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  The utter absurdity of the "universal sovereignty issue", chapter 4,786

  by sir82 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so on the jw broadcast channel, there is a new 4 minute video entitled "why does god permit suffering".

  i won't give them free advertising by linking to it, but you'll find it under the "latest videos" section.. it looks like it will be something that will eventually be used in field serve-us as a video to show householders.. anyway, it gives the illustration of the teacher and a "rebellious student" who says he has a "better way to solve the problem".

  the infinitely wise teacher allows him to try, he fails, and the teacher is "vindicated".. other posts on this site demonstrate how inane the illustration really is - it breaks down nearly effortlessly.. anyway, the video goes on to explain that god allowed "rebellious humans" to continue on because (more or less direct quote) "millions of angels were observing.

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  Did Rutherford concoct this teaching that underpins all JW theology?
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  Sunday's Watchtower Study March 18... Another Money Appeal

  by BluesBrother in

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  2. bible

  january 2018 issue "why give to the one who has everything?

  an unashamed contribution appeal... this one with the most manipulative language i can imagine... it may have been commented on before, but i am going to anyway.. p5 quote.

  "would you not agree that jehovah is worthy of all the glory and honor that we can give him by offering the best that we have?

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  Never heard them spout the line about giving = prospering. Must have missed that gem. -- LV101

  Another "gem," although totally unrelated (just thought of it), is what a zealous but metaphoric-mixing sister enthused:

  "When we find a spark of interest, we want to be sure to water it!"
  
  
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  CO picked the wrong "old lady" to say this to!

  by clarity in

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  2. friends

  is this the latest bs to pacify the multiple thousands of singles who are made veritable eunochs because of this organization?

  ...when i tearfully blurted out that i just couldn't carry on any longer!

  i mean almost three decades, for g*ds sake!

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  (((((clarity)))))

  
  
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  Galileo was so confident that . . .

  by compound complex in

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  he never bothered acting out his "thought experiment.".

  i can watch this over and over and remain thoroughly transfixed by the translation of the horse's forward movement to the hand to the ball.

  (see galileo's battle for the heavens).

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  Galileo was so confident that . . .

  by compound complex in

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  he never bothered acting out his "thought experiment.".

  i can watch this over and over and remain thoroughly transfixed by the translation of the horse's forward movement to the hand to the ball.

  (see galileo's battle for the heavens).

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  he never bothered acting out his "thought experiment."

  I can watch this over and over and remain thoroughly transfixed by the translation of the horse's forward movement to the hand to the ball. (see Galileo's Battle for the Heavens)

  https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfw.galthought/galileos-thought-experiment/#.Wqx-TB3wZ6o
  
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  The Ides of March - also May, July, and October

  by Tara N Seals in

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  today i learned something new about the roman calendar.. calends, nones, and ides.. education never ceases..

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  The Romans did not count days in the month as a simple number, as we do, but backwards from one of three fixed points in the month: the Kalends, the Nones, and the Ides. The Kalends are always the first of the month. The Nones fell on the 7th day of the long months (March, May, Quinctilis, October), and the 5th of the others. (Note that this long-short distinction refers to their length in the republican calendar, not the later version.) Likewise, the Ides fell on the 15th if the month was long, and the 13th if the month was short. The day before the Kalends (or Nones or Ides) was called "pridie" (or 2) Kalends, the day before that 3, etc. Therefore, May 3rd would be the 5 Nones of May; March 17 = 16 Kalends of April, or as you would find it abbreviated in a Latin text: a.d. xvi Kal. Apr.; (a.d. = ante diem).

  https://www.polysyllabic.com/?q=calhistory/earlier/roman/kalends
  
  
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. physical

  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  Thanks, humbled, for that great story.

  I still have nightmares about cleaning bathrooms in huge industrial complexes when I did graveyard. Some things never leave you.
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  Do your students ever have impediments to clear writing because they can’t identify a thought or a feeling? -- humbled

  This is music, with a different manner of expression. My 8-year-old piano student, Tommy, is a precocious child, both academically and musically. He tells me outright what emotions he is feeling while composing his pieces on the keyboard. Of course, this is by means of the faculty of speech. He is articulate and to the point. Is the music sad, that which he has performed in a minor key? It is a man sitting under a tree and crying. As I continue both to explain and to demonstrate specific techniques to open up his remarkable compositional abilities, his musical expressions become technically more complex and, most importantly, aesthetically pleasing.

  Therefore, it has been my experience that, as we learn new words and how to arrange them into meaningful modes of verbal expression, we become better able to say what we are feeling. The teacher takes the student's idea, however simple and unformed, and helps him develop that idea into beautifully articulated words or music or painting (another form of art).

  This is important, where I earlier mentioned my explaining and demonstrating the how-to of a matter: first, I explain and ask questions, allowing the student to figure out how to do what I ask. He has the tools -- can he employ them to figure out how to play a knotty passage on the piano? Can he use the elements of grammar, syntax, etc. to form a clear and potent composition of words? I demonstrate, i.e., give him the spoken or visual/aural answer (keyboard), to show the actuality of what I asked him to perform. Or, as a last resort, I will demonstrate how that difficult passage is played if he gets stuck and has no answer.

  Well, I could go on and on, but I'll stop here . . .

  THANKS!
  
  
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  The Ides of March - also May, July, and October

  by Tara N Seals in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today i learned something new about the roman calendar.. calends, nones, and ides.. education never ceases..

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  The very points I made in today's class -- please see punctuation thread!

  Calends, nones, and Ides.
  

  Thanks, Tara.
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  It's interesting to see the wheels turning in their brains when they realize the significance of the fact that punctuation is ONLY a feature of writing. You'd think they'd know that, but it's generally not explicitly taught, and -- if it ever was -- it was so long ago for them that they've forgotten. -- jp1692
  

  
  

  [ . . .] a little goodwill on the side of the person you are trying to communicate with one’s best efforts to express thought will inevitably fail due to one’s lack of expertise in the art of written words. In written conversation the desire to understand what another person is trying to express can either be revealed as an examination of a subject or as ...something else entirely. -- humbled

  Brings to mind my classes in creative writing, where I work with both special needs children and senior citizens. Challenges on both fronts, in ways you can probably imagine. I put your word written in bold to link it with oral instruction, which I employ in juxtaposition with the former. When I do dictation, I allow the student to fill in the punctuation, that without the printed page as a visual aid.

  The point is comprehension, and children and old folks are smart -- certainly -- but the teacher must be able to get through where the lesson's point could easily become lost in a maze of details.

  Well, your great comments made me think of my recent lessons. To see the improvement in students' getting the point and enjoying the "story" is priceless. Today's essay is The Ides of March -- Good News or Bad?

  Thanks.