Posts by grumblecakes

shopaholic-yeah, totally hated 'eccleeseeasticks' also 'Gee-hovah' uggghh, and 'gift of singlness' even JWs use that as an insult in casual conversation.

tiki- yes! dismal and odd.

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Look what I made!

by finally awake in

it's for my first christmas tree since i escaped from the borg!.

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grumblecakes

that is fantastic! hope youre not offended if i do the same?

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How often did you entertain the "Traveling Overseers", and did you regret it afterwards?

by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

i found taking the traveling overseers out for a meal, to be a waste of time.

our literature regulary spoke of the upbuilding talk the local congregations received by entertaining our brothers.

now some of the modern cos look at their telecommunication devices, talk of things not related to our ministry or phone it in.

grumblecakes

i know of one CO couple that said they hated it when people would feed them in their home instead of taking them to a restaurant...they also hated cheap restaurants.

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How can anyone really be a 100% confident atheist given the paranormal and occult?

by yadda yadda 2 in

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i don't believe the bible is inerrant nor do i hold a 'christian worldview' any longer as my profile details say (which i am unable to update on my profile), but i just can't see how anyone can be absolutely 100% confident there is nothing out there we can call a 'god' or spirit creature in the face of endless first-hand accounts of paranormal and occult experiences that felt as 'real' to the person who experienced them as anything else in their lives.. there are untold reports of ghosts, faith-healing, ouija boards, seances, spirit mediums, stigmata, mystical born-again experiences, speaking in tongues, and then there's hypnotism, ufo sightings, poltergeists, remote viewing, etc, etc.

ok, so its mostly only anecdotal evidence, but the amount of it is so overwhelming it is practically corroborating evidence.

in the face of all this, how can anyone categorically assert that there is nothing out there that is beyond ourselves that we might call a 'god' or spirit creature?