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  Unhappy Valentine's day - so a wild elephant expresses his feelings by damaging 15 cars in China

  by fulltimestudent in

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  there are still wild elephants in china, and this one lives in yunnan province in south china (bordering myanmar).. the wild life department that monitors the elephants says that he'd recently been in a fight with another male elephant over when both wanted to mate with a female elephant.

  on the valentine day weekend, this elephant found himself on a main road, and took out his feelings on 15 helpless cars.. however another version of the story states that the elephant was a female.. so ... ?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mycvrrhtq0e.

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  And across the border in Myanmar, the problem may even be worse. According to this New York Times item, changes in the timber industry have made elephants redundant. And the country has a massive problem with elephant unemployment.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/myanmar-logging-elephants-unemployment.html?WT.mc_id=2016-FEBRIARY-FB-INYT-MC9-AUD_DEV-0201-0229&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&_r=0
  

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  "Shrinking forests and a law enacted three years ago that prohibits the export of raw timber have saddled Myanmar with an elephant unemployment crisis. Hundreds of elephants have been thrown out of work, and many are not handling it well.

  “They become angry a lot more easily,” U Chit Sein, 64, whose eight logging elephants now work only a few days a month. “There is no work, so they are getting fat. And all the males want to do is have sex all the time.”
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  Unhappy Valentine's day - so a wild elephant expresses his feelings by damaging 15 cars in China

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
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  there are still wild elephants in china, and this one lives in yunnan province in south china (bordering myanmar).. the wild life department that monitors the elephants says that he'd recently been in a fight with another male elephant over when both wanted to mate with a female elephant.

  on the valentine day weekend, this elephant found himself on a main road, and took out his feelings on 15 helpless cars.. however another version of the story states that the elephant was a female.. so ... ?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mycvrrhtq0e.

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  Apparently this elephant has caused more trouble, this video published in Australia's Canberra Times says he's played up three times.

  http://www.canberratimes.com.au/video/video-news/video-world-news/jilted-elephant-takes-it-out-on-tourists-20160216-4amzi.html
  
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  Two interesting places in the Bible, Bethel and Megiddo.

  by Crazyguy in

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  first if one looks into the place bethel this is where the king of israel sets up golden calves and tells his people here is your god's go here and to dan to worship.

  he didn't want his people going all the way down to jerusalem.

  he also made his own priests again to take worship away from jerusalem and it's priests the levites.

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  Stop popping those pills CS, they're not good for you.
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  A Bible study web-site that attempts to share scholarly views - Oxford Biblical Studies Online

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the site can be accessed at: http://global.oup.com/obso/about/.

  their stated goal:.

  quote:oxford biblical studies online provides a comprehensive resource for the study of the bible and biblical history.

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  The site can be accessed at: http://global.oup.com/obso/about/

  Their stated goal:

  Quote:Oxford Biblical Studies Online provides a comprehensive resource for the study of the Bible and biblical history. The integration of authoritative scholarly texts and reference works with tools that provide ease of research into the background, context, and issues related to the Bible make Oxford Biblical Studies Online a valuable resource not only for college students, scholars, and clergy, but also anyone in need of an authoritative, ecumenical, and up-to-date resource.
  Easy to search and navigate, this site offers a ready access point for a wealth of Bible text and commentary—including the New Oxford Annotated Bible and five other popular Oxford Study Bibles—under the direction of a team of esteemed scholars headed by Editor in Chief Michael D. Coogan.
  Texts from selected Oxford Bibles can be viewed in side-by-side display with the user's choice of commentary and annotations from the Study Bibles, the stand-alone Oxford Bible Commentary, and A-Z concordances for the NRSV and NAB translations. The Bible content is supplemented by collections of major apocryphal Old and New Testament texts in translation.

  My favourite section:

  Bible verses with side-by-side scholarly analysis of the text.

  Link: http://www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com/article/sidebyside/bibref/NRSV/commref/NRSV/Gen/1
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  Unhappy Valentine's day - so a wild elephant expresses his feelings by damaging 15 cars in China

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  there are still wild elephants in china, and this one lives in yunnan province in south china (bordering myanmar).. the wild life department that monitors the elephants says that he'd recently been in a fight with another male elephant over when both wanted to mate with a female elephant.

  on the valentine day weekend, this elephant found himself on a main road, and took out his feelings on 15 helpless cars.. however another version of the story states that the elephant was a female.. so ... ?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mycvrrhtq0e.

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  There are still wild elephants in China, and this one lives in Yunnan province in south China (bordering Myanmar).

  The wild life department that monitors the elephants says that he'd recently been in a fight with another male elephant over when both wanted to mate with a female elephant. On the Valentine day weekend, this elephant found himself on a main road, and took out his feelings on 15 helpless cars.

  However another version of the story states that the elephant was a female.

  so ... ?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyCVRRHTQ0E
  
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  Turn the (digital) pages of the Codex Sinaiticus (and say thank you to the British Library).

  by fulltimestudent in

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  many surviving documents are now digitised.

  the israeli museum has digitised copies of the qumran scrolls and the british library have provided a web-site where you can have a simulated experience of what you would see as you turned the pages of the codex sinaiticus.. http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=b00f9a37-422c-4542-bfbd-b97bf3ce7d50&type=book.

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  The Orthodox church maintains a web-page for the monastery where the codex was found:

  The Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine’s Monastery

  That church claims that this is the precise spot where god God spoke to Moses in the fable known as the 'burning-bush' incident. Hence the term 'god-trodden,'

  
  

  The monastery was built at the command of Emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE) an early Christian Emperor. Some claim it to be the oldest monastery still in use.

  Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery

  For the curious, there are many things of interest if you have the wherewithal to make this visit. There are other biblical manuscripts and religious icons ...

  
  

  including this one, known as 'The 12th century Ladder of Divine Ascent " showing monks, led by John Climacus, ascending the ladder to Jesus, at the top right.

  Seems to me that it was a type of my life as a Christian. you can see me (the antitype) falling off as I neared Jesus in the top right of the ladder.

  Another interesting document is the

  Quote" The Achtiname of Muhammad, also known as the Covenant or (Holy) Testament (Testamentum) of the Prophet Muhammad, is a document or ahdname which is a charter or writ ratified by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad granting protection and other privileges to the Christian monks of Saint Catherine's Monastery. It is sealed with an imprint representing Muhammad's hand."

  
  

  A tradition is maintained that (quote)

  " Muhammad frequented the monastery and had great relationships and discussions with the Sinai fathers.[3] The document claims that the Prophet (570–632) had personally granted by charter in the second year of the Hegira, corresponding to AD 626, the rights and privileges to all Christians "far and near". It consists of several clauses on such topics as the protection of Christians living under Islamic rule as well as pilgrims on their way to monasteries, freedom of worship and movement, freedom to appoint their own judges and to own and maintain their property, exemption from military service and taxes, and the right to protection in war." Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtiname_of_Muhammad
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  Turn the (digital) pages of the Codex Sinaiticus (and say thank you to the British Library).

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many surviving documents are now digitised.

  the israeli museum has digitised copies of the qumran scrolls and the british library have provided a web-site where you can have a simulated experience of what you would see as you turned the pages of the codex sinaiticus.. http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=b00f9a37-422c-4542-bfbd-b97bf3ce7d50&type=book.

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  Are there difference between the Codex Sinaiticus and other manuscripts?

  This entry in Wikipedia has a list of omitted phrases and verses, interpolations and significant variations:

  It should be helpful for interested readers, but always try to investigate the difference.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus
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  Turn the (digital) pages of the Codex Sinaiticus (and say thank you to the British Library).

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many surviving documents are now digitised.

  the israeli museum has digitised copies of the qumran scrolls and the british library have provided a web-site where you can have a simulated experience of what you would see as you turned the pages of the codex sinaiticus.. http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=b00f9a37-422c-4542-bfbd-b97bf3ce7d50&type=book.

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  Many surviving documents are now digitised. The Israeli Museum has digitised copies of the Qumran scrolls and the British Library have provided a web-site where you can have a simulated experience of what you would see as you turned the pages of the Codex Sinaiticus.

  http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=b00f9a37-422c-4542-bfbd-b97bf3ce7d50&type=book
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  Two interesting places in the Bible, Bethel and Megiddo.

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  first if one looks into the place bethel this is where the king of israel sets up golden calves and tells his people here is your god's go here and to dan to worship.

  he didn't want his people going all the way down to jerusalem.

  he also made his own priests again to take worship away from jerusalem and it's priests the levites.

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  Crazyguy : First if one looks into the place Bethel this is where the king of Israel sets up golden calves

  
  

  Sorry CG, feeling facetious this morning (happens occasionally). Did you know that one of the golden calves grew up to become a golden bull?

  Said bull now resides in Huaxi village, Jiangsu Province, which is known as "China's richest village" - a village that was once as poor as most villages once were in China. The village now boasts a 328 metre high five star hotel, and somewhere within said building, the golden bull is located, cast from one ton of 24 carat gold:

  

  
  

  Is there a prophetic significance?

  Must be, or the bible is completely useless in satisfying our need to understand the world in the second or third generation after 1914 and the fading of the seventh world power, and with the eighth world power being so helpless that one wonders why it was necessary for YHWH/JESUS to prophesy about its existence.

  (link: Image of the golden bull from the UK Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8799083/Chinas-richest-village-opens-its-own-skyscraper.html )

  
  
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  Schulz and de Vienn

  by Old Goat in

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  terry started a thread on schulz and de vienne's book, separate identity, which you should read.

  they've posted a partial, rough draft of their current work here:

  http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/.

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  My thanx also, Old Goat.

  Shulz and De Viennes, et al have just the right historical attitude that is needed as the bubbub of outrage obscures reality.

  It will be very useful to read their final conclusions.

  I really appreciate their description of these early believer's connections " affiliation was fluid and loose."

  I doubt that most would have followed today's GB through thick and thin.