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  I said it before and I'll say it again

  by Gojira_101 in

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  i'm so happy to have been able to sleep in yesterday and this morning!

  no fs and sunday meeting!

  every weekend i feel a huge relief and both hubby and i always look at each other and say "it's great not having to go to meeting huh?".

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  We should have Saturday or Sunday worldwide apostate Medal of Honour tournaments! Jus' sayin...
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

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  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  Captain Obvious

  Lol how is this thread still going?

  QC has been so hard headed and ignorant throughout this and other threads, there's no hope of him backing down now, even though he's clearly wrong.

  Hey QC, where's the earth-shattering effects of this book's having finally disproved evolution? Because... If evolution is wrong, we have to rewrite most of the work that has been done in several fields in the past few decades. We'll have to take many medicines off the shelf, scrap all biology textbooks and glad material... Basically start all over again. Understanding and proving evolution helped us as a race understand so many things, i.e. germs/viruses and has saved millions of lives.

  You are asking for soft tissue fossils from billions of years ago.. Not gonna happen, sorry. Effectively what you are doing in this discussion is ignoring a mountain of evidence against you, then asking for evidence that does not and will not exist, claiming that it is necessary to prove you wrong. You are IGNORING (are ignorant of) a huge amount of evidence which is as valid as the day it was presented.

  You cannot win, you are making a fool of yourself.
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  Stoning sinners to death

  by jws_rock in

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  so we've adopted the refusal of blood transfusions given how the bible clearly states it's a sin to reintroduce blood into the body once it has been shed; however, why don't we still stone sinners to death (just the really bad ones) like they did in they did when times were purer?.

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  Captain Obvious

  Thanks Blondie! I have a question for you though..

  Did the Roman leaders have to be convinced to kill Jesus just for his apostasy, or just to kill him in general? I thought the Romans had a habit of nailing people to stakes crosses anyway?
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  Stoning sinners to death

  by jws_rock in

  1. watchtower
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  so we've adopted the refusal of blood transfusions given how the bible clearly states it's a sin to reintroduce blood into the body once it has been shed; however, why don't we still stone sinners to death (just the really bad ones) like they did in they did when times were purer?.

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  Captain Obvious

  Welcome to the board!

  Why just the really bad sinners? If we are to really follow the bible like in purer times, we should stone all apostates, homosexuals, children who talk back to us and people who gather sticks on the sabbath.

  See? Black and white reasoning can lead to some pretty extreme ideas.

  And remember, Jehovah of armies hates violence!
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  really cool video

  by Hortensia in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xgk84poeynk.

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  The wold needs another Sagan!

  Not many people of his level of intellect and knowledge can communicate with regular humans, let alone in an interesting and exciting way.

  Krauss tries, but he still speaks like everyone is a physicist.
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  Introduction and a note on several posts here

  by LizO in

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  hey people,.

  as for myself, after extensive study i have concluded that it's not possible for me to trust the bible and so i am not active anymore.

  however, let me please add something to the discussions here:.

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  Captain Obvious

  Welcome LizO!

  I only disagree with one point you made... You may want to learn more about mind control. It can be much more subtle than you think, take on many forms, and be called many different things.
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  My Jehovah's Witness broke up with me :(

  by jws in

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  a few months ago, the jws came knocking on my door (see thread).. this discussion continued and the next time she brought a man along with her.

  i told them that i'd study with them if they could prove to me god exists and the bible was his book.

  for our next visit, only the man showed up.

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  I'd say you did some good. Especially since you had some time between discussions for everything to sink in. You can't expect him to suddenly give up a lifetime's worth of beliefs, but a seed had to have been planted.
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  Why didnt Jehovah give any science or technology to the jews...

  by mP in

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  ive asked a few jws and other believers why god never gave technology to his people but no one has been able to answer this.

  why are his people copying the pagans.

  their writing system without vowels means they couldnt even write his holy name down accurately.

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  Because he didn't have any.

  He didn't have the skill to remove our useless organs like the appendix. He didn't give us the ability to produce vitamin C from food, even though we need it. He made us dependent on direct sunlight for vitamin D to function properly, even though in most of the world doesn't have enough exposure year round.

  He gave us extra teeth, which wouldn't come in till later and would most likely KILL us when they grow in crooked and sideways before the days of dentistry. Actually in the days before dentistry our teeth were the cause of many deaths.

  No, he was more concerned with being obeyed and "loved."
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  If the bible states that god kills children, then god is not real.

  by Monsieur in

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  anyone who believes in the god of the 'holy bible' (or any other god for that matter) should be able to explain the following logically-.

  if god is love, why would he kill (by the sword, implying a terrifying and painful death) children, women, etc for the wrongs and 'sins' of others?.

  if god is perfect, why did he see fit to destroy en entire prehistoric world (dinosaurs) when there was no sin to blame?.

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  Captain Obvious

  While these very points were instrumental in my move to atheism/secularism, your statement is a bit flawed... It does not prove god is not real, but it does prove that the idea of the 'god of love' whose every action is motivated by love is not real. In the bible, the devil is a pussycat compared to YHVH.

  I would also argue your last point, if only in the way you worded it. You said, " why does God INSIST on letting this evil subsist on and on and on, creating more pain and suffering each day?" Are you saying the world's evil is getting worse, creating more human suffering as a result? You may want to reconsider your position on that... "Evil" isn't to blame for nearly as many problems as the WT would have us believe. As a whole, humanity's suffering decreases a little everyday if anything.
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  A scary day in FS today

  by InChristAlone in

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  today, the jw who normally comes and his son visited my house.

  we were talking on the doorstep for about ten or fifteen minutes when the son began to to faint.

  i saw it coming, but i couldn't reach him before he fell backwards, hitting his head on the brick landscaping border.

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  Captain Obvious

  GB rules and regulation. In North America brothers must wear a tie d2d no matter how hot or "faint" you feel.

  Not necessarily.. I did lots of FS in Mexico, none of us wore a tie. The only preachers who wear ties there are Mormons.