Posts by yalbmert99

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JW Survivors - a victim advocacy group for survivors of the Church of Jehovah's Witnesses in Australia - submission to Child Abuse Royal Commission

by jwleaks in

jw survivors is a victim advocacy group for survivors of the church of jehovah's witnesses within australia.. jw survivors is a volunteer not-for-profit community based victim advocacy group for survivors of the church of jehovah's witnesses within australia.

the group was founded by steven unthank.

the seeds of jw survivors were planted by current and former members of the church of jehovah's witnesses, and their families, in response to the victorian inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations, and an extensive submission made in relation to the church of jehovah's witnesses and their administrative controlling corporation, the watchtower bible and tract society of australia.. .

yalbmert99

Nice!

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New Dark Matter Video - Some shocking stats at the end

by cantleave in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5px6sdli_qs&feature=em-uploademail.

yalbmert99

Very nice..!

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An atheists grieve

by Borges in

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i'm reading here almost every day (kind of adicted i think).

but due to the fact, that my english isn't very good, i abstain from commenting most of the time.. nevertheless i'd like to share some thoughts with you.. .

when i learned the tatt over a year ago i quickly became an atheist.

yalbmert99

Borges : here is an article I wrote on my site about "god" :

Many people believe in « god » or other « gods ». That comforts them, gives them hope and a simple explanation for the origin of everything. However, that gives them a false sense of security.

There is not a single serious evidence that supports the existence of « god » or other « gods ». « God » in its traditional definition of supreme being probably does not exist for three simple reasons:

1-We don't see « god ».
2-« God » doesn't talk to us (at least directly).
3-« God » doesn't help us.

Certainly, religions and cults have invented various arguments of varying complexity to justify these three problems, but these are only delusions or lies. For example, some will say that "god" speaks through the torah, the bible or the koran. This is false. These books were inspired by human beings, not by "god".

Some would say that it took a "god" to create everything, otherwise how the universe and life would appear? This is a bad argument, because one could also ask who then created "god"?

Some will ask why does life exist? Complex chemical reactions that occured for a long time generated the first unicellular living beings. Then, evolution of the species generated all the life forms that exist and have existed.

The real question is not why life exists, because we already know why. The unanswered question is rather why the universe started to be, that is 13.75 billion years ago. Astrophysicists know that the universe began in a singularity and then there was the big bang and the rest got going, fundamental forces, fundamental particles and so on.

There are four fundamental forces in our universe :

-Strong interaction.
-Weak interaction.
-Electromagnetism.
-Gravity.

It is possible that these forces have a common origin which is the foundation of the universe, its creative force. But not a "god" as the different religions or cults speak of.

In conclusion, for sure "god" doesn't exist, but something else does. We don't know for sure what will happen to us after we die. We might come back to life or not, but there is no need of a god to do that.

http://www.watchtowerlies.com/watchtowerlies_166.htm

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WT Elders school: Avoid black and white thinking - now look at this zebra

by sir82 in

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continuing on with my haphazard review of the recent one-day elders school..... in one of the introductory talks, the co was making the point that we can't view things merely from a black and white perspective.

many issues have "shades of gray" and we need to use discernment in such situations.. and i'm thinking "finally!

maybe he will continue on to make an actual, reasonable point!".