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  Should Creationism Ever Be Taught In Schools?

  by nicolaou in

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  this is taken from the bbc's sunday morning show 'the big questions'.

  i was going to pick out a few highlights but really, you need to watch the whole thing - it's only 23 minutes.

  seriously, i could feel the bile and frustration rising in my gullet .

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  Some vs Many

  by Londo111 in

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  it is interesting how the watchtower uses these two words.

  for instance, the word some is often used to minimize, and many used to maximize.

  and yet, it is so unspecific that some might be a greater quantity than many, yet the mind doesnt process these words this way.. for instance, if it is a failed prediction or a changed teaching, they might say, some believed... when it fact some means most or all, because this was food at the proper time coming from gods channel through the watchtower.

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  Jesus' Teachings - Helpful or Harmful?

  by jgnat in

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  spinning off from another thread, have jesus' teachings been less than universally helpful to mankind?

  how do we measure if a particular philosophy is helpful or harmful?.

  i am going to use the "universal morals" listed here.

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  If you knew that you might have pain, suffer disasters, certainly end up dead,-- given the choice, the power, would you have prevailed upon your parents not to have brought you into the world?

  by prologos in

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  or changed the outworkings of your ancestors' lifes to suit you?--.

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  "Jehovah ALWAYS had/used an organization". How would you reply?

  by EdenOne in

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  in a recent meeting with elders, an argument was used to the effect that jehovah has always [= throughout history] used, or operated through, an organization; therefore, the wts must be that organization today, since god must be using one.

  naturally, i know what arguments i've used to counter that argument.

  but i'm interested in hearing yours.

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  Does anyone here believe that things are worse than they were in the past?

  by Trismegistus in

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  2. friends

  i still hear this crop up every once in a while, so i figured that i'd open it up to a wide audience.. things are looking pretty good to me..

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  Millions die in Natural disasters - God is doing nothing. Do I adopt Anthropomorphism to him?

  by KateWild in

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  2. beliefs

  i do not think god is a'morphic.

  god is not human, so hence he does not possess human characteristics, to know god better and to understand him better i study science.

  there has been a new discovery of strange signals picked up from black holes and distant supernovae suggest there's more to space-time than einstein believed.

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  Epic FAIL! :( My sister is gone from me.

  by Faithful Witness in

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  got this email from my sister today.

  there is a lot of back story, and this isn't a surprise.

  it will be interesting to see how it affects the rest of the family, if they hear about it or not.

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  Utah man goes on hunger strike to the death to protest same-sex marriages

  by adamah in

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  you can't make up this kind of religious nut-job fanaticism:.

  http://www.4utah.com/story/utah-man-fasting-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/d/story/k9sjvlgmmeuberqg9aeobq.

  although in retrospect, it's no more extreme than those jws who die refusing blood.... adam.

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  Hold me, thrill me, kiss me..... a tribute

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  have i ever told ya'll about my grande ma ma?

  my daddy's mother?

  i can't recall.

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