i didn't necessarily start this thread as a debate but moreso as kind of a survey.
i just wanna know what people think and a brief reason why.
i want to know how you think life originated on the earth.
My current belief is in life comming from the good old primordial soup - molecules forming by normal chemical reactions, which tend to replicate themselves, fast forward a few hundred million years and hey presto, cells!
I'm aware of the pros and cons of this argument, I believe it because it strikes me as possible that it could happen, and I've gone right off the God argument. This is just a survey thread right?
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what are you going to eat, or did you eat on new years?
i'm going to have fresh atlantic salmon, and lobster.
Take-out chinese for me. I too am stuffed.
ig.
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That reminds me of a joke: "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers!"
ig
there always seemed to be such a big stink about making sure you went to the hall that you were assigned to.
whatever territory that you lived in, that would be the hall assignment, whether you liked it or not.. if you chose not to go to your assigned hall, boy was there ever flack.
you could get severely counciled for it.. just seems to be another stupid rule that they would get upset about.
Can someone please explain to a young ignorant puppy such as myself (who was only born in the 70's) the rimless glasses rule? I'm dying of curiosity! Is leg pulling going on here, or was there really a rule on rimless glasses?
ig
okay, i know that historical evidence is that jerusalem fell in 586/7 instead of 607 - as the wtbts would have.
however, that is not compelling enough to show a hypothetical jw.
they (generally) must not only be show that the opposition is correct, but that the wtbts is wrong.
Hi IW,
No, and you're not the first first person to ask me that either! When I signed up I didn't have the presence of mind to check I wasn't using a similar handle to anyone else. Had I have done so, I would have chosen "Boost". I'll put a "disclaimer" in my profile!
ig.
okay, i know that historical evidence is that jerusalem fell in 586/7 instead of 607 - as the wtbts would have.
however, that is not compelling enough to show a hypothetical jw.
they (generally) must not only be show that the opposition is correct, but that the wtbts is wrong.
I thought they (in the past anyhow, I don't know what their present truth is at the moment) fudged 607BCE for the fall of Jerusalem by saying that;
a) the Jews returned from exile in 537BCE, and
b) the 70 years mentioned in various scriptures (can't remember the exact details, one of them's in Jeremiah though) refers to the length of time that the exile lasted, from the fall of Jerusalem.
Hey presto, -537-70 = -607. I thought that was the basis of their "biblical chronology". The two things wrong with that (again, as far as my imperfect memory recalls) are that the 70 years in Jeremiah (and elsewhere) more logically refers to the duration of Babylon's rule over the region rather than the exile of the Jews, and that there's no good reason to assume that the Jews returned to Jerusalem in 537BCE.
For goodness sake don't quote me on any of this! This is only how I remember it from chapter 7 (having a quick look in my copy) of "Gentile Times". Greatful though I am to COJ for writing it, that book has to be one of the most boring books on planet earth! I'm falling asleep just thinking about it.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ig.
the following is quite an interesting article on the state of christianity in the u.s. the jw's are not mentioned, which is interesting in itself, since the article focusses quite heavily on churches that aggressively seek to convert others.
maybe the jw's are losing their market niche?.
expatbrit.
Only 2% of Americans are atheists? As a bare statistic I find that surprising.
ig
hi, i'm jp, new user in this forum.
i live in metro detroit area, michigan.
looking for brothers or sisters willing to get a band together to play original tunes.
Rats, I'm in England...
i was doing research on another topic and came acroos this article taken form the 1971 kingdom ministry.
i was wondering how many of these good dubs are still selling this crap.
like the fellowin paragraph 6 that started to study and writes, "i am now selling my home and plan to move .
Poor people. The world really should have ended (for them, that is) in 1975. It must have broken their hearts when it didn't.
ig
after a year of doubting if i would ever be free from feeling ties to the wt, i am proud to be known as an apostate.
before i was so concerned with what some of the "friends" , would think of me, how they would think the worst of me for being an apostate.
now i hope they do think about me,,,,,,,, i hope they know i want nothing to do with most of them.
It's fun to be sailing on the wide APOSTA-SEA
You're an apostate, so there with big brass knobs on.
ig.
