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By resorting to labeling me, you admit that you don’t have the answer
iconoclastic
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Why don’t we have a better story?
by iconoclastic in1. some say we are all gods, and god is omnipresent..
2. some say: god created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world..
3. universe arose out of a big bang.
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Why don’t we have a better story?
by iconoclastic in1. some say we are all gods, and god is omnipresent..
2. some say: god created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world..
3. universe arose out of a big bang.
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Why don’t we have a better story?
by iconoclastic in1. some say we are all gods, and god is omnipresent..
2. some say: god created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world..
3. universe arose out of a big bang.
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You all are explaining this with such an ease you would explain how giraffe got its long neck.
But here it is reproduction, a core-issue—as important as creation—the very process that ensured the next generation. So question is not that easy!!!!!
How can an organism (whether the simplest form or extremely complex form) come into existence—first without the copying ability, and pick up the copying ability later on its way?
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Why don’t we have a better story?
by iconoclastic in1. some say we are all gods, and god is omnipresent..
2. some say: god created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world..
3. universe arose out of a big bang.
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When people try to replace religious stories, they should come up with something better. Sadly, evolution theory does not do better! Though we have oceans of information, beneath the details it does not even qualify to be called a story. I will give just one example: Reproduction of species! Among the two types of reproduction (asexual and sexual), sexual reproduction is a great puzzle equally for both evolutionists and creationists. Evolutionists adhere to the view that the first organisms on earth were asexual. If so, why only some species would abandon asexual reproduction in favor of more costly and inefficient sexual reproduction? Exactly how did we arrive at two separate genders—each with its own physiology? Biology texts illustrate amoebas evolving into intermediate organisms, which then give rise to amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and, eventually, humans. Yet, those books are conveniently silent on exactly when or how independent male and female sexes originated. Somewhere along this evolutionary path, both males and females were required in order to ensure the procreation that was necessary to further the existence of a particular species. Evolution is an upward climb; hence asexual reproduction cannot evolve into sexual reproduction which is an inefficient way to reproduce. Think about what all the sexual process entails, including the complexity involved in reproducing the information carried within the DNA. This process, and the manner in which it is copied from generation to generation, are too complex. In addition, sexual reproduction is absurd in many ways: It is like trying the trick of first making two copies of a message, then breaking each into short bits at random, combining equal amounts from the two to form the version to be transmitted, and throwing the unused half away. Again, it is also like an absurd way of reading a book—you buy two copies, rip the pages out, and make a new copy by combining half the pages from one and half from the other, tossing a coin at each page to decide which original to take the page from and which to throw away. How can God bring in such a costly and inefficient method of sexual reproduction with its attendant labor pain so excruciating that some of the would-be-mothers even die in the labor room itself?
Thus replacement of religious stories raises only more questions than answers!
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Why Jehovah Does Not Want An Effective Preaching Work
by konceptual99 inso we all know how ineffectual the preaching work really is.
we also know how much the wts hypes up the scope and scale of the global preaching effort.
what the gb should be doing however is emphasising the ineffectiveness of the preaching work.
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Why don’t we have a better story?
by iconoclastic in1. some say we are all gods, and god is omnipresent..
2. some say: god created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world..
3. universe arose out of a big bang.
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I have no story as the purpose and meaning of life is a mystery, so far. Because of our deep involvement in the humdrum of lived life, we normally do not ponder over the question of the purpose of life. The question arises in our minds usually when confronted with the perceived meaninglessness of life. When, like Leo Tolstoy, we begin to feel, ``My Life is a stupid, mean trick played on me by somebody.'' We may also ponder over life's meaning when we endorse Macbeth's view that life is ``a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing''. Or, like Shakespeare wrote, when we feel that ``We are such stuff/ As dreams are made of, and our little life/ is rounded with a sleep...'' Homer says, ``Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.''
Whether or not you know the purpose of life, this life should be something meaningful for you; the way you spent time should make you feel genuine satisfaction. If you become a money-making machine (as the world wants us to be), you might get some sort of satisfaction but that would be very short-lived -for, in the long run, even a non-believer gets some sort of doubt; you feel some sort of uneasiness.... That's why I am saying, only do those things that give you deep satisfaction. That's living a meaningful life.
So how to make your life more meaningful? First, we should think... all sentient beings experience pleasure and pain. All sentient beings wish to be happy. Because of the power of intelligence, human beings have much better ability to avoid suffering. In the meantime, somehow, that very intelligence is also the source of problems. There's too much stress. The more educated you are, the more expectations you have (and others have of you), your hopes and fears too are intensified because of memory and intelligence. Animals have less expectation, they deal with immediate threats.
We should use our intelligence in such a way that it is a source of happiness, not as aggravator of anxiety and stress. Pay more attention to common experience, common sense and realise that compassion brings us all together.... When we learn from one another, it becomes the basis of genuine harmony.
Ralph Waldo Emerson put it very beautifully: “Purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”—
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Why don’t we have a better story?
by iconoclastic in1. some say we are all gods, and god is omnipresent..
2. some say: god created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world..
3. universe arose out of a big bang.
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I am only looking at beneath the details of all the three groups, on the stem, on the substratum, they all stand. That is not being silly--it is a serious matter. -
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Why don’t we have a better story?
by iconoclastic in1. some say we are all gods, and god is omnipresent..
2. some say: god created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world..
3. universe arose out of a big bang.
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I am only looking at beneath the details of all the three groups, on the stem, on the substratum, they all stand. That is not being silly--it is a serious matter. -
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This is a topic I am going to kill with my opening post.Why haven`t the Major religions of Christendom exposed J.W.`s as the true Apostates
by smiddy ini am initially thinking of the major religious institutions of christianity , catholic ,many branches , church of england , and the major protestant religions , too numerous to mention here.. after all their is 40,000 plus christian religions in the world today ?so obviously j.w.`s are not the only false religion .. so my real question is really , to do with the mainstream christian religions , why are`nt they more aggressive in their condemnation of the jehovah witness religion for their obvious failings ,flip backs ,contradictions ,prophecy`s that never eventuated , end of the world predictions ,re-inventing their past history , even distancing themselves from their past history , and their founding members , such as c.t.russell and j.f.rutherford whose policies they now reject... they need to get on board and bleed it for all it`s worth .. smiddy .
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iconoclastic
Their unique teaching of 'God being challenged by Satan and setting out to vindicate His sovereignty' qualifies them to be called not only the apostate the greatest, but also the pagan the most degraded. -
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Why don’t we have a better story?
by iconoclastic in1. some say we are all gods, and god is omnipresent..
2. some say: god created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world..
3. universe arose out of a big bang.
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iconoclastic
1. Some say we are all Gods, and God is omnipresent.
2. Some say: God created his children who later challenged his sovereignty, who in turn asked his eldest son: ‘Go down to the world, do not resist the wicked, but be murdered by them, the value of which will be used to atone the sins of the world.’
3. Universe arose out of a big bang. Later life arose. When the species felt hungry, food-provision arose (or, food-provision arose first which made the hunger possible whatever). When they took food, they felt the need of a digestive system within their bodies—thus digestive system appeared. When they felt the need to copy themselves, genital organs arose. When they implanted seed into their bodies, a womb appeared within the body.