Posts by besty

daniel dennett has accused apologists of double-standards in a column in the washington post.. like all things that are worth saying it made me want to go away and really think it through for a while.

perhaps pat robinson was just being more honest about the real implications of faith?.

one of the striking differences between modern, "organized" religion and tribal or folk religions--religions without seminaries and theologians and official books--is that in tribal religions they have no double standard!

besty

I was just praying for a decent post on this topic to come up....:-)

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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth

by Westenddave in

i thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.

i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.

as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.

besty

love the Italians...:-) they never saw a new idea they didn;t like...

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

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.

besty

welcome to JWN randomthoughts - pls start a new thread in the Friends section telling us more about what brings you here...

I noticed that story about the UKIP councillor as well...I wonder what god-dishonouring act the people of Indonesia commited in late 2004?

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Mac Book Pro with Retina or Dell XPS 15? (both with new Haswell processors)

by Simon in

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i've been in need of a new laptop for a long time.

no, i mean it - a really long time.

the old dell that we have has a floppy lid and is woefully underpowered although it does build up my upper body strength every time i pick it up.. the last 6 months has been a bad time to buy something new though with the haswell processors on the horizon promising better battery life and also screen technology seems to have been leaping ahead recently to a new hi-dpi standard.. so apple finally released their mac book pro and at the same time dell has released an xps 15 ultrabook which looks like a pretty good alternative and probably better 'value'.. pro's and con's?

besty

Mobile + Internet of Things means desktop OS will be niche

its not that much of a stretch to imagine keyboards being strictly for devs

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

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.

besty

@flamegrilled - you are arguing for "this is possible"

I am beyond that to "what is probable"

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

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.

besty

resorting to 'we don't know what we don't know' therefore anything is possible is pretty lame

apeals to mathematical-grade logical proof can never apply to this debate, or any other non-mathematical argument.

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Titbit from April Awake

by konceptual99 in

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the latest awake is online.

there is a story about a nun who became a communist and then got disillusioned with that.

here's a quote.... .

besty

I'm sure there is a personality type that is drawn to high control groups

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Gay for J.

by SuperBoy in

so, i eventually decided that this place wasn't the apostate hot bed i was led to believe ;-), (or maybe i am now an apostate!

but i don't feel like one.)..

i was brought up in "the truth".. i loved it.

besty

hi - welcome to JWN :-)