remember the story of the ark of the covenant on the wagon and it started to fall and one of the men grabbed it so as not to have it fall on the ground and it's contents spill on the ground...... what happened...oh yeah jah stuck him dead!!
for touching it.... i remember the wts saying it was disrespectful to have it on a wagon..... so much for slow to anger lol!.
From Jah's perspective, and we know he can break time down to picoseconds and beyond, he could have struck in about 10-20 nanoseconds.
Wait a sec...a thousand years is like one day to him. Wouldn't that make the time between touching his junk and getting zapped really, really, really fast?
at one point in my life i chose to stop listening to my religion's advice to not research outside of their framework.
about the time i made that decision was when the gay marriage debate was going very strong; and still is to this day.
back then i felt like my state of california was leading the front on it to stop the bigotry and oppression once and for all.. it was a hot topic for me because i was questioning the bible and my faith so i started researching the science of homosexulality.
In fact, that has zero reporductive value.
That may not be true. Nicolaou linked the article about a 2004 study. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article493668.ece
The findings suggest that the same genes that trigger homosexuality in men also promote fertility in women, and that this could explain how they survive in the population when gay men themselves are unlikely to breed. The genes are instead passed on through the female line and the enhanced fertility they confer on these women ensures that they are inherited by plenty of children.
Same group in 2008:
Male homosexuality is difficult to explain under Darwinian evolutionary models, because carriers of genes predisposing towards male homosexuality would be likely to reproduce less than average, suggesting that alleles influencing homosexuality should progressively disappear from a population. This changed when previous work by Camperio Ciani and collaborators, published in 2004, showed that females in the maternal line of male homosexuals were more fertile than average.
They concluded that the only possible model was that of sexually antagonistic selection. The other models did not fit the empirical data, either implying that the alleles would become extinct too easily or invade the population, or failing to describe the distribution patterns of male homosexuality and female fecundity observed in the families of homosexuals. Only the model of sexually antagonistic selection involving at least two genes – at least one of which must be on the X chromosome (inherited in males only through their mother) – accounted for all the known data.
faith hell-questioning pastor rob bell says new book has led him to profound brokenness .
bell's recently-released book.. nashville, tenn. (ap) evangelical megachurch pastor rob bell said he did not anticipate the firestorm he would stir with his book that questions the traditional christian belief that a select number of believers will spend eternity in heaven while everyone else is tormented in hell.. bell said tuesday that he not only didnt set out to be controversial, he had no idea his best seller, love wins, would bring condemnation from people like southern baptist seminary president albert mohler, who claims bell is leading people astray.. the last couple of weeks have been most painful in my life, the pastor from mars hill bible church in grand rapids, mich., told a crowd of about 1,600 at nashvilles belmont university on tuesday after an audience member asked him about the criticism he has faced.
it has taken me to a place of profound brokenness.. but he said that with gods help he has been able to learn and grow from the experience.. even before the book was published last month, religious leaders and their followers were branding it heresy, hailing it as a breakthrough or landing somewhere in the middle.
First reaction, I want to hug Rob Bell and read his book. I have no problem with that kind of Christianity, this is what I want also: to fix things now, make heaven on earth. But then I remember, our ideas on heaven might be really different. Yeah, I'm gonna have to read that.
a brother called me to ask who was delivering the talk at our hall.
i didn't know what he was talking about.
he then explained to me that this week, for the local needs, congregations across the us will have a brother deliver a special outline on blood transfusions.. .
Where is Ynot? I haven't seen her post in ages.
Refresh my memory please, this would not be about signing the cards, right? That happens towards the end of the year?
i'm an atheist, and i'd like to take some time to talk about why i hold a great deal of respect for the jehovah's witnesses, and some words of encouragement that may put an end to the ridicule and disrespect you seem to get from, well, all sorts of people.. .
i never gave this kind of criticism a second thought: i knew nothing about you, and i figured you were just another fringe group of christianity.
i now feel terrible about this, and i wish to apologize for my (admittedly never spoken) disrespect.
Atheism also denies Hell.
Yeah...I'm now convinced I fed a troll, or a really confused atheist.
at one point in my life i chose to stop listening to my religion's advice to not research outside of their framework.
about the time i made that decision was when the gay marriage debate was going very strong; and still is to this day.
back then i felt like my state of california was leading the front on it to stop the bigotry and oppression once and for all.. it was a hot topic for me because i was questioning the bible and my faith so i started researching the science of homosexulality.
If my grandkids grow up in a more tolerant world than I grew up in, that will be a start. Baby steps.
We grew up in a more tolerant world than our grandparents did. That's progress. I'd like to see an end to extreme religion too. I sometimes wonder if it's just a mental defect, lol! Maybe we should be encouraging the science on that.
Homosexuality occurs in nature, is considered 'of nature' and is therefore natural. I hate when homophobes use that term, unnatural. Call them abnormal if you want because they are certainly not 'of the norm' but don't call them unnatural, because that is wrong.
This is a really good point and something I just recently looked at. What does it say about God if he designed all these creatures like this? I'm not saying that all these things are okay; as humans we limit what's okay to what doesn't infringe on the rights of someone else.
Researchers have observed monogamy, promiscuity, sex between species, sexual arousal from objects or places, sex apparently via duress or coercion, copulation with dead animals, homosexual, heterosexual and bisexualsexual behaviour, and situational sexual behaviour and a range of other practices among animals other than humans. Related studies have noted diversity in sexed bodies and gendered behaviour, such as intersex and transgender animals.
Current understanding is that many species that were formerly believed monogamous have now been proven to be promiscuous or opportunistic in nature; a wide range of species appear both to masturbate and to use objects as tools to help them do so; in many species animals try to give and get sexual stimulation with others where procreation is not the aim; and homosexual behaviour has now been observed among 1,500 species and in 500 of those it is well documented. [ 1 ]
i'm an atheist, and i'd like to take some time to talk about why i hold a great deal of respect for the jehovah's witnesses, and some words of encouragement that may put an end to the ridicule and disrespect you seem to get from, well, all sorts of people.. .
i never gave this kind of criticism a second thought: i knew nothing about you, and i figured you were just another fringe group of christianity.
i now feel terrible about this, and i wish to apologize for my (admittedly never spoken) disrespect.
While I do feel that many of the Watchtower's stances on various issues (such as the scientific theory of evolution) are problematic, I can honestly say that I'm not bothered too much.
Are you aware of JWs stance on blood transfusions, higher education, and disfellowshipping? If so, are you bothered by these? Have you read the articles and quotes used to support these doctrines and does the manipulation of information and deceit bother you, especially regarding articles and publications about blood and evolution?
While JWs can be commended for not believing in hell, they are harmful in many other ways. They more than make up for that little doctrinal difference, and that's what they're criticized for.
at one point in my life i chose to stop listening to my religion's advice to not research outside of their framework.
about the time i made that decision was when the gay marriage debate was going very strong; and still is to this day.
back then i felt like my state of california was leading the front on it to stop the bigotry and oppression once and for all.. it was a hot topic for me because i was questioning the bible and my faith so i started researching the science of homosexulality.
To me, the answer to this question would prove the Bible as false because it would expose the writer's ignorance to biology therefore could not be God's word.
I think it's the same as creationism. You would think all the evidence against creationism would prove the Bible false and people would actually read that evidence and change their minds. And they have their psuedo-scientists for that too. People will continue to believe what they want, even if it's not true, for various reasons. I do think the next generations will be much less homophobic until it gradually disappears. We're learning and progressing, slowly but surely.
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^ i know many women who are all over that.. -sab.
My father has had that mustache for as long as I can remember.
I like goatees and beards though.
i'm watching the 2nd louis theroux visit to the phelps.
i don't feel so well..
