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OK, Who Subscribes to Communism On This Forum

by Guest 77 in

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23 years ago

seeing that this forum is getting into evolution and individual theories, i would like to lengthen the envelope and ask who on this forum is willing to admit that he/she subscribes to communistic ideologies, and why?.

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23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

Communism is by far one of the greatest forms of governments on the face of the earth, NOT!!

Communism has been a dismal failure everywhere it has been implemented. Rather then freeing the majority of its subjects, it has enslaved them. People dont defect from the USA or other free lands to live in the USSR, Communist China, or Cuba, however the reverse has certainly been the case in the not too distant past, has it not?

Evolution on the other hand, which has no connection to communism, is a great success.

So powerful and successful is adaptation via natural selection and mutation that we must use antibiotics and poisons with care so as not to encourage the development of new species of drug resistant germs and poison resistant rodents.

Freeman

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Dinner with an "Annoited" one

by johnathanseagull in

23 years ago

hmmmm don't think i've ventured as far as posting any personal experiences but how about this one.

as a very very impressionable 16 year old, i happen to be at dinner with parents at an "annoited" person's house.

she was single in her sixties then and carried an air of.......mmmm lets say mystic (for the want of a better word)........lunch was served and it was all very serine as you could imagine being in the presence of such a person.

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

I give it another six months max.

Freeman

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My Dumb Ass JW Brother

by Reborn2002 in

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23 years ago

as some of you know from my sharing portions of my story on this board before, i disassociated myself from the jehovah's witnesses in 2001. my family, including my mother, sister, and brother, remain jehovah's witnesses.

i have an extremely limited relationship with my mother and sister.

i possess no relationship whatsoever with my brother, his wife, and their now 1 yr old son.

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

While in high school (which thankfully the Dubs dont discourage or matters would be even worse) my brother was in all AP and honors courses, graduated with a 3.9+ G.P.A. and was ranked in the top 10 of a class of over 400.
Scholarships and opportunities awaited him

Wow he was a smart dumb ass indeed.

Never give up hope, sometimes you never know what it takes before they see the light. In my case it was the decision to provide for my family or please some men. My gut told me I needed to get out of debt and start earning enough money so we did not have to live on the edge anymore.

My brother never went beyond high school and an aviation vocational school but he sure is smarter then I ever was; he never joined a cult now did he? He saw them for what they really are, I was a dope, we all were dopes. Its just some dopes take more time to smarten up and some regrettably never will.

Freeman

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My Dumb Ass JW Brother

by Reborn2002 in

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23 years ago

as some of you know from my sharing portions of my story on this board before, i disassociated myself from the jehovah's witnesses in 2001. my family, including my mother, sister, and brother, remain jehovah's witnesses.

i have an extremely limited relationship with my mother and sister.

i possess no relationship whatsoever with my brother, his wife, and their now 1 yr old son.

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

So when he asks God why He didn't provide, God will reply 'Well, I sent you a generous brother and I sent you a great job, but you knocked both back - what else did you want me to do?

LOL @ Max, you nailed it!

Freeman

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My Dumb Ass JW Brother

by Reborn2002 in

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23 years ago

as some of you know from my sharing portions of my story on this board before, i disassociated myself from the jehovah's witnesses in 2001. my family, including my mother, sister, and brother, remain jehovah's witnesses.

i have an extremely limited relationship with my mother and sister.

i possess no relationship whatsoever with my brother, his wife, and their now 1 yr old son.

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

Reborn2002,

Your brother sure is a dumb ass, I should know I was as big a dumb ass too, maybe even bigger.

My brother and I both worked in the aerospace industry and at one point worked for the same company. He was an aircraft mechanic by trade, and I was an engineer. The Watchtower boys said I cant do this type of work anymore because some of it was military related; but dont worry Jehovah will provide, quit your job and just trust in God.

So I became a TV repairman, a part time janitor, and even a security guard. Much harder work and still did not make the money I could be making at my old job, but boy I sure made Jehovah happy.

Observing all the changes I was now making in my life, my brother said to me you really buying all this Watchtower stuff? Ok well its your life but I think they are full of shit.

I struggled to pay my bills for years and years, but Jehovah was so happy with me.

Then one day out of the blue I got a shot at my dream job, a Job doing work for NASA. It was as a consultant and so it only would last about 4 months, but it paid big bucks! This job required me to fly down to Maryland each week and so I missed some meetings.

You guessed it, I got a good talking to by the brothers. But I explained that the job would be over in about another month or so and I really needed this money to pay off my debts.

Oh please please please dont make me quit another high paying job again!

These fine elders said I had to choose between the meetings or NASA. Add to this the fact that I was then offered this type of work at NASA full time and also was told they would move me and my family down to Maryland and pay for all expenses, even pay for a house hunting trip etc.

Dream Job, Big Bucks, Expense Paid Move, Good Benefits etc.

Or

Hard Meaningless Work, Low Pay, And Five Shitty Boring Meetings A Week

Now let me think, what do I want to do?

Long story short, I took the job made the move to Maryland and never spent one day regretting the decision. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. I really have to thank these elders for helping me see the light.

So you see Reborn2002, I was the dumb ass but I did wise- up. Yes, it took time, a lot of time, but I got smarter. So m aybe, just maybe in time so will your brother.

Dont give up hope dude, some times we dumb asses do finally see the light.

Best wishes to you and your family.

Freeman (a dumb ass no more)

Edited by - freeman on 11 October 2002 22:9:57

Edited by - freeman on 11 October 2002 22:12:21

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Evolution or creation?

by haujobbz in

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23 years ago

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if i had to answer this i suppose i would say im not sure which one i believe, i have always wondered why the universe is so huge and always wondered what its role is and how it affects us.. im always fascinated when i look up at the sky and think to myself i feel so small in such a huge universe a sought of cold isolated feeling is what i experience and then i think, i wonder why this planet came to support life after all it was supposedly all happened by chance.. dont get me wrong im no scientist but i think i need more convincing regarding evolution.. can anyone help regarding these questions

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

Wow now we have jumped from evolution to physics, cool!

Pomegranate you said:

So I disagree with the commonly accepted theoretical model of a closed system. I plan on writing a paper on it.

I have some friends, my former workmates, who are still working at NASAs Space Physics Analysis Lab, and I was wondering if it would be OK with you if I forwarded your paper to some of them for their enlightenment.

I myself havent worked at in lab in several years so these new corrections that you will provide wont affect me too much, but these poor ignorant souls at the lab need to be corrected. You see for them, the proper understanding of physics, well, thats their bread and butter so they really need to know these new facts.

Do let us know when your paper is ready and I will be sure to pass it on.

Thanks

Freeman (waiting to be reeducated on thermodynamics)

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Evolution or creation?

by haujobbz in

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23 years ago

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if i had to answer this i suppose i would say im not sure which one i believe, i have always wondered why the universe is so huge and always wondered what its role is and how it affects us.. im always fascinated when i look up at the sky and think to myself i feel so small in such a huge universe a sought of cold isolated feeling is what i experience and then i think, i wonder why this planet came to support life after all it was supposedly all happened by chance.. dont get me wrong im no scientist but i think i need more convincing regarding evolution.. can anyone help regarding these questions

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

Just as an aside, I think Expatbrit raised an interesting and profound question, he said what is life?

Good question Expatbrit, but I have another, are viruses considered a life form?

For you theists I would advise you to use extreme caution when answering this simple question because your little world may get rocked.

I wonder, am I the only person on the planet that knows that a simple and viable virus was created in a laboratory a few months back? Yes I said created, not cloned created.

Granted it is the simplest of viruses and Im sure it took considerable expertise to create, but as it was described in the news the virus was created with ordinarily available material.

The crux of the story seemed to be the possibility of such homemade viruses being used as bio-terror weapons, but scarcely a word was said about how this achievement could affect peoples sensibilities, particularly those that hold strong religious views.

So again I ask the question; are viruses life? If so, then man just did in a laboratory what only God is supposed to be able to do.

Just something to think about

Freeman

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Evolution or creation?

by haujobbz in

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23 years ago

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if i had to answer this i suppose i would say im not sure which one i believe, i have always wondered why the universe is so huge and always wondered what its role is and how it affects us.. im always fascinated when i look up at the sky and think to myself i feel so small in such a huge universe a sought of cold isolated feeling is what i experience and then i think, i wonder why this planet came to support life after all it was supposedly all happened by chance.. dont get me wrong im no scientist but i think i need more convincing regarding evolution.. can anyone help regarding these questions

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

When I last looked at this thread there were like maybe 5 or 6 posts now its like 40. The Evolution vs. Creation subject always seems to generate a lot of activity.

JJRIZO let me respond to some specific things you said in response to my comment to Pomegranate.

Not to sound critical but how do you know what cellular life was at the beginning?

I never said I knew what life was like in the beginning; I said it is a mistaken assumption that cellular construction and function is the same now as it was in the beginning.

This is really quite interesting! You have all the knowledge of these things but you weren't there to witness them from the beginning?

I have never been to Poland but I am quite sure it exists and I am even more certain that the earth is round.

Now how do I know this since the closest I have every come to Poland is a sausage I ate once in South Jersey and admittedly I have never walked the entire length of the earth from end to end, so how can I be so sure?

I'll give you a hint, its not at all based on faith, and its based on KNOWN FACTS.

Hey I'll listen to anything you say but to be considered an authority on the subject, give me a break!

Did I say or imply that I was some type of expert in this field? Sorry if I came off that way.

I readily admit that Im not that well versed in any of the numerous evolutionary sciences that prove the fact of evolution, however I am obviously a little more educated on this subject then some posters. You see I too espoused almost identical arguments until I was further educated on this subject. Now that I know better, I just cant honestly make such arguments anymore.

As an example, when people say such things as this, they show their profound ignorance on this subject just as I once did:

If we evolved from apes, then why are there so many UNFIT TO SURVIVE apes still surviving if we are the species that was supposedly the fittest?

I made the same exact argument and it made perfect sense to me at the time, as Im sure it does to Pomegranate and other like-minded poster. One thing this poster did do is show how silly it would in fact be for anyone to believe that we descended from apes since the apes exist here with us. Too bad that is not what evolutionary science teaches, but IF it did you certainly would have a fine argument, you sure would.

Alas, evolutionary science in all it many disciplines does not teach that apes evolved into men, only that at some point we shared a common ancestor. And now at this stage of our understanding, that fact is indisputable right down to our common DNA.

I have to wrap this up now so let me a gain urge posters to truly investigate the subject for yourself, you will be truly amazed at what you dont know, I sure was.

PS: The acknowledgment of the fact of evolution is not inconsistent with the existence of a creator so dont worry about that. As for a literal interpretation of the Bible book of Genesis, thats a different story. Im afraid you are going to have some trouble with this after you learn the facts, sorry.

Freeman (been there, done that class)

Edited by - freeman on 9 October 2002 23:18:18

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Evolution or creation?

by haujobbz in

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23 years ago

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if i had to answer this i suppose i would say im not sure which one i believe, i have always wondered why the universe is so huge and always wondered what its role is and how it affects us.. im always fascinated when i look up at the sky and think to myself i feel so small in such a huge universe a sought of cold isolated feeling is what i experience and then i think, i wonder why this planet came to support life after all it was supposedly all happened by chance.. dont get me wrong im no scientist but i think i need more convincing regarding evolution.. can anyone help regarding these questions

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

Pomegranate you raised some truly excellent arguments. I find them very similar to the arguments I raised some time ago.

Unfortunately, (and I dont mean this disparagingly), you are obviously ignorant on the subject of evolution and how the powerful forces of natural selection play upon development of bio-mechanisms. You are also under the mistaken assumption (as I also once was) that cellular construction and function is the same now as it was in the beginning.

I will not debate you on this subject, as it is not my intent to try and defeat anyone in a contest of ideas, but I do challenge you to investigate further. Nobody can tell you the answer; you must find this out for yourself just like I did.

You will know that you have sufficient knowledge on this subject when the excellent argument you presented above doesnt seem nearly so excellent anymore.

Freeman

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Neighbor told a JW off !1

by mommy1 in

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23 years ago

my neighbor told me today that last saturday the witnesses had been on our street.

i wasn't home at the time.

he said he told them about the dateline program and that he had seen the silent lambs web site.

23 years ago

freeman 23 years ago

Excellent, great job mommy!!!

More and more of this needs to be done; they need to hear this message over and over again because they just dont get it. They are still in a state of denial and until the governing body hears enough bad reports from the field they wont change this sick policy of protecting pedophiles over children.

As an aside, some of you know that I currently forbid my minor son from attending meetings because I strongly disagree with the Watchtowers unscriptural and un-Christian shunning and blood policies. I now add to the list their insane pedophile protection policy. Did I just coin a phrase, or does Bill Bowen own this one already? I like the sound of that, very catchy, the Watchtower Pedophile Protection Policy.

I have something planed for this weekend. I just cant wait to see the reactions from my wife and her dub friends when our cars start sporting silentlambs bumper stickers. And if she removes them she will have to explain to me why she supports pedophiles over children.

I cant wait!

Here you go honey, I just washed it and gassed it up for you, have a great day in service! LOL

Freeman

Edited by - freeman on 9 October 2002 11:21:38

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