have you had a religious experience, such as being saved, that made you beleive in a higher power?
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please share your experience..
I was an evangelical christian for 9 years after I left the cult. I was convinced I was born-again, saved, forgiven, son of god.
In retrospect it is all subjective experience based on wishful thinking, peer pressure, group think, emotion and confirmation bias.
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Hello rolliepollie, welcome to the forum.
I see no evidence of any sort of deity.
1 - The history of life on earth could not be better designed to maximise suffering.
2 - 'Natural evil' makes it utterly impossible that a loving and powerful god exists.
3 - If a deity exists he has taken great pains to remain completely hidden.
4 - There is nothing about the physical world that can't be better explained without resorting to the supernatural .
i love soul , r @ b and funk.
one of my favorite songs is al green’s let’s stay together.
i love the philly sound and tom jones still has it!.
I love soul , r @ b and funk
Me too.
Any female vocalist with soul does it for me.
my name is matthew j and i have just ended my study with the jehovah's witnesses.
no, i did not stop studying because i believe the jehovah's witnesses are a 'cult', i left due to the minor beliefs that i hold that remain separate from the organization.
i called my elder who is still an amazing man and great counselor, affirming that i do not wish to continue my studying.
Hi Matt welcome to the forum.
The flaw in your position is that you know literally nothing about the organisation apart from what they have deigned to reveal to you as an outsider. You are now in the company of experts. Listen and learn.
i knew of several elders who would tell their wife's everything that happened in a committee meeting.
he is still and elder and very old but i doubt he has changed.
we used to call him.
Yes we had a very prominent elder who shared all confidential matters with his extended family and saw no problem with that. He was later deleted leading to all-out civil war.
There are still things I haven't told my wife even though we have been out more than 24 years.
so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
Has there been a published scientific rebuttal to the APA's study? - unsure
Yes. The vast majority of peer-reviewed studies contradict the paper's foundational position that gender differences in personality traits are social constructs.
I listed some accessible books on the topic earlier.
so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
Any idea of what percentage of the population this applies to? - Snuggleb
1.7% According to the Williams Institute with a similar number identifying as bisexual
so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
Crofty?????? The Patriarchy is a myth? What are you smoking? - dog
It's Cofty.
What is this thing you call the 'patriarchy'? Despite the shrill slogans of third-wave feminism it does not exist in the western world.
so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
Your opinion of Pinker's personality could not be less relevant or interesting.
so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.
shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.
men should be less masculine.
em - Twin studies show beyond all doubt that so much of our interests and abilities are down to our genes.
Have a read at 'The Blank Slate' by Steven Pinker; Nature Via Nurture by Matt Ridley; 'We are our Brains' by Dick Swaab. They are all on my library shelf. None of them are the opinions of one scientist; they all describe a wide range of studies and deal with objections to the hard science by ideology-led academics working in humanities.
Another book on the topic that I haven't read yet is 'Blueprint, How DNA Makes us Who We are' by Robert Plomin
