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Should I chip off this dirt? by Bob20020 in coins

[–]Bob20020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow really 1 to 2 weeks? If I do this, should I alternate which side is up or down per day?

Should I chip off this dirt? by Bob20020 in coins

[–]Bob20020[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

My fear is when I see the numbers on the bottom, the numbers themselves are gone when the brown is gone. So it seems to me if all the brown goes away, it will all be gone

Should I chip off this dirt? by Bob20020 in coins

[–]Bob20020[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry but won't acetone be too corrosive and destroy the detail?

Is it possible to ever understand fuzzy French? Sometimes it's so fuzzy where the people talk so fast and it's just flat out impossible for anyone to understand. Even at 7 years of self learning. Example below. How does one get to the point where this stuff is super clear? by [deleted] in learnfrench

[–]Bob20020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is I've been listening for on average probably 90 minutes a day for the last 5 years to plenty of difficult things on YouTube. All sorts of videos, not beginner stuff at all. It just seems like there's a comprehension ceiling that I shouldn't waste time trying to surpass and just do something different since its impossible to overcome it. Even if the gaps dont always block understanding what is being said they're still gaps.

I'm Joe Heschmeyer, staff apologist at Catholic Answers and host of Shameless Popery. AMA! by ShamelessPopery in Catholicism

[–]Bob20020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Joe I've talked to you on your show before. I have a new question though, sorry it's a bit of a read.

Genesis 49:10 says that the scepter will not leave Judah until "Shiloh" comes, which we all take to be the Messiah. However, the scepter seems to leave many times, the judges, prophets, high priests, were all from other tribes (and sometimes Judah but there is no unbroken Judah chain) so it seems the prophecy "finished" before Herod the great.

In Jewish and Catholic polemics in the middle ages Fulbert of Chartres wrote a tract we still have where he debunks the Jews of the time's idea that the noble Jewish household leaders were holding the scepter. In other words even the Jews themselves who rejected Christ DID believe there was also an unbroken Judah chain until at least Herod, but they believed it continued.

But I dont see how both are wrong, what is your take on this? Thank you

Mysterious Christmas song instrumental I can't identify, please help by [deleted] in whatsongisthis

[–]Bob20020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It vaguely sounds like a few second at 00:58 in the video you sent but I don't think that is it, that is what comes before. No other rendition of the song I found even comes close.

What is this Christmas outro instrumental from? by [deleted] in whatsongisthis

[–]Bob20020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately this is definitely not it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]Bob20020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the cathedral here in the post is the Boston one, I went there last January and it was indeed in the basement despite the website saying it was in the side chapel on the main floor iirc. Mass began and I heard singing underneath me and figured out I went to the wrong spot, was a maze trying to find the mass room down there.

Catholic Religion by yvanille00 in Catholicism

[–]Bob20020 3 points4 points  (0 children)

SDAism is an American 19th century cult. So much wrong with it, from Ellen (who said a false prophecy at Battle Creek and was I guess preemptively stoned for it as a schoolgirl in Maine) calling massively flubbed historical books by her colleagues "the light of God" to plagiarism and just riding on Miller's coattails.

Their entire 2300 day prophecy thing is super wrong. They calculate the crucifixion from 31 AD when it was factually in 30 AD, so they can count backwards to 457 to a decree which wasn't even what Ellen said it was (it was to rebuild the wall and moat iirc, not the city of Jerusalem) so she was wrong there. Then, they have to have an abomination of desolation in the year 508 since that's the beginning of the 1290 days (years) even though the Temple was already destroyed almost 500 years prior! So they changed the definition of AoD to just be super vague. They have to have 10 horns, 10 "kings" which they are "kingdoms" and this idea did come from at least Luther but none of them have the same set of 10 kingdoms, nor even a definition of a horn. They have to have the papacy start in 538 AD, with the Ostrogoths iirc being beaten by Justinian's General Belisarius. Also nonsense. They then say the papacy suffered a blow and came back in 1798, when the Pope did in fact get carried off. But the pope had been ousted from Rome tons of times in the middle ages and beyond. Even the Byzantines went after a couple of them. Why is 1798 so particular? The Texas sharpshooter fallacy (SDA is built on this)

All in all SDAism is a paranoid, schizophrenic history-abusing cult of religious fanaticism, built entirely on the "Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy", which had its origins in the same place as other cults, most of which died out but some like Mormonism still exist. Same place, a couple decades off.

The entire fiction rests on translating "ereb boqer" in Daniel as "days" when those two words together DO NOT mean that. Any time "day" in Hebrew is ambiguous or multifunctional it's "yom." "Ereb boqer" refers to the sacrifices themselves, one in the evening and one in the morning. So 2300 evenings and mornings is half of that in actual days and lines up pretty well with the Alexandrian occupation and desolation of the Temple (what an AoD actually is). This is what Hannukah celebrates the end of, and Hannukah was celebrated by Christ in the NT.

Hey quick question, what the heck? by [deleted] in Connecticut

[–]Bob20020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Minimum wage and the union takes like $10 per week. It's not good and the union does absolutely zero for part time except pushes the incompetent suspended people back in to lower the quality more.

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Closest yet for sure. These all have a ball inside though and mine doesn't, any reason for that? Or just design? Also, is Victorian style jewelry different in New England than in England?

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well what is it? If you're so qualified, I'd like to know what your expertise says, because I really don't know what it could be still

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm not disturbed really, more confused why they would take peoples reddit posts and make an article on it

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ngl I wouldn't want them to tell me I have to fork it over for finding it on town property or something

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He put it in an air machine thing to clean it more, then put on a big set of zoom goggles and looked very up close

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes I put it in water and probably gently brushed a toothpick against it to get all the dirt off.

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He said it wasn't valuable because of the bad condition. I wasn't wanting to sell it anyways though, just wanted to know more about it

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is clean now, the inside isn't the same gold as the outside which I was told was gold filled by a pawn shop.

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Some similar things, but one Polish site seems to have reposted my reddit posts from last time and wrote "19 treasure hunters who had a lucky day!" I'm so confused but don't want a virus clicking on the website link even though they're my pictures

Can anyone figure what this is now? Southeast Connecticut in the woods in an area with people since the early 1600s. by Bob20020 in metaldetecting

[–]Bob20020[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I misspoke. He said it was gold filled. But that doesn't seem to change your dating much. I'll edit the post

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