the real gorby has died today.
he was my inspiration for change, with perestroika and glasnost.. that is why i chose the name gorby at jwn.. see the man at the background.
he was there also.. g..
If you tried to find a bible parallel to him, you would have to pick Joseph. A man of integrity, who told it like it is, got his people out of a pickle, not really appreciated by his own, ,
they, like wt thinkers prefer the Davids of this world, conquerors, womanizers. war criminals.
a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
Gen 1:1, that SB is supporting here is of course wrong, as is much of the bible.
The solar system, and planets endowed with a reach load of all kinds of elements, was not created in the Big Beginning, but 10 billion years later, through the outworkings of the laws of this particular universe.
The JW telescope has so far not yielded any clear images of 14 billion year old planets and stars. only smudges at 12. , but a clear infrared picture of Jupiter though, a tremendous 40 minutes old ?away.
the real gorby has died today.
he was my inspiration for change, with perestroika and glasnost.. that is why i chose the name gorby at jwn.. see the man at the background.
he was there also.. g..
A man that wanted to avert a war at all cost, because at the same age as I, he had seen it. A happily married man too, with a truly beautiful wife.
he had peace in his time. too bad, his successors would not build on t his foundation.
“who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?” — math 24:45. according to jw, the faithful and discreet slave are the “anointed” men of the “governing body” of the jehovah’s witnesses religion..
after all, it is a question, not an answer, or confirmation.
i thought the reasoning sound as to the wt explaination of babylon the great, ( world empire of false religion ) but have any of you knowledge of other plausible explainations?
or knowledge of other sources that are in agreement with wt?
All the nations around old babylon, from Algeria, Uzbekistan tp Indonesia. truly great, a billion+, spread in all directions. but
Has fallen? had a fall ?
Even as bethelites , and -heavies could see the twin towers falling, collapsing, , brought down by those nationals, it must have dawned on them that babylon has not have a fall in 1918, when the "captives" were released.
see: https://7news.com.au/news/crime/senior-jehovahs-witnesses-member-charged-with-rape-torture-and-assault-of-teenage-boys-c-8044666.
"senior jehovah’s witnesses member charged with rape, torture and assault of teenage boys...".
the 61 year-old man "faces 21 counts of rape, 17 counts of sexual assault, 13 counts of procuring sexual acts by false pretence and one count each of incest, torture and common assault.".
Every time they reinstate a disfellowshipped member they bring a felon, convicted criminal back among the innocents.
Criminals with prior conviction of brazenly breaking "divine" law.
" You have to forgive 7X70 times". ( hidden message, message dont be stupid, there will be no end to the mess) if you do.
i understand that there are 80 to 100 questions that would-be witnesses must answer correctly before they can be considered eligible for "christian baptism".
however i have noticed that none of the questions relate to the 607destruction, the 1914 invisible presence and enthronement, or even the 1919 appointment of the faithful slave.. now some may feel my question is ridiculous, but bear with me.. will jehovah's witnesses baptize someone who answers all 100 questions satisfactorily, but rejects 607, 1914 and 1919 and the events the watchtower associates with these dates if they agree not to express their rejection to others?.
your thoughts....
wt also takes it upon itself to modify and add to the baptism formula commanded by JC.
'Do you recognize that by this immersion you become member of God's spirit directed organisation'. SO MUCH FOR "IN THE NAME OF THE SPIRIT". for this,
wt baptisms are invalid. (just as invalid as they consider that of the Baptist, LUTHERAN, RC churches et al.
when i was a teenager a younger fellow workmate was involved in the sport of judo.i got interested and went along to a number of sessions and took to it like a sponge to water ,and as a sport i was happy participating in.. not that much longer another workmate was getting re-activated in the religion of jw`s.
which i had never heard o before and then got interested in that .. conflict : was judo a sport that was compatible with j.w beliefs?
sadly i decided it was not and stopped any further involvement.. to this day i resent that decision i made back then .and i`m 82 years old now.. it was a sport i was comfortable doing and i enjoyed it.and i gave it up because of the religion .who knows what i may have achieved had i continued with it.
hanging out at the airport on the weekend, looking down at the world or better yet up. making the world go round.
even in jesus’s day, humans had chromosomes.
and so did jesus —because he was human.
so let’s say jesus took a dna test, his mitochondrial dna would go back to eve but interestingly jc also would inherit dna from sinful adam on his mother’s side because his mother mary passed on to jc dna from both adam and eve.
all these complications in the changed genes could have been corrected by early intervention with the tool available in the garden, the fruit, sap, bark, leafs from the tree of life, one of many, that were freely available for consumption.
Did JC have y chromosomes? are there males without them? have deep voice without the? can you grow a beard without them?
nasa is launching to go around the moon this weekend.
elon musk, just as close to the water, has a 33 engine booster ready to test and fire up, almost ready to stack one of his straships on top , and try to let the whole thing go, and catch it all again on the way down, for an encore .. so, yesterday, the us administration send 2 of its stealth fighters to do a show of [air} force in front of the star ships , doing lomcevaks and all.
watching the spectacle i wondered whether it is a signal from biden & co, to musk, not pull a fast one again, like when he send one of his tesla electric convertibles to mars and beyond.
Simon, yeah, let the show go on. no, the US air force did not threaten to shoot down starship if it contained another car, and 2 other plane enthusiasts also did stunts in front of the cameras that constantly monitor the busy works at Musks workshop.
re subsidies, yes, in return The government gets real bargains for their space transportation needs, competing with the Chinese, Russian, Indians. Subsidizing poor families too, a sure way to forestall a population decline (south Korea take note) even that country bought a Musk moon shot, on the cheap
