@godrulz: so, you believe god created nature, but he doesn't micromanage. So, are you saying God can leave nature to "make" certain things on its own? Things like, say, mountains, he being the creator of law-writer of plate tectonics?
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Could Christians please respond; Is there a penalty for rejecting Jesus?
by nicolaou in.
hell is pretty much out of vogue these days so if this rabid atheist decidedly turns his back on god and/or christ what will become of me?.
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I have to stop listening to talks on my MP3 player...
by Joliette in...i'm listening to a talk by a gb member and i'm steaming angry!!!.
i want to run to new york and punch this guy!
ugh!.
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@Joliette: yes, I would definitely stop. I can't bear to read a WT mag without freaking out, personally. It just isn't productive and it's anger fodder. There isn't any reason to waste your precious time listening to that crazy-ass stuff.
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God: the central question
by ixthis inof all the issues affecting every person's picture of reality, nothing is more fundamental than questions about god.. is there one god, creator and sovereign of all?could there be more than one god?
or no god at all?if there is a god (or gods), then what is that god (or gods) like?nothing determines your worldview-and the course of your life-more than how you answer those questions.
yet some atheists like to make light of the god question.
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Hello, ixthis. While I would agree with you that the God question is one of the big, important questions in life, I have to point out that your idea of what atheists think is incorrect. I can only speek for myself, but I don't things like the origin of life as if they are nothing but blind chance. I think of them as naturally occuring. This order we see in nature isn't something objectively measurable. Structure and "design," as you would call it, are things we INFER from observation, meaning design is apparent, and we can even say it exists, yet design doesn't require a sentient all-powerful designer. Nature is good enough as a designer. You may interpret that as meaning God is in the machine, but us atheists realize that the supernatural isnt required to explain the very NATURAL world.
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A few Dawkins quotes to think about.
by AK - Jeff in"faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.".
"my last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of september 11th 2001, followed by the "national day of prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous martin luther king impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.".
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So...God is a state of mind?
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Throw out that debasing music, you sheeple!
by undercover inhot off the presses!
the august awake!
with an article on music.
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I listened to Ozzy and Sabbath, and that sometimes bothered my conscience. I think it opened my mind though.
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@resistance is futile: are they preaching the RIGHT message?
are they REALLY preaching it effectively?
Does handing out literature really help?
Being global isn't a requirement. This one's tricky, though.
How do you know the one true god is christian, anyway?
Luke 10:7: please show them this. Perhaps the best one.
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Which posters are male and which are female? Am I getting it wrong?
by Lozhasleft inthis is baffling me...someone suggested a day or so ago that outlaw is female?
and what about bandontherun ?
is that a lady too?.
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Amazing Awake Experience, Former druggie looks up JWs in the phone book and starts studying
by LostGeneration inno looking up jws on the internet first?
and uses a phone book, who even owns a phone book anymore?.
here is the an "experience" from pg 7 of the august 2011 awake.. my teenage years were a blur of alcohol,.
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I can't stand the illogical link they create between listening to a certain kind of music and becoming a completely out-of-control druggie. This has always bugged the crap out of me.
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Do they still require that GB members be of the anointed?
by IsaacJ22 ini was wondering if i'm remembering a change correctly, especially since it happened long after i stopped attending meetings.. i seem to remember that the society began to change its position on the anointed holding top level posts within the org because they were running out of anointed ones.
apparently, anointed members were being used with higher level positions, like running committees and all that, but the society announced somewhere that they would start using other people in some of those positions too.
does that ring a bell with anyone?.
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@Isaac: hi, atheist geek. Love your blog. I'm "Sleepy", by the way.
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Can you answer: What is "The Truth™"?
by serenitynow! ini mean can someone, preferably an active jw, explain in 5 sentences or less what that really means?.
i ask because of the long post that "20571..." made on another thread about how "the truth" is better than this, that and the other thing.. what does it really mean?.
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Truth is that which like-minded people agree on, but no one can prove definitively. I prefer the truth which is at least the thoughts free from logical fallacies and the things we can verify with repeatability. Even then, I no nothing with certainty and neither does anyone else.
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