yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
<<<<We cannot adopt anthromorphism to God, he is not human, the knowledge of God is in science, this fuels my enquirey as to why he is indifferent, it does not stop me from thinking he exists>>>>
in other words you have no idea what is going on but you believe because you want to?
EDIT : REMOVED <OFF TOPIC> What are the results of your scientific enquiry as to the nature of god so far?
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
@kate "believers won this thread"
because you say so?
ok summarise it for me:
"God observed the impending 2004 Tsunami and did nothing because <<<<your bit goes here>>>>
Please complete the sentence above.
many other so called ice cream at grocery stores as well.
have you noticed how it seems to be different than from a couple years ago?
that it doesn't melt, it just warms up and becomes like a whipped cream texture?
Yeo Valley is a luxury ice cream here in the UK: (note that it has more sugar than Coke 10.6g per 100ml)
| TYPICAL VALUES | PER 100g | PER 100ml Serving |
| Energy | 847 kJ/203 kcals | 469 kJ/112 kcals |
| Protein | 4.3g | 2.4g |
| Carbohydrate | 20.6g | 11.4g |
| of which sugars | 20.6g | 11.4g |
| Fat | 11.4g | 6.3g |
| of which saturates | 7.0g | 3.8g |
| Fibre | 0.2g | 0.1g |
| Sodium | 0.06g | Trace |
| Equivalent as salt | 0.15g | Trace |
Organic whole milk, organic whipping cream (22%), organic sugar, organic skimmed milk powder, organic pasteurised free range egg, stabilisers (contains: organic guar gum, organic locust bean gum, carrageenan), organic vanilla extract (0.4%).
https://www.yeovalley.co.uk/things-we-make/frozen/madagascan-vanilla-ice-cream
one of the friends at extj forum provided this list of wt branches that have been closed so far, there is also a mention that two large ones are in the process of being dismantled, they are spain and argentina.
posted for informational purposes and it seems to be accurate.. thanks for reading.
1) alaska.
starting with the new year 2014 the german branch is renamed into "central europe branch"
we all know what happened last time Europe was 'centralised' by Germany :-)
just kidding ...!
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
..."I am very reasonable."
and you disagree with the 1st thing I say?
launch an investigation on jehovahs witnesses religious policy that violates human rights and abuses religious freedom.
link.
Personal life stories and gentle satire are the best weapons against stupid religions.
For as long as suckers are getting born, there will be a business model to extort them, and the governments haven;t figured out where to draw a line in the sand yet.
And in a country (USA) where 50% of the population believe equally stupid stuff you are not going to get mainstream sympathy.
Its all therapy for the participants though.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
I think you would get more reasonable discussion with a belieber than a believer :-)
good news, found on salon.com.
i particularly like points three and four.. http://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm.
i havent been to a meeting in four years.
during that time i completed a successful fade from the organization after almost 40 years being baptized.
it seems nothing anymore will surprise or shock me with these latest bunch of brooklyn leaders.
I wonder what that will do to their loss-making religion?
(I distinguish their property and investment operations from their publishing and religious activities)
Consumers already expect 'free' when it comes to low-value digital content. If I was the WTS I would seriously consider a subscription model with an eat as much as you can electronic distribution of books and magazines with various tiers granting hard copy privileges. (Oh and just be done with it and eat the sales tax - lets be honest about the business side of things - they can probably cling to charitable status for a few decades more)
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
In February of 1756, John Adams wrote in his diary about a discussion he had had with a man named Major Greene. Greene was a devout Christian who sought to persuade Adams to adopt conservative Christian views.
The two argued over the divinity of Jesus. When questioned on the matter, Greene fell back on an old standby: some matters of theology are too complex and mysterious for human understanding.
Adams was not impressed. In his diary he writes, “Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.”
