i have a new poll at jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/ as i am very interested to see what people have moved on to believe.
as this is considered sensitive by some, you can answer anonymously at the jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/, or answer on this thread.
this is what i have created in the list, but feel free to add comments, corrections, or options i have missed.. .
Atheist.
It's where evidence has led me and continues leading me.
I'm also no longer afraid to use my critical thinking quite critically and to challenge anything that comes close to a scam or a lie or a deception, like for example, the WT.
But the evidence is the main factor for me.
Alec
i found this article really interesting because of the similar thoughts ricky expresses i could relate to and think are good food for thought irrespect of what you believe at the present time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/19/a-holiday-message-from-ricky-gervais-why-im-an-atheist/.
for example.... people who believe in god dont need proof of his existence, and they certainly dont want evidence to the contrary.
Alright Lars, thanks. I'll wait and see.
Alec
first, let us consider whether that evildoer met the quali?cations for heavenly life.
humans with heavenly prospects have been baptized in water and with holy spirit and are thus spirit-begotten disciples of jesus.
(john 3:3, 5) another requirement is that they conform to gods moral standards and manifest such qualities as honesty, integrity, and compassion.
Exactly Brother of the Hawk, also whoever they are (LOL) has it also taken them about 93 years to figure they are the evil slaves?
apparently "prejudice" applies only to racial equality and has nothing to do with diverse sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
it's news to me, but that's the only way i can explain this latest cover from the society.. http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/86/wp_e_20130601.pdf.
cedars.
Punk of Nice, Cedars, everyone...I'm dying here, also, my atheist girlfriend really enjoys your dry sense of humour as well!
Alec
first, let us consider whether that evildoer met the quali?cations for heavenly life.
humans with heavenly prospects have been baptized in water and with holy spirit and are thus spirit-begotten disciples of jesus.
(john 3:3, 5) another requirement is that they conform to gods moral standards and manifest such qualities as honesty, integrity, and compassion.
Has anyone noticed how the 'evil slave' scripture has been applied in the past to those who challenged the leadership in the past, for example when Rutherford was challenged and a number of Bible Students left back then, but how in the new revamping of the understanding of FDS the only new light had to do with Matt 24.45-47?
I mean, how about Matt. 24:48-51:
48 “But if ever that evil slave should say in his heart, ‘My master is delaying,’ 49 and should start to beat his fellow slaves and should eat and drink with the confirmed drunkards, 50 the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and in an hour that he does not know, 51 and will punish him with the greatest severity and will assign him his part with the hypocrites. There is where [his] weeping and the gnashing of [his] teeth will be.
And no explanations on the different slaves in Luke 12:45-48 either:
45 But if ever that slave should say in his heart, ‘My master delays coming,’ and should start to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 the master of that slave will come on a day that he is not expecting [him] and in an hour that he does not know, and he will punish him with the greatest severity and assign him a part with the unfaithful ones. 47 Then that slave that understood the will of his master but did not get ready or do in line with his will will be beaten with many strokes. 48 But the one that did not understand and so did things deserving of strokes will be beaten with few. Indeed, everyone to whom much was given, much will be demanded of him; and the one whom people put in charge of much, they will demand more than usual of him.
notes:.
bible says god created us.
scientific principle says - simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Black and white thinking prevails in the Kingdom Hell.
Yes punkofnice, I can still remember a talk by a missionary talking about blood fractions and conscience matters in which he said that for Jehovah ™ there are no 'grey areas', only black and white, he knew what was right and wrong. I remember being so confused by that statement, why didn't I wake up back then? Here we had a missionary blatantly admitting the WT was a cult!
So many unsubstantiated claims in the OT for which no evidence in archaelogy or science can be found, it's really irritating that friends or family refuse to "Face the Facts"™.
my wife friend told her, the bible states, "the earth is the.
only place in this universe that god made for habitation".. have anyone read a scripture that states or indicate this???.
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In that case; why did he bother create billions of solar systems with planets?
LOL omg exactly, Dismissing servant.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20130319_11_0_twowom831238.
Finklestein- Women doing Wt. work and Wt. won't back them up, that really is the sad story.
I couldn't agree more designs, that's really awful.
i found this article really interesting because of the similar thoughts ricky expresses i could relate to and think are good food for thought irrespect of what you believe at the present time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/19/a-holiday-message-from-ricky-gervais-why-im-an-atheist/.
for example.... people who believe in god dont need proof of his existence, and they certainly dont want evidence to the contrary.
Thank you Gladiator, and I wish you luck with your relatives as well.
i found this article really interesting because of the similar thoughts ricky expresses i could relate to and think are good food for thought irrespect of what you believe at the present time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/19/a-holiday-message-from-ricky-gervais-why-im-an-atheist/.
for example.... people who believe in god dont need proof of his existence, and they certainly dont want evidence to the contrary.
I long for the day I'll DA myself so I can make videos without worrying about getting DF'd or whatever since I'm already out anyway.
