Posts by Saintbertholdt

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35 Years Ago Today - John Lennon - Peace Advocate was Murdered

by flipper in

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friends

in this age of violence with the san bernardino and france massacres sometimes it's good to reflect on the wise words of the peace advocates among us who proposed a better solution in bringing a more civil society to our universe.

john lennon, martin luther king jr. - people who stood up for equal rights and world peace and denounced violence and war - no matter how that violence occurs.

please feel free to comment on stories of john lennon on this thread and feel free to post any you tubes of his music that you may have enjoyed through the years.

Saintbertholdt

I read Catcher in the Rye a few years back, curious about the novel that Chapman had so readily and obsessively identified with.

Catcher in the Rye seems a bit tame by today's standards.

I can understand why it was so controversial though.

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General note: It seems as if activism for universal peace can elicit some violent responses. Some examples:

Martin Luther King

Mahatma Gandhi

John Lennon

Perhaps its because the idea of humanity at peace with itself is such a powerful concept.

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Many people posted Lennon songs, so I thought I'd post one written by Lennon but redone by someone else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8s15Zt1S30

From: Make Some Noise (The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur) Disc 2

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New "most frustratingly addictive game ever" to play - agar.io

by Simon in

one of my kids got me hooked on this.

it's incredibly simple but also kind of fun and addictive.. you start as a small cell and need to eat things to grow.

that's pretty much the game.. of course as you get bigger you can eat smaller cells too ... and bigger ones can eat you.. as you get bigger you get slower but you can "eject mass" to shrink and speed you up (w key).

Saintbertholdt

Oh its a dog eat dog world... or in this case some circles.

Good fun.

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The Military Failure of the United States of America. Why?

by fulltimestudent in

the usa is undoubtedly the strongest military power in the world, and has often been willing to use that power against other nations, some historians count 187 foreign wars in 200 years, and this youtube video lists the wars the us has fought in the twentieth century, most of which, (in the earliest part of the 20th c) it can be argued, were won by the usa.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51nfakme-g. this is not an argument about the rightness or wrongness of any war.

the argument is why the mightiest ever military power, a political power that controls overwhelming destructive forces, a power that claims to stand on the side of its god, does not win wars?

have you thought about this question?

Saintbertholdt

For interest sake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9CHtm2qK2g

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Bloodless surgery is the standard today because of medical progress. Or NOT?

by Nathan Natas in

it appears diogenesister feels a need for a proper ass-kicking.. ok, if you insist.

i'm a dub proctologist.... attempting to hijack greatteacher's thread "jw parents in severe car accident,".

diogenesister seized my observation that "bloodless surgery is the standard today, not because of the wtb&ts but because of medical progress" with he carefully-crafted argument "bull crap.".

Saintbertholdt

I'm a Dub proctologist...

Soooooo.... you check the kingdom's prostate? Not too swollen I hope?

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

by hoser in

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friends

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

Saintbertholdt

Emergency rooms full of teenagers who are in urgent need of medical treatment lest they die. Don't do it kids..... ONE puff is all it takes.

I agree the situation is totally out of control. In the US alone there was over 100 000 marijuana related fatalities last year.

When will humanity learn?

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

by hoser in

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friends

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

Saintbertholdt

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80 Million Year Old Dinosaur Blood Vessels

by cofty in

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Saintbertholdt

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 :(