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Perry's Miracles

by Village Idiot in

this thread is dedicated to our beloved poster of 13 years perry and his parrot.

for those who are new to jwc perry is the foremost apologist for christian fundamentalism and all its shining truths.

he previously posted a thread entitled atheist miracles.

Atheist Miracles

by Perry in

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i reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.

no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!

they keep me from getting bored.

"Certainly finding dinosaur soft tissue, blood vessels, cells, dna fragments, and proteins capable of being sequenced that are a few thousand years old since the flood wiped most of them out - demands an explanation."

You received an explanation earlier on this thread and what's more you can find an explanation just by googling.

So called dinosaur soft tissues are microbial colonies that have nothing to do with the original tissue. These fossils are millions years old.

DNA sequencing comes from bones that are actually thousands of years old. These recent sequences are from creatures that lived much after the dinosaurs.

The blood vessels that are seen within the bone are simply the empty spots that they left behind after they completely decomposed.

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Average Age of this Forum?

by Garrett in

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heyo!.

i'm quite interested in knowing the average age of those of us who use this forum.

i made a quick strawpoll that you can find at the following link: http://strawpoll.me/4340636 just pick an age and click "vote" if you wish to participate.. admins: if this breaks any rules, i apologize in advance..

Village Idiot

NVR2L8,

"91...close the door! There is a poster here, Mouthy, who is in her late eighties...that brings the age average up quickly..."

Speaking of Mouthy where has she been lately, I miss her.

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Perry's Miracles

by Village Idiot in

this thread is dedicated to our beloved poster of 13 years perry and his parrot.

for those who are new to jwc perry is the foremost apologist for christian fundamentalism and all its shining truths.

he previously posted a thread entitled atheist miracles.

Village Idiot

Finkelstein "...... but that would make Perry also fictional !"

It's a miracle that he's even here.

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Perry's Miracles

by Village Idiot in

this thread is dedicated to our beloved poster of 13 years perry and his parrot.

for those who are new to jwc perry is the foremost apologist for christian fundamentalism and all its shining truths.

he previously posted a thread entitled atheist miracles.

Village Idiot

That's a good one John.

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Perry's Miracles

by Village Idiot in

this thread is dedicated to our beloved poster of 13 years perry and his parrot.

for those who are new to jwc perry is the foremost apologist for christian fundamentalism and all its shining truths.

he previously posted a thread entitled atheist miracles.

Village Idiot

This thread is dedicated to our beloved poster of 13 years – Perry and his parrot.

For those who are new to JWC Perry is the foremost apologist for Christian Fundamentalism and all its shining truths. He previously posted a thread entitled “Atheist Miracles”. This thread is going to be the mirror image of Perry’s fantabulous thread.

Miracle number one: It’s the first miracle in the Bible but it’s an evil miracle. It goes something like this:

A talking snake told a naked lady to eat a fruit and share it with a naked man that had a missing rib. Then all hell broke loose (literally) and all of a sudden lions started gobbling baby lambs instead of eating grass; Tyrannosaurus stopped eating palm trees and started munching on Brontosaurs and galaxies started crashing into each other (with only 6,000 years to travel tens of millions of light years) - Genesis 3.

No further commentary.

Miracle number two:

”6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.” John 9:6-7 New International Version

Why didn’t Jesus simply say something like “You can see now” with an instantaneous healing? He did tell a man “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” Plain and simple with no muddy voodoo (John 5:8-9 NIV).

Perhaps it was a type with the antitype representing the Watchtower who claim to see clearly even though they have mud in their eyes.

Miracle number three:

Who doesn’t know that infirmities such as blindness, muteness and epilepsy are caused by demons? I’m sure you can find qualified physicians and scientists who would confirm that:

"22 Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see." Matthew 12:22 NIV

"33 And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke." Matthew 9:33a NIV

"42 Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the impure spirit, healed the boy and gave him back to his father." Luke 9:42 NIV

Why aren't those miracles happening now when Jesus said that his disciples would be performing the same miracles (Mark 16:16-18)?

Miracle number four:

Jesus casts out demons that are responsible for being a hunchback:

"10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” 13 Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. "Luke 13:10-13 NIV

"16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?” Luke 13:16 NIV

Did anyone really know this woman? Jesus could have given her a shekel or two to pretend she was hunched over. Oh my! I’m going to hell for saying that.

And finally miracle number five:

Faithful Mary Magdalene who had not one; not three; but seven demons cast out (Luke 8:2)! It’s a pity we know so little about her. Any woman with so many demons must have had an interesting life.

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Average Age of this Forum?

by Garrett in

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heyo!.

i'm quite interested in knowing the average age of those of us who use this forum.

i made a quick strawpoll that you can find at the following link: http://strawpoll.me/4340636 just pick an age and click "vote" if you wish to participate.. admins: if this breaks any rules, i apologize in advance..

Village Idiot

Gosh! They're really losing people of all ages fast.

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Paint Nite - fun evening and a new hobby

by Simon in

we (and by 'we', i mean my wife) decided that we should try something new and she, erm, i mean 'we', liked the idea of painting.

so i enthusiastically (i.e.

begrudgingly) went along for the night to the "pain nite" event she'd booked us for a couple of weeks ago.. the premise is pretty simple: it's held in a pub or restaurant, all the art supplies are provided, the instructor then walks you through how to reproduce a painting they have chosen for the night and you have a glass of wine or beer, do some painting, have something to eat, have some more wine, more painting, more wine, realize you are drinking the dirty paint water and so on.. here's the site: https://www.paintnite.com/.

Village Idiot

She's got quite some talent.

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Average Age of this Forum?

by Garrett in

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friends

heyo!.

i'm quite interested in knowing the average age of those of us who use this forum.

i made a quick strawpoll that you can find at the following link: http://strawpoll.me/4340636 just pick an age and click "vote" if you wish to participate.. admins: if this breaks any rules, i apologize in advance..

Village Idiot

I seem to be wrong about the present demographics of JWN. I was basing that statement on the seeming older age of most posters several years ago. However, many of them are gone and we've had a massive influx of newbies across all age spans which is attributable to the increased shenanigans of the Watchtower. That is likely to effect people of all ages.

As of this moment the 50+ group is slightly under 40% which is still a big bite.

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Interesting Pew Stats on JWs--Alarming Trends for the Borg

by Cadellin in

someone may have linked to this already, but the this interactive page in the pew religion study is pretty interesting, especially when you look at the trends for jw between 2007 and 2014. here's what it shows:.

jws are increasingly non-white.

in fact, the percentage of white jws has decreased from 2007 to 2014 by 12%, while hispanic jws have increased by 8%.

Village Idiot

Clarity, I love your clarity.