Sirius Dogma

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  Even if a God did exist, there are no absolutes

  by logansrun in

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  there is no objective standard for right and wrong even if a god did exist.

  god's morality is nothing more than an opinion backed up by absolute power.

  might does not make right.

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  There is no objective standard for right and wrong even if a God did exist.

  Objective standard. There is none, I would agree with that.

  God's morality is nothing more than an opinion backed up by absolute power.

  I would agree with that as well, although some who believe in imaginery friends might argue that "the creator knows what is best for his creations." Much like how an auto maker tells you run this type of gasoline in this model and this type of oil.

  Might does not make right. Nothing makes "right."

  Above you state there is no objective standard for right and wrong, so how can Might, or anything for that matter, make right or wrong. So if might doesn't make right, it doesn't make wrong either, it just is. Nothing makes wrong either.

  Our ethics are a branch of our aesthetics -- personal preferences nothing more.

  Yep. They differ all over the planet, although we have a lot in common there are a lot of differences, although I think soon enough as we continue down the road of globalazation, we will get closer and closer to agreeing.

  So if there is no objective right and wrong, then everything is 'just ok' or 'just is', therefore rule by might is just ok and a non-objective standard just is. Seeing past polarazation is a real mind-twist.
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  The "What If" Game

  by copsec in

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  i ask a question, the next person answers my question and then asks their own and so on.

  so i will start off with....... .

  what if animals could talk?

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  Doom III (The video game) would have been released sooner.

  What if we all never wore clothes?
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  San Jose, CA to Texas - via IH-10

  by Jim_TX in

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  okay... this is _sorta_ a 'reunion' - so i posted it here.. i will be flying out to san jose tomorrow (april 27th), and then driving back to texas via ih-10.

  (i think we are going to start off by coming through part of los angeles.).

  this will take me through all sorts of interesting places that i have never been... (i've been to san jose, ca - but not out ih-10).. anyway... i think that it would be really really really cool if i could meet (even if just over the phone) some of you folks - who might be in this 'path'.. so... if you feel 'brave' enuf to want to meet up with a nerd - and trust that i am not psychotic... neurotic, or any of those other 'otics', then perhaps... if you could pm me... i can give you my e-mail addy, and we could then exchange a phone number or something.. i leave tomorrow... i know this is pretty sudden-like... so... you will need to make a 'coin-toss' decision - and pm me tonight... or no later than tomorrow am.. i hope that i can at least talk to... or meet... one person from this forum in the next few days.

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  Ok how about this. Jim has our numbers and calls us if he can meet up whenever he can. Otherwise. we all meet on Wednesday evening... say around 6:30 or so I will suggest a place called Aqui's in Willow Glen(San Jose). It is ameri-mex, nice, not-expensive and friendly. You can get the address here http://www.willow-glen.com/dining/aqui.shtml

  What do you all think?

  I will PM Frankie, Leolaia and Mark with my info.
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  The "What If" Game

  by copsec in

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  2. entertainment

  i ask a question, the next person answers my question and then asks their own and so on.

  so i will start off with....... .

  what if animals could talk?

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  We would wake to a lot more questions.

  What if we abolished religion?
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  San Jose, CA to Texas - via IH-10

  by Jim_TX in

  1. jw
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  okay... this is _sorta_ a 'reunion' - so i posted it here.. i will be flying out to san jose tomorrow (april 27th), and then driving back to texas via ih-10.

  (i think we are going to start off by coming through part of los angeles.).

  this will take me through all sorts of interesting places that i have never been... (i've been to san jose, ca - but not out ih-10).. anyway... i think that it would be really really really cool if i could meet (even if just over the phone) some of you folks - who might be in this 'path'.. so... if you feel 'brave' enuf to want to meet up with a nerd - and trust that i am not psychotic... neurotic, or any of those other 'otics', then perhaps... if you could pm me... i can give you my e-mail addy, and we could then exchange a phone number or something.. i leave tomorrow... i know this is pretty sudden-like... so... you will need to make a 'coin-toss' decision - and pm me tonight... or no later than tomorrow am.. i hope that i can at least talk to... or meet... one person from this forum in the next few days.

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  hell.. I didn't know so many of us lived in the bay. We should all get together even if we don't get a chance to meet up with Jim.
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  Spiders....

  by Englishman in

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  heh.

  i'm sat here typing busily listening to yelps and squeals coming from the lounge.. hl is watching "8 legged freaks", can't bear to look, can't bear to walk away.. what is it with women and spiders anyway?.

  englishman.

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  Interesting and related.... how a spider weaves a web on various drugs

  http://www.missblackwidow.com/drugs.html
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  San Jose, CA to Texas - via IH-10

  by Jim_TX in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  okay... this is _sorta_ a 'reunion' - so i posted it here.. i will be flying out to san jose tomorrow (april 27th), and then driving back to texas via ih-10.

  (i think we are going to start off by coming through part of los angeles.).

  this will take me through all sorts of interesting places that i have never been... (i've been to san jose, ca - but not out ih-10).. anyway... i think that it would be really really really cool if i could meet (even if just over the phone) some of you folks - who might be in this 'path'.. so... if you feel 'brave' enuf to want to meet up with a nerd - and trust that i am not psychotic... neurotic, or any of those other 'otics', then perhaps... if you could pm me... i can give you my e-mail addy, and we could then exchange a phone number or something.. i leave tomorrow... i know this is pretty sudden-like... so... you will need to make a 'coin-toss' decision - and pm me tonight... or no later than tomorrow am.. i hope that i can at least talk to... or meet... one person from this forum in the next few days.

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  hey Jim,

  I am in SJ and just sent you a PM
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  Do Jehovah's Witnesses Have the Only True Religion

  by Theocrat in

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  whether you're a doubter or another agitator, just look at what the bible says: .

  1- jesus started one true christian religion.

  after the christian arrangement had been established for some time, the apostle paul under inspiration further showed at ephesians 4:4, 5 that there must be just one body, or group, of true worshipers of god.

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  Short answer - No.

  Longer answer - Noooooooooooo.
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  crisis of conscience....please help

  by boa in

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  allo folks.... .

  please tell me if you think a jehovah's witness could read crisis of concience and continue to be a jw after finishing it?

  since i have heard vague stories that there are some who have continued to be a jw, please relate the story and how you think this could be.

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  I tried to get my father to read it. He promised me he would read it after I promised to let him try to witness to me. I endured a few days debate while he visited then presented him with the book. Later he told me he read part of it, but very little in it was new and information he didn't already know. He threw the book out.

  I don't think he could handle reading it, it is too specific and uses the watchtowers own literature to prove their miserable failings. So I sent him another copy, he says he won't read it and reasons he doesn't need to. I tell him he is afraid, afraid to lose the social bonds he has built up for 30 years at this point in his life, afraid to lose his friends and the only people he knows, afraid that all the pain he has put our immediate and exteneded family through because of this insane cult was totally unneccesary and his own doing. In short, he would have to admit they were wrong and he was wrong to follow them so blindly. That is a big step. A step, I think, you have to make before you can read crisis of conscience and not somehow raionalize the whole thing as apostate slander. They are brainwashed and undoing that usually takes more than one book. Even if the book only presents the facts, they have to be ready to accept reality.

  Hope my experience helps.
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  Finally. Evolution/Creation debate resolved.

  by IronGland in

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  Sirius Dogma

  ROFLMFAO That is too funny. It is almost as bad as the crap the witnesses spew.