Posts by fulltimestudent

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Jesus Creates a Monster

by fulltimestudent in

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i recently found this image of jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that kind, loving jesus, would (on behalf of old yhwy) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.. .

in case you're wondering i found it on a pinterest page.. proverbs 8, of course.

personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g.

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So Sea Breeze, may I ask a question about your belief in a biblical paradise that existed before human sin? Genesis 1:30 does indeed claim that the biblical god created a 'perfect' paradise in which ALL living things were herbivores.

My question is, if that is true, that no animal would have been equipped to be a carnivore, so why then are certain life forms equipped to be carnivores, in particular komodo dragons. Other reptiles - crocodiles and snakes - also are ill-equipped to be herbivores. So what would crocodiles and snakes have eaten in that imaginary paradise?

A further question is, just when did the YHWH/Jesus combo create the toxic substances that the komodo dragon uses to kill its prey? Was it before 'sin' entered the world or after? If before, was he using his supposed foresight (something the WT argues he did not) or was it afterwards, which would conflict with the claimed 'rest day'?

Let's take this opportunity to look more closely at poisonous snakes. These snakes have a reservoir of poison, ducts to the fangs, and most interestingly, fangs with an internal duct through which their poison can be injected into their victim. Was that all 'created' before or after 'sin'?

I also wish to refer you to Psalm 104.21 - "The lions roar for their prey, and seek their food from God. (NIV)" So does yhwh or jesus feed other animals to lions? If yhwh feeds lions, why cant he feed deer to komodo dragons or leopards to crocodiles or humans to sharks?

Another question arise out of this discussion. 2 Peter 2:12 (NWT-LP) compares some men to "unreasoning animals born naturally to be caught and destroyed" Peter believes something you don't accept.

Animals, Peter says "naturally' get caught and destroyed. Why so?

Thank you in advance for your response.

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Anyone else selling stocks?

by mickbobcat in

i hit the highs yesterday and sold deep in the money calls.

this will protect my stocks while i still draw dividends.

anyone else hedging their stocks.

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A brief biography for David Goldman from Wikipedia:

Quote: "David Paul Goldman (born September 27, 1951) is an American economist,[1] music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler. The pseudonym is an allusion to German historian Oswald Spengler, whose most famous work, Decline of the West (1918), asserted that Western civilization was already dying. Goldman says that he writes from a Judeo-Christian perspective and often focuses on demographic and economic factors in his analyses; he says his subject matter proceeds "from the theme formulated by [Franz] Rosenzweig: the mortality of nations and its causes, Western secularism, Asian anomie, and unadaptable Islam."[2] On March 14, 2015, Goldman and longtime Asia Times associate Uwe Von Parpart took control of Asia Times HK Ltd. He became Deputy Editor (Business) at Asia Times in 2020. Goldman was global head of credit strategy at Credit Suisse 1999-2002, Global Head of Fixed Income Research for Bank of America 2002-2005, and Global Head of Fixed Income Research at Cantor Fitzgerald 2005-2008. He subsequently was a partner at Yunfeng Financial in Hong Kong, an investment bank later acquired by Jack Ma. He continues to advise CEOs and institutional investors. He is a regular contributor to Claremont Review of Books, Law and Liberty, Tablet Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, First Things (where he was senior editor during 2009-2011)."

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Anyone else selling stocks?

by mickbobcat in

i hit the highs yesterday and sold deep in the money calls.

this will protect my stocks while i still draw dividends.

anyone else hedging their stocks.

fulltimestudent

What DOES the future hold financially?

Who knows, but I follow the writings of a guy called David P. Goldman, a former N.Y. Financier who know owns a newspaper called, The Asia Times' in Hongkong (Goldman bought it from a Thai billionaire) I'll post Goldman's biography in a second post. Just one addition from me - he claims to have voted for Trump in 2016 and I'd think of him as a Republican.

His P.O.V. being close to both the USA and Asian interests is interesting - he has the view that inflation is going to be a huge problem and that changes in the way the world trades may see the USA lose all the free loans they have been getting from world trade being based on the US dollar,

On May 12, the AT published his article:

Few places to hide from the inflation train wreck

Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong

Link: https://asiatimes.com/2021/05/few-places-to-hide-from-the-inflation-train-wreck/

and

US fiscal profligacy and the impending crisis

Gold man writes - Massive demand-side stimulus combined with constraints on the supply-side in the form of higher taxes is a sure recipe for inflation and eventual recession. "It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Biden administration’s fiscal irresponsibility arises from a cynical political calculation."

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I've been telling friends (in Aust) who have recently borrowed money at historically low interest rates to prepare for much higher rates. Biden has stated (as reported in Aust. news) that he will implement a plan to spend 2 trillion dollars to repair the USA's infrastructure. The only way he can get that sort of money is to borrow. What do you think that will do to interest rates?

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Jesus Creates a Monster

by fulltimestudent in

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i recently found this image of jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that kind, loving jesus, would (on behalf of old yhwy) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.. .

in case you're wondering i found it on a pinterest page.. proverbs 8, of course.

personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g.

fulltimestudent

The Komodo dragons live on an island in Indonesia. Their saliva is so poisonous that they usually bite their victim and wait for it to collapse.

If you've been a JW, do you really want to pat and cuddle one of these animals in the new system?

So think it over - could the biblical loving god YHWH or his loving son Jesus really be the creator of such monsters?

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Jesus Creates a Monster

by fulltimestudent in

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friends

i recently found this image of jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that kind, loving jesus, would (on behalf of old yhwy) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.. .

in case you're wondering i found it on a pinterest page.. proverbs 8, of course.

personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g.

fulltimestudent

Before you view the video, think! If Proverbs 8: 22-30 is true (and the witnesses say its true, would not the 'works' of Jesus reflect his love and compassion?

Well, think about what Jesus is supposed to have made - with YJWH's approval. (nd sensitive people - likely including the little children that sing church hymns, maybe shouldn't watch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FyFPwHriKI

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Jesus Creates a Monster

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

i recently found this image of jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that kind, loving jesus, would (on behalf of old yhwy) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.. .

in case you're wondering i found it on a pinterest page.. proverbs 8, of course.

personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g.

fulltimestudent

I recently found this image of Jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that KIND, LOVING JESUS, would (on behalf of old YHWY) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.

N,B. In case you're wondering I found it on a Pinterest page.

Proverbs 8, of course. personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g. = https://www.jstor.org/stable/27638373?seq=1 ) - but to our former, hold spirit filled brothers there is no doubt that the text refers to Jesus in his pre-human existence. You can link that image, if you like, with the common church hymn which children are taught, that starts with the words, "gentle Jesus meek and mild.)

So in both the churches and the JWs, Jesus is so wonderful - but is there another side to him - a side that is more psychotic?

Consider the video in the next post.

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The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

by FFGhost in

so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

fulltimestudent

Thank U FFGhost for a great analysis.

Considering the contemporary situation in shit-splattered India it's quite appropriate. I read quite fast in order to cover 4 pages of comments, but I don't recall any mention of how anyone with diarrhea would have coped with that instruction.

Once again, as an uncouth and unrepentant unbeliever .I can only say - Aw Shit !!

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Covid / India

by stan livedeath in

its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

fulltimestudent

Maybe the full horror of an out-of-control Covid19 pandemic can be seen in this SBS news video.

SBS is a semi independent government owned media sesrvice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0fiKbOvCCA

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European Christian Involvement In Using Mutilation as a Punishment

by fulltimestudent in

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this is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.. mutilation as gendered punishment: state violence and sexual transgression in medieval europe - keynote lecture by ruth mazo karras .

ruth karras is a professor of history at trinity college dublin.

her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality.

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Yes Biahi, quite barbaric - but the perpetrators were 'faithful' christians zealous in insisting on obedience to what they saw as commands from Jesus.

Footnote: This was a talk (lecture, if you want) NOT a film.

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European Christian Involvement In Using Mutilation as a Punishment

by fulltimestudent in

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friends

this is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.. mutilation as gendered punishment: state violence and sexual transgression in medieval europe - keynote lecture by ruth mazo karras .

ruth karras is a professor of history at trinity college dublin.

her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality.

fulltimestudent

This is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.

Mutilation as Gendered Punishment: State Violence and Sexual Transgression in Medieval Europe - Keynote lecture by Ruth Mazo Karras

Ruth Karras is a Professor Of History at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality. Click here to visit Ruth’s university web page or follow her on Twitter @rmkarras

Ruth Karras spoke at at the Women’s History Association of Ireland Annual Conference, University College Dublin, on March 21, 2021

Excerpt: It probably won’t come as news to anyone that mutilation was used as a judicial punishment in various societies across the globe, and it can serve several different purposes. Sometimes it’s just a punishment short of death. Sometimes it’s retributive justice – an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, or the loss of the limb – with which a crime was committed such as chopping off a hand for theft, which can also be a symbolic inscription of the crime on the body. I want to talk today particularly about the use of mutilation as punishment for sexual offenses and particularly those involving same-sex activity in medieval Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PfiRscu8g&t=27s