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  1. I haven't found a link to this to this publication on the forum yet although it may have been noted somewhere. https://jw-russia.org/docs/120/ref20200619_e.pdf
  2. Oh my English. 😬 Ever since Mark Zuckerberg used the 'Meta' to rebrand Facebook, I have been intrigued by this word. Many of the new IT terminology have also flummoxed me as to how understand them. Interestingly, some words in English have very fascinating roots especially those borrowed from other languages like French, Indian languages, Chinese, Latin...
  3. Thanks Sister Fae for igniting my interest to know something about jazz. A genre that have always intrigued me. https://www.wikihow.com/Appreciate-Jazz-Music Part 1 : Pick out the original melody. The melody is the main theme of a song. In jazz, it's common for you to hear the same song twice and notice many differences between performers, performances, and even recordings. This is because jazz musicians have a great deal of freedom in how they play the base melody serving as the foundation for its sound. Learning to pick out the main melody among the complex variations of individual instrumentalists is part of the fun of jazz!
  4. A friend has recommended me this book: "A Separate Identity: Organizational Identity Among Readers of Zion's Watch Tower: 1870-1887. Volume 1". This is the first part of a two-volume study, covering from 1870 to 1879. I haven't read it yet, I just ordered a copy yesterday. These are my friend's comments: It's a work written by two historians (one who is a Witness, and the other who is not). It's not a religious book, nor an attack on Jehovah's Witnesses, neither an apology, just a serious and detailed historical research. The book begins with a detailed description of American history, society and mentality during the last third of the 19th century, as well as a biography with everything that is known of Russell until 1870, including some new details that had never been published before. Besides Russell, this work gives also an unprecedented attention to all the other characters that had an important role in the early development of Bible Students, such as George Storrs and George Stetson. It documents Russell's collaboration with Barbour until their breakup in 1878. The work is completed with an appendix dealing with the alleged link between Russell and freemasonry, and another one including all the articles of the Russell-Barbour controversy. The whole book is enriched with a good number of pictures, many of them unpublished until now, and a huge amount of footnotes. The second volume is in preparation without a publishing date yet. This book can be purchased here.
  5. The photograph is simply labeled “Willy.” It features a young man with close-cropped hair and dressed in fine clothing, including a collared shirt and jacket. Willy is looking at something amusing off to his right, and the photograph captured just the hint of a smile from him—the first ever recorded, according to experts at the National Library of Wales. A photograph of William Mansel (1838-1866) smiling at something off camera. Taken c.1853. (National Library of Wales) (VINTAGE EVERYDAY)
  6. Here is part of an interesting article that shows how scientists, scholars, archaeologists, need humility when trying to understand history. Otherwise they will dismiss certain real historical events as just myths, including those in the Bible. It's called "Chronological Snobbery" or you could call it "Historical Snobbery". Perhaps the Ancients Weren’t So Dumb: A Flood of Evidence Is Embarrassing the ‘Experts’ By Eric Metaxas | August 12, 2016 Were the ancients dummies? If so, why does archeology keep confirming what they wrote? I’ll tell you why a healthy dose of humility can help us understand the past. In his conversion story, “Surprised by Joy,” C. S. Lewis explains how his close friend, Owen Barfield, demolished his “chronological snobbery.” Lewis defined chronological snobbery as “the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate of our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that count discredited.” In Lewis’s time, much of academia was already convinced that every past generation formed a staircase of progress, leading (of course) to enlightened modernity. And since Lewis’s death, many intellectuals have only become more convinced of their own perch at the pinnacle of history. These days, we barely even notice the snobbery. Dr. Paul Goldin of the University of Pennsylvania derides what he sees as a “fixation” among Chinese archaeologists with “[proving] that all the ancient texts and legends have some fundamental truth … It shouldn’t be every archaeologist’s first instinct,” he says, “to see if their findings are matched in the historical sources.” Come again? Shouldn’t archaeologists want to know if what they’re digging up has significance in known history? Sadly for many in the West, the answer is a resounding “not really.” This dismissal of ancient writings—including the Bible—is rooted in chronological snobbery. The ancients, experts today assume, were just too dumb or superstitious to get their own histories right. This attitude has not only blinded us to potential discoveries, it’s made it very embarrassing for archaeologists when the ancients do turn out to be correct. I think, for example, of the recent discovery of Goliath’s hometown, Gath. Or what about the unearthing of evidence for the biblical King Hezekiah, the likely discovery of the palace where Pilate tried Jesus, or the compelling evidence that “the house of David,” contrary to decades of secular scholarship, was founded by a real, historical man after God’s own heart? All of these discoveries came as shocks to archaeologists and historians who doubted that such figures, places, or people ever existed. But again and again, our belief that the ancients were better at making myths than they were at recording history has handicapped archeology, and left a lot of smart folks scraping egg off their faces. They were not dummies. And we who dig up the remains of their civilizations aren’t always as clever as we like to believe. http://cnsnews.com/commentary/eric-metaxas/perhaps-ancients-werent-so-dumb-flood-evidence-embarrassing-experts

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