Posts by AllTimeJeff

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In This Issue: 'Meat in Due Season'--Do We Eat It Gratefully?

by sd-7 in

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in this time of the end, the world continues to degenerate further and further into wickedness.

indeed, "wicked men and imposters advance from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.

" (2 tim.

Yay, Canada gets it's first Olympic Gold Medial on home-soil

by Simon in

(well, snow actually).

can you believe it?

we didn't get a gold in the montreal or calgary olympics !.

AllTimeJeff

It's hard to be an American and root for Canada... Thats who I want to see in the Gold medal game.

Btw, I know this is a cold war hangover, but seeing Russia lose at anything never gets old.... The Ovechkin Ovechkins are going to rock their way to 4th place, Bronze if they're lucky.

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Is Believing in God Immoral?

by AK - Jeff in

a recurrent theme thrust forward by many theists is that morality is unattainable without belief in god.

the idea seems to pervade that thinking, that without god-restraint, fear of lost eternity, man would run seriously amok, freely plundering, murdering, and bringing general havoc upon the innocent.

might there be some logical points to counter such thinking.

AllTimeJeff

Oh man, I am having trouble seeing the responses... Not this one!

AKJeff, ignore the attempts of some to derail this and be sure to restart it if we can't get more replies.

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God and Suffering

by AK - Jeff in

a few weeks back, in the midst of the haiti tragedy, much discussion took place in cyberland about the tolerance [or indeed the insistence on] suffering by a loving god.

the furor over haiti has settled a bit [as unfortunately most tragedy is wont to do far too quickly in the human mind], but this persistent matter continues to chew at my subconscience.

today i came across this:.

AllTimeJeff

Until someone can logically explain why God "allows" suffering and doesn't step in, I could give a rats behind about the reconciliation. But here is one thing you have stated over and over.

We are born sinful.

Thats right, that little baby is doomed unless he accepts what, in your mind Perry, is the only way to reconciliation with god. Jesus.

That baby will grow, develop all kinds of personality traits, might even be born in China, or a Muslim country, where logically, they are doomed because they won't accept Jesus.

Doomed. Baby. Born dead unless he accepts Christ. Doomed because our original parents ate a piece of fruit after a discussion of good vs evil with a snake.

Logic?

Your premise is wrong. Always has been. You fight this point because without it, you would have to back off a lot of your statements, but you can't prove logically why we are alienated from god without the illogical Genesis account. Genesis is an allegory at best. Without accepting that I am in need of reconciliation based on the 2 naked people and snake story, I have no need for your snake oil.

You refuse to see that sin is a control mechanism of religion, of which, you personally have bought. Again and again, I respect your right to view things exactly as you do for you. But to argue it for others in the manner you do, and I must object.

No logic. Premise based on fairy tales. That is what you believe in Perry.

So in view of the foregoing, why would I try to find the illogic in the reconciliation of Jesus when the whole thing is illogical?

In short, your starting line belief that we are sinners in need of reconciliation based on the eating of a fruit by 2 naked people in some garden in the middle east after being talked into it by a snake is illogical. It's all downhill from there.

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Does Anyone Miss Being In The Jehovah's Witness Cult?

by minimus in

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friends

i saw 6 jw zombies walking up a hill near where i live the other day.

they all were dressed nicely.

they walked together in twos.

AllTimeJeff

What I really miss is preparting 2 meeting parts, 2 shep calls, judical cases, elders meeting, RBC duties, letters to read and file, oh, and the glossy eyed, upset, depressed people.

Yeah, I miss that.

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A Problem With General Christian Beliefs

by AllTimeJeff in

first of all, lets head off some potential problems before they start.

i am not doing this thread to argue.

if you would like to, thats fine.

AllTimeJeff

But what I was trying to get at was the altruistic love we see so often, as well as the idiotic romantic love, serve no purpose in an evolutionary or survival of the fittest sense, so when John the writer of the letters , says "God is Love" does that mean that when we love, we bring God in to existence ?

Not that "He" exists, but that we create him by our love ?

Wobble, I think you are on to something there. As a philosophy in the abstract, it can work. Having said that, you don't need to call it this to love others. It merely is an interpretation, but doesn't prove the superiority of Christianity, nor is Christianity necesarry to believe this if you want to have this philosophy as your own personal religion.

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God and Suffering

by AK - Jeff in

a few weeks back, in the midst of the haiti tragedy, much discussion took place in cyberland about the tolerance [or indeed the insistence on] suffering by a loving god.

the furor over haiti has settled a bit [as unfortunately most tragedy is wont to do far too quickly in the human mind], but this persistent matter continues to chew at my subconscience.

today i came across this:.

AllTimeJeff

Oh, the illogic of the Bible, with Seas parting, Floods happening, families through incest (Lot and his merry daughters) and the "investigation" of Sodom and Gomorrah before they were "salted" away.

And that's just Genesis and Exodus.

Yup, lots of logic.....

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A Problem With General Christian Beliefs

by AllTimeJeff in

first of all, lets head off some potential problems before they start.

i am not doing this thread to argue.

if you would like to, thats fine.

AllTimeJeff

Hi all. If I should have said Jesus is God the Son, then that is what I meant. I apologize for my over simplification.

PSac, I haven't done a 180. If anything, I probably line up with more of your vibe then I do say AKJeff on my feelings that I think a higher power exists. I also think love is the #1 thing a human can do for another. (thus the many questions AKJeff has about god, which are most valid)

AllTimeJeff, If I may say this, and you are free to disagree with me. Everyone, regardless of what they say or how they act, everyone has a religion, a faith in something.

This looks like a semantics problem where you have your own definitions for words, so I would rather steer clear of that. I don't know from my point of view how you can say everyone has their own religion. I would allow you that perhaps, faith is something we all have, but religion? Not me.

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God and Suffering

by AK - Jeff in

a few weeks back, in the midst of the haiti tragedy, much discussion took place in cyberland about the tolerance [or indeed the insistence on] suffering by a loving god.

the furor over haiti has settled a bit [as unfortunately most tragedy is wont to do far too quickly in the human mind], but this persistent matter continues to chew at my subconscience.

today i came across this:.

AllTimeJeff

As usual, I appreciate you PSac.

AKJeff, don't sweat the small stuff (aka Perry's "responses") He is clearly wired to defend his god so much that he will do whatever he can to win an argument, be that minimizing or demonizing an argument, dodge, ask a question to answer a question, literally every technique he learned as a JW.

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I turn on the news to see Sarah Palin taking on the Family Guy writer

by dinah in

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friends

i think she should just try to bring it.

she's out-gunned.. .

AllTimeJeff

Quayle fought Murphy Brown. Bush I fought The Simpsons. Palin picks on Family Guy.

....and rural Kansas rejoiced!