Posts by DannyBloem

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My problem w/ evolution vs. creationism

by TallTexan in

i personally don't care what anyone else believes.

i believe that there is a creator that created the heavens and earth.

i believe that it occurred over a period much longer than 7 literal days.. here's my problem.

DannyBloem

According to Communist News Network, uh, I mean, CNN poll, 83% of Americans believe in either creationism OR intelligent design. So why should our children be taught something that less than 20% of the country actually believes?

more then 83% of all people in saoudi arabia believe in Allah, so should that be thought as a scientific fact in America?

An exclusive survey conducted for American Demographics by research firm Market Facts, indicates only 44 percent of us are willing to admit that we're superstitious. The remaining 56 percent are "optimistically superstitious," meaning we're more willing to believe the good over the bad.

Maybe superstition should be tought in schools as an exact subject, as an alternative for math, physics and chemistry.

p.s. cnn as communists? Somebody does not live in the real world (and age)! They are pretty right wing..... But if you don't like them i can recomment Al Jazeera

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6/6/6 months away, any ideas?

by alamb in

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june 6, 2006.. just thinking that this date won't roll around again in our lifetimes and it would be so fun to launch something on this date.

any ideas?

DannyBloem

Wow, what a time to hold the biggest apostafest ever :)

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greetings!

by the sage in

jw
friends

hi i'm doing this for the fourth time.

so just a short message.hi, will see if i'm doing it right.

DannyBloem

hi i'm doing this for the fourth time. so just a short message.hi, will see if i'm doing it right.

So it took you 4 times, but you did make it! The one who keeps trying wins :) Welcome to the board! Danny

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Starting a collection of the Inexplicable JW Doctrines...

by AuldSoul in

i am starting a collection of jw doctrines and practices that have no basis in the scriptures and (preferably) that the scriptures or secular history directly contradicts.

this isn''t a thread for arguing with scholar is he drops by.

i want as comprehensive a set as possible as part of a project i am working on, so even if you aren't sure of one, please toss it in the mix.

DannyBloem

That all prophesies must have at least 3 different fulfillments

The doctrine of why gods permit wicketness, for some kind of bet with satan....

The flood was a real global flood about 4500 years ago :)

Man is only 6000 years old

New anointed ones are coming in and coming in, all for the anointed that were not faithfull. Then why the hell did God searched so many unfaithfull ones, is he that bad a judge of character?

The name of God is the most inporttant thing, even if we do not know how it was pronounced, we use some form of it and make it an absolute truth

birthdays. There is just not a single valid reason not to celebrate

etc...

Danny B

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Prostitution and Marijuana

by free2beme in

jw
friends

i feel that as a country we waste so much time and money fighting prostitution and marijuana use.

not that i think these things are something everyone should use, but the fact that we make these illegal and yet other things happen that are the same thing, or worse.

for example, in nevada, outside the city limits, it is legal for prostitution.

DannyBloem

I feel that as a country we waste so much time and money fighting prostitution and marijuana use.

yes I did too, I spend a lot of my money on woman and drugs. The rest of my money i wasted :)

Now serious,
I think both prostitution and use of marihuana should be legal. Not that mariuhana is completely harmless and prostitution is without negative effects but:

1) criminalizing it, makes it only worse. For drugs, the line between soft and hard drugs becomes very thin. You're already doing something criminal... For prostitution, the line between 'normal' prostitution and under age woman working or not voluntairy working becomes thin.

2) These are individual matters. Nobody elses concern.

Danny

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Have you ever said " Happy Hanukkah" to a Jew?

by moshe in

jw
friends

we went out to lunch today and when the server brought our check he wished us a merry christmas.

my six year old daughter piped up " we celebrate hanukkah".

when the server returned he couldn't get out a " happy hannukah" - he stumbled for words- finally said something about a happy holiday.

DannyBloem

No have never said this,

do not know exactly what that holyday is also.

Have said happy diwali to hindoes, happy Eid al-Fitr to a muslim. etc.

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What were the reasons you would say it was "the truth"?

by DannyBloem in

jw
friends

just a question, because i'm trying to find out how to bring up good arguments to people still in the borg.... a) what were the reasons when you were (or are) still a jw that you would say that "you were in the truth"?.

b) and what would you say now, that were the reasons that you thought it was the troof?.

a) 1) the prophecies come truth.

DannyBloem

Sorry Dannybloem....I got right off the thread. Got carried away. Forget it.

no problem. I understand this whole thing. I was luckly to be allowed an education by my parents, even though they were almost put on restrictions for it. Then started pioneering also, and could have done a lot better if I did not try to study and pioneer at the same time...

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What were the reasons you would say it was "the truth"?

by DannyBloem in

jw
friends

just a question, because i'm trying to find out how to bring up good arguments to people still in the borg.... a) what were the reasons when you were (or are) still a jw that you would say that "you were in the truth"?.

b) and what would you say now, that were the reasons that you thought it was the troof?.

a) 1) the prophecies come truth.

DannyBloem

Just a question, because I'm trying to find out how to bring up good arguments to people still in the borg...

A) What were the reasons when you were (or are) still a JW that you would SAY that "you were in the truth"?

B) And what would you say now, that were the reasons that you thought it was the troof?

For me:

A) 1) The prophecies come truth
2) The love in the organisation, and everywhere in the world people believed the same
3) How bible and archeology, and bible and science seemed to match

B) 1) because I was born into it
2) etc.

It is funy that the think that I hated most deep in my heart, ÿou have to think and say like they do"was just one of the reasons that I thought it was the troof: that everyone believed the same...
Isn't that ironic?

Danny

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