Posts by MadGiant

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1 John 4:8 God is Love?

by braincleaned in

in context of john 4, the love of god is manifest in that he has sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live through him.. my questions are:.

where is there any hint of love that would justify the killing of animals for sacrifice, then.

leading to a human sacrifice?.

MadGiant

Could it be that you are trying to see logic within something that doesn't make sense or have any logic?

Christianity:

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

If your holy book contains the word blood (459) more times than the words love (311), forgiveness (7) and beauty (49) combined...Your religion might be bul!sh@t.

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this site sucks! its just a buncha athiest on soap boxes.

by crossquestions6995 in

jw
friends

this site is not a healthy forum for discussion or healing.

its an arena for jaded athiests to bash anything christian or god related.

yes, i know the jw's lied to us about god and the truth.

MadGiant

"By being so closed minded and parading ur ignorance about the bibles historical accuracy and the existance of Jesus." - crossquestions6995

Care to explain this one?

Everyone can have an opinion, but you have to be ready to accept that it may be wrong and misguided and in need of correction. And that's not an opinion.

Unfortunately, too many people have beliefs that are rigid and not open to criticisms or challenge. People can't critically analyze and evaluate all available information, making decisions, including those involving their beliefs, based on thought, facts and reason.

No one likes to hear that the things they strongly believe are wrong, but it's a disservice to all of us if we can't be open to the idea that we are wrong, and open to learning something new or the real facts for that matter.

Ismael

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Movie coming out for Easter 2014 release: "Heaven Is For Real"

by adamah in

with a release date of easter 2014, coming soon to a theatre near you: hollywood (tristar pictures) is capitalizing on the near-death-experience theme with a movie starring greg kinnear.

here's a hd trailer:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih8hmfinsbg.

MadGiant

Hollywood "based on a true story" movie, usually means that the entire point of the story has been totally fabricated.

Here we have a few examples of based on a true story movies, but this time, a POV from "down below".

The Haunting

The Conjuring

The Devil Inside

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Amityville Horror

Take care,

Ismael

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Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

by Nathan Natas in

i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

how "real" do they seem?

is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

MadGiant

I suffer from fatigue hallucination. I was driving on a very familiar stretch of road without curvilinear alignment at 3:00 am. It looks like daylight for about 7 or 9 miles. Doctor said that I was sleep on that stretch and my subconscious took over.

Ismael

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"Accept Your Girly-ness...Know How to Shut Up"

by cofty in

a faith-based motivational speaker by the name of justin lookadoo (yes really) has been upsetting pupils, parents and staff at a texas high school.. some pupils walked out of the lecture while others began tweeting with the hashtag #lookadouche.

his website aimed at to promote "godly" dating includes the following gems of advice.. accept your girly-ness.

youre a girl.

MadGiant

From the site:
Guys: you’ll explore scriptural truths that will teach you to live the adventure and to risk it all for God.

Girls: you’ll dig deeper into the Bible to learn the importance of mystery and the power of subtle beauty. So get ready. In four weeks, you will be dateable!

This is very funny, when you use a book that can be manipulated to say whatever you want these are the results. And when you ask why that "great architect" or his son couldn't came with something more direct or strait forward, the blame is always on the receiving end.

From another topic:

"The problem is on the receiving end... not the transmission.

Man does like to complicate things up... putting walls between simple truth/life... and himself/his fellow man."

Their be always excuses, never an explanation. And their is a big difference between those two words.

“Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.” - Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 – 1899)

Take care,

Ismael

That person problably claims is hearing the same voice some claim to hear and it's using the same book.

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Elders receive a report that I am openly displaying false religious symbol

by confusedandalone in

when you look at the image above what do you see?

a sneaker or an outward display that i am now following after another religious group?.

well yesterday i had a 10 minute conversation with an elder who finally got the balls to call me.

MadGiant

“Driving a Pleiades should be neutral, at worst, and arguably, even a model to be encouraged for JWs to drive!” – adamah

You are right. They have excellent millage.

Ismael

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Elders receive a report that I am openly displaying false religious symbol

by confusedandalone in

when you look at the image above what do you see?

a sneaker or an outward display that i am now following after another religious group?.

well yesterday i had a 10 minute conversation with an elder who finally got the balls to call me.

MadGiant

“MadGiant said-

Should have been funnier with Subaru instead.

Should we start a list of products JWs cannot use without risk of stumbling others?

Mars bar (named after Mars, the Roman God of war):” - adamah

Subaru still funnier:

For 62 years, 1891 to 1953, the WTS taught that God resided on the star Alcyone in the Pleiades constellation and that from this star he governed the universe!

This belief was taught in 1891 in Volume 3 of Studies in the Scriptures and was based on passages in the Bible.

The WTS also taught that the Great Pyramid of Egypt provided additional proof of God's throne in the Pleiades! (The Golden Age 1924 September 10 pp. 793-794)

The book Reconciliation (1928) says:

But the greatness in size of other stars or planets is small when compared with the Pleiades in importance, because the Pleiades is the place of the eternal throne of God. (p. 14)

Yeah, definitely Ironic and funnier.

Ismael

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Elders receive a report that I am openly displaying false religious symbol

by confusedandalone in

when you look at the image above what do you see?

a sneaker or an outward display that i am now following after another religious group?.

well yesterday i had a 10 minute conversation with an elder who finally got the balls to call me.

MadGiant

“Let me ask you this, some might reason that the car Mazda is a way of honoring the god Ahura MAzda. Should Christians not drive Mazdas... sure they are great on gas but we dont want to send the wrong message, right right right” – confusedandalone

Should have been funnier with Subaru instead.

Ismael

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Could there really be something to the UFO phenomena? Amazing documentary

by yadda yadda 2 in

jw
friends

it's easy to just poo-poo the ufo thing, especially if you're naturally very skeptical after your jw experience as i am, but when you see documentary's like this it seems undeniable that some kind of inexplicable phenomenon is occuring.

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could vehement deniars of the ufo phenomenon please suspend their criticisms until they've at least watched the whole documentary, to be fair to others who are more open-minded on this subject.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjismjxshpg.

MadGiant

"I'll give you a chance to redeem yourselves by time-travelling me back to before the exam and implanting me with the necessary knowledge. Actually, if you can time-travel, why don't you take all of us here on JWN back about 30 years so we could have gotten outa this cult sooner." - Billy

What about the grandfather paradox?

Ismael

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The JWs are like people who read Science FIction

by VM44 in

...and then think that they have a science education!.

MadGiant

"Ismael i dont need awakes and watchtowers to believe that God is almighty and capable of doing all he wants. I just rely on the bible for that." - emeth.

Ok, that's my sign.

Take care my friend,

Ismael