Posts by NomadSoul

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Hey, Does My (Successful) Diet Prove Evolution?

by metatron in

jw
friends

ok, so the doctor tells me about diet 'cause i have cholesterol/trigylcerides/ and some weight issues.. so, i have come to respect vegetarian meals, so i drink v-8 and orange juice and fruit and rice and stuff.. i'm descended from perfect humans who ate pretty much the same way....................??????????.

result?

no weight loss.

NomadSoul

Scully is very right. Just cutting out a few hundred calories from your diet and exercising will help you lose weight.

It's better to make a goal that takes you longer that try to cut back calories so much to meet a certain date. This will discourage you. You don't necessarily need to keep up a detail log book, although it helps at the beginning to get a feeling on how much you are consuming. Once you got an idea of how much calories are in various types of food you can just do a mental picture.

Do what Scully said in her post and you will see results. Guaranteed or your money back!

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Hard to NOT have the last word - let them hang themselves

by Mad Sweeney in

jw
friends

i recently had a jw "friend" (the last non-relative one that has any contact with me at all - and it is only electronic) post a typically cultish statement as a comment on my fb page.

there is no good way to respond without going all logical apostate on him.

i know the dubism is idiotic enough on its own to discredit itself and him, but i am still fighting the urge to respond and clearly show how ridiculous the statement was.

NomadSoul

Falcon, when I first created my facebook there was a lot of active JW's that added me. I don't know why, guess I was mutual friends with a guy that wasn't really into it. Anyways, I remember reading those cheesey status updates! "Going to field service", "Just finished the CO visit, they are so nice!", "Oh just finished reading Young People Ask about Masturbation", lol So I made the last one up.

I think people started to notice I wasn't a Jdub when I updated my status before going out, "Going to party like it's 1914 tonight!" hahaha

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An argument against atheism: It's hopeless

by simon17 in

i hear this critique against atheism a lot.

that its simply a hopeless way to live one's life.

believers give this argument, not passionately, but almost desicively, as if clearly a outlook they don't want for life is a wrong outlook.. is there anything you can do to reason with such ones?

NomadSoul

Eventually a connection was found between the inversion "illusion" and the theory of relativity. We totally understand the process, what causes it, and how to prevent it from happening. But the whole scientific explanation opens a can of worms for it suggests that reality is not absolute but relative. Our perseption of reality is not always what it seems, and even objective physical evidence can, under the right circumstance, fool the senses into believing that what is, well to put it bluntly, just isn't.

You mean like..........AN OPTICAL ILLUSION!

JuanMiguel, would you mind sharing and explaining this process. You say you TOTALLY understand it, so you wouldn't mind writing a thesis on it. I'll wait.....

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Why do I feel bad about my children leaving the JW religion?

by lifeisgood in

jw
friends

(please, no jws come in here to convert me, i don't want to talk to you).

i left the jw religion after twenty years.

i had one teenager and two small children then.

NomadSoul

By reading your first paragraph you seem to imply that you did the best for them by taking them to the meetings? Sounds familiar, like the parents of kids that do bad things excuse themselves by saying they took care of their children by taking them to school and feeding them.

Sorry to sound too judgemental, but sometimes people are going to do bad things no matter what their parents do.

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To my fellow atheists:

by NomadSoul in

just curious to know the steps that brought you to become an atheist.

just wanted to shared mine in a nutshell:.

1. learned that evolution had credibility.

NomadSoul

Nickolas Tesla?

That's an interesting story. Sorry to hear about your losses to which like you said added an urgent quality to the meaning of life. I have lost love one's in my life to death, and having no belief in an afterlife doesn't make it harder, even I could argue that it makes it easier to cope with.

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Hard to NOT have the last word - let them hang themselves

by Mad Sweeney in

jw
friends

i recently had a jw "friend" (the last non-relative one that has any contact with me at all - and it is only electronic) post a typically cultish statement as a comment on my fb page.

there is no good way to respond without going all logical apostate on him.

i know the dubism is idiotic enough on its own to discredit itself and him, but i am still fighting the urge to respond and clearly show how ridiculous the statement was.

NomadSoul

You should update your status to something like, "Yeah, my 401K is doing great!" lol

get it? get it? lol I crack myself up.

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To my fellow atheists:

by NomadSoul in

just curious to know the steps that brought you to become an atheist.

just wanted to shared mine in a nutshell:.

1. learned that evolution had credibility.

NomadSoul

Thanks everyone for sharing their experiences. Hope to read more posts from all of you.

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I'm Starting To Understand Atheist and Evolution

by Philadelphia Ponos in

for many years i was sincerely perplexed when someone told me they believed in the evolution theory or were an atheist.

i never understood how someone could ignore all the evidence for intelligent design and overlook all the holes in the evolution theory.

for example, the human biology clock is synced with the rotation of the earth, the earth is the perfect distance away from the sun to sustain life, the earth has an ozone layer to protect us from the sun's radiation, the earth naturally produces fruits and vegetables to be used for food, our bodies produce enzymes to break down the fruits and vegetables so it can nourish us, the earth produces water and oxygen, etc.

NomadSoul

Just to clarify, the Earth is not, I repeat, NOT a PERFECT distance from the Sun! I wasn't going to reply to this topic but that's one of my pet peeves. 5% safe zone is not a PERFECT distance. Do people even stop to think and do the math? Take the distance from the Sun to the Earth and multiply it by .05, heck multiply it times .01 to be safe!

And if the Earth is perfect WHY is it on a 23 degrees tilt? A perfect tilt would make the Earth flourish even more. (Ex. NO DESERTS!)

Geesh! Okay, done. lol

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To my fellow atheists:

by NomadSoul in

just curious to know the steps that brought you to become an atheist.

just wanted to shared mine in a nutshell:.

1. learned that evolution had credibility.

NomadSoul

I know what you mean. I got slapped when I was around 9 or 10 for pointing out their hypocrisy for having the worst fights after a meetings.

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To my fellow atheists:

by NomadSoul in

just curious to know the steps that brought you to become an atheist.

just wanted to shared mine in a nutshell:.

1. learned that evolution had credibility.

NomadSoul

No, I just thought your post deserved a whole totally different post. lol I read yours the first time around but when I came back and replied I forgot to reply to yours, I'm multitasking here at work just don't tell my boss.

So what kind of response did you get after that volcano outburst? I know I paid for it by staying afterwards talking with the Elder of the warnings that school has when it comes to teaching evolution and how those evil scientists are against god and will make up evidence....