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

Data dog, this answer makes you more moral than god OR more able than god, which by definition denounces your god as less than a god, as a human would have done more.

as for the hope in the bible, which bible, which books, the jews didnt share your hope, the christians were expecting a returning jesus, the hope in the bible depends who you are and in what century. Why even subscribe to THIS bible as prepare for political reasons in Rome.

Lastly, the bible does not belong to christians, the jews hold it as their holy book, the muslims do also, even the mormons subscribe to the bible. It is a jewish book, 3000 yesrs old. It reslly doesn't 'belong' to any of these evangelical american churches today, nor is it owned by a roman, pope led movement, nor does it belong to jews alone. It is a historical book intertwined with older myth.

I see the bible as a historical insight into how peoole thought a long time ago. I find the bible quite hopeless, the judgemnet, the immoral acts using a deity to excuse them, the segregation by race, nobody stops and thinks 'wait a minute god chose ONE nation... That doesn't make sense!'. Data you may believe you are going toheaven, but the bibke says that is only because the jews screwed up.... Does that make sense to you?

i appreciate this is folly, you have your beleifs and I wont change them. I just find it disingenuous to see 99 pages of people pretending to have answers to all these contradictions in the bible and in its god.

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New Doscovery about Noahs Ark (cue mystery music)

by Jon Preston in

'the ark before noah' - curator irving finkel decodes the story of the floodit was a vast boat that saved two of each animal and a handful of humans from a catastrophic flood.. but forget all those images of a long vessel with a pointy bow the original noah's ark, new research suggests, was round.. a recently deciphered 4,000-year-old tablet from ancient mesopotamia modern-day iraq reveals striking new details about the roots of the old testament tale of noah.

it tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant round vessel known as a coracle as well as the key instruction that animals should enter "two by two.".

the tablet went on display at the british museum on friday, and soon engineers will follow the ancient instructions to see whether the vessel could actually have sailed.. it's also the subject of a new book, "the ark before noah," by irving finkel, the museum's assistant keeper of the middle east and the man who translated the tablet.. iiiiiiiiiiinteresting eh?

snare&racket

........will modern researchers one day attempt to build a tower to heaven? I hope they take google translate with them if they do...

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My Son has had two very big University interviews

by CaptainSchmideo in

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one for mit last month, and one for princeton tonight.. if i told this to people at my old hall, i am sure the reaction would be the same as if i broke a big, noisy windblast in front of them.. but i have to brag about it to someone, so, i will do it here.. .

we will not know anything about whether he is going to be accepted for a couple of months yet, but, as they say, this $%^# just got real!.

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snare&racket

By themway, just so he has options.. Have you told him that the UK bethel plans to be 'like a university campus but nicer!'

It is only fair game that he knows his options, MIT or working in a factory as a janitor for a year, then progress to the shipping department!

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Decided on the local C of E Church.

by quellycatface in

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have decided to check out my local parish church.

it has a real mix of people.

old, young families and military personnel/families.

snare&racket

Insha allah, it is not my sister, now shuush!

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Reading exJW then JW facebook sites can make you go crazy!

by ILoveTTATT in

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it's absolutely amazing what exactly the same event can do to the jw community and the exjw community.. the difference is that the jw community does not think and has the expected response... we think and, of course, have the exact opposite response as the jw's.. take for example the march km with the "will this be the last?

here are some comments from a jw site:.

wow it comes like that in the km?

snare&racket

"Could this be the last? ...We dont know"....... Mwhaaaa haaa haa haaa that is hilaious, useless idiots.

People hang of such words and won't appreciate it when shit all happens.... 'we dont know....but here is a clue, we are building a new bethel with a 4 yr plan'

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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

"I don't know" is an answer that will suffice.

interestingly, is it prudent to worship a god, you know so little about regarding his morals and actions? Maybe get to know his motives for what appears immoral, before getting down on your knees?

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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

Adamah, what is your profession, what is your speciality, what are you trained in?

Seriously, you speak with authority on EVERY topic. I hate intellectual eliteism, but there is a huge difference between qualified and unqualified on these issues.

What is your background?

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My Son has had two very big University interviews

by CaptainSchmideo in

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friends

one for mit last month, and one for princeton tonight.. if i told this to people at my old hall, i am sure the reaction would be the same as if i broke a big, noisy windblast in front of them.. but i have to brag about it to someone, so, i will do it here.. .

we will not know anything about whether he is going to be accepted for a couple of months yet, but, as they say, this $%^# just got real!.

.

snare&racket

sweet,

the harder you work, the 'luckier' you get.... A well earned offer I am sure. Something JW's just dont get yet, we can achieve anything, but it is up to us.

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