Narkissos
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Hermann Hesse
by Narkissos inin the few months before -- and years after -- my exit from the org.
he was one of my favourite authors.
i read most of his novels and he really helped me to think "out of the box".. other fans around?
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Should the Christian faith be rationally defended?
by Narkissos inin the pretty miscellaneous "global flood" thread there were a couple of exchanges on the value of "apologetics" per se.
i think this subject is worth a thread of its own.
i will here recall some statements in the aforementioned thread:.
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Do believers and unbelievers benefit from each other?
by Narkissos ini was thinking of this today.
we all live in religiously divided societies: in france unbelievers are probably the majority, in the us believers are.
but the minority in both cases is still influential.
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Demons and feathers
by Narkissos inbrummie's thread about "unwritten prophecies" made me think more broadly about unwritten stuff among jws.
this one is not a prophecy, sounds more like a "urban legend".. there were stories circulating among french jws in the 70's about people suffering of some unexplained illness, until strange demonic "artworks" were discovered in the feathers of their pillows.
some were almost dying as the "work" was almost completed.
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Jacques Derrida is dead
by Narkissos infrench philosopher jacques derrida died yesterday in paris, at the age of 74. .
he was a very original and profound thinker, widely known for his "deconstruction" theory which brought about some pretty fresh outlooks on philosophy, language and literature.
i unfortunately discovered his works much too late, but he was very helpful to me in my post-religious ramblings in the past few years.
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Who was Jesus actually?
by Narkissos in.
well, there has been a lot of religious and historical debate going on this topic, as we are all aware.. but i'd like to know what is your personal take, at the moment being.. all contributions welcome.
thanks!
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Rationalism and religion
by Narkissos ini've not been too good at creating topics thus far, but for my 1000th post (in case you wouldn't notice .
we often oppose reason (ratio) and belief, as if those were mutually exclusive.
reason always works from presuppositions.
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Truth against truth: an Israeli outlook
by Narkissos in.
i was recently pointed to the following site and thought it might make an interesting read (at various levels):.
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The pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton according to GĂ©rard Gertoux
by Narkissos insome time ago i stumbled across a book by french author gerard gertoux, about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton.
the book was also published in english (cf.
the author's site at http://gertoux.online.fr/divinename/) .
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American Lawyers: Help on DF case!
by Narkissos inin a current european case, the wt lawyers refer to a judgment by the court of appeal of new jersey (nyc congregation of jws vs. mrs janice paul, # 819f.2d875, june 10, 1987) about the supposedly non-discriminatory character of the wt disfellowshipping arrangement and the related (shunning) instructions to its members.
according to them, in this case an exjw sued the congregation for slander, breach of private life, fraud and insult as a consequence of her disfellowshipment.
the court decided that the shunning of a disfellowshipped person was protected by the first amendment of the us constitution guaranteeing freedom of worship.