Posts by LittleToe

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..Creative Insults..

by OUTLAW in

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every once in awhile people will get choked with each other and name call..usually it`s not that creative..sh*thead..assh*le..ect..then there`s my favorites like hillary_step..that guy can insult an idiot and it`s unlikely the person will ever get it..lol!

!..that always cracks me up..lol!

!.....what i`m looking for is creative insults!

LittleToe

There are few who can cuss without actually cussing like the Scots so gie us a break, ya spawny-eyed wassock!

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Going Veggie

by Sirona in

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when i was jw, i didn't know any vegetarians.

they had the teaching that god had allowed us to eat animals, so we just eat animals.

no questions asked.. just recently i started to consider being vegetarian.

LittleToe

I have a few friends who are vegetarian, one of whom is quite antagonistic to the idea of a pescetarean claiming to be a vegetarian

I suspect its harder for men to become vegetarian than women, more out of a lack of self-control than a need for protien. One of my brothers disrupted our household for a while by insisting on becoming vegetarian. It lasted for about a year before he finally came to the conclusion that he actually liked meat and wondered why he had made such a fuss.

Personally I enjoy my meat too much. I've tried and enjoyed substitute products but they are no real substiture, as you shall find when you try your first bacon buttie after a period of abstinance

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Mother orders daughter to stab Jehovah's Witness

by What-A-Coincidence in

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wtf?.

http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/year_1346___article.html/old_home.html.

june 7, 2007 - 12:24pmmother orders daughter to stab man, officials saywoman was afraid jehovahs witnesses were trying to steal her sonby katherine rosenberg staff writervictorville afraid that jehovahs witnesses were trying to steal her son, a local woman ordered her 15-year-old daughter to stab a 19-year-old witness, officials said.

LittleToe

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Jehovah's Witnesses turned Christian....Post Here

by R.F. in

i would like those of you former jws turned christian to post here.

specific denominations can be mentioned.

i'd just like to get an idea of how many of you there are.

LittleToe

Kid-A:
In your ardour to attack you demonstrate the reading comprehension of a newt

I drew a clear distinction between the WTS as an entity with policies and its own peculiar theology and; individual JWs. I made it plain that I believe that it is entirely possible, if not probable, that individual JWs could be Christians. The theology of the organisation that they claim membership of is IMHO not Christian, however.

You can't simply make labels mean what you want them to mean, otherwise you might as well throw out every dictionary in the land and make it all up as you go along. I'm sure you'll agree that we are fully aware that the WTS as an organisation just loves to twist the meaning of things to their own ends, including the appropriation of labels that suit their purposes.

Didier:

Your unusual aggressivity tells me that the case you are trying to make is a bit too narrow for your own kind self.

Nawww, I think its just raw text getting in the way of good communication again. I do notice that in my haste to reply I neglected to add any emoticons, though. That probably hasn't helped

1. You arbitrary choose to read "worshipof Christ" into the definition of "Christianity".
2. You could just as well read another criterium, like discipleship -- "following Christ's teaching".
My counter-examples were deliberately picked from perspective # 2; which, I believe, is at least as firmly grounded in the NT as # 1 (understatement).
Denying the "Christian" label in principle to people who try to follow Jesus' teaching as they understand it (and I don't mean JWs particularly) because they don't "worship Christ" (and, afaik, Jesus is never depicted as asking for being worshipped) seems rather dogmatic for an "unorthodox Christian," don't you think?

I think a distinction needs to be drawn between a theology that simply argues minutea of definitions of words and phrases and meets a series of suppositions and; the example that the original disciples are recorded as displaying. Please allow me to over-simplify for a moment by simply asking: are the diciples recorded as "worshipping" Christ? If so (and I obviously believe they are) then is this recorded as an example for us? I might further add the contrast between Jesus discouraging worship of anything other than God, while accepting worship to himself. Does the WTS claim to be following a first century model of CHristianity? THen why does it neglect some pretty obvious practices by the early disciples?

In contrast, no mainstream Christian denomination neglects this, even when they practices this in widely differing ways.

James:
Missed ya buddy. Hope you're well

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Jehovah's Witnesses turned Christian....Post Here

by R.F. in

i would like those of you former jws turned christian to post here.

specific denominations can be mentioned.

i'd just like to get an idea of how many of you there are.

LittleToe

Didier:
Poor show. You know fine well what I'm getting at.

Buddhists don't worship at all, per se, claiming a philosophy instead. Lutherans would still claim to be Christians in the first instance, with the "Lutheran" appendage merely declaring their strand of theology. JWs specifically worship "Jehovah" in contrast to every Christian denomination that acknowledges their worship of Christ.

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Isn't God Awesome?

by Perry in

http://wonderofitall.com/

LittleToe

F2BMe:Is that perhaps why he got Himself born of Mary, and how come NT-God seems a lot nicer than OT-God?

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Jehovah's Witnesses turned Christian....Post Here

by R.F. in

i would like those of you former jws turned christian to post here.

specific denominations can be mentioned.

i'd just like to get an idea of how many of you there are.

LittleToe

What do you call worshipers of Zeus?
What do you call worshipers of Mithra?
What do you call worshipers of Christ?
What do you call worshipers of Jehovah?

The answer to these questions should help delineate the difference between a Christian and a JW...

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Jehovah's Witnesses turned Christian....Post Here

by R.F. in

i would like those of you former jws turned christian to post here.

specific denominations can be mentioned.

i'd just like to get an idea of how many of you there are.

LittleToe

Kid-A:

All ex-JWs have done when joining another christian denomination is switch to a different "style" of christianity.

I find this comment highly offensive and ignorant for the following reason: Many of us have done much more than merely leave one organisation and join another. Your comments show a rank disregard for what people are actually saying about the subject on this thread, many of whom have never actually joined a church group. Have you just skim read the thread and thrown in a good dollop of your own prejudices?

The WTS has consistently tried to distance itself from everything that approximates Christendom and all that "Christians" hold dear. It has an extremely judgemental and exclusionist philosophy that puts it into the category of "fundamentalist" alongside a few other religions.

Christian? Not in my opinion --- Jehovist? Probably.

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Isn't God Awesome?

by Perry in

http://wonderofitall.com/

LittleToe

Ringo:
I read that story when I was a similar age. It follows a similar premise, especially with the last sentence of the book, as I recall

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.......about that 1 Corinthians 7:25,39

by why??? in

ok so at 1 corinthians.

7:25 paul says that what he writes about virgins "i have no command from the lord but i give my opinion" .he goes on to describe what he thinks virgins should do.

then in verse 39 he says "marry only in the lord" but there he's actually talking to widows after their husbands die!!!!

LittleToe

I, for one, don't understand the connection you're attempting to make.

What has Paul's opinion got to do with a more ancient text claiming Moses authority to do what he wanted with no questions asked?