I'm afraid after 40 odd years of having the bible rammed down my throat I have no desire to read another book full of BS.
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I've begun reading the Qur'an
by nicolaou ini've reached the point where i feel legitimate comment needs to be backed by knowledge of the source.. i'll post occasional updates on how i'm doing and what i'm learning .
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I am a Sceptical Rationalist, and an Atheist, yet I have Faith !
by Phizzy ini lead an evidence based life, in that, if i have to make a decision over buying something, or a certain course of action, i will look at the evidence.. if someone tells me something is true, i examine the evidence, using critical thinking skills.. and yet i have faith, not faith as some have, believing that something is true without satisfactory evidence, but i have faith that all humans are of equal value, that the right way to live is doing the most good and the least harm, that love is better than hate, that peace is better than war.. so, i am a sceptical, rational,humanist, atheistic person of faith..
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I thought your faith was centred on the ability of mankind to continue making decent beer. -
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Perry I love the picture of all those species of parrot. Do you really believe 2 of each species were carried on the ark or that there was a process of super evolution subsequent to the flood that resulted in the enormous variety we see today?
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An elder bought my son a suit
by Clambake ini guess being two months old and coming to the kh in his onesee was kind of offensive .
how rude of me.
i am thinking about returning to him.
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I hope the surgery went well Perry. I am surprised that prayer alone didn't work! -
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I have been informed that if u are df and you appeal the decision and you loose appeal
by poopie inthe elders will keep you out longer as payback for you appealing their decision how dare you peon appeal the secret weapons design you stupid publisher.
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SBF How many appeals were you aware of? To put it in context.
About 7
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I have been informed that if u are df and you appeal the decision and you loose appeal
by poopie inthe elders will keep you out longer as payback for you appealing their decision how dare you peon appeal the secret weapons design you stupid publisher.
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Did I imagine a brief thaw in the Watchtower injunction against going to university?
by slimboyfat inokay i was talking to an elder and he said me going to university was a bad idea and i should have listened to the society and not gone.
but i said that when i went to university the watchtower was saying it might not be a bad idea to go to, as long as you do it for the "right reasons", don't associate with worldly people, and keep clear of "damaging ideas".
but basically they said it was okay, in this "changing world" and job market to go to university.
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I was sponsored by my company to go day release and block release. I experienced no criticism from the brothers as I was still at home and attending the meetings and therefore, I was not being unduly influenced by the worldly university spirit. I spent nearly a decade first first of all studying chemistry and then my MBA. It was hard work, but I was earning a salary and didn't have to pay for anything other than text books and travel. -
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Newly released 911 photos
by purplesofa in(cnn) -- newly released photographs show what a damaged world trade center tower and its collapse looked like from a new york police department helicopter as it flew nearby on september 11, 2001, in new york.. the aerial photos were obtained by abc news after it filed a freedom of information act request last year with the national institute of standards and technology, which had collected the images for its investigation into the towers' collapse.. a couple of the images show one of the twin towers burning after a hijacked airplane had flown into it.
others show it collapsing, and the rest show the clouds of debris and dust spreading below after the towers crumbled.. each of the 12 images offers a rare look at what the devastation looked like from above.. .
http://www.cnn.com/2010/us/02/10/world.trade.center.aerial/index.html.
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Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories?
by adjusted knowledge inmy wife is taking a literature course at a local college.
this was her final topic of the semester: why rational people buy into conspiracy theories?i automatically thought of this site and of jws.
the jws i knew, were the kind of people that would believe in conspiracy theories, and i noticed a small following on this site.. the article that was referenced for this course was: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/magazine/why-rational-people-buy-into-conspiracy-theories.html?_r=0.
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As with everything don't believe what you read at face value. Challenge everything, fact check everything, examine both sides and apply Occum's razor.
By doing this most CT's are found to be total BS, some are as barmy as they are unprovable.....but occasionally there is more than a grain of truth........