I don't think Paul was replying to specific communications. It was more what the rumor mill reported. Although Roman roads were good and it was not all that difficult to get a message from one place to another it is clear that nothing like today's GB arrangement could work. It simply took too long to get information from one place to another. Individual congregations must have been largely independent of outside control.
Posts by JeffT
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84How exactly did Paul keep in touch with his network of churches across the empire...
by mP inthe bible presents him as humble with limit means.
i always wondered how a man with a travelling companion of two like timothy managed to knnow or hear about all his churches.
how exactly does the troubles of corinth manage to find paul when hes over in judea or maybe somewhere in what we call turkey ?
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Drive by shootings the new Aussie craze in Sydney!!!!
by Witness 007 inlived there for 10 years till 2005 nothing....now every night a drive by shooting up a house.
what happened sydney!
we feel like te us now..
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JeffT
Australia has strict gun control laws, so this can't be happening.
Right?
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US Navy Gets 'Cold Fusion' Patent
by metatron inhttp://energycatalyzer3.com/news/us-navy-has-been-granted-an-lenr-patent.
the us navy is now the assignee for a lenr ("cold fusion") patent.
a patent does not prove a new technology is real - by itself - but the surrounding details strongly suggest to me that the us navy is serious about this matter and may be looking for a new powerplant technology.. the scientists involved in the patent development are well experienced and deeply knowledgeable in their fields (such as pamela boss).
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JeffT
This looks like some kind of metal plating technology to me. The power mentioned is 500/1000000 amp. That's about 1/40000 of what's in the socket on your wall.
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Napolean Hill says that your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between a penny and a million dollars.
by Narcissistic Supply init will empower you to whatever you feed it.
you can feed it good thoughts or you can feed it disempowering beliefs.
it will work towards achieving whatever it is fed.
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JeffT
What my brain thinks about pennies vs a million dollars doesn't make any difference. What would make a difference is finding somebody with a house for sale who's brain can't tell the difference.
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1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things
by Ding inawake!
"if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.
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JeffT
I graduated from High School about two weeks after that was published. Now I'm collecting social security. So much for never growing old (although, I don't feel old).
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JeffT
Thanks for the link Ohiocowboy, and your thoughts Sammie. We're moving into territory where the Zimmerman trial is going to be small potatoes. Personally I never did think I knew what happened and I still don't. But we've had a trial and its done as far as I'm concerned. However we now have the Ministry of Love (if you don't know the reference, catch up on Orwell) trying to pin a thought crime on GZ. Some of you may think this is a great thing, you won't when Big Brother sets his sights on you and won't give up. I oppose an all encompassing government, not for what it can do to me, but because of what it can do to all of us.
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Why can't they go back to the old way of charging for the magazines
by joe134cd ini'm just curious, and i know i always end up with an answer.. but why can't the society go back to its old way of charging for the magazines.
i know this is probably easier said than done.
but if they were keeping a float in the past but are sinking now on the donation model, then is seems obvious charging for the mags was the better way to go.
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JeffT
I've often wondered this same question. It is not difficult to include the tax in the cost when making the sale. And (at least in Washington State) the forms aren't that complicated. I could write an excel spreadsheet in about five minutes that would do the work for them. They might run into liability problems, but I'm not sure. So I don't know why they didn't just pay the taxes and keep brining in the money. I suspect they wanted to keep up an appearance of staying neutral on government, and figured they could beat the money out of the flock.
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JeffT
It's been said that Justice is a process not a result. In this case justice happened. Prosecutors presented their evidence of a crime, the defense presented their evidence that no crime occured and a jury decided what they believed happened. I think this is the process at work, for good or ill. The extreme versions of any other process are for a couple of cops deciding he didn't do anything wrong and just letting him go; or a mob decides he's guilty, drags him out of the jail and hangs him. We've tried both of those methods in the past and they don't work too well. So we follow a process that sometimes produces (or very often produces) results some of us don't like.
I prefer that process to the alternatives.
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Disney's The Lone Ranger - This movie is awful - DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas ini never really liked the 'pirates' movies that much, so i don't know how i was talked into this one.
it's a shame because johnny depp is much better than these quirky roles he is now assigned to play.
just hope he puts a few million of this payday in his kid's college fund.
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JeffT
I read one review that said it should be titled "Pirates of the Carribean 4.5: Sparrow goes West." That was pretty much my thought when I saw the trailer. I'll watch it when it comes out on HBO.
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Here you go if this don't put a bad taste in your mouth nothing will
by oldflame inhttp://killerspray.com/blog?post=teen.... document http://www.scribd.com/doc/6959970/rep.... http://killerspray.com/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owfclg.... http://salmonwarrior.com/.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasm71.... http://www.weathermodification.com/pr.... .
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JeffT
You have a right to travel. You can walk, ride a bike, ride horse, take a boat, swim, take a train, fly...
The right to travel does not equal a right to drive.