Posts by Little Drummer Boy

I don't know why you do it, but some of us just aren't a-holes and are nice because being nice makes us feel good and makes others feel good, and it isn't about some future reward. Not trying to say you're an a-hole - that the was in reference to what you were describing at the beginning. As a dub, it was never about the paradise for me. Proper dub "nice" behaviour was not an act for me, it is just who I was. In fact, for the last few years that I was in the borg, I was convinced that I wasn't going to make it through the big A - but that didn't change my personality. One of the reasons that I left the borg is because of the falseness that I began to see in many other people.

Don't know if that made sense (I'm now on my second whiskey of the night - bad day today).

LDB

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How do I have everlasting life?

by soulfinder in

here is a scripture that explains just that.. john 5:39-40.

39you are searching the scriptures, because you think that by means of them you will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me.. 40and yet you do not want to come to me that you may have life.. jesus clearly explains that it is not through the scriptures that we have everlasting life.

it is only by going to him..

Little Drummer Boy

And...I now have two reasons to want an ignore poster button. (I'm sure you do to) Thanks Acadian. Sanctimonius bastards. Yeah, it's the whiskey talking, but I've had a bad day and zero patience at the moment for the whole "Jeeeeheeesuuuuss" talks to me crap.

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Belief Poll : Please Indulge Me

by Morocco in

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friends

just sort of curious about this, i know it has probably been done a gazillion times but let me do it again.

1.do you believe in a personal god who takes interest in you as an individual?

2.do you believe that the bible was written by god?

Little Drummer Boy

1.Do you believe in a personal God who takes interest in you as an individual?

NO!

2.Do you believe that the Bible was written by God?

NO!

3.Do you believe the Bible is error free and is always harmonious?

NO!

4.Why do you believe these things?

I decided to start using my brain a few years back.

OK, OK, that was harsh...but true.

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Anyone here ever play a wargames ?

by 5go in

i am trying to get in with some guy on a diffrent forum that play wargames with 1/144 model and micromachines.. if you have in the past how does it work ?.

by the way got any military micro machines in your closet ?.

Little Drummer Boy

I can't really help you, but before I was a dub I was big time into pnp rpgs. AD&D, Twighlight 2000, etc. Lots of fun back then. I refereed (the generic non-D&D name for a Dungeon Master) games at a few conventions and had a good time with that. Thanks for brining up the good memory!

Thanks for brining up the good memory!

Oops, that's suppossed to say "bringing". Can't imagine how I would brine a memory. Must be the whiskey I'm drinking.

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Homeopathy popular in Jehovah's Witnesses ?

by Tigerman in

is homeopathy ( the treatment of a disease using, in small doses, drugs that produce symtoms like those of the disease so that one's natural immune system can fight off the disease ) popular among active jw's ?

my son who was raised as a jw has a large ( adult male palm size ) fatty growth on his back.

his jw mother is treating him with homeopathy, as is a so called doctor.

Little Drummer Boy

A couple of thoughts...

My wife and I were treated for a few years by a sister who did the homeopathic thing. This is how the "medicines", herbs, drugs, or whatever you want to call them were described:

sass_my_frass: in that description, "small doses" hardly covers it. More like, "doses so small no amount of the original substance could possibly be in the preparation."

But we didn't just take the little drops of horrible tasting stuff she perscribed. She had this machine that we would get hooked up to. She would have a person hold a brass looking cylinder wired to a machine, and then she would poke you in different spots with another brass looking thing which was also wired to the machine. I think the idea was to push on the same spots that are used in accupuncture. Depending on the reading that showed up on the machine, she would suppossedly know what organ or body system was "inflamed", thereby needing a cure. The machine would make this weird beeping/buzzing noise when she would apply her "poker" doohickey (therebye completeing the electrical circuit). Interestingly, the harder she pushed that doohickey into you, the worse off you were (it would change the reading on the machine - I can only imagine because of better electrical contact) - you would need a higher dose of her expensive mediine then. I didn't figure that out for awhile. I don't know if any of you know what that method or machine thing was called, but I think it was from Europe. I would be curious to remember what it was called. BTW, none of the expensive stuff she sold us ever did squat.

Second thought:

I seem to be noticing on this thread that chiropractors are being at times mentioned in with alternative therapies (with negative conoctations). I find this interesting since I have never considered them to be so. The chiroprator I started going to a few years back helped me a great deal. He is just a regular doctor type guy with special tables in his exam rooms so you can lay down and he can set the vertebrae back into place. Mine go out of adjustment because of a car wreck I had when I was a kid. Nothing weird or quacky about my doctor at all. Just a guy who knows a whole lot about how a spine should look when it is in alignment. I just go there a few times a year when things pop out of place and he just gives a few shoves in the right spots and I'm right as rain. Why do some here consider that quackery? Just wondering.

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I Am An Atheist

by Abandoned in

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friends

wow!

i am currently enjoying richard dawkins the god delusion.

i was reading chapter one and going, "yeah, yeah!

Little Drummer Boy

Count me in. Good author, that Dawkins. Blind Watchmaker is nice. Working on God Delusion at the moment. I got it for Christmas - which strikes me as quite amusing.

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Jesus is the judge

by soulfinder in

here is a scripture showing the position that jesus holds, and is a good reason to honor him.. honor the father and the sonjohn 5:16-23 .

16 for this reason the jews persecuted jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

17 but jesus answered them, my father has been working until now, and i have been working.

Little Drummer Boy

Jesus is the judge

No, Judy is the judge (don't know if only people from the U.S. will get that).

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How do I have everlasting life?

by soulfinder in

here is a scripture that explains just that.. john 5:39-40.

39you are searching the scriptures, because you think that by means of them you will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me.. 40and yet you do not want to come to me that you may have life.. jesus clearly explains that it is not through the scriptures that we have everlasting life.

it is only by going to him..

Little Drummer Boy

Little Drummer Boy:
The voices you suffered from may have been an unclean spirit or a demon.
As far as giving myself the credit, I have to walk with the Lord, and yes there is some responsibility, but He definately carried me through a lot.
As far as being part of a bad organization, did you know that you don't have to join a church to know Jesus? I think that maybe you are putting on Him the pain they caused you, and I would highly reccomend just going to the Lord by yourself. You don't have to join a church, do any work, or even read a bible. Please don't judge God based upon any organization, or anything that other people have done to you, because the blame for those actions reside on the people who did them, not on the Lord Himself.

No, they weren't demunz in my head, they were a chemical imbalance that was fixed very nicely with medication. As far as the joining a bad organization blah, blah, blah throw away comment you made, if you actually read what I wrote, you would see that the search for Jesus came before the borg joining. Got it now? And oh holy crap, what the hell was I thinking, dip me in butter and call me Sally, gee golly dang, it sure looks like I fed a forum troll with my first post. So...I'm out of this one.