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  This is What I Would Need in Order to Believe

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.

  various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.

  i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.

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  EdenOne

  The highest level of your will, the center of your intentions, will be fixed at the time of your death. The Christian eternity is not an infinite amount of time but the absence of physical time. The pursue of nihil is Hell.

  Those are concepts that wholly absent from the early christian writings, including the gospels, even flat out contradicting them. Your philosophical speculation is as good as anyone else's. And it doesn't meet the challenge anyway: Since you claim that god creates every soul at the moment of conception, then the destiny of each soul rests under his wing. Including abandoning such soul to a supposed hell of nihlism. Again, why would a god of love and justice do that? After all, that soul didn't ask god to come to existence.
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  This is What I Would Need in Order to Believe

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.

  various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.

  i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.

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  EdenOne

  But your soul can be subject to an eternal dreadful state..

  Why would a good of love and justice subject anyone to an eternity of punishment for wrongful deeds that were practiced during a few decades in the material life? Such god would lack basic decency.
  
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  Forum feature request

  by EdenOne in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  this one for simon.

  others chime in if you agree.. sometimes i find it hard to track the threads where i have posted and where i have posted last on a particular thread.

  it's very time consuming to go and look for it.

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  EdenOne

  I see that, but it doesn't take me to my last post - that's the key request ... in a thread with dozens of pages, where my last post is buried somewhere on the last 10-15 pages, it would be helpful to have a quick way to find it and see what has been posted ever since. At least on my ipad it takes me always to the OP.
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  How many years did you waste away in the Org?

  by Tallon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in my case; 27 years.

  7 of which were as a ministerial serpent ... sorry, i mean 'servant' ;).

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  40, from 4 to 44. Baptized at 16. MS and Elder then resigned, then MS again, then removed, then disassociated.
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  Forum feature request

  by EdenOne in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  this one for simon.

  others chime in if you agree.. sometimes i find it hard to track the threads where i have posted and where i have posted last on a particular thread.

  it's very time consuming to go and look for it.

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  EdenOne

  I know those routes, but the key element here is to direct the logged in user to its last post on the thread; regardless of being one that was started by the user or just posted on.
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  ARC - Case Study 54 - All Exhibits have been released

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  all exhibits for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower, have been released by the arc.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

  exhibit list.

  joint statement of o'brien and spinks.

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  EdenOne

  OC, where did you take that quote from?

  Edit: Nevermind, I have found it

  Also...two "dislikes" to the OP? Wow!
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  Forum feature request

  by EdenOne in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  this one for simon.

  others chime in if you agree.. sometimes i find it hard to track the threads where i have posted and where i have posted last on a particular thread.

  it's very time consuming to go and look for it.

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  EdenOne

  This one for Simon. Others chime in if you agree.

  Sometimes I find it hard to track the threads where I have posted and where I have posted last on a particular thread. It's very time consuming to go and look for it. So, I would like to suggest, if possible, the following feature:

  On the top bar, next to "New Thread", there could be another title: "My posts". When clicked by the logged in user, this would open a list, sorted in chronological order (starting with the most recent), of all the threads where the user has posted on, regardless of who has started the thread. When one of the threads is selected and clicked on, the user is then taken to the point on the thread where its last post was made. This would save a lot of time when looking to pick up a thread where we left off.

  Is this complicated to implement?
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  EU court upholds an employer's right to ban religious symbols

  by careful in

  1. social
  2. current

  first i should say that i do not like islam for multiple reasons, not the least of which is the moslem treatment of women.

  still, the free exercise of anyone's peaceful observance of their religion, including moslems, trumps my personal preferences.

  also, living in america, i evidently enjoy a greater degree of religious liberty than i see in recent years in continental europe, something that continues to baffle me.. today the european court of justice, the same group that has stood up for the rights of jws, has decreed that it is ok for employers to ban the wearing of religious symbols among employees.

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  This could open a can of worms tho.

  What if the employer bans religious symbols such as the hijab, but allows someone to wear a jewelry with a cross?

  What if the employer is adept of a certain religion and wishes to have its religious symbol at the workplace. Can an employee of a different religion feel offended and demand that the symbol is withdrawn?
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  EU court upholds an employer's right to ban religious symbols

  by careful in

  1. social
  2. current

  first i should say that i do not like islam for multiple reasons, not the least of which is the moslem treatment of women.

  still, the free exercise of anyone's peaceful observance of their religion, including moslems, trumps my personal preferences.

  also, living in america, i evidently enjoy a greater degree of religious liberty than i see in recent years in continental europe, something that continues to baffle me.. today the european court of justice, the same group that has stood up for the rights of jws, has decreed that it is ok for employers to ban the wearing of religious symbols among employees.

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  EdenOne

  Why bring religious symbols to the workplace, anyway?
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  This is What I Would Need in Order to Believe

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.

  various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.

  i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.

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  EdenOne

  I do in fact wish that I could have a belief in a personal deity that cares about me and will allow me to continue my conscious existence after I die.

  My feelings exactly. I also think that, if such a loving god exists, then he should be able to forgive my lack of belief, because, I have done nothing to warrant eternal punishment. And if such deity should deem me worthy of eternal punishment just because I couldn't believe, well ... then such a petty god wouldn't deserve my worship anyway.