Is he still ranked up there for that google search? Yay googlebombing!
daystar
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Question for ex-JWs who are Christians
by whyizit ini noticed that many who post here have kind of thrown the "baby out with the bathwater", when it comes to the bible and god.. i understand that there is a fine line between love and hate.
maybe they blame god for the deception.
maybe they don't trust anything to do with god any more.
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daystar
You're not referring to me in two ways:
- I'm not a Christian
- I don't blame God for the deception, but the WBTS
However, I want to make it clear that not all "threw the baby out with the bathwater" as you say. I rejected Christianity and the mainstream Christian view of God based upon years of study and meditation. The Kabbalistic view of YHVH, as I understand it, seems much more realistic in my view, without overly anthropomorphising.
In other words, the exoteric Judeo-Christian paradigm seemed shallow and idealized, whereas the esoteric appealed much more to the intellect and allowed for much more of an individualized experience. YMMV.
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Are we all gonna die?
by kittyeatzjdubs ini mean, what's to stop this psycho from north korea from sending nukes over here and blowing us all away?
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~luv, jojo.
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Don't believe the hype!
To remain balanced, I'll add to butters' sentiment to say that Republicans are not the only party to "hype". That party just happens to engender the most vitriol at the moment.
My response was that N. Korea doubtfully has the missile range to reach the U.S. But this indicates that they may:
But otherwise, butters has a good point. Governments and politicians will always make sure that there is something to be afraid of. It's a method for control.
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Are we all gonna die?
by kittyeatzjdubs ini mean, what's to stop this psycho from north korea from sending nukes over here and blowing us all away?
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~luv, jojo.
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daystar
Yeah, N. Korea does not, yet, have the ability to send one all the way to the states.
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Are we all gonna die?
by kittyeatzjdubs ini mean, what's to stop this psycho from north korea from sending nukes over here and blowing us all away?
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~luv, jojo.
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daystar
Oh, but in answer to your question... yes, we're all going to die... some day...
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daystar
Hmmm... I was no more offended than when some git claims to have seen a holy religious icon in something as mundane as a burrito.
It has been said that "God works in mysterious ways". These sort of people seem to say "God also works in ridiculously stupid ways".
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Richard Dawkins interviewed in Salon
by Nathan Natas in(this article was filched from boingboing.com).
steve paulson of salon conducted a lengthy and interesting interview with scientist and atheist richard dawkins about his latest book, the god delusion.
salon: what do you do with consciousness?
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daystar
OMG Satanus!! They've discovered midi-chlorians!!
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All of us, we are wrong...
by daystar inso, 75% of the world's population is religious, believes in a higher power.
how can they all be wrong?
in the early 1600s, a great deal of controversy surrounded one particular astronomer.
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daystar
Hmmm... even truth is relative. The closer two people are geographically, culturally, etc. their truths are more likely to be similar. But the father apart they are, the less likely their truths are to be so close.
What makes one person's truth any more valid than any one else's? I think, what if I were to have been born (as unlikely as that possibility might be) in a Muslim country, to Muslim parents, but genetically the same? I would be a different person, ultimately, with a very different view of the world. And yet, I would be the same person, just having been born and raised in a different part of the world. Who I am, then, become quite elastic, it would seem to me.
When I think about things such as this, this is the reason why I must entertain a certain amount of doubt about all things; that those things I am most sure about are not likely to be very certain at all; all is in flux.
We were wrong about the JW religion. And we believed it fully. We were certain. How certain are we of what we know now? Are we just as certain? If we were certain before, and were wrong, what makes our certainty now any different? We very well could be wrong.
This, to me, greys the lines between truth and untruth, between reality and fantasy... did not we believe in a fantasy when we were JWs? Layers upon layers. Keep digging... keep doubting.
That is not to say we can't choose to entertain a working set of beliefs for practical purposes. We must. But there should not be anything to say that we can't adjust from time to time, when we gain new insight into something, if we remain open to such a thing.
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Not good, not good at all
by lola28 inhi guys,.
sorry to burden you all with this but i really have no one that i want to talk about this with, i'm afraid that i will burst into tears and wont be able to stop if i call any of my friends and tell them what's going on.
my little sister has been ill with a fever for three weeks, her doctor kept telling her it was just a bad case of the flu and that she had an ear infection, he gave her antibiotics and sent her home.
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daystar
OMG Lo!! I'm sorry to hear this. You'll both be in my thoughts.
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All of us, we are wrong...
by daystar inso, 75% of the world's population is religious, believes in a higher power.
how can they all be wrong?
in the early 1600s, a great deal of controversy surrounded one particular astronomer.
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lowden
I do not for instance, think that any religion related to Judaism (i.e. Christianity, Islam or the aforementioned Judaism) holds any true spiritual enlightenment. I believe this to be part of the TRUTH and that there is absolute certainty in that deduction.
That statement is not entirely true. There are many mysteries contained within the Judeo-Christian tradition which you, and most of society, are likely to not be very aware of.
You can only be certain that from your particular perspective now, that that seems to be true. Certainty is illusory.