Ever get those crazy and funny lines of reasoning going while daydreaming, the ones that seem full of promise but just won't flesh out into something spectacular? Those ones that would be worthy of a great thread at JWN, if only they were fully cooked?
I have those.
Sadly, I am so busy most of the time that I never get to follow my little thought experiments. Instead of despairing, I thought I would riff on a couple of them a bit here, just to start something.
Hey, it can't be any worse than yet another Christian vs. hell-bound atheist thread, right?
Riff 1.
Using WTS literature to prove that the WTS does not have the truth is easy. Or is it? I think that maybe it would just create an infinite feedback loop from which there is no escape: Their literature says x, and they have practiced y, therefore they are z. But wait, since they are z, their literature which says x cannot be used against them, since it is z! And if we can't use z literature which says x against them, then perhaps they have the truth! But they also practice y, which is clearly contradicted by x, so they must be z! And so on. So tell me, can the literature of an untrustworthy source be used to argue against said source, since the literature itself is a faulty witness? Just askin'.
Riff 2.
Jesus. An example of super-evolution gone awry. How so? After the global flood, which I have been assured was totally real, all animals must out of necessity have undergone super-evolution to reach the variety and number of species that is seen today. Also, God decided that he really likes sacrifice. Animal sacrifice for a while, till...human sacrifice can replace it. I guess humans weren't quite ready to be sacrificed yet, so God put into play some super-cool super-evolution within one lineage of humanity, all to presumably create a race of sacrificial humans.
Follow me? No? Fine, but I'm still going, my confused-looking friends. This lineage took a couple thousand years to finally produce offspring deemed worthy of sacrifice. Super-evolution! Bam! But the plan worked too well. This perfectly sacrifice-able offspring was so perfect for the job that he actually wanted to be sacrificed for humanity (sacrificial victims should go kicking and screaming)...and went ahead with it before passing on his genetic material!
Facepalm moment! **cue sad trumpet sound - waa waaa waaaaahhhhh**
To save everyone a lot of trouble, God decided that this one sacrifice would have to do. Yaaay, no more blood in the name of religion! Oh, wait...
/offensive post.