Posts by sleepy

lets keep this to modern day christians in civilized lands.. many on this board are non-believers, and there are quite a number of christians.....so we have a mix.. non believers feel they need to speak out concerning what they have come to understand regarding the bibles authenticity to believers because they feel these ones need to at least see the sceptical side so they can make an honest choice.. believers feel they need to speak out to others concerning what they have come to understand about salvation.

here's the deal..............if believers can live a happy, good, healthy life, and take this to the grave with them..........should a non-believer try to mess all that up.....or leave well enough alone?.

sleepy

Are Christians harmless? Without reading through this enormass subject I'll just have to answer ,no.

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The Human Mind...

by Crooked Lumpy Vessel in

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i cdnuolt blveiee taht i cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht i was rdanieg.

the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deson't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

the rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a

sleepy

I Spoupse eervy one who awnswres tihs wlil do the smae.

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How often do you have witness related dreams?

by sleepy in

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how often do you have dreams relating to your past life as a witness?

i?ve left about 3 years ago and quite regularly have dreams featuring my witness friend and often i am in a kingdom hall or assembly and i can tell my friends don?t like me because i?m having doubts or i tell them outright they are wrong.

my brain seems to think subconsciously i?m still a witness while another part, the brainier bit, is telling it no.

sleepy

How often do you have dreams relating to your past life as a witness?
I?ve left about 3 years ago and quite regularly have dreams featuring my witness friend and often I am in a Kingdom hall or assembly and I can tell my friends don?t like me because I?m having doubts or I tell them outright they are wrong.
My brain seems to think subconsciously I?m still a witness while another part, the brainier bit, is telling it no.
What dreams do you have, and what do you think they mean?

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THE WEAKEST LINK---fatal flaws in Watchtower Chronology

by Terry in

watchtower chronology suffers from weak logical links.

after all, they start with an unproven premise and begin linking and linking and linking and suddenly they produce the rabbit out of the hat.

1914 is the rabbit .

sleepy

Sorry about the spelling my edit control doesn't work.

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THE WEAKEST LINK---fatal flaws in Watchtower Chronology

by Terry in

watchtower chronology suffers from weak logical links.

after all, they start with an unproven premise and begin linking and linking and linking and suddenly they produce the rabbit out of the hat.

1914 is the rabbit .

sleepy

In regard to my above post. The real point I should have made is they use a 360 day year to work out the length of the prophecy(with no basis) but then apply the prophecy over years of 365 and a quater days( 607-1914 consists of 365 and a quater length years with some variation). And yet they can't see the contradition.you carn't just go changing the lenght of a year through the prophecy to suite your nrrds

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THE WEAKEST LINK---fatal flaws in Watchtower Chronology

by Terry in

watchtower chronology suffers from weak logical links.

after all, they start with an unproven premise and begin linking and linking and linking and suddenly they produce the rabbit out of the hat.

1914 is the rabbit .

sleepy

There is no such thing as a 360 day year.Through out human history the year has been 365 and a quater days.What has differed is the calculation of how long a year was. In times past when the length of a true year was unknown different nations had different lengths of years and leap years were incerted every now and then according to how far behind the true year they were falling. The Baylonians at some points in history used a 360 day year but used leap years of longer length as well to make up time when they fell behind.

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Into the mystic (an experience).

by El blanko in

the following i wrote to a friend this morning and doctored slightly for this forum.

can any of you relate to this kind of mystical experience and if you would be kind enough, would you mind me quoting any experiences listed to my friend?

please be aware that the letter uses language to detach me away from the watchtower (thus church, instead of congregation etc).

sleepy

"Oh, and I'm still waiting for a reason why something which is unverifiable should be viewed as false."

Thats a straw man!
Something that is unverifiable has no basis for positive belief.
if I can't verify that ghosts exist for example I can't really insist that they do.i should not expect other people to believe or make decision as to their life bassed on my belief in ghosts.