great reply abaddon, as always. now noone tell me weed has a negative effect on human brains.
tetrapod, this is an interesting approach, but i'm not sure if it is always applicable. this rule is another version of "the simplest answer usually is the right one" if i understand it correctly. while this is true very often, some things simly are not that simple... however, the more unproven assumptions the less credible, this surely is true.
evilforce, yes it's the matrix. can you get me a red pill?
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i need some skeptic input... dreams that come true
by googlemagoogle inlisten to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister xyz died".
i just thought, well she's dreaming.
the next day one of my friends told me "sister xyz died yesterday".
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i need some skeptic input... dreams that come true
by googlemagoogle inlisten to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister xyz died".
i just thought, well she's dreaming.
the next day one of my friends told me "sister xyz died yesterday".
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The worst thing we can do is come up with complex theological/religious explanations for things we don't quite understand. This is where you may start wasting your life.
this of course is true. there's just this automatic reflex, learned by indoctrination, that makes one connect pure coincidence with supernatural stories.
the first thing i thought was "what if there really are supernatural beings". this thought lasted for almost 3 seconds... scary. -
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i need some skeptic input... dreams that come true
by googlemagoogle inlisten to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister xyz died".
i just thought, well she's dreaming.
the next day one of my friends told me "sister xyz died yesterday".
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well, i don't believe in anything supernatural. but there's so much influence from my JW past (and pseudo JW present), urban legends and media, so after events like that you got a lot of "possibilities" to chose from.
for example when i read posts on this board about people experiencing crazy things while performing a ouija session, i sometimes really wonder what to think about it. you know, there's still that little demon the JWs planted in my head when i was a child. -
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i need some skeptic input... dreams that come true
by googlemagoogle inlisten to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister xyz died".
i just thought, well she's dreaming.
the next day one of my friends told me "sister xyz died yesterday".
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yeah i was explaining it to me like that too... my grandfather died some weeks ago, so things probably mixed in her dream. it just sounded pretty creepy for the moment. won't change my worldview though until the same thing happens again.
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i need some skeptic input... dreams that come true
by googlemagoogle inlisten to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister xyz died".
i just thought, well she's dreaming.
the next day one of my friends told me "sister xyz died yesterday".
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listen to this: the other day my wife was talking in her sleep and she said "sister XYZ died". i just thought, well she's dreaming. the next day one of my friends told me "sister XYZ died yesterday". so i thought, well, maybe someone called my wife and told her, so she dreamed about it. when i came home i told her, did you know sister XYZ died? she said, no what, really?
thing is she didn't know about it. she only knew that sister XYZ was in hospital. now i firmly believe in something we call "coincidence", but this felt a bit confusing...
what do you think about it?
edited to add: that sister is not very close to us. so it's not like she'd think a lot about her or being in sorrow about her. -
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Races - where do they come from?
by googlemagoogle inthis one goes out to all the evolution maniacs out there, king james bible bumpers are also welcome to present their view.
even when i still believed in the bible as god's word, i never understood how (at least) three races came from 2 persons.
i sometimes thought, maybe adam was black and eve white, but where does the mongol race come from then?
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ah, that's interesting leolaia. human races don't exist, never thought of that but makes a lot of sense. i'm very interested in the multi-origin theorie, because of the neandertal and homo-florensis. do you have any links?
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Races - where do they come from?
by googlemagoogle inthis one goes out to all the evolution maniacs out there, king james bible bumpers are also welcome to present their view.
even when i still believed in the bible as god's word, i never understood how (at least) three races came from 2 persons.
i sometimes thought, maybe adam was black and eve white, but where does the mongol race come from then?
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ok, sorry if i touched some nerve there, as i used a stereotype for all races. thought this would be clear...
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Races - where do they come from?
by googlemagoogle inthis one goes out to all the evolution maniacs out there, king james bible bumpers are also welcome to present their view.
even when i still believed in the bible as god's word, i never understood how (at least) three races came from 2 persons.
i sometimes thought, maybe adam was black and eve white, but where does the mongol race come from then?
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well, this is not about racism or ethics, it's about evolution. maybe another question would be: do we all originate from the same animal that lived a few hundret thousand years ago, or did evolution towards humankind take place several times and got all mixed along the way?
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Races - where do they come from?
by googlemagoogle inthis one goes out to all the evolution maniacs out there, king james bible bumpers are also welcome to present their view.
even when i still believed in the bible as god's word, i never understood how (at least) three races came from 2 persons.
i sometimes thought, maybe adam was black and eve white, but where does the mongol race come from then?
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this one goes out to all the evolution maniacs out there, king james bible bumpers are also welcome to present their view.
even when i still believed in the bible as god's word, i never understood how (at least) three races came from 2 persons. i sometimes thought, maybe adam was black and eve white, but where does the mongol race come from then?
well now as a convinced atheist i still would like to have an answer to that. did races develop independently by some sambian monkeys becoming huge black homeboys, some viking monkeys becoming blond white nerds and some asian monkeys starting to cook chinese food or do all races have the same origin and developed from there? what is current knowledge on this topic?
i thought about it, because neandertals are thought to have been independent from homo-sapiens as well as the homo-florensis. -
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King James - why ?
by Ramblin_rose ini trust the following links will prove very enlightening regards the subject of bible "translations" and why it is very important to ensure that you are studying god`s pure word, and not a translation which was put together to suit the whims of those whose interests it best suited.
al cuppit .
http://www.dccsa.com/greatjoy/alcuppit.htm.
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earth is flat.