I agree with OTWO in this: A lot of people stick together although they have troubles with eachother. In some situations people do this to keep the peace in a family (just as some stick with the JW-religion). They probably already had the mourning process within their marriage and can easily date after death. It sometimes is just the way it is.
DeWandelaar
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I Want Your Thoughts On This: A 80 Year Old Man Lost His Wife....
by minimus inand within a month, he has been seeing a 69 year old woman who lived upstairs from him.
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the wife has been sick for a year and she passed away in october.. now, the 80 year old man is like a teenager with this woman, making out in public places with this woman and introducing her to family and friends as his new girlfriend that he "loves".. the father's family thinks this is weird and are concerned about it.. any thoughts?
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Have JWs and other Christians completely missed the point of Matthew 24:4-8?
by Island Man inmany people think those verses are suggesting that the wars, earthquakes, food shortages, etc are all a sign that the end is imminent.
however, a careful examination of the context seems to suggest that jesus was actually forewarning his followers not to draw such a conclusion from such events.
see this interesting article on the subject:.
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DeWandelaar
Have you ever considered that Matthew is written AFTER the actual events took place? It therefore was never a prophecy ( revelation of conditioned events to come).
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Scripturally, JW-system is synonymous with sin
by abiather inloving ones neighbor (whether he is a believer or not) is the kingly law.
(mathew 5:44-48; james 2:8) it is the kingly law, because it originates from king of all kings; and all other laws originate from this law.
hence violation of this law is the greatest sin, or mother of all sins; because it is against king of all kings and king of all laws.. jw-system is a flagrant violation of this law on two counts:.
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DeWandelaar
If I should only take what appeal to reason then I do not have to dig in the bible really :)
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DeWandelaar
It proves neither the existence or non-existence ... Paul was at the wrong place at the wrong time
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DeWandelaar
I probably resemble a small group (I see it on social media also where the percentage of deists is a hell lot smaller then the atheist/theist groups)... I believe in a God-being... and I think Paul Walker did too. He just was not so fond of religion (just like me :P)
Deism holds that God does not intervene with the functioning of the natural world in any way, allowing it to run according to the laws of nature. For Deists, human beings can only know God via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or supernatural manifestations (such as miracles) – phenomena which Deists regard with caution if not skepticism. (source: wikipedia)
Why is it wrong to believe in A God.... but not one that has been battered and hammered in our asses 24/7? It has nothing to do with irrational thinking. I just do not believe in a unlimited luckfactor. I am a pokerplayer and have played about 8000 tournaments online... I know what the odds are of having a perfect hand every single time (even with a big amount of time and volume). The more time and volume, the more you come close to the odds. Now... If I had UNCONTRELABLE evolution as a basis it would never make sense. It is a chance of billions vs billions vs billions vs billions (uncountable!). So... either there has someone been rigging the chancefactor or we are at this moment witnessing the luckiest animals/people since we have won uncountable times the lottery of existence.
No... I do think there is someone who created rules and regulations. No odds... just controllable laws and regulations so that everything goes in an orderly fashion and YES... that takes a hell lot of time. Is that someone or something really interested in the detailed work? If I look at the universe (macro-cosmos) or the tiniest thing in existance (nano/micro-cosmos) I do not see a reason why WE are the center of the universe in "his" book. You see... it is actually a bit arrogant to think we are that.
On the other hand I DO think it is ignorant to believe there is noone. Why? Atheism has got the same problem as the God-theory: A beginning... everything has started SOMEWHERE. I am not talking about intelligent design at this moment. Just at the FACT it HAS started at a singular point.
Evolution by the way is NOT a theory which WANTS to explain the start of the cosmos or something... it is a WAY in which things DEVELOP. That is one of the corefaults of religion: they think the theory wants to debunk God altogether which in my opinion is not the case.
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Scripturally, JW-system is synonymous with sin
by abiather inloving ones neighbor (whether he is a believer or not) is the kingly law.
(mathew 5:44-48; james 2:8) it is the kingly law, because it originates from king of all kings; and all other laws originate from this law.
hence violation of this law is the greatest sin, or mother of all sins; because it is against king of all kings and king of all laws.. jw-system is a flagrant violation of this law on two counts:.
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DeWandelaar
Abiather... one of the reasons I was mentioning the problem of sin is the fact that therefore it can be stated that the Bible is corrupted to say the least. You refer to Christ but can we state that he is who he was told to be? I mean: The bible tells a lot of bullshit... if someone is lying to me a lot then I won't trust the other part that much as well.
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Let's Talk About Sex
by cofty ina old thread was bumped recently in which posters from 9 years ago raised objections to evolution basesd on personal incredulity regarding sexual reproduction.. i remember an elder in one of my old congregations saying something to the effect that "how could evolution be true, if men evolved before women...blah blah" you get the picture.. i have refreshed my memory of a chapter in nick lane's excellent book "life arising - the ten greatest inventions of evolution" and put together a summary.
it would be great if others would add to it - cantleave, adam, tiktaalik, s&r, bohm et al?.
here is my starter focusing on the problem with non-sexual selection.... if the driving force in evolution is the struggle of selfish genes to pass on copies of themselves to future generations, then sex seems counter-productive.
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DeWandelaar
If I was NOT a witness I would be a pornstar...
If I were not a human I would be a Bonobo
HAHAHAHA!!! EPIC!
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Let's Talk About Sex
by cofty ina old thread was bumped recently in which posters from 9 years ago raised objections to evolution basesd on personal incredulity regarding sexual reproduction.. i remember an elder in one of my old congregations saying something to the effect that "how could evolution be true, if men evolved before women...blah blah" you get the picture.. i have refreshed my memory of a chapter in nick lane's excellent book "life arising - the ten greatest inventions of evolution" and put together a summary.
it would be great if others would add to it - cantleave, adam, tiktaalik, s&r, bohm et al?.
here is my starter focusing on the problem with non-sexual selection.... if the driving force in evolution is the struggle of selfish genes to pass on copies of themselves to future generations, then sex seems counter-productive.
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DeWandelaar
If I was NOT a witness I would be a pornstar... O... wait a minute...
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Going Back for the Right Reasons
by startingover13 ini'm new to this site, but i have been following the topics for some time.
initially, it was during a deep search into the history of jehovah's witnesses, and yes, "apostate" sites.
i was born into the organization in 1989. my father was always more inclined to the organization than my mother, and soon after she was df'ed.
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DeWandelaar
Lo and behold: the power of a cult!
good luck to you. I hope it will make you happy in the end.
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Let's Talk About Sex
by cofty ina old thread was bumped recently in which posters from 9 years ago raised objections to evolution basesd on personal incredulity regarding sexual reproduction.. i remember an elder in one of my old congregations saying something to the effect that "how could evolution be true, if men evolved before women...blah blah" you get the picture.. i have refreshed my memory of a chapter in nick lane's excellent book "life arising - the ten greatest inventions of evolution" and put together a summary.
it would be great if others would add to it - cantleave, adam, tiktaalik, s&r, bohm et al?.
here is my starter focusing on the problem with non-sexual selection.... if the driving force in evolution is the struggle of selfish genes to pass on copies of themselves to future generations, then sex seems counter-productive.
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DeWandelaar
No I can't since I am using a adblocker ;)