Robert K Stock

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  What "religion" type do you follow?

  by FreedomFrog in

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  hi, i'm on my "spiritual search so i want to see what "religion"/non religion you choose and why.

  for example: are you christian?

  pagan?

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  Robert K Stock

  I am an Atheist. This does not mean that I have no sense of morality, ethics or how I fit in the world. I observe the Objectivist philosophy. All that humans need to be healthy and happy can be logically deduced by our own minds.
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  Designer babies Ok'd in UK

  by Brummie in

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  just heard the tail end of the news that producing a "designer baby" for the sole purpose of using its bone marrow/organs to aid other suffering children is now lawful in england!

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2928655.stm.

  geeesh, what next?

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  Robert K Stock

  A couple in the US faced a similar situation a few years ago. They had a second child for the purpose of being a bone marrow donor.

  The way the media report these cases it conjures up visions of long rows of hospital beds with unconscious children being sold for parts.

  The reality is very different.
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  Do you store food..?

  by Qcmbr in

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  i was sitting at work the other day contemplating nonwork stuff.

  i happen to work 8 floors up and i get a great view of the road and all the cars rushing around and it got me thinking about how from a distance people all look the same and things start to look a little ridiculous...anyhow.

  then that got me thinking about how easy it would be for it all to fall apart (not like an end of the world scenario - but just a society thing.

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  Humanity is not near as fragile as many people believe. Instead of societal breakdown the world is heading to a bright future. Not by divine intervention but through the advancement of science and new technology. Thanks to the most creative problem solving tool in the universe, the human brain.
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  Frightening experiences

  by greendawn in

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  my most frightening experience occured about 12 years as i was driving in a safari park with wild animals like tigers around.

  there was suddenly a very loud explosion under the bonnet and that really frightened me and my two passengers, if there is to be a fire what do we do with tigers outside?

  fortunately it soon became clear that there was no fire only a lot steam came gushing out, the cooling system had over heated and a pipe got burst asunder .

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  While cutting down trees in Montana in 1975 I became tangled in a barbed wire fence as a very large spruce was falling toward my head. The branches stopped the tree about one foot above my face. The tree had to be cut up before I could get out from under it. I suffered one small scratch on my arm.

  Two years later at four o'clock in the morning on the way to Las Vegas, Nevada myself and two friends skidded our pick-up to a screeching halt at a police roadblock. The driver was partially deaf and only heard their third warning for us to stop the vehicle and come out with our hands up. Three officers pointed rifles at us from the front while another officer drew a bead on us from the right and a very nervous officer cautiously walked up behind us shaking so badly I could see his rifle bob up and down in the tail lights. An officer approached from the left with a drawn pistol and said that a convict had escaped from the Arizona State Pen, he was armed and dangerous and heading their way. He said if we had not stopped when we did he would have ordered all six officers to open fire.
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  LATIN LETTERS

  by hamsterbait in

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  try again rodent!!.

  i reckon the pronunciation of the yhwh is purely an accident of how european languages evolved.. jerome said that some ignorant ones when reading the lxx pronounced the yhwh as 'pipi' as they thought the square hebrew letters to be greek ones.

  so we know manuscripts existed in his day with the letters.. in latin it was written iehovah.

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  I have heard that "YAHOO" may be the correct pronunciation of YHWH.

  For hundreds of years only the High Priest would pronounce the name and that was only once a year.

  Many Hasidic Jews do not say out loud, adonai or elohim but HASHEM (meaning THE NAME) in place of YHWH and do not even write GOD in English but G-D instead.
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  LATIN LETTERS

  by hamsterbait in

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  try again rodent!!.

  i reckon the pronunciation of the yhwh is purely an accident of how european languages evolved.. jerome said that some ignorant ones when reading the lxx pronounced the yhwh as 'pipi' as they thought the square hebrew letters to be greek ones.

  so we know manuscripts existed in his day with the letters.. in latin it was written iehovah.

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  Robert K Stock

  What we are typing are "Latin letters." Roman numerals are not used much today.
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  Is yours a PURPOSE DRIVEN life?

  by Terry in

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  are you coasting along day by day taking it as it comes?.

  are you planning for emergencies and setting aside for the unexpected?

  sacrificing here and there to have something later?.

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  Robert K Stock

  My purpose is to be happy and never again sacrifice myself for another organization or human being.
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  Closure? What has been your experience?

  by ljwtiamb in

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  what has given you the greatest peace of mind?

  must one initiate their own exit or does it matter that a jc pushes an issue?

  df or da or fade?

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  Robert K Stock

  I could only achieve closure once I realized that Jehovah's Witnesses are not the truth.

  Until I read Crisis of Conscience I was convinced that the Watchtower Society was God's channel of truth but individual Elders were screwing up by not following the Bible and the Watchtower. It was only after reading the experience of Ray Franz that I understood the Elders were acting wrongly because they had been taught wrongly by the Watchtower Society.

  The weight of the world lifted off my shoulders and I have never looked back or been happier.
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  Create your own diety...

  by love11 in

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  this was pretty fun.

  http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm it said that the chance of my god being real was 0.7 what did you get?

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  Robert K Stock

  Took one hit and bit no bullets.

  I have no Deity but my patron saint is Ayn Rand.
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  did they ATTEMPT to save you

  by tijkmo in

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  when you were before a judicial commitee for whatever reason...did they try to get you to see the error of your ways and thus save you from destruction at the big a...or were they just happy to let you die.. .

  i have a theory that goes like this...if you are sorry they think that you are not and df you...if you are not sorry they make an attempt to try and save you because its a kind of feather in their cap.. .

  i was sorry...so sorry i thought i deserved to be df...and said that i expected to be..and they later told me i said i wanted to be df...which i didnt..(i was a mental and emotional wreck on the night of the jc although i tried to portray otherwise)....but even if i had, surely they had some responsibiity to try and 'readjust' me.. .

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  Robert K Stock

  About a year after I was disfellowshipped for the last time two Elders who had been very good friends of mine stopped by to ask if I wanted to get re-instated. They looked very surprised when I said, "no thank you, I am doing fine."