Topics Started by AlanF
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Looking for Kingdom Ministries
by AlanF in.
i'm looking to fill out my research collection of kingdom ministries for the u.s.. if anyone has kms from 2003 onward that they want to get rid of, i'll be happy to take or buy them.. alanf
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Circuit Overseer Pensions and the Implications
by AlanF ini just learned that the watchtower society has instituted a pension plan of sorts for circuit overseers.
this is a big change.. previous to this new plan, the various kinds of "traveling overseers" were pretty much on their own when they retired from the traveling work.
in a few cases, such men were invited to live out their lives in bethel, but in most cases they simply went back to being normal rank and file members who had to fend for themselves financially.. i can only speculate that the reason for this change was that the society has been having difficulty getting elders to become circuit overseers.
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Very Bad Apologetics For Honest Seekers
by AlanF ingod had no beginning, so god did not need to be made.. .
if our local space-time universe is uncreated, then of course it is meaningless to ask who created it.
of course, everything that had a beginning had a beginner.
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Why "Intelligent Design" Is Not Science
by AlanF infrom http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/28dennett.html.
op-ed contributor.
show me the science.
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Shining One's Link To A Dishonest ICR Article
by AlanF inin the thread "the skeptic's worst nightmare" ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/96102/2.ashx ) shining one gave a link ( http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&id=2464 ) to an icr (institute for creation research) artcle titled "evolution--impossible to embarass its believers" by the icr's founder henry morris.
why was the soft tissue preserved?
all it means is, "we don't accept what real scientists say.
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New Book Exposing "Intelligent Design"
by AlanF ini thought some people would be interested in this, since the watchtower society has been gradually adopting (but not acknowledging the source) id-ish ideas for about a decade.. there's a new book out called creationism's trojan horse: the wedge of intelligent design (barbara forrest & paul r. gross, oxford university press, 2004).
it shows very clearly that so-called intelligent design (id) is nothing more than standard creationism masquerading as something new.
id is really just a jazzed up version of william paley's "watchmaker" argument, which in turn is a jazzed up version of the argument from ignorance -- "i can't imagine how that happened, so it didn't".
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Spanish Speaking Ex-JWs Want To Help?
by AlanF ini've just been informed that there are a growing number of spanish speaking jw apologists who are flooding the spanish speaking net with nonsense about the usual so-called "apostate lies", and attempting the usual lying defenses of the jw organization.
apparently these are mostly mexican jws.
some of the defenses seem to be relatively new in the sense that they've not been covered before in english.. since i don't speak spanish, and i know of few present spanish jw-critical resources, there's a real need for spanish speaking ex-jws to respond to these typically braindead attacks.. i've also been informed that a brazilian jw has been translating the spanish jw defenses into portuguese, so if there are any portuguese speakers willing to help out, please let me know.. alanf
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Undying Love
by AlanF inthe following from the national lampoon was particularly funny ( http://www.nationallampoon.com/modstyles/wwwaste/loveletter/loveletter.asp ):.
oh, my love.. how shall i show my love to thee?
let me compare thee to a summer's day.. and let also x represent [winter day] on this horizontal axis, and, my love, let y represent [summer day].. truly, were my summer's day comparison axis given values of the numbers one through ten, thy countenance would rank at least an eight and a half on said chart, as illustrated above.
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Dawkins Interview; Atheism, Agnosticism, Etc.
by AlanF inthe following was forwarded to me, and i post it in its entirety, with a few edits for clarity, without comment.. ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ .
many of my friends are well aware that i'm not the slightest bit religious.
with other friends the subject has never come up - and might never have - i'm not much of a proselytizer.
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Dead Relative Due To Blood Policy?
by AlanF in.
i'd like to hear comments from anyone who had a relative die because of the watchtower society's misguided policy on blood transfusions.. alanf