Great, another bible-vomiter.
Posts by Simon
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18A single Bible verse that explains everything—hope even to the disfellowshipped
by Abraham1 in"through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for;.
through the fear of the lord evil is avoided.” (proverb 16:6, niv).
sin can be cancelled [yə·ḵup·par] by acts of goodness such as kindness [bə·ḥe·seḏ] and faithfulness, and sin can be avoided in loving remembrance [ū·ḇə·yir·’aṯ] of god.
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Missed opportunity of Jehovah’s Witnesses
by Abraham1 injesus had foretold that people of "last days" would “faint out of fear” because of things such as “sea-level rise’ as part of “signs of last days” in luke 21:25. bible translators—including new world translation of jehovah’s witnesses—missed the real meaning as they translated it as “roaring of the sea and its agitation.” (https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/nwt/books/luke/21/).
more careful translations such as niv put it: “roaring and tossing of the sea.” (https://biblehub.com/luke/21-25.htm) word for “tossing” is σάλου (salou), from saino; i.e., billow,” (swell outwards).
thus underlying thought is like balloon swelling, or water flowing outwards, as though ready to roll over, thus points to the modern terminology “sea-level rise.” biblos interlinear translation (int:) translates it as “of [the] sea and rolling surge.” “rolling sea.” (a greek lexicon to the new testament, edward robinson (d.d., page 416) (a greek lexicon to the new testament on the basis of dr. robinson ... by c. robson).. jesus’ original use of the wording “tossing of the sea” is another way of saying “sea-level would rise” as a result of pollution of air.
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Simon
How is that possible? The climate people told us over 20 years ago that there would be no ice within 10 years, ... so what exactly is going to melt?
Apart from their credibility.
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No Time to die.
by mickbobcat ini watched the movie by streaming it off line.
i don't pay to watch woke movies ever.
the film had great cinematography.
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Simon
Bond is a guy. He can be black or any race, I don't care
Not really, he's a 1950's British naval officer ... which means he's a white man.
People should create their own stories and characters instead of always wanting to co-opt and ruin someone else's, which is what the "replacement" is always really about, trying to erase and ruin, not really celebrate or enhance a story. It's to stick a finger in the eye of a group someone dislikes.
Unless people would be happy for Black Panther to be a white dude, they should keep the characters as they were written.
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No Time to die.
by mickbobcat ini watched the movie by streaming it off line.
i don't pay to watch woke movies ever.
the film had great cinematography.
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Simon
The woke destroy everything they infect.
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Money Spinners
by Lost in the fog ini can remember when i was in that there were numerous articles and assembly talks about not using the congregation as a means of making money from a captive audience of brothers and sisters.. i was looking at the etsy website and stumbled upon a jw themed product.. i wondered if there were any more and discovered that there were lots.
mind you maybe it's people who have left who see an opportunity for making money from gullible jws.. https://www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=jehovah%27s%20witness%20letter%20writing&ref=auto-1.
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Simon
Taking advantage of groups that have implicit (often misplaced) trust is called "affinity fraud".
There are a number of examples in JW land of various money making schemes and companies that take advantage of the trust or cheap labor available through congregational contacts.
JWs are ripe for rip-offs ... why? They have already shown they are suckers, and nothing makes you more likely to fall for a scam like being scammed before.
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Are You Concerned About Inflation?
by Simon ini saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.
that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?
they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.
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Simon
We still plan, Walmart produce is usually poorer quality than a further away grocer
Walmart specialize in package-size deflation - things may not get more expensive, but the package sizes go down. They often have specially made products by manufacturers (because they are a big buyer) so the prices match other stores but you get less, so they are really more expensive. Sneaky eh?!
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Simon
A lot of the characters seemed to be acting completely out of character, M being the most obvious, but Bond too - sat in a car frozen while people are shooting at them? WTF ...
It wasn't terrible, but what happened to "Bond will return in ..." at the end of the credits? How does that work now ...
I like these Pitch Meeting sketches:
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Are You Concerned About Inflation?
by Simon ini saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.
that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?
they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.
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Simon
The US has become a dysfunctional country that can't get no-brainer decisions right.
Take the supply chain crisis. Hundreds of container ships, waiting offshore to unload, but docks only work 9-5 hours because "unions". I bet you thought ports would be 24x7 operations even before this crisis, because why wouldn't they be like airports?
The other union-inspired dumb-fuckery that makes the crisis worse is that ships are only allowed to go to ONE port. Now think about this, they claim there is a climate crisis and yet they have rules in place that prevent ships from dropping multiple cargos at the ports closest to their destinations, forcing those containers to travel further by road instead. What happened to "climate! climate! climate!"? Unions and democrat party donations, that's what.
The US has ceased to be a place where things get done, it's become a place of sleazy corruption and ineptitude.
Regular people are just the victims of the broken system, but then so many apparently vote for the people who create it that it's hard to have much sympathy. The EU is equally as bad. Maybe it's something todo with government being so large, the huge inefficiencies and corruption can easily hide in plain view and the momentum of government makes fixing things too difficult to ever get done.
Once a bad decision has been made, it's impossible to revert, so it becomes a death-spiral.
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So the liberals are lying about people moving out of Kalifornia.
by mickbobcat inmy wife works in real estate here in the midwest.
people are moving in so much from kalifornia its crazy.
she said her client told her that they had to drive to nevada to get a rider truck.
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Simon
Why would anyone want to leave California?
Sure, it's sky-high taxes and inflated house prices, but you can always live in a tent at the side of the road or take over a local park - I've seen footage showing thousands do just that. And yeah, there's the general lack of order and crime, but it means you can just load up on goods from the local store and walk out knowing that no one will bother you. Well, while the stores are still there of course. California is all about freedom, so what if "free to shit in the street" is the only one they really care about allowing.
Citizens are becoming so demanding. Don't they know they live in the same state as Hollywood stars? They should be grateful for that and not have silly dreams about quality of life or raising a family somewhere safe.
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Are You Concerned About Inflation?
by Simon ini saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.
that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?
they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.
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Simon
So inflation is really kicking in now and the money printing presses are still going "whirrrrr" at full speed.
The official figures shows a jump of 6.2% in Oct, the highest for 30 years. The real rates, without the manipulation where they don't count food, heating, housing, transport or, well, it's probably only including flat-screen TVs now 'cause they always get cheaper ... it's easily 15%
The bottom line is that our money is losing its purchasing power at an alarming and increasing rate and wages are not going up in sync. There are going to be some very hurt people when they finally wake up to it, probably too late. If you are at or near retirement, they just stole half of what you had. If you are saving for retirement, better hope you can outperform Warren Buffet over a 20-30 year stretch. God knows how young people are supposed to buy a house with the prices going up like they are (the only saving grace is that the artificially low interest rates means the debt will be devalued).
On top of it all, any money you do have is going to be taxed more as well, just to rub salt into the wounds.
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