It is of some interest that 'dipping the morsel' has some basis in actual customs, but the specific purpose of the custom is ancillary to the point that subsequent versions of the story were modified to account for perceived flaws in the narrative.
Posts by Jeffro
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15Dip Anyone?
by peacefulpete ina quick comment regarding how subsequent gospel writers often felt an irresistible need to clarify or expand upon their sources.
in the last supper story, the gospel that came to be named after mark 14 has jesus declare that one of the twelve who eats with him from the same bowl will betray him.
17 and evening having come, he cometh with the twelve,18 and as they are reclining, and eating, jesus said, `verily i say to you -- one of you, who is eating with me -- shall deliver me up.
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2024 year Highlights: JWs hit 9 million Publishers
by Sanchy inwatchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.
average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.
baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.
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Jeffro
Wow. 🙄 An artificial increase by appealing to lapsed members, and only needing to tick a box without reporting hours. And they fall for it.
This is just a (predictable) result of the fact that JWs count 'membership' in a manner that favours rate of growth.
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Biden calls Trump supporters garbage
by moomanchu ina comedian in a comedy sketch at a trunp rally joked that the island of puerto rico is a floating island of garbage.. what to do???
potus pappy joe to the rescue!!
he sounds the alarm, comes out swinging and calls trump supporters, actual people, garbage.. .
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🤦♂️
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Biden calls Trump supporters garbage
by moomanchu ina comedian in a comedy sketch at a trunp rally joked that the island of puerto rico is a floating island of garbage.. what to do???
potus pappy joe to the rescue!!
he sounds the alarm, comes out swinging and calls trump supporters, actual people, garbage.. .
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Jeffro
moonmanchu:
You to. LOL
That makes no sense, even aside from the spelling error. I have no political affiliation and am not in the US. I realise it’s convenient to ignore what I’ve actually said and instead attack some straw man version of my position.
Just own the garbage comment. What's the big deal it's nothing compared to all the other names given to us.
The US is not the centre of the universe. It isn’t valid to suggest that I should ‘own the comment’.
To his credit, one thing Trump does not do is mock the Biden and Camela voters!
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Biden calls Trump supporters garbage
by moomanchu ina comedian in a comedy sketch at a trunp rally joked that the island of puerto rico is a floating island of garbage.. what to do???
potus pappy joe to the rescue!!
he sounds the alarm, comes out swinging and calls trump supporters, actual people, garbage.. .
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Jeffro
🤦♂️ ok then. Enjoy your echo chamber -
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Biden calls Trump supporters garbage
by moomanchu ina comedian in a comedy sketch at a trunp rally joked that the island of puerto rico is a floating island of garbage.. what to do???
potus pappy joe to the rescue!!
he sounds the alarm, comes out swinging and calls trump supporters, actual people, garbage.. .
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Jeffro
moonmanchu:
With the apostrophe it should have finished with "his supporter's rhetoric, comments, language, speech, attitude, actions, jokes, discourse, views, opinions ........"
No. In the structure provided, the ‘garbage’ is already indicated as the thing possessed by the ‘supporters’. Whilst the nature of the garbage could be further clarified, it is not necessary to the sentence structure. However, the apostrophe should really go after the ‘s’ unless only indicating one supporter’s garbage.
If I were to say, “the only car I see here is his friend’s”, it is clear that the car belongs to the friend, and it isn’t necessary to further elaborate about the car.
It is funny how Biden (who isn’t a candidate in the election) is supposed to be this incoherent doddering fool who can’t say what he means until something he says can be conveniently misconstrued.
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Biden calls Trump supporters garbage
by moomanchu ina comedian in a comedy sketch at a trunp rally joked that the island of puerto rico is a floating island of garbage.. what to do???
potus pappy joe to the rescue!!
he sounds the alarm, comes out swinging and calls trump supporters, actual people, garbage.. .
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WT vs Norway - WT sends letter to the goverment saying they have now changed their practice on DF. Asks for their funding back
by liam indisfellowshipping is slowly fading into the night.. last efforts to survive.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1gh3ilq/wt_vs_norway_wt_sends_letter_to_the_goverment/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button.
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Jeffro
From translated version on Reddit:
If possible, we kindly request a response within three weeks from the date of this letter, by November 14, 2024.
Assuming the letter is legitimate and the translation is accurate, it almost seems as though the Watch Tower Society expects the Norwegian government to give them money again for 'changing' their shunning policies before updated versions of Shepherding the Flock of God and Organized to Do Jehovah's Will more clearly identify the actual changes to 'disfellowshipping' (a primarily semantic change) and 'disassociation' (not mentioned anywhere in the changes). Any reference to the treatment of 'apostates' also seems to be missing from the 'letter'.
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Biden calls Trump supporters garbage
by moomanchu ina comedian in a comedy sketch at a trunp rally joked that the island of puerto rico is a floating island of garbage.. what to do???
potus pappy joe to the rescue!!
he sounds the alarm, comes out swinging and calls trump supporters, actual people, garbage.. .
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Jeffro
moomanchu:
I don't care about the tedious US politics, but the manner in which it changes the meaning of the statement is fairly obvious. Anyone who understands basic English would realise that the inclusion of an apostrophe indicates 'the garbage of or pertaining to his supporters' (such as hypothetical attitudes or rhetoric) rather than saying the supporters are themselves garbage.Biden's camp has 'clarified' what he actually said tho... spokesperson stated that 'Biden put an apostrophe after the word supporters'.
What does that even change?
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Loss of a Jehovah’s Witness who I considered a friend
by Fallen_Winter ini have known a jehovah’s witness for approximately 15 years and i have considered her a friend although i know that jehovah’s witnesses cannot have friends who are not jehovah’s witnesses.
approximately two years ago, i was going through a very difficult time and i asked my friend if we could have bible study.
she said yes and we have been studying the bible since.
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Fallen_Wintee:
She is a pioneer but not a full time pioneer. … I thought that Jehovah’s Witnesses were no longer counting hours.
JWs no longer need to report their number of hours as a minimum requirement to be counted as active members, they just have to tick a box to say they did any amount of preaching each month. However, pioneers (including ‘auxiliary’ pioneers) still have an hour requirement, so they have to report their time.