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  CREATIONIST TEACHERS

  by badboy in

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  1 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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  logic&reason

  I really don't want to offend anyone. Often I read through these evolution/creation debate threads, start to make a comment, then delete it and move on to another thread.

  I do this because it seems like every few days this comes up, and there is no way to convince either side that they are wrong.

  Back and forth it goes, like a game of Tennis. Or Ping-Pong. Or Badminton.

  It seems like the creationists out there accept varrying degrees or aspects of evolution. Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's adaptation, maybe it's "microevolution", maybe it's the decent of man. Guys like Michael Behe stop just short and say there is a point of irreducible complexity that could not have evolved.

  Again, I DO NOT want to offend anyone, but it is almost like the level of acceptance of evolution is proportionate to the amount of scientific education/awareness that the person has, or has allowed themselves to have.

  Does that stem from a sort of intellectual arrogance?... "If I don't understand it, or if I cannot explain it, God must have done it..." Maybe.

  But that's the problem that the scientific community should combat. If we stop and say: "God did it... that's the explanation." Then scientific progress stops. Why keep investigating if you accept that "God did it" or "It's magic"? There is nothing to test. Nothing more to prove.

  In my opinion, the more we understand, the less we have to rely on the "God did it" explanation.
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  Singing at the Meetings is so mindless...

  by logic&reason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was always uncomfortable singing at the meetings when i was a kid.

  as an adult, i rarely if ever sing anymore because i think it is a joke.

  sit down, listen for 45 minutes.

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  logic&reason

  Yeah, like this one:

  This wonderful song is even better with your gorgeous harmonies! Do you sing like that at the hall?

  If I went to the same congregation as you I could not contain myself! I can't wait to meet you all in Paradise, and we'll all sing together then.

  What a riot!

  Even when I believed, I hated it when people would make moronic comments like that. "I can't wait to see you in paradise... we'll all sing together... everything will be great... blah blah blah..."
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  Singing at the Meetings is so mindless...

  by logic&reason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was always uncomfortable singing at the meetings when i was a kid.

  as an adult, i rarely if ever sing anymore because i think it is a joke.

  sit down, listen for 45 minutes.

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  logic&reason

  Now THAT would be funny... and entertaining.
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  Singing at the Meetings is so mindless...

  by logic&reason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was always uncomfortable singing at the meetings when i was a kid.

  as an adult, i rarely if ever sing anymore because i think it is a joke.

  sit down, listen for 45 minutes.

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  logic&reason

  What about the ones (they were rare) who thought they were opera singers. This one sister would gesture while she was singing, and she would try to hold notes at the end of the verse. It was awful. She would close her eyes and contort her face while she was singing. Sometimes we would be in tears from laughter. I mean really... how can you take it that serious when you are singing such shitty songs?
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  Singing at the Meetings is so mindless...

  by logic&reason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was always uncomfortable singing at the meetings when i was a kid.

  as an adult, i rarely if ever sing anymore because i think it is a joke.

  sit down, listen for 45 minutes.

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  Not only do the songs REALLY suck, but there is no emotional impact to the singing at all. No harmony, no depth. Every meeting it's like listening to 3 funeral dirges.
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  My parents are going to meet with me!

  by Confession in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it was two years and two months ago when i told my mother that i no longer recognize the wts religion as being "the truth.

  " as you may know, to a jw mother, this is like telling her you've decided to jump off a skyscraper.

  i have spoken to her only two times since then, and have not seen her or my dad since then.

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  logic&reason

  We are trying to do the same.

  Maybe this will be the year we go to the Gorge. (but probably not)
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  Singing at the Meetings is so mindless...

  by logic&reason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was always uncomfortable singing at the meetings when i was a kid.

  as an adult, i rarely if ever sing anymore because i think it is a joke.

  sit down, listen for 45 minutes.

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  logic&reason

  Too true. People at the hall just stand there like robots reading out of their songbooks. That's not what music and singing should be like.
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  Singing at the Meetings is so mindless...

  by logic&reason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was always uncomfortable singing at the meetings when i was a kid.

  as an adult, i rarely if ever sing anymore because i think it is a joke.

  sit down, listen for 45 minutes.

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  logic&reason

  I was always uncomfortable singing at the meetings when I was a kid. As an adult, I rarely if ever sing anymore because I think it is a joke. There is no life to the music, no emotion, no "soul".

  Stand up, Sing for 5 minutes

  Sit down, listen for 45 minutes

  Stand up, Sing for 5 minutes

  Sit down, listen for 45 minutes

  Stand up, Sing for 5 minutes

  Lather, rinse, repeat.

  My wife used to get upset at me for not singing and I would tell her that I just don't like to sing. But that's not really true. I like to sing along to a good song if I am alone in the car, or if I am at a concert. I just don't like to sing boring, non-melodic, propaganda songs at the hall.
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  Parking Lot Witnessing Can Be Dangerous

  by Kenneson in

  1. jw
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  see "gun pulled on church solicitor.

  ortonville man charged after threatening jehovah's witness outside store.".

  http://www.countypress.com/stories/052108/loc_20080521002.shtml.

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  logic&reason

  Burn, I didn't mean he had the right to threaten anyone with the gun, only to display it if he felt threatened.

  I do agree with what you are saying... you cannot just arbitrarily wave a gun at someone because you don't like them, but to me, the story sounds fishy. Why did they chase after him if they felt threatened by his gun.

  It makes no sense at all.
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  Kids Trump Religious Beliefs-Canada Wins Against The WTB&TS!

  by jamiebowers in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this article is from googlenews:.

  http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/2008/05/23/5646826-sun.html.

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  logic&reason

  What is the best case result for this?

  Will a decision in Canada result in more cases in courts in other countries?

  This could still go nowhere, or it could snowball.