we are told to have the emblems this year.
no fortified wine or boones farm.
that suits me as i like real wine.
I'm curious and not too knowledgeable about wine. What is 'fortified wine'? And where does the Bible say anything about what or how the Israelites made wine?
If I understand correctly, wine was not specifically mentioned as part of the Passover. (Although I do understand it was not abnormal to have it at the dinner table.)
what the hell is the problem with the famous “men of old” in the bible?
for some strange reason those old geezers (and some not so old) could not recognize who they were screwing?.
my wife was listening to this week’s bible reading about jacob, laban, and the sisters leah, and rachael.
The two children born to Lot and his daughters were named Moab and Ben-Ammi. They became the forefathers to the Moabites and Ammonites, two of Israel's long time enemies.
It could be that the writer of the account (Moses?) included it for the purpose of explaining the origins of these two peoples.
what the hell is the problem with the famous “men of old” in the bible?
for some strange reason those old geezers (and some not so old) could not recognize who they were screwing?.
my wife was listening to this week’s bible reading about jacob, laban, and the sisters leah, and rachael.
This article may help explain things, both from Jacob's point of view as well as the writer of the account and why he wrote the account the way he did.
how much is the wts in canada worth?
they don't audit their own accounts properly says the charity investigators, but in 2017 they had millions in their bank account.
https://charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/40-watch-tower-and-tract-society-of-canada .
A little further down in the text it has "Bible" in the corporate name. It might have just been a typo or abbreviating on the part of the non-JW writing the article.
A little further down is a section entitled, "Salary Information." Under that is a line, "Full Time Staff," for which they list "0" (zero). This is the equivalent of WT claiming that the elders are clergy in court, but telling the R&F that they have no clergy. To the R&F, "full time" is a standard of prestige. Everyone at the Bethels are "full-time." But to the auditors, 'No, sorry, we don't have any full-time workers.'
goodfellas.
one flew over the cuckoos nest.
casino.
Some of the ones already mentioned, so I'll include:
Firefox
The Enemy Below
Signs
if you haven’t watched the joe rogan podcast dealing with this virus, you should.. i’m wondering if the deluded gb will continue to schedule meetings of large groups of dubs.
they shouldn’t and neither should any other churches.. i can only cringe as i imagine groups of people coming together at mega-churches and conventions and conferences ( if you’re pentecostal ) and infecting each other while believing they are safe.. be smart everyone.
be informed.. dd.
The one thing the letter said was that none of these cancellations applies to the regional conventions. The WT has too much money to gain by keeping them. Too bad for the people that 'have' to attend.
It lays bare any claim to want to protect the sheep. Everybody is supposed to have self-sacrificing love, except the leaders. They do what's best for themselves.
Fortunately, the world will probably come to the JWs rescue and cancel them anyways.
I also have a problem with 150 people sharing/handling 3 or 4 wine cups. On the good side, I think wine is somewhat of a disinfectant. But the glass of the cup isn't.
what is the benefit of god's kingdom?.
the watchtower said when it started out in 1879 that god's kingdom had already arrived in heaven in 1874 and that its work would be complete by 1914. .
with heroic slogans of "destroying the kings of the earth" and "all enemies of christ the king" etc by 1914, "god fearing" humankind was to have been restored to prelapsarian innocence and the earth to a global edenic paradise.
i ask you all would anyone of you throw a party and have everyone atttending just to look at the refreshments?
would you invite people to a meal only to not be allowed to eat?.
absurd you say!.
this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.
latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.
the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.
there are a number of wtb&ts publications that are quite useful in doing research, but would be significantly better if they weren't theologically and self-servingly biased.
i'd like to find more reliable substitutions, especially from scholarly/secular sources, to help me, and others, get a look at the bible from a fresh perspective.
here's a short list of "cool" books i'd like for which id like to find corresponding replacements.. new world translation of the holy scriptures w/references = ?
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