peacefulpete
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Do Masks really help in preventing respiratory infections? Recent study reviewed
by Reasonfirst inin the recent coronavirus scare, masks were promoted as one way to minimise possible infection.
a study, reviewed yesterday by an english medical commentator, dr john campbell, says, no!.
watch what he has to say on this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3vy2lyqn1a.. the study he reviews can be found at: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.cd006207.pub6/full.
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Micah 6:8
by enoughisenough ini saw this in a video sometime back ( don't remember now ) but it caught my attention...micah 6:8 was changed in the "silver sword" ...they changed the words in that scripture from " to love kindness" or in some versions to "love mercy" or "love grace" or "love goodness" to nwt silver : " to cherish loyalty".
sometime afterward there would be articles about being loyal to the organization.
some of you may recall this.
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peacefulpete
They have for many years identified the word 'checed' to mean 'loyal love'. It's not a new concept but you may be right that the adjustment reflects the emphasis upon loyalty to the org.
Like countless examples, translators' biases direct word choice. The word does not seem to have a singular meaning, it is defined a variety of ways from simple 'loveliness' to doing a 'favor' for etc. In some contexts it reflects an implied relationship motivating the kindness. It is this shade of meaning that the WT is exploiting. Other commentators have stressed the same, if nothing other than to minimize the idea that God is merely interested in humans expressing kindness to one another.
I should have added that the recipient of the kindness is fellow humans, and even if we read the passage as implying a relational kindness, (love shown to friends and family) it still is not directing blind allegiance to an organization.
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Images
by peacefulpete insimple question.
while the deuteronomists and later writers of the bible condemned the use of images of yahweh, they at the same time imagined him and described him in text as a man in the sky with bow and arrows or riding a chariot drawn by cherubs or sitting on a throne.
if the former is a dishonor, ought not the latter be as well?.
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peacefulpete
Simple question. While the Deuteronomists and later writers of the Bible condemned the use of images of Yahweh, they at the same time imagined him and described him in text as a man in the sky with bow and arrows or riding a chariot drawn by cherubs or sitting on a throne. If the former is a dishonor, ought not the latter be as well?
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Museums the new way to make money?
by raymond frantz inthe organisation is now creating museums in 35 countries, is that their new way of making money?
nowhere does the bible say that christians should engage to such activity but is it possible the watchtower is now making it a priority for :.
a. look like they have something to offer to the community.
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peacefulpete
I hope they have dinosaurs!
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Details of Noah’s Ark
by enigma1863 injw magazines have claimed the flood story has so much detail that it couldn’t be just a made up story.. is it detailed?
name one person outside of noah’s family.
name one nephilim.
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peacefulpete
"Gopher" wood and all the subsequent attempts to identify the wood are the result of a scribal corruption. Beyond reasonable doubt the phrase was "pitched wood". The very next line repeats the direction to pitch the wood inside and out. It's an example of rivers of 'scholarly' ink spent on nothing.
1613 [e]
ḡō·p̄er,
גֹ֔פֶר
gopherbak·kō·p̄er.
בַּכֹּֽפֶר׃
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deep thoughts
by lancelink inthis afternoon i drove by an old hall i attended ( barrington illinois) and noticed that it had been sold, it is now an adventist .
church !
now here is my drive-home thinking.. back in the 80's when i attended i was newly married, and had a young child.
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peacefulpete
I do believe selling to another church was forbidden at one point in the 70's. They used an OT passage about giving aid to the Canaanites. I guess in time it was reversed as a result of the nondiscrimination laws regarding real estate sales.
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The Lost Qos
by peacefulpete inthe names of the gods of palestine and surrounding regions are known to most of us only through the condemnations of the ot writers.
baal peor, hadad, chemosh, molech/milkom dagon, etc.
it is therefore surprising that the main deity of the sister nation to the south, edom is never mentioned.
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peacefulpete
Qos...The name recurs in the Nabataean language in an inscription at Khirbet et-Tannur,where he is represented flanked by bulls, seated on a throne while wielding in his left hand a multi-pronged thunderbolt, suggestive of a function as a weather god. (Wiki.)
An old friend from this forum who went by Narkissos gave me some sage reminders that the inscrutably complex way local cult and culture develop has to be acknowledged. While we crave certainty, it's just not possible when studying ancient history. He pointed out that a particular deity name like Yahweh or El, often have very different dimensions and theogeny in the very next valley, much more so when dealing with centuries and nations of separation.
Still, it's fun to try.
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The Lost Qos
by peacefulpete inthe names of the gods of palestine and surrounding regions are known to most of us only through the condemnations of the ot writers.
baal peor, hadad, chemosh, molech/milkom dagon, etc.
it is therefore surprising that the main deity of the sister nation to the south, edom is never mentioned.
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peacefulpete
I added a line in the above post that agrees with you. The arrows are lightning.
For example:
“The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound (thunder): thine arrows also went abroad.”—Psalms 77:17
“And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.”—2 Samuel 22:15“I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.”—Deuteronomy 32:23
“I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.”—Genesis 9:13 (he stopped the flood storm by hanging up his bow)
Psalm 7:11-13 God...will bend and string his bow.13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
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The Lost Qos
by peacefulpete inthe names of the gods of palestine and surrounding regions are known to most of us only through the condemnations of the ot writers.
baal peor, hadad, chemosh, molech/milkom dagon, etc.
it is therefore surprising that the main deity of the sister nation to the south, edom is never mentioned.
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peacefulpete
The suggestion is that Quos was an epithet of Yah in the south of Judah or perhaps an associated name. Qos seems to be connected with the word 'bow' as in the weapon, so it's possible Yah/Yahwh was depicted as a warrior or maker of arrows (if the metallurgy connection is also correct)?? Yahweh is said to draw a bow and arrows in many passages in the OT. In many of those, the arrows are clearly lightning bolts. This might also connect him with the storm god elements. Sadly while a connection seems probable the details haven't yet been uncovered.
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Stress of Going to a Summer Convention
by LostintheFog1999 inspotted this picture on a friend's page, he was highlighting the mental health issue.
however,we thought the magazine on stress was deliberately placed in the summer months because for any jw going to a convention, paying high season hotel rates for themselves or their whole family to stay near the convention centre, fighting coworkers and managers to get the time off work, travelling expenses, buying their own meals for the family, buying new shiny suits and dresses to impress (particularly if you have teenage girls who are looking for their prince), and more.... by the time they come home again and straight away back to work, their nerves will be so frazzled that their stress levels will have sky rocketed!.
as brother elder says to them, "don't worry.
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peacefulpete
Summer conventions...memories. I recall travelling for days to Winnepeg Canada and like many Jws camping rather than expensive hotels. The truck spraying mosquito fog was a highlight. It was so thick we kids ran around in the fog unable to see each other till I was hit in the head by a friend wielding a badminton racket and cried as the blood poured down. Then the tornado went by and most everyone's tents were blown down and everything was soaking wet. Then on the way home our traveling companions' car broke down. Good memories.