"...When our own thoughts are forbidden, when our questions are not allowed and our doubts are punished; when contacts & friendships outside of the organisation are censored, we are being abused for an end that never justifies its means. When our heart aches knowing we have made friendships and secret attachments that will be forever forbidden if we leave, we are in danger. When we consider staying in a group because we cannot bear the loss, disappointment and sorrow our leaving will cause for ourselves and those we have come to love, we are in a cult."----Deborah Layton, Jonestown survivor. (from the book: Seductive Poison, page 299. Anchor Books, New York, 1998)
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Jonestown Survivor Quote
by cappytan in"...when our own thoughts are forbidden, when our questions are not allowed and our doubts are punished; when contacts & friendships outside of the organisation are censored, we are being abused for an end that never justifies its means.
when our heart aches knowing we have made friendships and secret attachments that will be forever forbidden if we leave, we are in danger.
when we consider staying in a group because we cannot bear the loss, disappointment and sorrow our leaving will cause for ourselves and those we have come to love, we are in a cult.
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What is the best debate you've ever read on this board...
by The Rebel inwho won, and why?.
the rebel..
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Viviane always wins
that is allAll she has to do is bring up Scotch, and I'm on her side. Every....single....time. lol
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Interesting day yesterday
by LisaRose ini have started walking every morning for twenty or thirty minutes.
so yesterday i had to work and almost didn't go, but decided to get in a quick ten minute walk.
i don't usually take my phone, but decided to take it, and i was so glad i did because a block from my house i came upon an older chinese man face down on the sidewalk and bleeding profusely from his mouth/face.
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What is the best debate you've ever read on this board...
by The Rebel inwho won, and why?.
the rebel..
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The way I see it if a person has a nothing argument, then where there is nothing there must be something.
That didn't parse well. Are you saying theists have nothing arguments, therefore there must be something to them?
On the subject of theists arguments equating to nothing, I wholeheartedly agree - they have nothing to back up their arguments.
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What is the best debate you've ever read on this board...
by The Rebel inwho won, and why?.
the rebel..
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cappytan
There is an important distinction between having a high standard of evidence required for extraordinary claims and believing anything just because someone makes a claim.
^^^^^ THIS
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YHWH - bible story explained to tune of YMCA
by Simon inthis is funny.
the bible story to the tune of ymca ... how can it fail to offend :).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdrbywmh7kw.
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That was, pardon my British, BLOODY BRILLIANT.
hahahahahah!
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Earliest Life on Earth Pushed Back Another 300 Million Years
by cofty inresearchers have found evidence of ancient microorganisms that lived in what is now western australia at least 4.1 billion years ago.
if confirmed, the discovery suggests that life originated on earth 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
.... the ancient microorganisms in question were found trapped inside zircons formed from magma in western australia.
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cappytan
God
I hate when people fake an interest in all things science just to argue with theists. A thread like this is nothing more than bait to suck someone into a circular go nowhere argument where you can mock and ridicule someone’s beliefs.What? Why would you say that? This was a very interesting conversation on an important discovery before you brought God into the mix.
EDIT: Awwww...someone clicked dislike. Hahaha.
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Feature request: threaded PM conversations.
by cappytan injust a feature request.
not necessary, however it's just a suggestion.. it'd be nice to have threaded conversations in the private message system so you can see what the person who replies to your message was replying to.. sometimes it's days between messages and you have to go back into your sent folder to find out what they're talking about for context.. just an idea..
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Just a feature request. Not necessary, however it's just a suggestion.
It'd be nice to have threaded conversations in the private message system so you can see what the person who replies to your message was replying to.
Sometimes it's days between messages and you have to go back into your sent folder to find out what they're talking about for context.
Just an idea.
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Intriguing - but Unsubstantiated!
by The Searcher inaccording to one source on a western european 'apostate' website, the org's plan is to abandon the name "jehovah's witnesses" in the future, and replace it with "worshippers of jehovah.".
http://www.bruderinfo-aktuell.de/index.php/fixnews/#comment-4313 .
the gist of the account appears to be a repeat of rutherford's re-branding and debunking of old predictions made by the previous shower of fakers.
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If they actually did change the name, could one argue that since one was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness, the name change severed your tie to the organization? -
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Earliest Life on Earth Pushed Back Another 300 Million Years
by cofty inresearchers have found evidence of ancient microorganisms that lived in what is now western australia at least 4.1 billion years ago.
if confirmed, the discovery suggests that life originated on earth 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
.... the ancient microorganisms in question were found trapped inside zircons formed from magma in western australia.
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cappytan
Ignoranceisbliss: it may not be what we know of as DNA. But it could be some other kind of self-replicating molecule. Pure speculation, obviously, but it could be that in a different environment it took on a different form.
Fascinating to contemplate.