do you check this site, daily?.
do you post very much?.
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Yea I check the site daily, mostly for general interest topics but I don't post as much as I used to. I've pretty much resolved the god question for myself and have no interest in current org doctrines or biblical research and interpretation.
I do like reading people's experiences with respect to "waking up"
I sometimes like playing "whack-a-troll". A guilty little pleasure from time to time ;)
hi, to everyone my username is enzo, .
recently a saw a video presented by john cedar presenting steve hassan as a cult expert.. .
but read this reviews presented on cult news about steve hassan's books, and it's up to you make your own opinion about the video.
Need help with the door?
it appears that many of the best music threads have been purged.
i can't imagine the formula that would eliminate such wonderousness while preserving "involuntary muscular contractions", but so it is.. the first offering.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2vh8jwyqa.
ahh Primus. Been a long time since I sailed the seas of cheese. I wonder if Les Claypool has finished his tour of our fine planet.
hi, to everyone my username is enzo, .
recently a saw a video presented by john cedar presenting steve hassan as a cult expert.. .
but read this reviews presented on cult news about steve hassan's books, and it's up to you make your own opinion about the video.
Good link, Para
Lifton's definitions were proverbial nails in the coffin for any residual doubts about the org. Mainly because they weren't specifically aimed at the jw world and thus didn't have a bias or motive yet completely encompass the microcosm that it is.
I've never read Hassan's books though I hear they're good ;)
leaving the watchtower does not mean leaving god.
many here have been able to maintain a relationship with god without the need for a set of beliefs or a creed or any organised system of worship at all.
no churches, meeting halls or study groups are necessary just a deeply held conviction in the goodness of god and the value of a personal relationship with him.. such believers often stress 'spirituality' over religion.. now i don't mean to denigrate anyone's beliefs and no offence is intended but really, is a 'spiritual' approach to life any better for our mental and emotional well-being than being part of an organised religion?
BTTT
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/109/spirit-rock-growth.htm.
sometimes it seems like the really cool stuff on mars is always in the distance.
maybe martian celts built it.
Well played Terry, well played...
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
It is the ideology that allows and nurtures the radicalisation of Extremists, the clue is in the last word, you could not have extremists if there were not the more moderate ones.
Which is my point; there are moderates in any ideology, of which the extremists are not a fair representation.
just wondering if anyone else is having problems with jwn pages widening .. clicking on the widen icon doesn't do anything .
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huh, all this time, using the zoom on my browser...
learn something new every day
lol
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
A straw man is a common type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on the misrepresentation of an opponent's argument. [ 1 ] To be successful, a straw man argument requires that the audience be ignorant or uninformed of the original argument.
The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then to refute or defeat that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the original proposition. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
This technique has been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly in arguments about highly charged emotional issues where a fiery, entertaining "battle" and the defeat of an "enemy" may be more valued than critical thinking or understanding both sides of the issue.
What would you consider is being misrepresented here?
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
This was the attitude of Joshua's baby-killers, and the crusaders, and the conquistadors, and the inquisitors and the Taliban and ISIS.
This is why theism is not just silly, it is dangerous and ought to be opposed and ridiculed relentlessly.
I might suggest that not all christians are murderers, from my observations.
Fanatics and extremists rain on any parade of course but these exist on most sides of a fence. That Stalin was atheist and killed millions for an ideology does not make atheism evil.
Is it the ideology or the person that makes something dangerous?
