a super-zealous elder once told me in a very grave tone, "you know, mr. falcon, when someone becomes an apostate and leaves god's organization, they usually do very well physically and materially.
" hence the reason he claims that they feel "vindicated".
now i do also remember hearing such statements in the past from other witnesses.
wow, this thread took off. I promise to respond to each of you, but right now I got to knock on doors. Sigh.
Geez Falcon...that sucks. I just got up and am gonna fry some eggs...on my private jet. Sir, may you have the strength of a thousand apostates to get you thru the door-knocking.
nhl playoffs start tonight.
get your beer chilled and the wings in the oven.
the next two months or so is my church - the grueling battle for the stanley cup.
Charlie brown...you out there? The Bruins did it! I'm pumped that Tampa is out, they play boring wait-for-your-chances hockey. So here's to a great Stanley Cup Finals.
(yeah..I'm talking to myself here...crickets...)
"faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.".
"my last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of september 11th 2001, followed by the "national day of prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous martin luther king impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.".
Considering the many misconceptions on this thread about how evolution actually works...everyone should also read The Greatest Show on Earth.
nhl playoffs start tonight.
get your beer chilled and the wings in the oven.
the next two months or so is my church - the grueling battle for the stanley cup.
So who's watching the Bruins/Lightning Game 7 right now?
Predictions? I have no idea...but I'll throw this out there...2-1 Bruins.
"faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.".
"my last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of september 11th 2001, followed by the "national day of prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous martin luther king impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.".
Dolphins are incredibly intelligent. We've only begun to scratch the surface in understanding them. But we're making progress...
"remember all the movies, terry, we'd go see .
trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be .
and after all this time to find we're just like all the rest .
Same sentiments as everyone else....great post Falcon.
I haven't completely lost my best friend yet...still know where to contact him. But our last convo a year ago pretty much ended with him calling me an apostate, and a "JWs have the best way to live". Sigh.
To my childhood friend and old fishing/drinking buddy, Scott.
i didn't go to college and of course, "higher education" was never recommended.
still, i never felt terribly deprived because of not going further in my education.. yet, i did wish that i could've had "normal" aka "worldly friends".
i wish that as witnesses, we could've been better integrated with other people.
- Higher education.
- A chance to play organized hockey. I coulda been a contender.
- Develop a healthy sense of my place in the world earlier in life....well still working on it.
- Date all the high school girls I missed out on
- Not be a freak of society
"faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.".
"my last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of september 11th 2001, followed by the "national day of prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous martin luther king impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.".
Yeah Nickolas...I wasn't disputing anything you said. Agreed, chance doesn't cause evolution. That's why I called it a side note, just an interesting event in our evolutionary history.
"faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.".
"my last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of september 11th 2001, followed by the "national day of prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous martin luther king impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.".
We are not mere flukes of evolution, because the mechanism of evolution, natural selection, is not a process of chance. It is precisely the opposite. Chance does not enter into it once you get past abiogenesis.
This is true. Side note: not intended to divert the subject...but when you consider the mass extinctions that have taken place on our planet we can be considered LUCKY to have evolved to this point. Take the dinosaurs for instance...they ruled the earth and we never would have come along if they weren't wiped out, possibly from a huge meteorite. Small rodents - mammals - survived this event and hence life continued to evolve from then on....eventually us.
Incredible really. Now back to regular scheduled programming.
this is from the august awake!
- watching the world:.
the amazon river basin is one of the.
I got 2 animals that kill the whole idea...Platypuss, Penguin
Hey frigginconfused....maybe I'm a little slow this morning, but to clarify, what "idea" in particular and how so? Maybe you could elaborate. Thanks.
