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Re: What Did Jesus Teach? (a UB study aid)

11 designs with words selected for "The Good News" theme

WDJT-News8 and WDJT-News11 were the same,
so News11 is now a new design.

Crafter's secret ...
"Melchizedek" is only in the News11 design
in: http://aitnaru.org/images/WDJT.zip

Rod ... ...

Re: What Did Jesus Teach? (a UB study aid)

12 designs with words selected for "The Good News" theme

What One more design! (also with "Melchizedek")

If "complement to apostles" is believed, then the 12th design
might hint that Judas is now forgiven. OMG

Rod

There are other approaches to reading the Revelation:

"Back Door" means not reading from front to back, but any which way -
"front to back" is then a UB Mecca (better sooner than later).

Another Mecca: Try one Paper a day, but read ahead whenever possible
because life's interruptions usually appear along the 197-day journey.
Then give yourself the q.d. azure blue star (medical for "one a day").

A UB artist should design the q.d. star as temporarily attached to a bookmark;
the star is later applied to the Book's cover when the reader qualifies.

Did you know? ...
"Azure is a bright, cyan-blue color that is often described as the color of the sky on a clear day."

Rod

Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... -face.html

"NASA Hubble Telescope snaps image of two galaxies colliding to create a ghoulish face just in time for Halloween"

Not to worry, our own solar system was created by the collision of two nebulas:

"Urantia is of origin in your sun, and your sun is one of the multifarious offspring of the Andronover nebula" (57:1.1)
"This former spiral nebula was slightly distorted by the gravity disruptions associated with the events which were attendant
upon the birth of your solar system, and which were occasioned by the near approach of a large neighboring nebula [Angona]" (15:3.6)

See also:
Paper 57 - The Origin of Urantia, 1. The Andronover Nebula
http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P057_1_1
Paper 15 - The Seven Superuniverses, 3. The Superuniverse of Orvonton
http://www.theub.org/part-i.html#P015_3_1

Rod

rod, that image is beautiful. thank you for sharing.
imagine if you were the result of two colliding galaxies.

happy halloween brother

The mating of "two colliding galaxies"
is often heard by neighbors.

Rod

Re: http://aitnaru.org/images/Joshua_Mugs.pdf

"Christmas is when Uncle Joshua brings us glad tidings"

Wordle word designs for 4 Christmas mugs (11oz, white).
Words selected from Part IV for "The Good News" theme.
(a developing Proof of Concept)

Rod

Re: http://aitnaru.org/images/Joshua_Mugs.pdf

"Christmas is when Uncle Joshua brings us glad tidings"

"Joshua Mugs" is already a commercial product, not related to "Uncle Joshua"-
the use here is descriptive and not a formal name for this set of mugs.

Rod

Re: http://aitnaru.org/images/Joshua_Mugs.pdf

"Christmas is when Uncle Joshua brings us glad tidings"

The pdf is now bundled with the print-quality designs:
http://aitnaru.org/images/Joshua_Mugs.zip
(editing might be required for commercial quality)

Bon Appétit

Rod

Re: What Did Jesus Teach? (a UB study aid)

Crafter's secret ...
Scroll1 is a new Wordle design in scroll format:
http://aitnaru.org/images/WDJT.zip

Rod

Re: What Did Jesus Teach? (a UB study aid)

Crafter's secret ...
Scroll1 (and 2,3) is a new Wordle design in scroll format:

These designs would make good Christmas decorations as a poster or in a frame,
since "reason for the season" comes to mind and they use Christmas colors!
In "quiet" areas of the home, they don't distract from traditional decorations.

Rod

Re: What Did Jesus Teach? (a UB study aid)

There are now 8 scroll designs
(for the 8 points of a circle upon which rests the circle's square)

Rod ... ...

Re: What Did Jesus Teach? (a UB study aid)

for the 8 points of a circle upon which rests the circle's square

... such as "simplified" here: http://aitnaru.org/images/Quinale!.pdf

Rod

Re: https://www.foxnews.com/science/charles ... d-on-earth

"Darwin is credited with the idea that life on Earth evolved in shallow pools of water. Now, a new study suggests that instead of life originating in a 'warm little pond,' it may have come from deep-sea hydrothermal vents — an idea that could hold significance for extraterrestrial life."

However, the 75 years post-Darwin UB maintains his idea:

"Man thus evolved from the higher mammals derived principally from the western implantation of life in the ancient east-west sheltered seas. The eastern and central groups of living organisms were early progressing favorably toward the attainment of prehuman levels of animal existence... the eastern focus of life emplacement failed to attain a satisfactory level of intelligent prehuman status" (65:2.13)

"All planetary life ... had its origin in our three original, identical, and simultaneous marine-life implantations. These three life implantations have been designated as: central or Eurasian-African, eastern or Australasian, and western, embracing Greenland and the Americas." (58:4.2)

"We had planted the primitive form of marine life in the sheltered tropic bays of the central seas of the east-west cleavage of the breaking-up continental land mass. Our purpose in making three marine-life implantations was to insure that each great land mass would carry this life with it, in its warm-water seas, as the land subsequently separated." (58:4.4)

See also:
Paper 65 - The Overcontrol of Evolution
2. The Evolutionary Panorama
http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P065_2_13
Paper 58 - Life Establishment on Urantia
4. The Life-Dawn Era
http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P058_4_2

Rod

Re: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bipe ... -1.4637336

"Unlike humans, though, Danuvius had a powerful, opposable big toe that would have
allowed it to grab branches with its foot and safely walk through the treetops."

From the UB ...

"A little more than one million years ago the Mesopotamian dawn mammals, the direct descendants of the North American lemur type of placental mammal, suddenly appeared. They were active little creatures, almost three feet tall; and while they did not habitually walk on their hind legs, they could easily stand erect. They were hairy and agile and chattered in monkeylike fashion, but unlike the simian tribes, they were flesh eaters. They had a primitive opposable thumb as well as a highly useful grasping big toe. From this point onward the prehuman species successively developed the opposable thumb while they progressively lost the grasping power of the great toe. The later ape tribes retained the grasping big toe but never developed the human type of thumb." (62:2.1)

Evidence that humans are not related to Danuvius apes.


Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... umans.html

"Have they finally found the REAL missing link? ... The remains were unearthed in the mountainous region of Allgäu in Germany ... Danuvius guggenmosi was broad chested and lived around 12 million years ago ... Standing at around three-and-a-half feet the ape had a unique walking style ... It would have both swing from tree limbs and walked on its human-like feet"

From the UB ...

"Although the evolution of vegetable life can be traced into animal life, and though there have been found graduated series of plants and animals which progressively lead up from the most simple to the most complex and advanced organisms, you will not be able to find such connecting links between the great divisions of the animal kingdom nor between the highest of the prehuman animal types and the dawn men of the human races. These so-called 'missing links' will forever remain missing, for the simple reason that they never existed." (58:6.2)

See also: http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P062_2 ,
http://www.theub.org/part-iii.html#P058_6


Rod

Re: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w- ... nce-spirit

"In his new book and in the periodical he founded, La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, a long-time friend of Pope Francis and frequent papal interviewer, claims that the Pope told him that Jesus Christ did not rise bodily from the dead but 'in the semblance of a spirit.'"

However, the UB supports the Pope's belief of Jesus' "spirit" form, first witnessed by Mary Magdalene:

"As Mary sought to embrace his feet, Jesus said: 'Touch me not, Mary, for I am not as you knew me in the flesh. In this form will I tarry with you for a season before I ascend to the Father.'" (189:4.12)

"They were having their evening meal a little after six o’clock, with Peter sitting on one side of Thomas and Nathaniel on the other, when the doubting apostle said: 'I will not believe unless I see the Master with my own eyes and put my finger in the mark of the nails.' As they thus sat at supper, and while the doors were securely shut and barred, the morontia Master suddenly appeared inside the curvature of the table and, standing directly in front of Thomas" (191:5.2)

"When the Master had so spoken, he looked down into the face of Thomas and said: 'And you, Thomas, who said you would not believe unless you could see me and put your finger in the nail marks of my hands, have now beheld me and heard my words; and though you see no nail marks on my hands, since I am raised in the form that you also shall have when you depart from this world'" (191:5.4)

See also: Jesus’ morontia appearances:

Paper 189 - The Resurrection
http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#P189_0
Paper 190 - Morontia Appearances of Jesus
http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#P190_0
Paper 191 - Appearances to the Apostles and Other Leaders
http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#P191_0
Paper 192 - Appearances in Galilee
http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#P192_0
Paper 193 - Final Appearances and Ascension
http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#P193_0

Rod

Re: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-franc ... 1573839966

Interesting contrast (Jesus, incarnated Creator Son of our universe, chose not to discourse on these teachings of the Church ...
and would still remain aloof from non-spiritual matters):

"Jesus offered no rules for social advancement; his was a religious mission, and religion is an exclusively individual experience.
The ultimate goal of society’s most advanced achievement can never hope to transcend Jesus’ brotherhood of men based on
the recognition of the fatherhood of God." (196:2.11)

"if Jesus were on earth today, living his life in the flesh, he would be a great disappointment to the majority of good men and women
for the simple reason that he would not take sides in present-day political, social, or economic disputes. He would remain grandly aloof
while teaching you how to perfect your inner spiritual life so as to render you manyfold more competent to attack the solution
of your purely human problems." (140:8.17)

See also:
http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#P196_2_11
http://www.theub.org/part-iv.html#P140_8_17

Rod

Jesus' ABC challenge ...

For WDJT (What Did Jesus Teach?),
change ending lettter to each of the ABCs,
then create a word from that letter:

WDJA ... Ask?
WDJB ... Believe?
WDJC ... Cast?

Tips: Most letters create many usable words.
Displays one's knowledge of Jesus' life and teachings.
Stimulating activity for all age groups!

Rod

A comprehensive glossary of the Teaching Mission ...
http://www.tmarchives.com/glossary.php#A

Save as "TM Archives Glossary" (Web Page, HTML) for future offline viewing.
Items referencing UB Papers are consistent with substance of that text;
other items (contact personalities, terms, etc.) are WYSIWYG.

Another interesting publication ...
http://ubhistory.org/Documents/HB196604 ... llC_07.pdf
"Plan For The Urantia Book Revelation", by Carolyn Kendall, April 1996

"You who dedicate your lives to the service of the Book and the Brotherhood can little realize the import of your doings.
You will doubtless live and die without fully realizing that you are participating in the birth of a new age of religion on this world."
[note: "new age of religion" - not "new religion"]

Rod

Rod,

Thank you for all these helpful URL's and messages.

About the Urantia Book Study Group Directory ...

"This webinar will be a live and interacting training class about how to use The Urantia Book Study Group Directory,
https://www.urantiastudygroup.org/, encouraging readers to use it. ... a joint project of Urantia Foundation,
Urantia Association International, and Urantia Book Fellowship."

"Webinar will be held on Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. EDT (US and Canada) –
10:00 a.m. in Los Angeles, 11:00 a.m. in Arizona, 12:00 p.m. Central Time in USA, 12:00 p.m. in México,
1:00 p.m. in Bogotá and Lima, 3:00 p.m. in Argentina and Uruguay, 6:00 p.m. in UK and Ireland,
and 7:00 p.m. in Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Vienna."

Rod

Cuppa Four Talents

To celebrate the successful marketing of the company's new life raft, management fêted the employees most responsible for the success with a celebratory picnic on one of the rafts as it crossed a large nearby lake, gently propelled by a fortuitous breeze on a sunny day. After casually dining upon the picnic's delectable delights, the four settled back to enjoy their just desserts with a cuppa joe from the picnic hot pot.

The engineer boasted of his suggestion that the fabric's seams be both stitched and glued. The draftsman was proud of his design rendering that was so easy to understand, thus decreasing raft assembly time. The project manager remarked that her expertise with PERT charts kept the project moving forward quickly despite several setbacks. And the materials buyer reminded that his early anticipation of the project's needs provided timely and sufficient materials for speedy assembly of many quality rafts.

Suddenly, in the middle of the lake, the raft snagged on a sharp object floating across its path! They all panicked! "What can we do about this leak lest we be humiliated by failing to pilot this premier new product across a calm lake for celebration of our company's 'maiden voyage'?!"

One by one, they began bailing water with their coffee cup, while trying to engineer, design, manage, and procure a solution. And one by one they realized that, with their combined - previously unknown - talents, the raft remained afloat and did indeed arrive for grand celebration of the symbolic voyage (secretly attended by the local press and town's dignitaries).

Later, upon hearing the details of this crisis-quietly-circumvented and the secret attendance, the company immediately and publicly announced the formal name of its premier product: "Vindication" (which explains the subsequent Vistaprint order for four employee coffee cups, boldly decorated with "Vindication" ; - )

P.S. What was the solution to keeping the raft afloat Bailing ... or something else

Rod

Thanks Rod. Good one!

Would you like for me to delete the first post and eliminate the first sentence of the second or leave it as is. I am good either way. It's your call my friend.

XXSandy

Yes, Sandy, the first post can be deleted.

I intended to comment that the value of our talents was relative to our opportunities
and that we had many talents with many still unknown ... but then I got "mired"
in creating an entertaining tale and forgot to include these points.

By the way, I really got "mired" when deciding how many employees
should be on the raft, at first recalling "butcher, baker, candlestick maker"
(re: "Rub-a-Dub-Dub. Three Men in a Tub") then settled on one more:
Rub-a-Dub management ... a female.

The life raft was large enough for a Rub-a-Dub attorney ...
but then the nautical tale would have gotten a bit controversial
since any solution would require legal commentary.

Rod

Hi Rod,
As you know now, I deleted the first post.
...and I am still chucking at your last post... I do love your sense of humour.
thank you for the smiles this evening.

xxSandy