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  Who can you relate to the most on this forum?

  by BonaFide in

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  i can relate to snakes in the tower the most.

  he and i both were raised "in the truth" from the age of 4, we both graduated from mts, we are both single.

  except i still go to meetings.

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  So who do you relate to the most?

  I guesse I'm a single case
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  Article: The Atheist's Dilemma

  by BurnTheShips in

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  campos: the atheist's dilemmaby paul camposwhy is stanley fish so much smarter than richard dawkins?

  that question occurred to me last week, while attending a lecture at which fish, the well-known literary and legal theorist, did the thing he always does, which is to make the following point over and over again:.

  "no believer will find his faith shaken by evidence that is evidence only in the light of assumptions he does not share and considers flatly wrong.".

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  Agreed

  So believing something invisible doesn't exist is faith? Doesn't that discredit faith? Or are we talking about a different definition of atheism?
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  Article: The Atheist's Dilemma

  by BurnTheShips in

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  campos: the atheist's dilemmaby paul camposwhy is stanley fish so much smarter than richard dawkins?

  that question occurred to me last week, while attending a lecture at which fish, the well-known literary and legal theorist, did the thing he always does, which is to make the following point over and over again:.

  "no believer will find his faith shaken by evidence that is evidence only in the light of assumptions he does not share and considers flatly wrong.".

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  Thus the only way someone like Dawkins will ever see any evidence for the existence of God will be if he loses his faith that he never will.

  That goes for all faith. My father used to tell me the same when I denied the existence of a current faithful and discreet slave.
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  Two Jimmies and a Keith

  by beksbks in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85zp1zvvdaq.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez8gfux3ao.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzkczv_k6i4.

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  Voodoo child is one of my all-time favorites. Greatest piece of electric guitar ever recorded.
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  ExJWs either BAs or atheists -- do you agree?

  by parakeet in

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  a week or two ago, a poster (i forget who; sorry) noted that exjws tend to fall into two camps -- born-again christians or atheists/agnostics.

  there doesn't appear to be much of a middle ground, e.g.

  joining a traditional, mainstream religion.. the observation has some merit to it.

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  Just wait until the exJW catholics wake up and you'll get overwhelmed with evidence of apostolic succession and papal infallibility.
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  Joe Biden and WALTER??

  by WuzLovesDubs in

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  this is from someone elses site but i saw this exact resemblance during the speech last night and busted out laughing!!

  my 14 year old was like what is wrong with you mom??

  i said "hes walter!!

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  No one messes with Joe!
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  The one thing keeping me from total atheism/theism

  by easyreader1970 in

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  i hate riding the fence.

  if someone asked me right now if i believed in a creator (or creators), i would still say i don't know, in spite of everything i know about current science.. what's my hangup?

  believe it or not, it's one thing.

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  The great discovery for me was that my mind is completely free now. I don't need answers to any of that stuff and anyway it's much more fun just exploring the questions and developing one's own philosophies and anti-philosophies.

  I agree. I've put the supernatural between double brackets. Haven't cast it away though.
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  Obama Says Americans Will Need More than High School Diploma

  by leavingwt in

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  i guess obama didn't get the memo from the governing body regarding higher education.... it is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work.

  but it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it.

  and so tonight, i ask every american to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training.

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  Changing economic needs will steer more and more Americans to college education. Access to knowledge may have a large impact on US conservatives.
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  President speech tonight

  by lancelink in

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  this comment was made;.

  "obama urges americans to get more than a high school diploma, calls for congress to pass education legislation,".

  i wonder how the jw's will spin this comment,.

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  Three possibilities these days: financial lethargy, no spending (libertarianism), stupid huge short-term spending (8 years of Bush), sustainable spending (Obama).

  The fact is, our economy did not fall into decline overnight. Nor did all of our problems begin when the housing market collapsed or the stock market sank.

  We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy, yet we import more oil today than ever before.

  The cost of health care eats up more and more of our savings each year [result of stupid huge short-term spending], yet we keep delaying reform.

  Our children will compete for jobs in a global economy that too many of our schools do not prepare them for [result of stupid huge short-term spending].

  And though all of these challenges went unsolved, we still managed to spend more money and pile up more debt [result of stupid huge short-term spending], both as individuals and through our government, than ever before.

  In other words, we have lived through an era where too often short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity, where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election.

  A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy [stupid huge short-term spending] instead of an opportunity to invest in our future. Regulations...

  (APPLAUSE)

  Regulations -- regulations were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market. People bought homes they knew they couldn't afford from banks and lenders who pushed those bad loans anyway. And all the while, critical debates and difficult decisions were put off for some other time on some other day.

  Well, that day of reckoning has arrived, and the time to take charge of our future is here.

  Now is the time to act boldly and wisely, to not only revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity.

  Now is the time to jump-start job creation, re-start lending, and invest in areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy, even as we make hard choices to bring our deficit down. That is what my economic agenda is designed to do, and that is what I'd like to talk to you about tonight.

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  I called for action because the failure to do so would have cost more jobs and caused more hardships. In fact, a failure to act [financial lethargy] would have worsened our long-term deficit by assuring weak economic growth for years. And that's why I pushed for quick action.
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  Bank lays off 450 then throws a Million dollar party!

  by sammielee24 in

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  bailout bank blows millions partying in l.a.. posted feb 24th 2009 1:18pm by tmz staff.

  a bank that received $1.6 billion in bailout money just spent a fortune last week in l.a. hosting a series of lavish parties and concerts with famous singers ... and tmz cameras caught it all.. .

  northern trust, a chicago-based bank, sponsored the northern trust open at the riviera country club in l.a. we're told northern trust paid millions to sponsor the pga event which ended sunday, but what happenedoffthe golf course is even more shocking.. .

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  Odd thing is that between Reagan and Bush 41, Federal Funding tripled while under the Democrat Clinton, it only went up about a turd, then roughly tripled again under the evil Boooshitler.

  Remember the difference between big and smart spenders. No one asks for blind deficit spending. It's sustainability we need.