as many of you know, larc died.
due to my hiatus, i didn't find out until several months after he did.
i was able to get to know him in the few years before he passed.
Thank you for posting this.
It's always nice to remember those who have passed on.
I didn't know that larc had a PhD. That explains why his topics were so insightful. I, for one, learned a lot from his posts. He had a way of writing that could make anyone understand even complicated stuff.
He will be remembered, and he will be missed.
CyrusThePersian
i need a bit of help trying to explain to my wife that the god of the ot was not the same "god is love" of the nt.
she is coming around to the fact that the gb are not the fds however i keep getting the line that god loves everyone and always has.
i will be researching the ot to show her examples of where the god of the ot demanded killing and forced slavery etc.
You should find some good stuff here as well.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html
CyrusThePersian
julie and i have both known linda for over 25 years, from when she first became a jw, so we decided to write this tribute to her.. we first met linda in january 1981, when she attended her first ever meeting at our kingdom hall.
she had been taking the magazines for a few months, since just after she finished university, and had started studying a few weeks before, but this was the first time she had plucked up the courage to attend a meeting.
julie was having many doubts herself by then, and once again linda was supportive, as was trev.
That was a lovely tribute to a special friend. Thank you for sharing that with us.
CyrusThePersian
hi friends!
i'm angie, the daughter of his-awesomeness rollerdave!
i mean.... his um evilness mr scary apostate... o_o :p (nevermind the fact that they wouldnt baptise him... eeentaresting....).
My God, This place is filling up with Roller People!!
Big Welcome to ya, RollerDaughter!!
(I don't know you well enough to call you Angie)
CyrusThePersian
or just from everyday people like you and me and christians just held on to it because it gave them something to hope for and put faith in?.
if it really is from god, why are things still so mysterious, i.e.
why are we still in the dark about the future?
Hi Linda
I'm not a believer in the Bible as the Word of God but there are a lot of truths contained in it, as there are in many books. One of those truths is:
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Matt 7:7 Keep seeking. CyrusThePersian |
oh, boy.
just had these thoughts rattling around in my head a few days, so wanted to get your takes.
my college son and i were talking and he said a fellow worker in his 50's said he had been aware his mother was sick and dying in another town , but had not died yet.
I, like many, would sincerely like to believe that my deceased relatives are "out there" somewhere and that someday I will be reunited with them, but look at the evidence.
Our brain has the neurons and synapses and cells which control our lives . What we are is in and of our brain. There is no "spirit" that exists apart from our brain. If a person gets a brain injury or has Alzheimer's, he cannot function. If we had a soul or spirit apart from our body, why can't that "spirit' overcome those injuries and continue to be sentient? Or for that matter what need would a soul have for a phsyical brain if that brain was unnecessary for the soul's existence? (i.e. after death)
The evidence, the concrete evidence shows that when we die, our heart stops beating, our lungs stop breathing, and our brain stops working. Our hopes, our dreams, our loves and hates die... when we die.
Sad but true.
CyrusThePersian
pascal's wager.
blaise pascal offers a pragmatic reason for believing in god: even under the assumption that gods existence is unlikely, the potential benefits of believing are so vast as to make betting on theism rational.
critics in turn have raised a number of now-classic challenges.
If it isn't, we're all in the same boat, so it doesn't matter anyway.
They've lost nothing.
I have to diagree. If you spend your life in devotion to a diety that doesn't exist you've lost everything!
There is no concrete evidence, anywhere, that man lives on after his seventy or eighty year sojourn on this planet. Therefore all you have, all you posess, is TIME!
If you choose to waste your time giving worship and service to whatever gods you choose instead of using your precious time leading a life that benefits your fellowman and leading a happy fulfilling life then you have wasted the only commodity you have, your time.
There are those who say that worship gives them a fulfilling life and to those I say 'more power to ya!' But as for me, I've got better things to do with the few precious years I have alloted to me.
CyrusThePersian
pascal's wager.
blaise pascal offers a pragmatic reason for believing in god: even under the assumption that gods existence is unlikely, the potential benefits of believing are so vast as to make betting on theism rational.
critics in turn have raised a number of now-classic challenges.
One problem with Pascal's Wager is that we don't know which god is the right one. Is it Jehovah? Do we worship him and take the chance that Allah was the right one and wind up in Muslim hell?
...or Ahura Mazda?
...or Zues?
...or Odin?
...or the African tribal gods?
CyrusThePersian
http://www.exjwsupport.com/.
hello, my name is fr.
joseph price, i am a priest in the old catholic church of north america, i grew up a jw, was heavily involved in the organization until i removed my self after 17 years.
Yep, it sounds like Father Price did a lateral from one knuckle-headed cult to another.
CyrusThePersian
got my truck back.. it was best-case, in the neighborhood of $2000, rather than the worst-case of $3000 or catastrophic-case $6000.. head gaskets.. bad, i know, but it could have been cracked heads, or worse.. i paid my peasly little two grand and that aposta-truck roared to life!
it's gleaming smugly outside my garage right now.. life is sweet, i got my truck back.. helped my daughter build a 'model' for her piano technician classes, a board with hitch pins on one end, and tuning pins on the other, a bridge in between (with bridge pins) and a string.. basically a model of a set of three piano strings for one note in a simulation of the stuff that mounts it in a real piano.. i love woodworking, and i love making things.
i love making things well.
Hey!
Congratulations on the weight loss! As a former fatty myself, I know how good it must make you feel shedding those pounds!
Congrats on getting your truck back, too. You're right, it could have been a lot worse.
I know what you mean about this message board. Even though you and I disagree politically (I am a tree-hugging ultra-liberal pansy) we find a common interest that most people in society don't share- that is, being at one time JW's. Whether we want it to or not, being former witnesses partly defines who we are, and I think that's why this board is so important to people like us.
CyrusThePersian
