Topics Started by Spook
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Spook Vs. Jcanon on the Arguments From Evil
by Spook injcannon has agreed to a discussion on the philosophical arguments from evil.
i will be advancing the proposition that the presence of the current level of suffering in the world constitutes strong evidence that the christian god (hereafter referred to as god) does not exist.
jcannon will be negating the proposition.
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Example of bait-and-switch logic.
by Spook infrom the watchtower website article on propaganda:.
"however, we do not want to be so narrow that we refuse to consider facts that can improve our thinking.
how can we find the right balance?
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Legal loophole for those baptized as minors
by Spook in.
if you were baptized as a minor, i'm told there is a legal recourse to refuse the action of a judicial commitee.
any info on this?
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Invitation: Chicago Area Post Disassociation Letter Party. Open Invite!!!
by Spook inhey folks,.
i have my da letters all lined up.
i want to have a party in chicago in april.
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Plantinga / Denett debate NEW science/religion conflict audio
by Spook ini thought some people would like to know that alvin plantinga (thiest) and daniel denett (atheist) had a good debate at the recent central meeting of the american philosophical association here in the midwest over the compatability of science and religion.. http://apologetics315.blogspot.com/2009/02/alvin-plantinga-daniel-dennett-debate.html.
i like this debate because - as opposed to more "popular" debates which just rehash well covered arguments, there are some novel and new arguments presented between these parties that will strike all the self-educated philosophy fans on this board as neat, especially those who are very familiar with the traditional arguments.
for the uninitiated, these debates invovle some pretty technical and weighty formal language.
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JW's and the housing bubble
by Spook inmost of my former jw friends in the late 90's and early 00's were working in construction.
the housing bubble hit them particularly hard because.... they were all selling houses to fellow jw's.
everybody's plan seemed to be to sell each other houses, profit off the inflating prices and auxilliary pioneer off of your equity.. i don't think that kind of protectionism and isolation can survive this economy.
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Secular Progress (Response to Watchtower, feb 1 2008)
by Spook inin response to the watchtower's insults to the potential of secular solutions, i submit the following two lists.
the first list is a collection of benefitial changes to mankind which came about as a primarily secular response against traditional religioius views.
even those issues which had some faith based support enjoyed this in the face of massive internal conflict and confusion on religions position based off of sacred texts.
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Non U.S. graduate school recommendations
by Spook in.
i have a request of the forum for help in recommending some good universities for graduate school abroad.
i will be applying for anthropology, journalism, science writing, and creative writing.
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JW's called on me today for the first time since I left the organization
by Spook ini often thought what i might do or say when jehovah's witnesses finally came to my door.
i live in urban chicago, so i had until now been imune because of security at appartments (fyi, the vast majority of urban chicago is completely unaddressed by the ministry work.
laughable.
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Zen of the WTBTS
by Spook in"a renowned zen master said that his greatest teaching was this: buddha is your own mind.
so impressed by how profound this idea was, one monk decided to leave the monastery and retreat to the wilderness to meditate on this insight.
there he spent 20 years as a hermit probing the great teaching.