Posts by startingover

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Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk

by Rabbit in

now...this guy has the ring of truth in his words, as i remember it.

i wonder, too, is tony 'present' here ?.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-02-03/culture/awkward-armageddon-confessions-of-a-teenage-jesus-jerk.

DISHONEST debates and discussions are everywhere!

by Terry in

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people don't listen when you talk to them.

ever notice that?.

the silence while you are speaking isn't listening.

TD, your comment about knowing a position you are arguning against so well you could argue for it really hit home with me. Any time I have a discussion with my JW wife, what you say is true, and it ticks her off when I mention that I know what she's going to say. It's just really hard to sit there and listen to a long explanation when I already know that position.

Thanks for the link, going to take a look at it later.

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An announcement from the Watchtower?

by ThomasCovenant in

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to be read by the co-ordinator of the body of elders at the earliest opportunity to the whole congregation, a copy of which is to be posted on the kingdom hall noticeboard and preferably local and national newspapers.. to the worldwide brotherhood of jehovah's witnesses;.

dear brothers and sisters,.

it is with a heavy 'heart of wisdom' that we address you all today.. we have thought long and hard, and some of us even prayerfully, of how to bring out this latest 'new light'.. for many years now we have taught what we thought were delightful words of truth.

startingover

The Worldwide Church of God did it so it is possible.

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The True Believers Don't Like Me! Buahahahahaha

by Elsewhere in

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there is a new scam going around with a company called steorn that is claiming to have invented a "free energy" device called orbo.. they've been working on it for six years, yet all they have to show for their work is a little plastic motor that is powered by a battery.

(yeah, how is it free energy if they are using a battery?

i made my own youtube video response to all of the orbo believers.

startingover

Got a link? Never mind, it just showed up.

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GETTING SUCKED IN? Ask the right questions to get the right answers.

by Terry in

it is too easy to get sucked in to the wrong argument at the wrong time.. asking the wrong question leads to the wrong answer.

a wrong answer does nobody any real good.. i once had a heated discussion with an old friend who is still an active jehovah's witness.. he came back at me with this:.

"okay, then--if jehovah's organization is a false religion, where is the true one?

startingover

This really is a good thread, I'm glad it came back to life. Definitions seem to be the problem here. Has a christian out there somewhere ever thought about putting out a dictionary with christian meanings, because the meaning of words that I am used to apparently don't fit in that world.

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Is the Yellowstone caldera safe? You decide...

by Nathan Natas in

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from: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/12890.

scientists on alert after hundreds of earthquakes daily rattle yellowstone national park.

over the course of the past two weeks, more than one-hundred mostly small earthquakes per day, on average, have shaken up a remote area of yellowstone national park in wyoming.

startingover

Sometimes it's hard to think of the big picture, the big picture that includes hundreds of thousands of years, and I have only lived during about 50 of them. That said, I'm glad I live west of Yellowstone, because if it blows everything east will be affected first. Doubt I'll see it in my lifetime, considering the big picture.

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For non theists : What is the conscience and does it really matter?

by cyberjesus in

since we dont believe in a set of moral standards based on the desires of a powerful god, on what do you base your conscience?

"how do you define it?

and if at the end of everything we are going to die, why does it matter to have a conscience?

startingover

Great thread! Cofty, thanks for posting about the bats. Interesting.

I think Sheryl Crow said it best: "If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad"

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The Complete Dubs Guide For Dummies

by God_Delusion in

hello guy's, gal's and jehovah's witnesses,.

i would like to thank farkel for today's blog, for it was his post "dub for dummies" that inspired me to write (or you could say, digitally enhance farkel's fine work) the following;.

the complete dubs guide for dummies.

startingover

Just took a quick glance and came upon this:

Jehovah’s Witnesses are the only "True Christians™" and we are actually contemplating publishing a book with “Jesus” or “Christ” in its title.

Classic!

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GETTING SUCKED IN? Ask the right questions to get the right answers.

by Terry in

it is too easy to get sucked in to the wrong argument at the wrong time.. asking the wrong question leads to the wrong answer.

a wrong answer does nobody any real good.. i once had a heated discussion with an old friend who is still an active jehovah's witness.. he came back at me with this:.

"okay, then--if jehovah's organization is a false religion, where is the true one?

startingover

Too bad Perry had to leave the building on this thread. I would have like to seen his response.

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BLOOD and the Noahide Laws

by Terry in

i doubt one jehovah's witness in a thousand has ever heard of the noahide laws as such.

it isn't part of the watchtower teaching.. there are good reasons for that.. noah and family were not jews, israelites or mosaic law covenant parties because they were long before such things even existed.. they were the new progenitors of the human family and represented what we might well call gentiles as a category.. what was jehovah expecting from these 8 souls (and their progency from the flood's end forward?

become "righteous" in his eyes?.

startingover

Excellent Terry! I have nothing to ad, except that I'm glad to so you posting again.