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Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

Thank you, truthseeker, for your thoughtful and generous response.
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Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

And yeah, there was more intelligence on this thread before your arrogance started crowding some of it out.
You're the pot and I'm the kettle. It was you, after all, who denounced my perspectives as offensive to your sensibilities.
I think a little intellectual humility is called for
Do you ever go back and read some of the stuff you've contributed? I have, just out of interest. Intellectual? Possibly. Humble? Not a chance.
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Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

You might be onto something, JD. There are people out there who will pay big bucks for the smallest shred of proof in the paranormal. I personally like the toilet seat phenomenon. My guess is irate girl demons. Sure pisses off my wife when I do it.
"At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event" http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html
Wiki lists a couple of dozen prizes, including one from Eng. Sanad Rashed and Dr. Ahmed Khaled for proof that ouija boards function as claimed. Sounds like a natural, given the context.
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Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

What is so wonderful about Jesus of Nazareth casting out a bunch of demons from one possessed so that they could enter into a herd of swine instead? Sounds more sinister than devine, more like voodoo or black magic. Why not just cast out the demons?
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Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

Plenty of people don't believe in a deity but have no trouble believing in UFOs.
"I have interviewed some of the hundreds of thousands of people who claim to have had direct encounters with spacecraft, or the crew of spacecraft, from another galaxy. Some of these are so vivid and detailed (and so comparable with other depositions from other people who cannot have compared notes) that a few impressionable academics have proposed that we grant them the presumption of truth. But here is the obvious Ockhamist reason why it would be utterly wrong to do so. If the huge number of "contacts" and abductees are telling even a particle of truth, then it follows that their alien friends are not attempting to keep their own existence a secret. Well, in that case, why do they never stay still for anything more than a single-shot photo? There has never been an uncut roll of film offered, let alone a small piece of a metal unavailable on earth, or a tiny sample of tissue. And sketches of the beings have a consistent anthropomorphic resemblance to those offered in science-fiction comics. Since travel from Alpha Centauri (the preferred origin) would involve some bending of the laws of physics, even the smallest particle of matter would be of enormous use, and would have a literally earth-shattering effect. Instead of which—nothing. Nothing, that is, except the growth of a huge new superstition, based upon a belief in occult texts and shards that are available only to a favored few. Well, I have seen that happen before. The only responsible decision is to suspend or withhold judgment until the votaries have come up with something that is not merely childish." Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything.
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Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

If you witness a planchette on a ouija board move with no one's hand on it, then you have an unexplained event.
Or, more likely, you are hallucinating and it is not an event at all.
193
Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

There is no Santa Claus. (Try a breath mint, SBC.)
The old "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" wheeze? Surely there is more intelligence in here than that?
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How many convicted Watchtower pedophiles are there?
by Nickolas in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
last night my wife, my wife's brother and sister-in-law (all jehovah's witnesses) and i (not a jw) settled in after dinner for an evening of tv.

i loaded the first disk of the first season of the series "lie to me" and we started with episode 1, the series pilot.

not far into the program a young jehovah's witness is accused of murder.
Nickolas

notverylikely, it seems you are drawing parallels without being specific. Are you saying the 23,700 number could include multiple hits on the same individual? I'm unsure how this tracks the provenance of the number itself, which is what I am wondering about. Where did it come from, and how proovable is it? Next question (after how many were "spirit annointed" at the time they did their deeds) might be what the real number might be.
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Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

I love sweetmeats.
193
Are you afraid of the Ouija board still?
by cyberjesus in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you think it has superpowers?

who controlls it?

satan?
Nickolas

Naw, being a teenager is all about being in your head.