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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Jimmy Dore Show, not shore. Doh!

  If you ever go on a long boat trip remember to take a bar of soap with you, that way if you’re shipwrecked you can always wash ashore. ⛴️ 🏝️
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Yes I like Kurt Metzger and the Jimmy Dore shore 👍
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  "Jehovah" In The New Testament.

  by LostintheFog1999 in

  1. watchtower
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  i see they have updated their list of translations or versions where some form of yhwh or jhvh appears in the new testament.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/study-bible/appendix-c/divine-name-new-testament-2/.

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  All the copies of the Septuagint from the third century CE and later use Lord instead of the divine name, despite the fact that the early Septuagint did use the divine name. To say that the same thing probably happened in the New Testament, and Lord replaced the divine name, over the same period of time, as it was copied by the same people who copied the Septuagint isn’t a “conspiracy theory”, it’s a reasonable inference from the know facts, and one that a number of scholarly experts agree with.
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  The things I know are vastly outnumbered by the things I don’t know, and many of the things I think I know I am likely wrong about too.

  Considering the vast number of things people disagree about, just statistically speaking, people generally must be far more often wrong than right. Being wrong therefore is the normal state of affairs for humans. If any of us happen to be right about some particular issue it’s probably a rare event plus near impossible to identify with certainty, since we always tend to think we are right. If we didn’t think we were right we would change our mind.

  Given that I am probably wrong in most of the things I think about the world, and have ever thought about the world, it seems a bit futile to pick out one thing that I think I’m right about now and was wrong about in the past.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Yup he’s a nasty piece of work alright, and always has been. I sometimes wonder if he realises what a nasty person he is and revels in it, or if he genuinely thinks he’s a good guy. It’s hard to step inside the mind of someone who behaves as he does to work out what is going on. He seems to be completely impervious to the most obvious and straightforward criticism: such as it’s wrong to steal someone else’s copyrighted book, or to out people on Facebook resulting in them being shunned by their family, or to attempt to coerce your spouse to accept infidelity. Whatever he does he seems to have some sort of justification that black is really white. What’s strange is that it comes so effortlessly to him, as if he really does believe it.

  I’ve heard it said that “nobody is the villain of their own story” which I guess is an accurate assessment of how humans operate psychologically. Nevertheless some people must have minds working overdrive to avoid seeing Darth Vader staring back at them in the mirror.
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  Memorial Attendances 2020 to 2023

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  following from the convention attendance thread i looked back on my notes to see the memorial attendances over the pandemic.

  this is what i found.

  i don’t have any pre-pandemic attendances but i’d estimate them around 80 to 90 or so in recent years.

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  Following from the convention attendance thread I looked back on my notes to see the memorial attendances over the pandemic. This is what I found. I don’t have any pre-pandemic attendances but I’d estimate them around 80 to 90 or so in recent years.

  First fully Zoom memorial in 2020 early in the lockdown had 72 in attendance

  The second fully Zoom memorial in 2021 had 70 in attendance

  First hybrid Zoom/KH memorial in 2022 had 51 in the KH and 38 on Zoom - 89 in total

  Second hydride Zoom/KH memorial in 2023 had 89 in the KH and 17 on Zoom - 106 in total

  Make of that what you will.
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  PROOF Mormons have the truth

  by neat blue dog in

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  daniel prophesied that god would “set up a kingdom” that would “never be destroyed” and would “stand for ever” (daniel 2:44).

  in making this prophecy, he spoke of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints... and it will continue to progress until it has “filled the whole earth”... hundreds of thousands of people are baptized every year.

  the book of mormon is being translated in many languages.

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  The number of Mormon congregations in Scotland has declined from 41 to 36 over the past 10 years and some of the remaining congregations have been downgraded from wards to branches.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  I wonder if it’s a hard song to sing?

  … because it’s awfully hard to listen to. 😜
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Might be a specific reference to 14,000, but my guess is it’s just random nonsense. Aggressive atheism is so 2008. He’s stuck in Ditchkins time warp that was probably never terribly applicable in Croatia anyway. Somebody tried to pay him a compliment at the end of the video by requesting the chorus again and his response was petulant, “what, just the chorus?” If that was rent-a-friend Tibor, it’s probably indicative of the egg shells he always walking on.
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  Regional Convention Attendance

  by XBEHERE in

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  elder friend of mine texted me asking what my rc attendance was 2 weeks ago (family and i streamed it since wife is not well).

  he told me that his rc in the jersey city assembly hall last weekend was low.

  co told them that around 2600 were the total from 16+ congs that were assigned.

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  There were always lots of people walking around talking rather than sitting down listening to the programme. Attendants carried signs back and forward saying “session in progress” or something like that, as if people didn’t know. A few were mothers pushing prams, or people borrowing prams to push, but most not feeling the need to use a prop as an excuse for missing the talks.