recently bret weinstein and richard dawkins sat down for a debate.in the following video, weinstein talks about what can be done to address an error in dawkins'selfish gene theory in terms of the new atheism's error and regarding religion as a mind virus.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm8fksjljtm&t=1096s_____and a good follow up:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5yn2g4h54&t=904s.
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However, has not religion for the most part been the catalyst for religious wars throughout history even as I write this question now?
While there is some benefit to a belief system to the individual it is off set by the horrors of wars that are still going on killing millions earth wide.
My God blesses my belief system over yours.
Evolution does not cause wars.Dawkins may have hit on something when he detests religions and their gods.
recently bret weinstein and richard dawkins sat down for a debate.in the following video, weinstein talks about what can be done to address an error in dawkins'selfish gene theory in terms of the new atheism's error and regarding religion as a mind virus.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm8fksjljtm&t=1096s_____and a good follow up:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5yn2g4h54&t=904s.
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There is a lot of food here to digest. Is he saying that a cultural belief system has a benefit to the believer and so is not a mind virus as Dawkins has concluded.
Yes evolution is true as the evidence proves. However, we should not be attacking believers cultural belief or religious institutions because evolution is true.
Don't be angry at religion,just keep showing the evidence concerning where evolution has come and is progressing to our future.
I agree that Dawkins has made an error that has effected the progress of evolution in his book for this generation and needs to be corrected.
i know this thread has been done before.
however maybe some of the new comers might like to know.. my avatar is the cover of my first novel "your crazy life.
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He is one of the greatest performers, actor and singer of all time in his day. A pioneer who opened the door for many other greats to follow. You can pick any one of his songs back in the day and it will probably fit into your life experience too.
I prefer to remember him in my avatar than his final days.
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i remember when i use to give a number of public talks.
i had a binder with every public talk listed by number in it.
i don't have it anymore.. when i did the fade in 2002 after 33 years a slave since 1969. i destroyed all my watchtower materials and i had a lot.
Thanks everyone for your responses. I wish I kept my binder and all the other materials that I threw out in a moment of anger. Oh well it is what it is. Blueblades
i remember when i use to give a number of public talks.
i had a binder with every public talk listed by number in it.
i don't have it anymore.. when i did the fade in 2002 after 33 years a slave since 1969. i destroyed all my watchtower materials and i had a lot.
I remember when I use to give a number of Public Talks. I had a binder with every public talk listed by number in it. I don't have it anymore.
When I did the fade in 2002 after 33 years a slave since 1969. I destroyed all my watchtower materials and I had a lot. I wish I had kept them.
My question now is,how many of those talks are now obsolete? I can't remember all of the titles at this time. However, with all the changes they have made I wonder if any former elders on here still have their outlines of the Sunday Public Talks and know whether or not some of the talks are no longer being used.
I would guess that there have been many changes over the years since I faded with my family back in 2002. Blueblades
the bodily resurrection of the lord jesus is pivotal for the christian faith, yet the jehovah's witnesses do not believe that the lord jesus christ rose again in a body.
the watchtower have taught their followers that the lord jesus christ rose again as a spirit creature, and that his body was disposed, disintegrated and dissolved by god the father.
in this video, i explain the differences to what the jehovah's witnesses teach and what god's word teaches, showing without any dispute that the watchtower organisation is false, and that we can always rely on god's word.
Read the four accounts on the resurrection side by side and you will see that it could not have happened. That's it case closed.
Blueblades
many have spent years associated with jws religion and having eventually left it for numerous reasons but if you were to directly pinpoint a source of the problem with this religious organization what would it be ?.
in my personal viewpoint it would have be the core operation of literature proliferation and other products associated with the wts.
corporation.. once you think about it everything is focused around the operation of the wts publishing house, its distribution and circulation of its published goods.
They have committed MURDER with the Blood Doctrine. Remember the awake issue that had on the cover all the children that died because their parents refused to give them a blood transfusion.
This is still ongoing,and yet we don't hear about this any more,because the focus has shifted from the blood issue to the living child abuse issue that has been a living death sentence for these innocent children also. There is much more besides the real estate issue too.
None of this has anything to do with God at all.That's it for now.
Blueblades
i was just given this tomb to read by a co-worker and was wondering has anyone read this book, actually three books in one.. if so, what are your thoughts on it.
written by neal donald walsh.
726 pages!.
I was just given this tomb to read by a co-worker and was wondering has anyone read this book, actually three books in one.
If so, what are your thoughts on it. Written by Neal Donald Walsh. 726 pages!
Blueblades
jehovah's "failure".
we humans never seem to consider god in terms of anything but power and ability.
the idea of 'failure' is preposterous.. .
Don Cameron. "I have learned that no matter what is said or how it is said, it will not be able to help those who are not ready to meet up with reality."
Blueblades
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Concerning the new book Ezekiel and 1914,1919. Captives of a Concept by Don Cameron ends with this thought..."I have learned that no matter what is said or how it is said, it will not be able to help those who are not ready to meet up with reality."
My point is that the Ezekiel book is not reality, and the writers of it, and the Governing Body will never be able to meet up with reality.
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