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  Science vs. Religion - Must We Choose Between Them?

  by bavman in

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  i dare to say science and religion are two different animals.

  they may try to explain similar things but in different ways.

  i don't believe man will ever live without either religion or science nor would i want us too.

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  One big dispute between the two is- how did we get here? Science and religion come up with completely opposing views, you can't support both ideas at the same time without being a hypocrite.

  Does considering that this is not a religious question make one a hypocrite?

  At some point, "will it rain this week?" was probably considered a "religious" question. I don't think "religion" lost anything by giving up that one to meteorology. On the contrary it became more "religious" -- or "spiritual," if you prefer.

  I don't see how it makes one a hypocrite not to give any credibilty to an invisible man in the sky when thinking of how we got here. We may aswell add fairies, unicorns, men from mars or Ra the Sun God to the many things we must think about when wondering how we arrived here, for there is just as much proof for them.

  I'm not sure how something becomes more religious or spiritual if you find out there isn't a God behind it, but a rational scientific explanation, as a belief in God is the basis of the kind of religion we're talking about here.
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  That's What I'M Talkin' About!

  by Farkel in

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  call me a curmudgeon.

  there are just some expressions in today's vernacular that are just idiotic, and "that's what i'm talkin' about" is one of these.

  it is so ghetto.. several people are saying 'blah, blah, blah, de blah and more de blah..." suddenly, a dimwit in the group hears something that dimwit didn't even mention but happens to like the subject and then dimwit blurts out, "now that is what i'm talkin' about!".

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  serotonin_wraith

  More like 'Now that's what I was thinking but didn't have the courage to say until someone more popular said it first!'
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  Science vs. Religion - Must We Choose Between Them?

  by bavman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i dare to say science and religion are two different animals.

  they may try to explain similar things but in different ways.

  i don't believe man will ever live without either religion or science nor would i want us too.

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  serotonin_wraith

  One big dispute between the two is- how did we get here? Science and religion come up with completely opposing views, you can't support both ideas at the same time without being a hypocrite.

  On an ironic sidenote, if science was ever to prove the existence of God, religious people would certainly jump on the science bandwagon. But not before. I wonder why.
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  Science vs. Religion - Must We Choose Between Them?

  by bavman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i dare to say science and religion are two different animals.

  they may try to explain similar things but in different ways.

  i don't believe man will ever live without either religion or science nor would i want us too.

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  serotonin_wraith

  I wanted to get this pic up, but I don't know how to embed it in my post. It's a flowchart of religion and science.

  http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-01-15%20--%20science%20vs%20faith.png
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  Science vs. Religion - Must We Choose Between Them?

  by bavman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i dare to say science and religion are two different animals.

  they may try to explain similar things but in different ways.

  i don't believe man will ever live without either religion or science nor would i want us too.

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  serotonin_wraith

  Religion halts progress. It is the method humans use to explain the unexplainable, until science is able to take over.

  They used to worship the Sun God because they wanted the sun to rise each morning. Finally science taught that the Earth was really spinning around a distant star. Then there's the Thunder God, the Rain God, the God of Fertility... Humans also believed the Earth was flat, had four corners, was the centre of the universe and less than 10,000 years old. It took brave scientists to risk (and even lose) their lives to get the truth out because of religion.

  The two cannot co-exist without disputes coming up.
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  HELLO!! Newbie Alert!

  by Do Not Call in

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  hi folks, .

  i,ve been lurking for ages and had a password months ago.

  only today i've been able to get in.

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  serotonin_wraith

  Welcome, I'm from your area. Cwmbran, valley of the crow.
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  "I wanted to throw the book across the room"

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  i just read the topic "i thought i was alone" by newbie elinor.

  i found it interesting how he mentioned that he wanted to throw the daniel book "across the room" after reading some of the many misapplied prophecies concocted by the overlord's in brooklyn.

  when i was a jw i also fantasized at times of throwing the book across the room, but for me it was the revelation book over ten years ago.

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  In the last couple of months I was still being raised/forced in it, my dad decided it would be a good idea to read the bible as a family on non meeting nights. 3 days a week of that crap was bad enough, but that new arrangement was too much for me to handle and one evening I got up, threw the bible on the floor and stormed off in anger.

  A couple of weeks later I was out of it all thankfully, but it felt extremely good to do that in front of them all.
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  JWs view of Lord of the Rings VS Harry Potter

  by serotonin_wraith in

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  i'm sure this will vary between jw to jw, but their choices are:.

  1) they won't watch/read either.. 2) they will only allow lotr, not hp.. 3) they will only allow hp, not lotr.. 4) they will allow both.. in my experience, 3 never happens and 2 happens the most.

  with the similar theme of magic, the occult, fantasy and monsters, i wonder what lets them think one is okay and the other is not.

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  serotonin_wraith

  I'm sure this will vary between JW to JW, but their choices are:

  1) They won't watch/read either.

  2) They will only allow LOTR, not HP.

  3) They will only allow HP, not LOTR.

  4) They will allow both.

  In my experience, 3 never happens and 2 happens the most. With the similar theme of magic, the occult, fantasy and monsters, I wonder what lets them think one is okay and the other is not. Is it to stop the kids watching their film/reading their book yet still wanting to watch/read the more adult LOTR themselves? A double standard?

  What have others noticed with this?

  ---Also, I understand Harry Potter is an adult favourite too, but it's been directed at a younger audience than Lord of the Rings.---
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  JW literature found in customers electric bills!

  by Atlantis in

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  (please delete if already posted).. .

  scroll down to the 2nd heading.

  **********************************************************http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/1237_november_15_2006/ps_1237.htm headline: telasi accused of promoting proselytizing efforts of jehovah's witnesses.

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  serotonin_wraith

  The envelopes stamped with a 'Final Notice' would scare anyone into taking up a free home bible study!
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  Find Serendipity and Lola a man...or two

  by lola28 in

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  yes that's right serendipity and myslef are both on the market, any takers?.

  i don't know what serendipity likes but umm, i'm going to take a guess, applicants must be:.

  *oooo and above all he must have all his teeth, elders and ms need not apply.

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  serotonin_wraith

  I would fake my normal stance on life and its many problems from a completely impartial unemotional viewpoint but you live too far away for me to wanna bother.