Posts by Village Idiot

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Condemning Paedophilia Ruled "Un-Islamic" in Pakistan

by cofty in

this is what happens when people take faith seriously....

another move to ban child marriages in pakistan has fallen at the first hurdle.

the bill to prohibit underage marriages has been withdrawn after the council of islamic ideology (cii) declared it un-islamic...and ‘blasphemous’... in may 2014, amid severe criticism from various quarters, the council had endorsed its earlier ruling that girls as young as nine years old were eligible to be married “if the signs of puberty are visible”.....

Village Idiot

"If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out." - Mark 9:43 New International Version

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Do You Remember The First Time You Looked At "Apostate" Material?

by minimus in

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i was always fascinated by it.

as a kid, i used to go to the local library and secretly read books by so called apostates.

later, i would sneak into christian book stores and quickly buy a book or two.

Village Idiot

The first time was right after I got baptized. It was at a district assembly and I was riding on a school bus full of JWs. As we were leaving there was a group of people waving literature and trying to get the bus to stop. The driver stopped out of curiosity to see what they were doing. I reached out through the window of the bus as the group was eager to hand me what appeared to be a Watchtower. Upon closer look at the look alike tract I saw that the title was "Not the Watchtower". It was full of quotations from the real Watchtower heavily underlined to emphasize the point. I didn't really read it but it was my first experience with anti-cult evangelicals who used to go to our assemblies.

The passengers quickly figured out that it was apostate material and were excitedly urging me not to read it.

Sometime years later I went to a 'Christian' bookstore and bought William Schnell's 30 Years a Watchtower Slave. I remember being so afraid of it that I ripped off the front covers and hid it even though I was living with my mother who was not a JW. I wasn't too impressed by that book but it was my first careful look inside of the "opposition".

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Sign Of The Times by Carl Jonsson - Want to Borrow

by AnonVet in

i have read both of franz' books and am almost done carl jonsson's first book.

i was able to get this material as .pdf and read for free.. i hate to sound cheap, but i cannot find the sign of the times in .pdf.. does anybody have a link to it?

or can i borrow your copy and mail it back when done?.

Village Idiot

Welcome to the forum Anon.

I don't know about Sign of the Times but Carl Olof Jonson's book The Gentile Times Reconsidered is an excellent book on the subject and is available in pdf here.

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John Kerry brands ISIS as Apostates.

by nicolaou in

speaking in rome two days ago kerry said;.

“daesh is in fact nothing more than a mixture of killers, of kidnappers, of criminals, of thugs, of adventurers, of smugglers and thieves,” he declared using the arabic acronym for the isis group.. “and they are also above all apostates, people who have hijacked a great religion and lie about its real meaning and lie about its purpose and deceive people in order to fight for their purposes.”.

source.. it seems like religious folk, irrespective of denomination, can only ever conceive of apostasy as a negative thing.

Village Idiot

Like Phizzy I think John Kerry is simply trying to rile them up. That could be seen by his using the term Daesh which Isis detests.

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The slow trickle has become a steady stream!

by freddo in

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in the last few weeks it seems that instead of one or two new posters a week we seem to be getting several every day.

many seem to be long time jw's who are troubled by the path of the organisation.

this is really encouraging to those of us who have been here sometime.. welcome!

Village Idiot

sowhatnow: "we all want to know how many new people are coming on."

You can go to the forum's users page up above and see how many new ones there are. As of this moment there are 10 newbies that have signed up since yesterday.

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It's not "new light" anymore it's "new lies" .

by truth doubter in

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this is my first post.

i never dreamed i'd be on a site like this.

i was baptized 43 years ago and pretty much have done and seen it all.

Village Idiot

Welcome to the forum truth doubter.

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Finding the value of God; Isn't it better to believe in a deity?

by Caupon in

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the question as to what believing in this entity called god entails is a fairly important question that needs to be answered first.

to me, the key difference between a universe in which god exists versus one where god doesn't lies in the idea of teleology.

in my view, a universe with god entails some sort of process towards an end, an end which can be characterized with words such as bliss and unity and others.

Village Idiot

Perhaps I ought to start contemplating the idea of God as a chaotic magician.

That is close to the Deist concept that god created the universe and left it to work it's way up. You might conceive of 'god' as a cosmic scientist living in a multiverse who's inventing universes just for the heck of it to see what happens.

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It's Too Late to Return to Jehovah!

by naazira in

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yes friends it is too late for most of you to return to jehovah's org.

based on the new garlic bread parable in this month's broadcast with the illustration using loaves of bread.

it is obvious that the doors of the arc has been closed shut by jehovah's hand for some of us.. according to the new parable that can be found on jw tv.

Village Idiot

What about those who like garlic bread?

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Evolution is a Fact #16 - Aquatic Mammals

by cofty in

having spent at least 20 million years acquiring the machinery to survive on dry land and hundreds of millions more diversifying and exploiting every conceivable niche, a number of landlubbers made their way back to the sea.. among these were pond snails, water spiders, water beetles, crocodiles, otters, sea snakes, water shrews, galapagos flightless cormorants, marine iguanas, penguins and turtles.

of course the most impressive example of all are the whales and their little cousins the dolphins.

these have gone all the way back to an aquatic existence as have dugongs and their close cousins the manatees jointly known as the sirenians, they don’t even come ashore to breed.