all the earthquakes, mudslides, and now volcanic ash in the sky of europe grounding air-travel.. the end is nigh!.
jeff.
So, why didn't the end come when Krakatoa blew up, or Mt. St. Helens, or Pompeii?
Oh, I know, I know, teacher! Because the earth is geothermically active and always has been!
I think we need to put the importance of volcanoes and earthquakes in perspective to the rest of the universe, so in that spirit, I present you with "The Universe Song" from Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"
i will be there with the lonestar tea partiers!.
-cage.
I'll have a cup of coffee please. *G*
i'm trying to fade away, but i sometimes find myself in discussions or arguments with jw family/friends/white haired virgin elders.
now, i usually have them beat on things but i'm not very experienced, so i was thinking if you guys could help me put together a list of completely unanswerable questions to pose to my jw friends/family/elders so they can stop bugging me.
if i keep asking them questions they simply cannot answer, then they might leave them alone.
How do you get to 1919?
Some sort of numerology formula, as I recall, figured from the average number of peanuts in Judge Rutherfords morning bowel movements.
Well, it might as well be since he pulled it out of his ASS, since there's nothing about it in the Bible. Oh, the "well done" part is there, but not the 1919 bit.
christ's true followers (5).
true christians (3).
(matt.
I don't think I know you well enough for you to touch me there.
this debate is quite thrilling.. .
start at three minutes and forty two seconds where bart ehrman begins speaking.
then, if you find this compelling, go back and watch all the debate.. .
I've always thought it interesting, without making any judgment on it either way, that million worship and adore a man who apparently only a few hundred people might have seen, a few people wrote about, and only one or two actual historians hinted might exist.
I mean, either Christianity started out so small and localized that no one gave a damn about it enough to write it up, or Jesus was just pretty much made up out of folk stories containing a lot of speculation about the nature of the expected Messiah or a compilation of several individuals who were teaching a radical form of Judaism at the time.
I think if Jesus hadn't been written about then, we'd have invented him sooner or later. The Messiah is our ultimate hero myth, and god knows we need our heroes.
I can actually appreciate Christ and his teachings as present without really having to believe he existed as written, which is one of the nice things about being a universalist. I don't have to believe what is unproven to get benefit out of it. Believing in what Christ taught isn't that hard, living it is, but believing that peace is good, brotherhood is good, don't be a hypocrite, love one another...all good.
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i'm one of the few jws that freely admit our faults and mistakes.. let's compare notes!.
Well, since this thread has degenerated into playground name calling, I'll leave with, "You know you are, but what am I?" and go find something intelligent to discuss like why high heels make your butt look so good but hurt your feet so damn bad.
i'm trying to fade away, but i sometimes find myself in discussions or arguments with jw family/friends/white haired virgin elders.
now, i usually have them beat on things but i'm not very experienced, so i was thinking if you guys could help me put together a list of completely unanswerable questions to pose to my jw friends/family/elders so they can stop bugging me.
if i keep asking them questions they simply cannot answer, then they might leave them alone.
I'm still puzzled as to why informing me that JWs don't try to convert parrots is meant to be a clever retort? I'll try not to lose any sleep over figuring that out.
Anyway, as soon as you demonstrate why you don't see how 1914 is derived by only using the Bible, they get annoyed and finally disgusted with you and I haven't been bothered by Witnesses in years about doctrinal matters.
Doctrinally, they're way out on some limb where believing that just because you're radically different in some ways from "Christendom" that God loves you best.
Simply because some Christians turned into a murdering bunch who decided that Christ put a sword in their hand to destroy anyone who didn't cough up their lands and riches to them doesnt mean you teaching ideas equally unprovable and illogical as 2+2 =6 makes you right.
christ's true followers (5).
true christians (3).
(matt.
*touches self* Well, I thought when I woke up this morning that I was real...but now I'm worried that I'm unreal.
"has someone else touch me* It's just been verified by another party...I'm a REAL Christian! I'm not made of wood brought to life by a magic fairy!
Oh, thank you, someone. I'm REAL! *cheers*
This article has all the logical merit of an 8 year old in the school playground yelling "I'm rubber and you're glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you...I know you are, but what am I?"
i will be there with the lonestar tea partiers!.
-cage.
Gee, I understood that article about the banking industry hedge fund managers and others meeting with Republicans in their national financing committee. They're worried that they'll lose control of their minions now that they've armed them with torches and pitchforks. That has a nasty way of happening, so I can sympathize.
Most of the Republicans I know are nice reasonable people who roll their eyes at the tea baggers. They're tired of looking like moralistic morons and idiots who can't spell parroting the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, who are no doubt so concerned about their listeners taxes and finances that they are crying all the way to the bank about it. Don't be on our side...you're making us look stupid is their thinking on the matter.
Well, I can see why Glenn Beck would be protesting taxes...he made around 35 million bucks last year, and probably got the crap taxed out of it, as he's in that upper stratosphere tax bracket that had their taxes restored to Clinton era rates. Too bad he doesn't care enough to show up in his tricorn hat and breeches himself.
Several Republicans I'm friends or who are close family members with are atheists or agnostics who have no idea why Republicans have become the epitome of "vote your religion" because they despise that.
Some of them are seriously thinking about joining the Libertarian movement, one of my brother in laws, an accountant and business manager, investor already has.
i will be there with the lonestar tea partiers!.
-cage.
You know, if Palin had actually paid attention in that Constitution class she went to instead of ratting her beehive up and winking at the professor, she might have gotten the point that the Constitution was written to allow for change by majority vote.
It's called "democracy"...look it up.
