i recently bought a high powered rifle and am presently buying a pistol for back-up.
i have a cross bow, a compound bow, and several swords and knives, in fact i have been collecting knives for some time and have learned how to use them in defending myself and in taking the initiative in learning to defend myself.
i am quite versed in using both the croww bow and the compound bow, it seems the goverment doesn't want to defend us and just wants to unarm us.
No guns......I don't think we're allowed to have them here in Canada.......
hey babe, I keep a well shaken can of beer on me at all times.....that " frothy explosion " really keeps them bad guys away! Uncle Bruce shakes his can alot too, but hasnt been able to produce enough pressure for an adequate explosion in many many years! LOL
i have read many posts on here and on other websites from people who were brought up or became immersed in a particular religion or belief system, who later ,often because of bad experiences with their religion, went to the opposite extreme of not believing in god at all.
this often puzzles me because i wonder if people who reject a belief in god because of the hypocrisies they experienced in their former belief really are rejecting god or just a man-made organization which claims to be god's spokesman and has shown to be anything but.. i was raised in a presbyterian church which is about as traditional and conservative as you can get and my image of god was molded by that belief.
i saw the services and people there as dead basically.
I have not enough faith to believe in evolution.
Interesting comment since belief in evolution requires no faith. It requires a 30 dollar investment in a good first year University biology text book or an afternoon trip to your nearest Museum of Natural History. There you will find the anthropological evidence for the evolution of hominids beginning with the australopithecines, progressing through homo habilis, h. erectus, neanderthals, cro-magnon to modern h. sapiens. The evidence will be laid out in front of you and all you will require is a pair of eyes, and the price of admission. Ignorance is no excuse for faith.
when i got off for lunch today i decided to go to the walmart deli and get something to eat.
it is a huge store, groceries, a bakery, mc donalds, a bank , eye center, beauty shop, a great deli, and a huge garden center.
i had taken back a 80 gig hard drive dvd recorder ( i couldn't figure out how to hook up <smile> and had received 238.00. i picked up a couple of things in the store then went to the deli.
Can't ya give it a rest for even a moment, and accept that she got lucky and is relieved?
Fair enough Ross, but I see no reason why one cant simply relate the story without posting an "infomercial" for the "god" of the watchtower corporation.
Making a statement like "what a wonderful god jehovah is" on an ex-JW board, populated by people whose lives have been destroyed by belief in jehoobie is
obviously going to raise a reasonable amount of scorn and mockery. Nobody is attacking the poster, we are attacking a belief in a fictional, vindictive desert
god and in the obviously absurd proposition that jehoobie has protected a persons "purse" whilst allowing murder, rape war and mayhem to continue on in the background.
when i got off for lunch today i decided to go to the walmart deli and get something to eat.
it is a huge store, groceries, a bakery, mc donalds, a bank , eye center, beauty shop, a great deli, and a huge garden center.
i had taken back a 80 gig hard drive dvd recorder ( i couldn't figure out how to hook up <smile> and had received 238.00. i picked up a couple of things in the store then went to the deli.
And Brother Foknokker would like to thank jehovah for his bowel movement this morning!!!!
PRAISE JEHOOBIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yep folks this is a fluff topic .
mine is yellow squash with onions.
it's a truely hideous dish.
Mashed potatoes with Turnips and Brussel Sprouts.
Turnips : the most disgusting vegetable on earth.....
Brussel Sprouts: a close runner-up and a vile, vile weed!!! LOL
perhaps some will be completely bewildered by this title.
perhaps many will say - are you crazy, james?
what does it matter?.
Finally, someone has put the entire "607" debate in its proper context. A meaningless bag of flaming dog poop!
The 50 page circular 607 threads never cease to amaze me. Endless repetition of the same fictional, unprovable pseudo-historical biblical babbling with the SAME inevitable conclusion:
The apologist CONTINUES to believe the veracity of 607 despite 50 pages of evidence to the contrary. And what if the error of 607 was proven beyond any reasonable doubt?
The WTS would easily fluff over this as the revelation of "new light", as simply as they escaped, unscathed, from the elastic generation of 1914. It is simply a non-sequitor.
607 is not what keeps dubs in the borg nor will the proof or disproof of it have any impact whatsover on the future of the WTS. The evil of the WTS stands alone
in the willful sacrifice of children, the tearing apart of families, the UN hypocrisy and the harbouring of child molesters. These are the issues that matter and are the ONLY ones that have
any serious potential to cause serious harm to the brooklyn goons.
i'm a bit reluctant in writing this post, for i dont feel i should be here.
even a bit nervous... .
i've never officially dedicated myself to jehovah, but i was brought up in the truth, very strong, and at times when getting older, there were lulls in my attendance... yet to this day i still attend.
"DO NOT LEAN UPON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. This is an ORDER."
If the chilling words of this Watchtower apologist dont shake you out of this mind control, I fear nothing will. Think of the implications of the "advice" this dimwit is giving you. She is telling you: NOT TO USE YOUR MIND. NOT TO THINK, NOT TO REASON, TO SHUT OFF YOUR BRAIN.
Is this how a psychologically mature and healthy human being should function? As an automaton controlled by a multi-million dollar publishing corporation in brooklyn? Would you willingly choose ignorance? Stop. Think for a moment about the implications of her words. Is this the kind of human being you wish to be?
Your brain has been conditioned to reject logical arguments, and to ignore the red flags raised by your intellect. You are in the throes of cognitive dissonance. Read the information on www.freeminds.org These are not the words of apostates, these are the words of your very own watchtower corporation, demonstrating their history of lies, deceit and the ruination of human lives.
Humming-twit: enjoy your baptism and mental servitude. Bow down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve.
retroviral sequences: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/86797/1.ashx.
cytochrome c: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/87238/1.ashx.
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4/ Creationist and evolutionist viewpoints can be accomodated together rather than as opposing views and we don't need to fight- just accept that our differences are aimed at solving different questions.
No, because religious mythology and evolutionary biology have no common ground whatsoever. Cultural mythologies are merely stories passed on through the history of a particular society. They have no basis in fact, observation, or empirical experimentation. They serve only a sociocultural or psychological purpose.
Evolutionary science, either at the anatomical, biological, molecular, genetic or anthropological subdisciplines is based solely upon rigorous, replicated, observable and TANGIBLE evidence. All science is based upon the testing of falsifiable hypotheses and is subject to peer review, modification and refinement.
Creationism is RELIGION, plain and simple. Evolution, is SCIENCE. There is no overlap, no common ground and no REASON for common ground.
The only "fights" that emerge are when religionists attempt to push pseudoscientific "intelligent design" agendas into the legitimate realm of scientific research. They have failed in the past, and will continue to fail in these efforts. If you want a god, keep it in your church where it belongs.
i am really sad today and miss my cat already.
he would have been 16 in november.
i found him out on the street when he was a year old.
Sorry to hear that Lil.
Nothing harder in the world than having to say good-bye to a beloved pet, and no matter how old they are, its the most painful decision you ever have to take.
i ask this question because saki said this in another topic:and i would assume that a lot of people on this board left due to this board alone "proving" the lies of the wts.
so, it this true or false?
or is this mostly true or mostly false?
I had already left "in mind" by my early teens. I then stumbled across Kent Steinhaugs old "Watchtower Observer" site. The information he had posted
there was the final nail in the coffin, and led me directly to the works of Ray Franz and Gary Botting.
