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Tom Sheepandgoats Harley
Upstate New York
This is me in my best blue harness. My wife is looking at me with admiration. Who wouldn't? As for that grinning dope on my right, I have no idea who that is.Our marriage made waves, not so much in her family - they appreciate diversity, as in mine. "You want to marry a human?" my mom gasped. "Don't come crying to me when she buys a ton of furniture and you have to carry it on your back! Tell him, Fuzzy, " she said to my dad, "tell him not to do it." but all Dad could do was spit. But with the passage of time, they have come to love her as I do. she gives me three bags of feed each day and scratches behind my ears. Our family gatherings are quite pleasant, though some of her people get uptight when my relatives dump on the floor.
Interests: current events, religion, humor, creative writing, jehovah's witnesses
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The Personification of God—Part 3
Q: “So I find it difficult to see how that kind of personification [accounts of Jehovah’s anger, jealousy, warfare & so forth] reaches the heart of a Christian.....or any decent human being living today.” (See thread that begins with Part... Continue reading
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“Are You Jehovah?” the Woman Asked.
During one of the early pioneer schools, testing out what we had learned, I had been paired together with one of the other students. Thirty years later I ran across her again, and she recalled our working together. Upon my... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Sheep and Goats
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The Personification of God—Part 2
Posted 7 days ago at Sheep and Goats
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The Personification of God
The question was how did God speak with Moses face-to-face like Exodus 33:11 says he did? The answer on the tip of my tongue was that he didn’t. God doesn’t have a face—it’s personification. But I didn’t get to say... Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Death of NPOV (Neutral Point of View) at Wikipedia
Mostly I use Wikipedia for details on out-of-the-way topics that you wouldn’t think would be subject to bias—lately it has been to corroborate some background on Voltaire, for instance. But not always—sometimes I use it as though a base stock,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Complaints over the Farmers-to-Families Program—Part 3
(See Part 2) If the counter.org story is right, It sounds like the Watchtower was one of the few organizations meeting the USDA Farmers-to-Families program requirements. The story charges that outfits accepted the food boxes but were unwilling to take... Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Complaints over the USDA Farmers to Families Program—Part 2
It took a while, but one day Heather intercepted a food package delivered to her JW grandma. Heather used to be a Witness, but says she no longer is. There were potatoes, onions, apples, and a cauliflower inside, but Heather... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want—Kicking Back at the Villains
When Mark Sanderson speaks of the wisdom of the modest ones and how you don’t jump the gun and assume it is your place to do this or that, I don’t figure that he must be speaking to someone else.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 3, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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The Graduate Author Who Ran from Success—Where Have You Gone, Mrs Robinson?
The guy who wrote The Graduate—the book, not the movie—gave away all the money he made from writing it. He bought a house with his one-time movie rights. He gave it away within weeks—he would give three away during his... Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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NPR Exposes the Recycling ‘Scam’ of Plastic—Almost None of it is Reused
I have just one word of advice for you: “Plastics,” said the parent’s comfortable friend to Benjamin Braddock. Plastics—the new growth field in 1967, the year The Graduate movie came out—just as computers and then the internet would be to... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Doomscrolling Through 2020 and Getting Out of the World
Here and there, blips appear to let us know where we are in the stream of time. The brand-new term “doomscrolling” is an example. It doesn’t need to be defined, does it? It is an update of just a few... Continue reading
Posted Sep 23, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Avoiding Masks in Public—the New Snake Handling. The Huffington Post Weighs In
The Huffington Post is an irreligious source that works fairly hard to exalt “reason” and persuade that faith is for chumps. Alas, religion behaves in such a way as to give them plenty of easy shots. Like this one from... Continue reading
Posted Sep 18, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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How Do You Answer When Asked “What do you Do?”
As far as I am concerned, what pegs the “faithful and discreet slave” as faithful and discreet and effective is that they have redefined how most Witnesses view their own vocation. This came up in recent discussion of the daily... Continue reading
Posted Sep 16, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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The Last of the Last Days—Over the Top?
We are now in the last of the last days? My wiseacre answer would be that I’m not doing nothing until we reach the last of the last of the last days. Why inconvenience myself unnecessarily? It’s the same as... Continue reading
Posted Sep 16, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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“This is the Carpenter, the Son of Mary”
This is the carpenter, the son of Mary.—Mark 6:3 Talk recently during the Daily Text discussion was about what Jesus was known for. Was he executed for anything having to do with carpentry? The commentary cited Luke 3:23: “When Jesus... Continue reading
Posted Sep 16, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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“Do Not Say ‘The King of the Jews,’ but ‘He SAID ‘I am King of the Jews!’”
Then two robbers were put on stakes alongside him, one on his right and one on his left. And those passing by spoke abusively of him, shaking their heads and saying: “You who would throw down the temple and build... Continue reading
Posted Sep 14, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Sticking up for Pilate, and Battling the Trolls
I always felt a little bad for Pilate. He tried to free Jesus. He really did—the four Gospel accounts make that very clear—declining only to fall on his own sword for him. For a military leader that’s not bad. It... Continue reading
Posted Sep 13, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Biased Reporting. Et tu?—Even Us?
“The strange dynamic that is reality in “news” today is that if you are a member of a cause, you are biased and thus not reliable as a source.” This I wrote here, and it attracted an answer: This is... Continue reading
Posted Sep 13, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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“New Light” - The Writing on the Tablets of Moses—How Many Items on Each Side?
Moses descended from the mountain with the two tablets—the ones containing the Ten Commandments of Exodus chapter 20—but there was a difference this time around. This time around the tablets were depicted in Watchtower artwork each with three items per... Continue reading
Posted Sep 12, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Cults—Does One Prefer the Broad Road Leading Off to Destruction or the Narrow One?
Everyone in my area recently received a copy of the Epoch Times in the mail, along with an invitation to subscribe. “What is this garbage?!” my liberal followers on Twitter sputtered, outraged at it’s pro-Trump outlook. “I took it straight... Continue reading
Posted Sep 11, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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With Regard to Religion, if You Know What You’re Talking About, You’re Biased.
The strange dynamic that is reality in “news” today is that if you are a member of a cause, you are biased and thus not reliable as a source. You would think that those with experience would be the first... Continue reading
Posted Sep 9, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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A Review of the Jack London Short Story ‘Moon Face’—They’re Always Throwing Goodness at You, but With a Little Bit of Luck a Man Can Duck.
Sometimes—a certain person is so consistently annoying that you just feel you have no choice but to bump him off. Of course, you don’t do that—it’s not right. The rules don’t allow for it. You make your mind over, like... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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“Besides, the English Don’t Like Women Much Anyway”—on Voltaire, Van Gogh, and Darwin
No, Charles Darwin did not do a stint as a clergyman—much less get yelled at by his superiors for not shaking his parishioners down for money—he may have thought about becoming a clergyman, but he never actually did it. How... Continue reading
Posted Sep 3, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Voltaire Hacking Through the Weeds - Part 1
Listening up on Voltaire via the Great Courses Lecture series, I get the same sense that I did with Mark Twain, and even to an extent, with Charles Darwin—that if they had had any sense of the overall coherence of... Continue reading
Posted Sep 2, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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Some Say Brussel Sprouts Taste Good—says Jakob Blake’s Dad
When Anderson Cooper interviewed Jakob Blake’s dad, the latter answered a question with ‘Some people like Brussel sprouts.’ Anderson was flummoxed over this answer and when he pressed the dad, the dad explained that he hated Brussel sprouts—which also flummoxed... Continue reading
Posted Sep 1, 2020 at Sheep and Goats
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