Saintbertholdt

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  Legalized marijuana. It's coming to canada and I want to try it.

  by hoser in

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  as a good jw i never smoked a joint or nibbled on some brownies.

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  80 Million Year Old Dinosaur Blood Vessels

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  just astonishing.. when i was a child we were taught that fossils were nothing more than mineral ghosts of ancient bones.

  even the protein structures can be studied using high resolution mass spectrometry.

  this will allow researchers to study the evolution of proteins.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Amazing stuff. Have you read Jack Horner's "How to build a dinosaur"?

  There's a lot of info on this topic within the book, although it was still pretty nascent.
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  I couldn't take it anymore, although still in because of my wife, I did this...

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i dressed up in a hoodie, double layer so that the cameras at the kingdom hall couldn't recognize me.

  i looked in the mirror up and down so i knew that the cameras, at least at the angle that i knew couldn't see my face.

  i took this disassociation letter, stuck it in the envelope, labeled it, "(congregation's name...boe" by hand and sealed it.

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  Saintbertholdt

  I was baptized as a Witness in 1987 in what is known as now as the Douglas Park congregation of Chicago.
  

  Aren't you busted now?
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  CEDARS (Again) Is it really about religious beliefs?

  by Listener in

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  john cedars has posted his latest blog "the trouble with apostates (and why it shouldn't put you off becoming one)".

  i acknowledge that he is entitled to his opionin just as we are ours but i am disappointed in some of his comments.. at this stage i'll try to be objective about it.

  he is defending his own position after all.. what bothers me most is his comments about athiests and christians which he seems to identify as being in conflict with each other.

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  Saintbertholdt

  I personally believe that religion will decline over the next few decades and will then make a comeback in a big way. When ideas go into decline they are usually rediscovered, recycled and repackaged and then hailed as "new".

  If human development were to take a left turn into chaos, religion would immediately resurface as a tool for control, rule of law and general order.

  If human development continues in its technological strides forward, religion will just be repackaged as a fundamental life philosophy, which is essentially what religion is anyway.

  In the meantime the debate between religion and atheism is pretty neat and I have my popcorn and soda ready for the next exciting chapter. The conclusion to this debate on the fundamental meaning of life (which usually is at the core of these contests) is actually forgone though: No matter what, no one gets out of this alive.
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  Question for Cofty about God and Bible defences

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i thought about sending you a pm but it might make an interesting open discussion.

  i've seen you express the lack of good pro-god ex-witnesses to engage with.

  i don't know about ex-witnesses, but there are a few witnesses who've written on these issues.

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  Can you tell me does the first link work?

  Nope. Here's another link to it: http://www.chronosynchro.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Dating-the-Deluge.pdf

  Anyhoo just on the surface Gertoux bites off a lot and then tries to chew. According to Gertoux not only is the accepted Archaeological and Geological chronology totally incorrect, but he also takes the odd swing at evolution. All the while using the Watchtower chronology as his guiding and shining light:

  For example, remember this out of the old aid book?

  

  Arguing with Gertoux would be similar to the suffering that many Atheists had to endure when they had to sit through the seven DVD's of Kent Hovind and then had to construct not only the rebuttal but the absolute demolition of his arguments (which continues to this very day).

  One would have to take his arguments one at a time... Blegh :(
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  I never understood field service...

  by Joliette in

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  2. friends

  it was always boring, and i was afraid that i was gonna get attacked by a dog.

  i actually almost got attacked by a rottweiler once.

  i didnt get paid for it, nobody listened to us, i actually had guys make passes at me while i was out doing street corner, i was always afraid i would get grouped and raped.

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  Saintbertholdt

  One day on field service a guy shot me behind the ear with a BB gun. LOL

  One day on field service I met an old Nazi who had been indoctrinated by the Hitler youth in his teens. It was a strange encounter and he was still a Nazi bastard.

  One day on field service I encountered a single mother and young toddler at her apartment. I recognized her immediately. A couple of years before we had had a wild fling (this was before I became a JW). And there I was, clean cut, trying to sell her on morality. hehe
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  Feeling rejected

  by Esmeralda001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just a little disclaimer: english isn't my first language (i'm from france) thus the poor writing skills.here is the situation: i'm not a jw.

  however, i'm in the process of becoming one.

  in fact, i'm studying with the jw's, and i'll proceed to become an unbaptized publisher as soon as i finish the first book.to make a long story short i was introduced to the truth when i was 18een.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Hi Esmeralda001,

  Two things:

  1. You can't be friends with everyone and some people will hate you just because they can. In this "elderette's" case I suspect its a case of envy.

  2. Carefully consider your involvement with the Jehovah's Witness religion. The shunning you are experiencing from this particular sister and her family will be multiplied one hundred fold if you ever decide to leave.

  Good luck with your medical degree and I sincerely hope that you don't join the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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  Could trends and group think be evidence of a form of telepathy?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. current

  i was thinking the other day about trends.

  think back over the decades and how generally the majority of people will feel or like or dislike the same things.

  people comment how awful and ugly things that trended in the past were.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Some days ago i watched a programme where the bird flight was mentioned. As far as i remember the bird flight is based on three simple natural principles, 1. Remain in the band, 2. Keep distance,

  http://black-square.github.io/BirdFlock/

  https://github.com/black-square/BirdFlock/releases/tag/v1.0.0

  Oh also see, cellular automata for simple rules generating complex behavior.
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  Could trends and group think be evidence of a form of telepathy?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. social
  2. current

  i was thinking the other day about trends.

  think back over the decades and how generally the majority of people will feel or like or dislike the same things.

  people comment how awful and ugly things that trended in the past were.

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  Saintbertholdt

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Consciousness_Project
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  The Exodus confirmed..

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. bible

  for those of you that don't research this stuff i will give a little back story.

  we all know about the moses exodus, but history and archeology didn't seem to confirm this event.

  the only exodus out of egypt ever recorded was that of a group of asiatic tribes that had taken over egypt for a bit over 100 years called the hyksos and the followers of the pharaoh akhenaten who perpetuated a monotheistic idea of worshiping only one deity the aten.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Ahmose I is the pharaoh that drove out the Hyksos many years before the reign of Ramesses II.

  I get that the writer argues that its a conflagration/distorted memory of historical events that conspire to make up the mythology of the exodus. However I also got the gist that a specific exodus of sorts occurred... Or am I wrong?

  Although the Hyksos were not the Hebrews, and in fact lived a very long time before the earliest Hebrews, they were nonetheless Semitic peoples. They were violently expelled from Egypt around 1550 BCE by Ahmose I, but this itself could’ve been a distorted memory of Semitic peoples fleeing Egypt.
  

  ...The fact is, as I intimated earlier, we can find no evidence for the existence of Israel prior to the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE). For this we can turn to the king called Baenre-merynetjeru Merneptah hotep-her-maat (1212-1201 BCE), the son and successor of Ramesses II. Merneptah was the first Egyptian pharaoh to drive out incursions of the Sea Peoples, with their Libyan allies.

  ...This earliest mention of Israel, by the way, has led some scholars to argue that Merneptah was the pharaoh of Exodus. They represent a minority, however: most still argue in favor of Ramesses II.