There's millions of ways of being dead, but only one way to be alive.
Put yourself in their position. A life can become not worth living.
Tiktaalik
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Twins chose death over blindness
by Monsieur inread a story last night,.
of 45 year old twins that are already deaf and were now going blind.
the realization that they could not communicate with each other and their parents in a short time lead them to chose euthanization over the alternative.
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Tiktaalik
That is a really sad situation. You are a good person.
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What is your daily commute, and how long does it take you
by coffee_black inmine is 25 miles each way.
it can take anywhere from a half hour to an hour and a half each way depending on traffic.
there is no way way to get here by public transportation.. sigh~ .
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Tiktaalik
28.6 km each way along country roads on my Specialized 29er with road slicks.
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let's play Dear God
by Tater-T indear god, if you are a god as your followers claim you to be, why do you have to operate in the constraints of spacetime?
dear god, why did you have to sacrifice yourself to yourself to save your creation that you made with flaws?.
dear god, why do you not do anything about your old men in robes raping little boys?
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Tiktaalik
Thanks Gladiator.
Such an illuminating and satisfying answer to all the above questions.
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let's play Dear God
by Tater-T indear god, if you are a god as your followers claim you to be, why do you have to operate in the constraints of spacetime?
dear god, why did you have to sacrifice yourself to yourself to save your creation that you made with flaws?.
dear god, why do you not do anything about your old men in robes raping little boys?
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Tiktaalik
Dear god, why did you create cancer? Is the agony of a cancerous death a kick for you?
Dear god, why did you create parasitic stomach worms? Do you like watching humans and other animals being slowly eaten alive?
Dear god, why did you do malaria? And you went to so much trouble to do it as well! Multi-stage life cycle requiring a number of different host species! That's a lot of effort just so you could enjoy the spectacle of watching millions of humans die agonising deaths.
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The "Tree of Life and its meaning"
by EdenOne inhi all.. just letting know that i've published a new article on my website, titled "the tree of life and its meaning".. you're welcome to visit, read and discuss it.. eden.
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Tiktaalik
>> cofty, just as I don't expect to persuade you that Adam and Eve did exist, you can't persuade me of the inexistence of God, for it is impossible to prove the inexistance of something unless you first define such something. By "defining" it, you are already constructing its existence, even if by intelectual conjecture alone. So it's circular reasoning.
That is pure semantics. Do you believe in the inexistance of fairies or dragons or unicorns? Just because some people hold an intelectual concept of something, that does mean that it then somehow exists outside their minds. By your reasoning anything that humans can imagine then literally exists. That is absurd.
If you want to believe that the Jewish creation myth is literally true, that's fine. But do not be so intellectually dishonest as to ignore the manifold strands of scientific endeavour that have produced hard tangible evidence that reveal it to nothing more than just one among many such mythical cultural constructs that seek to explain the human condition. -
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What argument is there for a single God?
by Qcmbr inmormon culture is replete with the concept of multiple gods and requires it to work.
other than a few biblical references does anyone have any compelling arguments for why any god, deist , creationist or full on personal god would - of necessity- be alone.
the argument seems somewhat weaker if the gender is applied as well.
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Tiktaalik
There is absolutely no evidence for any god. Not one shred. Only what some people think, feel or believe.
There is however, abundant cosmological evidence that explains the creation of the universe. Just as there is abundant evidence that shows the biological evolution of life on Earth.
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A picture so outrageous, it deserves its own thread...
by cedars ini mean no disrespect to sd-7 or his fine thread on which this picture has already featured, but i think it is just so ridiculous that it deserves a thread all of its own.. lurkers and apologists, this is how your precious organization views itself.... behold the madness.... .
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cedars.
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Tiktaalik
The white man is in control. Obey us you lesser races, for we are your superiors.
And what are all those angels doing? With annual growth stalling at less than 1% - not much! They are just hovering around in formation.
And what's Jesus cooking in the microwave? Oh no! He's left the aluminium foil on! Silly Jesus.
But the most disturbing thing is hierarchical aspect. Know your place lowly publisher. Do what we say - for it is us, the gb, who talk to god and he to us and only us. Was there ever a more convincing piece of evidence for the watchtower being a cult?
Actually the most disturbing thing is that all those lowly publishers at the very bottom of the pile will simply accept this garbage without a moment's reflection.
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Sexual Wrongdoing & The Commeddee of Elders
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Tiktaalik
Of all the pathetic things that elders do, asking such meaningless intimate questions is the thing that troubles me the most. It is salacious and titilating for them and deeply traumatic and damaging for their victim (the poor jw in the hot seat).
Picture this: a young attractive 17 year old sister bought up in the truth, a regular pioneer, and in good standing gets a bit carried away with a young bloke who is studying. Her father is an elder and the elder body is a long standing cabal of four great mates. The four families are always socialising with each other.
The young bloke goes to the elders and confesses their "sin" and the elders go all judicial. Her father tells her that he is disgusted in her and that she has shamed the family. He tells her that she will get no sympathy from him. And he leaves at the mercy of the other three elders.
At the jc kangaroo court the three other elders who have been her family friends all her life sit her down and proceed to put her through the most disgusting and traumatic experience. She is asked to recount every aspect of the "sin". They ask her to go over and over it again and again trying to trip her up. They ask the most intimate details that in my view are completely over the top. They ask her if she has climaxed. She had no idea what they speaking about and on and on it went. She was deeply emotionally upset.
Flash forward many years and that 17 yo is now a mature woman, no longer a jw, but that experience has left it's mark. It still upsets her today. I am still angry about it as well. I think back to what it must have been like for her to have sit in that room with those three slavering, drooling, sexually-repressed perverts pressing her for every sexual detail they could wring out of her.
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Anyone with Happy Memories from being a JW born in, please post here....
by SkyGreen infirst up, happy new year .
hi everyone, ok i guess this is controversial, but im doing it as therapy for me - so im not bitter about the way i was raised.
plus i want to see if i can be the op of an "epic thread"!!.
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Tiktaalik
I hated being a witness. I hated being the odd one out at school. I tried to blend in but then spent hours reproaching myself for being worldly. Growing up as jw was a terrible thing. Absolutely no happy jw memories for me.