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  Do you have a problem in your life?

  by Iamallcool in

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  I suck at picking up, too nervous, Iamallcool your theory will keep me single for ever lol, nah I kid.
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  The Great Debate: "Has Science Refuted Religion?

  by dark angle in

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  just 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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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Science has grey areas; for example have you ever had the feeling that you are being watched? And you find out that you were, science cannot explain that feeling we have when we are being watched, almost like a six sense. If you think science has an explanation for this, it doesn't.

  As for religion, let me change the question to can religion prove science? Hell no, they failed right on the first chapter of Genesis, if you consider the creation account to an allegory then you face the problem that original sin never existed, but you don’t have that problem if you convert to Judaism, circumcision anyone?. There is no point of thinking that the bible is its own stand-alone complex as it touches on history and miracles, and things that don’t add up. Many Muslims think that their holy books are correct, it’s just that science has not caught up to it, hey who knows maybe the earth really is flat after all lol.

  In all science does not have all the answers but it's all we have, we can believe on what we know, religion on the other hand is quite the opposite, it’s a leap of faith, may the force be with you.
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  My demon experience

  by SweetBabyCheezits in

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  one recent afternoon, me and a buddy were taking a trek around a nearby neighborhood and made our way past a delapidated house that had all the familiar symptoms of being haunted.

  he suggested we check it out so, of course, we did.

  it looked like it had been abandoned probably 30-40 years earlier but the previous owners had left behind a small coffee table.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  What I experienced is not considered sleep paralyses. I did not se furniture spinning but I did see it moving, heard voices, a dog starting singing classical music etc.
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  NWT 2012 Revision - Your Suggestions Please

  by cofty in

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  so if its true that a new 2012 version of the new world translation is to be released at this year's dc what changes do you think they will have made?.

  don't forget your square brackets for interpolations.. .

  "this good news of the kingdom will be preached to all the [developed] world and then the end will come" - matt 24:14.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  When can't they show all revisions just like any other bible.
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  One cute canadian sister

  by thomyorke in

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  i like her videos about self-injury and other mental and physical problems, that could happened to young people.... she say that she is an active jw and regularly visit the meetings and go to service.. http://www.youtube.com/user/idranktheseawater.

  but... what can you say about her wearing and hair style?.

  it's cool, but it's "non-spiritual" style, not for "true" jw, isn't it ?!

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  Imagen her at the kingdom hall lol... not funny.

  I should warn there is swearing - tourettes

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Najrc8UzN1o&list=UU0BXjaWwEt2E-UnV52e7T4Q&index=1&feature=plcp
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  LDS (Mormon) wheelers and dealers coming over tonight at 7 PST. What would you ask them?

  by sabastious in

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  hey jwn.

  a couple of mormon missionaries came to my house last week and i invited them in.

  what can i say, curiosity killed the cat.

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  Any ex-mormons here? Shunning is just like what JW's do to a T

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication#The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Mormon#Psychological

  Just like JW's they are selective as to what to say and they avoid saying certain things at all.
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  The difference between a religion and a cult

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  i find it very narrow to classify a difference between religion and cult, what about other aspects like mind control or some modules in hassans B.I.T.E.?
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  JW "Therapists"

  by baltar447 in

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  ok, 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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  Do all therapists need to be qualified? Here in Australia its illegal for a person who is not qualified to call him/herself a psychologist, but they can still be part of the industry in a lesser role.
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  Was everyone surprised by how nice worldly people can be?

  by Inisc in

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  i, like most born ins grew up being taught that everyone who was not a jw was inherently wicked, that they were dishonest, unloving, selfish, bad parents who don't care about their children, and also sad empty people with no direction in life.. as i grew older i started to see that this wasn't always true with every one, that what i was taught wasn't equating with what i was seeing.. by high school i could see that my friends at school, (yes worldly friends eek!

  ) we're actually decent people with morals, they may have engaged in a little fornication here and there but not promiscuously, and they were good honest people, with goals and parents that cared for them.. but after high school i was phsycologicaly bullied into ceasing contact with my friends altogether, leaving me with little contact with outside world, and the cult mentality had more room to grow, not fully, but enough to unconsciously not fully trust 'worldly' people.. however, once i'd left the org and began to meet people again, i was amazed at actually how good, honest, loving, kind, and caring many people can be!

  who love their spouses and children and try their very best to be good parents and partners.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

  the wb&ts did a good job in demonizing "wordly people" but this is not say that there arent bad people in the world
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  Atheism or Agnosticism, which one is correct?

  by Joey Jo-Jo in

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  this has been bugging me for a while, and while i dont want to turn this into something about semantics i think that we should quickly define what an agnostic and atheists are.. richard dawkins defines 7 different types of atheist ranging from weak to militant atheists, but along these definitions there appears one definition with a strong resemblance to agnosticism.. to me an agnostic is a person who neither believes nor disbelieves in deity/deities, but there are those who define agnostics as a ignorant who simply just don't care or don't have the intelligence to come to sound conclusion.. an atheist can be a person who disbelieves in a deity/deities based on the current mathematical and scientific understandings of the universe, as well as understandings that can refute certain religions such as the strong influence of protestantism christianity in america.. .

  from here i will refer deity as anything ranging jehovah to a real spaghetti monster, it's not important because a) we dont know b)for the purpose of this discussion it is not important to define what we believe god to be.. an argument that can be used about a deity is -we cannot prove nor disprove that god exists- this is referred to as a null hypothesis, an assumption that we cannot create a hypothesis to prove or disprove this deity.

  this to me is agnosticism and is more correct than the idea of atheism.

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  Joey Jo-Jo

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