Posts by braincleaned

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Interestingly disturbing!

by DS211 in

i work in the medical field and every 2 years i need 24 hours if continuing education to stay licensed.

my deadline is coming up and i am taking the classes this week and next week.

heres the thing, i scheduled them both on sundays and ive procrastinated over this two year renewal period.

braincleaned

Jesus! I promise to never go after your wife!

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Faith.

by wearewatchingyouman in

so, i usually describe myself as an agnostic theist with fideist tendencies.

what this boils down to is that, for me, faith and reason are independent of eachother.

i believe in god even though it makes no rational sense to me.

I agree with cofty — you have the courage of your opinions and have the honesty to separate faith and empirical knowledge.

I will admit, I do not understand, but I can't dispute what you feel on an emotional level.
I for one believe that Faith is uniquely emotional.

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John 3:16 - "believe" or "exercise faith?" Same thing?

by Faithful Witness in

i recently asked my jw mother, if she believed that jesus died for her sins.

(john 3:16).

she agreed, but then added the jw party line, "you have to exercise faith also.

braincleaned

Lol @ adamah!

Indeed... like you say: " I think a more-fitting analogy would be that one shouldn't just flap their jaws about running, or wear track outfit and running shoes while lounging on the sofa eating donuts while being 50 lbs overweight, etc, but the person should actually RUN."

Fitting analogy for most 'faithful'.

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John 3:16 - "believe" or "exercise faith?" Same thing?

by Faithful Witness in

i recently asked my jw mother, if she believed that jesus died for her sins.

(john 3:16).

she agreed, but then added the jw party line, "you have to exercise faith also.

braincleaned

" She agreed, but then added the JW party line, "You have to EXERCISE FAITH also."

This always made me laugh grammatically. It's like saying "running is not enough, you have to EXERCISE running!" LOL!
Silly JWs... parroting WTS nonsense.

What this SHOULD be saying is that you have to show works of Faith.
(Like it's not enough to SAY you are a runner, you must prove it thru action.)

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Forum maintenance

by Simon in

i will be doing some maintenance on the forum today so don't be surprised if some pages take a while to load now and again, you get an error or the site doesn't respond at all.. if this happens, please just wait a minute and retry.. many thanks!.

braincleaned

Thanks for all your amazing work, Simon.
This site is amazing and so useful. Kudos to you and your team.
:)
Vince.

141

Knowledge by Proxy

by braincleaned in

whatever our convictions are, we all have one thing in common; we have learned them from other sources.. we have knowledge by proxy... we didn't find things out all by ourselves.

we let trusted sources talk for us.. belief is not something that you choose.

but if there is no elephant, i do not "choose" to believe it isn't there either.

braincleaned

I would add to what Adamah points out, that there is an added shutdown on what is clearly written.

Matthew 10 shows a Christ that some seem to rationalize, and push away his own words, as they are inconveniant.
In Matthew 5, Jesus lauds the Mosaic Law as being perfect... yep — stoning teens with an attitude and gays... nice indeed.

I know another wonderful woman who has the same experiences than tec... she's great. Still, I have no doubt she uses confimation bias to invent a CHrist she hears but is not there.
Oh — she FEELS he is there... but let's face it; he's in her mind. Obviously.... for what use is he to others?

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Knowledge by Proxy

by braincleaned in

whatever our convictions are, we all have one thing in common; we have learned them from other sources.. we have knowledge by proxy... we didn't find things out all by ourselves.

we let trusted sources talk for us.. belief is not something that you choose.

but if there is no elephant, i do not "choose" to believe it isn't there either.

braincleaned

One thing is for sure; all this I "feel/hear/see" Christ stuff is drowning in dreamy cottonballs the virtue of truth and reality.

Jesus was supporting a despotic dad (who for most, was himself) — and admitted he came to bring the sword EVEN within the family unit.
No wonder men — yes MEN — followed-in with horrors like the Inquisition or the Crusades. This was NO misunderstanding.
He was no John Lennon...

Following that, the misogynistic Paul invented Christianity, base on the delusion that he also heard the voice of Christ.
This is a nightmare. And no amount of woo-woo wording with new age music in the background is gonna change the horrid facts of Christ.

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Knowledge by Proxy

by braincleaned in

whatever our convictions are, we all have one thing in common; we have learned them from other sources.. we have knowledge by proxy... we didn't find things out all by ourselves.

we let trusted sources talk for us.. belief is not something that you choose.

but if there is no elephant, i do not "choose" to believe it isn't there either.

braincleaned

If even one of you could show me how my faith in Christ is harmful (not the faith that you are talking about and defining), then by all means, PLEASE do so.

Tec — do you KNOW what crimes were and are commited in the name of Christ? Do you know how little respect he has for family values ( Matthew 10:37 AND context) ??
Faith in Christ has been the cancer of our evolution for over 2,000 years — is that not enough?

My problem is PRECISELY with Faith in Christ!

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Knowledge by Proxy

by braincleaned in

whatever our convictions are, we all have one thing in common; we have learned them from other sources.. we have knowledge by proxy... we didn't find things out all by ourselves.

we let trusted sources talk for us.. belief is not something that you choose.

but if there is no elephant, i do not "choose" to believe it isn't there either.

braincleaned

You seem to be talking out of both sides of your mouth here, for how does one "zealously fight against religious faith" WITHOUT destroying the beliefs of individuals ? We're talking about INDIVIDUALS who have to see for themselves what a danger religious faith represents. No one CAN (or SHOULD) force anyone else to act: they have to "see" it for themselves, showing them WHY faith is so potentially harmful to themselves AND to others.

Yes Adamah — I think I am guilty of being more politically correct on the outside than I am on the inside. I constantly bite my lip (or online, my thumb) to stay polite and respectful.
But thru my posts, I hope it is clear that I hate what Religious Faith has done to our species, and that I despise the delusion of Faith! I have but contempt for Jesus and his monster Father.
I just can't seem to spit that in anyone's face.
Mea Culpa.

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New! Borg instruct to report tract placements

by pixel in

there's a new letter coming up next week to be read instructing the publishers to begin reporting the number of tracts placed in the ministry, including copies of kingdom news 38, annual invitations, district handbills and other tracts.

lol.

see, the borg is allegue about numbers, and why on earth do they tell you to start counting placement in the middle of a campaing, like the one they are doing now witk kingdom news 38 and not before it started??.

braincleaned

The Borg is PATHETIC.
Did Jesus tell his disciples to keep track of their work? NO! Why?
Because giving freely does not "count" good deeds.

The WTS makes me sick!

* Of course, they shoot themselves in the foot, because thinking numbers prove god's blessing has backfired.
Islam and Mormonism could actually use numbers to prove THEY are more blessed than the JWs.
Idiots. All of them.