Posts by Landy

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Why Do Intelligent People Believe in God?

by cantleave in

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one of the most common thing thrown at atheists is - lots of intelligent people believe in god.

this darkmatter 2525's video is an excellent explanation as to why very logical people possess religious belief systems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.

Landy

we'll never get the truth of the matter if we dismiss it because it will ' create more questions'.

How to contradict yourself in one easy sentence!

I don't have all the answers. Science doesn't have all the answers. Lots of science's answers create more questions. That is A Good Thing. I'm quiet happy to accept that we don't have all the answers yet. You're quite happy to ascribe the unknowns to God.

If you'd lived a thousand years ago you'd be out sacrificing goats so the the rain god will allow rain to feed your crops. In another thousand years people will look back on current day believers in tne same way we look on those who worshipped in ignorance a thousand years ago.

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All JWs need to watch this great documentary...it may give them pause for thought.

by deanxxx in

i know how hard it is to awaken people still inside the cult bubble.

there are many reasons for this, chief among them the unwillingness to read or watch anything critical of their religion.

on the other hand, jws love few things more than hearing bad stuff about other faith groups.

Landy

I think JWs have an inability to correlate anything that happens in another religion/cult with their own. They will happily watch any docs on other cults and nod satisfactorily to themselves, self confirming that they have the 'truth'.

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Why Do Intelligent People Believe in God?

by cantleave in

jw
friends

one of the most common thing thrown at atheists is - lots of intelligent people believe in god.

this darkmatter 2525's video is an excellent explanation as to why very logical people possess religious belief systems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.

Landy

Anyway, like Simon said who cares what intellectual believes in God. It adds no weight to the argument.

According to a survey done (can't remember who or when) of the Royal Insitute there's a hell of a lot more don't believe than there is that believe, less than 5% iirc. And virtually no scientists in the biological fields.

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Why Do Intelligent People Believe in God?

by cantleave in

jw
friends

one of the most common thing thrown at atheists is - lots of intelligent people believe in god.

this darkmatter 2525's video is an excellent explanation as to why very logical people possess religious belief systems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.

Landy

My belief in intelligent design is because it's a lot more logical than spontaneous out of nothing.

Did your God spontaneously come from nothing then? If not then how did he get there? Your 'logicalness' creates a lot more questions than it answers.

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Why Do Intelligent People Believe in God?

by cantleave in

jw
friends

one of the most common thing thrown at atheists is - lots of intelligent people believe in god.

this darkmatter 2525's video is an excellent explanation as to why very logical people possess religious belief systems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.

Landy

For the believers it always seems to come back to the same thing: I don't understand it therefore God.

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UK Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses

by JWB in

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uk congregations of jehovah's witnesses[a].

aberaeron.

aberdare.

Landy

Just out of nosiness I looked at the accounts of the Chelsea congregation which. it's fair to say must be one of the uk's more affulent congregations.

Notice that last years accounts showed a deficit of 220k - nice little donation to the branch of a quarter of a million!!

http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends60/0001065860_AC_20120331_E_C.pdf

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Someone needs to tell "The Librarian" to stop feeding the apostate trolls.

by StarTrekAngel in

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Landy

I think that if anyone see something like that in that picture it says more about their mind than it does about the picture.

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Richard Dawkins has had a Stroke

by cofty in

he is back home and making god progress.. he has issued an audio statement here....

Landy

I understood that "Likes" and "Dislikes" were anonymous. Am a bit disappointed that is not the case.

They are anonymous - it would be better if they weren't though. People should have the courage of their convictions and debate a point nstead of snidely clicking dislike.

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Apathy trolley chat

by punkofnice in

i was in a different city this weekend so i decided to natter to 2 bored jws on the apathy trolley.i just nattered, nothing thought provoking or anti witness.

i was waiting for someone so hard time to spare.what struck me was, that no matter how many times i said that i don't believe in god, they spoke to me as if i did.

they kept asking me how god would feel about stuff.

Landy

Very true Beth S, and yet back in the day when I was a young Jayhubberdub, myself and many JW's could make a "good fist" of defending our beliefs...

I could never do that - not because I couldn't put a case for it but underneath I struggled because I don't think I believed it myself and felt a bit of a tit for defending it.

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Freddy Franz, One of the smartest men of his day????

by DwainBowman in

back in my teen years this story swept through jw land, that according to, the guinness book of records , freddy franz, was listed as one of the seven, most intelligent , men in the world.

dose anyone else remember this?

i remember trying to look it up, but never found anything in print, and ii point that out once or twice , and was told a co, had told about it, and he wouldn't lie!

Landy

How would the Guinness book measure intelligence?