interesting article on slate.com:.
http://www.slate.com/id/2195683/.
any creationists out there up to a challenge?.
May be the ancestors of the salamanders that had eyes went towards the light and a couple of ones with deformities in their eyes didn't.
They are still salamanders just blind, they haven't changed species, they haven't become frogs, lizards, fish, elephants or monkeys.
Paul
after many months of lurking and researching on oh so many different topics, doubts, concerns, and viewpoints i decided to get my feet wet and start posting.
many times i wished to contribute something to a thread but was to apprehensive to get an account.
then as time passed and i read many more of the post from various members the uneasiness subsided somewhat and my desire to proceed into previously uncharted waters grew.
Hello and welcome to the board.
Paul
carmel, likes popcorn, green olives and blueberry waffles.. snickers, likes watermelon, cantaloupe and hawaiian bread.. what does your cat eat?
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philip.
Bats!
Paul
if a witness sees you, will they acknowledge you, ignore you, be nice to you, or treat you as dead?
Mostly they treat me as though i am disfellowshipped which i am not.......unless they want their windows cleaning of course then it's an entirely different matter.
Paul
dangerous chemical dihydrogen monoxide now found in every river, lake, and ocean on the planet.
it was only a matter of time.. http://www.dhmo.org/.
Holy poopsicles. THere are poisonous chemicals in the WATER??? The air, trees, earth, babies, space, and vegetables I can live with.. but WATER? Is nothing sacred?
Has the penny dropped yet?
Paul
my jw mother thinks that all christians (non jws who call themselves christian) are all trinitarian.. i tried to point out that there are certain groups who are not trinitarian, but she seemed to think that all christian groups in babylon the great believe in the trinity.. is it true that only fringe groups reject the trinity?.
sorry for my ignorance but i don't know much about mainstream christianity.. i would like to email her (my mum) a list of religions which reject the trinity but are also christian.
i also heard of groups who believe and preach about jehovah as gods name.. sirona.
Many christians i come across debate this one, some believe and some don't. Not all religions are like the JW's...many actually allow and encourage debate. It's easy to think that all religions have members that have to believe a heirarchy, when the reality is Christians make their own mind up what they believe following thoughtful debate. Bit like Russell really
Paul
hi, im new to posting, i'm working on fading out slowly and planning on beggining a college career, but raised a jw, and was homeschooled.
or any scholastic awards, and also money is not exactly growing on trees.
anyone here been in a similar position?
Hi and welcome to the board.
I do not know what resources are available to you with regards to grants etc. It's worth looking into. In the UK we have courses that enable you to get into university without the need for academic qualifications. I don't know if you have anything similar in your country. They usually take a year to complete or two years part time.
There are also many options for online home study degrees. I am registered on one myself, that way i can fit my work around it and finance it that way.
Paul
hello my name is jackie i'm from uk from the north area.
are there anymore of you out there that live near me?
i left the org over 20 years ago but still feel i had such wasted years in it and lost my youth.
I'm actually between Liverpool and Chester a place called Great Sutton.
Hey, Hey. Calm down, Calm down.
Went to Liverpool last year, started at the Cavern, hit a few others then ended up in Flares. Had a great night.
Paul
1914 doctrine was a major thing to me at the time i was a witness, i loved explaining it and saying we had the truth.
but there were so many witnesses that couldn't explain it at the time and only had a basic concept as to how they came up with the date.
i wonder how many here could explain and understand this when they were a dub?
1914 doctrine was a major thing to me at the time i was a witness, i loved explaining it and saying we had the truth
But there were so many witnesses that couldn't explain it at the time and only had a basic concept as to how they came up with the date. I wonder how many here could explain and understand this when they were a dub? Or was it just accepted as being told by the WT so they must be right?
Paul
one of the hardest things for me to admit, even more than a decade after having cut off witness ties as much as possible, was the possibility that they might be a cult.. i would always tell people that jw's had messed up ideas, that they screwed up people's families, etc., but a cult?
surely i wasn't born into a cult.
the following is one definition i found on the internet:.
About a year or so after i left the borg i did a Sociology college course. Within that we covered the Sociology of Religion where we covered 10 points that defined a cult. As i was reading it i was amazed to find i could apply 9 of them to the JW's. The only one i couldn't was that a cult tend to has a charasmatic leader, on reflection that could be applied the society itself.
This was a real eye opener for me.
Paul
