Posts by DJS

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You have no need of anyone to teach you anything

by cassuk11 in

the truth is within you and god himself teaches us all the truth.we cannot find it in a building or religion.

the fusion between humankind and god was sealed by messiah in the 1st century.

until many recognise the kingdom within there will always be divsions,confusion, etc etc.

JW refuses to provide wedding stationery to Gay couple

by KateWild in

i was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.

i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.

i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.

You are entitled to your opinion, just as you are entitled to be wrong. The courts have rightly determined that you and your kind are wrong, and this isn't simply a US phenomenon. You are in the minority and growing smaller with each passing day. Rant on with your ridiculous rationale. You are simply trying to cloak your hatred behind faulty rationale, just like all of the other AOWM who aren't happy unless the world looks as they desire it: white, male, entitled with everyone else falling distinctly beneath them in the pecking order.

Your 'rationale' (and I am being kind) has been completely obliterated on this post and others like it. There isn't and never has been an 'argument' to support this type of hate. Your pathetic attempts to support your continued hatred of those not like you or for whom you have disgust is transparent to the vast majority of those on this site, the majority in this country and in the rest of the developed world. You are T-Rex short for the world. And I am glad.

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Obama Speaks as The Great Whore

by scotoma in

jw
friends

obama speaks at us war cemetery on d-day landings anniversary.

"united states of america is and will remain the greatest force for freedom the world has ever known.".

on may 28, obama delivered a commencement address to the us armys newest officers at west point, where he argued america would remain an empire forever.. .

DJS

To self (Ok self, which is it?: Ignore this dumbass OP or post; ignore or post, ignore or post). Since he called my president a whore I guess I will have to post.

Dear god,

We have yet another prophet among us. Hail Scotoma! Only he has a direct source/access to the big girl in the sky. Ignore all who came before him, including all of the popes, the GB, Martin Luther and all of the preachers. And OT. Only Scotoma has the correct interpretation (i.e, the 'truth') of scripture. Everyone else is wrong. Listen to him my faithful, for he will lead us to the promised land.

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JW refuses to provide wedding stationery to Gay couple

by KateWild in

i was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.

i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.

i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.

DJS

Quendi,

Beautifully spoken. Everything you stated was used - in a plea sometimes - to reach Holmes. You summed it all up wonderfully. Thanks.

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Atheists lose latest legal fight 'In God WE TRUST".

by jam in

jw
friends

ok folks i'm an agnostic.

but to remove the motto from our.

currency is a little too much.

DJS

The atheist activists are just that, activists. As noted on the gay/SCOTUS issue, acitivists are the tip of the spear for all movements. Most atheists don't give these types of issues any thought whatsoever. Live and let live. Leave it on the $ or take it off, it doesn't matter to me. If you do a bit of research you will find that most of those things occurred as over-zealous religious responses to social issus of the time. THAT is what bothers me.

So Darwin is on the British note, huh? Way freaking cool. Thanks Cofty.

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Supreme Court ruling- refusing to photo gay wedding is discrimination

by SadElder in

according to bloomberg news:.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.

"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.

DJS

Tootired, yeah you've said that before. Yawn. But you are right; some of the hysterical, reactionay bullshit I see on this site is more advanced. I will change chimps to Neanderthals. And if you don't want to be referred to as a chimp, I mean Neanderthal, then quit thinking and acting like one. My apologies to any Neanderthals reading this.

You call me arrogant. I stay out of theist posts. I stay out of scientific posts. I stay out of posts for which I am not a subject matter expert or where I do not know what I am talking about. I suggest you and those like you do the same. Entering such posts when you know nothing or are bringing nothing other than a jesus mantra or your feelings is a waste of everyone's time and is the single most arrogant thing on this site.

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Supreme Court ruling- refusing to photo gay wedding is discrimination

by SadElder in

according to bloomberg news:.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.

"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.

DJS

People are free to believe what they wish. When they come into a forum such as this and spew hate, prejudice or ignorance they are open to whatever comes their way. If they don't want to hear it, avoid the keyboard.

People who hate, hate. It is that simple. They have always tried to rationalize their hatred. We have posted such examples of white people rationalizing their hatred, bigotry, separation and even killing of blacks in the country. That is why hate speech in any form has no place today and it is quickly responded to. Ask the owner of the Clippers. Or the Duck Dynasty Dude.

Hating others in our hearts is the first step towards denigrating them assigning them to a lesser place in society, justifying their bad treatment or situation and genocide. Voicing that hatred in words, regardless of whether they are smooth such as those used by David Duke years ago or other haters who have cleaned up their image a bit, changes nothting. It is still hate. Home's 'rationale' exists only in his mind. At least we got him away from his reactionary hysteria (the LGBT community is really after him. I mean, really?). But using more and better words to justify the unjustifiable, again, changes nothing.

Black people suffered needlessly because of hate in this country. Many died. A lot of families were ripped apart. Gays have suffered needlessly for thousands of years. They still die at the hands of people like Homes. It doesn't matter to me whether Homes would kill Matthew Shepard, as his hatred and voiced views support those who did and would again. The SCOTUS and other courts systematically dismantled the authorized, legally protected prejudicial and bigoted treatment of others decades ago. They didn't include the LGBT community then; they appear to be fixing that now.

Home's initial comments showed a hysterical, reactionary, emotional view. That is who he is. So I disagree completely. Haters get exactly what they deserve. One of the reasons some members of the LGBT community are outing themselves these days is to hopefully save lives. Young gay people are committing suicide, facing depression, isolation, etc. because of homophobic, hate-filled views like Home's. These views have no place on the planet. Cloaking them within ancient, archaic beliefs and charged words and adjectives or within modern day Tea Party rationale as if to justify the hate slays me.

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Escaping Indoctrination - Faith Isn't a Virtue.

by cofty in

the unknown writer of the gospel of john put the following words in jesus' mouth, "blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.".

persuading countless generations that it is a virtue to believe incredible things on insufficient evidence, is one of religion's cleverest tricks.. the more incredible the claim; the more flimsy the evidence; the stronger the belief; the greater the virtue.. this is the exact opposite of how we operate in every other aspect of our lives.. rational people must demand objective evidence for everything they are asked to believe.

"extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence".. leaving the dogmatic claims of the watchtower is only a first step.

DJS

Jgnat,

Accurate but missing a few hundred thousand years. Until the 20th Century the average lifespan for humans was about 34, and life was brutish. Sanitation and especially chlorination of public water systems was the event which resulted in the greatest leap in lifespan.

It's always been difficult to be a human on this planet. A loving or caring god, even one that occasionally looked in on this master creation, wouldn't have allowed llife to be short and brutal from its beginning. Provide better instructions. Tell us about bacteria. The evidence for any god, whoever you want to call her, is missing. Creating stories in our minds from myths and legends to support things we really, really want to believe might help some get through difficult times (which for many humans has been their entire existence - and which explains all religions and beliefs of after life), but that's about it.

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JW refuses to provide wedding stationery to Gay couple

by KateWild in

i was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.

i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.

i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.

DJS

Deal with it, haters (there's lots more where this came from):

On Mar. 21, 2014, a federal judge ruled Michigan's gay marriage ban unconstitutional. US District Judge Bernard Friedman wrote that "Today's decision... affirms the enduring principle that regardless of whoever finds favor in the eyes of the most recent majority, the guarantee of equal protection must prevail."

New Mexico: 2014, ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a studio that refused to photograph a lesbian couple's commitment ceremony, letting stand a New Mexico high court ruling that helped spur a national debate over gay rights and religious freedom. The justices left in place a unanimous state Supreme Court ruling last year that said Elane Photography violated New Mexico's Human Rights Act by refusing to photograph the same-sex ceremony "i n the same way as if it had refused to photograph a wedding between people of different races." Tobias Barrington Wolff, a University of Pennsylvania law professor representing the couple, said "no court in the United States has ever found that a business selling commercial services to the general public has a First Amendment right to turn away customers on a discriminatory basis. "The New Mexico Supreme Court applied settled law when it rejected the company's argument in this case, and the Supreme Court of the United States was correct to deny certiorari review. The time had come for this case to be over, and we are very happy with the result."

On Feb. 13, 2014, a federal judge ruled Virginia's gay marriage ban unconstitutional.

Same-Sex Marriage Support Reaches New High at 55%

Nearly eight in 10 young adults favor gay marriage

by Justin McCarthy

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' support for the law recognizing same-sex marriages as legally valid has increased yet again, now at 55%. Marriage equality advocates have had a string of legal successes over the past year, most recently this week in Pennsylvania and Oregon where federal judges struck down bans on gay marriage.

Two successive Gallup polls in 2012 saw support climb from 53% to 54%, indicating a steady but slight growth in acceptance of gay marriages over the past year after a more rapid increase between 2009 and 2011. In the latest May 8-11 poll, there is further evidence that support for gay marriage has solidified above the majority level . This comes on the heels of gay marriage proponents' 14 th legal victory in a row.

When Gallup first asked Americans this question about same-sex marriage in 1996, 68% were opposed to recognizing marriage between two men or two women, with slightly more than a quarter supporting it (27%). Since then, support has steadily grown, reaching 42% by 2004 when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize it -- a milestone that reached its 10th anniversary this month.

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JW refuses to provide wedding stationery to Gay couple

by KateWild in

i was outraged at this and had to post it.. http://jehovahswitnessreport.com/blog/jw-refuses-to-provide-wedding-stationery-to-gay-couple.

i think she is a hypocrite and i bet she sells her invites to fornicators, or does she ask them if they are having sex before marrige, before she takes their money?.

i was never like this when i was a jw, it's even more disturbing that she is going to ask her elders what to do.

DJS

Homes,

I couldn't care less what Clarence Thomas or anyone else's veiws are on 'sodomy.' That's an archaic meaningless bullshit term. What consenting adults do is no one's business, including Clarence Thomas or anyone else holding on to ancient views, inclulding you. Your rationale is ridiculous; none of the comparisons are rational. Hate is hate. The SCOTUS has determined that people like you are wrong. Most of the high courts in other Western and other developed lands have determined the same thing. Others will soon join them, stating that you and those like you are hate filled bigots. The world is changing as we type these messages. You and those like you are short for the world, and me and those lke me are glad. The world will be a better place without you and your hate; cloaking it in bullshit rationale and feigned high moral ground changes nothing. It. Is. Hate.