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  Is Richard Dawkins giving atheists a bad name?

  by slimboyfat in

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  he just can't seem to stop himself taunting "these muslims" or "some muslim or other".

  among his favourite taunts are:.

  "all the world's muslims have fewer nobel prizes than trinity college, cambridge.".

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  The Muslim world is often given credit for keeping learning alive during the Dark Ages, and Muslims are happy to take that credit.

  What made the Dark Ages so dark? In addition to the dearth of LED bulbs, it was also the fact that the Churches of Xtiandom were acting very much the way the Muslim world acts today. It is as if Muslims looked at the Dark Ages and thought, "y'know... we might be able to make this work."

  So mush for preserving knowledge, algebra and alchemy. As my former boss used to ask whenever I recited my list of last month's accomplishments, "Yeah, but what have you done for me lately?"

  Dawkins is correct to ask the Muslim worls, "What have you done for me lately?"

  ...and I would be PROUD to stand with Dawkins anyday! As an atheist, all flavors of intolerance and institutionalized ignorance are my enemy.
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  Introduction to "Chip and Dale"

  by chipanddale in

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  Nathan Natas

  You've got some big nuts, Brother!

  
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  We Are Not Witnesses For JEHOVAH - According to the Bible

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah gave his worshippers a prophesied new name, (isa.

  62:2; acts 11:26) but in j.f.

  rutherford's eyes it was not distinctive enough from a marketing point of view, (having restructured "the business" after its severe contraction in the 20s due to his failed 'vision') so he came up with a name which featured the creator's distinctive name, "jehovah's witnesses" - a business strategy employed in those days by kellog and many others.. we now describe them as 'designer names'.. here are the scriptural proofs, but of course, they may count for nothing in some people's eyes because the "glorious ones" in brooklyn say differently!

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  Go back to Isaiah, who provides that name, just 2 verses down from where you stopped reading:

  ISAIAH 62:4 -

  Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken;

  neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate:

  but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah,

  and thy land Beulah:

  for the Lord delighteth in thee,

  and thy land shall be married.
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  Does your Theology Align with Reality?

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thesits are fond of reminding us that science cannot prove there is no god, and in this they are correct.

  however, science should not be dismissed so lightly by anybody who values a faith that is more than a mere fantasy.. theologians like john shelby spong have shown the intellectual honesty to embrace the truths that science has discovered and adapted their religious beliefs to take account of reality.

  sadly many theists lack the courage to do likewise.

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  Cofty asked the assembled multitude,

  "Does your Theology Align with Reality?"

  Speaking only for myself, I reply, "If it does, then you ain't got no Theology!"

  - - - -

  SlimBOYFAT asked, " How can you prove there was no Adam and Eve?" and " How can you prove there was no Adam and Eve?"

  Their bones are in my basement, that's how!
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  Can the elders stop you from entering the kingdom hall if

  by label licker in

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  2. friends

  you continue to talk to the witlesses after being disfellowshipped.

  we were at a funeral recently and disfellowshipped hubby would talk to anyone who who would come up to him and talk.

  he said he wasn't going to be rude and that the rule of not talking to df ones don't apply to him.

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  Your husband is correct: Watchtower rules apply only to those who want to follow them.

  Kingdom Halls however, are PRIVATE PROPERTY, owned by a real-estate holding compny on Brooklyn NY that does business under the name WATCHTOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY.
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  NASA Finds Message From God on Mars

  by His Excellency in

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  http://dailycurrant.com/2013/07/01/nasa-finds-message-from-god-on-mars/.

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  Handwriting analysis shows those tablets were inscribed by Freddy Franz.
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  Alcyone was Jehovahs "crib"

  by notjustyet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was doing some reading up on the wtbts former belief that the annointed would go and be with jehovah and jesus on "alcyone" when they died.

  (alcyone is a star system in the constellation taurus.

  it is the brightest star in the pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, aged at less than 50 million years.

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  Alcyone is NOT an imaginary place like Xenu or Kolob. In the first place, it is not a planet, but a star. It has only been recently that we have been able to image planets cicling distant stars.

  As has been said, Alcyone is one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the seven sisters or M45. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky, so it was seen by primitive "post-edenic" (yuk yuk yuk) man, and the star cluster found a place in myth and legend - the campfire stories which led to the formation of man's various religions and holy books, so it is not surprising that the Pleiades are mentioned three times in the OT at Job 9:9 and 38:31, as well as Amos 5:8, where they are identified as "kimah" (a cluster).

  This may be the inspiration of the popular Apostate term for the Watchtower's NWT translation committee, "kimah fuck." (Started HERE and NOW.)

  Siriusly!
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  Alcyone was Jehovahs "crib"

  by notjustyet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was doing some reading up on the wtbts former belief that the annointed would go and be with jehovah and jesus on "alcyone" when they died.

  (alcyone is a star system in the constellation taurus.

  it is the brightest star in the pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, aged at less than 50 million years.

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  YOU are correct, notjustyet!

  There has been some discussion of this "divine mystery" here in the past, and it is good to bring this up for the benefit of newer ones.
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  Do you go to Smoothie King?

  by Iamallcool in

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  what are your favorite drinks?

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  We don't have Smoothie King here, we have DickBurger though.
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  What would be the best decision if we took out all the religion out of the blood issue?

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i am wondering this:.

  what surgeries/procedures/situations have been shown to be life-or-death decisions without blood?.

  i only know, currently, of trauma (car accident, gunshot wound, etc).... what would be treatable exclusively with "no blood fractions" and with "no procedures using my blood"?.

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  EX-cellent point, Narcissistic Supply! A femto-transfusion perhaps, but a transfusion none-the-less!

  WHY oh WHY did Jehovah make them that way?!?