JonathanH
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For those that enjoy a good debate. Please remember to separate people from their ideas; remember their humanity.
by JonathanH inthe anonymity of the internet is both a blessing a curse for the information age, especially when it comes to debate.
when a screen is put over the person, all that you are left with are ideas in a pure form; written word that constitutes a set of ideas, reasons and thoughts.
anyone can sit and analyze and form a response at their leisure.
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Why evolution will win (and is winning already)
by JonathanH inhttp://youtu.be/l-ilmyc5xdq.
that video gets to the heart of the reason (can't remember how to embed, so if somebody else wants to, then great, more people will watch it.).
the reason evolution has a hard time getting traction in some countries is strictly a religious one.
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Christians don't "warn" people of god's judgement, they "threaten" people with god's judgement.
by JonathanH ini was reading an article recently where a street preacher is on trial for yelling at gay people that they will burn in hell.
he's arguing for freedom of speech.
whether or not that is within his rights is not really my concern here.
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So my JW wife cheated on me. Need some help or at least a sympathetic ear.
by JonathanH ini have neither friends nor family to turn to.
the result of being born in a cult.
but i need to talk about this.
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A holistic approach to human civilization, opposed to the blame game. It's not conservatives or liberals.
by JonathanH inreading political threads on this site (and really any site for that matter) is incredibly frustrating.
namely because they all boil down to the same argument.
who is it that is fucking society over?
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A secular website/podcast interviews an ex-elder
by JonathanH ini just stumbled onto this by accident.
i was reading pz myer's blog, and just on a larf clicked on a link to another blog.
one of the first entries was "view from the watchtower" in which an ex-elder is interviewed about his past experiences as a jw.
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After one semester it's very easy to see why the society is so afraid of university education.
by JonathanH init is so antithetical to their way of doing things, and forces you into a state of mind they hate.
it gets you out of whatever bubble you live in.
you're expected to be an adult, which is the exact opposite of what the society wants from you.. in my english 101 class we have watched r rated movies, talked about religion, learned how to recognize and dissect propoganda and my professor openly states that his goal is to challenge our prejudices and ways of thinking.
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Getting back little pieces of your life that they took from you.
by JonathanH ini sometimes feel like i lost so much because the first two plus decades of my life were spent in that stupid cult.
but occasionally i find a little piece of something they took from me, and i get to keep it so it's like they never took it from me at all.. tonight i got out of class (i'm in college working towards a b.s.
in engineering and/or mathematics), and it was a chilly autumn night so i decided to go to a little coffee dive downtown i hadn't been to since i went out in service and would go there for coffee breaks.
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Can you prove God isn't evil? The omnimalevolent god hypthothesis.
by JonathanH in(1) there exists an omnipotent, omniscient and maximally good god.
but the behaviour of such puppet beings lacks the dimension of moral responsibility that makes our actions genuinely virtuous.
but these evils are more than outweighed by the important such as possibility of genuinely virtuous action.
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Beware the educated, they are mentally diseased.
by JonathanH insaw this poster on a website and i had to post it here.
i think it really shows the twisted way of thinking that witnesses have cultured into them.
they turn virtues into vices, and vices into virtues.