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Posts by cofty
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Banners for London Protest
by Farmer Jim1 inhi folks, i’m attending the london protest at the excel convention in august and am making some banners.
i’m aiming for short but memorable sentences that will stick in jws minds and also make them laugh a little at their own organisation.. my best so far is ‘this is not a protest, it’s an overlapping protest’.
has anyone got any ideas for more?.
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Everything Happens For A Reason
by Charles Gillette indoes everything happen for a reason?
i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.
what do you think about this belief?
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cofty
Everything happens for a reason. Physics is the study of those reasons
You are equivocating about the word 'reason'.
If you are implying agency then that has nothing to do with physics.
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The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD
by Still Totally ADD inthis is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.
thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.
we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.
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cofty
That is brilliant news. I'm delighted for you all.
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Everything Happens For A Reason
by Charles Gillette indoes everything happen for a reason?
i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.
what do you think about this belief?
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cofty
Shit happens
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On leaving JW's and hating religion...
by Jehalapeno init's been nearly 4 years now since i completely woke up to the watchtower lies.. thinking back on my jw life, during the time i believed, the organization truly did teach us to hate all beliefs that were contrary to the watchtower's.. i hated "false" religion.. so, when i finally woke up and applied critical thinking to my beliefs, i just went on hating religion in general...only this time i added jw's to that list.. a few months of waking up, i decided to base my beliefs on evidence.
i didn't want to have a set of beliefs unless there was some logic or evidence behind it.
so, now i consider myself an atheist.. and i kept on hating religion.. within the last six months or so, something has changed.
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cofty
I have sympathy with your position with a few provisos.
I feel no need to back off in challenging factual claims made by religion. If somebody wants to argue that religion might be/has been useful even though it is not objectively true I can live with that. When fundies want to argue that the bible is inspired or that god heals the sick or that creationism is scientifically credible then I am your opponent.
I still have no tolerance of Islam. It is the slow kid in the class. If it ever catches up in terms of personal freedoms then and only then will I give it a break.
Having said all that, I still have concerns that religion was a force for intra-group and national cohesion and its demise is not an unmitigated good.
Many liberal xtians and reformed Jews have found a way to hold on to religion as a social influence while avoiding inter-group animosity and without lying to themselves about what is true. Maybe there is something to be said for that.
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I Ain't Got No Religion No More ... (But I Like to Get Myself Some Gospel Music)
by Simon ini love gospel music.
i don't feel like i need to believe in "jebus" to appreciate the music.
i can't go into a gospel church because i might just get religion again - that or i'll be grabbing the mic on be on the stage waving my hands and praising the lord.. i particularly like dylan's gospel period.
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Are you Enjoying the World Cup?
by snugglebunny ingreat to see such an eager young team.
harry kane is incredible.
oops..you'll have to click on the play on youtube link below.
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cofty
who really cares - ah? - stillMS
I care, very much. I have spent a considerable amount of time studying Russian history this past year. I despise Putin. He used the FSB to kill Russian civilians in order to provoke a war with Chechnya and then had Litvinenko murdered for talking about it. He is a moral monster.
I am certain he bribed FIFA to get the rights to the World Cup. I wish it was being played elsewhere but it isn't.
I am capable of enjoying the sport regardless.
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Are you Enjoying the World Cup?
by snugglebunny ingreat to see such an eager young team.
harry kane is incredible.
oops..you'll have to click on the play on youtube link below.
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cofty
StillMS - Putin is as legitimate, and as ethical as a Mafia Don. We know that.
I don't care where the games are being played. Chill out.
Can't wait to see replay of Germany v South Korea later. Love watching crying Germans.
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Are you Enjoying the World Cup?
by snugglebunny ingreat to see such an eager young team.
harry kane is incredible.
oops..you'll have to click on the play on youtube link below.
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cofty
Loving it.
Bye bye Germany.
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Race are we biased here is a fun quiz to self evaluate ourselves
by recovering inhttp://www.playbuzz.com/sammccarty10/are-you-actually-racially-biased.
try it it is fun.
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cofty
Like everybody else here I scored little or no bias but really why does it matter?
It's how we act that matters not any subconscious bias that we might have.