey and green color. Try with ur loved ones, very interesting.” (sic)
As engrossing as this theory is, it's completely false.
In fact, the idea that one is either left brained (more logical) or right brained (more creative) is untrue.
Carl Zimmer explained to VeryWell magazine: "The pop psychology notion of a left brain and a right brain doesn’t capture their intimate working relationship.
"The left hemisphere specialises in picking out the sounds that form words and working out the syntax of the phrase, for example, but it does not have a monopoly on language processing.
"The right hemisphere is more sensitive to the emotional features of language, tuning in to the slow rhythms of speech that carry intonation and stress."
Why do I see one colour and not another?
So why do some people see pink sneakers and others see grey?
Speaking in the frenzied aftermath of "the dress" debate, neuroscientist Bevil Conway attempted to explain why the dress was being perceived so differently.
Speaking to Wired, he said: "Your visual system is looking at this thing, and you're trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis... people either discount the blue side, in which case they end up seeing white and gold, or discount the gold side, in which case they end up with blue and black."
Liverpool University's Paul Knox, meanwhile, explained that the colour difference could be due to the lighting qualities of the device being used to view the picture.
"What meets the eye is light at given wavelengths that then stimulates several distinct pathways that process these different wavelengths," he explained in a 2015 journal. "That’s what the brain interprets as colour but its complicated by things like the device you may be viewing the photograph on, the lighting in which you’re viewing the photograph and what’s going on inside your head; your own expectations.
https://inews.co.uk/news/science/left-right-brain-dominant-what-mean-side-meaning-test-shoe-colour-illusion-815225

I just showed this to my 4 year old granddaughter, my son, and my wife. I even showed it to myself.
I see it as PINK, WHITE My 4 year old grand-daughter sees it as PINK, WHITE My son sees it as GREENISH/AQUA and GREY My wife sees it as GREENISH/AQUA and GREY

The leveling off of new infections between 2/8 and 2/9 is the type of news the doctors, China, WHO, etc., have been waiting for. (Unless it was a matter of not finishing the input of all the cases due to overworked workers and the weekend staffing levels.)

King does not necessarily refer to one person.  Check Daniel and see that it can refer to a world power/powerful kingdom.
(Daniel 7:17, 18) 17 “‘These huge beasts, four in number, are four kings who will stand up from the earth. 18 But the holy ones of the Supreme One will receive the kingdom, and they will possess the kingdom forever, yes, forever and ever.’
Media-Persia, Greece, Rome, Britain-America (Anglo-American)
 
But I agree it can also refer to the King of a great world power.
*** it-1 p. 70 Alexander ***
“A male of the goats . . . proceeded to strike down the ram and to break its two horns.” “The ram that you saw possessing the two horns stands for the kings of Media and Persia. And the hairy he-goat stands for the king of Greece.” (Da 8:5, 7, 20, 21)
After defeating the Medo-Persian forces twice in Asia Minor, Alexander’s army pushed first to the S and then to the E, completely conquering the Medo-Persian Empire
 
 
 

They’d better not be tying to fool us again.

@Health and Medicine, Clever Eagles remake. But yes, "too soon."
By a strange coincidence, we traveled on the "Anthem of the Seas" mentioned in the above post, about 10 years ago.  https://www.royalcaribbean.com/cruise-ships/anthem-of-the-seas
I already called it "Anthem of Di Seas." [pronounced: disease] because a "norovirus" breakout was affecting dozens, and even my own mother and father had to be quarantined in his room instead of being allowed out to the daily activities or meals. All the cruise personnel worked overtime standing around offering squirts from bottles of Purell saying: "Washy-washy? Washy-washy? Washy-washy?" Hard not to make fun of the experience.

When I first looked at the animation, I thought it was stupid .... but after "staring at the goat" for awhile, it fell over and I understand the relationships he was demonstrating.. It has to do with area.
All my working life I worked with trig, and never thought of that!
Cool!

I really GREAT movie is  the 2000 "Longitude", by the A&E Channel, which explains the development of how, for the first time, it was possible to determine accurate Longitude, for open ocean navigation.  I have the movie, and the book it was based on, also a magnificent read.
Latitude was able to be determined for thousands of years with just a plumb bob line, and a protractor, looking at the sun or stars, but
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This movie follows John Harrison's (Sir Michael Gambon's) quest to find the key to determining longitude. In the eighteenth century, the problem of measuring longitude confounded scientists, sailors and politicians. In 1707, unable to determine their exact location through a thick fog, two thousand men of the British fleet perished by accidentally running into the rocks off of the Scilly Islands. As a result of this tragedy, in 1714, British Parliament passed the Act of Longitude to offer an enormous cash prize to the person who could solve the problem of longitude. A carpenter by trade, Harrison believed that the solution lied in finding a way to measure time accurately, going against many of the scientists of the day, who felt that the mystery would be solved through celestial navigation. Harrison designs and creates four increasingly refined timekeepers. This work takes him through thirty years of struggle and determination (not only his, but his family's, friends', and allies' as well) to solve what was referred to as the "greatest scientific problem of the time." Along the way, he faces the animosity and interference of many of the celestial navigation proponents.
—PetrinaC <cubit@aol.com> "   ...only the second time in history, a carpenter stunned the world, and made it better.  

The reason it is referred to a "dead reckoning", is that often ... you were killed doing it.

Excellent article on navigation and "dead reckoning" at the link. That's for sharing this.
 

I’ve always enjoyed the Hornblower series of novels, starting with rookie or Midshipman Hornblower progressively up to Lord Hornblower. In a sort of osmosis way I picked up a vague familiarity with nautical terms. 

Nice poem, but it was not by C.T.Russell.
It had already been published in the Christian Science Sentinel in 1899.
It had already been published in a Theosophy journal in 1904.
The Oregon Law School Journal in 1902.
The Current Literature magazine of October 1890 published it with the added information that it had come from "The Fireside Magazine."
I assume it was published anonymously in the Fireside, because it shows up in several other places from the 1890's even up through very recently.

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Regarding the novel Coronavirus: "The virus “has demonstrated the capacity to spread globally"
Is it just me, or is that a really stupid statement. I mean surely ANY virus that is inside a host, and the host travels from one side of the globe to the other, will have the same capacity? (Don't blame the virus).
 

Nice poem, but it was not by C.T.Russell.
It had already been published in the Christian Science Sentinel in 1899.
It had already been published in a Theosophy journal in 1904.
The Oregon Law School Journal in 1902.
The Current Literature magazine of October 1890 published it with the added information that it had come from "The Fireside Magazine."
I assume it was published anonymously in the Fireside, because it shows up in several other places from the 1890's even up through very recently.

It was announced that the Devil was going out of business and that he would offer all his tools for sale to whom ever would pay the price. 

On the night of the sale, they were all attractively displayed and marked with a price, even so, they were a bad looking lot: 

Malice, Hatred, Envy, Deceit, Jealousy and Sensuality and all the other implements of evil were spread out. 

Apart from the rest, lay a harmless looking wedge shaped tool. Much worn and priced higher than any of the others. Someone asked the Devil, "What is that?" 

That is "DISCOURAGEMENT", THE DEVIL REPLIED! 

"But why do you have it priced so high?", the prospective purchaser inquired. 

BECAUSE SAID THE DEVIL; " It is more useful to me than any of the others. I can pry open and get inside a man's soul with it. I can do this when I can not get near him with any of the other tools I possess.. Once I get inside his mind with discouragement, I can use him in whatever way suits me best. The reason this tool is so worn, is that I can use it with nearly everyone. So, very few know that it belongs to me! 

It hardly needs to be added, that the Devil's price was so high for discouragement that it was never sold. He still owns it and uses it today!  
 
- contributed  by email - Many thanks Jenni

"If We Only Understood" by Brother C.T.Russell

Could we draw aside the curtains
That surround each other's lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur the action gives-

Often we would find it better,
Purer than we judged we would
We would love each other better
If we only understood.

Could we judge all deeds by motives,
See the good and bad within,
Often we would love the sinner
All the while we loathe the sin.

Could we know the powers working
To overthrow integrity,
We would judge each other's errors
With more patient charity.

If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the efforts all in vain,
And the bitter disappointments-
Understood the loss and gain-

Would the grim external roughness Seem,
I wonder, just the same? Would we help where we now hinder?
Would we pity where we blame?

Ah, we judge each other harshly,
Knowing not life's hidden force;
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at it's source.

Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains of good,
Oh, we'd love each other better If we only understood.

Charles T. Russell From "Poems of Dawn" 1912

If a conspiracy promoter doesn't want to be discredited they should be more careful with facts and evidence. There is a lot of truth in many of the things that any good conspiracy promoter uses. But all too often they start to promote an ideology or an agenda that requires them to begin avoiding and hiding facts that don't fit. If they are not completely honest, then they should be discredited, not for the whistleblowing or truthful parts of their message, but only for the untruthful parts.

I'm sure I could find a thousand places for that, if I thought arguing over conspiracy theories was important.
The idea of cheap labor is a constant search for companies everywhere. I worked for an international financial company that was constantly looking for cheaper labor for call centers, programmers, print and mail centers, even data centers (in spite of the dangers of having financial data transmitted over open lines often unencrypted). Several countries had bad reputations from 'fair labor' perspectives. China is a large country that is still basically poor even though the majority of persons are already above what the USA would consider a poverty level. Their track record on labor practices is no better than most other poor countries in spite of better laws than most countries on workers' rights and labor practices.
The evidence on "factory suicides" in particular is probably not a number I'd expect to get very accurately, but overall reported suicides in China (9.7/100k) are relatively low, with much higher suicide rates in Russia (31/100k), with USA  suicide rates (15.3) somewhere between those two countries, worse than China, but better than Russia. China's rate is about as low as Georgia, and the US is about as high as Sweden. http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-country/
China traded on the greed of of countries/companies willing to do this, only allowing them to base factories in China if those countries/companies were willing to share important intellectual property patents. Of course, this is how the US got many important patents, too, by sharing with other countries, or syphoning off inventors from other countries. I was surprised to learn that many of the patents that US companies have fought over were actually already on the books years earlier in other countries and it is only the US version of the patent that is being fought over. This even goes back to the 19th century telegraph (later AT&T) where S.F.B.Morse was only getting a patent for a version of a design already in use in the UK.
I agree. If you read Exxon Mobil's annual financial reports, sometimes you'd think you are reading the charter of one of the most powerful nations in the world, not merely an international company.
That's true, although these corporations usually have lawyers to lobby Congress to put laws on the books so that none dare call it treason.
Absolutely true, and it keeps getting worse because they have reached a degree of power so that they keep pushing the envelope on what they can get away with with no one to stop them. 
Investigative reporting is expensive and cuts into profits, and all too often will embarrass the corporate advertising sources of the media outlet, which is itself a monopoly with conflicts of interests after merging with and buying up competing media outlets. Entertainment made from "fluffy" or insignificant (or fake) news is what the audiences have already been trained to expect - and want. Most people probably don't realize that their news is carefully culled for them so that they don't learn anything real about what their own country is doing. And even a serious and important issue can be manipulated to create fear, propaganda, or a distraction from something else that should be more important.

Virus threatens U.S. companies’ supply of Chinese-made parts and materials
The battle to contain the Chinese coronavirus threatens to cut off U.S. companies from parts and materials they need to produce iPhones, automobiles and appliances and drugs to treat medical conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure and malaria.
Some of the United States’ best-known manufacturers such as General Electric, Caterpillar and the Big Three automakers, along with many smaller American businesses, depend on what is made in Chinese factories.
Now, they confront life without those items. Major airlines in the United States and Europe are halting their cargo and passenger flights to China for up to two months. Recent visitors to the country are barred from entering the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/virus-threatens-us-companies-supply-of-chinese-made-parts-and-materials/2020/02/02/6ee567f0-4478-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html
Apple shuts down all stores and corporate offices in China amid the continued Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
 
Apple announced on Saturday it was closing all of its offices and stores in China out of an "abundance of caution" amid the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.  The Wuhan coronavirus has killed at least 259 and infected around 12,000, primarily in China.  Apple, which earns about a quarter of its operating income in China, said it will keep its online store open during the shutdown.  https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-wuhan-apple-shuts-down-stores-and-offices-in-china-2020-2
US companies suspend China operations, restrict travel as coronavirus outbreak becomes global crisis
 
Disney, Tesla, airlines and other global companies with significant footprints in China are suspending operations as they respond to the outbreak of the coronavirus. The WHO has recommended against “measures that unnecessarily interfere with international trade or travel.” As the virus continues to spread, and institutions respond, it threatens to disrupt sectors from travel and retail to tech. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/01/coronavirus-companies-suspend-china-operations-restrict-travel.html
 

I am not going to argue with you over conspiracy theories and what is true and what is not.
However,  one is naive if you think that powerful corporations did not willingly move their factories to China to benefit from the cheap 18-hour slave labour shifts where so-called inspections were never done to ensure fair working hours. Factory suicides were prevalent.  Avarice and greed allowed them to finance factories there, allowed them to share important intellectual property patents which helped China in their race to build satellites, rockets, and military equipment.  US corporations assisted China to spy on their own citizens and made concessions to the government in order to get permission to operate in the country. 
It may not be conspiracy but i do think their greed made them act in a treasonous fashion. The US government was asleep and allowed monopolies to proliferate and also never held these companies to account.  It is now too late to stop China in its quest  to control the wealth of the world.   These treasonous corporations still pay very little taxes on their profits in USA but have their headoffoffices in other tax havens.......  Too many of the high-up politicians also  have stakes in Chinese corporations....... 
What people are allowed to do today would have been called treason a few years back.  While I do not care what they have done  (I do not take sides) - it does tell me that the top echelons of society and corporations have no morals and are lawless. Politicians have conflict of  interest and do not declare it ....... because very little investigative research journalism is done these days.  The six major media companies in the west are
 
Have started  using bots to prepare the news....... 

dduane:
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He did said that on the broadcasting.
Maybe is just out of sync on the video, sometimes happens when u upload videos.