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Calling all materialists and non-materialists
by willmarite in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
read this comment by bertrand russell:.

that man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system; and the whole temple of mans achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy that rejects them can hope to stand.

only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the souls habitation henceforth be safely built.. .
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God has no plan for anyone ever lived?!
by Mr Fool in
1. jw
2. friends
according to jw all people are born by chance and death also come by chance, a lottery.

therefore no one is meant to be.

if god has a plan for certain volume of people (kind of 144 000), how can that be if he has no idea which kind of souls being created (by accident)?.
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A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a manual for creating atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith--but for talking them out of it.

peter boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than twenty years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.

- amazon.... "boghossian has provided an indispensible chart book for all of us who must navigate the rising sea of magical thinking that is inundating america today.
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Do God and Jesus have free will? No they do not. Proven in this thread.
by Comatose in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
does god have free will?

does god have free will?

why couldn't they be like him in that they had free will but just wouldn't or couldn't be bad?.
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"you're pretty compassionate for an atheist"
by Hortensia in
1. jw
2. friends
my favorite compliment of the day.

what a lot of assumptions people have about what makes an atheist tick..
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Why doesn't the GB come out with specific rules on counting time
by trujw in
1. jw
2. experiences
i think we all know the reason millions of less hours.

when i was in we went to a rv by the kingdom hall then drove 30 minutes out to the country to knock on a door then back to the city for one more door.

god must be so proud!
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If there is a god..
by snare&racket in
1. jw
2. friends
now we have to answer...... 1) is there more than one god?

how do you choose the most senior god?.

2) if you chose religious texts to make this desicion, how do you know they are not purposfully misleading by an ill willed god?.
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New Blog Post: why did God seemingly allow Cain to get away with murder?
by adamah in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i wrote an article on the topic of god's eyebrow-raising lenience shown to cain after killing his brother, exploring possible reasons why the account was written as it was:.

http://awgue.weebly.com/why-did-god-seemingly-allow-cain-to-get-away-with-murder.html.

questions, comments (as well as heads-up on typos, grammar, etc) welcome here, as usual!.
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Did you ever REALLY believe anything special happened at Cedar Point Ohio in 1922?
by Sapphy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
but the understanding is affirmed in the revelation climax book, albeit with less detail.

the events are as follows (& i'm keeping the quotes really short) :.

1st angel - "it all began during the bible students cedar point convention in september 1922. there gods people enthusiastically adopted a resolution entitled "a challenge.
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Jesus was a liar.
by nicolaou in
1. watchtower
2. bible
firstly, it is not my intention here to offend anyone so if you are likely to get upset at reading 'blasphemous' statements or criticism of jesus then perhaps you should go to another topic.

also, i am not in the habit of making personal attacks on other posters, if you decide to stay and read this - don't attack me!

by all means rip my post to pieces and explain where i got it all wrong, but don't shoot the messenger.. and remember, i come from the same place as most of you, i was one of jehovah's witnesses for over thirty years.