Wow.....
Good thing I'm not an Iraqi-Iranian Mayan Jew named Daniel living on Planet X or I would REALLY be scared !!!!
Posts by kid-A
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282012 End of the World?
by magdalenefan in2012 is the end of our age according to the mayan calendar.
according to iraq or iran we are already entered into our last seven years according to daniel.
famine, drought, marital problems, bankruptcies, war.
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The arrogant skeptic thread....
by heathen inthis is the place for all you arrogant skeptics to post all the things you don't believe in so you can stop harassing posters on other threads involving the paranormal, after all you are smarter than the rest of us .....................
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kid-A
"perhaps you should start a thread entitled "Gullible naïfs only" wherein you can prattle on all day about whatever invisible friends and enemies you imagine are lurking behind your couch without anybody pointing out that your silly superstitions have no basis in reality."
Alas, such threads seem to pop up about every 20 minutes on this DB. It appears many ex-JWs are perfectly capable of abandoning the silly belief structure imposed by the "governing boobie" in Brooklyn, but have tremendous problems giving up the idea that their "smurfs" are demonized......
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A Theory Of Why People Believe In God
by Madame Quixote inhttp://www.goatstar.org/why-do-people-believe-in-god/
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kid-A
This is hocus-pocus crap. Brilliant retort, rooster. When you get to second grade, we'll let you do finger paintings! Seriously though, Berne had some interesting ideas but many of his ideas regarding psychological projection were based on earlier Freudian concepts of father-figure projection. See "Totem and Taboo" or "Civiliization and its Discontents", both by Freud and laid the foundation for many later theorists, including Fromm, Adler and Berne.
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BODY OF JESUS FOUND!! WITH HIS WIFE, SON...Discovery channel March 4
by magdalenefan inbreaking news>>>>the body of jesus son of joseph has been found!!!!!
in a tomb with all the family names engraved.. with his mom dad, wife, kid brother....the business of churchdom, holy money making deity sceme is over!!
the gov will crack down on the vatican and kingdom hall for marketing fraud for worshipping and making money off a deity.
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kid-A
Jesus appeared on my toast this morning. I have built a shrine for my toaster and will be charging 19.95 admission for viewings starting wednesday.
Call 1-800-TOASTYJESUS for full directions....
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The arrogant skeptic thread....
by heathen inthis is the place for all you arrogant skeptics to post all the things you don't believe in so you can stop harassing posters on other threads involving the paranormal, after all you are smarter than the rest of us .....................
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kid-A
I'm not surprised you find us "skeptics" arrogant, Heathen. Indeed, I would be shocked if you did not find us arrogant!!!
Why? We threaten the cherished beliefs of those who so desperately NEED to believe that there is some "netherworld" inhabited by ghosts, goblins, poltergeists, ESP, psychic readings, tarot cards, fortune cookies, pieces of dust flashing across a camcorder lens, etc etc etc.....OF COURSE you have an intrinsic need to project your hostility outwards to us, the "doubters", the "nay-sayers" and anyone else who would be so bold as to throw stones of logic and reason at the glass house of human fantasy!
For most "believers" in such phenomena, these psychological constructs serve as a necessary psychological anesthesia and gives them a sense of purpose beyond their ephemeral biological existence. If you want to believe in ghosts, you will in all likelihood "believe" that the images flashing across the neuronal networks of your visual cortex somehow represent a "supernatural" phenomena beyond a simple biochemical transaction within your synapses.
Reasoning with believers in such "phantasmagoria" is exactly like attempting to use logic to reason with a JW. You can present mountains of perfectly rational, physical explanations for the imagined phenomena and it will ALL fall on deaf ears....WHY? Because you have a potent, EMOTIONAL NEED to believe in the paranormal as it is a quintessential component of your "world view". Simple as that.
I'm flattered you find me arrogant! It means I'm doing something right: using my powers of rational thought, deductive reasoning and a reliance on empirical evidence before being fooled by knaves and rubes......been there, done that.....and to paraphrase Pete Townsend: We wont get fooled again......
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Who needs Christmas anyway?
by Zico inmy brother gave me a wonderful gift yesterday.
he said 'make sure you attach it to your car keys right away, it could save your life!
' wow.
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kid-A
Wow, a "suicide" key-chain.....
Why dont they just simplify the message with "Dear Doctors: Please Let Me Die" ???
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Latest Gospel scholarship supports the reliability of the oral tradition!
by yaddayadda inanother eminent new testament scholar has come out and declared that traditional form criticism is now obsolete.
richard bauckhams 2006 book jesus and the eyewitnesses the gospels as eyewitness testimony is the latest in the recent trend of contemporary british gospel scholarship to re-examine many long-held assumptions about the oral tradition behind the gospels which is coming up with some rather startling conclusions.
jesus remembered, grand rapids; eerdmans.
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kid-A
Its remarkable reading this thread. Every poster replying to the original "cut and paste" article from this "evangelist scholar" responded with clarity, dignity and respect.
Ironically, our resident "christian apologist", yaddayadda, chose to respond to every single poster with snarky, arrogant insults and back-handed put-downs rather than engage in a meaningful debate or show the slightest amount of respect to other posters interested in a rational debate based upon conflicting opinions or scholarly literature.
You may delude yourself as much as you wish yaddayadda about the so-called historical veracity of your jesus myths, ignoring anyone and everyone whose opionions conflict with your cherished fantasies about historical "truth"; nobody really cares about the insular and circular reasoning of some snarky little pseudo-scholar, pr*ck.
But know this: your snarky, arrogant and obnoxious disposition is the ANTITHESIS of "christ-like" humility, dignity and kindness.
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What's your favortie drink?
by IronClaw inso here i sit on a saturday night nursing my favorite bottle of wine.
a pinot grigio.
so what drink does it for you?.
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kid-A
Favourite cocktail: The Manhattan
Favourite wine: a robust Pinot Noir
Favourite beer: Leffe Brun
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A Big Miracle - God is Love
by David ben Jesse ina big miracle
i composed an instrumental song "god is love" and sent it as an mp3-file via email to a christian music publisher.
every time the song was cut in half, the rest was missing.
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kid-A
Praise be to Jesus! Amen, hallelujah! I usually send the holy spirit in "compressed zip" format, that way Satan cant intercept my sacred e-mails! Praise Jesus!
But that pesky devil still manages to get into those fiber optic cables which is why the god-fearing should ONLY use dial-up.....amen!
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how long should it take before a sheparding visit?
by DannyBloem inhaven't been to the meetings some months now.
about 5 or so.. haven't heard a single thing.
how long should it take before i'll receive a visit?.
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kid-A
It took them 3 years to pay my friend a visit. And he had left under "morally suspicious" circumstances.
