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  The end of the world in two days .Do you remember this?

  by jean-luc picard in

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  reading snoozys thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/210600/1/will-you-be-attending-a-rapture-party.

  made me think of this:.

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  JonathanH

  One of my favorite series of books. Listening to that made me want to go read them all again right now.
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  Job interview tips

  by d in

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  i have a job interview tommrow.

  i have looked on career builder and talked to my college career counselor.i some extra last minute pointers i feel a little nervous for my interview..

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  http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewquestionsanswers/a/interviewquest.htm

  Just go over the questions there until you feel confident you can answer them. In my recent string of interviews, every single question they asked me was on that list. Having prepared for them ahead of time allowed me to give concise, but thorough answers confidently.
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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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  Faith is not inductive reasoning. I believe that the traffic lights work properly because I've seen them work properly for years. Had I never seen one before I would have doubts until I had seen it effectively used in operation and would be incredibly cautious at intersections.

  Inductive reasoning leads one to believe that what one has experienced before, will be fairly consistent. Which is radically different from saying "we exist, thus there is an invisible man that doesn't want you to be gay, and he will punish everyone who disagrees with him, because a talking snake made a woman eat an apple."

  Diluting the definition of "faith" to the point that it simply means "any assumption" makes the term completely meaningless in any religious context.
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  Facebook, JW's, and paranoia

  by Lunatic Faith in

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  so i am still a member of the fb jw page since they put me in there themselves.

  i haven't been on there for a week because i find the average post innane or downright paranoid.

  today i got on there and got an admins explanation for why so many were randomly thrust into this closed group.

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  JonathanH

  lol, witchhunts. Such a spirit of love and brotherhood.
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  Jehovah's witness meetings are NOT BORING......

  by punkofnice in

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  ...i was told but they usually were as i look back.. as a lad i'd sit and look to see who the lights would fall on.

  i'd get an almond and see how long i could suck it before i chewed at it.

  i'd imagine playing rock'n'roll on the congregation's piano.. how did you get through the meetings when you were bored?.

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  JonathanH

  I used to play elaborate games in my mind as a kid. There were two aisles the men with the microphones would walk up and down during the question and answer parts, so I would in my mind imagine would would win a fight, batman or spiderman, or whatever heroes I was interested in at the time, and it would be decided by which microphone carrier served the most people. So somebody on the left aisle gets called on that's a point for spiderman, two on the right side is two points for batman. Meanwhile I'm imagining the epic battle in my head during the parts where they were reading paragraphs. And when that got boring I either fell asleep or thought about sex, or thought about sex and then fell asleep.

  It was much better once I got priviledges because I could pretend to be busy doing something instead of sitting the whole time.
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  Evolution Produced GOD?

  by foolsparadise in

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  if you believe in a god who made everything then that has to mean that you believe in evolution.....because god evolved from nothing.

  prehaps evolution is the real creator...

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  JonathanH

  Evolution requires replication with modification, so no...god couldn't evolve from nothing.
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  Atheist believe in aliens but not God?

  by StopTheTears in

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  if you are a professed atheist, i ask you the question: do you believe in aliens?

  could not god be an alien?

  how do you know that there is no alien life?

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  A large portion of where people who are religiously minded misunderstand atheists is in the difference in how we "believe". For the religious mind something is either true or false, right or wrong. For the secular mind a probability is attached the the possibility of something being true or not. It's not a matter of aliens are real god is dumb, I have faith in one and not the other. Rather the probablity of biological aliens having evolved seperately on another planet is greater than the probability of a supernatural all father with a distinct dislike for certain sexual practices.

  Do I "believe" in aliens? I believe it's a statistical possibility but there is not sufficient evidence to show that they have visited earth. But within the realms of what we know are possible there is nothing to rule out that abiogenesis occured on another planet in the goldilocks zone some where amongst the billions of galaxies with their billions of stars. This does not contradict any knowledge on the material universe and how it works.

  Some sort of invisible magical man with a propensity for violence and demands that has the power and knowledge to create the universe without ever actually having a beginning himself has neither evidence, nor a basis for belief in light of what we do know about the universe. Is it possible something like that exists? Sure, but the probability of it is so low I wouldn't base anything on my life on it, that is to say I would not consider it to be "true".
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  The Code of Hammurabi

  by sinis in

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  if any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.. .

  the owner of the lost article receives his property, and he who bought it receives the money he paid from the estate of the merchant.. .

  shall be put to death.. .

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  You got to admit, Moses beat Hammurabi in conciseness.
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  this is you

  by BD7 in

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  JonathanH

  Odd, at first I couldn't respond, I just sent a PM. Thought it was locked right away.

  Really if that is us, then what does that make you? Wouldn't you be one step further than even the caricature that you drew? There should be one more panel where somebody reads that post on a message board, makes subsequent goofy face, and then goes and makes a comic strip and posts it on that message board.
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  What percentage of young ones are leaving the JW's???

  by karter in

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  in my area atleast 50% if not more..

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  JonathanH

  The actual figure from a pew study was I think around 60%. Two out of three witness kids grow up and leave the religion.

  Actually here is something.