Posts by Village Idiot

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Christian self-righteousness

by fulltimestudent in

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doesn't matter what brand of christianity - this cartoon says it all:.

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Village Idiot

Good cartoon. You can fill in just about any other religion like Buddhism or Hindu or even *gasp* Jehovah's Witnesses.

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I admit it, I believe in evolution.

by Louise in

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after leaving the dub religion behind, i read everything that i could get my hands on, be it about other religions, beliefs, gods, occult, evolution - you name it - i read it.

i did this to 'catch up' and to educate myself, so that when i can to a decision it would be an intellectual / educational one.

not just because some book or person told me to believe it.. i have over time and with reading aids come to totally believe and accept evolution.

Indiana "Religious Freedom" (right to discriminate)

by Simon in

sickening to see the photo of the religious zealots all stood around the governor signing into law the right for people to discriminate against others (gay, lesbian, trans-gender) based purely on religious dogma.. if religious people want those freedoms then the can't have it both ways - they cannot complain if *they* are discriminated against.. "sorry, we don't like zionists, get out".

"oh, it's some special mass and you can't work your shift?

you're fired!"..

Village Idiot

EndofMysteries,

"...initially the 'activists' were going for equal rights, not trying to force anybody or shove things down throat, peacefully and decently winning over support. Then suddenly laws start getting changed and they start getting more rights."

Their aggressiveness is the result of decades worth of resentment at how they've been treated in the past.

"Tons of people and businesses who'll love getting tons of extra business from others turning down gay clients."

That's not likely to happen in a small one store town.

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Indiana "Religious Freedom" (right to discriminate)

by Simon in

sickening to see the photo of the religious zealots all stood around the governor signing into law the right for people to discriminate against others (gay, lesbian, trans-gender) based purely on religious dogma.. if religious people want those freedoms then the can't have it both ways - they cannot complain if *they* are discriminated against.. "sorry, we don't like zionists, get out".

"oh, it's some special mass and you can't work your shift?

you're fired!"..

Village Idiot

Cofty,

"Feed the hell out of it. Kids are always embarrassed by their parents. When their parents are shamelessly mocked for being utterly stupid, the kids with figure it out. Homophobic bigotry will drop by magnitudes in a single generation."

Disagree. The culture in which those kids are raised in reinforces/normalizes such thought and behavior in school and elsewhere. They're not going to be embarrassed by their parents unless perhaps they're living in a mostly liberal region.

I doubt that homophobia will drop anymore than racism has in the red states.

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In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?

by stuckinarut2 in

what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?

Village Idiot

How the sisters have to wear a veil when teaching in the presence of a brother even if she's thirty years his senior. Yet, if the sisters are simply in the hall they don't have to wear the head covering like the apostle Paul commanded and they can comment even though Paul said that a woman should not be allowed to speak in church.

I remember being in high school when, during lunch break, I walked into a library room where a sister was conducting a study. Upon seeing me she stated that she had to wear a covering. Having no such thing she improvised by pulling her sweater up to her head. Cute.

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Attending memorial tomorrow?

by Ghiagirl in

this is my first year i will not attend memorial.

to be honest if it wasn't for my husband i would probably be going still.

he says what's the point, don't be one of those people who doesn't give a sh** but just shows there face once a year.

Village Idiot

So you'll be not, non-partaking?

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How do you feel about religion as a whole?

by FatherFirst in

it just seems to me religion in general primarily makes truly bad people worse, not genuinly good people better; and in many cases has even made good people do bad things in the name of their religion.

just curious, a personal poll if you will.

what are you guys' current views on religion as a whole?

Village Idiot

@ EndofMysteries,

"500/1000 years ago when much of the world was warring tribes religion is what brought peace."

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

Come now, are we living on the same planet?

Over 1500 years ago - it's referred to as the Dark Ages - Europe was a barbaric feudalistic region with constant warfare amongst them. Throughout that time period we had the holy wars of Constantine; the inquisitions with its victims often times burned at the stake; the Catholic Protestant wars; the Taiping civil war in China and so forth.

In the United States you had the puritans hanging women simply because they belonged to another religion.

It was when Europe became secularized that we had advancement in civilization.

Look at the fruit of Christendom's reigned of terror:

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The Watchtower are Right About Blood...

by cofty in

... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.

it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.

they take pride in obedience.

Village Idiot

Excellent post cofty. I thought of the same thing a while back. That thought led me to some weird conclusions like justifying, from the Bible's point of view, the Maasai cattle herders who occasionally drink the blood of their cattle without killing them.

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Ex-Christians being angry

by Jonathan Drake in

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i know i'm angry.

i was curious if others are too.

i feel completely justified in my anger as well.

Village Idiot

Finkelstein,

"There are Christian based religions that dont break apart families..."

Unfortunately both ends of the 'Christian' spectrum apply and ignore whatever verses are convenient to their personal ego. Fundamentalist Christians in the US despise the poor even if they're one of them and they would not be caught dead following Acts 2:44-45.

Then there are liberal Christians who, regardless of how altruistic and easy going they are, ignore scriptures like:

49 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” - Luke 12:49-53 New International Version

What is a true Christian and where are they?

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TYPES AND ANTITYPES: Transcript of discourse by David Splane at October 2014 Annual Meeting

by Gilgamesh in

while working on a comments for one of the articles in the march 15, 2015 watchtower (on types and antitypes) i decided to make a transcript of the talk that turned into that particular article.

as usual, the article that finally saw print had evolved quite a bit from the original.. anyway, here's the transcript that i also put up on the ad1914.com site.. the 2014 annual meeting program video can be found on tv.jw.org (currently found under programs and events).

the following speech can be found about the 2 hour and 8 minute mark in the video.

Village Idiot

I was barely out of adolescence when I wrote a letter to an elder about my misgivings of some of the doctrines. I mentioned the anti-type issue with a silly poem:

"Typically typical, this type is full of types and even anti-types."

Needless to say they didn't appreciate that. I was df'd for that letter.