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12 minutes ago, Pudgy said:
I suppose you are right …. that is why we now have The Super Extra Closed Club, with secret handshakes and everything ….. and you have to be wearing the secret magical underwear when you log in.
And there are ones more special still that even you don’t know about.
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11 hours ago, Moise Racette said:
You mean odd names like TrueTomHarley and Matthtew9969? Or do you mean something more odd like "Neilr2096" and all those names that are usually posted, like Xero? What's so odd about my Canadian name, and what makes it funny as to be ridiculed by even funnier names?
Either way, what do odd names have to do with the topic?
Picking a fight, are you? But I suppose you’re right. Lots of names are odd.
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4 hours ago, Arauna said:
I usually to not reply to your hate-OCD aberrations but this person (now answering you), does not know that you are known to most of us as a person to avoid due to the fact that you are set one one goal.. to destroy....
I’m not so sure. Whenever a person with an odd name appears out of nowhere (especially when another of odd name has disappeared) and becomes intensely active, we can suspect another reincarnation of you know who.
That’s not to say it’s a bad thing, necessarily. I mean, just look at who he is squaring off against—hardly a paragon of fair play or reasonableness.
That said, a couple of innocent people have been caught in that net, so you never know. Only ONE person—a certain wizard in internet technology who takes the place of ‘only your hairdresser knows for sure’—can be said to know.
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3 hours ago, Peter Carroll said:
never reply to idots is what you should have learned, it doesnt improve your own iq to more than 0.1 of a base point
Yes but every little bit helps.
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5 hours ago, Arauna said:
We let the ones with fertile hearts come to us! We talk to them only if they are interested in something they see on the cart.
If there is one thing we have learned about Mathew 4 5784, it is that he bitches no matter what. Before the days of cart witnessing, he was saying, ‘Geez—you keep visiting people who aren’t interested. Why don’t you set up carts so that anyone who is can approach you, leaving the rest In peace?’
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1 hour ago, JW Insider said:
I asked my by-now-thoroughly-exasperated wife.
In a mellow mode, I strolled into a tattoo parlor. Seeing the fellow at work, on the spur of the moment I asked if when one of his trade tattoos an intimate part of the body, whether he gets a charge out of it, or is it just art.
‘It’s art!’ came the firm rebuke.
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10 minutes ago, Anna said:
I just realised this may sound like I was inferring that JWI is stupid. Of course I don't mean that.
Oh, C’mon! Show a little backbone, why don’t you?
7 minutes ago, Anna said:Oh dear...now this sounds like I am saying Americans can't help being stupid. I think I've been watching too much Blacklist and I'm beginning to sound like Aram Mojtabai.
Next thing you know you’ll be agreeing with that anti-cult whack job Korelov who calls the United States “the spiritual garbage dump of humanity” and who paints Jehovah’s Witnesses foremost in advancing that cause. I distinctly remember in the 70s working with the tract “Jehovah’s Witnesses—Christians or Communists”—designed to counter just the opposite impression, that Witnesses were agents of Russian communism.
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10 hours ago, Anna said:
they go to grandma's orchard and pick their free apples for free, or pick the apples that grow on trees lining country roads...
The gruff German grandma down the road loaded me up with enough pairs from her tree to last weeks. I was just walking by with headphones on, the way I do, and greeted her as she was crossing the street. Turned out she had just returned from giving a load to people there, also.
My greeting was enough. She pulled me into her yard and made me take some of her pairs. However many I took, it was not enough, and I left with a bag as heavy as I could carry. So I brought them to the congregation get-together where several young children who had never eaten pairs before dove into them, found them delicious, and probably had the runs for a week.
My wife has called on this women before in the course of her ministry. ‘I don’t think she’s interested,’ she says. ‘She’s gruff, but underneath pretty decent.’ So I told her my wife’s verdict, which I agree with. I’ve been back since for more pears and even some apples.
(I should have told her that city-slicker @JW Insiderwould pay her $40 a bag for whatever came off her trees, even $80 if she serenades him with an accordion band.)
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5 hours ago, JW Insider said:
They charge $40 for a half-bushel.
“And I heard a voice as if in the midst of the four living creatures say: “A quart of wheat for a de·narʹi·us, and three quarts of barley for a de·narʹi·us; and how do you like them apples?”
- Anna, Amidstheroses and JW Insider
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On 10/12/2022 at 9:35 PM, BroRando said:
What are they going to do? Call us liars for claiming Jesus is the Son of God?
I think they’d call us liars for mistranslating, inserting a phrase that’s not there simply because we like it.
You can say ‘a god’ or an adjective like ‘divine’ by handling the indefinite article as we do. You can say ‘God’ by botching the significance of the indefinite article. But by no stretch of the imagination can you say ‘Son of God.’ It’s not there.
You have to translate the Greek or Hebrew as accurately as you can, and then let that translation instruct you. You can’t do it the other way around—let your beliefs dictate your translating (as though you are instructing God). ‘Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament’ by Jason Beduhn, examines John 1:1 in several translations and concludes only the New World Translation gets it right, translating in accord with the actual Greek. It’s most of the other translations that read their beliefs into the translating and thereby mess it up, he says. We never want to be like that. It’s dishonest. It’s taking liberties with the Word of God.
https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2009/06/scholars-bias-and-the-new-world-translation.html
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9 hours ago, JW Insider said:
Most of the money supporting ALL DC-centered candidates still comes from Pharma, Wall Street, and "Oil".
Don’t forget Big Defense
9 hours ago, JW Insider said:The undercurrent of the whole thing goes back to when Nixon took the US off the "Gold Standard." Gold wasn't stable enough while Russia and South Africa had an unpredictable influence on the percentage of the actual gold supply.
Are you sure it was for this reason? Or was it that once ‘money’ is backed by debt rather than gold, there is no limit to how much of the stuff can be printed, with any day of reckoning put far far off into the future (though perhaps not so far now).
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22 hours ago, JW Insider said:
Haven't seen much evidence for the validity of the second part of that question: [to enforce a globalist view of breaking free from oil as a power source]
Any scenario these days of the US govt working for the interests of non-renewable energy company seems a little hard to swallow. Aren’t they public enemies #1 for pumping up climate change?
Making trouble with Russia is always a thing, I agree. I recall Trump posing the question, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got along with Russia?” Whereupon outside forces intervened to virtually ensure they would not.
22 hours ago, JW Insider said:Several countries in Europe would not be ready to stand by the US-sponsored sanctions against Russia (because they don't want their citizens to be faced with cold this winter).
You would think so. But the world is so screwy today. And the notion of national leaders betraying the interests of the populace is widespread.
22 hours ago, JW Insider said:don't know if you were distinguishing oil from natural gas
Yeah, I guess there was some mix-up as to that. My bad.
15 hours ago, JW Insider said:suspect that @Mic Drop, the original poster of this topic, didn't expect it to turn into a discussion about interpretation of Bible prophecy
Well…he’s a big boy. He should know better. There are some topics you can’t let within 100 yards of a Bible person—all of them, really. Nonetheless, I’ll refrain from (maybe) commenting along that vein pending another thread.
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13 hours ago, JW Insider said:
It's been suggested that NATO Article 5 should come into play, meaning that all NATO nations should now attack the United States on suspicion that it was the U.S. that just attacked a viable fuel supply for NATO countries like Germany.
The real question, should the United States emerge as the culprit, will be the question of why. Is it to win business for American energy companies? Or is it to enforce a globalist view of breaking free from oil as a power source, in which case there would be many a sympathizer, if not co-conspirator, among their like minded ‘brethren’ in Europe who have satisfied themselves as to their own personal well-being.
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On 8/28/2022 at 1:50 AM, Arauna said:
I often write very late at night due to our time difference
The neat thing about the internet is it doesn’t matter. Write what you write and go to bed. I’ll make sure the ruffians don’t erase it while you sleep. Then when you wake and see ten dumb comments appended to your remark, blast away.
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4 hours ago, Peter Carroll said:
unfortunatly for aruna ,her postion lacks substance as she has failed to quote one scripture to support the debate
as in the case of bre rando there are mulitple scriptures to read
just based on that alone bro rando has a much more convincing position
I dunno. In that case we’d all be disciples of you-know-who, who quotes scriptures by the truckload but they never apply.
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On 5/23/2022 at 9:52 AM, Anna said:
What gets me is when we keep going on about obeying instructions
A little research project I recently did:
I was about to comment on how Solomon requests of God an ‘obedient heart’ and that is the last thing you might expect a king to request. Before doing so I checked to see what other translations had done with that expression. To my surprise, ‘obedient’ was almost unique. The vast majority said ‘understanding.’
At first blush, this doesn’t bode well for the New World Translation, Only one other out of 64 translations say it as they do, but upon research, I came away thinking ‘obedient’ is likely the best rendering of all:
https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2022/08/an-obedient-heart-or-an-understanding-heartwhich-is-it.html
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58 minutes ago, Pudgy said:
Could be worse ….……
….. could be slide trombones ….
Those instruments have been described as ‘phallic.’ When I heard that, I promptly threw mine in the trash.
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2 hours ago, JW Insider said:I found out that TTH had presented an article about Stephen Lett called Let us Appreciate Stephen Lett
I put it first on my own blog. It’s also in TTvtA.
It didn’t carry the day with that Reddit bunch, but then they ARE a hostile crowd. And even I have to admit those mannerisms do take getting used to, regardless of their origin. I think we have to drop back to Pudgy’s comment:
On 7/20/2022 at 3:47 PM, Pudgy said:although Brother Lett is sometimes creepy to those that don’t know him, at least 50% of the time he gave us good advice.
Coming from cynical Pudgy, this is extraordinary praise, the equivalent of ‘Stellar’ from anyone else.
It may be just an example of God ‘laughing at the wisdom of this systems’s wise ones,’ proof that his anointed are, as in the first century, seldom of ‘noble birth,’ nor ‘wise,’ but decidedly ‘uneducated and ordinary.’
I’ll take substance over style any day. Turn on the TV and you can see endless people whose ‘style’ is impeccable. Among them are some of the stupidest people whom God ever let roam the earth.
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7 hours ago, Pudgy said:
…. Or like when Joe Biden gets oil on the windshield of his tractor trailer rig when he has to drive to another state for an abortion!
Why would he need one?
Lets set up a cart.
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In this case, I was just making a joke. The ‘American thinking cap’ strikes again. I don’t know of such groups. Just one scholarly one in which participants are not necessarily even Witnesses. It is invitation only and I have never been invited. Nothing scholarly about me. I just putter.
Other than that, there are groups and forums everywhere. People can get in simply by asking and meeting minimal qualifications. You never know for sure who the others are. I keep my distance, for the most part. It’s all I can do to keep up with my own stuff.