When Pilate was judging Jesus for his alleged crimes, isn't it fair for the accused to provide with some form of proto-lawyer to defend his case and reason his innocence of whatever Pilate accused him of?
If he indeed did obtain some form of legal representation, who represented him and what was the presented argument used to defend Jesus' case?
Could Paul the Apostle act as his 'lawyer' given his Roman citizenship?
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I don't feel like an ass at all. I think my girlfriend (27) is just jealous. But if I'm wrong I'm wrong and I'll accept that.
Last year I dated jen (25). I really loved Jen but she was pretty sick and immature for a relationship. she had something called border personality disorder (?) and left it untreated during the time we were together. it ripped us apart so I ended things.
I started seeing Karlee (27) 2 months ago. things have been going well for the most part. we stopped at the local mall, shopped a little and then ordered dinner at the food court. as we're grabbing our table Jen and her friends are walking by. we catch eyes and have an awkward pause if we should say hi or not. she comes over, we hug, make small chat. I hate to admit it but the first thing I noticed was how beautiful and different she looked. obviously I have no interest in her anymore. it was just insane to see her. she was about fifty pounds lighter, clearer skin, just overall more confident. I introduced her to Karlee who was still seated at the table. I told her how good she looked and she told me about her pilate class and some other things. we talked for a good 6 minutes before she said she didn't want to take anymore of my time. we exchanged pleasantries. she left.
my dinner was Karlee was super tense after that. we didn't joke or really talk. when I took her back home I asked her what was up. she told me I had embarrassed her making her wait like, while she had to watch me talk with Jen. I should have invited her into the conversation instead of side lining her. I told her I was sorry. she said I was a crappy boyfriend and told me to leave. I haven't heard from her and it's been a couple hours. this is usual. was my behavior that bad?
The episode is almost two hours long, so this is going to be a running liveblog for the next 100 minutes or until the relevant content is finished, and skating gods, I’m begging you that it’s the latter:
- Lease’s source for the Radford rumors is a Danny O’Shea superfan, who alleged that O’Shea had tried out with James. It was then reported that James was partnering with a Canadian champion, which is equivalent to saying Radford.
- Meagan says she was first notified on April 2nd.
- Meagan states that the following statements are all provable facts: that Radford was training with James while simultaneously planning and booking shows with her; that her friends and family were notified of Radford’s new partnership by Radford before she was; that Radford and James have been training with Julie Marcotte for months.
- Meagan says she has “no problem” if people are excited to watch James/Radford or with Radford returning to competition.
- Meagan says she wrote her initial statement at least a week before the announcement of the pairing with the intention of giving it to Skate Canada or the press, but she wasn’t contacted when the news broke. She says she wrote it to avoid everyone messaging her congratulations on a pregnancy that doesn’t exist.
- Scorekeeping: Meagan points out that she and Radford missed two tours when he was injured and only one when she was pregnant.
- She told Radford she was pregnant the day after she took a test and it came back positive. So there’s a discrepancy in transparency here.
- Their professional plans and how relevant pregnancy was: after she gave birth in October 2019 and was training on ice with Radford by February 2020 and working on choreography for Stars on Ice in Japan and America in spring 2020. Obviously, COVID ended those plans. They talked and were hoping the tours would happen in spring 2021 and that they’d be able to participate then.
- Shortly after Battle of the Blades, their agent told them SOI Japan was going forward and that COVID wasn’t bad in Japan, so in February, they began discussing plans to train together — either Meagan would go to Montreal or Radford would come to Toronto.
- Around the same time as the above, they learn that SOI America would not be going forward in the spring but that a fall/winter tour was planned.
- Meagan says Radford is “correct” that she was “hesitant” to travel to Japan due to the risk during a pandemic and the need for a two week quarantine both on entry and exit for o
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Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.
If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.
Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???
Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.
Thank you,
A Dad.
Zibo Zhenke (1543-1604) — also sometimes called Zibo 'Purple Pine', Zhenke 'Truly Capable', or Daguan 'Consummate Contemplation' — was "the last of the great Zen masters in Chinese Buddhist history", according to J.C. Cleary. It seems he was a rather famous Buddhist activist of sorts, traveling all around China to support the Buddhist revival of his day. He was eventually arrested and killed by the government for protesting corrupt imperial policies.
T. Cleary's short forward and J.C.'s preface both have some interesting snippets about Zibo's historical environs that I think are particularly relevant to conversations we have on this sub, but I'm going to stay on the topic of Zibo himself for this post. From Tom's forward:
>By late Ming times Buddhism had merged so thoroughly with Chinese elite and popular thought that its distinctive message was becoming blurred and losing its sharp edges. Therefore contemporary representatives of the core teaching like Zibo made it their business to clarify the original intent behind the Buddhist teachings, and to differentiate the true meaning from imitations and derivatives.
Even from Tommy that seems like high praise. Let's see if Zibo can really live up to the task.
(The following excerpts are from part 1 of the book, subtitled "Zibo's Life", about which J.C. Cleary notes that "all quotations not otherwise attributed are from Hanshan", who was said to be a peer and close friend of Zibo. Admittedly there is some commentary from Cleary mixed in with the quoted text, and the book I'm looking at does not make clear in any way which is which, so I'm going to do my best but you should probably use your own critical eye for parsing voice. I intend for follow-up editions of this post to cover the other sections of the book, II. "Zibo's Buddhism", and III. "Zibo's Teachings". Alternatively, I'll just get bored after this and none of you may ever hear about Zibo again.)
All English italicized text in following quotes is my own words.
1.6 (Just some very fun pre-enlightenment hijinks at the expense of the wealthy) >Around this time (Zibo's teacher) Mingjue needed ten thousand pounds of iron to make a great bell. Zibo said, 'I will help.'
>He went [about thirty miles south] to Pinghu, and sat cross-legged outside the gate of one of the great houses. When the owner of the house saw Z
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President Daley,
My name is Ben Montie (000-3678-7132). I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints in good standing. For what's it's worth, I am a full tithe payer. I was the Finance Clerk for my Ward until approximately 2 years ago. I served a mission to the Philippines. My wife and I married in the Oakland temple 15 years ago. I named and blessed both of my children and I baptized my daughter.
The purpose of this letter is to stand as a witness for the character of Natasha Helfer-Parker. We are taught that by a person's fruits, we can know them. I would like to tell you of her fruits.
Before I do, I believe it would be helpful to give some context into how I came to know Natasha.
I began to struggle with doubts approximately 3 years ago from things I read in the Book of Mormon (while reading, praying, and fasting with true intent). I want to emphasize this because I need you to know that my faith crisis did not come as a result of sin or lack of effort on my part. Neither did it come as a result of accessing unapproved or "anti-Mormon" materials.
My faith crisis resulted in major problems in my marriage. Some of these problems were my own fault- none of which were issues with pornography, infidelity, or homosexuality as had been suggested several times.
When I came to my wife to tell her of my struggles, it set off the worst 2 years of our marriage and my life. Divorce became a possibility over night. She considered taking our kids to live with her parents. She went through the grief cycle, extending her stay in the anger stage for an agonizing amount of time. She told me that it would have been easier if I died.
The trouble was that the church doesn't prepare its membership for times like this. Instead, it's all gas, no breaks, full speed to the temple. That's not a critique. I understand the importance placed on the temple, but it makes things difficult when something other than the ideal situation occurs.
As my wife and I were were careening towards divorce, we looked for a resource that would help us through this. We met with our Bishop. We went to an LDS therapist who saw my faith crisis as a mental illness. Nothing helped because no one had any basis to deal with what we were going through, least of all, us.
At the darkest point of our marriage, we happened upon Natasha through a podcast we had found. She taught us how we could reconcile the huge divide that had formed between us. She saved our temple marriage. She
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I thought I'd share a particularly interesting email I got from Gotquestions.org:
Question: "Why should I believe in Christ’s resurrection?"
Answer: It is a fairly well-established fact that Jesus Christ was publicly executed in Judea in the 1st Century A.D., under Pontius Pilate, by means of crucifixion, at the behest of the Jewish Sanhedrin. The non-Christian historical accounts of Flavius Josephus, Cornelius Tacitus, Lucian of Samosata, Maimonides and even the Jewish Sanhedrin corroborate the early Christian eyewitness accounts of these important historical aspects of the death of Jesus Christ.
As for His resurrection, there are several lines of evidence which make for a compelling case. The late jurisprudential prodigy and international statesman Sir Lionel Luckhoo (of The Guinness Book of World Records fame for his unprecedented 245 consecutive defense murder trial acquittals) epitomized Christian enthusiasm and confidence in the strength of the case for the resurrection when he wrote, “I have spent more than 42 years as a defense trial lawyer appearing in many parts of the world and am still in active practice. I have been fortunate to secure a number of successes in jury trials and I say unequivocally the evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.”
The secular community’s response to the same evidence has been predictably apathetic in accordance with their steadfast commitment to methodological naturalism. For those unfamiliar with the term, methodological naturalism is the human endeavor of explaining everything in terms of natural causes and natural caus
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They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.
I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.
She said apple-lutely
'Eye-do'
This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.
The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!
Cred once again my sis wants credit lol
I heard parents named their children lance a lot.
First post please don't kill me
Edit: i went to sleep and now my inbox is dead, thank you kind strangers for the awards!
second hand stores!
Old Neeeeiiiiighvy
it's Hans free now..
10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too
A buck-an-ear!
I Thank ye kind Matey for the booty! I be truly overwhelmed! Thank you!
Holy cow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes and awards! I wasn’t expecting this!
He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.
Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:
Riceless
That was the punchline
Without missing a beat he asks "Daddy, do you know how much room you need to grow Fungi like that?"
I did not know.
So he tells me "as Mushroom as possible!"
So proud.
