Posts by Village Idiot

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Inspiration, inscripturation

by Doug Mason in

the apostle paul stated at 2 timothy 3:16: all scripture is inspired of god.

the phrase inspired of god translates the compound greek word theopneustos, meaning, literally, god-breathed or breathed by god.

this is the only occurrence of this greek term in the scriptures.

"Thus, theologians have always said that [“inscripturation”] is an action of God (described in II Peter 1:21) which He carried out only in the giving of the original autographs, and it applies neither to copies or translations. This is what Christians have always believed. The Bible says nothing of any “re-inspiration”, a second direct act by God of immediate inspiration, in copies or translations. … A copy, unlike the inscripturated original, can contain errors. … II Peter 1:21 tells us that the Holy Spirit moved holy men to write the Scriptures. It says nothing about copies."

If God's intention was to communicate something to mankind that determined the fate of every individual by torturing him eternally if he doubted his "Word" then he had a moral responsibility to insure that the Bible would remain perfect so as to not stumble us. If he wrote it perfectly he should have kept it perfect making sure that it would not get corrupted to the point where it has become questionable.

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PDF of Advice for Kingdom Publishers (1939)

by MrMonroe in

i'm hoping to obtain a copy of the 1939 booklet advice for kingdom publishers.

it's a 16-page booklet that was written, i understand, to help us publishers as they embarked on the very vigorous witnessing campaigns that were largely aimed at provoking police and governments to take action against them.

i'm particularly interested in what specific advice they were given about creating or avoiding situations likely to result in their arrest.

Village Idiot

Don't know about PDF but there's one on ebay for $18.99 though it's beat up and torn.

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Why isn't demon possession a DF offense?

by rebel8 in

jw
friends

let's review: it's a cult!.

allrighty--got thinking about it in this thread.

isn't it odd that, of all things, that isn't on the list of df offenses?

Village Idiot

Go to the meetings looking like this:

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Just had a former elder friend tell me, “This Overlapping generation is crap.

by John Aquila in

last night i ran into a former elder friend, he is in his late 70s.

he asked how i was doing and i asked how he was doing.

then out of the blue he tells me; .

Village Idiot

They should have just conjured up Genesis 6:3 and stated that the generation was 120 years long ending in 2034. Sure, that would be only 20 years from until it has to be scrapped but the Governing Body members would be dead by then so they may not care.

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Just had a former elder friend tell me, “This Overlapping generation is crap.

by John Aquila in

last night i ran into a former elder friend, he is in his late 70s.

he asked how i was doing and i asked how he was doing.

then out of the blue he tells me; .

Village Idiot

Carla:

"Is there a 'generation history' for dummies posted anywhere? my timeline is all messed up now and can't remember all the changes going way back to present." There are more details to it but the basic 1914 teachings from the beginning of the organization in the 1870s comes out to this:
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century they taught that the last days was a period of time from 1799-1914. Armageddon was a period of time from 1874-1914. It was to be a slow motion social collapse. No apocalyptic wars or earthquakes. The Millennium was to begin on 1914.
When that was falsified by historical reality they started teaching that 1914 was the beginning of the end with the lifespan of a "generation" from 1914 being the limit. At first the 'generation' consisted of adults. Then in the 1980s it was trimmed down to adolescents. Soon after it included children.
In the 1990s they started teaching some incomprehensible idea about a hiatus after 1914.
Now they teach the 'overlapping generations' doctrine.

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Im always afraid

by BlackWolf in

jw
friends

people tell me all sorts of different opinions.

i seem to feel a constant feeling of dread and anxiety.

the possibility of god existing scares me but so does the possibility of him not.

Village Idiot

BlackWolf, keep us informed of what you do.

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Sheep who mate in front of stripey trees will produce stripey offspring

by purrpurr in

genesis 30:37 leaving aside the whole "joseph cheats laham out of his flock" issue.

one passage of scripture that i've missed until now is 30:37 where it says how joseph got all the sheep to be stripey etc ( btw have you ever seen a stripey sheep?

cos i certainly haven't!).

Village Idiot

I knew about that one. It's a clear example of magic and the Bible is supposed to be against magic.

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Im always afraid

by BlackWolf in

jw
friends

people tell me all sorts of different opinions.

i seem to feel a constant feeling of dread and anxiety.

the possibility of god existing scares me but so does the possibility of him not.

Village Idiot

BlackWolf, you've got a PM.

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Im always afraid

by BlackWolf in

jw
friends

people tell me all sorts of different opinions.

i seem to feel a constant feeling of dread and anxiety.

the possibility of god existing scares me but so does the possibility of him not.

Village Idiot

Ask your parents if they can get a therapist for you. If not try some way of getting one. Don't tell your parents about your doubts just the therapist.

Whatever you do, don't sacrifice yourself. That will only give a victory to the Watchtower.

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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future

by DJS in

scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.

by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.

updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..

Village Idiot

kaik: "I bet to differ as well. How did work for Anita Bryant?"

Anita Bryant was an isolated flash in the pan 40 years ago before conservatism evolved into the monstrosity it now is. Kim Davis is the tip of the iceberg of a much, much stronger and vociferous conservative movement that has major political clout.

I come to my conclusions based on the videos that rightwingwatch.org posts daily which downloads videos of Right Wing Christians talking. I've been following the antics and sociopathic talk of the conservative movement on that site and I could tell you it's massive. I've downloaded almost 1,200 videos from those psychos in the past 5 years and over half of them are on the gay issue. It is most of what they talk about dedicating what must be 60% or more of their statements in general. Their psychoses with gay issues outnumbers their statements on abortion, Obama, Muslims, immigration, etc..

It's demonization at the same level as Hitler's scapegoating of the Jews and it could lead to similar consequences in a not too distant future if they were to have full control. Even if that were not to happen their inflammatory rhetoric inspires mentally unstable people to acts of violence.

I suggest that posters here give 10 minutes of their daily time to viewing rightwingwatch.org after 3:00 PM which is when their list is closed for the day. From time to time you'll find calls for imprisonment of gays or outright genocide, claims that gays want to murder and imprison "Christians" (i.e. Fundamentalists). After doing that for a few months you'll get the idea of where I'm coming from.

Never, ever underestimate them.