Posts by Heaven
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"Mother" Teresa—a Fraud?
by Saename ini often comment in threads that interest me on this forum.
moreover, some of you may know that i study the history of early christianity.
i once wrote an extensive comment on the historicity of jesus' existence in one of the threads.
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Animals not meant to eat meat
by Carl injw don't believe in evolution .
how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?
sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .
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Heaven
notsurewheretogo said: Wait...what uses are there for cucumbers then???
We omnivore homo sapiens can eat them as part of our salads, put them in sandwiches and wraps, or make pickles out of them. Yum! Slugs like them too. ;0) -
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spiritual
by stan livedeath ini read the word "spiritual" sometimes on the site.
what exactly do the jw's mean by it ?.
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Heaven
Spiritual to a JW means accepting the Governing Body's interpretation of the scriptures of the Christian Holy Bible and the Watchtower's doctrines that come from that and following the agenda of this organization without question.
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I need a little help
by Darryl inmy story is i've been df'd for about 20 years.
a couple years after i started attending church and found it to be a tremendously uplifting experience.
from the people to the music, message everything drew me in.
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Heaven
Hey Darryl, many believers have issues with faith, I think largely because what is preached doesn't match reality. In our present day, we know a lot more about our natural world and the Universe than the Bronze and Iron Aged Middle Eastern desert dwellers did. Our knowledge has surpassed any need for superstition. Christianity is just an adaptation and modification of previous belief systems.
Using logic, reason, and critical thinking are key. Wishing something were true doesn't make it so.
Theodicy is a huge issue for many believers. It was for me.
Each of us have been taught someone else's interpretation of the Bible. We've been maneuvered through it, with our various religions cherry picking scriptures to convince us of the validity of their agenda.
Have you researched the history and origins of the Bible? This might help you.Ask yourself "What is more likely? That the laws of nature are suspended or you have been told something that isn't true."
As for 'belief', I think the fundamentals of love and helping others always works regardless of which deity you identify with (or don't identify with).
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How To Spot A Cult - This is what started woke me up!!
by pale.emperor inthis is the article that woke me up.
i felt sick after reading it.
then sad.
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Heaven
PE, thanks for sharing this. It is good to be armed with this type of knowledge as it can apply to non-religious groups as well.
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Do you think any animals will ever reach human intelligence?
by EndofMysteries inif all life was truly random, then what happened that allowed humans to it's current intelligent state, do you think non humans could and will reach that in the future?
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Heaven
Chimpanzees are estimated to have the intelligence of about a 13 year old human.
Corvids (species of bird including magpies, jays, crows, and ravens) are highly intelligent too. Checks this out (if you don't have time to watch the whole thing, just watch the first 2 and a half minutes):
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Animals not meant to eat meat
by Carl injw don't believe in evolution .
how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?
sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .
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Heaven
Soooo... when they say 'animals' are they just talking mammals? Because there are many other species that eat meat such as birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, bacteria, insects, arachnids, mollusks, fungi...
Could you imagine if nothing ate meat what this Earth would be like? Holy crap! We'd be overrun, competing for food big time, as well as suffocating in carcasses.
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Don't have sexual fantasies! Today's watchtower...
by purrpurr inthe watchtower today says not to think of sex, or to have sexual fantasies.
i'm just wondering... how many people in the hall hearing this watchtower today would be having sexual fantasies?
sitting there thinking about sister hottie or brother hunky ?.
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Heaven
"Don't have sexual fantasies."
That's like telling people not to breathe.
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Animals not meant to eat meat
by Carl injw don't believe in evolution .
how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?
sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .
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Heaven
I think Lewis Black explains things fairly well here:
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Graph of world population (from 10,001BC to 2015)
by Fernando inwhat do you make of this graph?.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+population+of+earth.
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Heaven
Simon is 100% correct. Oil is the foundational energy that supports everything we've come to know in our world and enables us all to have everything we own including your vocation.
I've always found that the facts, the math never jives with religious ideas. As an example, Botchtower's "We're preaching to all the inhabited Earth". This is 100% bull shite! There aren't enough JWs to accomplish this.
Check out Dr. Hans Rosling's presentations on stats. In one of his talks he says the world population will probably plateau at around 11 billion (if I remember correctly). Here's one of his TED Talks - very interesting stuff: