God, for many believers, is not conceived as a being or an item or a thing. I know materialists think "well who made God then" is a killer line. But it simply misunderstands what many believers think God is or what can even be said about him. In a crucial sense it is the essence of God that he is such that he is sufficient in himself. The reason for believing in God is that he is the source of everything. So to ask where he came from is to miss the point. We know that we are finite beings. The question is whether there is a being who is not finite. When atheists insist that God must have an origin if he exists, as asserting nothing more than their belief that only finite beings can exist. Which is begging the question..
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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References to YHWH in ancient documents
by Doug Mason inpage 15 of awake!
2017 provides an image that shows hebrew writing with the statement: “the personal name of god written in ancient hebrew characters appears abundantly in early manuscripts of the bible”.. alongside that image, the awake!
provides a listing to show “the rendering of ‘god’s name’ in various languages”.. the facts do not support either assertion that the watchtower society makes:.
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slimboyfat
Non-JW scholars who have argued for the divine name in the original New Testament: George Howard, David Trobisch, Lloyd Gaston and John McRay. Do you don’t need to be a JW to interpret the evidence that way.
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"Go and tell someone who cares...I dont care!"
by stuckinarut2 ini don't usually like the confrontational approach to those on the carts, however this video is a great example of how jws do not really care about child abuse issues!.
the arrogance of this brother is disturbing..... bear with the video.
it gets really interesting around the 6 min mark, where the brother loses his cool.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5chulnnyqs.
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slimboyfat
Andrew Jackson? Got the wrong Jackson there.
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References to YHWH in ancient documents
by Doug Mason inpage 15 of awake!
2017 provides an image that shows hebrew writing with the statement: “the personal name of god written in ancient hebrew characters appears abundantly in early manuscripts of the bible”.. alongside that image, the awake!
provides a listing to show “the rendering of ‘god’s name’ in various languages”.. the facts do not support either assertion that the watchtower society makes:.
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slimboyfat
Further, we have the evidence provided by the Nomina Sacra, which practice owed nothing to the Jews' tetragram.
What makes you say that? From what I have read, most scholars do see a connection between the treatment of the Tetragrammaton in Jewish texts and nomina sacra forms in Christian texts. The exact relation and development are much disputed, but most scholars posit some relationship: Traube, Paap, Brown, Roberts. Comfort, even Hurtado accepts there's a connection. See this article on the subject which contains an overview, as well as a proposal:
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Which is better minimum wage or minimum income?
by hoser inwe were having this discussion in the office the other day and we came to the conclusion minimum wage is better because it still adds to the economy vs minimum income which someone could potentially stay at home and do nothing and still get paid without producing a thing for the greater economy.. thoughts?.
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slimboyfat
Personally I would set a basic income about £2000 a month or $3000, or whatever is purchasing power equivalent in the US. Which is below average but certainly enough to live. The idea is that people supplement it through work to bring up their standard of living to a more comfortable level. But no one is starving or homeless.
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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slimboyfat
They talk about consciousness in relation to the earth, brains, tables, chairs, and all matter, from about 48 minutes in. "Rocks have persoanlities" is a particular synecdoche you are fond of using to mock pansychism in total, the same as you used "the earth is flat" to mock all kinds of perspectivism.
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References to YHWH in ancient documents
by Doug Mason inpage 15 of awake!
2017 provides an image that shows hebrew writing with the statement: “the personal name of god written in ancient hebrew characters appears abundantly in early manuscripts of the bible”.. alongside that image, the awake!
provides a listing to show “the rendering of ‘god’s name’ in various languages”.. the facts do not support either assertion that the watchtower society makes:.
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slimboyfat
Um Yehovah is pretty close to Jehovah if you ask me. In German it’s identical.
Yes I think Nehemia Gordon, George Buchanan, Gerard Gertoux and others make a good case for Yehowah or thereabouts. It’s a bit of a mystery why Yahweh was so popular because there really doesn’t seem to be anything to support it beyond circular “consensus opinion”.
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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slimboyfat
One of my posts got lost round Jupiter.
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Which is better minimum wage or minimum income?
by hoser inwe were having this discussion in the office the other day and we came to the conclusion minimum wage is better because it still adds to the economy vs minimum income which someone could potentially stay at home and do nothing and still get paid without producing a thing for the greater economy.. thoughts?.
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slimboyfat
Minimum wage was bitterly opposed by the Tories in the 1990s. They only changed their mind after it was introduced, and because it was so popular.
It will probably happen the same with basic minimum income.
See book by Guy Standing: basic minimum income saves money, promotes creativity, entrepreneurship, wellbeing, and economic growth.
Bankers getting bonuses from public money after the banks failed is stealing. Ordinary people being guaranteed food and shelter is a civilised society.
The interesting thing is that right wing think tanks and politicians are beginning to support basic income: to avoid a more radical revolution. I think it’s pretty inevitable to happen. The argument seems to moving on to how to do it rather than whether to do it.
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I want to understand British references to your countries.
by compound complex ingreetings, friends across the two ponds:.
of course, as per other posters' recommendations, i could google this; i have and remain, not totally confused, but wanting the straight dope as well as nuanced meaning.
i'm both curious and needing to know for purposes of editing works of american and british writers.
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slimboyfat
This is the view sometimes described as "little Englander" mentality.