Posts by Village Idiot

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CO kept mispronouncing "debt"

by Red Piller in

so, this happened a while ago - but i never posted on it.

during a co visit, he gave a talk relating to jesus ransom (i think) and the "debt" that was owed by sin, etc.... he kept saying "debt" and he kept pronouncing the "b".

so it sounded like "deb-t".

Village Idiot

"Aluminium -> Aluminum (sounds to us like the person is having a stoke while trying to say Aluminium)"

Aluminum has two different spellings and pronunciations. For example: http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=aluminum (audio).

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BART EHRMAN answers my question

by TerryWalstrom in

as a member on bart ehrman's blog, i am able to ask him direct questions.is jehovah in the bible?.

question:.

how firmly grounded in reality is the claim of jehovahs witnesses that the divine name (jehovah) belongs in the new testament?.

@ Perry:

Bart Ehrman is a tragic figure, and a heretic.

"Ehrman rejects the deity, sinlessness, miracles, and bodily resurrection of Jesus. He believes that the Christian faith is a myth and that at least 19 of the books in the New Testament are forgeries"

There are plenty of Atheist, Agnostic and non Judeo-Christian scholars with a deep interest and understanding of the Bible. Those who study mythology don't have to believe in the myths. Your calling them "heretic" is no different than the Watchtower calling us apostates.

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Do you know any books written by Jehovah's Witnesses?

by paradisebeauty in

jw
friends

i found once a list on the internet on novels about the new world written by jehovah's witnesses.

don't seam to find it anymore.

does any of you happen to know any novels about the new world?

Village Idiot

moggy lover, I read Visions of Glory quite a while ago. Excellent book.

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Do you know any books written by Jehovah's Witnesses?

by paradisebeauty in

jw
friends

i found once a list on the internet on novels about the new world written by jehovah's witnesses.

don't seam to find it anymore.

does any of you happen to know any novels about the new world?

Village Idiot

OUTLAW: "Most JW`s can`t "GIVE" that Crap Away.."

You can give them to me.

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Please help me figure out my dreams

by Socrateswannabe in

jw
friends

hi everyone, this may be the stupidest post ever.

i am stumped for an answer and would love to hear your opinions, though.

every week or two for the last couple of years, i have a dream--or at least that's what i'm calling it--that consists of me waking up or thinking that i've waked up, and seeing the ceiling of my darkened bedroom filled with algebraic equations.

Village Idiot

Ucantnome, you may want to check this out.

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PIÑATAS

by Lifeisfun in

jw
friends

in most of latin america, and particularly in mexico, pinatas are a no no for jws.

normally used for kids birthdays and christmas parties, pinatas are simply known to be inapropiate among jws and associated with paganism.

as result you would never expect to see any of those spiritually dangerous monsters at a social gathering organized by a witness in good, medium, or even bad standing in the congregation because, why would you?!

Village Idiot

"Pagan" is a bugaboo word that refers to any and all religions that are not Jewish or Christian. Christianity had no traditions except for communion and thus you can expect that anything other than that would have been labeled as non-Christian, hence pagan.

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Please help me figure out my dreams

by Socrateswannabe in

jw
friends

hi everyone, this may be the stupidest post ever.

i am stumped for an answer and would love to hear your opinions, though.

every week or two for the last couple of years, i have a dream--or at least that's what i'm calling it--that consists of me waking up or thinking that i've waked up, and seeing the ceiling of my darkened bedroom filled with algebraic equations.

Village Idiot

Ucantnome: "I declined as I knew it wasn't real and felt I shouldn't. had a little difficulty getting back."

If you ever have that dream again don't decline. How "real' the dream is is not relevant it's the meaning that counts. That's your subconscious trying to tell you something.

If you were in a single bed it implies that you weren't sleeping with your wife. Her calling out to you might have something to do with that.

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Is disfellowshipping as popular as it was years ago?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i seldom hear of people getting df'd anymore.

years ago it seemed there were a few per year in a congregation.

Village Idiot

I remember hearing way long ago that teenagers accounted for half of all disfellowshippings. It was explained that they were more sexually active and less experienced at hiding it. Even though there are fewer young ones nowadays there might be more disfellowshippings of older ones for apostasy. What goes on above the waistline is what worries them the most.

I wonder if disfellowshippings are still 1% per year.

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Please help me figure out my dreams

by Socrateswannabe in

jw
friends

hi everyone, this may be the stupidest post ever.

i am stumped for an answer and would love to hear your opinions, though.

every week or two for the last couple of years, i have a dream--or at least that's what i'm calling it--that consists of me waking up or thinking that i've waked up, and seeing the ceiling of my darkened bedroom filled with algebraic equations.

Village Idiot

You might be a lucid dreamer. Don't worry about the contents or meaning of the dreams just the intensity. Maybe it's your mind telling you that you should go back to school.

You may want to try this product and take your experiences further.

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List of questions given to the Moody Bible Institute by the Watchtower Society

by Esse quam videri in

i am curious about a list of questions the wt society sent to the moody bible institute.

i may not have all the facts correct.

blame my failing memory.

Village Idiot

Don't quite know what the story is here but one thing's for sure, those are not the type of questions that the Watchtower would ask or even dwell upon. Too many angels on the head of a pin type of questions that only a theologian with different beliefs than the Watchtower would ask.