Posts by Farkel

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From House to House, From Door to Door....

by individuals wife in

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i was in the town this morning and saw a little cluster of jws leaving the kingdom hall, clutching their ministry bags, eager to go out into the field service.... well, maybe eager isnt quite the right word.... anyway, i thought to myself - how many people will they convert today?

one, two, a whole family?

the more obvious answer is none at all.

Farkel

: But you do have it right, everything works for the benefit of Jehovah's purpose

If everything works for the benefit of Jehovah's purpose, then it doesn't matter WHAT you do. Whatever you do, "everything" still works for the benefit of Jehovah's purpose. Whatever ANYONE does, it still works for the benefit of Jehovah's purpose. In fact, that kind of reasoning makes the concept of "free will" irrelevant, since any exercise of free will doesn't matter: everything still works for the benefit of Jehovah's purposes.

It's statements like this that can rationalize and justify virtually anything and everything that happens.

How do you explain this:

1) "Jehovah is a God of Love."

2) "Love is not Jealous."

3) "Jehovah is a Jealous God."

These quotes are all from the Bible. If 1 and 2 are true, then 3 must be false. 3 cannot be false because it's in the Bible, so if 3 is true, then Jehovah cannot be a God of love, since love is not jealous. Yet 1 is also in the Bible, too. If 2 and 3 are true, then 1 must be false.

Does this arouse some cognitive dissonance in you, my dear dub? How do you deal with the mental tension caused by it? Do you choose to ignore it, do you try to rationalize it, or do you just accept it?

If you just ignore it or just accept it, then you are truly braindead. If you try to rationalize it, we will help you see that it cannot be rationalized. If you then ignore the facts and evidence, then you are still truly braindead.

If you are willing to look at other possibilities, then there is hope for you.

I hope there is hope for you (at least in the way you think), but that is decision is in your own hands.

Farkel

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Ritzville News /Deepthroat

by silentlambs in

tri-city herald.

by shirley wentworth.

ritzville - erica rodriguez and her mother, alejandra garza, broke down and cried when the verdict came in.. it took slightly less than four hours for a seven-man, five-woman adams county superior court jury to declare manuel beliz, 48, of othello guilty of two counts of first-degree child rape and two counts of first-degree child molestation.

Farkel

Barbara A.,

If you are reading this, I send you my warmest regards and best wishes. I admire you to no end for your courage in finally revealing what you know about those bastards in Brooklyn. There were times when I ever wondered if you would really do, but you have allayed those fears.

Although we haven't spoken in about a year, I still think of you and your hard work, often and kindly.

Let the good times roll! Folks, it's just about SHOW TIME!

best regards,

Farkel

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God on Trial - #1

by Amazing in

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premise: many who have read the bible over the centuries have accepted it as authoritatively from god, and have glossed over some glaring inconsistencies, contradictions, and shear nonsense.

some cultish groups have attempted to mimick the myths and twisted beliefs they have derived from the bible.

jehovah's witnesses are no exception to this.. this raises the questions: if the bible (as we know it) is from god, having his stamp of authorship and approval, then can we ever at some point raise serious questions about it?

Farkel

chappy,

: The Bible is mixed with factual and unfactual history, poetry and LOTS of metaphor.

The Bible is mixed with factual and unfactual history, poetry and LOTS of ~~metaphor~~ bullshit.

Farkel

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Suggestions, please re ``placing'' free COCs

by Room 215 in

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a friend and i have come across a quantity of crisis of conscience in like-new condition, both english and italian editions.

we're in a quandary as to how to make best use of them.

we were thinking of donating them to the libraries or to perhaps cut a deal wth a local christian book store.

Farkel

Room 215,

Aside from libraries, you might want to break them down into quantities of 5 or so, and send them to people like me. I would take a copy personally to each minister of a large local Church, and explain that this is the book that blows the lid off of the JW myth, and suggest that the minister read it and then discuss it with members of his/her Church, so that they could be informed the next time a dub stops by.

In otherwords, put it in CHURCH libraries, too, so "wordlings" can be armed with evidence. One never knows if a dub might "see the light" with an intelligent householder who calmly explains the insanity of the Mexico Cartilla/Malawi situation, or the fact that dubs believed for decades that the "Last Days" began in 1799!

I'm most intrigued with the notion of having Church-going householders knowing more about the JW religion than the JWs do!

Just a thought.

Farkel

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Blood pudding Watchtower style

by Marvin Shilmer in

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wts recipe for conscientiously making and eating blood pudding: use dehydrated blood.

its just that simple.

according to wts policy, jws can use fractions of red cells, white cells, platelets and plasma.

Farkel

Marvin Shilmer,

You stated:

: WTS recipe for conscientiously making and eating blood pudding: Use dehydrated blood.

: It’s just that simple. Here is why:

: According to WTS policy, JWs can use fractions of red cells, white cells, platelets and plasma. Know what? Each of those components has some water in them. Of what significance is that? Simple. Once dehydrated only a fraction of each component is left, the part without water. So, if JWs use dehydrated blood for making blood pudding then they can conscientiously serve it for a meal during the next visit of the circuit overseer.

Hawkaw then clarified with this:

: One slight point of clarification,

: You indicated that white blood cells are apparrently banned.

: However, white blood cells can be taken in mother's milk, cow's milk, organ transplants and finally as a transfusion as long as the person call's them a peripheral autographing procedure.

: I guess this leads me to a question - how can you ban white blood cells in some cases but not in other cases?

The "Water Murderers"

Dub to well-informed Householder (HH): We are Jehovah's Witnesses and everything in our religion is Bible based.

HH: Everything?

Dub: Yes, everything.

HH: What about blood transfusions?

Dub: Bible based: "abstain from blood," and we do just that.

HH: Can't you take some fractions of blood?

Dub: well, yes, but only only because fractions of blood is not the blood itself. It's sorta like a kid who is served a bowl of vegetable soup. If the kid only likes the peas out of all of vegetables and only eats the peas from the soup, is the kidding actually eating the vegetable soup? Ha, ha! Gotcha!

HH: I see. But if the kid ate all the vegetables in the soup, but didn't eat the broth, the kid wouldn't be eating the "soup," either, would he?

Dub: well, not technically.

HH: so, since blood is more than 3/4 water, when the water is removed, you end up with dehydrated blood fractions, don't you? And according to your reasoning, blood cannot really be blood unless it has water, right?

Dub: yes, but when those blood fractions are separated from each other, it's not blood anymore. We still abstain from blood just as the Bible commands.

HH: No, you abstain from the pure WATER that USED to be part of blood, nitwit. You've let thousands and thousands of people die because they took WATER. You destroy families and lives by booting people out of your Cult because they took WATER.

HH: so, where does Bible say, "abstain from WATER?" You did say your religion is based 100% based on the Bible, didn't you?

Dub: I suppose the chances of you accepting these magazines I'm offering today would be out-of-the-question, huh?

HH: not until your religion stops murdering people over water, you moron.

(Besides that, the whole idiotic notion of banning blood transfusions is not even Biblical:

- http://www.jwbloodreview.org

)

Farkel

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Protector of pedophiles

by Norm in

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jehovah, high protector and god of the pedophile.. in biblical days, when women and children, male children excepted of course, being considered little more than cattle and livestock, to have sex with children was just one additional privilege of the male.

you know, those who had the good fortune to be born with a penis.

in a society like that you had to be quick and start at an early age to be able to "scoop up" a virgin.

Farkel

Utopian Reformist,

: , the account does NOT mention anything about reserving the young girls for pedophilia or for sexual purposes. It is an allegation.

Uh, why did it specifically mention that ONLY the girls who had not known the act of lying with a man could be spared?

Do virgins clean the house and cook better than non-virgins? It is obvious why they wanted virgins and it was all commanded by a man who was so "great" that "there has never yet risen up a prophet in Israel, whom Jehovah knew face to face." (Or at least that's what he said about HIMSELF AFTER HE WAS DEAD AND BURIED. Deut 34.10)

If you would ask me, I would say he was lower than whaleshit.

Farkel

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For those of us who still believe in God...

by MrMoe in

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i would like to know why you still beleive in god and what, based upon the bible, leads you to believe in god.. i likethe scripture that states the earth was a circle and hung upon nothing.

i also find that there is evidence the flood existed.

anybody know the stats of the "supposed" ark on mr. ararat?.

Farkel

: I dont need the bible to convince me of a creator.
The beauty of the creation, the way everything works in harmony, the sheer complexity of everything all proves in itself intelligent design.

You mean like the virus that eat up the inside of your body and finally cause you to puke out your internal organs right before they take your life and begin to look for another host?

Tapeworms, hookworms, malaria, bubonic plague, yellow fever, leprosy, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, smallpox, poliomelitis, chicken pox, influenza, syphillis all show "The beauty of the creation, the way everything works in harmony, the sheer complexity of everything all proves in itself intelligent design."

Farkel

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looking for farkel

by teejay in

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is an example of farkel's work online?

if so, would someone please provide the link?

i've been told that it takes him up to a week to compose one of his pieces of work.

Farkel

bigboi,

: It does no good to continually blame every bad thing that we experince on the WTS. Tracing all our troubles to them only empowers the fear factor they hold over their members

Even a guy with a whit of sense and facing the loss of his Father can spot a red herring. I never said what you inferred. Ever. I never even blamed ANY of my current personal problems on the WTS.

You're either desperate to explain stuff, or can't read. If you disagree, then show proof of that ridiculous and unfounded assertion. Otherwise, you are a fool, or even worse, just making stuff up to look like you know what you are talking about.

Couldn't resist, Class, even though there are too many unclear thinkers for me to deal with right now.

Yeah, it's me.

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BERRY LAWSUIT EVALUATED

by MadApostate in

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i would like to preface my discussion of the recently filed berry lawsuit with several remarks.

first, i am not an attorney, and my only connection with the legal profession is that which occasionally arises out of my personal or business affairs.

second, i have no access to court records, opinions, etc., other than what is available via internet search engines.

Farkel

Liar,

: First, I am not an attorney, and my only connection with the legal profession is that which occasionally arises out of my personal or business affairs.

And what would those be? Please be specific.

: Second, I have no access to court records, opinions, etc., other than what is available via internet search engines.

One has to wonder why a DipFuck like you would be interested in such things. Care to enlighten we dummies, you DipFuck Cultist?

Farkel

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