Posts by drwtsn32

153

Has your life gotten better as an athiest/agnostic?

by StinkyPantz in

22 years ago

this quote got me thinking:if you pray sincerely and admit you are a sinner and accept christ as your savior you can have the holy spirit come into your life.. .

i used to do this everyday.

when i was being abused, i used to pray incessantly for god to help me.

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

Maybe I'm mis-reading everything, but I'm getting the impression that you atheists think we Christians are a bunch of dumb, irrational, un-educated hillbillies.

I think that's the impression people get whenever they disagree on religion. Each side imagines the other thinks they're complete idiots and cannot see the most obvious evidence for their viewpoint.

Religion is just a tough topic to discuss without people getting agitated. The same goes for politics.

I'm just thankful that since we're now free of the WTS, we can freely discuss different viewpoints.

Link

153

Has your life gotten better as an athiest/agnostic?

by StinkyPantz in

22 years ago

this quote got me thinking:if you pray sincerely and admit you are a sinner and accept christ as your savior you can have the holy spirit come into your life.. .

i used to do this everyday.

when i was being abused, i used to pray incessantly for god to help me.

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

So people who believe in God = close minded. Got it...

Not at all, but you said "nothing will sway you." That's what I was referring to.

Sorry, I did not meant to offend.

Link

153

Has your life gotten better as an athiest/agnostic?

by StinkyPantz in

22 years ago

this quote got me thinking:if you pray sincerely and admit you are a sinner and accept christ as your savior you can have the holy spirit come into your life.. .

i used to do this everyday.

when i was being abused, i used to pray incessantly for god to help me.

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

I just meant in some cases, I felt as if God was helping me.

I think feelings are deceptive. If god is real he should manifest himself as something more tangible than a feeling that people get. At least that's what I'd hope a god would do.

Link

153

Has your life gotten better as an athiest/agnostic?

by StinkyPantz in

22 years ago

this quote got me thinking:if you pray sincerely and admit you are a sinner and accept christ as your savior you can have the holy spirit come into your life.. .

i used to do this everyday.

when i was being abused, i used to pray incessantly for god to help me.

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

I feel as if God has been protecting me. I've gotten out of some scrapes with relatively little damage when there should have been more dire consequences.

A lot of people have felt like a guardian angel has protected them in certain situations. But there have been at least as many situations where people have died. Did god not protect those people?

I just don't see how Earth could exist without a God. If we were any nearer or further away from the sun, we couldn't exist. If the axis wasn't titled the way it is, we couldn't exist.

This is a non sequitur... it doesn't prove or disprove god. If the earth was not the right conditions life wouldn't have evolved on it. Or it would have evolved differently to suit the different environment. In either case the climate on earth supports created/evolved life very well.

I've taken astronomy. What I learned in there only backs up my beliefs. Sorry, but all this research on scientific proof isn't enough to sway me.

Are you closed minded or just confident? Confidence is great, but not when it closes your mind.

I have a hard time with this line of reasoning: the world/universe/life is so complex it could not have formed on its own. God must have done it. But if a more complex god formed everything, why did that god not require creation/design? He's more complex than the universe, right? The same universe that you say is too complex to come into existence on its own.

Link

153

Has your life gotten better as an athiest/agnostic?

by StinkyPantz in

22 years ago

this quote got me thinking:if you pray sincerely and admit you are a sinner and accept christ as your savior you can have the holy spirit come into your life.. .

i used to do this everyday.

when i was being abused, i used to pray incessantly for god to help me.

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

Stinky, do you have two accounts on here or what?

Link

153

Has your life gotten better as an athiest/agnostic?

by StinkyPantz in

22 years ago

this quote got me thinking:if you pray sincerely and admit you are a sinner and accept christ as your savior you can have the holy spirit come into your life.. .

i used to do this everyday.

when i was being abused, i used to pray incessantly for god to help me.

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

I never said that was the reason.

I just meant *I* wouldn't believe in life after death simply because I was afraid of death. I didn't mean to imply that's what you were doing.

I believe in life after death because I believe in God. I just think if I believed there is no life after death, I would be freaked out.

Yeah, I can understand that. Most people do not want to die. I don't want to die. But I see no evidence of an afterlife, so I have a really hard time believing in it.

By the way, you responded incredibly quickly to my message.

Link

153

Has your life gotten better as an athiest/agnostic?

by StinkyPantz in

22 years ago

this quote got me thinking:if you pray sincerely and admit you are a sinner and accept christ as your savior you can have the holy spirit come into your life.. .

i used to do this everyday.

when i was being abused, i used to pray incessantly for god to help me.

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

I don't know how you could possibly be happy as an atheist knowing you are going to die and never be resurrected.

Fearing death is not a good reason to believe in life after death. If I am to believe in an afterlife, I want proof. I don't want to believe it just because I'm scared of nothing after death.

I'm very happy with having a meaningful contribution to humanity in the life time that I know exists.

If there is life after death, cool. If not, whatever. I won't realize I'm not alive so it doesn't matter.

Link

23

607 BC

by minstrel in

22 years ago

could someone explain why this date is incorrect, i had always been told that this date for babylon's conquest of israel was widely accepted by historians etc.

(hence it was also critical in calculating 1914.

)

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

minimus, if the 607 date fell apart then so would 1914. If 1914 fell apart then so would so many of the understandings of prophecies that have been fulfilled in our day. It would not be good for the org.

Link

83

Do You Know Your Blood Type?

by RAYZORBLADE in

22 years ago

with all the information we have nowadays, out of sheer curiousity, do any of you know your blood type?

for some, i know the blood-issue is a touchy subject, but it's interesting to know it.

you'd be surprised especially when the case of an rh-negative mother may give birth to an rh-positive child.

19 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

I don't know my blood type.... but I definitely should. As a JW there was really no reason to know it.

Link

23

607 BC

by minstrel in

22 years ago

could someone explain why this date is incorrect, i had always been told that this date for babylon's conquest of israel was widely accepted by historians etc.

(hence it was also critical in calculating 1914.

)

22 years ago

drwtsn32 22 years ago

As far as I know, only JWs teach that 607 is the correct date. Historians agree on 586/587. See this site for more info:

http://www.607v587.com/

Link