exodus 7. .
new king james version.
moses before pharaoh.
I'm wondering why is it that this very important factor (affecting the exodus stor) is never mentioned by so-called bible students (of any flavour)? What is that factor?
Look at this map:
It shows the Egyptian Empire approx. 1450BCE. No-one living along the Mediterranean coast would have to go far to be in Egypt.
Do your think that this is an important factor is discussing the exodus myth?
apr 20, 2020. novak djokovic sparks a backlash after publicly opposing the covid-19 vaccine.
he says: “personally, i am opposed to vaccination, and i wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine in order to be able to travel.”.
asked by sky news australia anchor danica de giorgio why djokovic was granted the visa in the first place, the home affairs minister said: “they’re entirely separate processes”.. “to gain entry to australia you need both – you actually need the visa, which is determined quite separately, and then you have to meet the entry requirements,” she said.. “i know that people are putting the two issues together, but the visa application process and the granting of a visa is very separate to the additional entry requirements that every traveller needs to meet to be able to enter australia.”.
This is an interesting conflict to watch, The Aussie govt. has been strict about allowing people with visa problems to enter Australa. A popular TV show on sunday evenings (Border Security-Australia's Front Line) dramatises these conflicts.
A poll, the details published in today's Sydney Morning Herald. shows 71% supporting the government's action in wanting to deport Djokovic.
"Exclusive
An exclusive survey shows 71 per cent of Australians think the defending Australian Open men’s champion should not be allowed to stay and compete."
13% wanted the govt to let him stay.
And Interestingly, 14% said (and I translate the result into the vernacular) -"Who gives a shit."
exodus 7. .
new king james version.
moses before pharaoh.
Whatever the bible says about god is without value. It's just another human's view of the topic.
apr 20, 2020. novak djokovic sparks a backlash after publicly opposing the covid-19 vaccine.
he says: “personally, i am opposed to vaccination, and i wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine in order to be able to travel.”.
asked by sky news australia anchor danica de giorgio why djokovic was granted the visa in the first place, the home affairs minister said: “they’re entirely separate processes”.. “to gain entry to australia you need both – you actually need the visa, which is determined quite separately, and then you have to meet the entry requirements,” she said.. “i know that people are putting the two issues together, but the visa application process and the granting of a visa is very separate to the additional entry requirements that every traveller needs to meet to be able to enter australia.”.
This headline (this morning, Sydney time) on the government owned media service says it all. The amateurs who run this country screwed up. Why? I cant offer a reason, except that there are elections due shortly.
If you want to read more, check this link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-11/australia-made-to-look-foolish-over-handling-djokovic-visa/100748724
i found this on exjwreddit.
a pimo elder is in the middle of an event where a former co allegedly kissed a brother from another hall.. the co denied it so the other elders are frustrated because they can't have a judicial meeting.
if true, can he be disfellowshipped?
Quote, Dozy: "In the JCs I was involved in as an elder , I was pretty skeptical with the whole concept. Teenagers doing cigarettes / drugs , adultery , pre-marital sex etc. Nobody really seemed especially sad or guilty - it just seemed to be a process."
Sometimes the JW judicial process filled you with wonder. At one level, the hard-heartedness of some local elders made you wonder if they had any compassion at all. And, then at another level, compassion seemed to be without limits. A former Aussie circuit and District Overseer was kicked out of a Gilead class for some un-named sin.
So what do you have to do to get kicked out of a Gilead class? Could only be apostacy or sex! Anyway, a few years later, he's invited into another class. So whatever his original sin, compassion was extended to him. He had a up and down theocratic career, so it sometimes seemed that the branch went out of its way to extend compassion to him.
in the end, though he went too far. He and his wife were pioneering in Brisbane. The wide comes home on day to find him and a former Bethel brother, kissing each other's personal bits, in the shower.
I leave it to your imagination as to how and why so much compassion was extended in a much more complex story than I have told.
a friend says the wt gives a substantial sum to retiring cos. he says one bought land and built near him, a desirable rural area.
i think it must have been saved green handshake money or inherited.. btw this man also thinks the gb are the smartest men alive..
These comments apply to anybody stupid (lack of critical thinking skills) enough, to believe these stories of a loving god in heaven that provides for all, but who especially cares for those who forsake possessions to serve him.
I started pioneering around 18 y.o. got married (to a pioneer) around 25 -In the 10-12 years I pioneered I once calculated we could have earned a million A$ between us. But being stupid and believing in a god in heaven I had nothing, when my wife became pregnant and I had to think about 2 people who I cared for and beginning to think that bloody old YHWH didn't give a rat's arse about anyone or anything. Still lacking critical thinking skills I put those doubts to one side and kept serving where the need was greater as an elder, working night and day to fit all that bloody bible shit into 24 hour days.
My ever theocratic wife, still wanted to look smart and fashionable (and be able to serve the YHWH/Jesus fake gods). I scrimped and saved in my own life, learnt some design skills, brought work home to do at night, and eventually bought a house. Domestic bliss was not part of my life though, often criticised by my wife for not being theocratic enough - You can se where that was heading cant you?
And, when my wife wanted a divorce, I though of my kids and gave her the house, and she also forged my signature and took the few thousand dollars I had in my bank account.
But I got through it, no thanks to any imaginary god in heaven, In time another partner and another house, but here I am now, still working in my bloody eighties.
I do not think about all that much - it makes my blood pressure rise- I think positive. My life is not so bad, considering that I wasted so much of it being stupid - So stupid is as stupid does (Attested since at least 1862, but popularized (perhaps independently) by the 1994 film Forrest Gump.) which is much more accurate than the Holy Bible
Apologies -caught me on a bad day.
the major topic of conversation was that almost all do not want to go back to the meetings and field service!
and we are talking very zealous and active witnesses!
.
A realisation of what all of us here have learned - It's all a bloody waste of time and energy, And, that's not even going near all the missed opportunities to do something really useful in our lived
i know for a fact it would not start off with a talking snake, magical fruit, invisible beings that desire beautiful women to have sex with.. and it wouldn’t end with a flying dragon, a two horned lamb, locusts that resembled horses with men’s faces, but with women’s hair and teeth of lions.
and the book wouldn’t allow for hundreds of millions of religions to spurt from it.
i think the first thing a book written by god would have, is that it would be written in a way that all languages could understand without being translated.. regardless of what language you would speak, we could read it and understand what it said.
Has anyone else wondered about the book of Ruth? Why would the holy spirit (triune version or jw version) bother to inspire whatever bible writer wrote it to write down this sto
The biggest lesson it has, is that if you want to get f**ked by a guy - go to sleep at his feet.
i know for a fact it would not start off with a talking snake, magical fruit, invisible beings that desire beautiful women to have sex with.. and it wouldn’t end with a flying dragon, a two horned lamb, locusts that resembled horses with men’s faces, but with women’s hair and teeth of lions.
and the book wouldn’t allow for hundreds of millions of religions to spurt from it.
i think the first thing a book written by god would have, is that it would be written in a way that all languages could understand without being translated.. regardless of what language you would speak, we could read it and understand what it said.
The god of the bible is more than a little bit dumb!
so after jehovah kills 8 billion people "for not knowing him'" he is going to resurrect 100 billion humans because " they didn't know him" .
the 8 million jw's will be tasked with educating these ones.
that's 1 jw for every 12k resurrected ones.
