Posts by Knowsnothing

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Dr. Sam Harris vs. Dr. William Craig- Do not watch this if logic hurts your mind.

by whereami in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hthq6a7fzea&sns=em.

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Knowsnothing

Where is the full speech? Where is Craig's rebuttal?

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Did Jesus sacrifice really mean anything?

by highdose in

suspending for a minute the realisation that it never happened and instead looking at it as a beliver would.... jesus had to endure a painful death, yes.

but he knew that he would only be dead for three days and that afterwards he would get reserected and be able to mind f**k around with those who had put him to death.

and then he would live for ever in a brand new body!

Knowsnothing

Because our actions separate us from God. Sort of like if someone is a man of peace, and your actions are the unpeaceful... you will have separated

yourself from that man of peace.

No one could ever live up to God's standards. Isn't that what the law was for? Why does God expect us to live upto unreasonable standards (or at least did, in the case of Israel?)

He does not force himself onto us. Plus, as in at the mountain with Moses, the people did not want God to speak to them directly. They wanted Moses to mediate.

Right now we have Christ to mediate. God speaks to us through His Son. He still does not force himself upon us. (other than rare occasions... such as Paul, but that was pretty hard on Paul)

So it isn't that God is unwanting. (or Christ) It is us who are unwanting and unwilling. On top of that; we don't believe it can happen, we don't know what it is like to hear 'in spirit', so we often do not recognize it. Takes practice and faith.

Are you kidding me? How many here have prayed to even have a slight confirmation that God indeed listens? I sure did. Nothing. Nada. I slowly came to realize I was speaking to myself.

He does not force himself upon us, like he doesn't force himself upon Muslims and Hindus.

And, that 'hearing in spirit' makes me cautious. That's something I simply have to take your word to believe it. Which isn't too reassuring, considering you could define that any way you wish to define it.

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Did Jesus sacrifice really mean anything?

by highdose in

suspending for a minute the realisation that it never happened and instead looking at it as a beliver would.... jesus had to endure a painful death, yes.

but he knew that he would only be dead for three days and that afterwards he would get reserected and be able to mind f**k around with those who had put him to death.

and then he would live for ever in a brand new body!

Knowsnothing

Why do we need to be reconciliated? And why is God unwanting to speak to all of humanity directly?

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Confirmation bias as observed in brain scans

by SweetBabyCheezits in

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i thought this was an interesting study, considering the mental block that affects jws when discussing wt flip-flops or bible contradictions.. .

http://www.michaelshermer.com/2006/07/the-political-brain/.

a recent brain-imaging study shows that our political predilections are a product of unconscious confirmation biasthe human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion ... draws all things else to support and agree with it.

Knowsnothing

Now a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study shows where in the brain the confirmation bias arises and how it is unconscious and driven by emotions.

It's true. We are driven mainly by emotions. And yet, that's what makes us human... can't really separate that from ourselves, can we?

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Annointed apostacy!

by slimboyfat in

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how come jws/exjws find these two words particularly difficult to spell?

i've done it myself.

doh!.

Knowsnothing

brotha

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Did Jesus sacrifice really mean anything?

by highdose in

suspending for a minute the realisation that it never happened and instead looking at it as a beliver would.... jesus had to endure a painful death, yes.

but he knew that he would only be dead for three days and that afterwards he would get reserected and be able to mind f**k around with those who had put him to death.

and then he would live for ever in a brand new body!

Knowsnothing

Man oh man, why is there a reconciliation needed? What can a human possibly do to an infinite God to deserve his wrath?

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Who Knew: Failed Doomsday Prophecies (Video)

by 00DAD in

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mayan calendar, harold camping, william miller and the great disappointment and more .... .

who knew?

- failed doomsday prophecies.

Knowsnothing

Venetian, I saw the other thread on which you posted about your brother. You really should consider getting him some help. The most important thing you could do is get him to think. Show him his belief isn't unique. Show him the dangers the other groups faced (Jonestown, kool-aid drinkers, etc.)

Ask him to try and convince you why you should believe in what he believes. Go through a step-by-step analysis and identify the logical fallacies in his arguments.

I wish you all the best.

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Which generation do you belong to ?

by edmond dantes in

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ask a witness which generation do you belong to and see if they really know how to answer.. i have decided that every time i hear a true definition of the meaning of a generation i will post it here just to reinforce the true meaning just in case a stray jw happens to look in on here.. yesterday evening i was watching an antiques programme on the television and under discussion was a very well made baby high chair from about the nineteen thirties and the approximate date of manufacture and the length of time it had been in the family.

the expert then went on to confim how old it was and in doing so said that considering who first purchased the chair and the length of a generation that it was from the thirties and went on to say that we consider a generation to be about 25 years.. that is a truer definition of a generation than a watchtower definition.. .

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Knowsnothing

I belong to the generation that built the Great Pyramids. How's that for one-upmanship?

P.S. no alien technologies were used in the making of the Great Pyramids. Only bad-ass engineering and a lot of elbow greese.

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My JW Brother-in-Law's Crisis of Conscience

by arko_n9ne in

me and my brother in law share a computer at home.

we have different accounts and for the life of me, i still don't know his password.. but it hasn't stopped me from putting "apostate" literature on his desktop screen.

i am an amateur it geek who knows the ins and outs of computers, so i don't look twice at things like passwords.. anyway, a few months ago, i slipped three files onto his desktop.

Knowsnothing

Yeah TD, what arko did is pretty much child's play. His BIL well could have deleted those files and that probably would've been the end of it. The question is, is it illegal for him to keep tabs of how much CoC is used? I mean, it's basically a shared file, so..... I don't really see the problem?

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I believe God

by N.drew in

someone said atheists are a minority.

i think that is incorrect.

salvation belongs to yhwh.

Knowsnothing

N.drew, you are entitled to believe as you wish, but I really don't understand you.

Ok, so you believe in God (particularly YWHW) and Jesus Christ. Well, besides the infallible Holy Spirit you keep mentioning that guides you, where else do you learn from about these individuals? Mostly the Bible. But, you now go a step further and say the whole Bible ain't the real deal. So now your picking what seems right, you are making the Bible your sock puppet, as Cofty stated in another thread.

You are making out God and Jesus to be the nice friends you would like them to be. Compare with the reality we face in the world.

Also, you keep bashing humans that say they have achieved enlightenment, yet continue to war or allow wars. The fact is, there is nothing humanity can do to achieve total peace and tranquility. You really should study history a bit more. Sometimes wars are fought for such simple things as resources, y'know the stuff that keeps humans alive?