Posts by HintOfLime

london (cnn) -- uk food safety officials have ordered the testing of all beef products following the discovery of horsemeat in beef lasagna sold by uk firm findus, only weeks after many meat lovers were dismayed to learn horse and pig dna had been found in burgers.. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/08/world/europe/uk-horsemeat-probe/index.html.

HintOfLime

"Mommy, why do they make horses into 'nay-nays'?"

- Lime

PS: (Mayonnaise.. I know a poor child who asked that.)

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Brazilian waxing and JWs

by Bella15 in

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with all the control they want to have over people's lives, i wonder if going brazilian down there (male or female) would be cause for readjustment???

lol i can see sister a telling the elders on sister b ... lol... i wonder what scriptures they would use to make their point across ... i know that for non-jw this would sound totally crazy but as an ex-jw i know that this is totally possible ....

HintOfLime

To me, shaving the pubic area is really no different than shaving any other body region (be it legs, armpits, face, etc.) - it is just another fashion in a very, very, very long list of human fashions. I don't really think it has anything to do with a woman wanting to look like a 9 year old girl, any more than a woman shaves her legs because she wants the legs of a 9 year old girl.. or a man shaves his face so he'll have the face of a 9 year old boy.

I think humans... just like skin. Our own sexual selection has taken us from hairy primates to visually nearly bald primates... with the few remaining areas being either groomed or shaved. (I'm sure there are some interesting and enlighting scientific papers that offer well-researched information on this subject.)

- Lime

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Yehowah, the divine name known by the Watchtower, but not used.

by nibbled in

(yeho?wah); gr., ?

the participle ho?weh is from the root verb ha?wah, related to the divine name, yehowah.. .

heb., yehowah.

HintOfLime

If we knew how the supposed Hebrew divine name was pronounced, there would be no debate.

We don't. If the pronunciation of his name was important, why did god fuck it up by communicating his name in a language without clear vowel points? Doesn't that seem a bit obvious if you are an all-knowing master of communication with your creation?

Assuming God has some sense of foresight and isn’t completely stupid in these things… maybe pronunciation just wasn’t that important, or just maybe ... the bible is a book authored by people in the bronze age and is a bit silly at times.

- Lime

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Animals demonized

by free2beme in

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just wondering, do christians feel animals can be demonized?

i wonder, as i have some questions about demonized.

does the demon become the person, and send the person packing to some sort of waiting room?

HintOfLime

Tell you what, dear one: you ask this time... and let us know what YOU hear. Maybe I'll weigh in on it later. Maybe not. I can't always tell if some of you folks are serious or not, and if you're not... well... no reason for you to know, right?

If you had a good response, you would have made it.

It's not a sin to just say "I Don't Know" or "I'll have to research that" or "I'll think on that" or even possibly reconsider your world view. It might draw you closer to your faith - and I would respect that as humble even.

- Lime

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Animals demonized

by free2beme in

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friends

just wondering, do christians feel animals can be demonized?

i wonder, as i have some questions about demonized.

does the demon become the person, and send the person packing to some sort of waiting room?

HintOfLime

So... just how exactly did the pigs end up being an 'unclean' vessel? That's not really explained...

I mean.. god created the pigs right?

So.. they are smart.. and they roll around in mud to regulate body temperature... seems reasonable to me.... They have sex like every other animal to pro-create. Ok... They are not unclean physically beyond some harmless mud. I fail to see a connection between "pigs" and "unclean" beyond what is obvious to the nose of a 1st century pig farmer...

What is it about the 'spirit' of a pig that is so unclean? Do pigs think about... dirt? Mud? Pigs of the opposite sex? Evil? Do pigs think about evil all the time?

- Lime

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Animals demonized

by free2beme in

jw
friends

just wondering, do christians feel animals can be demonized?

i wonder, as i have some questions about demonized.

does the demon become the person, and send the person packing to some sort of waiting room?

HintOfLime

I'm wrong again... ugh. I'm so dumb. God is pouring out a big golden bowl of green steaming woe upon me today.

- Lime

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Animals demonized

by free2beme in

jw
friends

just wondering, do christians feel animals can be demonized?

i wonder, as i have some questions about demonized.

does the demon become the person, and send the person packing to some sort of waiting room?

HintOfLime

Oh good, I was afraid the pigs were hurt in the making of that story.

Wait....

Besides aren't pigs currently like.. the nineth smartest creatures on earth and bacterially cleaner than cats and dogs? Eh, whatever. Pigs dead, demons thrown to the abyss, that's some hard-hitting reality there. Brilliant.

- Lime

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Animals demonized

by free2beme in

jw
friends

just wondering, do christians feel animals can be demonized?

i wonder, as i have some questions about demonized.

does the demon become the person, and send the person packing to some sort of waiting room?

HintOfLime

Uhhh...Aguest... uhh... Mathew 8:30...

Some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. 31 The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

The demons apparently... wanted a herd of pigs to be sent to... for some reason.

*shrug*

I have no idea why demons would want to or not want to posess an animal, any more than they would want to posess a book at a garage sale or fairy wings bought at the local Hot Topic... and for some reason they couldn't possess the pigs without Jesus's permission or something. It wasn't a very long-lived possession, granted - all they did was immediately run the animals off a cliff. Seems like a pretty stupid and pointless story to me, but whatever. Pigs are filthy unclean animals in the culture the story was written, so it must make some sense in that context. Pigs were probably bought at Hot Topic back then.

- Lime