Posts by Village Idiot

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Implications of gay marriage ruling

by Rattigan350 in

while many think that the ruling is good for the gays and their response is: how does that affect your marriage; then on the other side the religious people cry god and sinners.

but both are missing the forest through the trees.. the problem with the ruling is that which is discussed here so many times.

five unelected federal officials decided on policy for the whole country, running roughshod over every democratic principle.

Junction-Guy:

"I only use the King James Bible! but no matter which translation you use, I am sure you will use it out of context."

You've only made your ignorance worse. All you had to do is open up your bible to, Deuteronomy 22:28-29 which says:

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. Deuteronomy 22:28-29 New International Version

There is nothing there that you can't verify on your own so show me how it's out context.

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Implications of gay marriage ruling

by Rattigan350 in

while many think that the ruling is good for the gays and their response is: how does that affect your marriage; then on the other side the religious people cry god and sinners.

but both are missing the forest through the trees.. the problem with the ruling is that which is discussed here so many times.

five unelected federal officials decided on policy for the whole country, running roughshod over every democratic principle.

Junction-Guy:

"Same God! different bible though!" What do you mean by different bible? If it's the translation you're referring to it doesn't make a difference whichever translation you use. You can always go to biblegateway.com and read the same verse in over 50 different English translations.

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Implications of gay marriage ruling

by Rattigan350 in

while many think that the ruling is good for the gays and their response is: how does that affect your marriage; then on the other side the religious people cry god and sinners.

but both are missing the forest through the trees.. the problem with the ruling is that which is discussed here so many times.

five unelected federal officials decided on policy for the whole country, running roughshod over every democratic principle.

Junction-Guy:

"the battle may have been won, but the war will be lost. I would rather be on the wrong side of history, than the wrong side of God."

Is that the god of Deuteronomy 22:28-29? Be consistent instead of picking out which scriptures you want to impose and which you want to ignore.

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Happy birthday to me!

by purrpurr in

it's my birthday!

woweee!

i'm celebrating it too!

Village Idiot

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Arctic Ice Increasing

by Perry in

arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice the last three years.

red shows the september 2012 minimum extent.

green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. the arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.. article.

Village Idiot

And this Perry is what you get when you go to googlescholar.com and look for scientific articles with the phrase "global warming":

[BOOK][B] Possible climatic consequences of a man-made global warming

H Flohn - 1980 - meteo.uni-bonn.de

There is increasing concern about man's impact on climate. Studying this problem one
comes to realize that this influence is not so much felt as a variation of the average values of
global climate, such as temperature and pressure. Of concern is instead a change in the ...

[CITATION][C] Global warming(atmospheric temperature variations in Northern Hemisphere)

MI Budyko, KIA VINNIKOV - Meteorologiia i Gidrologiia, 1976

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[CITATION][C] Estimates of a combined greenhouse effect as background for a climate scenario during global warming

H Flohn - IIASA proceedings series. Environment, 1978 - agris.fao.org

English. Español. Français. العربية. 中文. Русский. agris. About: How it works; AGRIS
centers; For contributors; Acceptable use policy. Feedback: Search help. Translate with
Translator. This translation tool is powered by Google. AGRIS ...

[CITATION][C] Possible climatic consequences of a man-made global warming. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg (Österreich)

H Flohn - 1979 - WP-79–86. XI+ 103 S

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[CITATION][C] Possible climatic consequences of a man-made global warming, 81 (IIASA)

H Flohn - 1980

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[CITATION][C] Possible climatic consequences of a man-made global warming. Intern. Inst. Applied Systems Analysis

H Flohn - 1979 - WP-79-86, XI+ 130 pp

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[CITATION][C] How a global warming could change the geographical future

RB Cathcart - The Futurist, 1980

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[CITATION][C] Possible climatic consequences of a man-made global warming: energy systems analysis

H Flohn - International Conference on Energy Systems Analysis, …, 1979

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Potential Consequences of a Global Warming'

WW Kellogg - Man's Impact on Climate, 1979 - books.google.com

ABSTRACT Starting with the generally accepted conclusion that adding carbon dioxide to
the atmosphere will warm the earth, the time-scale involved in this change depends on how
mankind uses fossil fuel in the future. It is concluded that mean climatic conditions could ...

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Arctic Ice Increasing

by Perry in

arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice the last three years.

red shows the september 2012 minimum extent.

green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. the arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.. article.

Village Idiot

Perry: "Time magazine sums it up for me."

Time magazine is not a scientific journal. The other citations you made are not scientific either. If you want scientific journals you have to go to googlescholar.com and type in "climate change". My favorite citation is:

1975: Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=hAwzMbQc_KcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA135&dq=+%22climate+change%22&ots=rrk9ZJAs7Y&sig=Tb_SQwsN2QYT7rGuBfr393Ua49k

Now for a sampling of scientific articles on the subject of global warming:

1994: What do people know about global climate change? 1. Mental models:

1993: Reflections on the economics of climate change:

1991: Climate change and wildfire in Canada:

1990: Global climate change and US agriculture: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v345/n6272/abs/345219a0.html

1989: The “greenhouse” effect and climate change:

1989: The potential effects of global climate change on the United States: Report to Congress

1988: Response of northern forests to CO2-induced climate change: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v334/n6177/abs/334055a0.html

1987:: Climate change and water resources: http://ks360352.kimsufi.com/redbooks/a168/iahs_168_0421.pdf

1986: The greenhouse effect, climatic change and ecosystems

1984: Response of unmanaged forests to CO2-induced climate change: available information, initial tests and data requirements: http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/5177193

1983: Effects of a Carbon Dioxide-Induced Climatic Change on Water Supplies in the Western United States https://portal.azoah.com/08A-AWS001-DWR/Omnia/19830000%20Revelle%20and%20Waggoner%20Effects%20of%20Climate%20Change%20on%20Water.pdf

1981: Climate change and society: consequences of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide: http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/6622138

1980: On the distribution of climate change resulting from an increase in CO2 content of the atmosphere

1979: Climate change from fossil fuel generated CO2 and energy policy: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0160412079900266

1978: What might man-induced climate change mean?

1977: Carbon Dioxide and Climate: Possibly severe consequences of growing CO 2 release from fossil fuels require a much better understanding of the carbon cycle, climate change, and the resulting and the resulting impacts on the atmosphere

1977: Climate change and the world predicament: A case study for interdisciplinary research:

1975: Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?

1970: Carbon dioxide and its role in climate change

1968: Early and Late Season Snowfalls: Evidence of Climate Change?

1956: The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.tb01206.x/abstract

1920: Science, religion and climate change: http://www.citeulike.org/group/13619/article/7673859

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Jesus foretold corruption of scriptures (rather than apostasy of Christendom)

by iconoclastic in

jws apply the fulfillment of what jesus fold in mathew 13:24-30 in what they call the great apostasy of christendom.

here jesus was speaking in parable, hence application should be made in its essence.

jesus sowed the seed (which means he preached the truth), later when it was compiled, selfish writers sowed weeds (interpolated their own ideas), and it became one book where on cannot distinguish what is good seed and weed.

Village Idiot

There are many interpolated verses in the Bible but scholars always have a reason to back up their assertion that they are interpolated. Do you have a scholarly argument to prove your assertions? Those arguments usually involve finding a manuscript that does not have the scripture in question while another manuscript one does.

It seems that you just want to pick and choose scriptures that you don't want to believe in.

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Need clarification from someone who speaks JW: What is an "apostate" ...or... an "apostate website?"

by Faithful Witness in

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/27/jehovahs-witnesses-destroyed-notes-about-child-sex-abuse-inquiry-told.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/us-australia-religion-sexcrimes-iduskcn0q10ih20150727.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/28/australia-jehovah-witness-sex-abuse-hannigan-lklv.cnn.

Village Idiot

Faithful Witness: "Am I an apostate?"

Of course you are. Anyone who pals around with apostates is one himself.

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What if an entire class of baptismal candidates said "NO"?

by bradford in

question 1 comes and the speaker asks for their response..they all yell no!.

what would happen then?.

Village Idiot

Bradford, are you actually planning to invite a few friends to a baptism and try to pass yourselves off as baptismal candidates?

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Hysterically tragic - the west stuffs up in Syria

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

a former lebanese (christian) terrorist once told me a story (meant to be funny) about west asian politics.. a turtle was swimming past the shoreline of the red sea.

on the shore a scorpion calls out,"hey!

give me a lift over to the other side.

Village Idiot

More tragedy:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-10/russia-s-syrian-air-base-has-u-s-scrambling-for-a-plan