i came across this on a different board.
i haven't taken the time yet to read it, but its being "heralded" by a christian as a debate in which a christian minister won via logic over a minister-turned-athiest on the topic "does god exist".
i'm curious how sound the arguments are, and with some of the sharp minds around here, if an argument is faulty, i'm counting on it being discussed.. http://www.theologyonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=cbb686d85bd2e5fa727074241ddc0181&threadid=7709.
Why is there something instead of nothing? Hell I don't know. Life is so strange. The more I search for answers, the more unanswerable the questions seem.
I agree quite a bit with this thought.
There probably isn't any ultimate answer, at least not one that can be expressed in words. The more we try to understand reality, the more infinite and complex it becomes.
i came across this on a different board.
i haven't taken the time yet to read it, but its being "heralded" by a christian as a debate in which a christian minister won via logic over a minister-turned-athiest on the topic "does god exist".
i'm curious how sound the arguments are, and with some of the sharp minds around here, if an argument is faulty, i'm counting on it being discussed.. http://www.theologyonline.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=cbb686d85bd2e5fa727074241ddc0181&threadid=7709.
I believe quite strongly that God exists, and that our lives could not have come about by accident.
However, I no longer believe in an all-powerful anthromorphic creator deity, which is what most people usually mean when they use the word God. God is infinite, and beyond any concepts of personal being (or impersonal being as well for that matter).
hey guys,.
alrighty.
enjoying being single.. right now i have a "worldy" girlfriend (note the quotes " ").. but there's this incredibly beautiful jw girl that has shown interest in me.. (i'm not df or da, just not going to meetings.
I can sort of understand where you're coming from, I've meet witness girls who made me want to remain a good dub, no matter what the cost. Still, most of that was just the hormones talking. Unless this girl is interested in you partly because you got in trouble with the org., it's probably not a good idea.
Second of all, you should consider your girlfriends feelings first before you even suggest breaking up with her for another girl. If you dump her just because you found someone with better looks, not only will it be cruel but it will probably backfire on you eventually.
i voted today in our provincial election.
i am no longer a voting virgin.
i was always told that voting in an election was casting a ballot for satan's old system of things.
Good job. RunningMan. I've been planning to vote as well when the next presidential election comes around.
an interesting site i found, it helps reveal the dehumanizing aspect of the entire idea of jesus needing to die as some sort of blood sacrifice.
http://www.sharktacos.com/god/cross_intro.html
An interesting site I found, it helps reveal the dehumanizing aspect of the entire idea of Jesus needing to die as some sort of blood sacrifice. http://www.sharktacos.com/God/cross_intro.html
i went from the jw's and got heavy into martial arts.
i have a black belt in kenpo karate, tkd, and kenjitsu and also hold ranks in jujitsu and other lower ranks in other systems.
i learned ages ago it is nothing evil like witnesses said it was, and have actually trained a few ex-jw's in my time.
Hey ThiChi, I've been reading Sifu Wong's material for quite some time, and have been meaning to take one of the courses with him, once I get enough money that is. Did you train under him or one of his instructors? What was it like?
everlasting life on a paradise earth.
this hope permeates the very being of every jw.
does it mention everlasting life on a paradise earth?
A life, or a soul, begins as a small creature, perhaps a bacteria, and over the course of thousands of reincarnations, depending on its course in each life, gradually grows into a soul that can fill a human body - and then when a human dies, the soul is reincarnated as an angelic body, provided of course that it has built up enough positive karma to power the growth cycle.
Ditto. I no longer like the idea of remaining a human for all time. Life is about growth and progression, about always looking on toward greater heights.
i'm prompted to make a post on this subject following a previous post from stace..... i really think i need to go back to the meetings just one more time, i think it'd be a make or break scenario for me.
i reckon i'll either go back and become full time like i was before, or just slink away thinking "i can't live up to this anymore" i envy both witnesses who are full time, for their faithfulness, and those that have made a clean break, for their honesty to themselves, its sort of not right to be living in some sort of limbo state.. dithering dithering dithering, thats all i've done since i first got here i think, like some fart in a storm, posting fluffy stuff and avoiding the hard stuff.... i hear what some of you say, and it does irritate me as well to be just a hanger-on.
i don't think i'll ever be a hardcore anti-jw no more than i'll make circuit overseer, but well, i guess i need to go some way or the other.. and, well thats it really.
After I learned about the child abuse and the UN scandal, I decided that I would try to be positive at the meetings, look for the good in what they were saying and try to keep things in perspective.
However, it just became more and more apparent to me as time went on that it is not, nor ever was, the truth.
does anyone think that the rule which states that "associating with a disassociated person is a disfellowshipping offense" was created to disfellowship ray franz?
the reason i ask this is because i noticed that the watchtower published many articles with that rule at the same time period franz left bethal, but published nothing about it before around 1981.
I used to hear all sorts of crap about why Ray was disfellowshipped, someone only told me that he started teaching the Trinity, another said that he was involved in immorality.
One ding dong even tried to tell me that he was worshipping the devil. . .
i'm feeling depressed now.... on halloween night, we had bought some candy.
someone in my family suggested that we give it out to the trick or treaters.
i don't really have anything against the holidays anymore, and i couldn't really see anything wrong with giving out candy.
We all have to pee and poop no matter who we are. Just picture them doing that, and maybe it will make you smile.
He he, I'll try that.
I've noticed that dubs tend to be nosier than just about anyone else I know of. I'll miss some of them, but if they're going to reject me over something as silly as handing out candy, then I suppose there's just no turning back.
