Last week, late at night in a rough area of Toronto, I was walking towards my car to head home when I heard two loud shots so close I thought they nearly grazed me. Turned out to be a wreck on wheels just two parking spots down backfiring!
Stinky Pants,
Thats terrible! I hope you made a full recovery since then.
so my wife is standing at the door, waiting for me to finish my morning ablutions so that we can go out, and she asks me to go to the door.
i met a very friendly couple who wanted to talk to me about jehovah.
i informed them that i was raised as a jehovah's witness and that i had been disfellowshipped for about (and i had to think about this) five years now.. and the dude was offended by my existence.
I wish I had some of your gumption and even a fraction of your vocabulary.
i am putting together a website geared toward non-sexual jw child abuse.
i am in the midst of getting clinical assistance from mental healthcare professionals and many others are wanting to get on board.
the link to the first page is below.
The layout is appealing, tastefully done and you're covering excellent facets of the issue with what to look for as indicators, and where to get help.
In the text to the right side of the header, I believe there was an extra s on the end of witnesses(s).
Believe me I'm not being nit picky. About the only way I can contribute is with the "idiot stuff" cause I'm no scholar.
hi everyone, i'm new :) i know jesus died on an upright stake and not a cross but i don't know where to find the info on where or when the idea of the crucifixation orginated from.
can someone help me on this please?
thanks in advanced :)
I'd even venture that it would give too much of a focus on Jesus for the Borg's tastes.
I should think more before I spew my feelings on the WT Org.
I let my antipathy for their view of God bias my thoughts on all sorts of matters. I know the Borg focus heavily on Jesus and the Ransom as well. Please disregard my above statement.
I still hold to my objective comment before that one though.
hi everyone, i'm new :) i know jesus died on an upright stake and not a cross but i don't know where to find the info on where or when the idea of the crucifixation orginated from.
can someone help me on this please?
thanks in advanced :)
He invented the name and the policy of making the members of this oddball religion stand out from the crowd with as many contrarian positions as possible.
That's the best explanation for stubbornly going against all the evidence to the contrary. The need to separate the group from the one powerful symbol that would link them to the other christian faiths.
I'd even venture that it would give too much of a focus on Jesus for the Borg's tastes. They want to keep their followers obssessed with the warrior god and his nasty judgement to come, all to keep up their operations.
hi everyone, i have been attending bible study with one of my jeohavah's witnesses for 4 weeks, and only recently i had attended a sunday meeting with brother michael at our local kindom hall.
i have enjoyed both the time with the bible study (michael teaching quality) and the sunday meeting and have had serious thoughts to altering my life in accordance with jehovah.
but i am rather sceptical about evolution, and whenever i try to read genesis in the bible, darwins theory seems to get in the way.
You're actually right hooberus about the a priori stance of methodological naturalism. Any a priori stance runs the risk of overlooking a possible explanation. All of our current theories and views on physics and biology are only imperfect views because we're not at the point of absolute comprehension of any one thing or phenomenon. Many would argue we never can attain such a point. So I could see the point of some that would argue why overlook evidence of a creation?
I guess I would have to say that taking such a stance now is not illogical because the other view was given a fair chance for some time historically speaking. Newton and many other scientists believed in a Creator. They were still practicing the scientific method and it worked very well to increase understanding in the sciences. Many phenomena could be explained without resorting to supernatural causes but God wasn't eliminated from the picture at the very outset. The closer we approach to our day the more could be explained simply by natural causes without the need for divine intervention. So the stance of methodological naturalism has not led us astray and has instead borne out to be a very reliable view to take. We've been gaining vast amounts of knowledge in all fields of research. Why invoke an untestable explanation that yields us practically nothing when the other approach has yielded so much more?
As for the overall picture of the evidence and how its interpreted, I'll just say its the interpretation where we'll disagree. Not because I'm an atheist, (I don't know what I am anymore) but because the evolutionary interpretation is so very powerful in encompassing a broad range of biological information and observations.
hi everyone, i have been attending bible study with one of my jeohavah's witnesses for 4 weeks, and only recently i had attended a sunday meeting with brother michael at our local kindom hall.
i have enjoyed both the time with the bible study (michael teaching quality) and the sunday meeting and have had serious thoughts to altering my life in accordance with jehovah.
but i am rather sceptical about evolution, and whenever i try to read genesis in the bible, darwins theory seems to get in the way.
In regards to a priori positions, hooberus, you said that the mainstream science journals were run by editors who rejected creation outright from the beginning, ergo the need for creationists to setup their own journals.
Don't you think that their stance is a conclusion that was arrived at by logical and objective consideration of all the evidence at hand? In the link you offered on pseudogenes there was an article by Gibson. Even he had to admit (to be intellectually honest) that all the evidence on the eta globulin sequences made a strong case for shared ancestry. Even if some non-coding sequences have been found to have important regulatory functions, such as binding sites for transcription enhancers or suppressors, this doesn't negate the other evidence.
Those creationist links you offered were interesting because I always like to see/hear how the debating side with the difficult to defend stance will argue it. If you truly have no a priori stance, then you can see how descent with modification is the simplest explanation.
hi everyone, i'm new :) i know jesus died on an upright stake and not a cross but i don't know where to find the info on where or when the idea of the crucifixation orginated from.
can someone help me on this please?
thanks in advanced :)
All the mentioned links were fantastic with great archeological info.
Leolaia's earlier posting was very detailed and she mentioned the writings of some early first and second century christians like Barnabas and Justin Martyr.
If you'd like to read what they wrote about this just scroll down towards the bottom of the following webpage:
www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7831/cross.html
our planet is chanigng so much.
there are wars, there is pollution, there is over pupulation.
what do you think is going to happen in the future?
I'll preface by saying I've never been much of a visionary.
But from the way practically all countries are making weapons grade nuclear material, and seeing as how terrorist groups can now come up with the funds to buy it....
I'd say there will be a limited nuclear strike in a major US city within the next decade. This would be one thing I hope will never happen. So get those blasted borders secure!!!
Canada is useless in this respect. Our spy service CSIS reported there were about 350 active terrorist groups within our 'peaceful' country.
victory!
the court appointed attorney will be recommending to the judge the following at the hearing tomorrow morning.
unsupervised visits with mom at the children?s request only, away from her home and away from stepfather.
CONGRATULATIONS Corvin!
I was holding off responding until the judge's decision and I must say I was blown away!!!!
You're children have been really empowered. Now let's see if your ex can muster up even a smidgeon of unconditional, unjudgemental love for them. (Or is she too far gone with the Borg?)
And you can still picket?!!! This is a dream of a ruling. I'd gladly put up with twice all the minor injustices I have put up with so long as the universe balanced things out with justice for those who really needed it.( i.e.Your kids )
Now you can focus on healing.
P.S. I read a bumper sticker that said: I still miss my ex, but my aim is improving .
