"theism" here means "belief in a god" or "the worldview that an intelligent designer created the universe and life.
" ("god" here means a being with a mind who initiated and/or wound-up the universe, and designed life on earth)the most common claim that i see atheists making on twitter, is that "no evidence" exists in support of belief in a god.this post will remove any excuse atheists have for claiming "no evidence exists" in support of an initiator.
atheists can still reject this evidence as "weak," but they cannot truthfully say it does not exist.now, it is true that we do not have "observable, repeatable, falsifiable, empirical, scientific" evidence conclusively proving that an initiator exists, but we do have many lines of philisophical, experiential, and logical evidence.and... here... we... go:1:) many leading scientists, including stephen hawking, say that the space-time-matter universe had a beginning at the singularity/big bang.
If I had to categorize myself regarding my beliefs, I would say I am atheist.
If I had to categorize myself regarding my knowledge of God/gods/the supernatural, the most honest answer would be that I am agnostic.
But. . . . . . If I did want to make a case for God, I think I could. Here it is:
Beer and music.
Anyone care to argue with this? ;)
so, many of y'all know bits and pieces of my story of waking up, but i thought it might be nice to have it all in one place.. i was baptized at 11, auxiliary pioneered every summer, regular pioneer at 17, ministerial servant by 19, then went to bethel for a year.. i always had minor doubts from time to time, but nothing serious.
always dismissed doubts and decided to "just have faith.".
after leaving bethel, i was never really firing on all cylinders "spiritually speaking.
Really enjoyed reading your bio, CAPPYTAN!
I think the "tight pants" event was a turning point for not a few people.
Up to that point, my wife had been on the fence, or in a state of "what if they are right?" The zone visit put her doubts to rest. . . .
She also came home from the meeting and googled Anthony Morris. . . . and read EVERYTHING. "Who is this guy? Who the hell does he think he is?"
In her googling she came across jwsurvey.com and I said, "Honey, just to let you know, that is definitely an apostate site. . . . "
"I don't care!"
That was a turning point for me too. After that, I told my wife I'm done. Bye-bye meetings. That was my last one. (I did go to the memorial out of respect for my inlaws)
if crisis of conscience is one of the top watchtower doctrine killers, what is the coc of theism?.
i'd like to read a book, or other material that does the best job logically arguing for atheism.. i've not read any darwin, however it is my assumption that his focus is primarily on evolution, is this correct?
if you were to recommend one book or a few pieces of reading material, which do the best job of defending atheism, what would they be?.
Best argument for atheism . . . . . Hmmmmmm . . . .
1) Throw out everything your parents or society/culture ever said to you about God/gods.
2) Live your life.
That is the best argument for atheism.
talked with a pioneer recently, she was recounting her first experience with cart witnessing.. she brought the subject up, was going on & on & on & on about how wonderful the experience was, and how great, and how she enjoyed it so much, and it was so wonderful, and oh jehovah's blessing, and on and on and on...... a few questions to her revealed what really happened:.
-- a jw who owns a small restaurant in a strip mall allows jws to set up their cart outside his restaurant.
-- the restaurant is tucked pretty far out of the way, not prominent at all.
Funny. . . . .
At the university I'm attending, JW tables pop up every now and then during spring and fall semesters when the place is buzzing with students at the student centers.
The response: *crickets*
Right now I am taking summer courses at the U and the place is DEAD.
The other day, I swear there couldn't have been more than half a dozen students in the entire student center.
And yet. . . . . there was the JW table set up at the student center to preach to: NOBODY.
They might as well have bought a few coffees and set up shop in the janitor's closet. Same exposure.
What an incredible waste of time.
the wt study of may stated that no one is exempt from doing fieldservice.does that mean the gb also does fieldservice?and dont give me any if that "no they only give us insrtuction bullshit" because that would mean not everything applies to everyone, and thats never the case in the jw organisation!
this is from the last talk of the convention ......... clip 1:30 minutes longhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrej8tlyiso&feature=youtu.be.
clip 3 minutes long.
ron and brenda sutton ................warwick 3 children
it was the missed association with family that brought them back.
Do these people even hear what is coming out of their mouths?
Their child didn't come back because of Jehovah. She came back because she was emotionally blackmailed by WT via her family.
FUN FACT: my wife was at this convention. In fact, she sat across from AMIII one of the days! We also know the guy conducting the interview.
it has been 2 and a half years since my departure from the religion.
i was told by my parents from the start that i would never speak to them until i returned to jehovah dog.
a few months later they told people they hoped i died before the end came, then all of this culminating in them telling my inactive / fading sister that they don't consider me a child anymore and they have given me up to satan.
Absolutely brilliant!
Love it!
i took a quick trip to the store and i happened to see a young man (about 26-28 years old) who got baptized about the same time i was leaving- about 2 years ago.
a couple of pioneer sisters found him in the door to door work.
one of them, a very attractive girl.
again, thanks to wifibandit and pixel for their work behind the scenes.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwzviu3jfko.
"Quoting Jehovah's feelings about the inactive"?
Really?
