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PZ Myers mocks Latest Awake

by cofty in

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biologist and science blogger pz myers has commented on the upcoming awake magazine in today's blog at pharyngula.. .

"unfortunately, i was only able to read as far as the second sentence before i was blinded by the irony.

" - pz.

I found it exceptionally deceptive that they quoted m ichael dentons book from the 80's (that has never been revised) saying the theroy of evolution is a myth. In the tradition of 'new-light', denton wrote a book over ten years later admiting he did believe in the 'law of evolution'... so much for the watchtower using updated source material.

Further, there is kind of a deceptive way they talk about Anthony Flew - saying he ditched the idea of athiesm, they hint that he converted to religion but anyone who knows anything knows he and Paul Davies (Who has been rejected by the scientific community for his unscientific science.) are deists, not christians. This artical should had been named "Fringe physicist and biologists who wrote books in the 80's reject christianity and observable science for a more vauge concept"

It continues to argue that houses just don't pop into existance. I also enjoyed the little box about how god feels about human sacrifice. Jehovah was obviously pissed because all of those children were being burned up for another god, not him. After all, Jehovah doesn't mind human sacrifice, as long as it's to him. See the lovely story : Jephthah burns his daughter to make god happy. Judges 11:29-40. It's a great bed-time story.

I'm sure glad we get our morals from the bible.

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Atheists Against Abortion?

by AK - Jeff in

http://objectivewriting.blogspot.com/2007/09/atheist-stand-against-abortion.html.

thoughts that somewhat parallel mine on this subject.

rational thought and rejection of creationism might not automatically place one in a particular stance on every issue, and may result in somewhat odd positions, compared to the stereotypical ones.

Growingup

I say, if you don't want abortions to happen, just don't get one.

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Are we approaching the end of the 1,000 year reign or the beginning? THE TRAP!

by EndofMysteries in

just looking for opinions and why you think one way or another.

perhaps you've noticed that the bible doesn't end at the beginning of the 1,000 year reign and just have the few verses in rev showing what happens at the end, but it infact goes through the entire thousand year reign in many parts of it.

for example....in rev 20:7-10 it shows how gog of magog surrounds the camp of the holy ones, then fire comes down and destroys them.

Growingup

EOM playing the hitler card.

Is this guy for reals??

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Does "God" Exist?

by minimus in

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do you believe in "god" at all?.

Growingup

Do unicorns exist?

Well, I've not been proven they exist, I have not seen the fossils nor a living example. I don't believe in them because there is a lack of proof they exist. Unicorns much like God are mentioned in the bible as being existant. They both fall under a major burden of proof of that we cannot prove either existed or exists. there is no proof other than a book if you're refering the Xtian belief system.

Just because we cannot explain things does not mean they are of a devine cause. People have been heaping blame on Gods for 1000's of years, sickness, plauges, ect... now it seems silly to us that a flu might have thought to been of the cause of a devine evil that you might have commited now... but people believed that. They did for a long time... however thanks to the realm of science and progress we understand why people get sick and have devloped treatments that will keep the person alive and limit their sickness to a couple of days not a couple of weeks. I am just but 24 but I believe that sicence and progress will uncover a deal more, even in my lifetime... we're only scratching the suface when it comes to the devlopment of human beings.

There is so much evidence to prove that men evolved from apes, beyond the whole fact that life on this planet millions of years ago was so amazing and diversly diffrent based only on the bones of past species... it's difficult for me to believe in a constuct of religion that tries to explain the beginning of time with leaving out important gaps in it's story. It's always funny how Xtians want 'Proof' that evolution happened when they cannot prove their own bullshit.

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A Plea to JWs That Are Attending This Year's District Convention...

by Tuesday in

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this is my plea to active jehovah's witnesses attending the district convention who are about to hear the change of the generation doctrine.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crc2i4xt32a.

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hope everyone enjoys it..

Growingup

I watched this yesterday... great video!

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I feel less and less like an ex-jw every day.

by Growingup in

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i've had so much anger and depression over the last 6 years.

when i left the b0rg i replaced people i hardly knew with my family... i had so many psychological problems then and when those relationships failed i turned to drugs, self harm through burning and cutting and even was hospitalized a few times because i tried to kill myself.

i was in and out of toxic relationships with people who i thought i needed to complete me as a person.. about two years ago i hit another 'rock bottom' in my life and was drinking and using cocaine and was completly cycling in another jw's guilt pity party.

Growingup

I've had so much anger and depression over the last 6 years. When I left the b0rg I replaced people I hardly knew with my family... I had so many psychological problems then and when those relationships failed I turned to drugs, self harm through burning and cutting and even was hospitalized a few times because I tried to kill myself. I was in and out of toxic relationships with people who I thought I needed to complete me as a person.

About two years ago I hit another 'rock bottom' in my life and was drinking and using cocaine and was completly cycling in another JW's guilt pity party. The next day feeling like hell on toast something snapped inside me I think... something important. It wasn't enlightment, Jesus, Elvis or any of that... I think I began to see the world and life as diffrent... something diffrent without the JW armageddon glasses on. Suddenly the things I recall people telling me in the way as advice when I left started to click... certian things in my life started to become more clear. I felt like something, some point in that I broke out of the installed destructive cycle I was programmed to preform as a child.. and I was wasting my life. I started making changes... started picking up the peices... I started to heal.

I'm turning 24 next week. In the last two years I have received my GED, enrolled in college, quit using drugs, mended the good friendships I had with others and discarded the destructive people in my life. I've been devloping interestes and hobbies beyond hoping the end is coming and I no longer feel like the victim I always had 6 years ago when my family began shunning me thus beginning a very dark period of my life. Coming out of the Watchtower was very hard.... and very complicated to explain. I don't even know how to explain the process myself. I feel less and less like a person who is and only is an ex-jw. Because when I was in I was just that... a JW, and when I left... I was just a ex-JW... I never devloped a sence of idenity when I was raised and isolated as a JW, and I didn't have one when I left. Now I feel like I'm finding my voice for the 1st time. I feel like I'm realizing what I am good at and what makes me special and deserving of love.

That makes me feel really good.

Thanks for letting me share.

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