Posts by glenster

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Protesting

by zound in

is watchtower baiting apostates with this new awake?.

"is protest the answer?".

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201307/is-protest-the-answer/.

future existence is non existence.... but our hearts and reason long for future existence...its our reason to exist.... so when we are sold the dream of a " paradise earth" its a dream as real as the sun might shine tomorrow..... its advertising and marketing, its lies that cant be justified but having left the " lie" of a future paradise earth is not the world one big " paradise earth" with its marketing?.

how do we find ourselfs ?.

glenster

Dig infinity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA1VQxaRQOI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckley

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Human powered flight

by fulltimestudent in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=syjq10eqkog#at=26 .

glenster

Cool experiment if not practical.

The last dozen or so links at the bottom of the page at the next link feature
flight with wingsuits, only practical if you're near a cliff, flight that's
only practical if you have a jet pack, and Franz Reichelt, who wasn't practical.
http://glenster1.webs.com/experiments1.htm

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Food For Logical Thought...

by braincleaned in

sometimes we waste hours and hours debating a subject like the flood, and the impossible scientific and evolutionary consequences that it entails.

we go into great debates about how all of is is possible, what a "kind" means (species, obviously not)... etc.... but believers will not stop believing... so here is something even a child would think of more logically:if god is all powerful and love why would he have not just made the wicked drop dead, painlessly?

simply, humanly.

glenster

PS to my earlier post:

The basic concepts of God and atheism don't come with character determinants,
names for God, interventions, etc. All-beneficence is an added stipulation I
wouldn't recommend: if God were all-beneficent we'd all live in heavenly circum-
stances forever and we don't. Nothing of ethics or the known things prove God
whether God exists or not. Giving the bad things of the world as proof God isn't
is as illogical as giving intelligent design as proof God is.

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Food For Logical Thought...

by braincleaned in

sometimes we waste hours and hours debating a subject like the flood, and the impossible scientific and evolutionary consequences that it entails.

we go into great debates about how all of is is possible, what a "kind" means (species, obviously not)... etc.... but believers will not stop believing... so here is something even a child would think of more logically:if god is all powerful and love why would he have not just made the wicked drop dead, painlessly?

simply, humanly.

glenster

I see no logical impossibility. I make the analogy of believing in God
presiding over life as being like believing in life with its good and bad. If
you can do that, you know how someone can do it. With God you can add a hope for
a nice afterlife as sweetener on the deal.

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Casual sexism in Watchtower literature

by slimboyfat in

i notice the sexist language of the watchtower a lot more these days.

is it on the increase or am i simply more tuned into to noticing it now?

for example this statement in the june kingdom ministry:.

glenster

Unsurprisingly, the GB has a conservative stance on complimentarianism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarianism

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Astrobiology And The Origens Of Life UCTV

by frankiespeakin in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uawlirvmytu.

glenster

A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen On Earth
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130626153924.htm

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The Watchtower Writers need to answer this question "Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history!"

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

how come the watchtower will not side with christendom and address a topic like the following?

what if christendom had allowed islam to spread it's plunder into europe without a fight and great force?

i direct your attention to islam spreading not as a distraction, but to ask the question most atheist have asked me when we talk of this subject.

glenster

Centric intolerance by believers and non-believers has caused the most harm.

Edit > Find > substantiation
http://glenster1.webs.com/basics.htm

(I'm still working on the other pages.)

5

The great R&B singer Bobby Blue Bland passes

by designs in

one of the legends of blues and r&b bobby was born in rosemark tennessee and shortly after his family moved to memphis where his singing career began with local church gospel groups.

after a stint in the army in the early 50s bobby began touring with johhny ace, bb king and junior parker.

bobby sang some of the best blues recorded in the 50s and 60s with i pity the fool, ain't no love in the heart of the city, the much covered farther up the road and the shinning turn on your love light.

glenster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUyKrNzW3Pc

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"No longer need to change the world" since becoming a JW

by wasblind in

i ran across this while i was lookin up a reference from another post.

here's a summary.

july 2013 wt.

glenster

MLK, RFK, Stephen Colbert, etc.: liberal.

The GB is conservative with feigned distinctions that can cause needless harm,
such as due to the GB policies on blood and shunning. Worse, they send cus-
tomers through the public for more customers while holding them to overdone
shunning rules to discourage association with those who could expose the con-
trivances used to affect those distinctions. By definition that includes groups
with the purpose of correcting misinformation to stop needless harm.