since the days of da judge, dub leaders have scorned education and science.
to, victims, predators, moral degenerate, selfish, liar, anarchist, pawn of satan, materialistic, drug addicted, fetus-killing, promiscuous slut we can now add homosexual, marriage wrecker, juvenile and adult delinquent with venereal disease.. see what getting a genuine education or reading works by those who have one can do to you?
to victims, predators, moral degenerate, selfish, liar, anarchist, pawn of satan, materialistic, drug addicted, fetus-killing, promiscuous slut, homosexual, marriage wrecker, juvenile and adult delinquent with venereal disease, worship of the wild beast, we add spiritist, atheist, and communist.. *** w55 1/1 8 part 1: early voices (1870-1878) ***.
Hi Farkel,
Great editorializing! It was long, but well worth the read. Higher criticism: the most dangerous of threats known to dubs. What paranoia! However, they ARE correct that if you ventura out of the strait jacket they provide, you'll end up 'in the world!'
Thanks!
Pat
over the past couple decades, the quality of watchtower writing.
and depth of scriptural reasoning has declined.
whatever illogic.
Hi Metatron!
As always, insightful post. I especially liked the reference to Timothy, never laying hands hastily. They could have made a mistake.
Keep up the good work!
Pat
adam and eve.
most people are probably familiar with the story of adam and eve in the garden of eden.
also, most people consider it to be just a story.
Big Jim,
I don't understand how you could have been so active as a JW and not know the answers to the death of animals, where Cain got his wife, and--on your other thread--Jesus being God, hellfire, etc.
Were you really a JW--and why don't you know the JW answers to those questions?
Pat
(to all faith drunk christian heathens;read this twice and sober up).
a quick ten minute slam of christianity.
we can see that god is powerless to forgive sins without killing something in the process.
Big Jim,
Your post was very entertaining and clever. Most of the points were valid. Also, Larc's.
I have two more things to say about it, though; not that you asked for critiques.
One is that it doesn't accurately reflect JWs' beliefs on the point of hell, Jesus being God, and the stoning of the adulterous woman (that portion is not in all ancient mss).
Second point is that it is polemic and angers people who may listen to rationale, but not ridicule.
Please don't get me wrong as I am pretty atheistic and evolutionist. It's just understandable how you drew blood with some of the religionists on the board.
Pat
howdy,.
attention: this has happened in romania - not russia.
duh - my fault.. i received this e-mail, and am passing on to y'all.
Hi Waiting,
Thanks for that news item. Ha! It's something to see the shoe on the other foot, albeit a small foot.
Pat
there will be one about what your favourite color is later... .
Simon,
Oh poo! You didn't include evolution, as that was the ticket for me.
I started to put scientific info, but then it was about the flood.
Oh well, now you know.
Pat
i mentioned that the dc in our area featured a talk where the speaker, as an illustration of endurance, mentioned methusaleh, the bristlecone pine that had lived for 4700+ years.
i asked here for some possible explanations of this that allow for the wt flood dating.
i had assumed that the standard response would be that the dating of the tree was wrong, that the rings had gotten doubled a few times or something.
This thread shows such a lack of faith. "Ours is not to reason WHY, but to do or die." You weren't there, so how can you question what happened. It was written down by some very ancient people who were much closer to the event of The Flood.
If you doubt such fundymental cornerstones of the Bible, then how ya gonna accept that the pre-flood folks didn't father children until over 100?
I tell you, you folks are gonna fall right outta Truth with all this silly questioning. Where's your faith? Of course, it can't be explained and goes contrary to the facts of history and geology and paleontology and biology, etc. Why else would you need faith.
Du-uh!
Pat
i've just been told that my elder drinking pal, mr dub-in-the-pub, has been raided by the dss.
apparently he's been drawing invalidity benefit for the last 15 years (why?
) and hasn't informed social security that he's also in full time work.
Hi E-Man,
What is DSS? Was the elder working full-time secularly or did it mean full-time in the Borg?
It sounds as though he's in serious trouble. Whew!
Pat
some interesting quotes from evolutionists.
natural history, vol.
' new scientist, vol.
One more point: Amazing, that was on-point about what a theory is and is not.
Even if evolution were to become out-of-date as the working theory, it by no means that creation would be true. There may be other explanations that will prove plausible one day. Just because 'B' may be wrong, doesn't prove 'A' theory; there may be 'C,' 'D,' and so on later.
Pat
some interesting quotes from evolutionists.
natural history, vol.
' new scientist, vol.
I hesitate to enter this discussion with such erudite participants as AlanF, JanH, and Amazing, et al. But 'fools rush in. . . '
To begin with, I can't find the reference now, but Dawkins or Jared Diamond has stated that something like 98% of biologists believe that evolution has happened. They are the scientists who know. How can anyone seriously propose that they are conspiring against the Bible?
Secondly, the creationists' arguments are mostly just attacks on the evolutionists. They don't present much on the positive side, except the like of 'God did it and we don't know everything.'
Thirdly, creationists are wont to use the term 'random chance.' As Dawkins states repeatedly in 'The Blind Watchmaker,' it is anything BUT random. Natural selection thru the environment makes it very SELECTIVE. It is correctly called 'non-random.'
Ahem, thank you for your attention. That's all I have to say for now.
Pat
