I'm a youngin' still but I remember having to get up and change and channel, getting a VCR (we had an RCA Select-A-Vision Videodisc player before that) for the first time, logging onto the internet for the first time and being awed by the fact I was typing to someone in another state through the computer. I remember my first computer, a Packard Bell 486 that I regularly screwed up trying to learn how it worked.
Man, this stuff is nothing compared to Mouthy's post.
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non-jw memories
by Hortensia inwhen i started driving in 1965, gas cost 29 cents a gallon.
when you pulled into the gas station guys would come out and wash the car windows, check the oil, and put air in the tires!
this is in california in the 60s.
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???Do you spank your kids???
by Princess Daisy Boo intell me how you feel about spanking your kids - be honest now!!!
have you ever, and under what circumstances?.
what other methods of discipline do you use?
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I was spanked as a kid and I personally am on the fence about it. On the one hand, it does seem a quite irrational way of handling bad behavior, but on the other hand, children don't have the capacity to reason like adults, so I think it's incredibly naive to think you can persuade them into obedience.
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But can you prove Pop Tarts are delicious?
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Tennasee- Witness man preaching to Goth Satanist gets family killed!!
by Witness 007 inwatching the crime channell yesterday i saw a picture of a family that was murdered by teenage gothic satanists, i said to my self "they look like witnesses"...and they were!
one of the girls charged with murder said: "the man aproached me at the rest stop and asked me if i believed in god, he said he was a jehovah witness...." the four youth's are serving life in prison for shooting this man his wife and 2 kids.
the baby boy was shot in the eye but survived....they ran over the parents as they drove off in their van.
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I really have to take issue with the title of this thread for two reasons. First, just because someone is a "goth" it doesn't automatically make them a "satanist." The old addage "don't judge a book by it's cover" comes into play here I think. That said, I also object to the wording "gets his family killed." This man did not "get his family killed." He struck up a conversation with teenagers that he felt needed to hear his message. While we may disagree with that message, this man did NOT deserve to be killed for his trouble. He did not know how that animal trash would turn on him, there is no way he could have known. Saying that he 'got his family killed' implies fault on his part when there is absolutely none.
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Talked to a woman about her custody battle tonight
by B_Deserter inshe messaged me on youtube about my video, really wanted to talk to me about jws.
i called her tonight and we talked about the jws and how her husband is trying to keep her kids away from her.
it's basically all the same stuff we've heard from every jw/non-jw custody battle.
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She messaged me on YouTube about my video, really wanted to talk to me about JWs. I called her tonight and we talked about the JWs and how her husband is trying to keep her kids away from her. It's basically all the same stuff we've heard from every JW/Non-JW custody battle. There is probably some abuse happening as well, the kind of abuse the Society likes to hide. She seemed interested in the fact that in custody cases where the beliefs are brought up, the Society will sometimes provide lawyers to the JW parents. At any rate, that's all I feel I can go into at this point. Even though I don't believe in God, I don't think it would hurt for us to invoke whatever God/spirit/force we might believe in to help this woman get her kids out of the clutches of the cult.
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My Elder Dad said "what changes"
by Champion inyeah, i need the one that shows how the old wt lit says the same basic teaching as the new generation understanding.....so not new light but finally just recycled crap...........oompa.
i will try to find it.
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Arguing with a Jehovah's Witness is hard because you first have to teach them what their religion teaches.
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My "I'm sorry I knocked" video
by B_Deserter ini've decided to actually show my face somewhat to the world.. .
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I've decided to actually show my face somewhat to the world.
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A person who believed without evidence that there are an even number of ducks would be believing foolishly or irrationally; the same goes for the person who believes in God without evidence.
Though this post is very wordy, this is the guy's argument. Unfortunately it falls into the same logical flaw that Pascal's Wager does. There is a 50% chance that there are an even number of Ducks, but the same most certainly does not go for God, and here's why.
1. We have evidence that ducks exist. If we know that ducks exist, we know that there is either an even number or an odd number of them.
2. We do not have evidence that God exists. Everything we discover in the universe has a natural explanation. The more we find, the more it appears that God is unlikely to exist. Even if he does, where did God come from? If he came about by some combination of natural forces? Why is it that we could not have come from a combination of natural forces? If God has always existed, then why is it unreasonable to believe that matter and energy has always existed instead? If God was created, then where did that God come from?
This author also makes the age-old "747" argument for design. The problem with that argument is simple: human beings are not 747s. A 747 is an object constructed out of dead matter. A human being is made from a complex reaction of cells. If you throw a nut and a bolt at each other, they're not going to stick, but if you throw two amino acids together, they will bond. Also, a 747 or a refrigerator does not reproduce with slightly modified offspring, something essential to evolution. Comparing the complexity of life to the complexity of a constructed machine is an example of the Non Sequitir fallacy. It doesn't apply. Evolution is a theory of life, not of constructed machinery.The theist has an easy time explaining the notion of our cognitive equipment's functioning properly: our cognitive equipment functions properly when it functions in the way God designed it to function. The atheist evidential objector, however, owes us an account of this notion. What does he mean when he complains that the theist without evidence displays a cognitive defect of some sort? How does he understand the notion of cognitive malfunction?
The theist may have an "easy time" explaining our cognitive equipment's functioning properly, but that doesn't mean he has any evidence that his explanation is correct. Also, how does the theist know how God designed it in the first place? Which God is he talking about? How does he know we just aren't all insane thanks to some sort of evil entity, like a "Devil" or something? Finally, the author is making the assumption that all atheists view irrationality as some sort of cognitive defect. In fact, new research suggests the opposite, that it is part of our normal mode of operation. Simply lumping all atheists in with Marx is an ignorant generalization.
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From my new blog at pundidiot.baywords.com.
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An Interesting YouTube debate I had with a JW
by B_Deserter inso most of you have probably seen my youtube video what you should know about jehovah's witnesses, which can be found here.
naturally, this draws quite a negative response from the jw community, but this particular person decided to send me a personal message.. you wanna talk smack about witnesses or anyone in general you better have your facts straight.
everything you said is taken almost enitrly out of context to our true practices.
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Since I'm fading, I do go to the occassional meeting when visiting family.