Posts by Merry Magdalene

does the belief that there is no all-loving diety in which to be accountable to make it easier or harder to treat and judge others they way that you want to be treated and judged?.

since evolution supposes that life and ultimately man who is at the top of the chain got here through a process of the fittest dominating and killing off the weaker, and since most modern evolutionists in democracies no longer think that this is good to practice, how do you deal with the fact that you are a living contradiction of your own belief since you pronounce the same thing both good and bad?

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Merry Magdalene

Although I haven't read the book, here is an interesting quote from evolutionist Robert Wright in The Moral Animal:

Evolutionary theory, after all, has a long and largely sordid history of application to human affairs. After being mingled with political philosophy around the turn of the century to form the vague ideology known as "social Darwinism," it played into the hands of racists, fascists, and the most heartless sort of capitalists.

Personally, I have known both athiests/unbelievers and religionists/believers whose ideas and decisions based on those ideas made them seem quite dangerous to me, and the reverse is also true. So there ya go.

~Merry

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Anyone from the Inland Northwest?

by mavie in

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from north idaho...looking for others who have left.

Merry Magdalene

Orofino, Lewiston/Clarkston, Kamiah

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I'm looking for hard to find WT publications

by Lady Lee in

1879 songs of the bride-c.t.

russell1887 arp slip (arp tract)1889 no.

01-do the scriptures teach that eternal torment is the wages of sin?:-c.t.

Merry Magdalene

I have "Let Your Name Be Sanctified" (1961)

and the question booklet for Finished Mystery

and a scanner

~Merry

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This is just so awesome, I have to share it!!!

by zagor in

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i was taking a break from this board but in a last few days there has been unexpected development in my own family.

my mom is leaving wtbs!!!

she apparently celebrated christmas with dad but even that was just a tip of the iceberg.

Merry Magdalene

~Merry

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Listen to phonecall made to WT regarding "Brother Prince"...

by rare treat in

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hello everyone.

here is a video of a phonecall made this morning to the wt regarding "br.

prince" and his "worldly" performance at the superbowl yesterday.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdldlvl4ktw.

Merry Magdalene

Re: Micky Spillane (from my mother's scrapbook, 1958 New York Assembly)

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'THE DAWKINS DELUSION' New book responds to Dawkins 'The God Delusion'

by nicolaou in

in the wake of richard dawkins bestseller 'the god delusion' (which i and many others here have read) there has been a good deal of rebuttal from the 'faith' community.

now a new book is out published by alister mcgrath, professor of theology at oxford university.

it is entitled 'the dawkins delusion'.. has anyone read it or ordered it yet?

Merry Magdalene

I haven't read anything by Dawkins yet, but based on others' reactions, I have to ask in regard to this--

it gets the job done

--what job done? Giving those who already agree with him something to stand up and cheer about? That's cool. Increasing the alienation of those who don't agree with him, lessening the chance that they will want to consider whatever points they might possibly have found valid otherwise? Not so cool. Getting the vote for oppressed athiests? Cool (but I think they already have it). Liberating believers from their "delusions" so that they will be free from ___ to ___? (A little like ex-JWs wanting to liberate JWs from their WT "delusions"? Although that I understand better.)

If these questions sound ignorant that's because they are. I would genuinely like someone to mention what it is Dawkins is wishing to accomplish through both his content and his style of delivery. I imagine he has declared his intent. Whatever it is, it appears that some feel he is not going about it in the best possible manner. Not PC enough, perhaps? Or, as I remarked above, too alienating?

I'm a fan of free speech and free expression, and don't think these should be inhibited. I like people who challenge me, my ideas and beliefs and feelings, but not by insulting me. It's a turn off. A door closer. A discussion inhibitor. I like people who stimulate thought and natural curiosity, so that is what I tend to be drawn to.

fwiw

~Merry

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The Day all Jehovah`s Witness`s are put into Concentration Camps!

by OUTLAW in

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when i was a kid,kingdom halls still had windows.thats a while ago..as a kid i was told in the last days,jehovah`s witness`s would be rounded up and be put into concentration camps..i was told,when the government came to take me away and seperate me from my parents,i should wear my warmest coat and boots.as i would have to fend for myself in the concentration camp..i was told never to give up my faith.even if they tied my parents to a stake and was foced to light the fire that would burn them alive.....jehovah`s witness`s are the "happiest people on earth!

".....do you have any happy memorys like mine?...outlaw

Merry Magdalene

Must be why (subconsciously) I decided to become a Muslim. I have a much better chance now of being persecuted and put in a detention centerLOL

~Merry