The Duke, a king. Who woulda thunk it?
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Dead man walking - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
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A (male) prisoner on death row who is walking to the place of execution. Primarily heard in US.
September 11: Happy Birthday to Jesus
Many readers will know that I believe the actual birthdate of Jesus was Sept 11, 3 BC. This isn’t based on any original research of my own (here’s a short YouTube video of me discussing the date). Rather, it is based on the work of E. L. Martin’s The Star that Astonished the World (which can be read for free). Most academics are unaware of Martin’s research because he wasn’t a member of the biblical studies guild. Others reject it out of hand because of Martin’s involvement with the old Worldwide Church of God. The quality of one’s research, however, doesn’t depend on having a PhD in biblical studies or whether one is doctrinally correct in all areas. I don’t buy Martin’s views on other things, but I find his work on the birth of the messiah persuasive (and it has a long history of endorsement in planetariums).
As noted, most academics have no inkling about Martin’s work or its basis. In briefest terms, Martin considers Rev 12:1-7 to describe the actual celestial events of the birth of the messiah (which birth is part of the context of Rev 12:1-7). Most New Testament scholars don’t consider Rev 12 as astral prophecy. The major voice in that regard is Bruce Malina, a well-known New Testament scholar. Unfortunately, Malina dramatically overstates his case in his book, On the Genre and Message of the Book of Revelation. Malina argues that (basically) the entirety of the book of Revelation is astral prophecy. Scholars like G. K. Beale and David deSilva have rightly pointed out Malina’s near total neglect of the Old Testament context of John’s Revelation. Malina’s work deserves such criticism. But it’s misguided to think that we have to choose between seeing astral prophecy everywhere in Revelation to the neglect of how John uses the Old Testament, and seeing it nowhere. I don’t buy that either-or fallacy.
Martin’s thesis has, of course, been critiqued in some detail. There are problems, but none of them are insurmountable and can be rebutted with good evidence. This reality, along with the comprehensive explanatory power Martin’s work, as well as the date’s remarkable synchronicity with Jewish messianic symbolism and calendar, make Martin’s work persuasive to me. Most of the criticisms of Martin’s work revolve around the fact that it requires a date of 1 BC for the death of Herod the Great, something that flies in the face of the (current) consensus of 4 BC for that event. Critics of a 1 BC death for Herod that I have read seem oblivious to the past and recent work in defense of that date — at least I have found references to that research lacking in their criticisms. A date of 1 BC for Herod’s death is not only possible, but more accurately reflects the data now available. The two best sources for defending Herod’s death in 1 BC — which, again, seem utterly neglected in criticisms of Martin’s work — are:
https://drmsh.com/september-11-happy-birthday-to-jesus/
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CUSTODIAN Definition & Meaning
5 days ago — especially : one entrusted with guarding and keeping property or records or with custody or guardianship of prisoners or inmates.
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CUSTODIAN | definition in the Cambridge English …
a person with responsibility for protecting or taking care of something or keeping something in
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Ex-Navy SEAL who detransitioned warns …
Dec 12, 2022 — A former Navy SEAL who came out as transgender and has since
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Ex-Navy SEAL who detransitioned warns transgender teens: ‘You need to slow down’
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Published Dec. 12, 2022
Updated Dec. 12, 2022, 6:38 p.m. ET
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A former Navy SEAL who came out as transgender and has since detransitioned is warning young Americans to exercise extreme caution when considering gender affirming surgery — saying “you need to slow down.”
https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/ex-navy-seal-who-detransitioned-warns-transgender-teens-slow-down/
he origins of Cannabis are linked to a Scythian word.[6][7][8] The ancient Greeks may have learned of the use of cannabis, which they called κάνναβις, by observing Scythian funerals, during which cannabis was consumed.[7] In Akkadian, cannabis was known as qunubu (𐎯𐎫𐎠𐎭𐏂).[7] The word was adopted in to the Hebrew as qaneh bosem (קָנֶה בֹּשׂם).[7]
The Latin term cannabis derived from Greek evolved into Proto-Germanic *xan(a)paz, yielding various Germanic forms (Old Norse hampr, Old English hænep, Old Saxon hanup, Old High German hanaf) and ultimately modern British English "hemp."[
Soma's Avestan cognate is the haoma. According to Geldner (1951), the word is derived from Indo-Iranian roots sav- (Sanskrit sav-/su) "to press", i.e. sau-ma- is the drink prepared by pressing the stalks of a plant,[10] but the word and the related practices were borrowed by the Indo-Aryans from the Bactria–Margiana culture (BMAC).[11][12] Although the word is only attested in Indo-Iranian traditions, Manfred Mayrhofer has proposed a Proto-Indo-European origin from the root *sew(h)-.[13]
The Rigveda (8.48.3) says:
ápāma sómam amŕtā abhūma
áganma jyótir ávidāma devān
kíṃ nūnám asmān krṇavad árātiḥ
kím u dhūrtír amrta mártiyasya[22]
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton translates this as:
We have drunk the soma; we have become immortal; we have gone to the light; we have found the gods.
What can hostility do to us now, and what the malice of a mortal, o immortal one?[23]