Posts by Double Edge

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Christ's BirthYear

by badboy in

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i have worked when christ was born;6bc.. quirinus become governer of syria 6bc.. herod the great ordered the killing of all children under 2 years old.

(herod the great dield in 6bc

Double Edge

FREDHALL:

Christian,
You can blab all you want to about Christ birth

At least when he 'blabs' he makes intelligent comments and backs them up with researchable points.

46

Wife makes a funny

by DB in

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on the way to dropping my wife off at work this morning, we stopped at an intersection near a funeral home which is constructed very similarly to many kingdom halls.

the following conversation took place:.

me: "that funeral home always reminds me of a kingdom hall.".

Ceclia: very funny about the babblefish translation....my exact thoughts. It's like they went through several languages then back to English again and that's what came out. I think the person needs to personally reboot their brain...the language portion needs to be defragged.

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Ghosts

by RWC in

through one of the respopnses to old hippie's strange noise thread, a thought occurred to me.

do atheists or agnostics believe in ghosts?

and if you do, what do you think they are?

Double Edge

For example, if demons are real why do they only attack the religious who claim God's protection but completely ignor godless scientists and Atheists who should be totally at their mercy?

Why should they attack the Atheists....their work is done with them.

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Today is my Birthday

by zombie in

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like that beatles song, "today is your birthday", well, its mine.

for the first time in a long time, i told people at work that its my day.

and i feel a little special and i like it.

Double Edge

Make it a GREAT day...it's all about YOU.

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

60

Losing my Religion......

by flower in

well at 29 years old, after a lifelong relationship/belief in/association with a higher power i called god, here i am very close to taking an athiestic or agnostic approach to the rest of my life.

it really hit me the other day although my doubts have been there but i just have been forcing myself to ignore them because i was afraid to give up that religious part of me because its all that i have ever been and i was afraid of the unknown.

but i realized after getting through another one of those weeks from hell that it makes no difference how much i pray or how much i believe.

Double Edge

What proof do you actually have that a divine being intervened in your behalf? I'm assuming you had a problem, prayed, and the problem worked itself out.

I hate opening up on things I consider personally sacred, be here goes just one:

I was 21, driving home late at night from working at a ski lodge in the Rocky Mountains..it was very dark, cold, snowing and the road was very icy. The steep little road, with no guardrails, that I was zig zagging down in my VW bug went left as I went straight ahead because my tire couldn't grab the road. I was literally heading over the side that would plunge me down an embankment into a rushing stream, I only had a nano-second as I cried out a terrified "Father"...the car stopped dead in it's tracks, as if it had hit a wall...I went forward, inside the car hitting my head on the windshield...not only had the car completely stopped but the engine turned off. It was very eerie with only the silently falling snow and sound of the stream below - but I felt this presence, not scary but I definitely wasn't alone. Inside my mind I heard a voice say..."you're ok, get out of the car". As I got out, and with my headlights still on, I could see that my front right tire was completely hanging over the edge without support, my left tire has about 2 inches of road left... And there was NOTHING, I mean NOTHING obstructing the downward sloaping path." I let out a heartfelt, vocal "thank you".

Now, to those of you who will doubt, mock, try to explain, WHATEVER... you weren't there, you don't know...but I KNOW.

The terrorist hijackings of Sept 11 were VERY well co-ordinated. You may rest assured the terrorists were praying to Allah as they drove their plane into the buildings. Does the success, against the odds, of their plan indicate that Allah intervened to allow them to succeed?
And what of all the passengers praying to their (mostly Christian) god to save them? He didn't answer their prayers - were all those airliners filled with unfaithful people praying for the wrong thing?

September 11, showed us all that there is definitely EVIL in this world, and it has power - not supreme power, but power nontheless. What we don't know is the countless times evil has been thwarted and prayers have been answered. There have been reports that several other destructive things were suppose to happened that never did.

[QUOTE}"Religion is good for one thing and one thing only, it keeps stupid people from fucking on park benches."[/QUOTE]

Lame quote...religion doesn't stop people, it's the municipal codes.

25

i b free

by SPAZnik in

surprising myself .

by actually putting a posting here.. i was pretty much born and raised a jdub.

all but stopped going about two years ago.

Double Edge

Loved your post Nik...and welcome....you're writings indicate that you should fit in perfectly...it'll be great to hear your viewpoints. Relax, you're only 29 and still figuring it out (that's what life is really about)...when I was 29 (eons ago) I was clueless. You sound like a positive person...GREAT...you'll succeed in your Quest, in God's good time.

Again, WELCOME!

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Losing my Religion......

by flower in

well at 29 years old, after a lifelong relationship/belief in/association with a higher power i called god, here i am very close to taking an athiestic or agnostic approach to the rest of my life.

it really hit me the other day although my doubts have been there but i just have been forcing myself to ignore them because i was afraid to give up that religious part of me because its all that i have ever been and i was afraid of the unknown.

but i realized after getting through another one of those weeks from hell that it makes no difference how much i pray or how much i believe.

Double Edge

Well said Nemesis.

46

Wife makes a funny

by DB in

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friends

on the way to dropping my wife off at work this morning, we stopped at an intersection near a funeral home which is constructed very similarly to many kingdom halls.

the following conversation took place:.

me: "that funeral home always reminds me of a kingdom hall.".

Double Edge

This has got to be one of the weirdest threads around. GADS...it's just a joke...if we all worked for the government and this was an employees board, the comparison would be just a funny as the IRS building looks like a funeral home - they both suck the life out of you....pah-rump bump...

Totally didn't not get it about Sept. 11 and the Firefighters... I think one angry person is a taco short of a combo plate.

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Which religeon is correct ?

by musky in

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can anyone name a religeon that is the correct one?.

my personal criteria would be: shouldnt celebrate holidays/ only study the bible, not publications with someones personal ideas/ people won't worry about dressing in exactly a particular manner, welcoming others personal thoughts on the interpretation of scripture even if it differs from others/ not demand money for membership.. any religeons like this?

?

Double Edge

My personal criteria would be: Shouldnt celebrate holidays/ only study the bible

already sounds like a false relgion (and a boring one)

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"Dubs For Dummies"

by Farkel in

dear brothers and sisters in the worldwide brotherhood of jehovahs witnessestm,.

there has been much public interest in our beliefs lately, so we have prepared a very brief summary of our core beliefs in a new pamphlet which you may offer to interested persons.

hopefully, this pamphlet will generate enough interest with honest-hearted people and enable you to start many new bible studies.

Double Edge

I love your way with words....you write like a pro.