Village Idiot

Joined

• started 37 topics
• posted 4,529 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Village Idiot

• 
  24

  St John's wort

  by wannaexit in

  1. social
  2. physical

  st john's wort is accepted by the medical literature for use in mild to moderate depression.

  .

  if anybody is using it could you share your experiences with it?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  I used it once but couldn't tell the difference. Are you using a tincture or a capsule?
• 
  13

  The god of the bible doesn't care and here's some proof.

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  around 600 ad a man named muhammed created a book called the quran.

  a few hundred years later the followers of this new religion called islam went on a holy crusade out of arabia to spread their religion.

  in one key battle they were met by the ruling government army and were out numbered at least by 3 to 1. they could of easily lost and if god would of made sure of this most likely thier religion would of stayed an insagnificant religion of just arabia.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  Crazyguy: "2 billion plus people are Muslims and view Jesus as just a minor prophet and not their messiah"

  Not quite a minor prophet. Muslims believe that God sent out three great prophets. They were Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. Of course they believe that Mohammed supersedes the first two but Jesus role is not quite a minor one. They actually believe Jesus will return to Earth in the last days and join hands with a Muslim messiah by the name of Mahdi to defeat an evil anti-Christ like person.

   
• 
  11

  Do you like my new profile picture??

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i made it myself, although i am not very good at computerizin'.. i thought would try to encapsulate many subjects at once, after all, " a picture is worth a thousand words.

  if anyone knows of a good meme site that will let me make it better, please let me know.

  none of the sites i visited would let me rotate the words properly.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  The monolith in Arthur Clark's movie 2001 was sent to 'reengineer' humanity's ancestors so they could ultimately evolve into a space traveling race. There were several monoliths.

  The first one induced the propensity to use tools. After such an ability came about it fast forwards to the future where humanity has a space station and the ability to easily travel to the moon. That's where a second, larger monolith is discovered. 

  When the lunar monolith is discovered it sends a message to the planet Jupiter as an apparent bait for further space exploration. Inevitably a spaceship is sent to Jupiter (Saturn in the book) to investigate.

  David Bowman is the astronaut on the ship who makes contact (after being temporarily sidetracked by a psychotic computer) with a third and largest monolith. That monolith is a space portal that sends Bowman to another location in the galaxy.

  The last part of the movie is semi-metaphoric but it has Bowman in custody, well taken care of in a hotel like environment, for the rest of his life until he's just about to die. That's when a small monolith appears in front of his deathbed and sends him back to Earth reborn as an infant god. 

  It comes down to this. An extraterrestrial race wanted humanity to evolve further so that they could be gods.

  Not quite like anything the Bitchtower does.
• 
  6

  Have there been any existing cultural group made up of rationalists with neither a religion or a mythology?

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  disbelief is the default position, no one is born having a belief.

  beliefs are.

  acquired through culture and education, we all know that.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  "Pygmy tribes found in Africa have no identifiable cults or rites."

  Yes they do. The Bwiti tribe has initiation rites where they use psychedelic herbs to receive messages from their dead ancestors (spirits). This was before they started adopting Christian beliefs.
• 
  16

  Really don't feel like a JW anymore

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it has been a good 8 years away from my area, a good 10 years + since i was regularly at meetings.

  a good 12 years since i was hesitantly active.. it is a slow process but it does happen.

  i now feel no connection to the belief system beyond memories.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  I don't miss the anxiety attacks I used to have when out in field service.
• 
  23

  The Bible's approval of slavery (including Jesus)

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how can there possibly be a reason for this?

  smh.

  i can't imagine how this is excusable..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  Vidqun: "Secondly, if Christianity opposed the slave trade during the Roman period, they would have been wiped out."

  Christianity did not have to confront Rome to abolish slavery within its ranks. All Christians had to do was to require all potential converts who held slaves to liberate them as a precondition to becoming a Christian.

  "We live in a different epoch. Firstly, Jesus was not a social reformer, but a religious reformer..." 

  Jesus' attitude concerning slavery can be seen in many of his parables where he often uses the metaphor of slavery in an approving manner.
• 
  15

  No Black or woman became Pope or WT President—reveals what?

  by abiather in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sending a messenger nearly 2000 years in advance to preach the coming of gods kingdom, and leaving the message to be carried out by his followers who would practice just the opposite of his message [eg.

  catholics cannot accept a pope if he is from a black community or if sex is female, just like jws could not tolerate a black/woman wt president, which is in sharp contrast to what jesus himself practicedhe showed no partiality with regard to sex or communityhe elevated a samaritan woman sharing with her great truth, even before he did it with his own male-disciplesjohn chapter 4].

  claiming something as his own, and then allowing it to decay do not befit gods superlative style!.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  Simon: "Have we had a Chinese or Eskimo pope yet either?"

  In all fairness to the Catholic Church there aren't too many Chinese or Eskimo Catholics.
• 
  23

  The Bible's approval of slavery (including Jesus)

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how can there possibly be a reason for this?

  smh.

  i can't imagine how this is excusable..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  A list of scriptures on the subject:

  How the former slaves of Israel treated their own slaves:

  Non-Israelites could be taken as slaves for life and their children be passed of as inheritance: Leviticus 25:44-46 compare to Leviticus 19:33-34 where it says the exact opposite. 

  A Hebrew slave was obligated for only six years of slavery but had to leave behind the wife his master gave him along with his children: Exodus 21:2-6.

  A master was allowed to savagely beat his slave so long as he or she did not die within a day or two: Exodus 21:20-21 compare to Exodus 2:11-12.

  If a slave had an eye blinded by his master he was to be set free but his master was not blinded in punishment according to the rule of an ‘eye for an eye’ that applied to other people guilty of the same crime: Exodus 21:26-27 compare to Leviticus 24:19-21.

  Christian view on slavery: 1 Peter 2:18-20.
  
• 
  11

  What if "IT" was all just a dream?

  by titch in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i'm not really sure as to what category that i should put this into, so i'll just try, and put it here.

  this is based upon a posting that i saw and read on facebook recently.

  and, the question is: what if life---as you know it---was just one big dream?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  Since when do dreams last a lifetime? And a coherent one? Also, at what age do you wake up?

  That aside I wish it were true because I would have learned more than enough to change my life to the better.
• 
  94

  New JW video, song and dance

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the current jws do not cease to amaze.

  here's their latest video on youtube and straight from bethel.. there is a lot of work involved in this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwou6e5vwbo .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Village Idiot

  I doubt this video was made for 'family night' at Bethel. It's too much effort for just a limited audience but I do believe it was made for the Witnesses in general and not the public.