Recent content by BarneyFife

What a lot of sick people (and we're all old age-positive, btw) could really use is a whole day of nothing but rest and worship, and since God set aside a certain day of the week for just such a purpose, the question is neither how nor if, because the answer came before the question ever arose...

I have to take, at least, academic exception to the phrase "you've been told," Sis. I mean, let's be honest, is there anything you've portrayed here that departs, materially, from "Studies In The Scriptures?" Respectfully, I'm not really up on Watchtower's prophetic updates but, at this...

@Jack Would you mind if I ask you how long you've been a devout Christian? .

Very kind reply, Jack. Best of God's blessings to your home as well. I don't hold the position that there are any direct commands to keep the Sabbath in the New Testament. In fact, I'd venture to say they are intentionally excluded. I also think God has left out a direct restatement of the 3rd...

To hold this position, Jack, you have to surrender the 7th commandment as well. The woman taken in adultery should have been stoned. Thus you pronounce Christ a transgressor of His own law. There is no hermeneutically sound way to defend the disregarding of the 4th commandment, folks. We can...

I had a really great reply to this (well, maybe not great) but I can't post it. People wouldn't understand. :Broadly: .

Sis, I frankly can't understand why this and so many other arguments (not necessarily from yourself, of course) are made in objection to only the 4th commandment. Am I being unreasonable? (I ask this only in the academic sense.) It seems quite often to be related to the idea that the keeping...

Anybody can bang on a drum - lol. Besides, if we're doing that, I'm calling the Adrian Belew spot (even though I can't play a lick). There was a band called "13th Floor Elevators." They made a documentary about the lead guy—Rocky What's-his-name (Erikson?). He went off the rails, I think. .

The 5% figure is subject to change in the event of an unprecedented outpouring of The Holy Spirit. Many of the 95 may be holding their cards for the "last deal." And He did, after all, leave 99 figurative worlds on their own, so to speak, to save ours. So I'd say what we're dealing with here is...

No way. Celestial Elevator tech makes dilithium crystals look like Sterno fuel. .

And you're just saying that because you really mean it. :P .

@Lambano, you're such a a good sport. :) .

You're so kind to give such a thoughtful and substantive reply. I love your passion as an educator and your keenness to understand and navigate intellectually what's going on around you. I've never really interacted with a Witness before besides a few that have come to my door, and we kind of...

Donuts are barely even food. Try eating nothing for 7 days (no, don't do that) and then eat a peach. The smell of donuts will make you ill. :) .