good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
Summer is coming on apace down here, Blondie.
I hope you have a wonderful camping trip.
We sisters are supposed to have a meetup in Atlanta, but with the main player ailing, it may have to be postponed.
It will not hurt my feeling; that Atlanta traffic is scary.
greetings, word lovers:.
in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.
one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.
What???
greetings, word lovers:.
in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.
one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.
Disquisition
good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
5-9-17
Good day/night to all.
as some of you know, i'm not a witness, but i am the co-author of a series of history book that discuss the watch tower's earliest years.
russell mentions a 'brother' van der ahe as an early days wt evangelist.
we can't identify him.
LOL.
That first link is Rachael's.
jehovah's witnesses took mainstream christianity and replaced each part of it, one item, one term, one definition at a time, into its contrary.. holy spirit (capital letters) became a tholy spirit (lower case letters) = from a person into a mere forceful gesture.. cross became torture stake.
(eradication of the essential symbol of historical christianity).
soul went from ethereal spirit to a mere hunk of flesh and bone.. salvation by grace became earning your salvation one door-knock at a time.
You ain't never lied!
Also, under Fred Franz's stewardship, a simple I AM became I HAVE BEEN.
Even The Message Bible got that one right.
greetings, word lovers:.
in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.
one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.
Hoot! Hoot! Hoot!
Ezekiel 23:19-21.
greetings, word lovers:.
in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.
one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.
Okay, okay.
I see what you mean.
Hubristic and overweening could be synonymous, but not hubris.
Rueful
greetings, word lovers:.
in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.
one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.
Same as hubris.
Dilettante
good morning, all.. it is good to be here.. thanks to all for your contributions.. love and blessings.
sylvia.
It is after 1 pm here, and they are bestirring themselves for work.
They are total night owls.
