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  Young man....young man?!?!

  by logansrun in

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  when is a man no longer a "young man"?

  i, for instance, am twenty-eight years old (ignore the avatar) and am still called "young man" to this day, by both people i"ve met in person as well as on this message board.

  is it really my age?

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  doogie

  i found that the less i talk the more mature people think i am. the more i say, the more people realize i'm a dumbass.
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  is the end really near?...or am i paranoid?

  by kittyeatzjdubs in

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  matt can't go to bed without the radio on, so he had it on a liberal political news station last night.

  the topic they were discussing gave me a twinge of paranoia and i was hoping that maybe some of you could help me out here....they were talking about how religion is playing a big part in the war in iraq and everything.

  and that made the little mom voice go off in my head...''i'm telling you jobeth.

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  doogie

  that's the first thing that's fortold to lead to the end

  yeah, like EF said. ask her where that "prophecy" is in the bible. i doubt she'll even give you a scripture...just a watchtower reference. it's just as disjointed a reading of vaious unrelated scriptures as the rest of their "prophecies". (i hope they're right though, and they are eventually outlawed! that'd be hilarious!)
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  "The Creation Adventure Team" LOL

  by love11 in

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  it's been awhile since i wrote, but i've been crazy busy with school work!.

  my fundamental christian neighbors gave my kids this video to watch.

  - "the creation adventure team".

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  doogie

  they have a bumper sticker that says "Evolution is a LIE"

  you should ask them why. they'll probably just laugh back at ya. 10 bucks says they don't have even the slightest understanding of what they are calling a lie.
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  "The Creation Adventure Team" LOL

  by love11 in

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  it's been awhile since i wrote, but i've been crazy busy with school work!.

  my fundamental christian neighbors gave my kids this video to watch.

  - "the creation adventure team".

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  doogie

  Better yet some scientific EVIDENCE that this is untrue.

  jeez...a better question is what could you show them that's NOT scientific evidence against the video. take a look at SNG's threads or pretty much any creation v. evolution thread and you'll find a ton of stuff to show them.

  this makes me ill. it's one thing to raise your kids to believe in a creator. it's another thing to just flat out LIE to them.
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  Prove to me that God exists

  by CinemaBlend in

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  i need debate practice on the subject for the next time i'm cornered.

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  doogie

  deputydog:

  I didn't ask you if you had any morals or used logic, I asked how you account for them. How did these things evolve from nothing or from simply matter energy and motion?

  if you're truly interested in exploring this, you should look at "Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence" by Carl Sagan. he has a great writing style and he is just about as non-dogmatic as a guy can be (hell, it says 'speculation' right in the title). it's a great introduction to the evolution of the human brain (assuming that you are honestly interested in this subject).
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  Prove to me that God exists

  by CinemaBlend in

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  i need debate practice on the subject for the next time i'm cornered.

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  doogie

  He says it would be easy to pass it off as wishful thinking if it wasn't for the sheer quantity of milk involved and also the fact that it didn't happen the next day even with little teaspoons of milk.

  yeah, buckets of milk wouldn't disappear. you'd think that would've been reported, though. all that was reported were tiny amounts. besides, the fact that even teaspoons were not absobed the next day is a bit odd too because a miracle isn't even necessary to make those disappear (maybe there was a 2nd miracle to prevent the statues from absorbing the milk on the second day).

  unfortunately, like terry said, intellectual ability is often completely seperate from gullibility. (my parents are amazingly intelligent, yet they truly believed that demons possessed one of my video games when i was a little kid. they had me destroy it with a hammer.)
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  Prove to me that God exists

  by CinemaBlend in

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  i need debate practice on the subject for the next time i'm cornered.

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  doogie

  In a nutshell some woman had a dream that this God wanted to drink milk ...(shrugs) so that morning she 'fed' the statue milk and it was sucked up.

  i heard about this and i think it's pretty well been thrashed by that dern rascal "science".

  http://www.mindspring.com/~anson/randi-hotline/1995/0027.html

  What's really happening is that teaspoons of milk are being absorbed; it's called capillary action. A small amount of milk touched to the mouth of a plaster figure, according to the press, just "disappeared." I think not. The milk didn't "disappear"; it was simply soaked up by the plaster.

  Note that, as Reuters reported, the whole thing started as a "rumor" -- the media is now gleefully promoting it, and now
  that the Canadian media are snapping it up, I'm sure that every statue in the Dominion will be trotted out to the wonderment of the naive.

  I believe that a plaster statue of Lyndon Johnson will do exactly the same thing, perhaps with a pint of beer -- now, is that, too, a miracle? Maybe in Texas....

  I'm a very practical soul, so I propose a test of this wondrous curiosity: offer the statue a teaspoonful of ink. If that, too, is "slurped up," Hindu gods are either incredibly stupid, or have poorly-developed taste buds. No one will do such a test, of course, because we have here a perfectly good and attractive farce going full-steam, and enough naive people to meet our most ambitious needs.

  this doesn't touch on any incident's of paper pictures enjoying milk, but i've never heard that before. but seeing as it was one person experiencing a non-repeatable event under the assumption that he had just previously witnessed a miracle...i don't know. sounds just a bit fishy.
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  Saddest cartoon episode?

  by Simon in

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  our kids love the simpsons and futurama but one episode of futurama is just soooo sad, i can barely watch it - it brings a lump to my throat every time!.

  the one with seymour, fry's fossilised dog that the professor is going to bring back to life.

  he decides not to do it because he thinks seymour lived a full life after he got frozen and will have forgotten him.. instead, the dog sat waiting for him all those years ... .

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  Of course all episodes of the simpsons are sad now... A great show that has become just so F%#*ing lame

  haha. yup.

  i remember there was a simpsons where homer's mom came back after being gone for years (he thought she was dead) and then the episode ends with him dropping her off in the middle of the desert and as the credits are rolling he's just sitting on the hood of his car and watching the stars.

  oh, and the ren and stimpy that you guys already mentioned. gut wrenching.
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  why me?

  by kittyeatzjdubs in

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  does anyone else experience this or is it just me?

  my jw mom just called and said she wanted me to call her back on my lunch break...but she didn't say why....so now i'm all nervous and worried, wondering what it is....did i get found out on this site by a lurker?...is there something wrong in the family?....i don't know!!!

  now i have this awful knot in the pit of my stomach that's going to stay there until i find out what the hell's going on........does (or has) anyone else have this experience with their jw mom or dad...where they say they want to talk to you, and u have to sweat it out until they're ready?.......

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  doogie

  does (or has) anyone else have this experience with their jw mom or dad...where they say they want to talk to you, and u have to sweat it out until they're ready

  yeah, when i was 16. i hated it. i almost always assumed the worst, but i found that when it truly was "the worst" they just talked to me straight away and didn't keep my waiting. when i worried over it, it was almost always something stupid.

  personally, if i were you, i'd be hoping that you were "caught" so that you wouldn't have to worry about that crap anymore. when i left (when i was 21) i had that feeling you're talking about, but afterwards i realized that 21 YEAR OLDS AREN"T SUPPOSED TO FEEL THAT WAY!! my only regret was that i hadn't gotten that crap (and the guilty feeling) out of the way years sooner.
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  Prove to me that God exists

  by CinemaBlend in

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  i need debate practice on the subject for the next time i'm cornered.

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  doogie

  who was the last atheist you can name who held an important government office?

  that's an interesting point. i've never thought of that.

  i'm not trying to portray the poor atheists as an opressed minority, i just think it's interesting. i wonder if it's for a lack of trying or if the platform just doesn't quite appeal to the religious masses. (can't understand why that would be. )