Posts by Village Idiot

they came back with fruit so large it had to be carried on a branch by 2 men.. from this, dubs believe they are going to have strawberries the size of king king's skull when they get to their own promised land (the new system).

Village Idiot

Giant Canaanites need giant food.

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Jeroboam Vs Man of God

by John Aquila in

jeroboam built high places for calve worship, created his own priests, created his own sacred day of worship, and was just all around a bad man.

1 kings chapter 12.

man of god did not engage in false worship, did not have tons of money, did not have a harem of beautiful women, and did not have the power of a kingdom.

Village Idiot

God, Moses and some firewood:

32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, 34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” 36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 15:32-36 New International Version

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Ties at the Kingdom Hall

by CloseTheDoor in

couple of weeks ago an elder took a young man aside and crawled all over him after the tms for wearing a "skinny" tie.

it was one of those 2 inch wide ties.

nothing bright or scandalous about.

Village Idiot

I was counseled for forgetting my tie when I gave a talk at the theocratic ministry school.

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Atheist Miracles

by Perry in

jw
friends

i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

they keep me from getting bored.

Village Idiot

prologos
IMHO if you daily look at the grand spectacle of existence, AND the more you know about how it all works, the work involved, the more you could at least put a "possible" in the concept of a deist originating worker.

But Perry believes that Deists are going to hell. It isn't so much creationism as it is his brand of it which is that of Christian Fundamentalists.

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Atheist Miracles

by Perry in

jw
friends

i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

they keep me from getting bored.

Village Idiot

redvip2000,
"Isn't it great how history continuously repeats itself? Here we are in 2015, and we are still attributing to magic what we can't yet explain with science."

Here in the United States we are only two election cycles away from rank superstition.

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New on here

by Tony Stark in

hey so i'm new on here.

just wanted to introduce myself.

in my 20's and was rasied one, and very popular among the jw community.

Village Idiot

Tony Stark,

"I still go to meetings so that i am reinstated and can feel normal again, but my beliefs are different now as i've done a lot of research."

I suggest that you don't go back just for the loneliness especially if your beliefs have changed. You'll be living a double life and the friends you make there will not be sincere.

You're young and you have the social skills to make real friends outside of that pathetic religion.

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Apostate views?

by Richard C B in

if a brother is starting to look at material on the internet and starts to have serious doubts about the jw organisation and questions the integrity of the governing body.

what steps would be taken to by the congregation to readjust his thinking.

and also if the congregation is not aware of this but he has confided in an individual how would that individual try to help such a brother?.

Village Idiot

Richard C B,

"If a brother is starting to look at material on the internet and starts to have serious doubts about the JW organisation and questions the integrity of the governing body. What steps would be taken to by the congregation to readjust his thinking."

The congregation in the Jehovah's Witnesses has no power; it is the elders that deal with such matters. They are likely to simply form a judicial committee and interrogate the person as to whether he still believes that the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" is Jehovah's organization.

"And also if the congregation is not aware of this but he has confided in an individual how would that individual try to help such a brother?"

That individual will snitch on him to the elders. Just confiding anything to an individual will be considered causing "divisions" as the apostle Paul mentioned in Romans 16:17. That could easily be a disfelowshipping issue.

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Atheist Miracles

by Perry in

jw
friends

i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

they keep me from getting bored.

Village Idiot

Perry,

"Without a shed of evidence, the multi-verse idea was trotted out as an atheist response to real observable evidence about the uniqueness of our universe."

As I said before it is Cosmologists, irrespective of their religious faith, who are making those statements. You might as well claim that atheists are behind the idea that the earth is 4.5 billion years old when in fact there are Christians who believe that (though you'll claim that they are misled).

And, once more, can you even understand the arguments that proponents of the multi-verse use? Have you ever looked up the other side of this issue in order to see whether or not they do have evidence? All you do is cut and paste things which you yourself cannot understand. In psychology this is called confirmatory bias.