Posts by funkyderek

Bear in mind that I was only 19 when I wrote these so the style is not quite as polished as I would like. Also, they are formatted less than perfectly, but I can at least blame the website's owner for that. (Sorry, Kent!)

I still haven't received a reply.

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General Mobilization in the US

by Klaus Vollmer in

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here is a link

can somebody confirm that?

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/us_government/news.php?q=1227479352

funkyderek

Klaus Vollmer:

here is another link regarding that matter: http://rightsoup.com/breaking-largest-military-recall-since-1941-possibly-in-progress-right-now/

You understand that that's just a post by someone else who's heard this silly rumour, right? Again, if it were true, it would have been picked up by real news sources, not just the wacky alternative kind.

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A Question About The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

by FireNBandits in

i no longer have my 1969 edition kit (or 1985 for that matter), but i'm very curious as to how the literal english sublinear beneath the westcott and hort greek text translates the words "aion" and "aionios.

" the nwt usually idiotically translates as "system of things" when in actuality "aion" means "eon" or "age" and "aionios" means everlasting, eternal, and according to some translations such as young's literal and the concordant version "age lasting" and "eonian.

here are some verses to look up to let me know how the kit translates the above koine greek terms: matthew 13:39,40,49,28:20 .

funkyderek

It's translated "age" in all cases in the literal translation and "system of things" in the text on the right.

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Dr. Praises JW 'No Blood' Stance

by cameo-d in

"and she never did get that blood.

she's going to die if she doesn't get this blood.

and she never did get that blood.

funkyderek

Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future By Mehmet Oz, Ron Arias, Lisa Oz Contributor Dean Ornish Published by Plume, 1999 ISBN 0452279550, 9780452279551 224 pages

The WT may not be too keen on quoting this guy, given his support of "Eastern Traditions" which they usually view as demonic. Of course, they may still quote him and fail to correctly reference the source, as is their wont. A side note: "Western Tradition" = Real medicine that actually works "Eastern Tradition" = Any old woo-woo

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General Mobilization in the US

by Klaus Vollmer in

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here is a link

can somebody confirm that?

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/us_government/news.php?q=1227479352

funkyderek

No need to worry about this. The site specialises in "Alternative News". See http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_static/general/about_fourwinds.php

"Alternative News" is a bit like "Alternative Medicine". If it was actually true, it wouldn't be alternative, it would be news.

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was Prince misunderstood and misquoted?

by Dogpatch in

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: prince told new yorker writer no to tape recorder, notepadby c.j., star tribune .

last update: november 26, 2008 - 5:01 pm.

as suspected, new yorker mag contributor claire hoffman didn't write up her gay-marriage-is-wrong interview with prince from notes or a tape recorder.. in an interview hoffman gave to brianmpalmer.com, she is quoted about the process.

funkyderek

It should be easy enough for Prince to release a statement clarifying exactly what he meant. Let's just wait and see whether he does this.

Edit:

It seems Prince's "rep" has done this. "What Prince actually meant was that the Bible teaches everyone to love each other and refrain from judgment". Hmm, I thought he was a JW. It appears the New Yorker is sticking to its story anyway.

See http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b70504_was_new_yorker_straight_with_princes.html

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JW runs when he hears the word "Jesus"

by Honesty in

this morning i was in the office of a company that i do business with.

3 women were in the office and they all asked me how i was doing since i had major surgery last month.. i told them that i was recovering but it was kind of disappointing when i woke up in the recovery room instead of at the pearly gates.. one of the women said, "god must have more for you to do here.".

at which i replied, "yes, there are so many lost people who don't know jesus.".

funkyderek

Honesty:

welp...
How so?

Likely, it was a visceral response to the sheer inanity of your answer to the question. When asked what distinguishes your irrational beliefs and behaviour from the very similar beliefs and behaviour of someone else, all you can do in reply is invoke the name of your preferred deity. I doubt you have the perspicacity to be able to consider how that sounds to someone who doesn't share your beliefs, but I assure you it does nothing to separate you from the aforementioned "brainwashed cultists".

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WHY don't Americans realize GUNS are destroying their country?

by Witness 007 in

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usa today everyone has a gun, why?.....to protect themselves...from who?

other folks with guns!.....yes it's in your laws...but they were written when the british ruled you.

one school gun killing every week does not happen anywhere else in the world....maybe you need more guns to protect your kids.....one in the lunchbox.....does anyone else see this.

funkyderek

hillbilly:

yea..when funkyderek pipes in just to act like "funkyderek" it's time to turn out the lights.

I'm sure I don't know what you mean! I've been trying to get to the root of the issue.

We've established that guns aren't the problem. Other countries have more guns and fewer problems. Something else must be to blame. But nobody seems to know exactly what. It can't be the government, as if it were, you and your buddies would have risen up against it. Is it the people themselves then? Are Americans inherently more violent than other people? Or is it something about American culture? Or is it simply that in order to have the freedom to own guns in the peculiarly American way you so staunchly defend, you have to put up with a higher violent crime rate? Is that the security you must lose in order to have the "essential liberty" of owning a gun?

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WHY don't Americans realize GUNS are destroying their country?

by Witness 007 in

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usa today everyone has a gun, why?.....to protect themselves...from who?

other folks with guns!.....yes it's in your laws...but they were written when the british ruled you.

one school gun killing every week does not happen anywhere else in the world....maybe you need more guns to protect your kids.....one in the lunchbox.....does anyone else see this.

funkyderek

hillbilly:

Other words... the Swiss are not demonstrating a responsible excercise in personal freedom ... and what they has no comparison to the way law -abiding Americans relate to personal fire arm ownership.

OK, so apparently the Swiss can't help you. Have you any suggestions as to what would help? More guns, perhaps?

Incidentally, what would (or should) happen if an evil militia tried to overthrow the government, or is it a given that an armed mob is always in the right?