To answer the question: No.
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The Great Debate: "Has Science Refuted Religion?
by dark angle injust want to share this amazing debate!
caltech cosmologist and physicist sean carroll teams up with skeptic magazine publisher and science historian michael shermer in this epic debate with noted conservative author and king's college president dinesh d'souza and mit physicist ian hutchinson as they go head-to-head over one of the most controversial issues of our age.
as science pushes deeper into territory once the province of religion, with questions such as why there is something rather than nothing?, where did the universe come from?, how did life arise?, what was the origin of morality?, and others, inevitable conflicts arise over the best approach to answer them.
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Jehovah's Witnesses And The Paranormal
by Cold Steel ini understand that the jehovah's witnesses are paranoid when it comes to the paranormal.. how far do the roots of this paranoia go?
has anyone ever had any personal paranormal experiences or know of anyone who has (first hand)?.
and what are some of the more popular stories that get retold in jw circles?.
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Night Owl
Jeffro,
You are just an ass.
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Got my Privileges Removed today, any advice?
by mrbunyrabit insooo i was a ministerial servant (omg a ministerial servant on this site!?
you apostate!!!
) yea yea i just wanted to see what other people think and whatever, coz i had a few questions myself, (butttt its not like i was about to start throwing them with rocks and stuff, they arent that bad).
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I dropped from 12, sometimes 15 a month to about 5 hours a month. We had an elder/MS meeting and when they dismissed the Servants, they asked me to stay over for a few minutes. They asked me about my situation and I told them whatever I told them.
The truth was that I was burnt out from all the responsibility. Meetings, personal study, parts, field service and I was just tired, but I didn't tell them that. I just said I had some overwhelming personal problems.
I told them I was going to step down, even though they really didn't want me to. The announcement was that I had been deleted.
Eventually, it lead to my inactivity.
Did it hurt? Yes.
Was it a relief? Yes.
Was I confused about how much of this belief system was still in my heart? Yes.
One of my friends in the congregation is an ex-elder and while he is still active, he feels that the burden of not having to "perform" month, after month, after month, is a great relief. No more 30 mins early, no more waiting for the last one to leave the hall to lock up, no more conducting the book study, meetings for field service. No more committees, no more nothing.
Wherever this leads you, will be wherever it leads you.
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! ! ! Going BONKERS ! ! !
by irondork ini'm usually clothed, fed, and out the door to work before my roommate even comes out of her room in the morning.
she informed me after work yesterday that she opened the cereal cabinet and found the milk carton sitting there.. .
"ooops!
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Night Owl
You are done.
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JW "Therapists"
by baltar447 inok, i've known a couple of these in my time.
one is a douche that i wouldn't trust as far as my 4 year old can throw him.
the other seems to be a decent therapist and he's really intelligent but i don't see how he can't see it's a freaking cult??
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I plan to start a thread concerning this issue. I do not know when, because my time on this forum is limited to a couple of days.
I hope to show that most issues concerning mental health begin with thoughts concerning our own "self image" but our focus as humans tends to be on the image that others have about us, which should have nothing to do with who WE are.
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Night Owl
Preaching 24 hours a day will not make "the end" come any sooner.
It is a "fixed date".
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Night Owl
Why does not turning a time slip mean a person is not preaching? Why worry about the "inactive" since judging is god's purview not his or anyone on earth.
EXACTLY!!!!!
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JW "Therapists"
by baltar447 inok, i've known a couple of these in my time.
one is a douche that i wouldn't trust as far as my 4 year old can throw him.
the other seems to be a decent therapist and he's really intelligent but i don't see how he can't see it's a freaking cult??
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Night Owl
Just read some good books on mental health and fix yourself.
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Are you an athiest and why?
by LouBelle ini'm interested in finding out people's reasons as to why they are athiest.. i have simply through life experience, my research into religions over the years come to that conclusion.
never thought i would come to a day that i did not believe in a god.
believing in a god is like believing in super man, it would be great if he existed but well it's just a fairy tale.
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How would atheists respond to this?
by Knowsnothing inhttp://www.everystudent.com/wires/godreal.html.
british philosopher, dr. antony flew, has been a leading spokesperson for atheism, actively involved in debate after debate.
however, scientific discoveries within the last 30 years brought him to a conclusion he could not avoid.
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Night Owl
Since atheists today were present at the very beginning of the existence of the universe, and all life as we presently know it, I'm sure they will have plenty to say.
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