Posts by fulltimestudent

2

Worldly People

by Introvert 2 in

anyone thought of this before ??

hahaha .

worldly people got no reason worldly people got no reason worldly people got no reason to live

fulltimestudent

Yup... in JW lore, only Jehovah's witnesses are full human.. grimace!

16

This is funny! BAR article asks: "Was Eve Made from Adam’s Rib—or His Baculum?" But what is a Baculum?

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

we all know the bible story (as its translated into english) that eve was made from adam's rib.

now bible scholar, ziony zevit, distinguished professor of biblical literature and northwest semitic languages at american jewish university in bel-air, california has written in the 'biblical archeological review' that the hebrew word that is traditionally translated as rib which is 'istsela has been wrongly translated.. zevit says, "it was first translated as rib in the septuagint, a greek translation of the hebrew bible from the mid-third century b.c.e.

however, a more careful reading of the hebrew word for rib in the adam and eve story suggests that eve was created from another, very different, part of adams anatomyhis os baculum (penis bone).".

fulltimestudent

We all know the bible story (as its translated into English) that Eve was made from Adam's rib. Now Bible scholar, Ziony Zevit, Distinguished Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages at American Jewish University in Bel-Air, California has written In the 'Biblical Archeological Review' that the Hebrew word that is traditionally translated as “rib” which is 'istsela‘ has been wrongly translated.

Zevit says, "It was first translated as “rib” in the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the mid-third century B.C.E. However, a more careful reading of the Hebrew word for “rib” in the Adam and Eve story suggests that Eve was created from another, very different, part of Adam’s anatomy—his os baculum (penis bone)."

Now we all know that human males do not have a 'penis bone,' and Zevit argues that the point of the story was (at least, in part) that, since humans do have a istsela, but many animals do, the story explained how humans lost their penis bone.

Women reading this, will once again recognise that the bible account is a typical story based on male arrogance, since males cannot exist without a woman's body to form them in the womb.

Full story at:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-interpretation/the-adam-and-eve-story-eve-came-from-where/?mqsc=E3807311&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=BHD+Daily%20Newsletter+Daily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=E5B817

37

Remember the two elderly sisters?

by John Aquila in

about a month ago i posted what had happened to two elderly sisters who were reprimanded by a couple of elders for crying because the jw broadcasting was going to be stopped at the kingdom hall and it was up to each publisher to learn how to use the internet.

if you recall the sisters got together with my mom and talked about it and it resulted in all of them declining to make meals for the pioneers.

here is the link.

fulltimestudent

When elites become arrogant and rude, lower level people will always find a subtle way to express their inner feelings.

My father told a great story of his WW2 army days. One particular private was always in trouble and assigned to kitchen duty in the Officer's mess, which usually entailed (for him) drying the dishes. To express his disgust, he used to wipe his penis over every plate he dried.

Worse is going to come to those arrogant elders, who have forgotten mercy - they are (haha) going to die, go to the grave and never ever get a ressurection, because there isn't one.

20

Do you think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime or a terrible act of war ?

by truthseeker100 in

i believe that the bombings shortened the war in the pacific and probably saved countless lives.

i am not an expert on this subject but given the times it was probably the correct and moral thing to do.. what say you all?.

fulltimestudent

Apologies to Saintbertholdt:

Being in a hurry when I posted, I fast scanned the conversation but failed to pick up your mention of the Russian entry to the Pacific war. Stalin may have been a bastard, but the Russian people finally got their sh*t together (after the German successes) and put together a creditable fighting force that not only pushed the Germans back but pushed Japan to the brink also.

The Russian occupation of all of Sakhalin and all of the Kuril islands still stands, a fact that raises Japanese ire. Their occupation gives Russia complete control of the Sea of Okhtosk with its rich fisheries.

20

Do you think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime or a terrible act of war ?

by truthseeker100 in

i believe that the bombings shortened the war in the pacific and probably saved countless lives.

i am not an expert on this subject but given the times it was probably the correct and moral thing to do.. what say you all?.

fulltimestudent

The moral defense for the terror unleashed by the nuclear bombs is that countless lives (of Allied soldiers) would be saved if an invasion of the Japanese home Islands became unneccessary.

Unfortunately, that defense is nullified, by something else happening, that the American government had full knowledge of.

What did they know?

They knew that the long requested Russian declaration of war on Japan was about to happen. This suggests that there were other reasons for using the atomic bombs.

They could be:

1. The American high command wanted to see what the bomb would do when used on a civilian population.

2. They wanted to demonstrate the bomb to the Russians, sort of, "Look what we've got?" This argument is dependent on being able to show that the USA was already re-considering their relationship with the Soviet Union. It can be argued that the success of Russia's final drive on Germany concerned the USA.

But back to the very short Russian-Japanese war.

The first nuclear bomb was dropped on August 8, but the planning for the Russian-Japanese war had commenced 3 months before, and shortly after the defeat of Germany. Train load after trainload of Military gear had been sent to Siberia and the huge Russian bases that were prepared for the Invasion. The USA knew something of those preparations, at the very least.

On August 8, the Russians declared war on Japan, and invaded Japanese held Manchuria and the islands to the north of Japan in three great pincer movements. In little more than a week Russian forces had wiped out the occupying Japanese Army in Northern China, Korea and the Japanese section of Sakhalin Island.

They also were preparing to invade the large northern Japanese Island of Hokkaido.

Faced with a choice of surrendering to the United States or the Soviet Union, the Japanese elite chose the soft touch and were rewarded for their choice.

If you want to know more I suggest this Foreign Policy overview as a starter:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/

1

Boys kidnapped for sexual purposes in Elizabethan England

by fulltimestudent in

it sounds unbelievable to us today, that young boys could be kidnapped to work as young actors in elizabethan england, and that queen elizabeth i can be accused of being complicit in these crimes.

but that's the claim made in a university of oxford media release announcing the publication of a book entitled, shakespeare in company by dr bart van es.. i quote the release in full:.

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2013/130619_1.html exploitation of elizabethan child actors revealedarts19 jun 13 dr bart van esresearch by an oxford university academic has lifted the lid on the systematic exploitation and abuse of child actors in the time of shakespeare.young boys were snatched on their way to school by 'child catchers' who roamed the streets of london in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.they were then forced to perform on the stage, often in seedy theatres for the titillation of predominantly male audiences.even queen elizabeth i was implicated, signing warrants allowing theatre bosses to capture children for their companies.the material came to light during research by dr bart van es for his new book,shakespeare in company, and has implications for our reading of some of the bard's most important plays, including hamlet.dr van es, a lecturer in english and fellow of st catherine's college, studied original elizabethan documents that show the queen herself signed commissions allowing theatres to kidnap children and force them to perform under threat of whipping.

fulltimestudent

It sounds unbelievable to us today, that young boys could be kidnapped to work as young actors in Elizabethan England, and that Queen Elizabeth I can be accused of being complicit in these crimes. But that's the claim made in a University of Oxford media release announcing the publication of a book entitled, Shakespeare in Company by Dr Bart van Es.

I quote the release in full:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2013/130619_1.html
Exploitation of Elizabethan child actors revealed
Arts
19 Jun 13

Dr Bart van Es
Research by an Oxford University academic has lifted the lid on the systematic exploitation and abuse of child actors in the time of Shakespeare.
Young boys were snatched on their way to school by 'child catchers' who roamed the streets of London in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
They were then forced to perform on the stage, often in seedy theatres for the titillation of predominantly male audiences.
Even Queen Elizabeth I was implicated, signing warrants allowing theatre bosses to capture children for their companies.
The material came to light during research by Dr Bart van Es for his new book,Shakespeare in Company, and has implications for our reading of some of the Bard's most important plays, including Hamlet.
Dr van Es, a lecturer in English and Fellow of St Catherine's College, studied original Elizabethan documents that show the Queen herself signed commissions allowing theatres to kidnap children and force them to perform under threat of whipping.
'In at least one case, a father tried desperately to recover a child who had been snatched and taken to the Blackfriars playhouse,' said Dr van Es.
According to court depositions, a group of theatre men 'did haul, pull, drag and carry away' 13-year-old Thomas Clifton on his way to school.
Dr van Es added: 'When his father attempted a rescue by turning up at the playhouse he was contemptuously dismissed and told that if his son did not learn his lines he would be whipped.'
Using the Queen's commissions, playhouse owners boasted they had 'authority sufficient so to take any nobleman's son in the land'.
'Technically these warrants were designed to allow the Master of the Children to "take up" boys for service in the Chapel Royal,' said Dr van Es.
'But the reality was very different. It was well known that the Children of the Chapel Royal was really an acting company and the Queen did nothing to intervene.'
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The exploitation of these boys was often explicitly sexual
Dr Bart van Es
Dr van Es also uncovered a seedier side to the practice, with performances by children’s troupes often taking place in dimly-lit theatres featuring predominantly male clienteles - in contrast to mainstream public theatres with more diverse audiences.
He said: 'The exploitation of these boys was often explicitly sexual. The playwright Thomas Middleton, for example, described one children's company as a "nest of boys able to ravish a man".
'Kept children had always been a feature of Tudor entertainment. There is an amazing set of letters in which Henry VIII makes requests for a boy in Cardinal Wolsey's choir that he is "desirous to have".
'It was partly financial pressures that allowed this practice to become commercial.'
According to Dr van Es, Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage is an example of a play written for a children's company that makes for disturbing reading in light of his research.
He said: 'Looking at it now, its opening scene edges close to paedophilia. It features a boy named Ganymede "dandled" on the knee of the god Jupiter, who calls him a "female, wanton boy" and "darling of my thoughts".
'Ganymede is asked by Jupiter to indulge in "play", which is clearly sexual. The boy is even offered some of Jupiter's wife's jewellery if he will "be his love".
'The fact that all of this was performed in semi-darkness by captive children makes a real difference.'
The research has implications for our reading of some of Shakespeare’s works, including Hamlet. The play was written in 1600, the year Thomas Clifton was kidnapped and the year children's companies were revived after a 10-year ban.
Dr van Es said: 'When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, children's theatre was big news and he made this central to the plot.
'In the play, the actors have come to visit Hamlet in Denmark because competition from the boy players has driven them from London.
'They even perform a scene that parodies Dido, Queen of Carthage, which Marlowe originally wrote for the boys of Blackfriars.'
According to Dr van Es, Hamlet is one of several plays Shakespeare wrote in opposition to the theatre companies that used the labour of captive children.
He said: 'There were children in Shakespeare's company - playing the roles of women - but these were apprentices rather than schoolboys who had been captured.
‘Shakespeare actually comes out of this rather well.’
Shakespeare in Company by Dr Bart van Es is available now, published by Oxford University Press.

1

Fifth Century Cross discovered in modern day Bulgaria

by fulltimestudent in

its not the earliest cross discovered, but its discovery reminds us that only some 100 years after constantine legalised the early church, crosses, as church decoration were becoming common.

quote: "bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a large bronze cross during excavations in an early christian basilica in the ancient city of parthicopolis, which is located in todays southwestern town ofsandanski.the find is unique because the cross is approximately 1500-years-old it is dated back to the 5th-6th century ad but also because of its size, reports bulgarian tv channel news7.at 55 cm in length the early christian bronze cross discovered in one of the four ancient basilicas insandanski known as the bishop basilica is the largest of its kind to have ever been dug up in bulgaria.".

more information at: http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2015/03/02/bulgarian-archaeologists-find-5th-century-bronze-cross-in-early-christian-basilica/.

fulltimestudent

Its not the earliest cross discovered, but its discovery reminds us that only some 100 years after Constantine legalised the early church, crosses, as church decoration were becoming common.

Quote: "Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a large bronze cross during excavations in an Early Christian basilica in the ancient city of Parthicopolis, which is located in today’s southwestern town ofSandanski.
The find is unique because the cross is approximately 1500-years-old – it is dated back to the 5th-6th century AD – but also because of its size, reports Bulgarian TV channel News7.
At 55 cm in length the Early Christian bronze cross discovered in one of the four ancient basilicas inSandanski known as the Bishop Basilica is the largest of its kind to have ever been dug up in Bulgaria."

More information at: http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2015/03/02/bulgarian-archaeologists-find-5th-century-bronze-cross-in-early-christian-basilica/

5

Child Abuse- A universal problem -for example, in Pakistan

by fulltimestudent in

while the australian royal commission may be the focus of our attention at the moment, we should not forget that this is a much wider problem.

previous official investigations in australia (inquiring into church run homes for kids)have revealed horrible examples of abuse, as have similar investigations in canada and ireland.. and international news today reports on this mass incident in pakistan.

and if some may want to see this as a muslim problem, then please do a search and find that similar things happen in india.. the hongkong based asia times reports:.

fulltimestudent

CalebInFloroda: Among these were Christians, agnostics, atheists, and a Buddhist or someone practicing a nature-based form of religion. Schools, teachers, police and medical professionals all failed this person, as did the institutions and organizations they belonged to.

The stories can leave you weary with human evil.

I just found a document in my files for an academic at my university, and I'll post it here in a separate thread. It details some research by an Oxford uni academic that plainly implicates Queen Elizabeth I in the kidnapping of boys for use in the theatre and prostitution.

11

Tired of walking - then get onto your new midget ride-on board

by fulltimestudent in

lifestyle: pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of tokyo.

by at editor on august 7, 2015 in japan, lifestyle.

(from reuters).

fulltimestudent

OK. Mystery solved - dopey me, except i cut and paste the web addie. ?????????

I had the same thought about the 'walkcar' - would an elderly person, whose lost some balancing ability, be able to stay upright once it was moving? Maybe J is like

I like your sunX3 - but I think I'd wish for the Honda, once I hit my first hill. Havn't seen one around Sydney, so maybe the government won't register them.

A long way from the bike scene way back in the mid 1940s.

11