Posts by DJS

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Just a really messed up situation

by My Name is of No Consequence in

a quick summary of my situation: i have known ttatt since at least 2010. my wife and teenage son are still in.

i only mention that because it is relevant in this situation.

you can see some of my previous posts for additional details.

DJS

Let's see. You have no marriage. You have no relationship with your stepson. You pay for everything.

She threatens and bullies you and it works.

Do I really need to continue? Call a lawyer today, one specializing in divorce.

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Just a really messed up situation

by My Name is of No Consequence in

a quick summary of my situation: i have known ttatt since at least 2010. my wife and teenage son are still in.

i only mention that because it is relevant in this situation.

you can see some of my previous posts for additional details.

DJS

Is keeping a relationship with your stepson worth putting up with the WWOTE?

If not, start making plans Stan.,

You don't have a relationship with him now, so I don't see how it matters.

The bigger question is why are you letting her treat you like this? Why would you let anyone treat you like this?

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Video: Dear Believer, Why Do You Believe?

by Believer in

i was asked to view the video “dear believer, why do you believe?” i said i would and i would publish my comments about it.

so here are my comments.

after my post, i hope other believers will post theirs comments about it.

DJS

He was fired from 3 hospitals. He lied and tried to cover up malpractice.

You would need a shovel and confined space entry permit to find his credibility.

He was never in a near death situation . His coma was drug induced.

There is more.

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Observations: If man is merely a machine and the universe is merely a mechanism .

by Believer in

observations: if man is merely a machine and the universe is merely a mechanism .... if men were only machines, they would react more or less uniformly to a material universe.

individuality, much less personality, would be nonexistent.. materialism reduces man to a soulless automaton and constitutes him merely an arithmetical symbol finding a helpless place in the mathematical formula of an unromantic and mechanistic universe.

but whence comes all this vast universe of mathematics without a master mathematician?

DJS

If you really want to share ideas with believers all you have to do is pm them and gather personal emails of those showing interest.

Then you can knock yourself out, out of harms way from us atheists.

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Video: Dear Believer, Why Do You Believe?

by Believer in

i was asked to view the video “dear believer, why do you believe?” i said i would and i would publish my comments about it.

so here are my comments.

after my post, i hope other believers will post theirs comments about it.

DJS

What is it with x-tian apologists and confirmation bias. Or "I need $ quick, lots of it. What can I do to get me some."

Dr. Alexander was quoted in a Newsweek article stating the following regarding his beliefs before his coma:

"Although I considered myself a faithful Christian, I was so more in name than in actual belief."

At the time of his coma, Dr. Alexander was facing over $3M in a malpractice lawsuit. His history of malpractice was considerable, as was his history of being terminated, 'fired', from jobs. He also had a history of altering medical records to cover his malpractice.

Dr. Alexander was terminated from Brigham hospital in 2001, had his surgical privileges terminated by UMass a couple of years after that, and after that he finally got a job at Lynchburg General. Then this, from an Esquire article:

On June 27, 2007, Alexander performed surgery on a man's disk.

Instead of fusing the farmer's fifth and sixth vertebrae, he fused his fourth and fifth. He did not realize his mistake at first. When he dictated the operative report, he recorded that the "MRI scan showed significant disk bulge and disk osteophyte complex compression at C5-6 mainly the left side," and then described an operation on those vertebrae, instead of the vertebrae he had actually operated on.

On July 12, he had his first follow-up appointment with the farmer. He reviewed the postoperative X-rays. He noticed his mistake. He didn't tell his patient. Instead, after his patient went home, he pulled the operative report up on his computer and edited it. Now the report read that the MRI scan had showed disk bulge at both C4-5 and C5-6, and that "we had discussed possible C5-6 as well as C4-5 decompression, finally deciding on C4-5 decompression." Then he simply found every subsequent reference in the report to C5-6 and changed it to C4-5. After he finished editing the report, it read as though he hadn't done anything wrong at all.

During a third follow-up meeting, in October, Alexander finally confessed. By the end of October he no longer had surgical privileges at the hospital. Soon after his deposition, Alexander's lawyers urge him to settle, and he does. They also urge him to settle another case, stemming from an operation he performed only two weeks after the farmer's, when he again operated on the wrong vertebra of a patient. He settles that case, too. The Virginia Board of Medicine allows him to keep his license, but levies a modest fine and orders him to take continuing education classes in ethics and professionalism. By the time all his pending cases are resolved, Alexander will have settled five malpractice cases in the last ten years. Only one other Virginia-licensed neurosurgeon has settled as many cases in that time period, and none have settled more.

As regards his coma, he fails to mention that it was a medically induced coma and not due to the infection as he claims. Dr. Laura Potter, the primary and only attending dr. that has commented on Alexander's story makes this statement regarding the day after inducing Alexander's coma:

"And of course he was still in an induced coma," she says. "On ventilator support. They tried to let him wake up and see what he would do, but he was in exactly the same agitated state. Even if they tried to ease up, a little bit even, on the sedation. In fact, for days, every time they would try to wean his sedation—just thrashing, trying to scream, and grabbing at his tube."

Fox and Friends (of Jesus) called Alexander an acclaimed neurosurgeon. An infamous one perhaps. An incompetent one for a certain.

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Introduction - Any Believers?

by Believer in

i’ve been reading it for a few of years off and on, but have been a little too ... maybe ... timid to join.

i left the watchtower organization almost 20 years ago but never abandoned my faith and belief in god.

i knew the gb/organization didn’t represent god, so when i lost my faith in them, i managed to keep my faith in an all wise benevolent creator.

DJS

OutsideLooking,

Do you ever think before posting? Believer, Perry, Lieu and a billion or more other x tians teach that along with the murderers, etc. your god is going to destroy billions of very kind. moral, ethical people simply because they find your religion and your gods abhorrent.

X tians don't simply believe it, they are anxiously waiting for it.

A host of very good empirical studies suggest that the more atheistic or secular an individual, state, nation or region the more likely they are ethical and functional.

If your god is really going to rid the planet of the vermin and infection that plagues our species she would start with the theists, and especially the x tians.

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Here's a view on homosexuality for you...

by konceptual99 in

...right from a pro-jw site in response to a post about the relative seriousness of homosexuality.

all you can do is reason from the scriptures, which you appear to have done.

homosexuality is as serious as bestiality, or adultery and fornication.

DJS

TheLiberator,

Abhorrent? Really? You've been watching the wrong porn. I find the thought of 2 obese heteros mating abhorrent and I'm straight.

Well, mostly.

Your views are the only thing abhorrent about your comment.

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No! No! No! This can't be true? brexit? No!

by purrpurr in

it seems britain has voted to leave the eu in a move of total madness!

the markets are already in free fall and the moronic bigots who campaigned for this are celebrating the demise of our country .. i can't see how a 49-51% split can be democratic?

there is still the postal vote to come in, maybe there's hope in that?

DJS

Observations from across the pond:

Of course none of us will know whether Brexit turns out more positive than negative or is a wash. However, inquiring US minds want to know:

The news from the BBC states that the demographics of the group most responsible for Brexit is older, whiter (if that's even possible), less educated and poorer.

The primary reason for Brexit seems to be Muslim immigration, which we can all thank George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney for. Or, in other words, fear.

That raises red flags to me, but that doesn't obviously correlate to whether it was good or bad. Time will tell.

Input my British fiends?

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Introduction - Any Believers?

by Believer in

i’ve been reading it for a few of years off and on, but have been a little too ... maybe ... timid to join.

i left the watchtower organization almost 20 years ago but never abandoned my faith and belief in god.

i knew the gb/organization didn’t represent god, so when i lost my faith in them, i managed to keep my faith in an all wise benevolent creator.

DJS

Re: OutsiderLookingIn: What I’m wondering is does the chicken come before the egg or vice versa?

From Google Scholar:

Intelligence, Volume 39, Issue 6, November–December 2011, Pages 468–472

The relationship between intelligence and multiple domains of religious belief: Evidence from a large adult US sample - Gary J. Lewis, Stuart J. Ritchie, Timothy C. Bates - Highlights - Lower intelligence was significantly associated with higher levels of faith. Lower intelligence was most strongly associated with increased fundamentalism.

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Introduction - Any Believers?

by Believer in

i’ve been reading it for a few of years off and on, but have been a little too ... maybe ... timid to join.

i left the watchtower organization almost 20 years ago but never abandoned my faith and belief in god.

i knew the gb/organization didn’t represent god, so when i lost my faith in them, i managed to keep my faith in an all wise benevolent creator.

DJS

Lieu

You must be Believers friend. He judged me and those like me to eternal destruction in his 2nd OP.

He has judged billions of others to the same sentence. Apparently only him and those like him have true faith.

He's getting exactly what he deserves. Your incessant whining is changing on one's opinion.

If a Muslim came on this site and did the same thing, only with Allah and Islam being the true faith, you and the other theists would crucify him. The only reason you are standing up for Believer is that you share his beliefs.