In the interest of offering a variety of opinions...
You are attempting to fight something with nothing. That puts you at a big disadvantage. The solution is to go, (how to put it?) apeshit. You have to credibly threaten him with his marriage, relationships; you have to argue and fight after every meeting, you have to be a bitch to his JW friends.
Otherwise, you will lose him to the JWs.
interesting report on dawkins radio interview.. .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9082059/for-once-richard-dawkins-is-lost-for-words.html .
Except, punk, it would seen both Wilma and Betty could have done substantially better than they did. Paleolithic love is a mysterious thing.
interesting report on dawkins radio interview.. .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9082059/for-once-richard-dawkins-is-lost-for-words.html .
As phizzy said Origins is hardly the equivalent of the bible or koran, no one has killed or started wars in the name of Darwin, no one has tried to dictate how you should live your life, or how you should have sex based on Origin of species.
True enough. Except insofar as every war is a Darwinian war -- competition for resources, murder of rivals, racist hatred, the joy of domination, etc., etc. All of these find their basis in pretty straightforward evolutionary biology. Of course, biologists are hardly to blame for any of this, but it's worth reflecting on the basic human drives that cause all these things we think are outrages. The atheists like to blame religion for acts that really belong to the human condition, generally. An observation that evolutionary biologists keep supporting.
i've just started munching through the figures for 2012 in the new 2013 yearbook, now available on jw.org.. i thought you might be interested to see which countries saw "negative growth" over 2012.. these are as follows.... .
*sudan is so dramatically reduced because south sudan is now independent and the society has adjusted the publisher figures accordingly.. .
countries added.
Seems to me the big stories are Germany, Japan, and Poland. All 100k+, all gone negative. Of these, Poland is the biggest story of all, since there are good reasons to suppose that a place like Poland ought to have a good growth rate.
two days ago (december 22, 2012) a high speed train with a media contingent left beijing west rail station bound for guangzhou, 2298km away.
this is the latest section of china's high speed rail netweek and the longest high speed rail route in the world, with trains travelling at an average of 300 km/hour.
the first official passenger train left yesterday (23rd).. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20829930.
How come the left has such a woody for high-speed trains? I mean, they're cool and all and they are good over certain distances -- but y'all act like Beyonce is coming to your high school.
is the jehovah's witness religion christian?the answer to the question is, "no.
it is not christian.
" like all non-christian cults, the jehovah's witness organization distorts the essential doctrines of christianity.
Just bad theology, Kosonen. If the Christians were wrong in Nicea, then the size of the error was such that there was no Church left to correct it. The most the JWs could say is that the Church blew up way back when as an historical curiosity. There is no possible way that the Church could go out of existence and then simply re-appear: it isn't numerically identical, it isn't the same Church Jesus established.
Of course, this is basically what the JWs teach now, as I understand the new teaching: there wasn't any Church at all for a couple thousand years until the JWs re-established it. That isn't a coherent statement when they make it, neither is it coherent when you do.
is the jehovah's witness religion christian?the answer to the question is, "no.
it is not christian.
" like all non-christian cults, the jehovah's witness organization distorts the essential doctrines of christianity.
So I get to be Muslim if I want, I guess.
christianity:.
you get struck on the cheek and you pony up for the other slap.. you pray for the enemy who wants you face down in the mud with his heel on your neck.. you get treated like pond scum but you force a smile and forgive.. .
if you are abused?
Excellent question. It's like a baby: when it's not a pain in the ass, it is mostly pointless. Doesn't do anything at all, really. Most people are better off avoiding both.
cagefighter has been a little down in the dumps as usual around the holidays, short days, lack of clear family status and plans for the pagan rituals like everyone else.
i have also been struggling with my belief or lack of in god and god letting idiots with guns run around while he does nothing for children dying of cancer hasn't helped either.
you can say, i have been in a extreme rationalists state of mind.. last week for my small group from church (the umc equivelent of the book study in jw land) we just decided to pop this little movie in the dvd player and light up the fire place.
Well I guess we could watch Atlas Shrugged but it just wouldn't give me the same warm and fuzzies.
Here's to Fransisco d'Anconia, the richest man in Bedford Falls! No, really: he's worth billions.
i don't know how many times i have heard that lie from the platform.
i have heard that line of rubbish at big and great boasting sessions as well.
the witlesses act as if they get as many toys as worldly people, just scattered throughout the year.. now, i have seen many cases where that simply isn't true.
There is something that helps build character when, at certain times of the year, you are forced to think about what a whole bunch of other people might like. Caring about others is a virtue and it needs to be developed, like any other virtue.
