Posts by Heaven

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Looking for a Book on Evolution

by Saethydd in

i am wondering if anyone is aware of a book or series of videos designed to explain evolution to creationists, (specifically the jw strain of creationism if possible) without being patronizing or overly confrontational.

i would like to have something to recommend to people who challenge evolution, but i know that the sources which convinced me would turn most of them off because of the confrontational and at times condescending tone in which it's presented.. some examples of what i'm looking for would be someone who doesn't claim evolution is a fact until after they have presented all of the evidence that makes it a fact and also have addressed as many counter-arguments as possible..

Heaven

Berkeley Uni has an Evolution 101 set of web pages that might be useful?

(http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01)

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I am a Living Time Machine

by TerryWalstrom in

jw
friends

which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.

everywhere you found telephone booths!

a call was a nickle.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.

Heaven

So Terry... you must be wondering... WTH is Armageddon?!

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God wants to remain unidentified

by anointed1 in

1) books supposedly written by god contain errors.

2) people supposedly appointed by god make human rights violations.

and god does not prevent those things from happening.

Heaven

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God wants to remain unidentified

by anointed1 in

1) books supposedly written by god contain errors.

2) people supposedly appointed by god make human rights violations.

and god does not prevent those things from happening.

Heaven

God's natural language is silence. ALL others are a bad translation... including yours.

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Young People Ask: I’m Attracted to the Same Sex—Does That Mean I’m Gay?

by pale.emperor in

eurgh!

more patronizing and uninformed reasoning from the "experts" at bethel.

this time tackling the sensitive subject of those attracted the the same sex.

Heaven

"Young People Ask..." ... the most stupid, inane questions that they already know the answers to.

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Old people ask ... questions ... no answers

by Lostandfound in

just random questions for the book questions old people ask.

when can i stop donating my last penny every month to the wt?.

when can i have sex with no guilty conscience due to wt teachings?.

Heaven

Iamallcool said: Heaven, your answers makes me want to vomit!

Iamallcool... that is a good sign.

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Can you live with your self?

by The Rebel in

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friends

i think if we are to fully delight in life we must live without detachment.

because when we become attached to a beliief we feel a desire that we are right.

the problem with being right, even if we are right is that our beliefs then try to attach themselfs to virgin snow, and change people to our thinking.

Heaven

The Rebel - "Can you live with yourself?"

I've done this every day of my life. So far so good.

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Occupations that will disappear

by joker in

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friends

while growing up in the cult one thing that always bothered me was the way witnesses could forecast jobs/occupations that we're going to vanish in their new world.. for example, we would usually discuss at saturday night wt studies how doctors, nurses, funeral directors, and soldiers would go the way of the dodo.

i always found discussions like that just so strange.. in hs, i mounted an unsuccessful effort to enter veterinary sciences, the big answer was always "why" it won't be needed after armageddon 😝😜.

does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big a ?.

Heaven

Gynecologists since no one will have sex organs.

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A Mathematic Perspective on Evolution

by Saethydd in

i would like to apologize in advance if any of my information on the biology side of this discussion is incorrect, because unfortunately it is not my strongest scientific subject on account of my being subtly encouraged to view it with distrust.. i've recently debated the of subject of evolution with my father, i made the argument that when viewed over several million years random mutation provides a more than adequate explanation for humans having evolved from a common ancestor with chimpanzees.

then he got this derisive look on his face a waved his hand saying "evolution's explanation for everything is the amount of time involved.".

so i decided i would examine this mathematically.

Heaven

DJS said: @Heaven:
Geesh. All that noise just to get laid.

LOL @ DJS! Perhaps they live with the old adage 'The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease'.

Many a summer night, I've laid in bed with the window open listening to the crickets thinking 'Those lucky bastards. They get more than I do!' Hahaha! I can't imagine summer without the crickets 'singing' at night. I actually like the sound.

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Old people ask ... questions ... no answers

by Lostandfound in

just random questions for the book questions old people ask.

when can i stop donating my last penny every month to the wt?.

when can i have sex with no guilty conscience due to wt teachings?.

Heaven

The answer to many of your questions is "Soon" followed by "Pray More + Wait on Jehovah".