http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-collins9-2009jul09,0,7642590.story.
read a debate between collins and richard dawkins on time nov 5, 2006 (god vs science):.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1555132,00.html.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-collins9-2009jul09,0,7642590.story
Read a debate between Collins and Richard Dawkins on Time Nov 5, 2006 (God vs Science):
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1555132,00.html
and Sam Harris review of Collins' book The Language of God:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060815_sam_harris_language_ignorance/
Behe
a new product you wouldn't want to go without:.
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/16813/bloodless-black-sausage-created-for-jehovahs-witnesses.
behe.
A new product you wouldn't want to go without:
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/16813/bloodless-black-sausage-created-for-jehovahs-witnesses
Behe
i have spent literally hundreds of hours discussing with the c.o.
or other elders how some of us elders disagreed with a certain elders' actions and what could be done about it.
or that a certain elder was doing a certain thing, or acting a certain way.
In my 13 years as an elder I witnessed many disagreements during elders' meetings.
Once a PO who was totally dumb and incapable (and whom the congregation barely put up with) was asked to step down (not as an elder, mind you, just as PO) by the entire elders' body (plus a troubleshooter special pioneer especially dispatched by the Branch) and he wouldn't budge, kept on (for hours!) claiming that Jehovah himself had put him in that position and that he didn't intend to let it go ... never seen anybody more glued to his chair ... very embarrassing.
Behemot
in countries with basically a homogenous-language speaking group?
it strikes me as more devisive than uniting.
more like "separate, but equal".
In my experience foreign-language groups are often set up not because they are actually needed but, especially in stagnant and "fruitless" territories, just to give the impression to the otherwise bored members of the congregation that things are moving forward, there is some activity going on, initiatives taken, people getting busy in the work.
That's a two-edged sword though: foreign-language groups attract the most active, enthusiastic and eager members looking for "spiritual" gratification (well, at times it attracts also some with less noble reasons to turn over a new leaf), which in time, when the new group gains independence, leaves the "mother" congregation in an even weaker state.
Behemot
"i have, as a matter of fact, known some christians who did believe that the second coming was imminent.
i knew a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them that the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found that he was planting trees in his garden.
" (bertrand russell, why i am not a christian, lecture given on march 6, 1927 to the national secular society, south london branch, at battersea town hall).
"I have, as a matter of fact, known some Christians who did believe that the second coming was imminent. I knew a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them that the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found that he was planting trees in his garden." (Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian, lecture given on March 6, 1927 to the National Secular Society, South London Branch, at Battersea Town Hall)
Reminded me of so many JWs whose lifestyle and plans for the future contradicts their claim of the end's imminence: so many of them are "planting trees in" their "garden" ... good for them, actually, for eating of their fruits will soften their disappointment when the end doesn't come at all.
Behemot
just finished reading this book, which i found very insightful:.
http://www.amazon.com/gods-problem-answer-important-question-why/dp/0061173975.
anyone read it?.
Just finished reading this book, which I found very insightful:
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Problem-Answer-Important-Question-Why/dp/0061173975
Anyone read it?
Behemot
i was very ill this weekend and started brooding over the ot which fascinates me even now.. according to egyptian religion, the spirit is shown as a pair of wings.
since in genesis the literal words are "the spirit of god was fluttering above the face of the waters", why do translators hide this obvious animistic phrase by translating it "moving to and fro" rather than fluttering?
(remember the gospel where gods spirit flutters down in the form of a dove?).
"And to YOU who are in fear of my name the sun of righteousness will certainly shine forth, with healing in its wings; and YOU will actually go forth and paw the ground like fattened calves.” (Malachi 4:2)
For the origins and story of the sunwinged sun see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_sun
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/2059223
For early JWs' usage of sunwinged disk in their literature see:
http://www.seanet.com/~raines/disc.html
Behemot
interesting .... http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31030&itemid=1.
behemot.
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Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. - Blaise Pascal
