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“The waves of death broke all around me; Flash floods of worthless men terrified me.” (2 Samuel 22:5)
Flash floods of worthless men.
Not all translations so personalize it but enough do to make it clear that the former are being overly prissy, the latter adding a necessary specification that the former avoid.
“A deadly flood was carrying me away,” says English Revised Version. Oh yeah? A deadly flood of WHAT?
“the floods of ungodly men made me afraid,” says King James Version
Thank you.
“while torrents of abuse from the ungodly overwhelmed me” International Standard Version
Yes.
“devil waters rushed over me. Hell’s ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit.” Message 
Oh for crying out loud. Deviate too much into paraphrase and you bring on charges of ‘What have THEY been smoking?’ 
“the floods of scoundrels overwhelm me” Orthodox Jewish Version
Yeah! That’s what I’M talking about!
It’s too much bother to check what renderings come from which manuscripts, though I suppose it would be a good thing if someone did so.

“Then Truetom, also called TTH, becoming fed up, looked at her intently  and said: “O woman full of every sort of fraud and every sort of villainy, you daughter of the Devil, you enemy of everything righteous, will you not quit distorting the right ways of Jehovah?  (Acts 13:9-10)
What he said was: 
“Now, if we think about it, we're not born as friends of God because we're born as sinful offspring of Adam. Actually, when we think about it, we're born as enemies of God. Sometimes you'll hear people say of a little baby, ‘Look at that little angel,’ but more accurate would be to say, ‘Look at that little enemy of God.’ Now, of course we love that little baby and it's now not hopeless because our loving creator has made reconciliation with him within the reach of everyone. We can become a good friend of God and that close relationship with Jehovah will become our most valuable possession.”
Notice how he twice said, ‘when [if] we think about it?’ You have to do that: think about things and not just parrot sound bites to make people you hate look bad. Oh, you spiteful woman, who quotes scripture by the bushel basket but never lays hold on the one that applies, besides the reference to Adam in Genesis, the place to focus is here:
“…through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned—.” Romans 5:12
“when we were enemies we became reconciled to God through the death of his Son,” by exercising faith in him, which a baby cannot yet do, and thus is temporarily ‘grandfathered’ via the faith of it’s parents. (vs 10)
Now, as for Bro Lett, for a guy who will quote Job 12:11, “Does not the ear test out words As the tongue tastes food?” you’d almost think he’d test them out a little more before letting loose with a phrase that every evil cherry picker will use against him to “distort the right ways of Jehovah.”
Still, I hate to think what you would have done to Jesus, after his, ‘Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I will resurrect him on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.’ John 6:54-55
Taking into consideration that passage in John, I would say Lett is supremely adhering to and following Christ as a model, more so than any of the other GB members.
Imagine: what sort of vile person would comb through a convention in which every talk explores the verse ‘seek peace and pursue it’ to find and exploit a faux pas?

“Then Truetom, also called TTH, becoming fed up, looked at her intently  and said: “O woman full of every sort of fraud and every sort of villainy, you daughter of the Devil, you enemy of everything righteous, will you not quit distorting the right ways of Jehovah?  (Acts 13:9-10)
What he said was: 
“Now, if we think about it, we're not born as friends of God because we're born as sinful offspring of Adam. Actually, when we think about it, we're born as enemies of God. Sometimes you'll hear people say of a little baby, ‘Look at that little angel,’ but more accurate would be to say, ‘Look at that little enemy of God.’ Now, of course we love that little baby and it's now not hopeless because our loving creator has made reconciliation with him within the reach of everyone. We can become a good friend of God and that close relationship with Jehovah will become our most valuable possession.”
Notice how he twice said, ‘when [if] we think about it?’ You have to do that: think about things and not just parrot sound bites to make people you hate look bad. Oh, you spiteful woman, who quotes scripture by the bushel basket but never lays hold on the one that applies, besides the reference to Adam in Genesis, the place to focus is here:
“…through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned—.” Romans 5:12
“when we were enemies we became reconciled to God through the death of his Son,” by exercising faith in him, which a baby cannot yet do, and thus is temporarily ‘grandfathered’ via the faith of it’s parents. (vs 10)
Now, as for Bro Lett, for a guy who will quote Job 12:11, “Does not the ear test out words As the tongue tastes food?” you’d almost think he’d test them out a little more before letting loose with a phrase that every evil cherry picker will use against him to “distort the right ways of Jehovah.”
Still, I hate to think what you would have done to Jesus, after his, ‘Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I will resurrect him on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.’ John 6:54-55
Taking into consideration that passage in John, I would say Lett is supremely adhering to and following Christ as a model, more so than any of the other GB members.
Imagine: what sort of vile person would comb through a convention in which every talk explores the verse ‘seek peace and pursue it’ to find and exploit a faux pas?

And to build character. Any club that would quickly admit me isn’t worth being admitted to—according to a certain grouchoism.

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I remember a newspaper article many years ago to the effect that police could nab the petty thieves fairly easily. The style was to wear their pants below their rear ends and they’d instantly trip themselves making their getaway.

Don’t want no ‘1984’ references either. George Orwell wrote 1984 at a time when totalitarianism was sweeping the globe, Nazism, Stalinism, crushing even the sturdy and powerful good guys like Winston Smith. (Churchill—how many ‘Winstons’ do you know?)
These governments would not just lean on people with a certain amount of peer pressure. They would literally take command of ever part of your life, literally assign you a role that you’d better not reject, literally punish you for neglecting propaganda channels, literally torture you for deviation, and then literally kill you after rehabilitation as a lesson to others.
If George Orwell could see how is work has been trivialized today to settle religious scores he would say, ‘Thank God I’m dead.’

Don’t want no ‘1984’ references either. George Orwell wrote 1984 at a time when totalitarianism was sweeping the globe, Nazism, Stalinism, crushing even the sturdy and powerful good guys like Winston Smith. (Churchill—how many ‘Winstons’ do you know?)
These governments would not just lean on people with a certain amount of peer pressure. They would literally take command of ever part of your life, literally assign you a role that you’d better not reject, literally punish you for neglecting propaganda channels, literally torture you for deviation, and then literally kill you after rehabilitation as a lesson to others.
If George Orwell could see how is work has been trivialized today to settle religious scores he would say, ‘Thank God I’m dead.’

Like this?

Privilege of seniority. (It’s possible I’m digging a hole for myself before @The Librarian(that old hen) who would be within her rights to accuse me of gaslighting.)
Greetings friend.
You will now be submitted to a series of intense and nosy questions to ensure that you are not an incarnation of a certain bad penny that has bounced from oblivion so many times, always with a different handle, that you’d think he was made of rubber. I’ve not known him to use two aliases at once, but there is a first for all things.
Not to worry. Nothing will happen. An inside joke which you may not get. Glad to have you around. Keep up your blameless conduct and you’re fine. As Randy Newman famously said: “Don’t want to back-biting, no ass-grabbing—you know exactly what I mean.”
Not to worry. In

Privilege of seniority. (It’s possible I’m digging a hole for myself before @The Librarian(that old hen) who would be within her rights to accuse me of gaslighting.)
Greetings friend.
You will now be submitted to a series of intense and nosy questions to ensure that you are not an incarnation of a certain bad penny that has bounced from oblivion so many times, always with a different handle, that you’d think he was made of rubber. I’ve not known him to use two aliases at once, but there is a first for all things.
Not to worry. Nothing will happen. An inside joke which you may not get. Glad to have you around. Keep up your blameless conduct and you’re fine. As Randy Newman famously said: “Don’t want to back-biting, no ass-grabbing—you know exactly what I mean.”
Not to worry. In

No fair at all, but neither is life. Down they go. It’s possible to establish such a cantankerous reputation, even resurrecting oneself from preview banishments to do so, to earn frequent flyer miles on the ‘In&Out’ Airline. Behave, tone down rancor, compare yourself with yourself only, not with other people (isn’t there a verse on that somewhere?) and you will yet live long and prosper.

No fair at all, but neither is life. Down they go. It’s possible to establish such a cantankerous reputation, even resurrecting oneself from preview banishments to do so, to earn frequent flyer miles on the ‘In&Out’ Airline. Behave, tone down rancor, compare yourself with yourself only, not with other people (isn’t there a verse on that somewhere?) and you will yet live long and prosper.

I even went down in flames when someone mistakenly thought your opinion was mine!
Not to worry. You’re good in my book. I see all and know all and may just one fine day bounce someone for misbehavior.

I even went down in flames when someone mistakenly thought your opinion was mine!
Not to worry. You’re good in my book. I see all and know all and may just one fine day bounce someone for misbehavior.

For whatever it’s worth, the organization I highly regard would view some here, myself included (if not foremost), as setting a bad example for past exchanges with apostates.

For whatever it’s worth, the organization I highly regard would view some here, myself included (if not foremost), as setting a bad example for past exchanges with apostates.

For whatever it’s worth, the organization I highly regard would view some here, myself included (if not foremost), as setting a bad example for past exchanges with apostates.

We have a thing for celebrity.
The speaker last night said he unexpectedly met Nancy Yuen and was tongue-tied as though with one of them! He had been determined to spiff up his Chinese by greeting any Chinese person he saw. She was surrounded by “an entourage” at Bethel, “but I’m oblivious to those things.” The woman once imprisoned years in China was humble, gracious, and almost crushed his hand with her firm handshake.

We have a thing for celebrity.
The speaker last night said he unexpectedly met Nancy Yuen and was tongue-tied as though with one of them! He had been determined to spiff up his Chinese by greeting any Chinese person he saw. She was surrounded by “an entourage” at Bethel, “but I’m oblivious to those things.” The woman once imprisoned years in China was humble, gracious, and almost crushed his hand with her firm handshake.

“Well, in America, they haven't used it for years.”

Your mistake is thinking that English-speaking people know how to speak English.  

Your other mistake is taking English lessons from a dog.
His English isn’t too bad, really. It’s just that you never know when he is throwing you a bone.

Your mistake is thinking that English-speaking people know how to speak English.  

Okay, thanks. I was thinking there was something new to, English wording.
This would be a personal choice. I have sciatica, stenosis, and bulging spinal discs. I have severe pain 24/7 including sleep time which the pain can wake me up. This is why I don't take hard prescribed drugs because I know they can be addictive if taken for a long period of time, no matter which Pharma manufactures it. Abuse is abuse, no matter what.
This shouldn't be an excuse by anyone to go outside the recommended dosage prescribed by a doctor to abuse, especially from a black market, where no one knows what those drugs contain. In his case, too much Fentanyl. 
What happened to Jackson. Lack of sleep. I have the same problem, But I don't around looking for a doctor to give me propofol anesthesia. Like, I said, rich people can get pretty much everything, that doesn't mean they should.