i've wanted to make this account for the past 2 weeks, but ive been afraid that ill get caught by posting.
do they check this site?.
im 18 years old,baptized at 14. really my problems started a few weeks ago.
sorry if im not replying to everone, im typing on my ps3, takes ages.
Welcome independenthinker and congrats on making it this far. If the above is true, you must have the tenacity and perseverance of the honey badger. I think you're going to do just fine.
or did it not matter that you were ever a witness---you're a bit screwy, anyway?.
FUBAR'd and lovin' it.
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if there is no god (however defined), do humans have more intrinsic value than animals?
feel free to offer brief or complex responses.
Great discussion by you all. Don't have the time/intellect to wade into this one right now. But at the risk of being off topic, all this talk of meat (and the nihilistic/Nietzche post) reminded me of this little nugget:
that's all i have to say about that.. okay, one gratuitous jesus joke.... .
Get crunked y'all. Or have tea, either/or. And thanks to Cheez for eliciting this comment on the CREATOR thread, I LOL'd:
That's your stupid definition of faith. We have two adopted cats. I don't like you.
i talk to jw's, i talk to many religious people.
i also spend all day everyday with educated people due to my career.
one thing stands out to me for sure, by far the majority of the regular posters here are intelligent and informed.
I played the role of Timothy in a shitty DC drama. (Complete with my own shitty acting.)
Cheez...please, please tell me we can find this virtuoso performance on YouTube.
i now find it idiotic that i could ever beleive the bible to be the inspired word of god.....,throughout the bible "god"has only dealt with a few of his favoured spokespersons to deliver his messages to a minority populace.individuals at first,..... then, patriarchs,nomads,a small nation,ignoring all other nations that had sprung up.......,abandoning his chosen nation,sending his "son"to a small nation, only giving them his pearls of wisdom,much of what was not even recorded for prosperity and remember he never wrote a word,it was left up to other imperfect humans to record what he was supposed to have said,just a smidgen......,again ignoring the bulk of humankind keeping them in ignorance of his plan for universal salvation,leaving it all up to imperfect humans to spread this message of salvation, whom he has already condemned for their sinfullness and disobedience.i just find it so unbeleivable.
in the 6000 years of recorded history only a fraction of the earths population,maybe less than a third have ever heard of the god of the bible, or his so called plan to redeem humankind ,thats millions and millions of people.
( india,arabic,afghanistan,pakistan etc.etc.).
Some don't want to hear Him, because they want to do their own thing instead of what He calls for us to do... which is to love and care for one another.
Hi Tammy. That comment seems to imply that one can't love and care for others unless they "hear Him". I'd suggest there are millions of non-believers who are sans faith that do have genuine love and care for others. Belief in a god is not necessary at all. And as poopsie pointed out, for a great many their faith causes the exact opposite of love and care.
a couple of years ago, a psychologist i know made the off-handed comment that there is conclusive evidence that "atheists are not as happy as the ordinary, average person?
we tossed that subject around for a few minutes and then moved on to something else.
at the time, i didn't think too much about it.
Or Bill Maher's gem: Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sexual postion.
Thanks for the reminder of that line, NC. Good one.
a couple of years ago, a psychologist i know made the off-handed comment that there is conclusive evidence that "atheists are not as happy as the ordinary, average person?
we tossed that subject around for a few minutes and then moved on to something else.
at the time, i didn't think too much about it.
Ignorance is bliss...
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ~Ernest Hemingway
i'm gonna play the skeptic today on a topic that is painful for a lot of people on this forum.
my intent is not to stir anything up but to make sure facts are confirmed.
bear in mind, i'm sickened by the wt's role (and the heirarchy down to elders) in child molestation cover-ups.
For what it's worth, the sun/ball of yarn drawing on both jwnews and unthank's site are hosted here, respectively:
http://jwnewsnetwork.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/the-sun-to-make-you-happy.jpg?w=450&h=459
http://stevenunthank.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/the-sun-to-make-you-happy.jpg?w=450&h=459
The dates in that URL would indicate an upload date to wordpress...2011/12...2011/08. So at the very least it doesn't seem to be something dug up on the fly today.
i'm gonna play the skeptic today on a topic that is painful for a lot of people on this forum.
my intent is not to stir anything up but to make sure facts are confirmed.
bear in mind, i'm sickened by the wt's role (and the heirarchy down to elders) in child molestation cover-ups.
Wow. I too only have a surface level awareness of this case, but the Six Screens appearance and now that pic cast a dubious shadow over it all.
According to Brian Scott's website, his drawing was posted Sept. 5 2010. But Steven Unthank's post today on his website describes that photo as "t he above pencil drawing is an image of a young child in the Traralgon Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses who was recently raped..."
Doesn't add up...
