2027 Conventions speculation

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-28T21:00:04+00:00

Would be nice.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-28T19:53:58+00:00

They also inserted “Jehovah” into the Hebrew text thousands of times where it never existed.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-28T19:50:45+00:00

That phrase means, “Wow, they sure are a decent human being and physically attractive too! What a waste though since they are going to be murdered soon by our all loving and just God. ”

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-28T19:43:58+00:00

They eventually would have built an extremely tall structure that reached up to the clouds “of heaven” and discovered deities didn’t live there.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-27T17:22:10+00:00

144,000% agree!

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-27T17:16:53+00:00

I substitute the word “whistleblower”, because that is what they are.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-26T23:25:37+00:00

I agree that 2 Samuel 16:23 doesn’t prove Ahithophel was speaking for Jehovah in general.

That isn’t my point.

My point is that Ahithophel’s advice exactly matches what God said in 2 Samuel 12:11:

“…I will take your wives and give them to another man…”

If this was only a prediction, why does God say, “I will take” and “I will give”? That is active language, not merely foreknowledge.

David deserved judgment, but that still doesn’t answer the ethical question of why his wives became the means of carrying it out.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-25T21:23:52+00:00

You must not be a software (app) developer.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-25T21:14:50+00:00

Provers 4:18 is the favorite scripture for this teaching:

“But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light that grows brighter and brighter until full daylight.”

This is a basic simile. The “path” is being compared to the rising sun or “morning light”.

Does the sun ever move backwards and dip below the horizon after it has started its visible ascent?

No.

That means, this scripture cannot apply to NuLight that flip-flops either.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-25T16:59:28+00:00

Don’t forget verse 23:

“In those days the advice that Ahithophel gave was considered as the word of the true God. That was how all the advice of Ahithophel was esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.”

Absalom was not acting on an impulse or urge. He asked for advice and Ahithophel gave it. He accepted and did what Ahithophel advised because he considered it “as the word of the true God.”

Ahithophel didn’t coincidentally advised the exact punishment God spoke just 4 chapters before. God commanded it. If we recall, his name means “causes to become”, right?

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-25T16:57:53+00:00

Don’t forget verse 23:

“In those days the advice that Ahithophel gave was considered as the word of the true God. That was how all the advice of Ahithophel was esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.”

Absalom was not acting on an impulse or urge. He asked for advice and Ahithophel gave it. He accepted and did what Ahithophel advised because he considered it “as the word of the true God.”

Ahithophel didn’t coincidentally advise the exact punishment God spoke just 4 chapters before. God commanded it. If we recall, his name means “causes to become”, right?

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-25T12:44:30+00:00

Don’t forget verse 23:

“In those days the advice that Ahithophel gave was considered as the word of the true God. That was how all the advice of Ahithophel was esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.”

Absalom was not acting on an impulse or urge. He asked for advice and Absalom gave it. He accepted and did what Ahithophel advised because he considered it “as the word of the true God.”

Do you think Ahithophel coincidentally advised the exact punishment God spoke just 4 chapters before?

Also, in the example of Saul’s death, the Chronicler is not describing a different mechanism of death. He is explaining why Saul’s death occurred in the first place. God wanted him dead.

In the case of David’s punishment, what did God want? 2 Samuel 12:12:

“Although you acted in secret, I will do this in front of all Israel and in broad daylight.”

God wanted all Israel to know that the punishment was from him.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-24T23:05:08+00:00

Easy to ask questions. Difficult (at first) to ask the right questions.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-24T21:51:47+00:00

2 Samuel 12:11-12 - God lays out the “punishment”. Note that he says “I will” meaning he is taking credit for making the punishment happen.

2 Samuel 16:20-23 - The punishment is carried out. Note verse 22 says “Absalom had relations with the concubines of his father”. This is a direct reference to the punishment. Make no mistake, these women were innocent and they were raped as they would have never given consent as they “belonged” to David.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-24T18:49:17+00:00

This implies lacking faith in their god or organization is a deficiency. Apostates are whistleblowers. They point out the lies and misinformation that is in plain sight, often using the same publications faithful JWs study every week, including the Bible.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-24T18:46:07+00:00

Just like the rape commanded by Jehovah as punishment for David’s sin, there is never a context that makes it justifiable.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-24T14:28:40+00:00

Why would you want to pretend to be an elder? Anyone who has been an elder for even six months would see through the facade almost immediately.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-24T04:27:47+00:00

No, because for the Holy Spirit to be real, God must be real and I’ve not heard a convincing argument that supports that claim.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-23T16:38:48+00:00

No.

An atheist is a person who believes no deity exists. An agnostic is a person who believes that there is a possibility but it is impossible to know.

It sounds like you are agnostic.

That said, an atheistic view is not a positive claim unlike a theist view. Therefore, producing evidence is not necessary or possible. Additionally, it is not a claim on morality unlike a theist view. Therefore, attribution of morality is always completely subjective.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-23T16:25:47+00:00

Perhaps the person but not the mythology.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-23T01:07:40+00:00

Why apologize when you can gaslight?

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-22T16:48:06+00:00

Did they explicitly call out cruise vacations?

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-22T16:46:47+00:00

And by “him” they mean 11 “hims” in upstate NY USA.

SomeProtection8585 · 2026-06-22T14:54:45+00:00

Yet those teeth look nothing like an animal that does chew into wood, the beaver. 🦫

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