( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .
i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.
reasonings for this huge difference in figures.
I would like to thank everyone who freely share their thoughts on this subject . I do believe that by cross -section
of all posts, it is the intensity of JW life style, the our way or no way teaching , that forces peoples hand to extreme
ends of the scale ! Thankyou kindly for your thoughts .
Caliber
( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .
i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.
reasonings for this huge difference in figures.
Einstein, Sagan & Hawkins have ventured way outside my cave and returned safely many times, assuring me it must be safe !
Caliber
( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .
i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.
reasonings for this huge difference in figures.
You are in a foreign land standing in front of an old wooden hanging plank foot bridge that
crosses the canyon. The canyon is so deep it makes your heart pound when you look over the
bank edge. A stranger tells you it is safe to cross ,another says the planks are weak and rotten
from all the rain. Would you cross the bridge? "I would error on the side of caution", this to me would
be the emotional and logical conclusion.
Caliber
( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .
i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.
reasonings for this huge difference in figures.
I'm here to listen and learn not to speak.
Sorry I lost my duct tape! hahaha
before I arrive at a final decision of atheism
In this comment I am only playing the devil's advocate (pun intended) I still believe strongly in an almighty God.
Caliber
( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .
i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.
reasonings for this huge difference in figures.
http://richarddawkins.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2619
Einstein, our most famous scientist, wrote .."You may call me an agnostic. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature."
Carl Sagan wrote .... "An agnostic doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm an agnostic"
Stephen Hawkins, our most famous living agnostic scientist, wrote
"The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." His quantum theory proposes that "There is no space-time boundary and that, as such, there is no need to specify the behaviour of that boundary" , thereby promoting the concept that we are simply not able to define the universe, since it cannot be defined in any logical way.
These famous people all have one thing in common.... they have expressed that our intellectual capacity to understand life, God and the universe is extremely limited.
So then if these brilliant minds do not have the intellectual capacity to understand God, life and the universe; what hope is there for me
to understand these concepts before I arrive at a final decision of atheism?
Caliber
( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .
i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.
reasonings for this huge difference in figures.
I must say I am impressed at the scientific way you arrived at the % of atheists on the board.
If you noticed at the end of the sentence it is what they call a question mark; therefore this is not a statement.
It was meant to promote discussion and I believe I have accomplished this purpose.
Can this really be so ? ( One recent post indicated this 90% figure)
Caliber
( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .
i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.
reasonings for this huge difference in figures.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-10-13-atheists-convention_N.htm
Green said the number of people who do not worship is slowly growing but the exact number of atheists in America is unknown because many people are reluctant to identify themselves that way. About 4% of people in Pew's latest survey said they were atheist or agnostic and an additional 10% said they followed no religion.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/154260/1.ashx
comments by regular board members
Caliber
( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .
i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.
reasonings for this huge difference in figures.
Can this really be so ? ( One recent post indicated this 90% figure)
I don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal
reasonings for this huge difference in figures. I'm here to listen and learn not to speak.
Thankyou
Caliber
i have certainly enjoyed this first year on jwd !
i've learned so much from you all, through the ups and downs of what any community experiences !
we all have something special to bring to jwd , and i want to thank each and every one of you for bringing what you do in an authentic way !
at times I realize I have a justice streak that runs a mile deep , so if I have ever said anything inappropriate that has hurt others here, I apologize. But I care about people , it's how I roll , and in that caring at times I will stand up for what I believe in . I try to be diplomatic in my tactics in communicating, but hey, I'm human too . My main goals are to continue assisting ones to deal with their pain getting out of the witness organization , and to meet and make many more quality friends here on JWD !
To me these words above are pure gold , I couldn't agree more ,these are my sentiments exactly ! One thing though I
just can't believe you've done all those post in one year, I thought you were an old -timer ! Please keep it up my dear friend !
Caliber !
he is the very last wwi vet.
frank woodruf buckles met in person with gw bush in the white house yesterday!!!
the guy did not look a day over 85...serioulsy.
by the way Happy birthday!
Here's a couple of more tidbits...
| LAST SURVIVING VETS OF AMERICAN WARS | |
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Nearly 90 years after America entered World War I on April 6, 1917, just four known U.S. veterans remain. Charlotte Winters, 109, of Boonsboro, Md., the last female veteran of the war, died Tuesday. That leaves Frank Buckles, 106, of Charles Town, W.Va.; Lloyd Brown, 105, of Charlotte Hall, Md.; Russell Coffey, 108, of North Baltimore, Ohio; and Harry Landis, 107, of Sun City Center, Fla. |
Caliber
