Posts by Pole

all haddock look pretty much the same as each other, daisies are pretty much just daisies etc.. in fact it seems that the greatest variety within a species seems to be when artificial means are used (domestic cats, dogs etc..) .

Pole

QCMBR,
I remember reading about a social study showing that people are much better in recognizing faces of people of their own race. So for an Eastern European living in a 99% white society all blacks are much more similar to each other than whites. And vice versa, for an Angolan, whites are much more similar to each other than blacks are.
So much of it is just an illusion.
Pole

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Very Bad Apologetics For Honest Seekers

by AlanF in

god had no beginning, so god did not need to be made.. .

if our local space-time universe is uncreated, then of course it is meaningless to ask who created it.

of course, everything that had a beginning had a beginner.

Pole

:Poisoning the well again?
More like poisoning the cesspit ;-)
:I feel badly for you, Alan. Some day your arrogance will catch up to you. I hear that it already has and I don't wish to air that at all. Some dark day you realize what you have done to others who come here to heal then leave with nihilistic ideas and no hope. Perhaps you will then gain some humility.
Shining One (Is that an abbreviation for Lucifer,or what, BTW?;-)),
Don't you think this statement shows that you have some emotional investment in those debates?
Cheers,
Pole

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If You Could Be Governing Body Member # 13-----What Would You Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

Pole

I'd make a lot of photocopies, record a lot of conversations. Then I'd leave, set up a website or write a book. I'm sure there'd be a niche market for it ;-).
Pole

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WT Prays for LA Storm victims

by JT in

this morning at brooklyn bethel, patterson and wt farms the governing body offered a prayer in behalf of all of the citizens in the la area.

that jehovah provide the needed protection for all citizens who will be impacted.. .

the gb prayed that those who would be risking their lives, such as essential personeel will have the needed strength to help all citizens.. .

Pole

Reading the first part of your post I found this news extremely difficult to believe. Isn't it revealing?
Pole

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Similarities between Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses!

by inquirer in

http://www.bible.ca/jw-catholic.htm .

-- great site in general check it out!

1. centralized world-wide church government from which all official doctrine comes.

Pole

inquirer,

No I'm not pissed of as I have no investment in Catholicism whatsoever. All I'm saying is that a lot of those similarities are only theoretical. Like the pope's authority compared with the authority of the governing body. If the catholic Poles followed the papal ban on condoms as strictly as the JWs follow the governing body's ban on blood, Poland would be one the most populous country in Europe by now. But it's not. Why? Because the apparently similar Catholic hierarchy doesn't really work like the one of JWs.

Pole

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Similarities between Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses!

by inquirer in

http://www.bible.ca/jw-catholic.htm .

-- great site in general check it out!

1. centralized world-wide church government from which all official doctrine comes.

Pole

Ok, what about the differences? My favourite one is this:
I have no major problems living in a 95% catholic country as an ex-Catholic.
Imagine living in a country where 95% are active dubs and you are an ex-one.
I think that says it all. Catholicism as a whole is a mainstream religion with minor cult-like varieties, JWs are a cult as a whole with some individuals beign more mainstream than the majority.
I don't give a rat's ass about the other doctrinal differences. Of course one can get excited about them if one's bent on proving the supreme nature of being a protestant. Have fun.
Pole

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There Is A Logical Explanation For All Of It

by Honesty in

that's what i was told when i called 718-560-5600 and asked a brother in the service department about all the flip flops on blood and other doctrines over the past 50 years.

not once did he mention 'new light' or 'old light'.

then he became a little confused when i mentioned that a lot of 'worldly' people are encouraging the jw's to compare "new light' with 'old light' because a lot of it is complete reversals and turn-arounds that are circularly oriented.

Pole

:There really is a logical explanation for all of it... the WTS is full of sht.
You beat me to it.
Pole

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Evolutionary establishment tactics

by hooberus in

wednesday evenings (august 24th) fox news program "the oreilly factor" featured an interview life after "intelligent design" with dr. richard sternberg, editor, of the peer-reviewed journal "proceedings of the biological society of washington.

" dr. sternberg's home page discusses the recriminations he faced by certain members of the evolutionary establishment after publishing an arcticle by another person advocating the possibilty of intelligent design in the peer reviewed journal.

http://www.rsternberg.net/

Pole

classicist,
First of all - I do enjoy most of your posts, because - regardless of the conclusions you sometimes arrive at - you do come across as a very bright-minded guy. So please don't consider it as an act of "jumping on the wagon" on my part to make this comment:
:I'm not sure I understand the ID correctly as many people hold it to mean different things. Now all I've heard about ID is that life is irreducibly complex and it couldn't have come about by chance. This is the ID argument and there isn't anything particularly religious about it.
I guess the expression "by chance" is a loaded one. Evolution depends on the determinism of the Universe to a large extent. Pure randomness is like infinite enthropy. It rarely happens in nature.
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas! ;-)
Pole