I made one for last year's convention that you could use if you want - just say that you didn't get around to getting the new one.
superpunk
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2010 district convention badge
by thundarr inhi all.
do anyone a scan of the badge card.
i move and it convention time ths weekend an need to replace my family card before friday.
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"Life" Brochures: 3 Easy Disproofs
by metatron init may be time consuming and exhausting to correct all of the deceptions, half-truths and out of context quotes contained in the watchtower's new brochures, so i'll make it simple.
here's 3 easy points that disprove all of their nonsense.. 1) australia proves evolution happened - what's the one country in the world with the weirdest animals on earth?
australia!
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superpunk
Fair enough but that still doesn't fly with a Creationist viewpoint, unless there is some creationist somewhere who believes that humans not only existed but carried marsupials across a land bridge 30-100 million years ago.
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"Life" Brochures: 3 Easy Disproofs
by metatron init may be time consuming and exhausting to correct all of the deceptions, half-truths and out of context quotes contained in the watchtower's new brochures, so i'll make it simple.
here's 3 easy points that disprove all of their nonsense.. 1) australia proves evolution happened - what's the one country in the world with the weirdest animals on earth?
australia!
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superpunk
The oldest Australian marsupial fossils are over 30,000,000 years old, and don't occur elsewhere on earth. Any creationist rationalization would fall apart upon that consideration, no? Obviously men brought camels and cats over a few hundred years ago, you can't make the same claims for marsupials.
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"Life" Brochures: 3 Easy Disproofs
by metatron init may be time consuming and exhausting to correct all of the deceptions, half-truths and out of context quotes contained in the watchtower's new brochures, so i'll make it simple.
here's 3 easy points that disprove all of their nonsense.. 1) australia proves evolution happened - what's the one country in the world with the weirdest animals on earth?
australia!
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superpunk
However, Gondwana can not possibly account for the camels and cats in Austraila
People brought camels and cats to Australia.
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What is your reaction when you see dubs with name badges? Here was mine:
by SnakesInTheTower inone of the things i really like about being out of the cult is that i no longer have to go to those long, boring district conventions.
instead, i can do other things with my new family (fiancee and soon to be step son).
we were out and about sunday, i had taken the day off from work, no point in bothering people with collections on a sunday and a holiday.. we had planned to go to a suburb of st. louis, mo (st. charles) and see some of the vendors on the riverfront in the afternoon and then wait for the fireworks in the evening .
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superpunk
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.
Badges = Free Advertising.
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"Life" Brochures: 3 Easy Disproofs
by metatron init may be time consuming and exhausting to correct all of the deceptions, half-truths and out of context quotes contained in the watchtower's new brochures, so i'll make it simple.
here's 3 easy points that disprove all of their nonsense.. 1) australia proves evolution happened - what's the one country in the world with the weirdest animals on earth?
australia!
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superpunk
I was driving home, and they were reading off some things about parasites on the radio.
They read about a parasite (Leucochloridium) who lives in bird feces. It can only reproduce inside a bird. But, since birds are not in the habit of eating feces, it has to get creative. Snails have no such qualms about eating poop, so it uses the snail as an escort - when the snail slimes over the feces, it gets in the snail. However, these birds are also not in the habit of eating snails. So the parasite must get even more creative. So, it gets into the eye of the snail, and makes the eye swell until it looks like a caterpillar. But it is still at a disadvantage, because snails generally hide in dark places, where birds would not look. So, the parasite is able to manipulate the snail into going out in the open, where a bird will see it's caterpillar eye, and eat it. The parasite grows and lays it's eggs in the bird, it is pooped out, and the cycle begins again.
Now obviously this parasite is an AMAZING organism. Just look at what it can do!
But what sounds better? That this parasite was designed to function as it does by a creator (who also created the poor snail), or that this parasite-snail-bird relationship is simply the product of years of evolution, and the unfortunately at times very cruel molding process of nature?
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Is it really so that some people here became Catholic after leaving the Borg?
by gubberningbody inwow.. unbelievable.. .
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superpunk
Apparently if you use the phrase "Is it really so" you remind people of Satan.
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Is it really so that some people here became Catholic after leaving the Borg?
by gubberningbody inwow.. unbelievable.. .
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superpunk
It's like picking a political party - they all suck, just pick the one that you most closely identify with and hang on.
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Is it really so that some people here became Catholic after leaving the Borg?
by gubberningbody inwow.. unbelievable.. .
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superpunk
I agree. So if we know that going in, our expectations will be lowered to the appropriate level, and we can stop expecting them to be perfect. The only religions that will still have trouble are the ones that raise the unreasonable expectations for themselves.
Religion fills a psychological need for some people, and that's what it should be there for - not as an infallible ticket-punching attendant for salvation.
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Is it really so that some people here became Catholic after leaving the Borg?
by gubberningbody inwow.. unbelievable.. .
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superpunk
If I was going to get involved in a religion again it would probably be Catholicism. I like their attitude about alot of things, once they reluctantly dragged themselves out of the dark ages.
All religions are the same. Even the JWs. We simply have unrealistic expectations of them, and that's why we left the Dubs, because we expected them to be something they could never be. The more intense trouble with the Dubs is that they make that expectation for themselves, by giving themselves plausible deniability in their extreme choice in titles. Oh, we're just "spirit-led". They imply that God is showing them the way directly while at the same time wording things ambiguously enough so that when they continue to screw things up they can just say "hey we never claimed to be perfect."
Catholicism seems to be tolerant, not only of dissent among the great unwashed masses, but of dissent among their teachers at least at the lower levels. I have read that once you get higher, into the translation and doctrinal movers and shakers, it gets alot more political and disillusioning.
If you don't have unrealistic expectations about what religion is, Catholicism is as good as the next one. You get a sense of community, worship, they have nifty rituals and beautiful churches, what more could you ask for in a religion (if you're asking for one at all, of course)?
