Posts by Mistah MOJO

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The Final Truth?
by Mistah MOJO in
1. watchtower
2. bible
"the final truth is that there is no final truth.

" this statement was contained in a recent email from a close friend who is an existentialist, and by extension a nihilist.

how many here would agree with this?
Mistah MOJO

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Joe Namath did not win the Superbowl in 607BCE, and I can prove it.
by james_woods in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
perhaps some will be completely bewildered by this title.

perhaps many will say - are you crazy, james?

what does it matter?.
Mistah MOJO

"Tis the Tombits wot bloofered the Wignoppers!"

"Och, yer daft ya drunken sod! T'was Willy the Widget wot bloofered the wignoppers! How dya ken otherwise?"

"Why tis right here in yon October issue of the Tower ya damnable drunken ape!"

"What year?"

"Five thousand nine hundred and fifty two! Read it an' weep!"

"Old light."
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Jehovah's Witnesses are not a CULT ...
by Fatfreek in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
according to 30% of the following definitions.

that leaves 70% that show quite the opposite.

so -- are they a cult?
Mistah MOJO

I have two--yes two--dictionaries and each one defines "cult" as a synonym for religion. Religion is cult, cult is religion. However, I suspect both of these dictionaries are out of date. The word "cult" began to transmogrify sometime in the latter half of the twentieth century, as far as I can tell. The word was picked up, emptied of its historical denotation, and given a new denotation by zealous evangelicals and fundamentalists who were determined to extend their "us versus them" mentality into the cult-ure at large. So, "cult" has now become a word for "bad religion." As if there is a religion whose effects have not been primarily deleterious. MM
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Why WHITBY is so important to us all!
by Gill in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the phrase is 'the truth is out there' and when we stumble across it by accident, it can't help but make a person wonder what else they never knew, and how pieces of the jigsaw gradually begin to fit together as we search for the 'truths of history'.. i love whitby.

whitby is a small town in the north yorkshire moors.

it sits on the coast with the magnificent ruins of whitby abbey dominating the sky line.
Mistah MOJO

What a marvelous bit of history to tuck away! I love it. Thank you. I am under the impression that Celtic Christianity was Arian. Am I correct? MM
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The Final Truth?
by Mistah MOJO in
1. watchtower
2. bible
"the final truth is that there is no final truth.

" this statement was contained in a recent email from a close friend who is an existentialist, and by extension a nihilist.

how many here would agree with this?
Mistah MOJO

"The Final Truth is that there is no Final Truth." This statement was contained in a recent email from a close friend who is an existentialist, and by extension a nihilist. How many here would agree with this? Am I ridiculous perhaps in holding forth the hope that some sort of Final Truth exists? Something other than the entertaining paradix above, that is. The more I study religion the more I am confronted with an obvious specie of mental illness, one to which I succumbed for two years. Yet, in retrospect, my involvement was very unemotional, very analytical. There was very little of "me" invested in the religion.

Science is a better place to look for facts than religion. Understatement. Yet, does Truth have to be factual? Even science deals with symbols. I know there are many highly intelligent and educated people who post here. I would very much enjoy what you have to say. Please feel free to direct me to a link of an archived post you deem relevant. Thank you. MM
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LIBER JESAIAE CAPUT .XLII
by Ade in
1. watchtower
2. bible
isaiah 42:18 - 25

come "scholars and friends" allow us to discuss whilst time allows it who herein is mentioned.

is it we "apostates" or the "spirit guided society of god on earth today" or is this the "literal" in the midst of the "prophetic" so it becomes void in interpretation of the "society".
Mistah MOJO

Hello Parakeet! I laughed out loud, a really satisfying belly-laugh, when I read your response. I agree with you completely! Your droll commentary coupled with the cute little birdie icon are a mixture I couldnt withstand. Thank you for a damn good laugh.
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Have you seen this site?
by freetosee in
1. watchtower
2. bible
http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/

dont know if this has been discussed before.

have you seen this site?
Mistah MOJO

Do I understand correctly that this information is the current "light" shining forth from the Tower Of Light? If so, then they are indeed anchoring themselves very firmly to the 1914 date, yes? I love it. It would be mnarvelous to see the WTS finally commit suicide, figuratively speaking. Just blow their collective brains out in one big idiotic fit of lunacy and mule-headedness.
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former JW overseer embraces Islam (video)
by Nathan Natas in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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who is this knucklehead?.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rld-bap0iza
Mistah MOJO

How very odd. An educated man, with a degree in theology, who became a Jehovah's Witness! Then became an Overseer, and then left "the Truth" back when 1975 was being touted as the date for The End. (Am I right on this? I read so many conflicting accounts from ex-Witnesses). Then he embraced the ultimate bizarro-world religion, Islam. How incomprehensible! I have actually tried to read the Koran/Quaran many times and after a few paragraphs I literally feel ill. It's almost uncanny. If I believed in evil spiritis I would think the Koran is full of evil spiritis just waiting to leap from the pages of the Koran. On a more sane note, I think the Koran is a distillation of all the negativity in the Bible. Anyway, thanks for the link! This was a very odd experience. Enjoyable in a very strange almost "train wreck" sort of way.
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HEY KIDZ! BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK!
by Mistah MOJO in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
to have no life.. to wish you were dead.. to see demons everywhere.. to wake up screaming in the dead of night.. .
Mistah MOJO

To have no life.
To wish you were dead.
To see demons everywhere.
To wake up screaming in the dead of night.
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Holidays, Witness wives, and authorities in the community WT 2001 QFR
by garybuss in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i must have missed this, in the dec 15 2001 watchtower magazine question from readers page 28-29 the society says ".

the individual christian has to decide what noncompromising things can be done at the request of one having authority in the family or in the community.".

"things can be done at the request of one having authority .
Mistah MOJO

Le bon dieu this is load of pharisaic twaddle. Religious peeps will never amaze to cease me with their blindness. I'd rather be dead.