Posts by startingover

Although it's never been said to my face, I wouldn't be surprised if my JW friends and family think I am "demon possessed" just because I no longer think they have the truth and am willing to say so.

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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The Demon of Saskatchewan

by RunningMan in

well, i have once again put finger to keyboard and produced another article.

i have to say that i have never had as much fun with a subject as with this one.

you can really see the goofyness of religion under the demon microscope.

startingover

As usual great stuff. Now I have to find my word document of the rest of your stuff and add this before I forget.

It’s just so damn refreshing to be an atheist.

Exactly how I feel. I think I'll stick those words on the back of my truck, right next to the xian fish symbol, the one that says 'n chips in the middle

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Did Satan lie?

by moomanchu in

god said ,.

you shall not eat from it or touch it,.

the serpent said to the woman,.

startingover

I'm sure Satan is labeled a liar not because of what he said, but because his "intent" was not to the good of humans.

The serpent said: “You positively will not die. For God knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like God, knowing good and bad.”

In what way is knowing good and bad not good for humans? I think his "intent" was good for humans.

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Did Satan lie?

by moomanchu in

god said ,.

you shall not eat from it or touch it,.

the serpent said to the woman,.

startingover

For those that can find a way to think outside the box:

What if the story originally was told by people who worshipped serpents, and the serpent was the good guy all along and YHWH was the bad guy?

The story has been so engrained in most of us for such a long time that Satan was the serpent and is a liar that thinking about it any other way is just not acceptable. But the bottom line is that Satan was not in the story at all, that was all added later.

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Is Jehovah a God of love?

by SickofLies in

"o you lovers of jehovah, hate what is bad.

"if anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own soul, he cannot be my disciple.

(luke 14:26)

startingover

FREE WILL?

In what way does free will have anything to do with it if god is going to destroy anyone who doesn't do it his way?

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Easy Math for 586/587

by Mrs.Congeniality in

please keep in mind while reviewing this that adding years is actually going back in time.

also keep in mind that i am agreeing with the years of reign with the society not the years.

be open minded when you look at this and you too can see how 586/587 comes about.

startingover

This thread fits in well here I think:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/80582/1.ashx

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Easy Math for 586/587

by Mrs.Congeniality in

please keep in mind while reviewing this that adding years is actually going back in time.

also keep in mind that i am agreeing with the years of reign with the society not the years.

be open minded when you look at this and you too can see how 586/587 comes about.

startingover

Seems like Scholar has not returned since this thread.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/107943/1907886/post.ashx#1907886

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Lyrics that make you think

by lostlantern in

jw
friends

i am listening to sinead o'connor and one song really struck a cord with me.

i just finished 'crisis of conscience" and i have a lot of thoughts in my head about the governing body, organization, etc.

this song today made me think of the organization.sinead o'connor.

startingover

In the days when I was still a closet athiest, I always was intrigued by this on the liner of the Aqualung album.

By Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson)

In the beginning Man created God;
and in the image of Man
created he him.

2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of
names,that he might be Lord of all
the earth when it was suited to Man

3 And on the seven millionth
day Man rested and did lean
heavily on his God and saw that
it was good.

4 And Man formed Aqualung of
the dust of the ground, and a
host of others likened unto his kind.

5 And these lesser men were cast into the
void; And some were burned, and some were
put apart from their kind.

6 And Man became the God that he had
created and with his miracles did
rule over all the earth.

7 But as all these things
came to pass, the Spirit that did
cause man to create his God
lived on within all men: even
within Aqualung.

8 And man saw it not.

9 But for Christ's sake he'd
better start looking.