I reckon that was just a parable
you are on the right track, lou belle. the way to agnostic/atheist starts right there.
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Neaderthals and the Hobbits what the heck?
by skyman into me not believing that they were alive and human living at the same time as us is like believing in the tooth fairy.
dna proves the neanderthals lived and were human but not us.
they lived worshipped wore jewry and buried their dead.
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Apostasy - A Racist Movement?
by slimboyfat infirpo carr argues that while many white apostates claim to highlight so-called 'racist' remarks and terminology in the watchtower literature, most such apostates are in fact white and have little real interest in black issues.
they are only interested in the issue in so far as they can use it to promote white anti-witness propaganda, whereas a high percentage of loyal witnesses are black.
i know that all the terms of my topic are debatable: apostacy is a witness term of derogation; apostates probably are mostly liberal and not racist (essentially); and they are not a 'movement' in any case.
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this thread sucks
at least one thing JC got right!
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Looking back at 1905
by Nathan Natas inthe year 1905. .
what a difference a century makes!.
here are some of the u.s. statistics for 1905:.
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Here are some of the
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Kickin' it with Moses
by Low-Key Lysmith inhave any of y'all ever participated in the whole "i can't wait for the new the new order so i can meet and hang out with the bible all-stars" thing.
my old man always wanted to meet the apostles who were fishermen 'cause he likes to fish.
i used to picture myself when i was a little kid holding hands with job and moses skipping through the gumdrop forest and petting an alaskan brown bear completly unafraid of bodily harm whilst the 1800 lb bruin grazes peacefully in the pasture.
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omg, that's one of the great paradise-talk stuff. everybody thinks he'd be sitting there with daniel asking questions of "how it was and how he felt facing this and that".
say 6 million JWs survive and millions of corpses rise from their graves. how the heck would daniel stand there in his fashionable judean dress and talk to some shaved white tie-wearer about old neb, while the kids are playing "noah's ark".
i can tell you what daniel would do: he'd get himself a bunch of nephilim bodyguards, wear dark sunglasses and punch the paparazzi. and the watchtower's digest would cover scandals bout him breaking up with sexy sulamitha after she saw him kissing bathseba. -
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"friend" sends me email about Einstein and God...
by tetrapod.sapien inthe young man replied, "in fact sir, cold does not exist.
"professor, does darkness exist?".
"sir, does evil exist?".
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[iron]really?[/iron]
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Did You Get "Butterflies" Everytime The Elders Wanted To Speak To You?
by minimus inlooking back, i can see how the elders could "terrorize" different persons.
some people are shy by nature.
others were trained from their previous religions to be in subjection to the "shepherds".
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the big problem is that they leave you in the dark about what it'll be all about and you start thinking about the possibilities. then they are prepared and at least 2, while you are alone and maybe completely perplexe at first.
i've developed a good way to avoid such sheperding calls. when 2 of them want to talk to me i say i'd rather only talk to one person (elder of choice) and only if he keeps it for himself. i also say i need to know about the topic, so i can prepare, as they are prepared too.
the outcome: they just leave me alone. if i indeed talk to the one elder of choice i make him promise to not tell anyone about the conversation first. so much to the 2 witness rule :-) -
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"friend" sends me email about Einstein and God...
by tetrapod.sapien inthe young man replied, "in fact sir, cold does not exist.
"professor, does darkness exist?".
"sir, does evil exist?".
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LOL, yeah every scientist that has lived on earth has always in every instance been truthful and ethically without spot.
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"friend" sends me email about Einstein and God...
by tetrapod.sapien inthe young man replied, "in fact sir, cold does not exist.
"professor, does darkness exist?".
"sir, does evil exist?".
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googlemagoogle
I'm afraid you're going to have to cite examples of where I've done that.
hmm, got me wrong. you didn't misquote, but christians do. but you don't like it when people say "christians do" because you put yourself in the "christian" box. just let us have some prejudices and generalizations, will you?
You're starting yout assumption from a false premise.
not from a traditional christian/biblical point of view about good and evil. but thats where the problem begins - you actually are not in the "christian box". that's great, but thus you shouldn't feel attached to the label "christian". i think you are more than that. -
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Dub Conspiracy Theories
by GetBusyLiving inwhat are some paranoid dub conspiracy theories that you've heard?
a dub i chatted with a week ago got all frothing-at-the-mouth excited as he told me one.
some people are trying to have a law passed in canada that will make any gay's who want to serve in a priesthood of their church allowable, regardless of the church's policy.
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the funny thing is, that everything is a sign of "the end is very near", no matter what happens.
if everything runs fine and people are added to the congregation, they'd say "look how jehovah blesses the work, soon every sheep will be in and the end will come".
if everything runs horrible, people leave and the brothers are corrupt, they'd say "now that even in jehovah's people things like that happen, the end must be very near".
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New research on how Noah filled the ark
by No Apologies inthis is always a popular topic, and i just came across some startling new research on just how noah and his family were able to gather all the different kinds of animals as they were commanded to do.
it makes sense once you just think about it a bit.. .
new evidence suggests noah's sons rode flying dinosaurs .
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now that sounds reasonable. i wonder when they'll copy'n'paste it to MEPS (or what is it called?).