The Librarian

Sheol? I know that, although you call yourself a Virginian, you live near the Canadian border in Rochester, but Sheol is in Alberta, Canada not far from the Pope and the Devil, and a lake that I think is a shortened form of Lake Lucifer.

Are you sure you weren't in Hell, Michigan?

On an even more important note, I just noticed that Google says the Area Code for Hell is 734.

Don't know if that fact will ever come in handy, but I know it's going to be easy to remember because if you type in "734" on a calculator and turn it upside down, it spells"HEL" although "7734" is better:

Oh the things we will learn, the places we will go!  Might want to pass this bit of trivia on to Vic if you see him.
The Librarian will probably take away my new privileges for this, but what the .... what the ... hay.

Asamblea especial de Puerto Rico (2016)

via El Bibliotecario

Good idea. Please note that I have begun to split off some of the posts from several recent threads (like this one) that have been attracting a lot of discussion about whether questioning a teaching of the Governing Body is disloyal. Some apparently see testing/questioning/proving as a sign LOYALTY, because in areas where we may be concerned that current teachings might differ from the Bible, we are primarily concerned with truth, honesty, reasonableness, and showing primary loyalty to Jehovah and Jesus and the teachings found in the Bible. Some apparently see ANY questioning of the Governing Body as DISLOYATY and the equivalent of returning to the teachings of Christendom.
If you have made posts HERE in this topic, but they were primarily about this Loyalty/Disloyalty issue, or discussing Christendom's teachings in general, or if they discussed the propriety of questioning the Governing Body, then your post is probably going to be found in this NEW TOPIC linked here. J.R.Ewing was not the originator of the topic or the person who came up with the title for the topic, it's just that in creating a new topic, the first post you take is the top post in that new topic:
https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/topic/43613-governing-body-does-it-show-loyalty-or-disloyalty-to-question-the-gb/
 

This is wrong on too many levels

Ce numéro contient les articles d’étude pour la période du 29 janvier au 25 février 2018.
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This is wrong on too many levels

This is wrong on too many levels

I personally would challenge some of their numbers above...... but just don't have the time. 

For our big meal of the day, my wife and I eat at Golden Corral Restaurant almost every day, because it is right on the way home from her work, and she gets off from teaching school at 3:15PM ... and if you get there before 4PM, you can pay the special LUNCH price, and at 4 PM, the dinner menu comes out,and you can eat STEAK and the Dinner Menu, for the price of lunch.  It is cheaper than buying the same quantity and variety of foods at the grocery stores ... there is no preparation, and NO DISHES! to wash !!
I thought I could eat steak EVERY day, and did for awhile ... but it became "tiresome", and boring ... so in a limited sense I can understand how one might tire of eating people.  I have heard that human flesh tastes "just like pork" ... in fact, one nickname for human flesh is "Long Pig".
IN the Scriptures Jehovah expressed lament that Jews under siege would be driven to cannibalism, and they were ... several times while warring ...BUT HE NEVER PROHIBITED CANNIBALISM !   (... presumably war dead who had bled to death ...), so the definition of "Wrong" would have to come from CULTURAL squeamishness and aversion ... as Jehovah God NEVER said it was wrong to eat people ... just repulsive  as a cultural standard. 
I guarantee you this ... go about three weeks without eating and seeing your children starving to death in front of your eyes will add a great deal of "flexibility" to your outlook on this issue.  In the Soviet Gulags, between barracks, in winter, the prisoners would raid and murder each other, and when the bodies were found, invariably their livers would be missing.
It's really all a matter of perspective, what ideas you are used to, and how hungry you are. 
To me, wasting food is a sin, and protein is protein in an extreme emergency ... AND, Jehovah does NOT really care, except that the blood belongs to him, and must not be eaten.
When I am finished with these "mortal coils" I hope that someone can make use of it, when I no longer can ... and on my driver's license, have indicated that I am an organ donor...
...perhaps with a nice Chianti Wine, and some Fava beans. (chitchitchitchit), and some hungry Brother and his children will have me over, for dinner. ... a "Last Supper", as it were.
I will try NOT to give them indigestion.
 

via TheWorldNewsOrgWorld News

via TheWorldNewsOrgWorld News

via TheWorldNewsOrgWorld News

'Three dead, dozens injured' as Typhoon Hato barrels through Hong Kong, Macao and China – Category 10+
Dozens of people were injured and at least three dead after a powerful typhoon barrelled into Hong Kong and the nearby city of Macao before hitting China on Wednesday, reports said.
Thousands were evacuated from their homes in southern China as Typhoon Hato - the worst storm in the region for five years - slammed into the mainland after flooding streets and uprooting trees in Hong Kong.
The maximum category 10 storm had forced Hong KongÂ’s stock market to close and caused at least 400 flights at the cityÂ’s airport to be cancelled.
A man walks out on a low-lying wharf while large waves caused by Typhoon Hato break along the waterfront in Hong Kong's Lamma Island Credit: AFP
Only one service - a KLM flight from Amsterdam – landed on Wednesday morning when the storm’s force was at its height, according to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) newspaper.
Packing winds of up to 155 kmh (95 mph), the typhoon shattered windows on the cityÂ’s skyscrapers, flooded low-lying areas and blew over public bins across the financial hub.
The No. 10 signal has only been hoisted 14 other times since 1946, or one for every 72 storms, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. The last time it went up was for Typhoon Vicente in 2012.
Hato also brought large-scale power cuts to the gambling hub of Macao, where hotels were turning away customers because of power issues, the SCMP said.
A taxi drives on a flooded street as typhoon Hato passes Hong Kong, Credit: EPA
Reports in the former Portuguese colony said three people had been killed, while Reuters said 34 were injured in Hong Kong.
The centre of the storm skirted around Hong Kong, but was close enough to be considered a direct hit under the cityÂ’s storm warning system.
However, it made landfall at midday (05.00am GMT) at Zhuhai, in ChinaÂ’s Guangdong province, Xinhua said.
A Chinese sanitation worker rides a bicycle against the strong wind caused by Typhoon Hato on a road along the seacoast in Zhuhai in China's southern Guangdong province Credit: AFP
The Chinese state news agency also said that “thousands of people were evacuated” as the storm approached, and that 400 fishermen were told to return to harbour.
“Guangdong's flood relief agency said Hato could cause severe damage because it is growing stronger as it nears shore,” the news agency said.
 “The typhoon also comes at a time when the Guangdong coast was busy with tourists and fish farm workers.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/23/three-dead-dozens-injured-typhoon-hato-barrels-hong-kong-macao/

@Melinda Mills understands this playground 
I always appreciate your straightforward answers Melinda.  

@Melinda Mills understands this playground 
I always appreciate your straightforward answers Melinda.  

Like when they go off topic a bit. The ladies seem to stick to the hard work as in their daily lives, while the gentlemen, sometimes like rambunctious kids in older bodies, veer off to speak of other interesting things like musicals, poems, etc., to rest their brains from the hard grind of the topic.  They know how to relax, even if it means shooting at another, using strange language (TTH, JTR) but JWI always uses good language and puts in a few puns for fun in between.  Men always know how to have some fun.

Seems a bit of a stretch that she would dispose of her husband in such a manner just so she would not be ostracized as they put it. But, in this day and age anything is possible. The love of the greater number is certainly cooling off and familial ties are not as strong as they once were. 

It IS in the Qur'an:   Mohammad wanted to sleep with his adopted son's wife when he saw her and wrote in the Quran that maybe Allah will give her to him. (surah 33 if I remember correctly).  His son felt obliged to divorce her so Mr. M can sleep with her.  This is how this law started  in the Quran that another man has to sleep with her before a wife can go back to her husband after he has divorced her by saying 3 times: Talaq, Talaq, Talaq.  (By the way this is not viewed as adultery). So it has become quite a big business where men advertise to be paid to do the job and in many cases the Imam takes this duty.........for money..... to sleep with the wife so her husband can take her back.  Wives are in terrible stress because they do not want to do this but have to in order to go back!  So much for the rights of wives! Some of the pagans in his time were shocked that Mr M slept with his own adopted son's wife (viewed as his own son) so then  Mr M changed the laws on adoption.... to suit himself.

It IS in the Qur'an:   Mohammad wanted to sleep with his adopted son's wife when he saw her and wrote in the Quran that maybe Allah will give her to him. (surah 33 if I remember correctly).  His son felt obliged to divorce her so Mr. M can sleep with her.  This is how this law started  in the Quran that another man has to sleep with her before a wife can go back to her husband after he has divorced her by saying 3 times: Talaq, Talaq, Talaq.  (By the way this is not viewed as adultery).
So it has become quite a big business where men advertise to be paid to do the job and in many cases the Imam takes this duty.........for money..... to sleep with the wife so her husband can take her back.  Wives are in terrible stress because they do not want to do this but have to in order to go back!  So much for the rights of wives!
Some of the pagans in his time were shocked that Mr M slept with his own adopted son's wife (viewed as his own son) so then  Mr M changed the laws on adoption.... to suit himself.

@Gnosis Pithos within reason.
The @admin is more liberal than I am.... you can see his guidelines section above.
..... I personally will act in this section when I feel someone is acting as a bully. 
Also humor has a way of making tough comments somehow more palatable. Try it sometime.

I personally would challenge some of their numbers above...... but just don't have the time.