OH NO !!!
how could you vote for Schrder???
he kept all his promises except for the 2 important ones... employment and growth rate!
well maybe he forms a coalition with the liberals...thats my last hope for you guys!
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I have voted for the first time in my life!
by GermanXJW intoday is a historical day for me.
today i got up early but instead of going to the kh as i used to for years, i went to the election office to vote in the current election for the german bundestag.. for years, i had a political opinion and hoped that "my" representative wins.
this time i did my part to ensure this by voting.. it is a strange feeling: being part of this system.
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Questions For The Skeptics (Unbelievers)
by Zechariah ini have announced i am on a crusade to encourage skeptics to think on the issue in a way they probably have never done before.
i initially have made the mistake of cramming everything into one, two or three posts.
this i should have immediately recognized is an impossibilty because what i have in mind requires a great amount of meditation to fu;;y comprehend.
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hello Zech,
Do not you believe in the power of prayer? absolutely not! there is not the slightest evidence that prayer would cause changes in the physical world. i am sure they help the believing individual as sort of a placebo.
Do you celebrate Thanksgiving? No...its not a holiday in europe. however i celebrate christmas for social reasons.
Do you believe a law of reciprocity (reaping what you sow) exists? No...same as with prayers there is no evidence that would support this idea. of course if someone is always nice poeple will respond on average nicer to him than to a person that is unfriendly...but that has little to do with super natural powers.
Physical man and spirit man are two distinct entities: there is no evidence that spirits exist. neither insects nor apes nor humans have spirits. there are only chemical/electrical reactions no spirits.
Emotions: are common to most individuals (with the exception of mentally deranged people). similar to instincts they are 'implanted'. every normal person and animal will try to flee danger...this is not the result of any supernatural influence.
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Does god love children?
by kelsey007 inmany people claim that the god of the bible loves children and fetuses.
but what does the bible say?
according to god's law, children are not persons but the property of their fathers, who may sell them as slaves.
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how about the obvious and most reasonable explaination:
the old testament is nothing but a gigantic pile of bullshit written by members of a primitive and ancient society.
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Why does there have to be one right religion?
by kenpodragon inwhen it comes to cars, i tend to like toyota's.
when it comes to food, i like chinese and italian.
when it comes to vacations, i like the mountains or tropical beaches.
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JT,
thank you ! but too much honor !!!
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march sep. 27
by Realist in.
how many people are expected to show up for that march?
if there are gonna be only about 10 people it will be rather a victory for the wt .
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yes something like that
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march sep. 27
by Realist in.
how many people are expected to show up for that march?
if there are gonna be only about 10 people it will be rather a victory for the wt .
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Realist
how many people are expected to show up for that march? if there are gonna be only about 10 people it will be rather a victory for the WT
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What if...
by Patanegra inwhat if... the entire gb died all of the sudden... say in an air crash?.
how do you think it would affect jw's beliefs?.
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do they all live in the same part of the bethel building?
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What if...
by Patanegra inwhat if... the entire gb died all of the sudden... say in an air crash?.
how do you think it would affect jw's beliefs?.
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hmmm ... maybe there is a way to test this ?
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Why does there have to be one right religion?
by kenpodragon inwhen it comes to cars, i tend to like toyota's.
when it comes to food, i like chinese and italian.
when it comes to vacations, i like the mountains or tropical beaches.
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a) all religions are wrong.
b) there is no God who would care in what we believe.
c) religions are full of nonsense. so if a believer accepts that other religions might be right in some aspects than he admits inevitably that his idiotic believes are at least somewhat wrong. hence he admits that the whole bogus believesystem of his is nothing but nonsense --> all other religions have to be wrong otherwise it doesn't make sense to believe in my own one.
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The Key to Understanding Scripture
by Zechariah inthe following is a repost of a april 2001 post on h2o.. .
the key to properly understanding the bible is remembering that it is all about the spirit.
whatever is spoken of in the bible no matter how literal it appears to be is intended to convey something of the spirit.
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hello zech,
the problem is that there is no experiment that would show the existence of spirits. as it looks like everything can be explained without assuming their existence.
human conscience is not that unique. you have to look at the development of conscience during evolution. you have insects which are basically biorobots..you progress to higher animals like mammals ...and then to higher primates like chimps. these apes have selfawareness and display most of our abilities. so there is nothing unique about our 'spirit'.
brainfunctions are the result of chemical reactions...it doesn't look like as if there would be a higher power involved.
i am looking forward to read the scientific evidence for the existance of a higher being!
PS: most scientists don't deny the possibility that God exists. however, there are only a few that believe in a personal god. interestingly there are more atheist scientists in europe than in the US ...which reflects the fact that europeans are in general less religious than americans. (by the way...Einstein was a pantheist if anything).
Edited by - realist on 19 September 2002 6:59:12