Posts by Village Idiot

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Like and Dislike buttons

by KateWild in

i have been visiting and commenting on jwn on my phone and have had a lot of success.

the only thing is a couple of times i have hit the like or dislike button and can undo it.. simon could you add a way to help us uncheck a mistake..... i am not too concerned about the like button as much a the dislike....i wouldn't want to discourage any posters .

kate xx .

Village Idiot

On a different subject, is it possible to have a view count on the thread?

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Watershed moment???

by sparrowdown in

will this rc turn out to be the beginnings of a watershed time in wbts history?.

do you have any thoughts regarding this?.

Village Idiot

"Will this RC turn out to be the beginnings of a watershed time in WBTS history?"

It will have an impact on their secret history, which is what most of Watchtower history is from the point of view of its members, but I don't think your typical JW will notice too much. There would be some fallout in the US but not in non-English speaking countries.

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The audio recorder days -- remember those 1950s luggable cases?

by FatFreek 2005 in

i don't remember why they met at our new bedford, ma, tenement, a $5 weekly cold water flat.

mom took home some $37 per week and dad was disabled.

there were no food stamps, no ssi.

Village Idiot

kaik: "Also my grandmother had old radio."

Ah yes, I remember that we had a vacuum tube radio. I also remember my teenage cousin showing off her new technology transistor radio.

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Jehovah's Witnesses "Handling Child Abuse Matters" flowchart

by jwleaks in

jw leaks courtesy of the australian royal commission.

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Village Idiot

Tornintwo, can you give us a link directly to the specific PDF where that file can be found? There's a lot of documents one would have to plow through.

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Labeling one self "Atheist" is Unscientific

by LAWHFol in

i have not meet all atheists, and it would be foolish for me to assume that all atheists, share the same prototypical view points.

i am inclined to feel that this classifies the views of a large percentage of atheists.

"atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.

Village Idiot

C0ntr013r:

"We are not debating the existence of God, we are debating if you can be sure of his existence/non existence."

I don't know if this has been brought up before but it would be helpful to define what type of god we are talking about. Is it the Biblical god? Is it a Deist god who only created the universe but left it alone for life to evolve?

You can make absolutely sure that the biblical god either does not exist or if he exists that he is a pathetic writer and tyrant. That would be based on the contradictions and the moral turpitude of the Bible.

The Deist god is harder to "disprove" as he can be considered to be an over glorified scientist in a different universe experimenting with the creation of other universes.

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Labeling one self "Atheist" is Unscientific

by LAWHFol in

i have not meet all atheists, and it would be foolish for me to assume that all atheists, share the same prototypical view points.

i am inclined to feel that this classifies the views of a large percentage of atheists.

"atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.

Village Idiot

freemindfade:
Semantics aside at some point with fallacy and all you have to say, fairies don't make sense. Not only do they not exist (which I cannot prove) it is ridiculous to believe in them

And there are plenty of "intelligent" people who would believe in those ridiculous things. For example, Sir Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes detective series, literally believed in fairies and wrote a book trying to document their existence. That included photographs which were faked by two teenage girls using paper cutouts and photographed themselves with those cut outs. Why did he have such a belief? He was a Theosophist and it was one of their beliefs.

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Jehovah's Witnesses "Handling Child Abuse Matters" flowchart

by jwleaks in

jw leaks courtesy of the australian royal commission.

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Village Idiot

That Royal Commission is fantastic! Thanks jwleaks, you live up to your name.

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The audio recorder days -- remember those 1950s luggable cases?

by FatFreek 2005 in

i don't remember why they met at our new bedford, ma, tenement, a $5 weekly cold water flat.

mom took home some $37 per week and dad was disabled.

there were no food stamps, no ssi.

Village Idiot

My mother had, in the 1960s, one of those spool audio recorders. It was a bit smaller than the one you show. She would tape radio shows of one of her friends.

In the 1970s I had a big, heavy cassette recorder that I would tape convention talks with. I remember having it in my lap in a special talk (1974 - 10,000 JWs in attendance) were Frederick Franz explained how the great tribulation/Armageddon would start within months or years - not decades - of September 1975. I forget what I did with that Cassette but if I still have it it would be a jewel.

I also remember, in the 1960s, seeing IBM computers that were the size of a huge refrigerator that used magnetic tape in spools. A modern day calculator has more capacity than one of those.

My first calculator (Texas Instruments), in the early 1970s, cost a hundred dollars (the equivalent of several hundred dollars in today's money) and could only add, subtract, multiply, divide and do X2.

My mother also had one of those vintage "portable" 1960s typewriters that used ink spools. I still have it.