thats how i feel,..... no disrespect for those who find another way or place to worship.
i for one cannot stand any religion on any level.
how do you feel?.
have you had enough religion for the rest of your life?
lol, yes. so much so that i see religion everywhere, even in non religious institutions. i guess it is really just having had enough with religious mind sets.
my definition of "spirituality" has been extensively revamped too.
tetra
it's my first topic.
i'm one of the webmaster of http://www.viaveritas.fr a extheist website.
we dare to hit watcthower's doctrines.
hi copernic! welcome to the board!
Who like to help me "to disbunked" this article ?
i would love to help. if someone could get me an english version of the article, i can go through the whole thing, or whatever you want me to tackle.
evolution a big back breaker for the borg. not many people realize it, but evolution shuts the whole religion down. they've painted themselves into a technical corner, so it's really easy.
if you are interested, talk origins treats the WTS too:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/jw-evolution.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/jw-book.html
one by our own alan f.
PM me if you want help.
cheers,
tetra
times and seasons.
part 2. .
jehovah has provided a place of security for those only who give heed to his word and joyfully obey his commandments.
apostates are demon influenced.
how do you think they explain why people leave?
the demons creep in... through what orifice i have no idea.
LOL
tetra
... or whole of god?.
wonderless form?.
... or form of wonder?.
... or whole of God?
Wonderless form?
... or form of wonder?
you decide.
tetra
in mark 13:30, matt.
24:34, and matt.
23:36 the bible makes the following statement: .
hi morocco!
interesting thread, and interesting comments!
But I believe that if God did something, he wouldn't fail at it.
that's about it too, imo.
people will argue that God's ways are so vast and huge and mysterious and unknowable that we cannot say why he does and allows the things he does.
this explanation works as long as we have not developed our own moral structure. once you do, it's not the same anymore. the explanation gets tired really quickly.
plus, the concept of an omnimax God (omniscient, omnipotent etc.) is paradoxical and oxymoronic (sic).
if you are struggling with the idea of the conservatively presented christian God, the essays at http://ebonmusings.org/atheism/index.html tackle many similar concepts to the one you bring up.
and it's not that atheism is a final philosophical resting place. but rather a neutral place to analyze belief systems from.
peace out man,
tetra
my wife has been keeping me up to date on what goes on in the forum.
i finally decided to join myself.
i am not as knowledgeable in the scriptures as my wife.
So being ex military on a submarine, I just want to say, I never met a "real" athiest when we had a situation with flooding.
then i guess you have never met any real atheists on the sub.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheists_in_foxholes
http://www.americanhumanist.org/humanism/foxhole.html
tetra
my wife has been keeping me up to date on what goes on in the forum.
i finally decided to join myself.
i am not as knowledgeable in the scriptures as my wife.
welcome to the board ROC!
i was a MS too. times i don't miss!
cheers,
tetra
garybuss said not one single thing they told him about in his younger years (since the 50's) came true.
it made me think....does anyone know of anything they said that was/is right?????
?
Can you name ONE thing that the WTBTS said that came true?
that the end would come. and it has, for them.
tetra
i wish. i miss that guy.
he's probably over at chitchat...
tetra
hi, just wanted to know your thoughts on what you think the future holds for the wts.
what for an example what do you think they will be writing on the cover of the w & a magazines 50 or 100 hundred years form now ?.
will the age of information and techology finally catch up to them (eg.
religions all start as cults.
both evolve. it's how cults become religions. if we were in a different time, i might say that the wts might make it to religion status, but i have doubts for all of the fundamentalist abrahamic faiths these days.
when an organism cannot evolve fast enough for the changing environment, even if it is a memetic organism in a cultural niche, it dies, or changes radically.
i can see the religion still being around in 50 years, but much smaller and different. evolved in other words. the world will have left behind all of but the most fundamentalist followers.
tetra
