it has been my one of my greatest honors to post here on this forum.
i arrived almost 2 years ago looking desperately for some ears to listen.
that is exactly what you gave me and more.
Its good to leave the forum once in awhile to energize your thoughts, there is so much to learn and take in this life.
I've personally enjoyed reading your interesting comments, you certainly garnered a lot of respect from most of the people here,
including myself. Take care Sab.
ask a witness which generation do you belong to and see if they really know how to answer.. i have decided that every time i hear a true definition of the meaning of a generation i will post it here just to reinforce the true meaning just in case a stray jw happens to look in on here.. yesterday evening i was watching an antiques programme on the television and under discussion was a very well made baby high chair from about the nineteen thirties and the approximate date of manufacture and the length of time it had been in the family.
the expert then went on to confim how old it was and in doing so said that considering who first purchased the chair and the length of a generation that it was from the thirties and went on to say that we consider a generation to be about 25 years.. that is a truer definition of a generation than a watchtower definition.. .
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The New Light incoming concerning 1914 will be "We made a mistake concerning that year "
As the time scale of a full century approaches and it would impossible over anyone to live further past a century (although it has happened before)
The WTS. is in position to drop the year 1914 all together. They might just continue on the "Signs of The End Time" propaganda though.
And ....wasn't calculating the date of Christ's establishment of his heavenly kingdom (1914) by using numbers, going beyond
what is written in the bible and actually going against Christ's instructions concerning the exact time of his return ?
someone said atheists are a minority.
i think that is incorrect.
salvation belongs to yhwh.
Some of this (God) question can be honestly answered by acknowledging why and where the roots of theism began.
Thousands of years of human ignorance of the world the ancients lived, had to accumulate toward something.
Theism offered an answer to the many unknowns as well made a direct meaningful connection to these deities, similar to the
way human relationships are fostered upon, father, son, mother and so on. The father of course being the most powerful and wise
and sons playing the part as secondary roles to the father. A few thousands years of this kind of idealogical concept created many
supportive stories established toward this relationship arrangement. Some of these are obviously documented in the bible.
Just because there were no written transcripts of theses types of relationships from other cultures doesn't mean they didn't exist, they did.
Many of these ancient cultures were structured around a relationship with various worshiped deities, until that culture was over taken by another,
as history shows.
someone said atheists are a minority.
i think that is incorrect.
salvation belongs to yhwh.
someone said atheists are a minority.
i think that is incorrect.
salvation belongs to yhwh.
someone said atheists are a minority.
i think that is incorrect.
salvation belongs to yhwh.
Christopher Hitchens had some thought about god
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIRJVmZ4K8&feature=player_embedded#!
so i have a client i'm working at this morning.
in the break room i saw about 3 wt & awake!
rags.
JWS are very devious and secretive when leaving WTS. magazines around.
Thats 3 Mags. placed and noted on that person's publishing report card.
I would write "Visit www.jwfacts.com" on all the literature.
Thats a very good idea not only for people who may pick up those magazines but also to the orginal person who
may return to see if they are still there.
apologies if this has been posted before or even discussed.. this ted talk gets at the heart of what atheism is missing and my wife an di discussed this for a long time last night.
in short religion provides a framework for meeting, for ritual, for art, education and sociality.
without this framework atheism can seem lonely harsh and certainly disorganised (the general idea that education and culture can replace the gap may well be true but without a formal structure the route to personal mental fulfillment is somewhat piecemeal and patchwork.
Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.
The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.
The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.
It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!
But Christians found a way round it!
Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime!
The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!
Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!
Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!
So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it?!
A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra
apologies if this has been posted before or even discussed.. this ted talk gets at the heart of what atheism is missing and my wife an di discussed this for a long time last night.
in short religion provides a framework for meeting, for ritual, for art, education and sociality.
without this framework atheism can seem lonely harsh and certainly disorganised (the general idea that education and culture can replace the gap may well be true but without a formal structure the route to personal mental fulfillment is somewhat piecemeal and patchwork.
SUNDAY 22 JANUARY 2012 , 11.30 – 12.45pm
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1
Alain de Botton has been writing a new book for three years and finally it's ready for its UK launch - in a most appropriate place and format: as a secular sermon delivered from a pulpit to a congregation in an unusual 'church for atheists' called Conway Hall.
This is appropriate because the book is called RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS. Alain de Botton is a non-believer. Yet he argues religions have important things to teach the secular world. He's written a book explaining ways in which atheists should look to religion for some solutions to contemporary ills. In doing so, he hopes to move the tired old debate between atheists and believers onto more fruitful ground.
Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton proposes that agnostics and atheists should stop mocking religions and start stealing from them. For too long, he believes, we have faced a false choice between either swallowing doctrines or doing away with consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas.
In this secular sermon de Botton presents his vision for a far more interesting alternative where we look to religions for helpful insights into how to build a sense of community, make our relationships last, get more out of art, and overcome envy and inadequacy.
This sermon launches de Botton’s new book, Religion for Atheists: A non-believer’s guide to the uses of religion (forthcoming on 2 February 2012).
my finances are tight b/c of illness.
an important part of being desireable to employers is being technologically proficient.
it seems strange b/c my employers would pay for anything even if only remotely related to the job.
IE9 works if you put this site on compatibility mode, the Icon on the top far right of the address bar that looks like two opposing arrows.
And I agree with your comment Midget, I used to own a 3GS but now own a 4S.
