time to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
I am sick of the rain, too! It's been unseasonably cold, too. In the 50s. They do not have the multipack garden flats out, yet, and I really want to start putting petunias in my flower boxes under my windows.
Is that zoysia grass, kaik? It looks thick and even.
We have fescue in Maryland. After about 5 days of rain it is a foot tall! We actually had to mow in the drizzle, finally, or else we would've had a meadow.
many people find it difficult to reconcile suffering and existence of god.
it seems they feel that it is god’s obligation to shield humans from ill-effects of their short-sighted acts..
people’s hobby has something to do with this kind of reasoning!
Nice job, elbib. In four short paragraphs you were able to indulge in copious amounts of victim-blaming and throw in a little anti-semitism, too, for good measure.
And you wonder why the converts aren't rolling in?
Cult recruitment 101: save the distasteful stuff for later.
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
So, now there are things that have no beginning?
Please give me a list of these incredible outliers.
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
Perry, we all know you believe God is the supernatural cause that was the beginning of the space-time Universe.
You doth protest too much with your pseudo-scientific reductive reasoning.
The pieces of your argument don't fit, we have provided alternate points of view which are not acceptable to you, and so there is no sense in my continuing.
i had posted about a month ago that my niece, who just turned 15, was getting disfellowshipped.
i learned this past weekend that she tried to commit suicide.
between being df'd, and her dad not being around, it became too much for her.
Keyser, I am so excited that you are providing support for her and that she is feeling better. I'm glad she is getting good treatment.
Could you subtly point out to your sister that further involvement in the organization wluld likely be bad fof her mental health?
Some JWs seem to believe that suicide attempts after disfellowshipping are because of shame at having done something so bad that they needed to be disfellowshipped instead of the horrible practice of disfellowshipping itself.
i had posted about a month ago that my niece, who just turned 15, was getting disfellowshipped.
i learned this past weekend that she tried to commit suicide.
between being df'd, and her dad not being around, it became too much for her.
I think she was disfellowshipped first and then became suicidal due to the disfellowshipping.
I wonder what the branch thinks of that scenario.
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
the universe can be observed to be expanding.. an expanding universe must have had a beginning.
whatever begins to exist had a cause.
therefore the universe had a cause.
This beginning without a cause being a problem thing is silly.
Beginnings are simply Endings of something else.
This is not a new concept and is part and parcel of hindu thought in which there is a trinity of gods, including Brahma the creator and Shiva the destroyer (as well as Vishnu the preserver).
This Trinity expresses the idea that beginnings are simply the new expression of endings. They are part and parcel of each other.
Needing a Causer is very Western thought.
