Posts by notverylikely

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Say NO to a mosque at Ground Zero!!

by Scully in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs0novt3x4&feature=digest.

notverylikely

I love all of these ideas, including the mosque.

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DVD "JW's Faith In Action, part 1 Out of Darkness" Omits! Omits! Omits!

by Wasanelder Once in

i've been watching the new dvd and it is a bull fest about russell.

i haven't even gotten half way and they already excluded one very important bit of information.

you'll recall that russell "lost" his faith and "turning away from church creeds and searching for truth, russell examined some leading oriental religions, only to find these unsatisfying".

notverylikely

why not. Me too, even though I am going to get my own in about 2 week.

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The Story of Randall Watters part II - Trouble at Bethel

by Dogpatch in

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my story part 2: trouble at bethel.

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[endif]by my third year at bethel i was really enjoying it and determined to make bethel a life career.

The God Delusion

by alice.in.wonderland in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_god_delusion.

the god delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by british biologist richard dawkins, professorial fellow of new college, oxford, and inaugural holder of the charles simonyi chair for the public understanding of science at the university of oxford.. .

in the god delusion, dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.

notverylikely

Something else I think is the mystery that Richard cant explain is what I call God.

The god of the gaps is indeed shrinking....

Richard and God also helped me to realize that it might not even be up to us whether we believe

in God or not, its the way we were made, the way we were wired.

Poor excuse. Just because I want a glass of delicious, tasty, peaty Scotch at 9 in the morning doesn't mean i am going to go get one.

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A JW's Concealed Hook to Gain Converts

by maputo95 in

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what do you think of the doomsday message below from a jw who works in investments?.

my dear friends.

you may not want to read this, but we cant just bury our heads in the sand.. .

notverylikely

He's a moron. He says "watch this YOU-TUBE video (on YOU-TUBE)"....where else would a youtube video be? Netflix?

The planet sometimesre-shapes and hurts itself. Clearly he has no idea what's happened thousands of times in the past with volcanos (the caldera for the yellowstone volcano, which is still active, is something like 30 miles across. That's just the remains of the CONE....)

I guess he things the ice ages were a myth....it amazes me how people that work in finance can completely not understand how global economies or finance actually works.

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Book sealed to the learned but not to the unlearned.

by hoj in

isa 29:11-12 and the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, read this, i pray thee: and he saith, i cannot; for it is sealed: and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, read this, i pray thee: and he saith, i am not learned.. another way of saying this is that the book is sealed to the one who has been taught, but not to the one who hasnt been taught.

the one who hasnt been taught just needs to be taught.. the things that we have been taught can keep us from understanding the bible.

any error in doctrines can keep us in error.

notverylikely

Why should parables, allegories, dreams, prophecies, and mysteries be interpreted?

Why indeed?

You are right. The writings were never meant to be used by those with an agenda. They were written to warn against those with an agenda.

There you go again, deciding what they were meant for! If your agenda is to "interpret" them, then you will fill in the blanks in the message with things that resonate with you that may or may not have anything to do with the writers original intention since they shrouded it in mystery. That's why they are mystery writings!

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Damage Control on Secret Societies

by alice.in.wonderland in

damage control on secret societies .

http://www.watchtower.org/e/19970601/article_01.htm .

satanic activities of secret societies.

notverylikely

Feel free to join me on msdn.microsoft.com as I do contribute something to society in the way of literary output plus 10 years experience in complex software solutions design, development, and delivery. What do you do?

Wow, MSDN. There's only like, what, 10000 poeple on there? You must be SPECIAL! Of course, I've written white papers, code, articles and part of a book for Microsoft. You just pose on msdn. I clearly am better than you.

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Damage Control on Secret Societies

by alice.in.wonderland in

damage control on secret societies .

http://www.watchtower.org/e/19970601/article_01.htm .

satanic activities of secret societies.

notverylikely

I'm used to participating on this forum where I'm treated much more respectfully:

Sack up, Alice.

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Book sealed to the learned but not to the unlearned.

by hoj in

isa 29:11-12 and the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, read this, i pray thee: and he saith, i cannot; for it is sealed: and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, read this, i pray thee: and he saith, i am not learned.. another way of saying this is that the book is sealed to the one who has been taught, but not to the one who hasnt been taught.

the one who hasnt been taught just needs to be taught.. the things that we have been taught can keep us from understanding the bible.

any error in doctrines can keep us in error.

notverylikely

Do you suggest that there be NO interpretation?

I didn't suggest that. But since you did, why should there be?

I don't start off with an interpretation and try to make it fit. I search for what it means, whatever that might be.

Well....you kinda are. You are stringing together all these things and in some cases using "evidence" which really isn't and in other cases using "there is no reason not to think xyz"....which is kinda like the use of "evidently". There's no reason to think a certain thing or not, but since it fits your narrative, you will use the lack of a reason not to think that thing as poitive evidence when that's not at all what it is.

So...you kinda are doing that. Although, to be fair, you are trying to take a lot of different writings that were mystery writings and vague on purpose and never meant to be cobbled together into a book by a church with a religio-political agenda and trying to derive some meaning out of it.

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The God Delusion

by alice.in.wonderland in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_god_delusion.

the god delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by british biologist richard dawkins, professorial fellow of new college, oxford, and inaugural holder of the charles simonyi chair for the public understanding of science at the university of oxford.. .

in the god delusion, dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.

notverylikely

What do you think of the atheist idol, Richard Dawkins?

I haven't read him.

Why are Jehovah's Witnesses responsible for the God delusion since they didn't write the Bible?

Who said they were?

Or why is Jehovah's Witnesses version of mind-control is anymore sinister than the original inventors of Christianity?

The same reason that getting stabbed in the neck with a dagger is worse than a cut from shaving.