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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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Deciphering the Code of Life and the Human Immune System: Part 1
There are 3 billion base pairs in human DNA. Each is a rung on the latter of the double helix structure. But it is not as though each rung is a gene. Instead, a collection of them will define a... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Sheep and Goats
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The Newbie Who Eclipses the Vets
Working in the ministry with a 75-year old who just became a Witness, he makes a better impression than me (who can be accused of having been around so long as to know every spiel.) But not him. With him,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 22, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Could Disfellowshipping be Likened to Time in the Penalty Box?
Posted Sep 18, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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‘Controlling’ People—the Very Notions of Society and Morality Can be Spun in Terms of ‘Controlling’ People
The modern-day anti-cult obsession is that religious teachings are used (and even designed) to “control” people. They see it where they want to see it and overlook it where they don’t. What of the Pink Floyd song, the one with... Continue reading
Posted Sep 14, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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The Man Who Memorized the Bible—and Still Wanted to Become a Jesuit.
Posted Sep 11, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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An Updated Explanation of Everything: Part 1
I’m starting to play with the notion, for an upcoming talk, that if you wanted the policies of one party to prevail, would you vote for the other party? So it is that Jesus demonstrates control over the elements (fed... Continue reading
Posted Sep 8, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Keepers from Psalm 119–the Longest (by far) Psalm
Make God’s law our concern “all day long” and become “wiser than [our] enemies,” “more insight[ful] than all [our] teachers,” and “with more understanding than older men.” (Psalm 119:97-100) Or at least they’ll stop mopping the floor with us. Those... Continue reading
Posted Sep 4, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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The Kennedy-Khrushchev Rapport, and the Man to Uncover JFKs Assassination: Part 2
I didn’t want to run the above title and ignore question of interest to most people: Who killed JFK? But now that I have discharged that responsibility with Part 1, I can focus on just what caught my attention in... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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1 Thessalonians 5: Verses Amassed on Jehovah’s Day
If you’ve been around for awhile, as I have, you’re on the lookout for something,to make you prick up your ears. Most things don’t. Most things are reminders, reinforcements, applications, etc, of what you already know. So here featured in... Continue reading
Posted Aug 28, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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The Kennedy-Khrushchev Rapport, and the First ‘Conspiracy Theory:’ The Assassination of JFK: Part 1
In 1992 was passed a law (The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act) that all documents relating to Kennedy’s 1963 assassination be released in 2017. The year came and went. ‘Only’ 56,604 documents were released. Is it only... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Why Do Bad Things Happen? Updated for Skeptics and Atheists.
Was Diagoras the world’s first atheist? He is credited that way. Read up on him and you will find that he is remembered as Diagoras the Atheist. Isn’t he the fellow who used a wooden statue of Hercules as fuel... Continue reading
Posted Aug 19, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Lessons from Leonardo de Vinci: Build Those Tweets into Notebooks
Posted Aug 17, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Psalm 59: Dogs? Bring em On!
What to do with this psalm of David? “Rescue me from my enemies, O my God; Protect me from those rising up against me.” (Ps 59:1) Again? “Rescue me from those who act wickedly, And save me from violent men.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 14, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Sigh—Another Reference to How People Hate to Read
Posted Aug 10, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Can a Crocodile Play Basketball?
Posted Aug 10, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Wait Till I Tell Bud in the Resurrection What Happened to His Beer: He’ll Never Believe It.
Posted Aug 7, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Social Media and the Ministry
The internet is not exactly new, but social media in its present form is less than 20 years old. It’s like when some new invention comes along and the young latch right on to it. The oldsters say, “I lived... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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The Playbook of the Enemy
Posted Jul 27, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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In the Last of the Last Days: Faith in the Age of Dysfunction
Posted Jul 24, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Compartmentalized
Here’s my tentative suggestions: … “Jehovah’s Witnesses have a low retention rate relative to other U.S. religious groups. This is true, however it is offset by the high participation rate Witnesses enjoy. After all, in the Methodist Church (for example—no... Continue reading
Posted Jul 20, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Seed-Pickers Exposed
Posted Jul 17, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Psalm 58: Commentary
Posted Jul 17, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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God Said to Samuel, ‘Anoint Me a Son”—with Apologies to 1 Samuel and Bob Dylan
Posted Jul 13, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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Think Witnesses are unintellectual now? Go back to the first century
Posted Jul 10, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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The Service Meeting Part of Which Almost All Missed the Point
Then there was that service meeting part of which almost nobody got the point, the one about informal witnessing. ‘Let the conversation run,’ was the theme. It’s okay if it doesn’t lead to a witness. It’s not a defeat when... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2023 at Sheep and Goats
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