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  Theists - does your god DESERVE to be respected or worshipped?

  by cantleave in

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  or should she abdicate for lack of action / leadership?.

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  I see you walking the narrow path kate ol' pal, ol' buddy.... But still, what do you mean science is LAME without religion. Science just tells you HOW to look for things, you are talking about the actual THING being observed, that isnt science, thats ...the thing! Science is a set of instructions, its not the table. When we use science to measure how far a star is from us, you can't call the method lame without religion... and science is the method, not the star! There should be NO emotion in the science, that is why the method was invented, to remove human intuition and to turn it into math, a probability of 'x' being true.

  For me, science is FREE without religion....just ask Galileo.

  Science won't be accurate if we attach a 'with' to its results, the inevitible bias would result in dismissing important answers, or worse, dismissing important questions. One may conclude it would likely lead to some very...'dark ages'.
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  "Jehovah ALWAYS had/used an organization". How would you reply?

  by EdenOne in

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  in a recent meeting with elders, an argument was used to the effect that jehovah has always [= throughout history] used, or operated through, an organization; therefore, the wts must be that organization today, since god must be using one.

  naturally, i know what arguments i've used to counter that argument.

  but i'm interested in hearing yours.

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  Captain blithering..... Check out the original greek word (though these people didnt speak Greek) and its context, overseer is a translation. But that being said, we are not saying there were not sects with elder men who led them, but there was no central organisation.

  2 seconds of googling later...

  'Presbureros' : an older man, senior, experienced

  'Episcopos': defender, guardian

  'Poimen': protector
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  Meme competition 2014

  by snare&racket in

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  simple.... .

  watchtower + meme !.

  anything is acceptable, but make your meme your own, hand written scrawls on microsoft paint are just as funny so don't worry about quality.

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  Meme competition 2014

  by snare&racket in

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  simple.... .

  watchtower + meme !.

  anything is acceptable, but make your meme your own, hand written scrawls on microsoft paint are just as funny so don't worry about quality.

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  Meme competition 2014

  by snare&racket in

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  simple.... .

  watchtower + meme !.

  anything is acceptable, but make your meme your own, hand written scrawls on microsoft paint are just as funny so don't worry about quality.

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  Meme competition 2014

  by snare&racket in

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  simple.... .

  watchtower + meme !.

  anything is acceptable, but make your meme your own, hand written scrawls on microsoft paint are just as funny so don't worry about quality.

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  Meme competition 2014

  by snare&racket in

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  simple.... .

  watchtower + meme !.

  anything is acceptable, but make your meme your own, hand written scrawls on microsoft paint are just as funny so don't worry about quality.

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  Literally, just a picture with words added to it = meme. Usually funny, dry humour, pop references etc in the text.
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  Meme competition 2014

  by snare&racket in

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  simple.... .

  watchtower + meme !.

  anything is acceptable, but make your meme your own, hand written scrawls on microsoft paint are just as funny so don't worry about quality.

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  Simple....

  Watchtower + Meme !

  Anything is acceptable, but make your meme your own, hand written scrawls on microsoft paint are just as funny so don't worry about quality. Then on new years day 2015 we can pick a winner!

  Let the giggles begin!
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  Circuit Oversneer Says. . .

  by piztjw in

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  "do you realize how much of a privelge it is to enjoy the visit of the circuit overseer?

  they are appointed by the governing body who in turn are apointed by jesus and holy spirit.

  so you have a great privilege when we visit your congregation, because it is the same thing as having jesus visit you.

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  Who's that quelly? No serious? Is he a ninja turtle master or sumfin'?

  i'm not even joking.... :(
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  Theists - does your god DESERVE to be respected or worshipped?

  by cantleave in

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  or should she abdicate for lack of action / leadership?.

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  Give her a break, letting go of Watchtowers rope is scary enough, without jumping off the white cliffs of 'deity'.....

  The atheist landing looks a long way down, it looks painful and most have been observed to travel to it in quite an ungraceful manner, usually screaming....

  

  It took me about 3 years to leave WT completly, from research to 'goodbye'... Then another 1 year of research to realise that the bible was a little squiffy to say the least. Another year or so, alongside the bible research, saw me reach atheism.

  It's actually a lot of hard graft, lots of hands on research, MANY hours reading. The good news is that literally ALL the evidence makes the answers quite obvious, in my opinion. But that is for others to discover or not.

  I see Kate has taken a fondness to Einstein, though I don't think she appreciates that he needed a god for his physics to make sense, not a biblical god, a force to keep order, an energy, nowhere near the god of religious people, it was einsteins own invention to explain the gap,in physics, apparant nonrandomness and the famous 'god doesnt play dice'. I personally have NO DOUBT that modern physics removes that need just as much as evolution did for biology, Einstein today would be a little embarassed. The guy was poor at maths and also refused to wear socks, its not like he was a truth machine by the way! He he he

  The universe doesnt need an 'anti dice deity' anymore for the physics to makes sense. Science, namely physics is no longer lame without slapping a god in the unknowns.