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  Sagan's remark vs '75 yearbook. Invisible fulfillments of WTS prophecies,

  by Pole in

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  most of you are probably familiar with the following quote from carl sagan: .

  doctrines that make no predictions are less compelling than those which make correct predictions; they are in turn more successful than doctrines that make false predictions.

  one prominent american religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. well, 1914 has come and gone, and -- while the events of that year were certainly of some importance -- the world does not, at least so far as i can see, seem to have ended.

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  I'm an ex-dub as of tonight.

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  i just want to let you know my updated status.

  today i had another elder visit.

  last time i had a call about a month ago.

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  Anything worth seeing in Boston?

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  i'm going to boston, ma for 5 days (6-11th of july) to a conference held at the mit.

  so i'll be staying in cambridge actually, but it seems to be adjacent to boston.

  on one of the days i'm supposed to give a presentation, but i should also have a day or two off for sightseeing.

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  Is apostasy an anti-lizard movement with an anti-reptilian agenda?

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  http://www.reptilianagenda.com/exp/e122299a.shtml .

  according to diana huston, daniel sydlik is a lizard-man male-witch.

  she actually testified that she noticed "a thin membrane drop over his human eyes" during a personal encounter with sydlik!

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  What do creationsts have to offer?

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  there were a few interesting threads recently on evolution/creationism.

  some posters seem to have argued it would be fair to have creationism taught at schools.

  (see abadon's thread).

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  Earthquakes - a sign of the End?

  by Pole in

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  let?s assume earthquakes were to be part of ?the sign of the end?

  given by jesus.

  if we follow this logic, then what does it mean in real terms?

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  I am (not) a satanist.

  by Pole in

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  i faded away from the jw cult last year (loaded language but i have my resons now).

  i got my family out which was great.

  from then on it's been a typical story of leaving a cult, though.

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  Who else is not going to the memorial for the first time this year?

  by Pole in

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  well, it's going to be the first memorial i'll miss out on.

  no big deal, but i guess it has to be considered one of the final stages of "apostasy" :-).

  i remember i used to see some df-ed people at memorials.

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  How much RAM do you have on your machine?

  by Pole in

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  how much ram do you have on your machine?

  let's see if someone can beat me.

  pole

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  WTS supports evolution

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  no mistake here.. funkyderek wrote on another thread: for the genesis account to be literally true would require a mutation rate 25 - 40 times that which is observed.

  ironically, to be a creationist, one would have to believe in a much faster rate of evolution than any biologist would believe.

  that reminds me of a thread from a few months ago where the issue of flood was brought up.. i remember i was really surprised to read that the wts suggests such a hypothesis of post-flood speedy evolution, whose rate far exceeded that of any evolution theory suggested so far.

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