though i now consider myself a secular buddhist, i just realized today that i'm okay with trying to pursue the qualities mentioned by paul as the "fruitage of the spirit.".
the only one i take issue with is "faith" in the context of religion.
what are your thoughts on the matter?.
Though I now consider myself a Secular Buddhist, I just realized today that I'm okay with trying to pursue the qualities mentioned by Paul as the "fruitage of the spirit."
The only one I take issue with is "faith" in the context of religion.
What are your thoughts on the matter?
...something's wrong with you, buck.. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lyvi25osbkk.
...something's wrong with you, buck.. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lyvi25osbkk.
...something's wrong with you, buck.
my amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
Hold Me-Thrill Me: I can't remember what video it was, I think it was his debate with Cardinal Pell, but he said something similar to what cofty said above. EDIT: Here's the exact quote:
In the God Delusion I make a seven-point scale. One is I’m totally confident there is a God. Seven is I’m totally confident there is not a God. Six is to all intents and purposes I’m an atheist. I live my life as though there is no God but any scientist of any sense will not say that they positively can disprove the existence of anything. I cannot disprove the existence of the Easter Bunny and so I am agnostic about the Easter Bunny. It’s in the same respect that I am agnostic about God.
many witnesses view the structure of the organization, and the authority of the governing body , as a model of the first century congregation..if the governing body is, indeed structured similarly to the 12 apostles.
paul provides a good example of how we need to view men such as these.. he admonishes christians to reject any teaching that is different from god's word gal 1:8 "but even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.".
he shows by his words that the first century leaders, meant little to him.. 2 cor 11:5 "indeed, i consider that i am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.".
my amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
What does he think of the Jehovah's Witnesses taking a quote from one of his books and putting it in an article to support creationism? Article here.
“The filament of DNA is information, a message written in a code of chemicals, one chemical for each letter,” wrote evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. “It is almost too good to be true, but the code turns out to be written in a way that we can understand.”
pixel, cappytan, and wifibandit present for your consideration:.
https://youtu.be/g16_p3tncxq?list=plrw9u-n1z2m-_z5_a55vmqj1biuwnslhq.
the saturday program will be added tomorrow, followed by the sunday program the next day..
Wait a minute . . . Wasn't there one nationwide login and password on stream.jw.org for last years convention? Isn't there one this year?
We were asked by the source not to leak the username and password.
in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.
this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.
today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.
cappytan walks into the thread.
...he looks around...
...sees SimonSays is involved....
...cappytan exits stage right before his blood pressure rises.
i just had an invite to a district convention later this month in calgary (i guess they get to clean up the saddledome before the stampede, lol).. they gave me a leaflet asking "why did jesus come to earth?
" so i asked them "so why did he come?".
"well, he came to save us".
Gods, I want to do this. If I get an invitation from someone I don't know, I'm following this routine.
Thanks Simon!
i guess the branch isn't happy with the amount being sent each month since we are way lower than our loan amount.
we now have to another financial survey to see the max amount that can be given.
it is "encouraged" for all to be in attendance and give much forethought and consideration to the amount you can donate each month.
If I happen to be at a meeting when this comes up, I'm pledging $500/month...and giving NONE.
