EdenOne:- However, to set oneself for the goal to destroy the sense of spirituallity, the sense of connection to someone and something greater than ourselves, that is to kill something within us that makes us being uniquely humans. To "kill" God is to kill also part of our humanity.
tornapart
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A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian
by cofty ina manual for creating atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith--but for talking them out of it.
peter boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than twenty years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.
- amazon.... "boghossian has provided an indispensible chart book for all of us who must navigate the rising sea of magical thinking that is inundating america today.
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Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)
by slimboyfat inafter some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.
thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.
i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.
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tornapart
Why do you say that Cofty? You don't think he's serious do you?
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Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)
by slimboyfat inafter some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.
thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.
i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.
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tornapart
If anyone has read his posts over the last few days will know that's he's yanking our chain... ;)
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Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)
by slimboyfat inafter some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.
thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.
i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.
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tornapart
It's not April Fool's Day yet...
I swear I will never understand the Scots... See you here again soon Slim...
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Do you recall your first encounter with a atheist? What was your thought?
by jam ingrowing up in the south everyone i knew believed in god, even the.
town drunk.
i remember watching some special tv program around xmas .
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tornapart
The first real full blown atheist I met was my biology teacher when I was about 11. He taught evolution and like a good JW, although I studied the subject at school, when I wrote about it I would always write 'evolutionists believe that.....blah blah blah.
He was a great guy and as I had a passion for animals and especially creepy crawlies he took a shine to me (despite me not believing in evolution) and used to let me visit his classroom after school hours to see and handle his collection of creepy crawlies, icluding giant hissing cockroaches and giant millepede and boa constrictor. For some reason I always got top marks in class... heheh
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Watchtower Eliminated the "Evil Slave Class" according to E-Watchman? True or False?
by AuntConnie inlooking for information to make the july 15th, 2013 watchtower make sense, i came across the e-watchman website.
is he a jehovah's witnesses waiting for the reformation or a apostate like all of us on jwn?.
his post on the "faithful and evil slave" is very enlightening, according to his question he received from his readers, the watchtower said "there is no evil slave class" to eliminate fear the evil slave is working at bethel!.
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tornapart
Basically I see it as the GB deciding to call themsleves the FDS. Rejecting all other anointed brothers and sisters to this highly elevated position. They then go on to say 'yes, hypothetically there is an evil slave class... however, we are so amazing at doing our job of feeding the 'domestics'... you lowly lot beneath us (including fellow anointed), that Jesus could never ever possibly find us being 'the evil slave'.
Aunt Connie. Have you read 'anointedjw.org'? They have an interesting take on things.
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A one sentence reply that could jolt a JW
by HBH inmy mind was wandering last night, and i though of this as a reply to a jw.. "oh, your the people who believe 8 men in brooklyn, ny are directing the world's only true religion.".
the sentence is a fact that they can't deny, but clearly shows delusion.
any other one sentence "stingers"?.
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tornapart
Ask.. "JWs say that Jesus is here already.. an invisible presence... right?" "They say that Armageddon is coming very soon, right?"
"Read for me Luke 21:8.. what does Jesus tell us to do when anyone says those things.?"
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A one sentence reply that could jolt a JW
by HBH inmy mind was wandering last night, and i though of this as a reply to a jw.. "oh, your the people who believe 8 men in brooklyn, ny are directing the world's only true religion.".
the sentence is a fact that they can't deny, but clearly shows delusion.
any other one sentence "stingers"?.
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tornapart
@vangogh... " you are the people who baptise people in the name of the Father, Michael the Archangel and the Holy Spirit..."
Almost right vangogh but isn't it....
" you are the people who baptise people in the name of the Father, Michael the Archangel and the spirit directed organisation"?
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Jehovah's Witnesses worship the GOLDEN CALF
by Terry inmoses led enslaved jews out of bondage in egypt to promised reward.. moses went up on the mountain (sinai) and the people waited, ran out of faith and made an idol (golden calf) to worship.. those people thought they needed a centralized worship focused on the visible.
they constructed their own.. the last centralized focus of worship, the temple in jerusalem, brought jews from everywhere to focus on one location.. when that was destroyed, they scattered and ran for the hills.. the true believers who replaced the jews (spiritual jews) banded together and concocted the church universal (catholic).
to centralize a theocratic government.
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tornapart
King Jereboam built a Golden Calf at Bethel, so the Israelites in the Northern tribes didn't go and worship at Jerusalem.
Today the Golden Calf is at Bethel so JWs don't worship Jesus.
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Nugget's Latest work in progress (pen and ink)
by cantleave instill a fair bit to do but i thought it is worth posting.
this is all done with dots no lines at all.. .
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tornapart
Wow!! That's awesome!!