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  Falsifiability

  by donkey in

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  i pose this challenge to believers: what would it take for you to stop believing in god?.

  this is an interesting challenge.

  well, it may sound paradoxical, but in order for any claim to be true, it must be falsifiable.

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  PopeOfEruke

  Donkey,

  It was a very large fire...

  Pope

  PS Quite a lot of people at the BBQ as well....
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  Falsifiability

  by donkey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i pose this challenge to believers: what would it take for you to stop believing in god?.

  this is an interesting challenge.

  well, it may sound paradoxical, but in order for any claim to be true, it must be falsifiable.

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  PopeOfEruke

  A very large mathematical convention was held in Las Vegas.

  The conventioneers filled two hotels, each with an infinite number of rooms. The hotels were across the street from each other and were owned by brothers.

  One evening, while everyone was out at a bar-b-que, one of the hotels burned to the ground. The brothers got together and worked out a plan.

  In the remaining hotel, they moved all guests to twice their room number -- room 101 moved to 202, room 1234 moved to room 2468, etc.

  Then all the odd number rooms were empty, and there were an infinite number of odd rooms.

  So the guests from the other hotel moved into them.
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  Falsifiability

  by donkey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i pose this challenge to believers: what would it take for you to stop believing in god?.

  this is an interesting challenge.

  well, it may sound paradoxical, but in order for any claim to be true, it must be falsifiable.

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  PopeOfEruke

  Danny

  well thats a very salient point you made then - I agree with you 100% that it IS easier to believe in the Almighty than believing that the universe was just always here. It seems MORE logical that there is a Creator. Its like one way we are all alone and the other way, there is a "father" or someone who cares watching over us. I just wish/hope that its true......not just wishful thinking...

  Cheers!

  Pope
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  Falsifiability

  by donkey in

  1. jw
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  i pose this challenge to believers: what would it take for you to stop believing in god?.

  this is an interesting challenge.

  well, it may sound paradoxical, but in order for any claim to be true, it must be falsifiable.

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  PopeOfEruke

  Danny Bear,

  why can't the Universe be infinite?

  One infinity is enough for anybody..having 2 infinities could drive you crazy!!

  Pope
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  A joke with an Australian flavour

  by why144000 in

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  the ceo of ingham's chickens manages to arrange a meeting with the pope at the vatican.

  after receiving the papal blessing, he whispers, "your eminence, we have an offer for you.

  ingham's is prepared to donate $100 million to the church if you change the lord's prayer from "give us our daily bread" to "give us our daily chicken.

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  PopeOfEruke

  I heard one :

  My nose is so big, movie theaters now sell popcorn in sizes small, medium, large and my nose.

  Pope

  PS Other body parts may freely be interchanged with "nose".
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  Falsifiability

  by donkey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i pose this challenge to believers: what would it take for you to stop believing in god?.

  this is an interesting challenge.

  well, it may sound paradoxical, but in order for any claim to be true, it must be falsifiable.

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  PopeOfEruke

  Mom

  I was really addressing Rational's comment

  I would stop believing in God if science could answer the question, Why is there something rather than nothing? ...

  Most people start looking towards belief in a God to explain the presence of life whatever. They think it NEEDS someone to have made it. WHY? Thats the first false step. Inventing something that doesn't have a creator (God himself) to help explain something that doesn't have a creator (the universe) is simply false logic.

  There may be other reasons to believe in God, but I get frustrated when I hear people say God must exist because something must have made the Universe. Well then who made the something??

  Carl Sagan used this argument on his famous TV program..........and I agree with him a million per cent....

  Pope
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  Falsifiability

  by donkey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i pose this challenge to believers: what would it take for you to stop believing in god?.

  this is an interesting challenge.

  well, it may sound paradoxical, but in order for any claim to be true, it must be falsifiable.

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  PopeOfEruke

  Rational Witness,

  I would like to ask you why you need to believe in an unsolvable mystery called God in order to understand another unsolvable mystery, the Universe.

  How does ADDING an extra level of unsolvable mystery satisfy you? Isn't one enough?? Doesn't it then bug you that God doesn't have a creator? If you were logical, you would then have to extrapolate to infinity, constantly adding new "creators"...If you are happy to stop at 2, why not stop at 1. Its the same thing....

  Respectfully,

  Pope

  Edited by - popeoferuke on 24 November 2002 23:19:32

  Edited by - popeoferuke on 24 November 2002 23:20:17
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  Are JW lawyers crooked?

  by Jerry Bergman in

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  i have heard much about crooked watchtower lawyers on this site and wondered if anyone had anything to back this up?

  i have my own experience (extremely bad) and was wondering about others.

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  PopeOfEruke

  LOL@Beck

  Pope
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  Falsifiability

  by donkey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i pose this challenge to believers: what would it take for you to stop believing in god?.

  this is an interesting challenge.

  well, it may sound paradoxical, but in order for any claim to be true, it must be falsifiable.

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  PopeOfEruke

  The material universe "exists" as far as our senses permit us to define "existence". I can touch a rock, hug my kid, drink red wine, look at the sky.

  How did it get here? I don't know. Was it created? I don't know. So how does it help for me to "invent" another colossal mystery, God, to be the "creator" of what reality I see around me, just to satisfy my instinct that all things need a creator. I then end up with the same dilemma, Who created God?

  If people can happily believe in a Creator, God, whom they have NEVER SEE, and believe he has no beginning or end, and he has no Creator, then whats the difference in believing the material universe has no beginning or end or Creator. ITS THE SAME THING. At least I can see the world, it EXISTS! God is simply an invention for people who can't face reality.

  We are born, we live, we die. Thats its folks. Believe what you want in the middle.

  Pope

  PS And if God exists and comes down to visit, I would kick his butt for letting all the children die of starvation and war. What a gutless wonder he must be to idly sit by and watch these terrible deaths occur......
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  What brand of wrist-watch would Jesus wear?

  by fulano in

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  good quality not too fancy edited by - fulano on 24 november 2002 5:0:39.

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  PopeOfEruke

  I don't know about the brand; I just wish he had a watch that told him that its now 88 YEARS into his Reign as KING and he hasn't done a goddamn thing yet.

  WAKE UP you dumb ass! its time to do something!! HELLO!! HELLO!! is anybody in there?? CUCKOO CUCKOO! Wake-up call! Its time for the lazy-ass King of the Kingdom to get off his pimply fat ass and just DO SOMETHING!!!!

  Pope