Posts by snare&racket

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

snare&racket

"from the spirit"

i know you don't belive that, if you did you would not try to defend your view as you do.....

Why come here and argue with people with EVIDENCE when you know ONLY YOU experiences this spirit. Your answers are literally mumbo jumbo, gobeldy gook. it's ok to express them, but you then dissect and argue with peoples answers where EVIDENCE and LOGIC is used. IF you truly believed in your spirit, you would know it is of no use to everyone else on this forum who has no ides what spirit you talk of.

You come and defend your views 'from the spirit' because they are simply your opinion, nothing more.

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podcast recommendations?

by Captain Blithering in

jw
friends

a splendid morning to all you good chaps and chapesses in internetland!

i already listen to 'the human bible' , 'healingxjw' , 'infinite monkey cage' , 'doctor karl' ,(aussie dude, great science show) , but im on the lookout for more podcasts to subscribe to, science, bible, apologetics, comedy, you know the stuff...

any suggestions?

snare&racket

Wow, we would get on captain, I have made a few threads on podcasts. I'm listening to one most of the time!

here is my list... (All on itunes)

Religious stuff

The Thinking Atheist (did a jw episode recently)

The Atheist Experience (fantastic)

The non prophets

The magic sandwich

fun stuff......

best by far is Opie and Anthony (also youtube them and add 'patrice o neal' or 'louis Ck' to find the BEST guests, then enjoy)

Joe Rogan

Ari Shaffir

Marc Coran WTF

Duncan Trussell

Ricky Gervais XFM and 'guide to' (years of hilarious karl pilkington)

Richard Herrings Leister Square Podcast

science stuff...

Infinite monkey cage

Answer me this

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Billy's Comments You Won't Hear at the 01-19-2014 WT Study (7 Shepherds, 8 Dukes)

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

16-20. we shall also have to raise up against him seven shepherds, yes, eight dukes of mankind.mic.

what is the most important thing that you can do now to prepare for any future attack on gods people?.

all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.. .

snare&racket

I hope they are not counting the millions of pounds in paedophile gag payouts as charitable acts.....

2596

The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

snare&racket

Adam,

dude seriously... PLEASE.... Just write your answer, we can read what 'x' said. Anyone not paying attention wont read your post anyway.

2596

The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

snare&racket

" It would not have killed us if not for the fall."

Neanderthals, homo-erectus, dinosaurs,they all died enmasse before humans existed. The earth didnt all of the sudden become hostile 6000 yrs ago.

omg.... Tec, this is embarassing. Also you are getting this from the bible, how do you know this bit is correct but the bit where god commands genocide isnt.

exactly! Game over.

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Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

by adamah in

there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

code ann.

166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

snare&racket

Abortion?

If a pregnant woman dies, it is not an abortion. What a bizzare thing to say. Why are you guessing what the legal basis is, the hospital has already quoted the legal stance they have used and it is flawed.

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Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

by adamah in

there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

code ann.

166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

snare&racket

Thinking this is a pro-life issue is quite a confused perspective,,,

Is it moral to keep a 99 year old woman alive against nature, by artificial means because YOU believe in pro-life, despite her asking to be left alone to die?

imagine she is in great pain and suffering with no quality of life. Maintaining life against her will is torture for her, not moral.

This is why it is ethically dubious to maintain this fetus, the probability of a terrible quality of life is high, by prolonging the life unnaturally, you are not on a moral ground, it is a very uninfomred, unknown ground. I have done PICU and SCUBU rotations and the difference of hours in development makes a difference. At 21 weeks the doctor does not have to maintain life, at 22 weeks they are. This fetus was put on life support via its dead mother at 14 weeks.

This is very dicey ground. Again, it is being done without the desd patients consent or her living next of kin.

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Why do so many exJWs promote Watchtower lies and cover-ups?

by Fernando in

several footnotes in the nwt correctly define apostasy as "unfaithfulness".. that is spiritual unfaithfulness/adultery/fornication/prostitution/harlotry.. in scripture the jews were called (spiritual) prostitutes (37 times in ezekiel chapters 16 and 23).. they claimed a relationship with the god of abraham.. yet they lusted after other gods.. and they had frequent wanton spiritual intercourse with these gods.. to cover-up their own lewd apostasy the watctower lyingly redefines the word to mean a dissenter (against the watchtower).. anyone who dissents is labelled an apostate.. ray franz discovered their apostasy.. he dissented.. he exposed their spiritual harlotry in detail (isocf and coc).. they lyingly labelled him an apostate.. and many if not most exjws say this is all fine.. even worse, many exjws proudly wear the label.. to show their proud support of watchtower lies and cover-ups.. how sad....

snare&racket

One mans apostate is another mans free thinker ......

2596

The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

snare&racket

Tec, you have had to dissasociate yorself so much from human reality for this to make sense to you, it has become scary.

Old age and accidental death is also suffering Tec, unnecessary for a god to introduce. To lose a loved one prematurely in a violent manner is worse, that shouldn't be news to you,

i feel sad that you have said what you just said, it is either the most delusional thing you have said, or immoral. The fact you are an advocate for the bible with this view, says much for the effects of biblical influence on the mind, ironically it explains much of what happened within it.

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Should Creationism Ever Be Taught In Schools?

by nicolaou in

this is taken from the bbc's sunday morning show 'the big questions'.

i was going to pick out a few highlights but really, you need to watch the whole thing - it's only 23 minutes.

seriously, i could feel the bile and frustration rising in my gullet .

snare&racket

I can't get over how fundemental the WT world was, so much so, some people leave and remain fundamentalist despite access to the evidence, despite now having free thought. It is scary!