Posts by Village Idiot

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"The Tower of sand"

by Doug Mason in

my study on the pillars that create and support the existence of the governing body: "144,000", little flock, great crowd, and other sheep.. http://www.jwstudies.com/the_tower_of_sand.pdf.

doug.

Memorial Question?

by naazira in

jw
friends

over the years, i've come to notice that some of the friends will not touch the plate with the bread or the cup of wine ,when the emblems are being passed around.

i remember a row of 3 people told the brother to skip over them.

every year i have noticed this behavior.

Village Idiot

They're afraid that the plates and the wine glasses might start singing.

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Who knew that Apostasy comes before the Antichrist. 2Thess.2;3

by James Mixon in

is there an apostasy occurring in the world today?

the arrival of the.

antichrist cannot occur until sufficient apostasy has happened in .

Village Idiot

@ James Mixon: "You folks are doing a great job in bring in the Antichrist."

Glad to be of help.

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"Gentile Times"

by zeb in

i am reading again the work.."the gentile times reconsidered" by carl olof jonsson.

it is very heavy going but he uses world sources as used by wt to totally refute the 607 thing.

he sent his studies on this to bethel ny and waited on jehovah.

The book is no longer in print and used copies are on sale on Amazon for ridiculous prices. Is the author Carl O. Jonsson deceased? If he is I wonder how someone would be able to get the printing rights of this book and make it available to the public.

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Russian Court Denounces Jehovah's Witnesses as 'Extremist'-- The Moscow Times Mar. 04 2015

by defender of truth in

"a court in southern russia has denounced a local organization of jehovah's witnesses as "extremist" and ordered it disbanded, the interfax news agency reported wednesday, in the latest in a long line of such rulings issued to the religious group in russia.. the group's building and surrounding land will be confiscated by the local government in the town of abinsk, krasnodar region, the court ruled.the group had been distributing publications titled "humanity in search of god" and "what does the bible really teach?

" that were included in the federal list of extremist materials and are banned for distribution in the country, the news report said.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/news/article/russian-court-denounces-jehovah-s-witnesses-as-extremist/517026.html.

Village Idiot

As much as I despise them I think the Witnesses and any other religion should have freedom of worship in any country.

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Pick your belief system

by Giordano in

i think we've all noticed a ton of newbe's these past months.

one part of escaping or thinking about escaping the jw's is coming to terms with what you believe now and/or what direction you are leaning towards.. here is a site that has a quick quiz that may be of some worth or just for fun.

i took it when i first signed on here and the results surprised me because it was pretty accurate.. you don't have to sign up for anything and when you finish you will get a percentage answer on 20 major belief systems.

Village Idiot

Non Theist/Secular Humanist 100%

Jehovahs Witness 0%

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Jaw Bone of the First Man in Ethiopia Lived.... When?

by Slidin Fast in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31718336.

so this jaw bone of early man has been dated at 2.8 million years old.

that means that given a margin for error and allowing an unknown but short period of time for adam naming the animals the 1000 years starts in ummm, eerrr.

Village Idiot

@ Mandrake: "OR the shape of the mandible were more of a V than a U."

My understanding is that Austrolopithecines had a V shaped jaw which appears to be the case with the image Perry posted. That species, 3 million years ago, had a cranial capacity that averaged 450cc whereas ours is 1100cc.

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Please Focus on the Bible

by terrypike in

hi people, may i firstly thank those who have responded to to my intro article, i am replying to you all as a new topic because the direct messaging is not working for me at the moment so i can clarify my perspective on bible study.

yes there are many arguments that are put forward to demonstrate for example that the bible has been composed of numerous preexisting creation story's ect, my focus is to give the bible the same opportunity to defend itself as anyone reasonably expects if charged with some crime they are not guilty of.. i find for example the account of jesus response when questioned about the divorce certificate 'but it was not so in the beginning' confirms that moses allowed changes to be made to the original, that said consider also the religious traditions moses people had been exposed to, the story of the god enki who seduced even his own grandchildren and the well known incest of the egyptian royalty, given the genetic cost, are such practices any more right now than they were then?

communities that practice close relative marriages today are well documented for there higher risk of numerous health problems so how would you find moses on that basis, guilty or not guilty as jesus did because he understood why moses took the creation story's of other cultures and gave his people there own creation story that taught them to avoid the general pagan practice of incest.before looking any deeper at moses creation story may i also ask the question why does jesus knowing that god promised he would never again destroy the world by a flood as he did in noah's day say 'as in the days of noah ..the flood came and took them all away' so what did jesus actually mean mt 24:.

Village Idiot

Posters, check out this document. It's a short list of Biblical contradictions and moral torpidity.

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Jaw Bone of the First Man in Ethiopia Lived.... When?

by Slidin Fast in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31718336.

so this jaw bone of early man has been dated at 2.8 million years old.

that means that given a margin for error and allowing an unknown but short period of time for adam naming the animals the 1000 years starts in ummm, eerrr.

Village Idiot

@ Perry

And yet science works to give us all the technological marvels because it is a self corrective process. That's what the process of peer review is all about. If all scientists lied all the time nothing scientific would work since it would be based on incorrect information. We would not have all the technological marvels that we have and would find ourselves at a 19th century level of technology if all science were fraud.

The Scientific American article that you quoted refers to "some" scientists.

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Jaw Bone of the First Man in Ethiopia Lived.... When?

by Slidin Fast in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31718336.

so this jaw bone of early man has been dated at 2.8 million years old.

that means that given a margin for error and allowing an unknown but short period of time for adam naming the animals the 1000 years starts in ummm, eerrr.

Village Idiot

@ Perry: "Amazing how these "3 million" year old molars look identical to "modern" molars."

The shape of teeth varies depending on the diet of the species. If they were omnivorous, like we are, those teeth would be similar to ours.