yes, people have the right to believe whatever nonsense they want.
but it's also a given fact, that agents of religions run around trying to convert the unprepared. and because of this, because religions are so vocal, atheists HAVE to give a reply. this is no crusade, this is active defense.
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Apostate Presence Rattles World Conference on Religion
by SickofLies ini know many of you probably never saw my post a few days ago inviting everyone to the world religions conference where i was a key note speaker.
i'd like to send a big thank you to kwintestal and mincan for showing and giving their support, surfice to say it made quite an impression that the three people standing up and defending atheism at the event were all ex-witnesses.
the theme for the event was on the topic of morals and modesty.
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Apostate Presence Rattles World Conference on Religion
by SickofLies ini know many of you probably never saw my post a few days ago inviting everyone to the world religions conference where i was a key note speaker.
i'd like to send a big thank you to kwintestal and mincan for showing and giving their support, surfice to say it made quite an impression that the three people standing up and defending atheism at the event were all ex-witnesses.
the theme for the event was on the topic of morals and modesty.
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religious lobbyists are trying to gain power and control over secular achievements. they try to put their foot into schools to teach children unscientific ideas instead of real biology. religious people walk around advertising their faith. they are EVERYWHERE!
it's about time secularists and atheists/agnostics open their mouth. this is not about not respecting ones personal belief, it's about saving humanity from going back to the middle ages. it's about progress. it's about making people think for themselves instead of blindly following some belief that wastes precious time at best and precious lives at worst. -
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How Were The Elders In Your Hall?
by minimus inwere they pretty decent men?.
liberals or extremists??.
did they try to be "good shepherds" or were they real assh@les?.
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some diehard hardliner jerks. a few very nice guys. one or two "reaching out" types. one who was open to discussion and was not as (d/n)umb as the others. we had many interesting discussions, but in the end i could not understand how someone as intelligent and informed as him could serve the borg in that position.
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A Christian we could all learn from.....
by sweetstuff ini just watched a movie about william wilberforce, who i had no prior knowledge of, great movie, amazing grace and given the large amount of debate lately on here regarding christianity versus atheisim, i thought what better example of someone who's religious beliefs drove him to make improvements for all of mankind.
i am not a christian, but i think if we all tried to more humanitarian like this man, only good could come from it .
he is someone to me, that embodies all that christanity should be, by his actions.. perhaps he would have become the same man, without christianity, perhaps not.
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i also have the opinion, that "good" people would do "good" and "bad" people do "bad" things, regardless of religious belief or ideology. however, religion and ideology make "good" people do "bad" things far too often.
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The beautiful, beautiful 'Theory of Evolution'.
by nicolaou inamongst billions of galaxies each containing billions of stars with their families of planets, it only had to happen once - genesis.
not by the hand of god but through sheer statistical inevitability with, perhaps, some anthropic good luck thrown in.. from that point on there was no stopping it.
natural selection made best use of the variations that mutation threw up and billions of years later .
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> If I was forced to believe that mutations are always a good thing, I would throw up too. <
there are no paradigms of good or bad in nature. things just are. and if a mutation makes you look too ugly to be eaten, it might as well be a good thing - as long as it does not prevent you from reproducing. -
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Goodbye from James Free
by James Free inwhen i joined jwd i still felt the need for a 'support group' and jwd was full of similar people wanting to share their experience.
now the time has come for me to leave - i am now able to put 35 years of jw living completely out of my head.. .
many factors have helped me, and jwd was an important part of that, and i will always be grateful to simon for setting up this forum.. .
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goodbye
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Men: do you dye your hair?
by pratt1 inmen, do you dye your hair to hide the gray?.
women: do you prefer your men to dye their hair or do you prerfer them to let nature take its course and let the gray grow in?.
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i shave my head to hide my absence of enough hair ;) does that count?
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single JW's and sex
by Hipraptor ini am if it is the norm, but in my teenage years i must admit, i ahd no problem in going beyond kissing with quite a few jw girls, some even pioneers and talking to some fellow male jw teenagers at the time, many other where for sure going beyond kissing, makes you wonder how many jw's who get married are actually virgins, on a side note i also landed up in front of a committe one time for well bonking and hey i am sure they only do these so that they can here all the nitty gritty of illicit sex for soem reason or another, by the way i pulled the wool over their eyes and still remaind a bit of alad, lol.
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oh yes, JW girls in their late teens... unfortunately i was too "spiritual" back then, so i was always being careful not to cross a line i could not justify somehow. the line being... you know... coitus interuptus ;)
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SATAN WORSHIP?
by shell69 ini've been several months out now (da'd in feb 07).
i took to wearing a pentagram , since i really do believe in these five main elements to life.. however, as you will know the pentagram is also reffered to as 'star of satan and various other things.. my point is: as far as the witlesses are concerned, i worship the devil since i dont worship jehoobah.. but!.
i would rather be a worshiper of satan, who everyone knows can be a bit of scumbag at times, but at least i know where i stand with him, than worship a god who proffesses to be the only true god, yet devastates his followers when they realise the true extent of the lies of his apparent earthly organization.. so i wear my pentagram with pride!.
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the pentagram (pointing up) is an old "pagan" sign, used as talisman and what not. the inversed pentagram (pointing down, the one you use in your avatar) is a sign used by satanists and good old heavy metal bands. most satanists don't worship or even believe in satan, by the way.
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If your God were in charge...
by nvrgnbk inwhat would the world be like?.
for example, today orthodox jews and christians don't kill witches and homosexuals because they can't legally.. but if things were as their god decreed in the bible, they'd be dead.. islam, when it has enough power to enforce it's laws, summarily kills and dismembers those that offend allah.. so if you're unhappy with all the gays and druggies and atheists and witches and hippies, are you secretly longing for the day when your deity of choice exterminates them?.
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Superfine Apostate
a god sending books aint no god... a god should know better. and a god could do better.