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  Beliefs About What Caused the Universe

  by Perry in

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  the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.

  whatever begins to exist had a cause.

  therefore the universe had a cause.

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  Coded Logic

  Anything that begins to exist has a cause.

  This is not known to be true. We've never witnessed something "begin to exist" via a cause. Causation only applies to existing materials transitioning from one state into another state (nebulae into stars, trees into furniture, etc.)

  And the only thing we've ever witnessed "beginning to exist" are virtual particle pairs - which don't have a cause as far as we know.

  An expanding universe must of had a beginning.

  Once again, this is not known to be true. And if space-time began with the universe than saying "the universe began to exist" and "the universe has always existed" are identical statements.
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  People are paying attention

  by Coded Logic in

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  yes, i read pink news from time to time.

  i'm a gay man.

  so sue me.

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  Makes me want to go and try and fix some other JW cartoons.
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  Shooting in the foot (homophobic video)

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with the newly released homophobic video by the wts, it gets clearer that those people can't stop shooting themselves in the foot.

  they are already under examination and de facto trial by the australian committee; more and more people and officials in western democracies inquire into their abusive tactics and put them under the microscope, and what do they do?

  they release a video which confirms those worries.

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  Christianity expect men to deny this strong urge and stick to one partner for the rest of his life even though it may be very difficult. If this video were about a little girl who's school friend was upset because her parents were divorcing after the Daddy cheated on the Mommy, the JW mother would be explaining how Jehovah is against fornication and adultery and won't allow people who do that, into Paradise.

  -PZ

  The fact that you're trying to compare fornication to being gay is truly abysmal. One is about a person being selfish and betraying their spouses trust. The other is about two people who love each other developing their relationship and cultivating a sense of trust and affection between each other.

  This is the exact sort of bigotry I am referring to. It's a deep seeded intolerance towards anything that is different and an attempt to vilify it by false equivocation. Biblical pronouncements are not "standards". Their arbitrary statements without regard to human decency or the well being of sentient creatures.
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  People are paying attention

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yes, i read pink news from time to time.

  i'm a gay man.

  so sue me.

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  Yes, I read Pink News from time to time. I'm a gay man. So sue me. You have to understand the onus put on us to be fashion savvy and culturally up to date on every piece of celebrity garbage is not an easy stereotype to live up to.

  Anyway, was really glad to see this on their site. Apparently the latest JW cartoon has been getting a lot of attention and someone took the time to fix it:

  http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/05/watch-someone-fixed-that-creepy-anti-gay-jehovahs-witness-cartoon/?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=ETFB&utm_campaign=portal&utm_content=inf_11_60_2&tse_id=INF_21bc451e8ea24636911e09123d6cca24
  
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  Shooting in the foot (homophobic video)

  by Syme in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with the newly released homophobic video by the wts, it gets clearer that those people can't stop shooting themselves in the foot.

  they are already under examination and de facto trial by the australian committee; more and more people and officials in western democracies inquire into their abusive tactics and put them under the microscope, and what do they do?

  they release a video which confirms those worries.

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  To me being Phobic about something, you have to have an irrational fear of it to the point that it is interupting your daily activities. It used to be that to be called intolerant, phobic or bigoted, you had to actually do something mean or harmful to someone else or be behaving irrationally.

  The witnesses black and white stance on homosexuality is extremely harmful to all the gay kids growing up in organisation. They are being told that their natural desire to love and to be loved is somehow evil. They are being told by their parents that they should never be in a relationship with someone whom they're attracted to because they're parents don't want them to die in the smoke and fire of armageddon which is "right around the corner".

  It that's not an irrational fear - if that's not a phobia - I don't know what is.
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  Understanding The Bible ... The "Linchpin" Effect

  by Littleleslie in

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  2. bible

  understanding the holy bible.. .

  after many years of study of scripture, our bible study group has discovered something very important that needs to be realized or absorbed, before one can come to a correct understanding of the bible.

  we call it, the "linchpin" effect... .

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  God is not the author of confusion . . .

  . . . just joking! He is really out to deceive everyone by inspiring a book no one can understand. Haha, take that humans!
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  NEW PEW Research data on Jehovah's Witnesses just released

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  i was expecting people who "identified" as jws to follow watchtower beliefs more closely than these pollsters report.. .

  http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/26/a-closer-look-at-jehovahs-witnesses-living-in-the-u-s/.

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  Like any religion, what "is" and "isn't" a member is a bit ambiguous. The Watchtower says there are around 7 million publishers. A fair portion of these are unbaptised. And of those there is some percentage that doesn't really have a grasp on JW theology.

  There are also people who are not publishers or who are inactive but still identify as JWs because they occasionally go to meetings or are studying. Their answers too will influence the stats.

  Lastly, there are publishers, baptised ones, ministerial servants, elders, pioneers, etc who are trapped in the religion but no longer believe everything the WT teaches.

  We don't just get to cherry pick the JWs who are toeing the party line and say "only their responses matter". We have to look at the whole picture of what it means to be a JW in various states and transitions.
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  Fed up with Prince? try: Un petit blog de France

  by Half banana in

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  i have just spent ten days working in france, i arrived late on friday night and the first thing saturday morning two visitors ominously strolled into my garden..

  i was offered the flimsy awake which i opened and was immediately struck with a very false image.

  the article gave the feel that the magazine was scientifically credible.

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  Isaiah had a word for sphere (Isaiah 22:18) but instead decided to describe the world as being flat. It's almost like the Bible was written by iron age men who had no understanding of their world. Weird.
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  Trump or Contested Convention?

  by Coded Logic in

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  for those of us who are hillary and bernie fans, which is the better outcome - to have donald trump as the republican's nomination whose unpopular with most americans?

  or are we better off watching the chaos of a contested convention and the party eventually putting up someone weak like john kasic or jeb bush?

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  What makes you say Trump is "unpopular with most Americans"?

  Trump/s approval rating has consistently hovered around 30%. Whereas his unfavorable rating has been over 50%. Though, as the GirlNextDoor correctly pointed out, a far better descriptor would have been "majority" rather than "most".

  The Huffington Post keeps an up to date Meta-analysis or every poll measuring the favorable/unfavorable rating of Clinton and Trump. Where as you can always find polls that are outliers and shows the two neck and neck - this sort of information isn't helpful. However, an aggregate of all the polls helps plot any trends that may be developing. And, as best we can tell, it doesn't seem like Trump is gaining any traction with American voters. Unsurprisingly, the majority of people seem not to like him.

  http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/donald-trump-favorable-rating
  
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  Trump or Contested Convention?

  by Coded Logic in

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  for those of us who are hillary and bernie fans, which is the better outcome - to have donald trump as the republican's nomination whose unpopular with most americans?

  or are we better off watching the chaos of a contested convention and the party eventually putting up someone weak like john kasic or jeb bush?

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  Coded Logic

  For those of us who are Hillary and Bernie fans, which is the better outcome - To have Donald Trump as the Republican's nomination whose unpopular with most Americans? Or are we better off watching the chaos of a contested convention and the party eventually putting up someone weak like John Kasic or Jeb Bush?