Posts by NomadSoul

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3 Things You Should Know About Islam

by onemore in

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....watch the video, what if we were to substitute the word islam (in the video) for watchtowerism.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcbptzalqfy.

NomadSoul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS_gbPZVkwI

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The pieces finally come together

by man in black in

this afternoon i got a letter stating that i was accepted to accompany a ww 2 veteran on a flight to washington dc to visit the ww2 memorial in september.. www.honorflight.org.

i also was called to check up on the health of several horses that some friends of my wife adopted, they are very underweight belgians, and these.

new owners want to make sure that they are taken care of.

NomadSoul

Yeah, me too, I like dog stories.

I've had a similar experience but at my job. I'll post it later. Getting off work.

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Three jw men in a SUV

by mrsjones5 in

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just a few minutes ago i was sitting facing my front window when i see two men in white shirts carrying books walk by towards the back of my fourplex.

i waited to see if they were who i thought they were and sure enough they were jws each carrying a bible and that little yellow book.

i walked out of my apartment towards the front to get my mail and i see the two men enter a suv and a third man was sitting in the back.

Do they still have that sky blue book on Creation vs Evolution?

by NomadSoul in

i just thought of that from reading another tread.

i remember we were studying that book the same time they were teaching the theory of evolution in my biology class.

i need to get that book just to bring back memories.

I love Carl Sagan's work, although I discovered them after my 20's. Wish I could've discovered them in my teens. I have watched the series Cosmos about 5 times ( I make anyone who visits me watch it, lol) And read a couple of his books, but I didn't know about the Broca's Brain comment.

Doctrines that make no predictions are less compelling than those which make correct predictions; they are in turn more successful than doctrines that make false predictions.

But not always. One prominent American religion confidently predicted that the world would end in 1914. Well, 1914 has come and gone, and -- while the events of that year were certainly of some importance -- the world does not, at least so far as I can see, seem to have ended. There are at least three responses that an organized religion can make in the face of such a failed and fundamental prophecy. They could have said, "Oh, did we say '1914'? So sorry, we meant '2014.' A slight error in calculation. Hope you weren't inconvenienced in any way." But they did not. They could have said, "Well, the world would have ended, except we prayed very hard and interceded with God so He spared the Earth." But they did not. Instead, they did something much more ingenious.
They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914, and if the rest of us hadn't noticed, that was our lookout. It is astonishing in the face of such transparent evasions that this religion has any adherents at all. But religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough-mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration were needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.

Thanks for the info!

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Baby Girl Is On Bethel Tour

by snowbird in

something of note on her itinerary:.

spiritual matters: please bring your songbook, examining the scriptures daily, and watchtower for the week of our tour so that the group may share in these together as time permits.. never a break, is there?.

lol.. syl.

NomadSoul

They forgot to mention to leave their brain at home.

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Blatant misquote in the Origin of Life booklet

by bohm in

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i am trying to review the "origin of life" booklet, and i got to say that the more i look into it the worse it look.

this particular quote puzzled me a lot (p. 28).

one group of researchers used brain size to speculate which extinct creatures were more closely related to man admitted that in doing so, they often feel on shaky ground.. they took the quote from the preface of the "the human fossil record - volume 3" from 2004. .

NomadSoul

Bohm, talking about funky stuff, you can even find that in their online articles. (I was trying to see if they had that brochoure online)

Check this out:

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20080101a/article_01.htm

What I find funny is that at the beginning of the article they say this:

Evolutionists generally claim that a population of animals gradually developed into a population of humans, denying that there was once only one man. However, the Bible presents a very different picture. It says that we originate from one man, Adam. The Bible account presents Adam as a historical person. It gives us the names of his wife and some of his children. It tells us in detail what he did, what he said, when he lived, and when he died. Jesus did not consider that account as just a story for uneducated people.

At the end of the article they use Micheal Behe's quote:

Teachers of evolution are often motivated, not by the facts, but by “their own desires”—perhaps a desire to be accepted by a scientific community in which evolution is orthodox doctrine. Professor of biochemistry Michael Behe, who has spent most of his life studying the complex internal functions of living cells, explained that those who teach the evolution of cell structure have no basis for their claims. Could evolution occur at this tiny, molecular level? “Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority,” he wrote. “There is no publication in the scientific literature—in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books—that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex, biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred. . . . The assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.”

Notice what the article suggests? That scientist that believe in Evolution are just trying to fit in. Now they give an example of a scientist that don't. Yet Behe is talking about molecular evolution. But he does believe in common descent evolution, that other species evolve from other species, and that humans have a common descent with apes!!! He's just arguing molecular evolution, he believes there was an intelligent design there.

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Blatant misquote in the Origin of Life booklet

by bohm in

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i am trying to review the "origin of life" booklet, and i got to say that the more i look into it the worse it look.

this particular quote puzzled me a lot (p. 28).

one group of researchers used brain size to speculate which extinct creatures were more closely related to man admitted that in doing so, they often feel on shaky ground.. they took the quote from the preface of the "the human fossil record - volume 3" from 2004. .

NomadSoul

Good catch! I remember I found at least two quotes that were misquoted on the creation book. And that's because I looked them up.

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...Does a Bear sh*t in the Woods?...

by OUTLAW in

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does a bear shit in the woods?...

i`ve never really cared about that question until today... bears do shit in the woods.....more importantly on my lawn... .

the garbage can took a beating.....it`s bear proof but has some really cool bear scars now... he dragged his huge bear bum up my cherry tree.....busted branch's everywhere... .

NomadSoul

If a bear shits in the middle of the woods, and nobody is around to see him. Did he really shat?

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Do they still have that sky blue book on Creation vs Evolution?

by NomadSoul in

i just thought of that from reading another tread.

i remember we were studying that book the same time they were teaching the theory of evolution in my biology class.

i need to get that book just to bring back memories.

NomadSoul

hahaha. Plus 19.99 shipping and handling. I'm going to walk in the Kingdom Hall and find it in the library, when the brother asks me what I'm doing. I'm just going to say just wanted to look at the book that started it all, lol

That, and that prophecies of Isiah, lol

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Do they still have that sky blue book on Creation vs Evolution?

by NomadSoul in

i just thought of that from reading another tread.

i remember we were studying that book the same time they were teaching the theory of evolution in my biology class.

i need to get that book just to bring back memories.

NomadSoul

Pirata, you are right, .000000000000000001 % in this vast universe is still a pretty large number.

Frigginconfused, if we take your approach then that leads us to the question who created God? Now if God has always been why not just say then that the universe always existed and there's actually no need to explain our existance or the existance of a god?

Unshackled, thanks for the recommendation. Also thanks for reminding me about that! I can't believe I didn't remember that, the argument that the Earth was in a perfect position from the sun. The book mentioned that if it was more than 5% closer or away from the Sun that life could not survive. At first I was like yeah, that's proof! Then I started thinking, wait a minute, that is 10%. In a vast universe that is a pretty good number. The next step I did was find out how far the Earth is from the Sun. I forgot what number I used so I'll use the average which is 93 million miles:

93,000,000 miles x 5% = 4,650,000 miles. That is a large number there! So I went even further. How many Earths could fit in that space?

4,650,000 / 8,000 miles (Diameter of the Earth) = 581.25 That is 581 Earths that could fit in that 5% !!! 1162 Earths on 10%!!!

When I went home to work the math out I really really wanted to say something but I was 14 at that age just like you! Glad to hear from someone that went through the same situation!