i always found the account of the "woman at the well" to be particulary interesting.
this unknown shunned woman of ill-repute was specifically sought out and chosen by jesus.
why?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el7dzonv3iy&ab_channel=michaelpapale.
" So Jesus felt that women were ( are ) not second class citizens only fit to take a back seat ."
I was always looked on favourably by the "Sisters" in the Congregation as I always championed this point of view. I was brought up by my JW parents to think this way, they were not non-thinking, main stream, grey little J.W's.
you may have been wondering: what is greg stafford up to these days?
lots of interesting things, is the answer.
exposing the false trinity doctrine, of course, but keeping on top of other issues too.
He used to be a bit rational sounding, if a bit up his own arse, but it seems he has finally lost the plot.
so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.
things must be improving, eh?.
" Whoever did this is a fucking animal ..." true. If confirmed, it will cement support for Ukraine, and if it gets known fairly widely in Russia, will shatter some of the public's illusions, fostered by the relentless propaganda they get.
Now we just have to wait for something to surface from a (very suspect) Russian source showing Ukrainian soldiers in an equally bad light.
a small thread that may be of interest to some.
in short, there are 3 occasions in the ot where yahweh is identified with the epithet "angel".
(mal ak).
My 2 Cents, it is thought that Angels, Demons and the satan etc only entered Israelite/Jewish religious thought during the Babylonian Exile, so the references would have been written after 539 BCE, and edited in to any texts used that were earlier.
So, as the new ideas were that, very new, it is perhaps no surprise that "Angel" is used that way of Yahweh , as he was a god alongside other gods for so many Centuries before the Exile, even if at the time assimilating into himself those other gods. But the returnees were only working toward monotheism, and were still monolatrous, so here in these examples you give we see examples of the slow changes in thought taking place.
I guess even in Christianity Angels are really seen as nothing so very different from that early concept, as they are seen as demi-gods, not just messengers, but powerful beings fighting battles alongside Christ.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/15/apostasy-director-daniel-kokotajlo-liberating-to-leave-jehovahs-witnesses-interview.
We went to the Cinema to watch it when it first came out, I thought it was well very done, but what surprised me was the rest of the audience got really involved ! when some really silly J.W stuff was said they laughed loudly, but when the Elders did their bit and shunning was shown in action, there were distinctly heard remarks of "disgusting" from the audience !
Now this was in a posh arty Cinema in the South of England, where the audience is usually very restrained !
I would say the Director achieves a lot with this Movie !
if jesus memorial meal is meant to follow on from the jewish passover celebration, would someone explain to me why the jehovah's witness community are holding their "lord's evening meal" on tuesday 4th april; when the jewish community are not holding their 2023 passover until the 5th april 2023?
doesn't this mean that the jehovahs have got their date wrong?.
https://www.londonworld.com/read-this/passover-2023-what-is-passover-dates-and-greetings-4091833.
" so the JW's are a full 24 hours early in their observance."
I pointed this out to a JW lady I knew well many years ago, she was one who insisted the Org. was right about everything.
When I had proved your point to her, she flounced off, throwing over her shoulder the comment "I don't care if we celebrate it on the wrong day", !!???
But I guess that will be the attitude of J.W's today, sadly, they really do not care about Truth, which is ironic in the extreme, the way they bandy that word around.
the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.
here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.
i play - ich spiele.
It depends how you define Hybrid in regard to natural language. But I think we can understand how English developed when we look at the history.
What is quite unusual is the decision made about 1500 or a bit later ? to include a lot of Latin or Latin derived words, and some Greek, but I guess we should be grateful, we have a large vocabulary now to choose from, but a confusing one in some instances, where we do not know the etymology personally, and cannot ourselves see how the word came to be used as it is ! But this was not language evolving by osmosis.
Hence my Dictionary of Etymology gets some use !
probably but they’ve sent him back pretty darn quick!
i have from a very reliable source that he attends one of the poughkeepsie ny congregations.
i think there are 5 congregations there might be worth paying a visit if anyone lives near there..
" the truth always comes out eventually about anything " .
We would like to think so, of course, there is no way we can KNOW so, what things are still hidden and undisclosed, we will never know.
But, in J.W land, yes, it will get out about Tony Tight-pants McCallan Morris.
probably but they’ve sent him back pretty darn quick!
i have from a very reliable source that he attends one of the poughkeepsie ny congregations.
i think there are 5 congregations there might be worth paying a visit if anyone lives near there..
Poughkeepsie , in the Wappinger language means 'the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place', well Tony found a little watering place there apparently !
the bible says, that those who say 'there is no god' are fools.. april fools day yesterday, showed that people can be fools for believing something that did not happen.
yet, the bible says that fools are those who refuse to believe that which is true.. god can still save fools.... feel free to watch the latest short message of hope:.
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Thank you Simon ! I don't come on this Site to see mindless ignorant crap spouted, that is why I walked out of the Kingdom Hall all those years ago ! I didn't want to pollute my ears with it anymore.
You have just proved Simon, that prayers are answered, how often I have prayed "Oh Lord, please deliver me from your believers".
