Shazard
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The Belief Trap.
by Blueblades inmost of us are awash with beliefs of all sorts.
we are steeped in the common sense and prevailing wisdom of our culture, traditions, communities, profession, family, and friends.
belief is very personal for each of us.
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Thank you, Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society!
by David_R ini wanted to say thank you to the wbts for enforcing a 'no-contact' rule on all those that have left the organization.. only by experiencing first-hand my former best-friends treating me like a complete stranger (see 'garbage') for standing up for my own beliefs was i finally able to tell the society 'good-bye' forever and not feel guilty about it.. i know this was not the wbts's intention from the alienation practice.
it's intention was to make me feel guilty and lonely enough to come back to them.
however, it has backfired on them and finally given me my freedom.. thank you, society, for lacking kindness and understanding.
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The "God Particle" "Big BANG"
by TopHat inkey scientist sure "god particle" will be found soon
by robert evans mon apr 7, 12:27 pm et
geneva (reuters) - british physicist peter higgs said on monday it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible -- as he first argued 40 years ago.
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WORDS are dangerous things!!
by Terry init is sometimes easy to be confused by the difference between:.
what we call things.
2.how many key words that make up my world view are really bad lables?.
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How would you answer this........
by fifi40 inthis morning i had a 40 min phone conversation with my ex husband because i spoke with my 15 year old son on wednesday about the inaccuracies of the jw belief system he has been raised with by his dad.
obviously ex husband is not happy about this.
the one thing he kept saying is that even if it is wrong it is not a bad way to live your life............what would you say to this?.
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Just got this email
by Cindi_67 ini received an email from my sister in law.
she was relating an experience given in a talk at an assembly.
a young couple wanted to have children, but they couldn't conceive, so they decided to adopt a child.
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New testament contradictions.
by Anti-Christ ininspired by a certain person who is relatively new here i decided to start a new topic on the bible.
i will just mention a few nt contradictions.. 1-jesus birth.
in matthew 2:1 the bible says that jesus was born during the reign of herod the great but in luke 2:2 it says that jesus was born during the first census of israel when quirinius was governor of syria.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: My website is now up!
by B_Deserter inif you'd like, head on over to http://skepticsannotatedwatchtower.org to check out my new website chronicling the logical flaws in watchtower literature.
i plan to do this with multiple books.
as always, comments and critique are welcome!
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two part question (s)
by bite me inhi, i hope everyone had a nice weekend!.
okay, to my two questions.
i figure i do it this way, because it's annoying to post something and realize i wanted to do another post, but couldn't.
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Making a case for evolution: answer to ID advocates
by hamilcarr into all defenders of intelligent design: it is wrong to assume that evolutionary mechanisms cannot be empirically observed.. i'll give only one example to show evolution is all around us:.
fish are becoming smaller and growing more slowly in response to pressures introduced by fishing, scientists say (google ulf dieckmann).. researchers call this fisheries-induced adaptive change, showing that harvesting drives evolution towards smaller fishes.. many people think evolutionary mechanisms require millions of years to bring about such drastic changes and that it is therefore impossible to empirically observe adaptive change.. it is, however, becoming more and more clear that only two or three decades are needed to provoke large changes, in particular when pressures are high.. although some of darwin's are outmoded and easy targets of id advocates, these data perfectly fit in with the mechanisms he predicted to steer evolution..