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Absalom plots a conspiracy, forming an army and winning the hearts of the Israelite people through displays of warmth and kindness. Supported by David’s chief counselor, Absalom goes to Hebron where his followers pronounce him king. Informed of this event, David flees from Jerusalem with his men, and the people of the countryside weep as he marches by. One of Saul’s relatives, however, curses and throws stones at the band, gloating over David’s demise. David forbids his attendants to punish the man.
Absalom enters Jerusalem where, in a display of defiance, he has sex with David’s concubines. Absalom’s aides advise him to attack David immediately, but one of David’s officials, pretending to support Absalom, persuades Absalom to wait. This delay gives David time to muster an army, and his forces kill twenty thousand of Absalom’s followers in the forests of Ephraim. Riding along, Absalom catches his head in the branches of a tree. Joab ignores David’s instructions to treat Absalom gently and drives three spears into Absalom’s hanging body. When David is notified of Absalom’s death, he weeps, screaming repeatedly, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!” (19:4).
To the frustration of his officials, David shows mercy to all of Absalom’s supporters who approach him for forgiveness, especially Absalom’s commander Amasa. David sends messengers to the leaders of Judah, and the tribe welcomes him back to Jerusalem. The remaining tribes—Absalom’s chief supporters—fear that David will be angry at them. An uprising ensues, but Joab traps the rebels in a city and the city’s residents hand over the severed head of the rebel leader. Angered that David has shown mercy to Amasa, Joab stabs Amasa one day while pretending to greet him.
David rebuilds his throne with continued acts of local diplomacy and with military victories over the Philistines. He composes a song praising God as a loving and kind deliverer, and the narrator briefly recounts the feats of David’s most famous fighting men.
Analysis
The major scholarly debate over 2 Samuel involves whether or not the book describes David in a negative or positive light. Chapters 9–20 of 2 Samuel are not necessarily complimentary. David commits adultery, tries to have his mistress’s husband killed, and loses control of his sons. At the same time, however, the narrator explains how each of these incidents actually proves David’s righteousness. Not only are David’s sons blamed for their own actions, but David’s own repentance for his misdeeds is described as exemplary. The circumstances surrounding David’s reign suggest that God approves of David’s actions. David’s kingdom in Zion represents the fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham, Jacob, and Moses. It establishes the unified tribes of Israel in the promised land under the rule of a divinely sanctioned leader. David’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem with the Ark of the Covenant marks the story’s climax, symbolizing the ideal combination of religion and politics in Israel and the peaceful unification of God and man in one city. The image of an organized procession of song and dance around a symbol of God suggests that the people have, temporarily, reconciled their earthly aspirations with their religious commitments. 2 Samuel is characterized by the contrast between joyful images and images of civil conflict and confusion. All of the challengers to David’s throne in Samuel lose their heads, symbolizing their thwarted attempts to become the head of Israel. David’s retreat from Jerusalem to the sound of weeping and cursing contrasts with his earlier celebratory march into the city. Geographical motifs further reinforce this sense of division and loss. Ish-Bosheth’s challenge to the throne divides Israel into two halves, northern and southern.
Absalom enters Jerusalem where, in a display of defiance, he has sex with David’s concubines. Absalom’s aides advise him to attack David immediately, but one of David’s officials, pretending to support Absalom, persuades Absalom to wait. This delay gives David time to muster an army, and his forces kill twenty thousand of Absalom’s followers in the forests of Ephraim. Riding along, Absalom catches his head in the branches of a tree. Joab ignores David’s instructions to treat Absalom gently and drives three spears into Absalom’s hanging body. When David is notified of Absalom’s death, he weeps, screaming repeatedly, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!” (19:4).
To the frustration of his officials, David shows mercy to all of Absalom’s supporters who approach him for forgiveness, especially Absalom’s commander Amasa. David sends messengers to the leaders of Judah, and the tribe welcomes him back to Jerusalem. The remaining tribes—Absalom’s chief supporters—fear that David will be angry at them. An uprising ensues, but Joab traps the rebels in a city and the city’s residents hand over the severed head of the rebel leader. Angered that David has shown mercy to Amasa, Joab stabs Amasa one day while pretending to greet him.
David rebuilds his throne with continued acts of local diplomacy and with military victories over the Philistines. He composes a song praising God as a loving and kind deliverer, and the narrator briefly recounts the feats of David’s most famous fighting men.
Analysis
The major scholarly debate over 2 Samuel involves whether or not the book describes David in a negative or positive light. Chapters 9–20 of 2 Samuel are not necessarily complimentary. David commits adultery, tries to have his mistress’s husband killed, and loses control of his sons. At the same time, however, the narrator explains how each of these incidents actually proves David’s righteousness. Not only are David’s sons blamed for their own actions, but David’s own repentance for his misdeeds is described as exemplary. The circumstances surrounding David’s reign suggest that God approves of David’s actions. David’s kingdom in Zion represents the fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham, Jacob, and Moses. It establishes the unified tribes of Israel in the promised land under the rule of a divinely sanctioned leader. David’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem with the Ark of the Covenant marks the story’s climax, symbolizing the ideal combination of religion and politics in Israel and the peaceful unification of God and man in one city. The image of an organized procession of song and dance around a symbol of God suggests that the people have, temporarily, reconciled their earthly aspirations with their religious commitments. 2 Samuel is characterized by the contrast between joyful images and images of civil conflict and confusion. All of the challengers to David’s throne in Samuel lose their heads, symbolizing their thwarted attempts to become the head of Israel. David’s retreat from Jerusalem to the sound of weeping and cursing contrasts with his earlier celebratory march into the city. Geographical motifs further reinforce this sense of division and loss. Ish-Bosheth’s challenge to the throne divides Israel into two halves, northern and southern.
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The Second Book of Samuel
Summary;
Upon learning of Saul’s defeat by the Philistines, David sings a song lamenting the deaths of Saul and his friend, Jonathan. David goes to Hebron, where his followers and the southern tribe of Judah anoint him as king. Meanwhile, Saul’s chief commander, Abner, garners the support of the northern tribes and instates Saul’s son, Ish-Bosheth, as king of Israel. A war ensues between the conflicting regimes, played out in a series of small hand-to-hand contests between Abner’s men and the army of Joab, David’s general.
When Ish-Bosheth falsely accuses Abner of sleeping with one of the royal concubines, Abner defects to David’s court. David welcomes Abner’s support. Abner convinces the other tribes to recognize David’s claim to the throne. Joab, however, seeks revenge for his brother’s earlier death at Abner’s hands, and he stabs Abner in secret. David’s public censure of Joab and mourning for Abner wins Israel’s respect, and two of Ish-Bosheth’s men betray their ruler by presenting David with the severed head of the northern king. David is horrified that they have killed an innocent man, and he publicly executes these men. The united tribes declare David king of Israel.
David leads the Israelites in conquering the city of Jerusalem, a Canaanite stronghold lingering in the heart of Israel’s territory. He erects his palace there and calls it “The City of David” or “Zion.” Growing in power, David quells the ever-present Philistine threat in a decisive military victory. With the help of thirty thousand Israelites, David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem in an elaborate procession. Amidst shouting and music, David dances and leaps in front of the Ark, to the embarrassment of his wife Michal. David rebukes her, claiming that he will humiliate himself as much as he wants so long as it pleases God. God is pleased that David has made a permanent home for the Ark and reveals a message to David’s prophet, Nathan. God vows to grant Israel rest from foreign opposition and promises that the kingdom of David will last forever. With Joab’s services, David subdues the nations of the surrounding area, expanding Israel’s borders while developing diplomatic relations with the neighboring kingdoms.
One day, David watches a woman bathing from the rooftop of his palace. He summons the woman, Bathsheba, and has sex with her, and the woman becomes pregnant. Unable to disguise his indiscretion, David sends her husband, Uriah, to die on the battlefield. David marries Bathsheba, but Nathan confronts the king about his wrongdoing. Nathan tells a parable about a wealthy man who steals a poor man’s only prized sheep. David is outraged by such selfishness, and Nathan informs David that the parable is about him. Nathan predicts that God will bring calamity on David’s household. David repents for his wrongdoing, but, despite his fasting and praying, Bathsheba’s son dies during childbirth. Afterward, David and Bathsheba have another son, Solomon.
David’s older son Amnon falls in love with his half-sister Tamar and rapes her. David is furious but does nothing. Instead, Tamar’s brother Absalom invites Amnon out to the country, where he and David’s other sons murder Amnon. Absalom flees to a remote city for three years, but David, after mourning for Amnon, allows his son Absalom back to Jerusalem.
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On the other hand, God willingly chooses Saul to be king, identifying Saul as the deliverer of his people. God reconciles this contradiction by distinguishing Israel’s status as a human institution from its status as a divine one. As Samuel’s warnings to Israel about the dangers of having a king suggest, God may bless the king, but he will not keep the king from committing the sorts of human errors and injustices that human rulers are prone to commit.
Saul’s demise as king is tragic because he makes such small, human mistakes. Like all tragic heroes, Saul possesses a fatal flaw: he is more concerned with earthly objects and human customs than with spiritual or religious matters. Saul’s plan to present the plunder from the Amalekites as a sacrifice to God earns Samuel’s criticism because Saul mistakes a human custom for religious devotion. This criticism is symbolized by the piece of cloth that Saul is left with when he grabs at Samuel. The cloth, like all things Saul considers important, is man-made. The war song of the Israelite women, which ignites Saul’s fury, further highlights Saul’s flaw: “Saul has killed his thousands, / and David his ten thousands” (18:7). The refrain, which is repeated throughout the Book of Samuel by both priests and Philistines, illustrates the fact that Saul evaluates his leadership by human standards, rather than religious standards.
In contrast, God favors David because David places a higher value on religious devotion than on the physical world. David’s inner virtue is Samuel’s criterion for anointing him as king, and the encounter with Goliath functions as a parable for the triumph of the spiritual over the physical. The giant, a symbol of brute human force, is defeated by the diminutive David, who refuses the physical protection of the king’s armor in favor of prayer, calling down God’s wrath on the irreverent Goliath. David’s repudiation of the physical world continues in his willingness to roam the desert on the margins of Israel, denying the opportunity to take the throne by physical force from God’s current anointed ruler. Like Abraham and Moses, David reinforces God’s ongoing preference for the unseen over the seen, the lesser over the greater, and inner faith over external circumstances. A commitment to these preferences seems to be the minimum religious requirement for the ideal Israelite monarch.
Saul’s demise as king is tragic because he makes such small, human mistakes. Like all tragic heroes, Saul possesses a fatal flaw: he is more concerned with earthly objects and human customs than with spiritual or religious matters. Saul’s plan to present the plunder from the Amalekites as a sacrifice to God earns Samuel’s criticism because Saul mistakes a human custom for religious devotion. This criticism is symbolized by the piece of cloth that Saul is left with when he grabs at Samuel. The cloth, like all things Saul considers important, is man-made. The war song of the Israelite women, which ignites Saul’s fury, further highlights Saul’s flaw: “Saul has killed his thousands, / and David his ten thousands” (18:7). The refrain, which is repeated throughout the Book of Samuel by both priests and Philistines, illustrates the fact that Saul evaluates his leadership by human standards, rather than religious standards.
In contrast, God favors David because David places a higher value on religious devotion than on the physical world. David’s inner virtue is Samuel’s criterion for anointing him as king, and the encounter with Goliath functions as a parable for the triumph of the spiritual over the physical. The giant, a symbol of brute human force, is defeated by the diminutive David, who refuses the physical protection of the king’s armor in favor of prayer, calling down God’s wrath on the irreverent Goliath. David’s repudiation of the physical world continues in his willingness to roam the desert on the margins of Israel, denying the opportunity to take the throne by physical force from God’s current anointed ruler. Like Abraham and Moses, David reinforces God’s ongoing preference for the unseen over the seen, the lesser over the greater, and inner faith over external circumstances. A commitment to these preferences seems to be the minimum religious requirement for the ideal Israelite monarch.
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The Philistines again threaten to attack Israel, this time taunting Israel with their new hero, Goliath—a giant more than nine feet tall. Saul and the Israelites tremble in fear, but David, arriving to deliver food to his brothers, offers to fight the giant. Refusing the king’s armor, David publicly invokes God’s help and kills Goliath with a single stone shot from his sling. The Israelites attack the retreating Philistines, and Israel returns home to the sound of women singing praises of David’s victory.
Saul is insanely jealous of David, who becomes an intimate friend of Saul’s son, Jonathan, and leads the Israelite troops to many more victories. After attempting to kill David with a spear, Saul sends David on a suicide mission to kill a hundred Philistine men and bring back their circumcised foreskins. David succeeds, and Saul grudgingly rewards David with his daughter Michal’s hand in marriage. Saul orders his household to kill David, but, with the help of Michal and Jonathan, David flees from Saul. David builds an army of unhappy and impoverished Israelites, and he is joined by a priest who is also fleeing from Saul’s destructive path.
Saul pursues David into the desert where David spares the king’s life twice. While Saul is urinating in a cave, David sneaks up behind him and cuts off a corner of Saul’s robe, scorning the opportunity to kill God’s “annointed” ruler (24:6). At night, David and his men sneak into the king’s tent and steal Saul’s spear while he is sleeping. On both occasions, David announces his deed to Saul, and Saul expresses remorse both times, begging for David’s mercy.
Still, Saul continues his pursuit, and David takes refuge with the Philistines, who show mercy to the great warrior and adversary of Israel’s king. Preparing to fight the Philistines, Saul is wracked with fear and consults a witch, bidding the spirit medium to conjure up the dead spirit of Samuel. Samuel’s ghost angrily warns Saul that he and his sons will die fighting the Philistines, ensuring the demise of Saul’s kingdom. David and his men head out to fight the Amalekites, and David succeeds in destroying the warring nation. In the meantime, Saul leads Israel into a losing battle with the Philistines, and Saul’s sons, including Jonathan, are killed. Saul commands his armor-bearer to kill him, but the boy refuses, and Saul falls on his own sword and dies.
Analysis
The first book of Samuel tells the story of Israel’s transition from a theocracy, or state ruled by a religious leader, to a monarchy, or state ruled by a political leader. Israel starts out as a nation of loosely affiliated tribes led by priests and religious heroes, but it becomes a nation-state led by a centralized king. Each stage of this transition is depicted through the narrative’s three main figures: Samuel represents the old rule of the judges, Saul represents Israel’s failed attempt at monarchy, and David represents God’s ideal king. Although it seems logical that the rule of a single king would bring a sense of unity and cohesiveness to Israel, the opposite is the case. The move away from religious leaders divides religious and political life in Israel. Confusion about how religion and politics ought to relate to one another is the chief source of conflict in Samuel. Indeed, Saul’s gravest mistake as king is his attempt to carry out the sacrificial duties of the priesthood—a role that Samuel explicitly denies the political ruler.
God’s ambivalence regarding the monarchy escalates this conflict. On the one hand, God and Samuel are displeased at Israel’s demand for a king, because, as God claims, this demand represents Israel’s refusal to believe that God and his religious laws are adequate to rule the people.
Saul is insanely jealous of David, who becomes an intimate friend of Saul’s son, Jonathan, and leads the Israelite troops to many more victories. After attempting to kill David with a spear, Saul sends David on a suicide mission to kill a hundred Philistine men and bring back their circumcised foreskins. David succeeds, and Saul grudgingly rewards David with his daughter Michal’s hand in marriage. Saul orders his household to kill David, but, with the help of Michal and Jonathan, David flees from Saul. David builds an army of unhappy and impoverished Israelites, and he is joined by a priest who is also fleeing from Saul’s destructive path.
Saul pursues David into the desert where David spares the king’s life twice. While Saul is urinating in a cave, David sneaks up behind him and cuts off a corner of Saul’s robe, scorning the opportunity to kill God’s “annointed” ruler (24:6). At night, David and his men sneak into the king’s tent and steal Saul’s spear while he is sleeping. On both occasions, David announces his deed to Saul, and Saul expresses remorse both times, begging for David’s mercy.
Still, Saul continues his pursuit, and David takes refuge with the Philistines, who show mercy to the great warrior and adversary of Israel’s king. Preparing to fight the Philistines, Saul is wracked with fear and consults a witch, bidding the spirit medium to conjure up the dead spirit of Samuel. Samuel’s ghost angrily warns Saul that he and his sons will die fighting the Philistines, ensuring the demise of Saul’s kingdom. David and his men head out to fight the Amalekites, and David succeeds in destroying the warring nation. In the meantime, Saul leads Israel into a losing battle with the Philistines, and Saul’s sons, including Jonathan, are killed. Saul commands his armor-bearer to kill him, but the boy refuses, and Saul falls on his own sword and dies.
Analysis
The first book of Samuel tells the story of Israel’s transition from a theocracy, or state ruled by a religious leader, to a monarchy, or state ruled by a political leader. Israel starts out as a nation of loosely affiliated tribes led by priests and religious heroes, but it becomes a nation-state led by a centralized king. Each stage of this transition is depicted through the narrative’s three main figures: Samuel represents the old rule of the judges, Saul represents Israel’s failed attempt at monarchy, and David represents God’s ideal king. Although it seems logical that the rule of a single king would bring a sense of unity and cohesiveness to Israel, the opposite is the case. The move away from religious leaders divides religious and political life in Israel. Confusion about how religion and politics ought to relate to one another is the chief source of conflict in Samuel. Indeed, Saul’s gravest mistake as king is his attempt to carry out the sacrificial duties of the priesthood—a role that Samuel explicitly denies the political ruler.
God’s ambivalence regarding the monarchy escalates this conflict. On the one hand, God and Samuel are displeased at Israel’s demand for a king, because, as God claims, this demand represents Israel’s refusal to believe that God and his religious laws are adequate to rule the people.
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The First Book of Samuel
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.
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Israel’s next judge, Samuel, is born to Hannah, a previously barren woman. Hannah gives Samuel to Israel’s chief priest, Eli, to be raised as a Nazirite. The priesthood in Israel is in a general state of decline, and Eli’s sons are disobeying God’s laws. God declares that he will choose a new priest for Israel from outside Eli’s family and begins delivering messages to Samuel as a young man. Samuel becomes a recognized prophet throughout Israel, delivering God’s messages to the people.
During battle, the Philistines kill Eli’s sons and capture the Ark of the Covenant—Israel’s religious altar and symbol of God. Upon learning of the attack and robbery, Eli falls over and dies. The Ark is returned to Israel after it causes its Philistine captors to become terribly diseased. As the nation rejoices, Samuel persuades Israel to set aside its worship of local pagan deities, and God helps Israel thwart Philistine oppression for many years.
The Israelites demand that Samuel appoint a king for them so that Israel will be like other nations. Samuel is displeased, but God grants him permission to elect a king. God notes that by asking for a king, the people have not rejected Samuel; they have rejected God. Samuel warns the people that a monarchy brings certain drawbacks such as taxation, the conscription of armed forces, and the potential for tyranny, but the people are resolute.
God tells Samuel who should be king, and the following day, a man named Saul appears before Samuel, inquiring about some lost donkeys. Samuel pours oil over Saul’s head to anoint him as king, and God provides a series of mystical signs to assure Saul that he should be king. Saul, who is a head taller than the average man, pleases the Israelites as king and leads them in rescuing an Israelite outpost from invasion. Stepping down as Israel’s leader, Samuel encourages the people that, so long as they are obedient to God’s laws, God will not punish them for requesting a king.
Despite many military victories, Saul soon disobeys God. He tries to rush into battle by performing a ritual war sacrifice without the help of a priest. Later, Samuel sends Saul to fight the Amalekites, instructing Saul to destroy them completely and leave nothing alive. Saul, however, spares the Amalekite ruler and the best portion of their flocks, hoping to present them as sacrifices to God. Samuel rebukes Saul, claiming that obedience to God’s instructions is more important than religious sacrifice. He informs Saul that God will choose another man to be king of Israel. Saul pleads with Samuel, begging for forgiveness. Saul grabs for Samuel’s cloak, but the cloth tears—a symbol, says Samuel, of Saul’s broken kingdom.
God leads Samuel to the town of Bethlehem to choose a new king from Jesse’s family. Each of Jesse’s older sons are impressive, but God instructs Samuel to judge people not by their external appearances but, rather, by their hearts. Samuel anoints Jesse’s youngest son, David, a shepherd, as king, and God gives divine power to David. God withdraws his power from Saul, cursing Saul with psychological distress in the form of an “evil spirit” (16:14). David begins his rise to courtly status as a harp-player for Saul during the king’s emotional unrest.
RE: This is why I can never live in the USA
I don't have a clue what goes on in Georgia which is why i asked you for an opinion. Just watched the video of the fighting both inside their Parliament and the mass protests outside. Seems to me like another divided country
This is why I can never live in the USA
Taiwan, spelloe.
They're a bit further away though, and they don't look like you and me.
So it may not be worth it.
Sleep on it.
They're a bit further away though, and they don't look like you and me.
So it may not be worth it.
Sleep on it.
RE: Would you ever date a (...) ?
You know Grand this is the sort of society we see on a daily basis. Why people feel the need to film EVERYTHING that happens in their lives is frankly sad and most of it is to seek some sort of notoriety on public websites.
Silly mare hasn't a clue about life. He gets all the brownie points from me.
Silly mare hasn't a clue about life. He gets all the brownie points from me.
This is why I can never live in the USA
I think it's a pretty safe bet to guess I feel the opposite to you.
You a rebel leftie, right?
So take it for granted that I always feel diametrically opposite to you.
That is the rule.
Good luck with setting Georgia "free".
And Tawain, will you help them as well?
I mean when the time is right to start that war.
Against oppression.
You a rebel leftie, right?
So take it for granted that I always feel diametrically opposite to you.
That is the rule.
Good luck with setting Georgia "free".
And Tawain, will you help them as well?
I mean when the time is right to start that war.
Against oppression.
Gardening
I got options, lots of them. Aside from the main plants I have in lol, I can put in anything else along with. My body won't let me do anything major outside but in the greenhouse or in the little grow room in the house, I can put in whatever will fit in there. This summer I am just focusing on the main plants (god bless Canada) but later on when I get a better idea of what I am doing, I would love to have some strawberries along with.
RE: This is why I can never live in the USA
Just out of curiosity Grand what do you make of what is happening in Georgia?
"Georgia's parliament has voted through a divisive "foreign agent" law that has sparked weeks of mass street protests.
However, the bill now faces a likely veto by Georgia's president, which parliament can override by holding an additional vote.
Critics say the bill - which they call the "Russia law" - could be used to threaten civil liberties.
Thousands of people were gathered near the parliament in Tbilisi to protest the decision.
On Monday, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze warned that if authorities backed down at the bill's third reading, Georgia would lose sovereignty and "easily share the fate of Ukraine", without detailing what he meant."
"Georgia's parliament has voted through a divisive "foreign agent" law that has sparked weeks of mass street protests.
However, the bill now faces a likely veto by Georgia's president, which parliament can override by holding an additional vote.
Critics say the bill - which they call the "Russia law" - could be used to threaten civil liberties.
Thousands of people were gathered near the parliament in Tbilisi to protest the decision.
On Monday, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze warned that if authorities backed down at the bill's third reading, Georgia would lose sovereignty and "easily share the fate of Ukraine", without detailing what he meant."
This is why I can never live in the USA
Arrite. 
By the way, I think I gotten a grip now, thanks
By the way, I think I gotten a grip now, thanks
RE: This is why I can never live in the USA
No. Take politics out of the equation and I respect you and your choices in many ways.
Just because we have a different point of view on certain subjects should not mean we can never be pals.
Just because we have a different point of view on certain subjects should not mean we can never be pals.
This is why I can never live in the USA
Yea, you're a goodie.
But I hope you realize we will never
se eeye to eye on almost anything. Do you at least agree on that?
But I hope you realize we will never
se eeye to eye on almost anything. Do you at least agree on that?
RE: This is why I can never live in the USA
Are you labelling me Grand.? I'm rather proud of being 84 and having survived a World War .
Being a war baby I'm also rather partial to a coalition .I have never voted so neither left or right The only time I have ever voted was for Brexit and look where that got us.
Being a war baby I'm also rather partial to a coalition .I have never voted so neither left or right The only time I have ever voted was for Brexit and look where that got us.
This is why I can never live in the USA
If you're not a leftie at 20 you have no heart.
If you're still a leftie at 40 you have no brian.
You are still a leftie at 80?
If you're still a leftie at 40 you have no brian.
You are still a leftie at 80?
RE: David Sanborn...
Do you know what got him Chat? My papa died at 79 about the same age as David here.
We can't expect much more, only wondering if he was ill or not. Thanks for the update.
We can't expect much more, only wondering if he was ill or not. Thanks for the update.
RE: David Sanborn...
Oh shit, he is one of my all time fav jazzrock musicians. 
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Ruth 4
Boaz Marries Ruth
Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.
Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek.
I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,” he said.
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.” At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.” (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)
So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.
Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”
Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
Through the offspring the LORD gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”
Naomi Gains a Son
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel!
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him.
The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
The Genealogy of David
This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,
Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab,
Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,
Salmon the father of Boaz, Boaz the father of Obed,
Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Ruth 3
Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor
One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home for you, where you will be well provided for.
Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”
“I will do whatever you say,” Ruth answered.
So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.
When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down.
In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet!
“Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer of our family.”
“The LORD bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.
And now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do for you all you ask. All the people of my town know that you are a woman of noble character.
Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I.
Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the LORD lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.”
So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, “No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
He also said, “Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he went back to town.
When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her
and added, “He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ ”
Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”
RE: Gardening
Hi Track,
I love home grown but due to age have had to cut back some this year.
I grow potatoes from scratch as when they start to seed and get roots I just slice them off and layer them in bone meal and soil as they grow upwards .Had a fab crop last year just from pots. I also grow my own courgettes and if they get too big let them grow into marrows. . Herbs are also easy to grow and the neighbours love my mint.Tomatoes also easy to grow.
It's cheap,fun and gives me an interest. Good luck.
I love home grown but due to age have had to cut back some this year.
I grow potatoes from scratch as when they start to seed and get roots I just slice them off and layer them in bone meal and soil as they grow upwards .Had a fab crop last year just from pots. I also grow my own courgettes and if they get too big let them grow into marrows. . Herbs are also easy to grow and the neighbours love my mint.Tomatoes also easy to grow.
It's cheap,fun and gives me an interest. Good luck.
RE: Car horn sounds like gun shots! Prevents being hijacked
Bad idea, Orzzz.
It'd likely get the horn guy arrested for malicious unwokeness and sentenced to sensitivity training/indoctrination.
RE: Car horn sounds like gun shots! Prevents being hijacked
I've seen this before - those sum'bítches runnin' like paper devils ... It Never gets old.
NEVER!!
NEVER!!
RE: Car horn sounds like gun shots! Prevents being hijacked
I need that! Where can I get one?
RE: Only the Irish can save Ireland
So once again you evade my questions.
A me feiner is someone who thinks only of himself, I'd love to know how you can be a me feiner like I myself and want to welcome refugees? The term suits you not me, you want to forget how we were helped in the past by other countries and now that we are doing well you want to pull up the ladder after you in case it might help others less fortunate than us.
You admire Clare Daly so much yet she is even more generous towards immigrants than I am, in fact she believes in open borders (or at least she used to anyway) I don't think you are politically literate.
A me feiner is someone who thinks only of himself, I'd love to know how you can be a me feiner like I myself and want to welcome refugees? The term suits you not me, you want to forget how we were helped in the past by other countries and now that we are doing well you want to pull up the ladder after you in case it might help others less fortunate than us.
You admire Clare Daly so much yet she is even more generous towards immigrants than I am, in fact she believes in open borders (or at least she used to anyway) I don't think you are politically literate.
RE: This was the advice of an old woman from Andalusia Jeddah Agent772
Yeah I do quite a lot of that stuff with her sister, she seems to like it
THE GIMP
A Gimp is also slang for, ' unpleasant or stupid person. '
The mask hides unattractive features and some people are afraid to take them off.
A reduction in anxiety may be achieved by wearing a mask.
The mask hides unattractive features and some people are afraid to take them off.
A reduction in anxiety may be achieved by wearing a mask.
WHERE DID WE COME FROM?
"Let us make man in our image." etc. Who was god? and who was "us? Extra terrestrial super beings who put creatures on this planet? Resulting in conflict between themselves over whether humans should have knowledge.
Conflict between gods in various religions exists. Hindu writings talk of battles in the sky, and even describe flying craft plus many different weapons.
Conflict between gods in various religions exists. Hindu writings talk of battles in the sky, and even describe flying craft plus many different weapons.
Useless trivia
A large billboard collapsed onto people during heavy rain and thunderstorms in India's western city of Mumbai — killing at least 14 and injuring 74 others, reports said.
RE: This is why I can never live in the USA
Get a grip Grand.
Laws are made by politicians but enforced by the police,I just made a comparison.
Obama made 14 decrees with regards to policing in the U.S Guess who cancelled them when he took office.
By scrapping the use of consent decrees, Trump effectively made it much harder for the US to recover from the turmoil roiling the nation. In the absence of federal pressure, any reform impetus had to come from cities and states acting in isolation or from inside police agencies that are likely to be resistant to change.
Police brutality may be higher in the U.S but it's not the only country with these issues.
Laws are made by politicians but enforced by the police,I just made a comparison.
Obama made 14 decrees with regards to policing in the U.S Guess who cancelled them when he took office.
By scrapping the use of consent decrees, Trump effectively made it much harder for the US to recover from the turmoil roiling the nation. In the absence of federal pressure, any reform impetus had to come from cities and states acting in isolation or from inside police agencies that are likely to be resistant to change.
Police brutality may be higher in the U.S but it's not the only country with these issues.
Useless trivia
A California Catholic school has been ordered by a court to pay out to two students it expelled after wrongly accusing them of blackface.
A California Catholic school has been ordered by a court to pay out to two students it expelled after wrongly accusing them of blackface.
Two teens who were expelled from a private school for “blacking up” have won a US$1 million ($1.6 million) payout after they proved they were wearing an acne face mask.
A California Catholic school has been ordered by a court to pay out to two students it expelled after wrongly accusing them of blackface.
Two teens who were expelled from a private school for “blacking up” have won a US$1 million ($1.6 million) payout after they proved they were wearing an acne face mask.
Apollo 11: One giant LIE for mankind...
What the Apollo 11 Site Looks Like Today
Computerized imagery from 2 years ago.
Computerized imagery from 2 years ago.
RE: Apollo 11: One giant LIE for mankind...
The Arctic is thawing and untold $ Trillions in resources are becoming accessible.
China claims a stake in the region because it's a "Near Arctic Country".
China's most Northern point is like 900 miles South of the Arctic Circle.
China claims a stake in the region because it's a "Near Arctic Country".
China's most Northern point is like 900 miles South of the Arctic Circle.
He couldn't afford her medical bills. So...
She was receiving dialysis and from what I've read, it's treatment a few times a week.
Depending on her medicare plan, it could be in the neighborhood of $500 per visit.
Strangling her was so obvious. Eye drops in her coffee would have slowly 'done her in' only detected by an autopsy.
Depending on her medicare plan, it could be in the neighborhood of $500 per visit.
Strangling her was so obvious. Eye drops in her coffee would have slowly 'done her in' only detected by an autopsy.