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  1. Haha
    Pudgy got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in The Progenitor - A New Book by one of Jehovah's Witnesses   
    The book's author is Bruce Quimby...uh...uh ... and YOUR name is bruceq.
    Like the fact that Ernest Borgnine and Elizabeth Tayor have never been seen in the same photograph ...... coincidence?
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Was Jesus Anointed at His baptism ?   
    ... um ....  MY personal opinion is that Jesus' 100% human brother Brian got a bum rap after stepping out of his fishing boat, and trying to walk towards shore on the water.
    The day before he had been to a crucifixion rehearsal, and both his feet had holes.
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    Pudgy reacted to xero in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    Some things are straightforward, but other things are a matter of interpretation. The thing that gets me is when someone acts like they have it all figured out. Nope.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from JW Insider in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
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    How something is worded often contains subtle nuances and references, and sub-references that escape almost everyone, except those whose thinking is not agenda driven.
    The problem is .... almost EVERYONES' thinking is agenda driven.
    Without getting into George Carlin's famous comment about sticking a needle in your finger, consider the very real difference between these two phrases, being  "waiting to engage", and being "engaged to wait".
    If you work for someone, and are on call 24/7/365. make sure that the phraseology is "engaged to wait", and not "waiting to engage".
    It makes a difference as to whether or not you are due payment for your services.
    In similar fashion, the nuances inherent in the way Scripture is phrased make a very real difference.
    However, if your perception is agenda driven, you will always be wrong.
    If you think you are a hammer ..... EVERYTHING looks like a nail.
    ..... and your theology and carpentry work will be crude, ugly, and unworkable.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Anna in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    I agree, as Jehovah is invulnerable, and cannot be harmed in any way.
    He is not even in this physical Universe.
    I think you misunderstood that I was advocating rebellion against Jehovah God.
    I was not.
    I was trying to describe what would be the ONLY excuse for rebellion, which of course would be impossible.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Anna in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    When I speculate as I often doggedly do, on the real Nature of Jehovah, I look to Cosmology, the Science, to try and use facts at hand to "reverse engineer" what may or may not be true.
    I accept as incontrovertible evidence that the way this Universe started was with the "Big Bang", about 14 billion years ago, and that time and space are one thing.... not two things ... because all gravity is local, and all time is local. It has been proved, over and over again that the speed of time is also local, and fluctuates according to the local gravity intensity and local "material" velocity.
    It is also clear to me that linear time, with an "arrow of time", going from the present to the future started at the "Big Bang".  Conversely, we know absolutely NOTHING about Physics before the "Big Bang", and that it will be impossible for us to EVER know about that.
    .....but I suspect to the point of certainty that anything before that was a "Universe" of a completely different sort, with time running at a completely different rate ... of there being no linear time whatsoever ... effectively "Time Happens All At Once".  
    No beginning and No end.
    There is an interesting Scripture describing Jehovah as "From Everlasting to Everlasting", which to my mind exactly describes this BBB (before the big bang) environment and scenario..
    EVERYTHING in this Universe dies because of entropy ... and there are no exceptions. Even in very deep time unimaginable protons decay.
    BBB is not subject to the laws of thermodynamics for one simple reason.
    No "arrow of time".
    And that I submit for your welcome analysis and criticism is WHY Jehovah can never die.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Anna in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
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    How something is worded often contains subtle nuances and references, and sub-references that escape almost everyone, except those whose thinking is not agenda driven.
    The problem is .... almost EVERYONES' thinking is agenda driven.
    Without getting into George Carlin's famous comment about sticking a needle in your finger, consider the very real difference between these two phrases, being  "waiting to engage", and being "engaged to wait".
    If you work for someone, and are on call 24/7/365. make sure that the phraseology is "engaged to wait", and not "waiting to engage".
    It makes a difference as to whether or not you are due payment for your services.
    In similar fashion, the nuances inherent in the way Scripture is phrased make a very real difference.
    However, if your perception is agenda driven, you will always be wrong.
    If you think you are a hammer ..... EVERYTHING looks like a nail.
    ..... and your theology and carpentry work will be crude, ugly, and unworkable.
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    Pudgy reacted to Srecko Sostar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
    According to this report in Genesis, situation described speaks differently. After, in NT, we see other sort of feelings and emotions for human.
    Do not forget how female was created in the image of God. So yes, perhaps it is not far away from your observation that sometimes God (has right to) react as "overemotional female" and Genesis 6:6,7 is exactly what was happened . :))
    If He want to destroy fallen angels who materialized and their offspring of giants who made evil things, what was so difficult for Him to be selective in punishment? JW people have expectation how that will happen in Armageddon - selective destruction. And Noah Days are used as example of why and how God will act in Armageddon, but without water (flood). 
    Initial rebellion started with "snake" aka devil. Continue with First People. At what stage were the other angels while this was happening, there is no record of it. It is not until Noah's day that angels who longed for earthly pleasures are described. Their action does not say that they rebelled against God in the way that the devil did. Their motives were different. They did not say that God was lying, as the serpent said. They did not promise anyone that they would be like gods. They didn't say how people will not dye if act independently from God. Their rebellion had different reasons. 
    Perhaps what they saw happening in Eden and how satan goes unpunished for his insolence was an additional motive for them to indulge in illicit behavior as well. In fact, when the Bible says that evil multiplies because transgressors are not punished immediately, and that they therefore continue to do evil, then there is a great responsibility on God Himself who failed to punish the guilty who can be punished by none other than Him. For, it was not just about human hearts boiling to do evil, but about the hearts of angels. When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong - Eccl 8
  9. Haha
    Pudgy reacted to TrueTomHarley in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    Tinkering with the transistors that became the internet has been the source of much income for Al Gore and myself.
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    Pudgy reacted to xero in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    I understand that. Also knowing God existed is also not the point. If Satan imagined Jehovah himself was the product of the realm in which he was able to view him, like me being in a room or in a world with defined boundaries and I see someone and imagine that they didn't create the realm that we both reside in, but in point of fact simply was the first on the scene, then you'd be getting the point the author is getting at.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    When I speculate as I often doggedly do, on the real Nature of Jehovah, I look to Cosmology, the Science, to try and use facts at hand to "reverse engineer" what may or may not be true.
    I accept as incontrovertible evidence that the way this Universe started was with the "Big Bang", about 14 billion years ago, and that time and space are one thing.... not two things ... because all gravity is local, and all time is local. It has been proved, over and over again that the speed of time is also local, and fluctuates according to the local gravity intensity and local "material" velocity.
    It is also clear to me that linear time, with an "arrow of time", going from the present to the future started at the "Big Bang".  Conversely, we know absolutely NOTHING about Physics before the "Big Bang", and that it will be impossible for us to EVER know about that.
    .....but I suspect to the point of certainty that anything before that was a "Universe" of a completely different sort, with time running at a completely different rate ... of there being no linear time whatsoever ... effectively "Time Happens All At Once".  
    No beginning and No end.
    There is an interesting Scripture describing Jehovah as "From Everlasting to Everlasting", which to my mind exactly describes this BBB (before the big bang) environment and scenario..
    EVERYTHING in this Universe dies because of entropy ... and there are no exceptions. Even in very deep time unimaginable protons decay.
    BBB is not subject to the laws of thermodynamics for one simple reason.
    No "arrow of time".
    And that I submit for your welcome analysis and criticism is WHY Jehovah can never die.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    Knowing...or rather BELIEVING that Jehovah is the only True God, as a stipulated fact is quite reasonable, all things considered.
    But .... does not Jehovah God comment on his own "evolution" when his name is declared and it is understood, again based on "best evidence", to mean "I Am", or "I Will Become", or "I Will Prove To Be What I Shall Prove To Be" ?
    ...and the fact that people sacrificed their sons and daughters to the fires of Moloch truly surprised even Jehovah, and that he learned new things from that,
    If the word for all  that does not imply "evolution" ...... what is the correct word?
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    There is only ONE excuse for rebelling against your Sovereign.
    .....if you win!
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    The author is clearly responding to new evidence that Satan worships Hillary Clinton.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    Wrong again.
    The Physical Universe was designed to be self-sustaining.
    ...to run without a need for maintenance.
    All evidence points to this, in thousands of integrated facts usually described as Quantum Physics, and only agenda driven theologic fantasy suggests otherwise.
    It is theologic fantasy BECAUSE it contradicts all known facts that are real, with "facts" that are merely wishful religious fantasy, with no proof whatsoever.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    You are wrong Arauna .... the Scripture clearly states that it never came into Jehovah's mind that they would do such a thing as sacrifice their own children, burning them to death.
    Be a sport ... look it up.
    Jehovah was surprised!
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Dmitar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    I agree, as Jehovah is invulnerable, and cannot be harmed in any way.
    He is not even in this physical Universe.
    I think you misunderstood that I was advocating rebellion against Jehovah God.
    I was not.
    I was trying to describe what would be the ONLY excuse for rebellion, which of course would be impossible.
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    Pudgy reacted to Srecko Sostar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    JHVH was surprised in several situations. In Eden, after Adam and Eve disappointed Him so much. After, Genesis said: And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. A person who knows what to expect from others would not be in such a difficult emotional state, so that like God, he begins to destroy everything he has created, nature, animals and people.
    WTJWorg try to explain all God's actions with "love". If he destroy wicked people that is because of love. If he not want to destroy wicked people that is because of love, again. If he allow injustice and suffer, that is because of love. If he destroy devil that is because because of love and because of "universal issue". Well, it seems how "universal issue" is also responsible for God's passivity in time before Eden and in Eden. Because, devil rebellion not started in Eden, for sure. 
    According to the WTJWorg interpretation, nowhere in the universe is there life except on Earth and around a God surrounded by angels. Thus, life is concentrated, according to GB, in only two "locations". This very knowledge limits the very thesis of the "universal issue," and gives the possibility that God did not have such a great need to delay the punishment of transgressors of his law. After all, he punished Adam and Eve with death. What prevented him from treating the rebellious angels in the same way? A different law? A different attitude towards angels compared to people?
    Are angels just as intellectually limited as humans, so that God should have given them time to prove that the devil was wrong? They see God every day, so they don’t need faith like people do, to believe in an invisible God and what happened in history. People is expected to believe in events that happened before their lives or even in their life time.
     How to understand the absurd fact that God "implanted" in animals the "fear of man" (generally speaking), but no mosquito is afraid of any man, but persistently wants to drink his blood?
    Likewise, it is difficult to understand that there is a need for imperfect humans and perfect angels to contribute to the "universal issue", the answer to which has long been known to God. For, every human being does not have the ability to experientially observe the past to which he has not witnessed. And therefore he does not know who said and did what and why. So, he cannot give an answer for another, but only for himself. We cannot answer the question of whether God has the right to rule or not. We only give our "verbal" consent to the authority of one or the other. And that, too, is only of symbolic significance, because our consent to the opposite side will not cause God to cease to rule. Well, it is not democracy and the election of a new president for the next term. If all people agreed to be on the devil’s side, do you really think God would give up his position?
    And the question/issue of "love"? It is something that has nothing to do with the "universal issue".
  19. Haha
    Pudgy got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    The author is clearly responding to new evidence that Satan worships Hillary Clinton.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    Wrong again.
    The Physical Universe was designed to be self-sustaining.
    ...to run without a need for maintenance.
    All evidence points to this, in thousands of integrated facts usually described as Quantum Physics, and only agenda driven theologic fantasy suggests otherwise.
    It is theologic fantasy BECAUSE it contradicts all known facts that are real, with "facts" that are merely wishful religious fantasy, with no proof whatsoever.
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    Pudgy got a reaction from Arauna in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    I agree, as Jehovah is invulnerable, and cannot be harmed in any way.
    He is not even in this physical Universe.
    I think you misunderstood that I was advocating rebellion against Jehovah God.
    I was not.
    I was trying to describe what would be the ONLY excuse for rebellion, which of course would be impossible.
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    Pudgy reacted to xero in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    Actually the "knowing he is his creator" is actually not specifically stated in scripture - this is what the author suggests the possibility is...
    Yes @Anna the author is suggesting, as did the Sumerians, that all the gods evolved. This would include Jehovah. Not that the author believes this, but that the lie fostered was fostered by and believed by Satan (and that this could be the contribution to what any sane person would think was a foolish endeavor) was the heart of the rebellion.
     
  23. Haha
    Pudgy got a reaction from ComfortMyPeople in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    The author is clearly responding to new evidence that Satan worships Hillary Clinton.
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    Pudgy reacted to Patiently waiting for Truth in KING OF THE NORTH - MAY BROADCAST   
    Yep, good idea.
    My wife and I spend such time in the garden, taking photos of the flowers and birds and insects, all are God's creations. Photos are great for memory as flowers are soon gone. I also spend time in prayer, saying thank you to God for creating us in a way that we appreciate his other creations.... All much better than arguing about things that are meant for the True Anointed to understand and not for us. 
  25. Haha
    Pudgy got a reaction from Anna in Interesting thought about the initial rebellion   
    The author is clearly responding to new evidence that Satan worships Hillary Clinton.
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