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God is an Athiest
by Tashawaa in
1. jw
2. friends
before the christian dismisses atheism as irrational or condemns the atheist as immoral, he should consider the disturbing possibility that the god of christianity is himself an atheist.

and if this is true, it means that the christian worships, obeys, and has devoted his life to an atheistic being who does not believe in any power superior to himself, never prays, is utterly without faith, and who does not acknowledge any authority, either cognitive or moral, external to himself.. .

if theism is defined as the belief in a supernatural being, then god is an atheist.
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WTBTS's Use of "Illustrations"
by Tashawaa in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
remember "illustrations"... the wtbts uses them to drive-home their points.

for example, i can't get the illustration of "good parents who allow their child to undergo a painful operation for its own good" (with picture of parents heartbroken, and crying, reaching child being wheeled into operating room).

this was suppose to help us "understand" why god allows the suffering today - for our future wellbeing.. well, what if the parents had the power to heal the child without surgery.
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10 Reasons Why Beer is Better than Jesus
by Tashawaa in
1. social
2. humour
10. no one will kill you for not drinking beer.. .

9. beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.. .

8. beer has never caused a major war.. .
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Battleground God
by Tashawaa in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm

you have reached the end!.

congratulations!
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Learning more about dinosaurs!
by Tashawaa in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-where1.html

i was in the mood to learn about dinosaurs today.

this is a very scientific site.
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Created to die
by Tashawaa in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the witnesses teach that jehovah created man to "live forever" in a paradise earth.

this was lost to man (i'm not forgetting eve .

so his dying wasn't from eating from the tree of good and bad, it was from not eating from the "tree of life".. adam & eve were not created to live forever.
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...they neither marry, nor are given in marriage...
by Tashawaa in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
one of the hardest doctrines of the witnesses that i couldn't wrap my little brain around, was the teaching that the resurrected would not marry.. i remember one assembly, a whole talk was spent on the resurrection, and emphasis was placed on the fact that they would not marry.

the couple sitting in front of me (obviously a happy couple, 'cause this distressed them) whispered how they just couldn't believe it.. here's the scripture they use to back their doctrine:.

matt 22:22-33 specifically vs 30 "for in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven...".
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In memorial of my cat...
by Tashawaa in
1. jw
2. friends
i lost someone very special to me.

my cat.. she was 12 years old.

she was the friendliest, most loving, cat i had ever owned.
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...not so much as eat with such a person...
by Tashawaa in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
matthew 5:

anyone who is angry with his brother without having a good reason will be judged in court.

anyone who says wrong things to his brother will be judged for it in the big court.
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Out of a job...
by Tashawaa in
1. jw
2. friends
i use to try to imagine the work i'd do in the new system.

everyone it seemed had their own idea of what paradise would be.

i use to despise the idea of 3 acres (???