I just hope Bill's doesn't have the pages stuck together when he gets it.... ewwww!

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RLR... I like it that the link also shows that:

"The Book of Mormon mormon paq in progress"

so they are wekin' on it

Gal... and as I understand it, these first ones shipped are literally the old originals he had in storage, many of which have been said to have, um, pages stuck together, and a bad smell, lol.

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I said the complaint in #3 was silly, not the importance of the translation.

The complaint was that since God "wrote" it, there couldn't be any problems with translations... or something.

#41

The NT is quite precise; the form of Greek it was written in died not long after, so it didn't change over the centuries.

But understanding the concepts the words reflected of the people who wrote them is what made Prof Wright the leading scholar on the subject.

It was put together years ago by a musician to help sell an album, lol.

The complaint about multiple translations is silly; historians specializing in ancient texts modify translations as they get new information, usually copies that are older than what they had before.

BUT if anyone really wants to know understand the NT, for instance, it would behoof them not to get caught up in 500 plus year old translations, which aren't very good to begin with, and also incorporate 500 plus year old concepts in understanding the texts.

Probably considered the best modern scholar of the NT, by other scholars of ancient texts and theologians in general, is N. T. Wright.

He has written many books and there are videos of his lectures and interviews on yt.

"Vladimir Putin's false war claims

Shortly before launching a full-scale war on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin outlined his reasons for the attack. Russia, he said, must "defend itself" and "denazify" Ukraine.

Much of this is false.

Putin's statement is a propaganda narrative that lacks any basis.

Putin uses the term denazification, which refers to the Allies' policy for Nazi Germany after World War II. They wanted to rid the country of Nazi influences and remove incriminated individuals from their posts.

However, the comparison with Ukraine is wrong, Andreas Umland, an analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS), told DW:

"This talk of Nazism in Ukraine is completely out of place," he said.

"The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is a Russian-speaking Jew who won the last presidential election by a huge margin against a non-Jewish Ukrainian candidate."

While there are far-right groups in Ukraine, Umland said, they are relatively weak compared to those in many European countries.

"We had a united front of all radical right-wing parties in the last parliamentary elections in 2019 where they won 2.15% of the vote."

Ulrich Schmid, professor for Russian culture and society at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, describes Putin's claim as "a perfidious insinuation."

It is true that there were individual far-right groups during the Euromaidan protests in 2013 and 2014. Today, however, they play a subordinate role, said Schmid, who researches nationalism in Eastern Europe.

"They exist, but in Russia itself there are at least as many far-right groups as in Ukraine."

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I hear that he's having his lawyers try to dismiss female jurors who are, "not his type".

- A hill where global wealth inequality is the fault of US tax policy.

The fault of human greed using crony capitalism that FDR controlled at least somewhat... using US tax policy, among other things.

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So... have you put your name into the hat for Republican Speaker of the House?

'Cause you and them are best buddies on surrendering Ukraine to an invading force.

But hey, "partition Ukraine" may be your best Neville Chamberlain imitation yet.

Besides which, the thread article is about China not being the same kind of trusted ally that Russia has in, oh say, North Korea or Syria, lmao.

I mean, you can tell a lot about a country by their, "friends".

"In early 2014, the Euromaidan protests led to the Revolution of Dignity and the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. Shortly after, pro-Russian unrest erupted in eastern and southern Ukraine, while unmarked Russian troops occupied Crimea.

Russia soon annexed Crimea after a highly disputed referendum.

In April 2014, Russian-backed militants seized towns in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and proclaimed the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) as independent states, starting the Donbas war.

The separatists received considerable but covert support from Russia, and Ukrainian attempts to fully retake separatist-held areas failed.

Although Russia denied involvement, Russian troops took part in the fighting.

In February 2015, Russia and Ukraine signed the Minsk II agreements to end the conflict, but they were never fully implemented in the years that followed.

The Donbas war settled into a violent but static conflict between Ukraine and the Russian and separatist forces, with many brief ceasefires but no lasting peace and few changes in territorial control."

lol

muchlike since Somalia exists, dirt poor 'Muricans should just stfu.

- When fighting a war the whole point of winning is for the damage to be disproportionate.

It would seem that 30k to 1200 would be disproportionate enough, even to rabid rwingers.

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Something less than 30k and still counting to 1200 might surprise you.

Putin is playing global chess, Republicans are playing tiddlywinks.

It just shows how much more interested they are in their Party than their Country, despite all their pretense of "nationalism".

"Feng also said "shrewd observers" have seen Beijing's approach to Moscow transition from a "no-limits partnership," which was declared by Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping just before the invasion, to China's standard position of nonalignment.

"China's relations with Russia are not fixed, and they have been affected by the events of the past two years," he wrote."

"Feng presented four major factors that he believes will "make Russia's eventual defeat inevitable."

First on the list is the "level of resistance and national unity shown by Ukrainians, which has until now been extraordinary."

The second factor is the international support for Kyiv, which the academic said "remains broad," though he acknowledged the administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky finds it wanting.

The third factor at play is the "nature of modern warfare," according to Feng, who described this as a combination of "industrial might and command, control, communications and intelligence systems."

Russia's war machine is at a disadvantage here, Feng said, because the country never fully recovered from the "dramatic deindustrialization" that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Russia's fourth critical deficit is a lack of information among Kremlin decision-makers at the highest levels, Feng said. Trapped inside an "information cocoon," Putin and his national security advisers don't have ready access to accurate intelligence, limiting their capacity to fix mistakes.

Feng contrasted this with Ukraine's "more flexible and effective" government."

Russia learned our crony capitalism from us after the Berlin Wall fell... Thatcher and Reagan were a great help to them, along with our Corporate elite.

Gorby actually wanted to follow the Nordic social democracy model, but the Russian Oligarchs found a KGB agent they thought they could control to create an Reaganite model of the wealthy owning the government, and that's what they did. It's called history.

China already had the Party control over their people, they just needed the ability to compete with cutthroat American capitalists worldwide. They are still werking on that, pretty successfully now.

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We exported Crass Crony Capitalism to Russia and China.... but, yeah, they saw the distinct advantages of having an Oligarchy control the economy via controlling the politicians and ran with it.

Peace, Alex.

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That's covered in Romans chap 1.

Try reading THAT in a church on Sunday, lol.

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