i've been studying the bible anew and have just realised that the writer of daniel gets the kings of babylon completely wrong and confused.
he says that nebuchadnezzar was succeeded by his son belshazzar .
then along comes good old cyrus the great who liberates the jews.. yet this is wrong!
The Book of Daniel is not located among the other prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible. It is found among the writings, like the books of Ruth, Samuel, and Kings.
Daniel is not one of the Jewish prophets. We have an official list of men and women who were prophets to our people, and Daniel was not one of them.
Absolutely correct. I was surprised it when my Jewish spouse and MIL explained to me that Daniel is not a prophet. It was good eye opening from WT indoctrination.
this week has been a really difficult past couple of days.
waking up to the news on sunday that some jihadist jackass had slaughtered so many of my lgbt brothers and sisters left me reeling and in tears.
we're a community with common cause and a common struggle and it's immensely painful to see the loss of so many young and beautiful lives.
I hope you will get enough crowd to demonstrate against this temple of hate.
jesus was a perfect sinless human (they say) who came to die for mankind.
he gave up his perfect life for all.
selfless?
I read about her that she was a mother of 12 and was very accepting of her gay son and took bullet for him. Very remarkable woman.
we are not all the same--a real "duh, david!
so i figured if i didn't feel that sense of solidarity that seems missing among the debating, then i was part of the problem.
i'm responsible for making this place feel like a support and place of solidarity, just as much as anyone else.. but approaches i tried didn't work until i shut up for a while.
I met bunch of ex-JW who I wish I never met, and were rather terrible people to begin with. I met some very nice ex-JW people. Generally, I found the slight negative in both within WT and outside WT community by ratio 60/40. Many ex-JW carry the superiority complex, the feeling to be chosen, after they left WT, continue to preach others, and always trying to proof something, and telling someone how their view/beliefs/experience is right and everyone else is wrong.
in behalf of the horrific events of saturday night, i just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that islam is a religion of peace.
it doesn’t matter that the quran explicitly says that homosexuals should be stoned to death (7:84) - it’s still a religion of peace.
and it doesn’t matter that the scriptures say that all gay men should be killed (sunan 1:152) - islam doesn’t in anyway condone violence.. it doesn’t matter that every mainstream imam calls homosexuality a sin "worse the adultery" - it’s not a religion of bigotry.. it doesn’t matter that 61% of muslims in the uk think gay acts should be made illegal - islam has nothing against the gay community.. it doesn’t matter that countries with sharia law actively persecute the lgbt community - islam is all about peace and love.
From what I've seen, they haven't posted any comments in support of the Orlando victims and their families.
I live below Dixie line in a former Confederacy and certainly the Red Belt does not give a rat about the Orlando victims. Fox news posts are full of hatred against the victims and I can compare to VTech shooting, which was far more covered story than this at that time because it did not involve Latino gay and lesbian community.
in behalf of the horrific events of saturday night, i just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that islam is a religion of peace.
it doesn’t matter that the quran explicitly says that homosexuals should be stoned to death (7:84) - it’s still a religion of peace.
and it doesn’t matter that the scriptures say that all gay men should be killed (sunan 1:152) - islam doesn’t in anyway condone violence.. it doesn’t matter that every mainstream imam calls homosexuality a sin "worse the adultery" - it’s not a religion of bigotry.. it doesn’t matter that 61% of muslims in the uk think gay acts should be made illegal - islam has nothing against the gay community.. it doesn’t matter that countries with sharia law actively persecute the lgbt community - islam is all about peace and love.
Adam Lanza was mentally ill. The Orlando shooter behaved under religious impulse. He had clearance or public trust position according to news and there is no indication he was mentally ill. He justified his action with his religion. Not much different from SS who burned Slavic villages from Czech to Russia down to Serbia because their National Socialist ideology considered Slavs inferior.
when you read the following statements from the wt.
organization... do they satisfy you?
or better stated...... should you be satisfied by there answers?.
Yes, they are announcers of the false prophecies released by the WT. I remember when this print went out, and my mom still has it in her possession:
for additional information:.
for additional information:.
for additional information:.
The soft tissue is fossilized, but chemical process was reversed, which gave the opportunity to study the soft tissue, and organic molecules. It is not a raw meat that was preserved. Entire process is described here by woman who invented this method.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur-shocker-115306469/?no-ist
so my cousin gave up her fight against bowel cancer a couple of weeks ago.
yesterday was the funeral.
i haven't experienced a green burial before.
We talked about it, but we do not have definitive plans. My mom wants to be buried with my dad. I am not sure if I would like to be buried in USA or in the Czech Republic. In Czechia, you do not own burial plot, you only rent it for 20 years. However, the lot can be deeded to relative, which is the case of my family plot where we have five-six generations there. It is in the Carpathian mountains surrounded by woods on three sides. My spouse does not want to be cremated (Jewish faith prevents it), and I do not want to be buried in their plot in New Jersey. At the end it does not matter. What matter is to have a written will, decision if you want to be hooked up to ventilator or not, the quality of life at the end-stage and hospice care, and financial obligation after someone had passed.
what is the normal attitude as to working overtime?
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how many hours do you work in a week?.
I did a lot of consulting and advisory work, so there was work for the client, but also for the company. While I do not mind working a lot of hours, especially on project I do enjoy, there is a clean line between necessary overtime and getting abused by the management. My previous job was like that and we had terrible attrition rate. I had on the same project three managers in the span of 20 months. I got calls as early as 7am on Saturday demanding to set up account that can be done as the first thing on Monday to doing database backed up between midnight and 3am to be in the office the next morning by 9am.
