Posts by azor

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How does this make you feel.......?

by ScottyRex in

jw
friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-7z1s5hik.

and so many more on youtube disrupting jw's.

how does this make you feel?.

azor

I'll tell you the same thing I told my still in JW stepmother. I feel for the people that are so torn up by the damage this cult has done to them and continues to do. If they had their families, acts like this would be even rarer then they already are.

I remember how I used to feel towards the apostates outside of conventions when I was still brainwashed. I was extremely judgemental. Now I see it for what it is. Damaged people that are acting out. The chickens coming home to roost. Im actually surprised it doesn't happen more often. If only those that are so desperate that they kill themselves did this instead.

What they need from us is less judgment and more understanding.

Scotty your judgemental attitude continues to baffle me. Do you have no compassion?

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Who can explain why the "Two Witness" rule is wrong, in the simplest term?

by DATA-DOG in

with all the legalese being tossed around, and the expert manipulation on the part of the wtbts, who can explain why the "two witness" is being perverted by the wtbts?

i don't care if you're a bible believer and want to approach this from a biblical standpoint, or if you simply use logic and reason.

how would you explain this subject to a j-dub, or even a non-dub?.

azor

The crime in question rarely if ever has two witnesses.

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Stop Jehovah's Witnesses from posting outside of Disneyland

by Roberto Carlos in

jw
friends

please sign petition to have disneyland stop jw's preaching outside gate.

click here to sign petition (not spam, real link).

jehovah's witnesses have been involved in vast amount of pedophilia cases.

azor

Baker what the hell does that YouTube have to do with this subject.

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The Evolution of Morality - Jonathan Haidt

by cofty in

the question of how humans came to have a moral sense is one of the more interesting challenges offered by believers against unguided evolution.

even informed christians who accept the reality of evolution feel a need to add an additional step where god imbued man with a conscience.. non-supernatural explanations of the origin of morality usually focus on simple examples of reciprocal altruism and the ability to empathise with fellow creatures.

secular moral systems most often rest on the single foundation of the effects actions have on the well-being of conscious creatures.

azor

Omnivores dilemma a term coined by Paul Rozin. Omnivores must seek out and explore new foods while remaining wary until they are proven safe.

Omnivores therefore go thorough life with two competing motives. Neophilia (an attraction to new things) and neophobia (a fear of new things). People vary in terms of which motive is stronger. Liberals score higher on measures of neophilia (also known as openness to new experiences) and conservatives on neophoia. These carried over to more areas than just food. It carried over to new experiences, people, and music.

The emotion of disgust evolved initially to deal with the omnivores dilemma.

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Stop Jehovah's Witnesses from posting outside of Disneyland

by Roberto Carlos in

jw
friends

please sign petition to have disneyland stop jw's preaching outside gate.

click here to sign petition (not spam, real link).

jehovah's witnesses have been involved in vast amount of pedophilia cases.

azor

Steve 2 is it the method he is using that you oppose or the idea of signing a petition to get thern removed?

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The Evolution of Morality - Jonathan Haidt

by cofty in

the question of how humans came to have a moral sense is one of the more interesting challenges offered by believers against unguided evolution.

even informed christians who accept the reality of evolution feel a need to add an additional step where god imbued man with a conscience.. non-supernatural explanations of the origin of morality usually focus on simple examples of reciprocal altruism and the ability to empathise with fellow creatures.

secular moral systems most often rest on the single foundation of the effects actions have on the well-being of conscious creatures.

azor

Sparrow it's interesting how a philosopher from the 19th century nailed it. "Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation but so that he shall throw of the chain and pluck the living flower." I never heard this entire quote until I heard Hitchens recite it.

It appears that the work of our modern scientists are accomplishing this.

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The Evolution of Morality - Jonathan Haidt

by cofty in

the question of how humans came to have a moral sense is one of the more interesting challenges offered by believers against unguided evolution.

even informed christians who accept the reality of evolution feel a need to add an additional step where god imbued man with a conscience.. non-supernatural explanations of the origin of morality usually focus on simple examples of reciprocal altruism and the ability to empathise with fellow creatures.

secular moral systems most often rest on the single foundation of the effects actions have on the well-being of conscious creatures.

azor

Cofty all excellent books for a more coherent understanding of our nature. I know they have all helped me to be less bitter by understanding thyself and others better. Now if I could only get over my baser instincts more often. I know my blood pressure and heart would thank me.

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Stop Jehovah's Witnesses from posting outside of Disneyland

by Roberto Carlos in

jw
friends

please sign petition to have disneyland stop jw's preaching outside gate.

click here to sign petition (not spam, real link).

jehovah's witnesses have been involved in vast amount of pedophilia cases.

azor

Baker. We have just as much right to ask them to kick them out of a private park as they have to try and be there. Would you feel the same about scientogists, or a group like the Jones's or the Mansons. Your statement above shows how little you've thought this through.

It is appropriate to be intolerant of a group that strips people of their tolerance and freedom. A group that takes advantage of freedom of religion and enslaves people through their shunning policy.

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