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...AAAAHHHH CHOOOOOOO!!!
Damnit, lost another gooey chunk of my soul again
i was just wondering if the ex-jw's here now believe you have a soul, or do you still hold on to the borgs claims of man/woman not having a soul.
i for one know we do.
aaahhh........
......ahhhhhhhhhhhh..
...AAAAHHHH CHOOOOOOO!!!
Damnit, lost another gooey chunk of my soul again
my little seven year old went to church with a neighbor kid last wednesday evening.
i thought the class would just be a few bible stories and color something, and since my husband and i want our children to be exposed to all kinds of beliefs and religions, i let her go.
boy, was i wrong.
There are churches that teach hell and damnation approach and it leaves an impression that God is walking around with a hammer ready to smash someone -- its the complete opposite, He will not invade us or push us around to make that choice, its our freewill to say yes or no.
Yes but you have to realize that when you say Accept jesus and be saved or die an eternal torterous death, it's hardly a choice. It's like holding a gun to your head. It's no different than the JW doctrine to be a JW and choose to live forever or leave them and choose to get killed at armagedon. This is why I can't beleive in christianity.
what are the cold hard facts that there are either a god or a devil.
with most the aarguments people make you could make the same aurguments about santa.
many human beings beleive in santa, there are books about santa, and when you wake up on christmas there are presents under the tree marked "from:santa".
Faith... dear Ben... is not blind. It is those who LACK faith... who are blind. Such ones takes what they can see... with their physical eyes, and assume IT to be the reality. However, it is that which can NOT be seen with the physical eyes, but with the eyes of the SPIRIT body, that is 'real'. The real... never dies. It is the COPY of the reality that is temporary... and fades away.You are gazing on the 'COPY'... of the 'reality'... rather than on reality itself. And you hear only that which came OUT of what existed before it.
Oh my god my brain almost fried after reading this.... this post speaks for itself in how grounded in reality people like SLAVE OF CHRIST ARE
I mean, he had to redefine the dictionary definitions of many common words to fit with his abstract state of mind.
Reminds me of Bussiness techno bable. I have a program that writes it for me, ready? Here it comes:
through a top-down, proactive approach we can remain customer focused and goal-directed, innovate and be an inside-out organization which facilitates sticky web-readiness transforming turnkey eyeballs to brand 24/365 paradigms with benchmark turnkey channels implementing viral e-services and dot-com action-items while we take that action item off-line and raise a red flag and remember touch base as you think about the red tape outside of the box and seize B2B e-tailers and re-envisioneer innovative partnerships that evolve dot-com initiatives delivering synergistic earballs to incentivize B2B2C deliverables that leverage magnetic solutions to synergize clicks-and-mortar earballs while facilitating one-to-one action-items with revolutionary relationships that deliver viral markets and grow e-business supply-chains that expedite seamless relationships and transform back-end relationships.
-Dan
if you want real help please go to:.
the official site for jehovah's witnesses and those truly interested in the jw organisation and the word of god.. i wonder if you would find so many sites (such as this one) dedicated to the verbal tearing apart of jehovah's witnesses and their religion if there was not something special about it?.
afterall when was the last time you found 10,000+ search results for catholics, jews, mormons or any supposed sect or cult?.
Logic is the path to the light-side
Logic leads to critical thinking
crtitical thinking leads to realizations
realizations lead to reality
it's a nasty circle, if you beleive in god, how can you say evolution is impossible since the argument goes "humans and life and the universe are so complicated they could not possibly arrise by mere chance" yet god is by definition infinitly more complicated than mere carbon-based life forms.
and where did god come from?
he was always there, or has no beginning or end, mystical answers like that.
It's a nasty circle, if you beleive in God, how can you say evolution is impossible since the argument goes "Humans and life and the universe are so complicated they could not possibly arrise by mere chance" yet God is by definition infinitly more complicated than mere carbon-based life forms. And where did God come from? He was always there, or has no beginning or end, mystical answers like that. And if you say there is no god because we all arose by chance from a lightning bolt, then how can you say God dosen't exsist if he is also a complicated lifeform. If humans, a sentient self-aware species could arise by chance, why not God?
So we're just chasing ourselves in circles, each side has no right to attack the other. We just need to beleive what we want to as long as it dosent harm others, and cooexsist in peace and boob jokes.
Has anyone read any other theories as to the exsistence of life? I've heard of an odd theory regarding crystals, how they form complicated shapes and patterns (snow flakes for example) from simple mathematics and that life also arose that way.
-Dan
-Dan
do the majority of exjws retain a christian faith after leaving the borg?
does the majority of exjws continue studying the bible on their own or join a new christian group that's less rigid than the jws?
or does the majority say to hell with christianity?.
Qwerty Said:
I respect that you have done your research, the dead sea scrolls study sound interesting, is there a web site you used?
No, I went to the library. I can't recall all the books used but some titles come to mind, [i]The Dead Sea Scroll Deception, The Gospel of Thomas, The Lost Gospel Of Q[i]
When I sit back I can not see how the intricate design of all things can possibly come about by chance.
Life couldn't possibly come to be by chance because it is too complicated? What about God, isn't he much more complicated than a mere human? How did he come about? He has always been? No beginning and no end? So if he, a complicated form of life could just 'always be' why can't the same be said of humans?
-Dan
did jesus get circumcised or not?
quote from mark(thats me) "i believe woman was the .
last and greatest creation" of course i have my own.
1 Samuel 18
David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
-I hope he removed their foreskins after they were dead! Oy Vey!
i was talking with my husband the other day about the jw's belief that the "christmas star" that guided the magi to christ was the doings of satan.
he didn't believe me; this is what i found in the "my book of bible stories" (copied verbatim from cd-rom).
who do you think made that new star to shine?
Dudes calm down,
Wether or not Isiah is fulfilled by jesus is open to debate, the Jews do not beleive Jesus was the messiah, and others do.
did jesus get circumcised or not?
quote from mark(thats me) "i believe woman was the .
last and greatest creation" of course i have my own.
Although I agree it's hardly a big deal, it's still mutilation.
mu·ti·late (mytl-t)
tr.v. mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates
1)To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. See Synonyms at batter1.
2)To make imperfect by excising or altering parts.
I don't think it's right for parents to mutilate their child without his or her consent. How about the famous horror story of the accident during a circumsision that ended up removing the entire organ so the child was raised as a woman? This was during surgery using an experimental laser method.
It's a stupid custom, a potentially dangerous custom with nothing but old wives tales to support it's health benefits. Back in the day, tonsils were routinley removed at the slightest sore throat.
Let your child choose if they want it done, I guarntee you none will choose it. "Hey Son, wanna have a stranger take a razor to your cock and slice off a large chunk of flesh? The girls will love it!"
Please. If it ain't broke don't fix it. The cleanliness argument is stupid.
-Dan
here's a question i always wanted answered during the years i was a witness.
what's the best way to stay awake during the watchtower study?
oh, furthermore, what's the best way to stay awake during any witness "snooze-a-thon" brainwashing session?
In used to look at that map of the temple of Jersulem printed on the back of the Bible and make epic battle in my imagination, placing archers in towers and adding a molten lava moat and dragons and sometimes jet fighters trying to overtake the temple and stuff.