by The-Borg 170 Replies latest jw friends
This has become a flame war.
Where have I EVER stated that invisible entities do my thinking for me? Where?
Answer the question, please.
But, just for the sake of irony...
Too bad you need to have someone , anyone, think for you.
Where have I (or the other skeptical posters) claimed we needed "someone, anyone, [to] think for [us]"?
- Lime
Logcal arguments?
Were they there?
Were you there?
This is like talking to a JW about the trinity.
Simply amazing.
Hey, you lurkers, you might as well stay where you are.
Warlock
lime,
How about Randi, Penn, and Teller?
So all of your "arguments" came out of your own head?
Give me a break.
Warlock
Warlock, you said in an earlier post that you used the Ouija board multiple times. So, you admit that you were asking a piece of painted wood for answers to questions, more than once. Unless you believe in the magical powers of wood or Hasbro or whoever the hell makes that thing, there is a belief on your part that some force or entity other than yourself was making the thing move. How is that not asking an unseen entity for answers to life's questions? (Note: I didn't say life questions were important questions, but they were important enough to you to ask them.)
cog,
when we were kids,
OVER 30 FUCKING YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OVER 30 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WAS NOT A JW!!!!!!!!
TELL ME, WHAT QUESTIONS DID WE ASK!!!!!!???????
TALK ABOUT A BUNCH OF IGNORAMUSES.
DID YOU ALL GET DEGREES IN STUPIDITY, OR WHAT!!!!?????
Warlock
Wow, you really get upset over this Warlock. I think the degree of emotional attachment one has to a particular belief can be measured by the degree of upset one feels when it is challenged.
cog,
It's more like DO YOU HEAR ME? AM I PENETRATING YOUR THICK SKULL?
That's all.
Warlock
When I was a little kid I had experiences of demons attacking me in my sleep. For years, when I was a JW, I believed those experiences were real. Now that I am no longer attached to that religion or their beliefs, I realize I was most likely experiencing common childhood night terrors, no doubt brought on by the frightening stories about demons that JW parents regularly tell their children from babyhood. That seems the most logical explanation to me now based upon my adult research and reasoning abilities.
The experience was real, but my interpretation of it was not accurate. Should I freak out at psychologists who study child development or sleep researchers who study night terrors, when they provide an alternative, and reasonable explanation to my childhood experience if it is different than the one I drew as a young child? Or is a mature, functional adult, able to look at the entire body of evidence on a subject and use reason to determine the most likely scenario?
cog,
You were right the first time.
It WAS demons.
Warlock
Whenever I encounter skeptics such as are found on this thread, the following Scripture comes to mind.
Acts 13:41 "Watch out, cynics;
Look hard—watch your world fall to pieces.
I'm doing something right before your eyes
That you won't believe, though it's staring you in the face." MSG
Warlock, I believe you because, though I've never seen or used an ouija board, I've had an encounter with pure evil - a malevolence that would have been terrifying were it not for my trust in the Savior.
Sylvia
