Topics Started by zannahdoll

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One of my heroes: Farrell Till
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
endless hours of delicious reading!.

i share with you one of my intellectual heroes: farrell till.. till was a minister whose efforts to understand what he believed led him to discover everything wasn't the way it had been represented to him in seminary.

he was a missionary and preacher for many years before he decided he could not put his life behind distortions.. he turned to disseminating what he had discovered about the misrepresentations in christianity.. he is a an earlier version of randy at freeminds!.
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The evidence AGAINST evolution.
by nicolaou in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
not in the fossil record, geographical spread or d.n.a.

it's certainly not found in the perfect 'design' of our bodies or the planet we live on.

without appealing to the supernatural or 'sacred texts' where can solid evidence be found against darwinian evolution by natural selection?.
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What Are the Odds of YOU Reading This Today?
by Yan Bibiyan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
jws, as well as other creationists as far as i know, use the argument that the odds of life starting on its own, from a mere mix of chemicals are beyond the mathematically acceptable limits and therefore life must have been designed by a higher being.

my study conductor, a window washer by trade (no, really, this is not a jab at the guys choice of making a living) told me that those odds were calculated to be beyond 1:1x10100and statistically anything over 1:1x1050is considered impossible.

i can understand the odds.
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oh, what to believe! (everyone welcome, atheists and agnostics especially)
by zannahdoll in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was invited by a friend to view a thread that was 7 months old and i made my first posts in that thread but i think, being an old thread, i may miss out on talking to some of you.

so, for a fresh start: i'm going to repost a few thoughts and start a few new thoughts.

first: let me introduce myself: (don't make fun!
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Resurrection of Lazarus only mentioned by John, not others, why?
by VM44 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
why is it that the story of the resurrection of lazarus of bethany only is mentioned in the book of john and not in the other three gospel accounts of the life of jesus?.

the resurrection of lazarus was a major event in the life of jesus, but three writers failed to mention it, why?.

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Definition of Atheist
by ZeusRocks in
1. jw
2. friends
i've noticed on so many threads people misrepresenting what and atheist is.

so hopefully anyone who is so inclined can view this clip to get it a bit of clarity on the definition, so others don't have to constantly repeat themselves and correct uneducated assertions on what atheism is.. enjoy.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt1wdnrkllq.
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Why would a 1st Century nobody want to believe a Jesus story?
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. bible
first century.. rome.

jerusalem.

galilee.. low tech world.. roman armies marching always into battles.. sons and fathers conscripted to fight and die.. taxes.. morning to sundown scraping out a meager living.. .
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We were all Atheists when we were born, at what age did you change?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was a born in.

but when i was born i knew nothing.

i had no deity nor i knew what a god was therefore i was atheist.
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Do You Personally Know Of Anyone That Committed Suicide?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
lately, i've come to find out that a more than a few people in the area had killed themselves.

most of the people i know of were in their early twenties or forties.

for those loved ones surviving them, it was mostly a shock!
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If theres no God why the earth, the brain the universe? (Atheist and Agnostics)
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
(this question is directed to all the atheist and agnostics in the forum only).

i like most of the people here believed in a god who created us and the earth.

it was easy to explain the reason on many things like the degrees of inclination of the earth, the existance of water in our planet, the existance of an atmosphere, they joy in all the senses, the clear superiority of the human beens versus all other animals, the posesion of a brain who attempts to explain itself.