Sorry Calico, I was taking my time writing my response and you posted in the mean time!
doofdaddy
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Topics for discussion with JWs - part 2: Frozen mamooth - proof of the Flood?
by Albert Einstein inin the ble book "life - how did it get here?
by evolution or by creation?
" on page 203 you can see a picture of a mamooth with a note: frozen mamooth found in siberia ... still had grass in his mouth and in his stomach .... was frozen immediately ....".
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Topics for discussion with JWs - part 2: Frozen mamooth - proof of the Flood?
by Albert Einstein inin the ble book "life - how did it get here?
by evolution or by creation?
" on page 203 you can see a picture of a mamooth with a note: frozen mamooth found in siberia ... still had grass in his mouth and in his stomach .... was frozen immediately ....".
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doofdaddy
Also, Mammoths were covered in thick fur to keep out extreme cold.
The wts teaches that all the earth was a hot house, needing dinosaurs to keep the jungle down, the fozen poles only happening after the "water canopy" became the oceans.
You can't have it both ways...well, with the wts I guess they try.
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On Being a Pagan...
by ziddina inthis video pretty much sums it up..... .
in case you can't see the video, here's the address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhdmswviea&feature=related.
wearing nothing but thin silk, dancing in the waves of the ocean or the shallows of a great river.... .
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doofdaddy
AHHH Baba!!
Pleasure to "see" you!
Yes, Ganesha is needed on a planetary level at the moment as well, Baba.
Just got back from another dose of Paganism in Bali.....Bliss
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On Being a Pagan...
by ziddina inthis video pretty much sums it up..... .
in case you can't see the video, here's the address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhdmswviea&feature=related.
wearing nothing but thin silk, dancing in the waves of the ocean or the shallows of a great river.... .
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doofdaddy
Don't you think the male gods have had more than their fair share for, say, several millenia or so? Quote
Not in Pagandom
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On Being a Pagan...
by ziddina inthis video pretty much sums it up..... .
in case you can't see the video, here's the address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhdmswviea&feature=related.
wearing nothing but thin silk, dancing in the waves of the ocean or the shallows of a great river.... .
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doofdaddy
My favourite is the dancing Shiva, Nataraj. The sacred dancer who drives the Universe.
Gotta get a male god in there...
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Were there any "dynasties" in your congregation?
by truthseeker indid your congregation have any so-called dynasties, or "a succession of rulers who belong to the same family for generations"?.
my last congregation had a family who had or seemed to have complete control over most aspects of congregation operations.
they like to run the show and make it obvious that they are in charge.. then there are those who receive unearned privileges because their father is an elder who fast tracked his son to eldership.. .
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doofdaddy
It was chilling reading the Berean's comments as that is EXACTLY my brother's dynasty.
He bought houses and businesses for the "faithful" children and has frozen out the others completely. Also did a fantastic job of covering his kids misdemeanors as they grew up.
Ahhh the elders ol' boys club
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If smoking is a disfellowshipping offence, why isn't masturbation?
by yadda yadda 2 inmasturbation isn't directly mentioned in the bible but neither is smoking.
many of the reasons given for disfellowshipping smokers seem to also apply to masturbation: a form of uncleanness, a defilement of the flesh, letting an addictive thing become king over us, a form of covetousness.. why are occasional, habitual smokers disfellowshipped and shunned, yet chronic masturbators, of which the organisation is of course replete, do not even get a slap on the wrist (excuse the pun)?.
yadda.
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doofdaddy
It's funny that the jws search and dig and twist scrptures to expel somokers and masturbaters but are silent on gluttony which is outright mentioned as an expelling "sin".
Just too difficult to prove? god must bless the gluttons
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What crazy demonstrations did you see on the Service Meeting?
by BonaFide ini had a couple of pretty good ones, i thought.. my first one was theocratic news.
i know a lot of congregations that did this one.
we had a long table facing the audience, and we gave the "theocratic news" from the km as if it were a tv news broadcast.
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doofdaddy
Geez OBA that woman beside you looks familiar!! Were you in Sydney at the time?
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Are Spiritual Encounters All In Your Head?
by Elsewhere inhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=104291534&ft=1&f=1012.
the science of spiritualityare spiritual encounters all in your head?by barbara bradley hagerty.
second of a five-part series.
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doofdaddy
Interesting, as I came to the conclusion that my personal spiritual experiences were all in my head, or at least I was "reading" something into situations, until I had a bunch of dolphins behave in a most unnatural manner and I had a "non believing" friend with me at the time.
A long story but he was gobsmacked by what he witnessed and even told me of experiences he had when travelling Asia and has never told a soul. (Too frightened!)
Not all spiritual experiences are hallucinatory visions or sounds....
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God, Morals, and Atheists
by UnDisfellowshipped inmy version of the "moral argument for god": .
(i have derived the following arguments after studying c.s.
lewis', norman geisler's, and victor reppert's arguments, and i want to give credit where credit is due).
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doofdaddy
"It's just that Atheists have absolutely no objective basis at all for their moral beliefs." quote
Still waiting for a reply.......