Posts by Witness My Fury

yes, i too have wondered how an assembly that is held in a fully paid for assembly hall, with no food service, could possibly have $10,000 in expenses.

i suppose the bethel speakers have transportation expenses - maybe $1000 or so.

as for rent on the assembly hall, well you have already paid for it once, why pay again?

Witness My Fury

Yep I figured this out a few years before my fade....

Bristol assy hall bought and paid for, yet payments never fell.

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BOTR- Announcement

by Band on the Run in

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law school is obviously not the hardest program to follow.

it isn't something that can be replicated on the internet.

a first year student can find the law.

Witness My Fury

What a stuck up arrogant prick. I wont miss you one little bit.

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Are the gospels just midrash?

by yadda yadda 2 in

some responses to this common claim gleaned from internet sources;.

the idea the gospels are simply midrash has several problems associated with it.

one is that the genre as such did not exist yet in judaism as the midrashim are a few centuries later.

Witness My Fury

Yadda, you didnt think much of Bart Erhman back then, and Leo didnt give her opinion on him that I could see in a quick skim thru (i was hoping she would)...

Has your opinion of him changed now? Anyone else think poorly of his work?

I ask because I rate him, but am well aware of how easy it is to fall into the trap of confirmation bias and I am trying to avoid doing that these days.

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Humbled Valentine's chicks pics ;)

by Bruja-del-Sol in

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here's a few pictures of the little chicks saved from the snow and hatched by mom goldie.

(click on them to see larger pics).

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Can we Depend on Eye-witness accounts?

by fulltimestudent in

a lot of trust is placed on human memory.

not just in legal cases and criminal trials, but also as evidence that certain things spoken of in the bible are true, because eye-witnesses attest to seeing these events.. but, could that trust be misplaced.

consider this research:.

Witness My Fury

Thanks, will look thru it properly later.

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Interesting article on Biblical accuracy

by Jon Preston in

appearance of camels in genesis called sign of authors' distance from history.biblical scholars have long been aware many of the stories and accounts in the sacred book were not written by eyewitnesses, and according to new research, further evidence of that historical distance has appeared in the form of a hump-backed camel.. new research using radioactive-carbon dating techniques shows the animals weren't domesticated until hundreds of years after the events documented in the book of genesis.the research was published by erez ben-yosef and lidar sapir-hen, archaeologists from tel aviv university in israel.

they believe camels were not domesticated in the eastern mediterranean until the 10th century b.c.. and yet, the hump-backed creatures are mentioned repeatedly alongside abraham, jacob and isaac, indicating the bible's writers and editors were portraying what they saw in their present as how things looked in the past, says a new york times article by john noble wilford:.

these anachronisms are telling evidence that the bible was written or edited long after the events it narrates and is not always reliable as verifiable history.

Witness My Fury

Yes I've read about this somewhere, It might have been in The Bible Unearthed, but I've read so much stuff that it could have been anywhere LOL...

Edit: Yes it was briefly mentioned in The Bible Unearthed.

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Woody Allen speaks out

by NewYork44M in

woody allen wrote a very compelling article in the op-ed of the new york times.. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/woody-allen-speaks-out.html?ref=opinion&_r=0.

have you ever been accused of something you did not do?

if that happens, what do you do?.

Witness My Fury

Ah, but DJS we all KNOW that anyone who dares tread a middle ground and is not seen to scream for blood and fire is a closet pedophile, a pedophile enabler or or ... worse!

Some of the sick minds here have already made those calculations and insinuated as much and if they knew where you lived would be forwarding plots of medieval retribution.

These threads have been a low point in my time here.

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A demon possessed hoime, allegations of infedelity, slander and other cool stuff

by confusedandalone in

ok so i am sure some of you saw th eletter my mom wrote.

i simply responded with:.

mom,.

Witness My Fury

Good confused, and thanks for posting these letters, they are certainly eye opening and will be a help to some.

As you have changed your terms (i.e "you are always welcome to come see them" etc etc) it might be polite to tell them and the reasons why.... just to cross the t's and dot the i's and try and avoid the obvious path of them demonising you even more.

Your brain will be screaming Nooooooo, but longer term it could be a good move.