Posts by GWEEDO

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Any athiests here had a demon experience?

by Marilyn in

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i've made friends with a mormon lady, and she told me that her 14yo daughter has thrown out all four harry potter books because she's realised they are dabbling in and encouraging demons.

then she told me about her demon experiences herself.

has any exjw, of sound mind, had a proper demon experience (as opposed to improper!!)?

GWEEDO

More to the point has any athiest here ever had a demon experience?

Dont know about demon experience. But I saw this doco on 'sleep' awhile back. One of the weird things thats seems to be consistently reported is: waking up in the middle of the night paralysed with the sense that someone is in the room or sitting on your chest. This is one of phenomenon thats been reported for centuries in varying forms I believe. I've experienced it. I woke up one night but couldn't move and I heard the bedroom door slam and sensed there was someone in the room. It was scary. Then the sensation just went away.

I've also experienced vivid waking hallucinations too. I've seen things you could probably call a demon!

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Any athiest tried a Ouji Board?

by Marilyn in

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i've been told the glass moves around spelling stuff out.

my brother, before he became a dumbdub said it happened to him - but he was pretty young and probably p'd.

movies and tv play along with it.

GWEEDO

We'll Im pretty sceptical of it all

But I want to try it because I keep hearing stories from friends. But no-one wants to have a go. Whenever I say "hey lets have a seance"(I've usually had a few beers by then)...they just get spooked and say no-way!!!

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The Taliban and Circuit Overseers

by metatron in

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why do men in the taliban fight on, expecting defeat?.

easy answer.

they have no alternative.

GWEEDO

Why do men in the Taliban fight on, expecting defeat?

Well, actually, I think they expect to win. At the very least they expect to go to heaven where they can shag all the virgins they want!

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Breaking free of the OIL habit.

by Amazing in

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dependancy: the usa, the western world, north and south america, and like many nations of europe and japan, are highly dependant on oil.

i recall as a kid in the 1950s seeing gas prices at 5 cents a gallon.

i remember my parents getting bent out of shape when gas finally reached 11 cents a gallon.. 1971: my wife and i traveled to southern california to visit friends and family.

GWEEDO

Of course, if we do that, then the oil barons in this country will suffer too.

Oh yeah, Dont they know it. All that Green-house pseudo science they come up with tells me where their priorities are: $$$.

Can't say I give a shit for them really!

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Breaking free of the OIL habit.

by Amazing in

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dependancy: the usa, the western world, north and south america, and like many nations of europe and japan, are highly dependant on oil.

i recall as a kid in the 1950s seeing gas prices at 5 cents a gallon.

i remember my parents getting bent out of shape when gas finally reached 11 cents a gallon.. 1971: my wife and i traveled to southern california to visit friends and family.

GWEEDO

Alternative energy sources are still not viable for wide use in the immediate near future and I doubt anything will effectively replace oil in a cost efficient matter in the near future.

Well, they are going to have to find something Path. Not for terrorist reasons, but because theres a thing called greenhouse kicking in.

I think its 2 thirds of the energy we currently use is wasted. We need to find more efficient ways of burning fossil fuels and use that technology in concert with growing alternative energy sources.

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One JW response to WT/UN

by CatholicGuy in

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i've been able to maintain contact with a jw friend--even though i've been out of the organization for over 20 years.

i brought up the un subject with him and got this interesting reply.

my friend is an elder now and former bethelite:.

GWEEDO

As I see it, being affiliated with the UN and agreeing to the UN charter is the equalivant of saluting the US flag and singing the nation anthem.

Throw that back at your elder friend!

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If evolution is true ?

by D wiltshire in

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if evolution is true and god doesnt exist, and all matter always existed, and life keeps adapting and getting more and more advanced, conquering all problems set before its existence.. then life should have already filled the entire universe and advanced to the point of never dying.. am i being presumptuous?.

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if someone lived a trillion x longer than you, and had a billion x more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?.

GWEEDO

Francois

How 'bout God created everything and evolution was his technique? From where do you get the illicit idea that the fact of evolution necessarily precludes the existence of God?

Evolution was God's technique in creating life?; it's possible. I find evolution to be quite amazing, a very beautiful process...but also very brutal. I can believe that a God might have used it to create living things...but I have a hard time believing a loving God would!

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If evolution is true ?

by D wiltshire in

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if evolution is true and god doesnt exist, and all matter always existed, and life keeps adapting and getting more and more advanced, conquering all problems set before its existence.. then life should have already filled the entire universe and advanced to the point of never dying.. am i being presumptuous?.

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if someone lived a trillion x longer than you, and had a billion x more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?.

GWEEDO

it had to exist either as matter or as energy right?

All this physics stuff confuses the hell out of me BTW. To start with, what is 'energy'? Isn't 'matter' just another form of 'energy'?

Do you think it's possible that man could evolve into some omnipotent being we could call 'God'?

What the hell is Time & space.

How many dimesions in this current dimension. String theory says there might be 13 or so.

What about multiple realities. Quantum physics apparently suggests that there may be multiple realities. So there is one reality where I'm an Atheist, but another where I might be, say, a good dub??????

Blah blah blah

It's too much. I'm confused!

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The real facts about Islam

by Rex B13 in

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this is a link to an article by salmon rushdie, who knows more about islam than all of us put together.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1634000/1634755.stm.

discussion?.

rex

GWEEDO

This is a link to an article by Salmon Rushdie, who knows more about Islam than all of us put together.

No it aint. It's just a BBC commentary.

I'd like to read his full article actually. Seems interesting.

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Was Adam black?

by nicolaou in

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okay, it's an old question but we haven't examined it here yet so let's have your thoughts.. adam was the progenitor of the whole human race, from his genes sprang the negroid, caucasian, mongoloid, indo-european and every other race on the planet.. the hebrew people were not selected as jehovah's chosen nation until abram had found favour with god so presumably all races were equal in his eyes before then.. so then, what basis is there, if any, for deciding what adam and eve's skin colour may have been?.

could they not indeed have been black or blonde or chinese looking?.

this is a pointless discussion i grant you.

GWEEDO

Dont be silly. He was white. Just like Jesus was. Don't believe me?. Go have a flick through a few WT mags.

And not only was Jesus white, he was also crucified on a stake, not a cross. We must get these historical facts straight. If we dont, Jehovah will fry our ass in the lake of fire.