i remember when i was active, i would constantly get nightmares regarding armageddon.. used to wake up so many times at night watch my window, pray hard and try to go to sleep.
now i wonder that this organization was really succcessful in making people scared to death about 'current system of things', but why would anyone do that?
why would anyone want to bring division in families, make hate speeches, scare people to death, etc?
On a similar post a few weeks ago =
www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/adult/265645/1/No-More-Dreams-of-a-Paradise-Earth
... I posted this link =
www.dreamviews.com/general-dream-discussion/130133-dream-incubation-tutorial.html
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Given enough thought these things leak right into your dreams.
perhaps the most common misunderstanding that prevents people from grasping evolution is complexity.. we see it almost daily on the forum where people mention dna or the eye or any of a multititude of examples and ask how it could have arose "by blind chance"?.
whenever you see a reference to chance and complexity it is obvious the person hasn't yet grasped the basics of the theory.
chance is only one part of the process.
I'm waiting for The Blind Watchmaker from Amazon. I'm hoping he caters to the newcomer somewhat.
(Just noticed that I'm waay off topic blabbering random stuff I thought when I'd read the OP... Ignore me.)
perhaps the most common misunderstanding that prevents people from grasping evolution is complexity.. we see it almost daily on the forum where people mention dna or the eye or any of a multititude of examples and ask how it could have arose "by blind chance"?.
whenever you see a reference to chance and complexity it is obvious the person hasn't yet grasped the basics of the theory.
chance is only one part of the process.
It's funny (to me at least), two years ago when I was watching Inside Nature's Giants on channel 4 I found him to be so annoying that I muted him and chatted about how amazing creation was until he was gone.
Now I find his almost child-like enthusiasm endearing. Life's fun.
You ever noticed how JW's just ignore Attenborough's diehard views (he does have that voice I suppose)? But then who didn't decide they were going to do this in the New System...
this tired, lonely man has been snared, but i protest little .
she holds me tenderly in her tightening but welcome thrall.
i cave willingly -- oh, so willingly -- to her amatory attentions.
Ooh, poetry (prosetry?). Love me a peer an' a poke in someone's mind.
I scribbled this the other day -
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He kept his head in the guidebook
rocks underfoot
he declared the grass plush
took off shoes to feel the dew
never felt the cuts
He kept his head in the guidebook
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I couldn't tell you where the punctuation needs to be. I'm as educated as your average... Well, Jdub.
i still find it strange that believers cannot get it in to their heads that atheism is not a belief, but theism is.
there cannot possibly be proof "for" the atheistic position as it is simply a position that says i see no proof for a god.. if someone says there are pink unicorns with purple spots and i say i have never seen any proof of their existence, i cannot offer proof of my "position", the onus is 100% upon the spotted unicorn guy to prove their existence to me.
simple.. where the frustration enters in for us non-unicornists is when the unicornists expect us to listen to inane arguments , non facts and plain nonsesnse and then go along with their delusion.
"If someone says, "God exists!" they have asserted a theological/philosophical belief?
Correspondingly if another person says, "God does NOT exists!" they have also asserted a theological/philosophical belief?
Atheism is a belief. To say it is not is an attempt at obfuscation by turning the discussion into word games."
Bloke 1: There is a man in the sky everyone!
Bloke 2: Seems doubtful.
Because definitions are word games.
villagegirl's question on another thread was probably supposed to be rhetorical but i want to respond to it.. many times people of faith express similar misapprehensions about those who don't share their views on eternity.. i want this to be a positive thread.
an opportunity for atheists to share what moves and inspires them.
what do you live for, what gives your life meaning and purpose?
Just poppin' in to give your bum a quick peck on the cheek.
You're one of the voices on here who was saying things I needed to hear exactly when I needed to hear them. (I also hated reading your posts when I first turned up)
Facts hurts sometimes.
Knowledge is a motherf*cking balm.
jgnat: you just made me do a happy. (Apollo robbins is a new one on me)
I don't mind if you believe in god/design. But that video is why you shouldn't ever use the argument you just did to support your belief.
i've spent the last few years examining my core beliefs to test what still stands.
i've let go of an inviolate bible, demoted jesus to a failed prophet, and god as unable to act against injustice.
our universe made itself.
I wouldn't say that "atheists" invented them. They're innate.
Seems obvious that religion appropriated these things from humanity. (Since almost all religions claim exclusivity on "truth" the distinction seems valid to me)
[I'm out of my depth here though. Just voicing unqualified and uneducated opinion]
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