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  FAITH, the biggest excuse for IGNORANCE.

  by nicolaou in

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  when you claim that some impossible account from the bible is true are you doing so because of evidence and honest reasons or simply because you want it to be true?

  if the evidence your claim is based upon ends up being proven false would you stop making the claim?.

  if your claim is based only on wishful thinking then you are being dishonest with yourself.

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  Occam's Razor

  The principle is often inaccurately summarized as "the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one." This summary is misleading, however, since the principle is actually focused on shifting the burden of proof in discussions. [ 3 ] That is, the razor is a principle that suggests we should tend towards simpler theories (see justifications section below) until we can trade some simplicity for increased explanatory power. Contrary to the popular summary, the simplest available theory is sometimes a less accurate explanation. Philosophers also add that the exact meaning of "simplest" can be nuanced in the first place. [ 4 ]
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  FAITH, the biggest excuse for IGNORANCE.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when you claim that some impossible account from the bible is true are you doing so because of evidence and honest reasons or simply because you want it to be true?

  if the evidence your claim is based upon ends up being proven false would you stop making the claim?.

  if your claim is based only on wishful thinking then you are being dishonest with yourself.

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  That all sounds lovely....but the truth is, that many people have been convicted wrongly (many rightly). The ones that have been convicted wrongly are the ones that have lawyers that don't do their jobs properly by proving thier innocence. Lets face it, juries are made up of human beings. Even though they are reminded that the person is supposidly innocent until proven guilty. They inevitably make a decision based on if they think he has not proven his innocence.

  This is why you then have people being released years after the fact that have proven their innocence. They have proven they are not guilty.

  A principle that requires the government to prove the guilt of a criminal defendant and relieves the defendant of any burden to prove his or her innocence

  Aside from the related requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the presumption of innocence is largely symbolic. The reality is that no defendant would face trial unless somebody—the crime victim, the prosecutor, a police officer—believed that the defendant was guilty of a crime. After the government has presented enough evidence to constitute Probable Cause to believe that the defendant has committed a crime, the accused need not be treated as if he or she was innocent of a crime, and the defendant may be jailed with the approval of the court.

  Nevertheless, the presumption of innocence is essential to the criminal process. The mere mention of the phrase presumed innocent keeps judges and juries focused on the ultimate issue at hand in a criminal case: whether the prosecution has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the alleged acts. The people of the United States have rejected the alternative to a presumption of innocence—a presumption of guilt—as being inquisitorial and contrary to the principles of a free society.
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  Life after death

  by truthseeker in

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  everyone has different views about life after death and whether or not it is a possibility.. as jehovah's witnesses, we were always taught that there is no life after death, that this is the only life we have now and that the wages of sin is death.. .

  what are your views on life after death?.

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  The evidence in support of evolution is overwhelming in its scope and volume

  The evidence you refer to that supports evolution is put together with the preconceived idea that evolution is correct.

  Here is a little something for you to mull over....

  As for the origin of reproduction, John Maddox, the editor emeritus of Nature, writes. "The overriding question is when (and then how) sexual reproduction itself evolved.

  Despite decades of speculation, we do not know." Finally, scientist Gerald Schroesder points out that the existence of conditions favorable to life still does not explain how life itself originated. Life was able top survive only because of favorable conditions on our planet. But there is no law of nature that instructs matter to produce end-directed, self-replicating entities.

  So how do we account for the origin of life? The Nobel Prize-winning physiologist George Wald once famously argued that "we choose to believe the impossible: That life arose spontaneously by chance." In later years, he concluded that a preexisting mind, which he posits as the matrix of physical reality, composed a physical universe that breeds life.

  So....ask yourself this question

  How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self-replication capabilities, and "coded chemistry"?

  The only satisfactory explanation for the origin of such "end-directed, self-replicating life as we see on earth is an infinitely intelligent Mind.
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  FAITH, the biggest excuse for IGNORANCE.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when you claim that some impossible account from the bible is true are you doing so because of evidence and honest reasons or simply because you want it to be true?

  if the evidence your claim is based upon ends up being proven false would you stop making the claim?.

  if your claim is based only on wishful thinking then you are being dishonest with yourself.

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  So no need to pay a defence lawyer to prove that you are not guilty then? Make sure you remember that if you ever go to court.
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  FAITH, the biggest excuse for IGNORANCE.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when you claim that some impossible account from the bible is true are you doing so because of evidence and honest reasons or simply because you want it to be true?

  if the evidence your claim is based upon ends up being proven false would you stop making the claim?.

  if your claim is based only on wishful thinking then you are being dishonest with yourself.

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  So realists don't have to prove what they say...they can just spout and criticize people who don't agree with them just becaue they don't agree with them.....excellent! They can tell people that their faith is an excuse for ignorance and not have to back up that statement...because they know everything....must feel great to be so superior.
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  I FINALLY DID IT ...............

  by cantleave in

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  i threw out my old public talk outlines and notes!.

  i spent ages, researching, and writing my talks to try and make them interesting.

  so i was rather reluctant to get rid of them.. but today i need the folder they were in for a work project, so hey ho they had to go!!!.

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  Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!! bet that feels great.....let the good times roll

  

  
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  ''In the last days will come ridiculers''...and why?

  by Aussie Oz in

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  with so many groups and individuals in even just our lifetime, let alone going back 150 years or more, predicting and consistently getting the times wrong for the great tribulation and armageddon as well as the rapture etc,.

  is it any surprise that the masses reject the message from any of the current crop of 'prophets'?.

  to mention just a few that i am aware of, our own obves and lars as well as harold camping, gordon ritchie, and second adventists incl jws for example, and i know there are many many more.

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  They are fullfilling the prophecies......These are the men of lawlessness.....well at least the most blatant.

  2 Tim 3:2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy

  Mat 24:36 No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

  Acts 1:7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.

  Mark 13:21 At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there he is!' do not believe it.

  Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect--if that were possible.

  Luke 17:23 Men will tell you, 'There he is!' or 'Here he is!' Do not go running off after them.
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  Will you be attending a "Rapture" party?

  by Snoozy in

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  many others will apparently:.

  http://raptureparty.org/.

  why are atheists celebrating the rapture?

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  jean-luc picard Well if it is I hope it is accompanied by a public holiday
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  Will you be attending a "Rapture" party?

  by Snoozy in

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  many others will apparently:.

  http://raptureparty.org/.

  why are atheists celebrating the rapture?

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  I have a feeling the following day will be worse than having a bad hangover.

  The unraptured that are expecting to be raptured will have to look forward to the earth being destroyed on 21 October.

  Can you imagine 5 months of thinking you were'nt chosen and are going to be annihilated?

  I would go, but I don't have a baby sitter. Maybe I'll just get ravished instead.
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  What song best describes your sex life rite now????

  by karter in

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  goin to be some hot love baby this evening..

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  Its ALL good

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry4ngf766N0