i saw this on twitter the other day and it blew my mind.. tyrannosaurus is closer to us than to stegosaurus.
that is, when tyrannosaurus lived, stegosaurus were already fossilized and those fossils were older than tyrannosaurus fossils are today to us, by a good 20 million years!.
in a similar vein, the star wars prequel movies are now older than the original star wars movies were when those prequels were released.. how about that we're closer in time to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built.. what 'ya got?.
the Earth's circumference is ~ 40 000 000 meters. if you added 16 meters to a rope stretched around it, could a mouse get under it, everywhere? assuming a perfect bald ball, unstretchable rope?
works for th universe too, > 88 billion light years around, the way light flies. ( not counting inflation )
every memorial, much emphasis is placed on making sure that only the (self-proclaimed) anointed partake in the emblems.
this year, however, the speaker at my wife's congregation presented it as an even more serious matter.
he likened it to individuals in ancient israel who sought position of the priesthood despite never been appointed by jehovah.
here we did not hear the threat of death for partaking " unworthily". The wt writers must be really nervous though, that the jws will discover, that all should partake to get the hope of life (John 6).
Partaking has absolutely nothing to do with a monopoly requirement to go to heaven.
stop the counting and let the individuals choose to partake, if they are worthy.
my dad and i would work on different "pioneers" vehicles in our kingdumb hell.
and to nuts and bolts they where real "hoopties" anytime ready for the crusher.
both my dad and i would work with our skills to keep their cars running since they don't have a real job to get a real working car.
They really can't think farther than the end of their sleeves, can they
GT: it is not the sleeve, but the short stick that wt is dangling the carrot of paradise on, "soon, just around the corner, in this generation, this century," 2075. To be fair there were cheerful givers among the jws:
One offered to me ( without being asked at all ): if you have issues with your car: take it to a garage, tell them to send me the bill" same generous soul with a then circuit overseer ( not a nice person bsw):
taking him to a car dealership and telling him to select a unit from the used car lot. -- when him coming into the sales office with his choice, --- the benefactor had purchased a new car for "the circuit" instead. These were the days when a Volkswagen was ~ 2000, a basic Chevy not that much more;
does anybody know if the borg has ever done any articles on what day of the week they think jesus died?
i know most denominations think it was friday and i have also heard somewhat sensible arguments that it could be wednesday.
not that it matters weather one in a believer or not even.
the quandary arises from the story that Jesus invoked Jonah, who with oxygen supply and acid resistant coating survived 3 -three- days in the fish. saying he, the messiah, would emerge after 3 days from the tomb.
That meant he spend saturday, friday. thursday in our sequencing in sheol, died Wednesday not earlier than Thursday.
Lazarus his contemporary resurrectee at 4 days was already odorous, so he avoided that stage.
Jesus could not have been a false prophet, because that would not made him an unblemished ransom sacrifice, so: give him the three days of cave dwelling.
well i did it.. i attended the zoom memorial ( in respect for my mum).
it was very strange to say the least.
everyone had bread and wine at their houses.
how do they do the count? there was no pause for asking for raised, or emptied glasses, girls doing the serving, wow! , lots of cameras off. systems down. true family affairs. and
even with a good speaker the big disconnect between the sacrifice for all, symbols of means to get everlasting life, adam like, and
why only the 144 000 should partake. why everlasting life, slowly attained through 1000 years will be done without the ransom, without the symbols of it.
an empty ness at the end, filled with wt commercials.
my dad and i would work on different "pioneers" vehicles in our kingdumb hell.
and to nuts and bolts they where real "hoopties" anytime ready for the crusher.
both my dad and i would work with our skills to keep their cars running since they don't have a real job to get a real working car.
that entitlement harks back to the time when magazines "at the counter" where 1 cent for pioneers, and free for "specials" if wt can be so generous----
well i did it.. i attended the zoom memorial ( in respect for my mum).
it was very strange to say the least.
everyone had bread and wine at their houses.
interesting is your reminder that as seen from one location, direction, out there, it is always memorial time, as the world turns. We surrounded by pacific will be last.
yeah, the wrong doctrines notwithstanding and the truly horrible people "in", there are a select few, that one would not mind to spend a lot of time with. if we had the choice.
let's drink to that. communion time!
the upcoming "memorial" is the 85th anniversary of the mandatory hunger strike of the earthly sheep "class" of wt workers.
but: look at all these famous 5s:.
1925 : wt advertised the revealing of the ancients of old, like noah, abraham as living model elders.
1925 : wt advertised the revealing of the ancients of old, like Noah, Abraham as living model elders.
here is a question, had they been showing up at the convention, as promised,
would Noah and Abraham have started to partake of the emblems to fit into the new covenant, to benefit from the ransom for everlasting life ? and an afterthought:
Br. N Knorr to Br F. Franz in circa 1945, with the beginning of the atomic age, possible start of the GT:
"it looks like the great Crowd is not so great after all!----?
walked away from the trooth years ago(over 20) my older sister sends me an invite to the memorial via zoom.
i have no interest in jwism at all.
should i ignore or respond?.
Well, seeing as their thing is tomorrow that leaves time for her to join you at an Easter service at a church next week! Sounds fair.
c : Yea, a full slate of celebrations, first the death and then the resurrection. At least the death is proven, no 2000 year perfect men around, -- yet.
I would make the best of it, doing the thing the way it was meant to be, in private, under the full moon in east, in the springtime. a glass of wine, with a mild appetizer.
They might even deliver the crackers if you ask.
please forgive if my english is a bit crooked :-) at least i understand quite well and i thank everyone here in the forum very much!
you were a big help for me within the last months.
i'm a born-in from germany, mid50, was 20 years elder, woke up a few years ago.
I think NDEs are just hallucinations caused by an oxygen starved brain
a w: all "sterben" is starving of the brain, The old dutch knew that. same word.
