Born in Rimouski in the wild lands of Eastern Quebec, grew up in and around the southern Montreal region, spent a few years in Winnipeg, now I'm back in Montreal.
marmot
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Canada: who's from there?
by RAYZORBLADE inwell, since the info by our photos/usernames is not available yet (profile info), i figured, why not give it another go.
the aussies had a go of it, time for the canucks to toss some maple syrup into the forum.
who on this forum is from canada?
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Gossip about you: how far is the farthest it's travelled?
by marmot ini just got a text message today from a friend in calgary asking me why i wasn't going to meetings and why i was having doubts and he proceeded to bring up specific examples.
funny, the only people i've told about my doubts during my fade were my parents, a couple elders and my ex-gilead uncle in order to avoid possible charges of apostasy for spreading my doubts around.
after some careful questioning, i figured out it must have been my uncle spreading the gossip.
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Gossip about you: how far is the farthest it's travelled?
by marmot ini just got a text message today from a friend in calgary asking me why i wasn't going to meetings and why i was having doubts and he proceeded to bring up specific examples.
funny, the only people i've told about my doubts during my fade were my parents, a couple elders and my ex-gilead uncle in order to avoid possible charges of apostasy for spreading my doubts around.
after some careful questioning, i figured out it must have been my uncle spreading the gossip.
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marmot
Forgot to add, my friend got the information third-hand from somebody else.
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Gossip about you: how far is the farthest it's travelled?
by marmot ini just got a text message today from a friend in calgary asking me why i wasn't going to meetings and why i was having doubts and he proceeded to bring up specific examples.
funny, the only people i've told about my doubts during my fade were my parents, a couple elders and my ex-gilead uncle in order to avoid possible charges of apostasy for spreading my doubts around.
after some careful questioning, i figured out it must have been my uncle spreading the gossip.
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marmot
I just got a text message today from a friend in Calgary asking me why I wasn't going to meetings and why I was having doubts and he proceeded to bring up specific examples.
Funny, the only people I've told about my doubts during my fade were my parents, a couple elders and my ex-gilead uncle in order to avoid possible charges of apostasy for spreading my doubts around.
After some careful questioning, I figured out it must have been my uncle spreading the gossip. This is based on the private nature of the stuff my friend new about a single conversation I had with my Uncle and no one else.
So gossip about me has traveled roughly 3028 kilometers as the crow flies. Don't ya just love that worldwide brotherhood! -
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The hounders are once again up my arse... As of like, 2 minutes ago...
by cognac inthey told my husband they wanted to meet... tonight.... just what i want to do on a friday night... we just had a sheparding call a month ago with another elder.
i said to my husband, "why don't they just invite the entire body over to the house?
so hubby told them that.
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marmot
I thought "up the arse" was considered uncleanness?
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KING of the NORTH (proof!)
by winnower incan you not see that usa/uk is "king of the north"???????
here is documentation.
remember when we were referred to as western civilization?
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marmot
Conspiracy kooks give me heartburn.
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Did God really warn mankind before the Flood of Noah?
by moshe injw's think they are doing a work just like noah did before the flood.
they say that noah's witness lasted for 40 years.
other than a few traders who moved around, i doubt that most tribal people would be able to safely travel to see noah's work in progress.
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marmot
I've been told by my pioneer gilead graduate uncle that Noah didn't have to do any preaching work. He says Jehovah "saw that the whole earth was wicked except for him" so there was no necessity to preach.
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Is there any Religion WITHOUT a belief in an afterlife / reward?
by ThomasCovenant init's been interesting to read the various discussions that go on here particularly between those who 'believe' in a 'god' and those who don't.
in my opinion when all is said and done it seems to come down simply to.
versus .
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marmot
I'm an atheist, not a militant one, but I do believe we all get reincarnated in a way.
If you think about it, the quantum particles that make up our atoms were all originally a part of the singularity at the source of the big bang. These went on to form elements, nebulae, stars, planets and finally a closed loop ecosystem on earth.
On a short-term basis, we're all going to be "reincarnated" as nutrients that will go on to become a part of other living beings and will maybe shuffle their way up the food chain until being ingested by a human and joining the human race again. Maybe even a woman about to conceive, in which case that new person would experience a whole new life with a part of us inside them.
On a long-term basis, long after the human race has gone extinct our sun will eventually burn out and go supernova, scattering our atoms among the stars back where we came from. Maybe we'll be sucked into a black hole, maybe we'll fall as cosmic dust on some other life-bearing planet or maybe we'll make up a newborn star.
I find it very calming to meditate on the flitting transience of life as we know it and think about how best to enjoy it and make it enjoyable for others. Buddhism most closely approaches this, I've found. -
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Noah's ark - Can't believe I once actually thought it was true
by sam_sane_now inwhen i was a jw i didn't even question that the noah's ark story might not be true.
i didn't realise that it wasn't achievable for a handful of people to gather literally millions of animals - two of each kind - and fit them into a boat where they would all survive for many days.
i didn't think about the fact that if the highest mountain was covered with water then how could plant life like trees and flowers come to exist again, especially so soon after, with the raven grabbing an olive leaf was it?
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marmot
I once tried to rationalize the idea of a local flood, too, but there's a big problem with that.
If all the people were in that small geographical area, what explains all the human artifacts scattered around the world that pre-date the flood? Did Jehovah whisk everybody to the Black Sea so he could drown them? After all, the account says that God wanted to destroy ALL of mankind, but softened his heart because Noah was a man of righteousness. -
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CREATIONIST TEACHERS
by badboy in1 in 8 high school teachers in usa teach creationism and id as valid science.. 16% of teachers beliece humans were created less than 10,000 years ago.
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marmot
Define what it is you consider "up for debate", please.
Is it the process of species slowly changing over time and diverging due to to genetic change? That's evolution, and there is NO debate over this.
Or is it the idea of life arising out of nothing? That's abiogenesis, and it could be argued that there is debate over this, but it's something that cannot be observed, tested, or proven.
How life originally arose on earth is something nobody knows, right now, but what the scientific community DOES know is that once life began so did evolution. Fully-formed plants, animals and insects were not magically zapped into being, they came about through changes that lasted millions upon millions of years. The exact mechanism as to how this works is still a subject of research, but the underlying fact that life evolved is supported by DNA, the fossil record and comparative biology.