Jehova's witnesses...
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16 Sep 2008, 20:21
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Okay , i'll first explain the situation. Basicly i have this retarded girl on msn & sometimes i see her in real life , she's a witness of jehova.
I am completely atheistic & I trust in sience & proven facts.
Now how the fuck can you explain to these kind of people that they are wrong with their whole theory about Armagedon's , evolution , etc.
I can't understand that you are so brainwashed that you don't even believe in scientific facts ...
When i give an argument she just denies it and says something completely irrelevant (obviously learned from some book).
Her explanations are so unbelievable that you might start believing in Santa Claus etc.
Funny thing is that she's quite intelligent (school based etc).
HOW DO YOU HELP THESE PEOPLE ??? !!!!
EDiT I hope in 2010 the CERN project can prove the Big Bang & the existance of black wholes .
I am completely atheistic & I trust in sience & proven facts.
Now how the fuck can you explain to these kind of people that they are wrong with their whole theory about Armagedon's , evolution , etc.
I can't understand that you are so brainwashed that you don't even believe in scientific facts ...
When i give an argument she just denies it and says something completely irrelevant (obviously learned from some book).
Her explanations are so unbelievable that you might start believing in Santa Claus etc.
Funny thing is that she's quite intelligent (school based etc).
HOW DO YOU HELP THESE PEOPLE ??? !!!!
EDiT I hope in 2010 the CERN project can prove the Big Bang & the existance of black wholes .
Don't be atheistic though, that's completely unscientific. A simple example, there cannot be a beginning without something spawning that beginning, so something had to be in front of that, which means that something also had to be in front of that, etc etc. The only way to explain this is some "supernatural" phenomena.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not religious, not even in the slightest bit, I just don't denie the possibility of something higher than what we can imagine.
And about the girl, you can help her by brining her to a psychiatrist, they are specialised on this area.
I believe in the Big Bang & decent explanations
i wouldnt come up with one
replace big bang with a car accident on a crossroad:
Why did the car accident happen? Because driver A went through the red light and crashed into driver B.
How did the car accident happen? Driver A went through the red light and crashed into driver B.
Why?
Because driver A was drunk.
How?
Car A crashed into Car B.
Get my drift? Noone would ever drive into another just he bacuse he doesn't care what happens.
you don't know that, you think that, that is your theory
- Why did the car accident happen? Because driver A went through the red light and crashed into driver B.
- Why did driver A went through the red light? He was drunk.
I wouldn't use the word god in this case. I'd rather use the term "supernatural entity", because I don't believe it HAS to be something intelligent...
And what I said in the post you've just replied to, is nothing more than logics. All our current scientific theories, natures of law, assumptions, etc etc.. are based on the fact that everything has a beginning and an end. Now, you just try relating back to a beginning, you'll get stuck in a vicious circle which can't be broken unless you involve a "supernatural" (currently supernatural because with our current theories we can't explain it) entity.
This sounds more logical to me than there's one big creature has created every fuckpiece in this universe.
but where do you get your superverse from? I mean, if you try using that to justify the "beginning" of our universe, the big bang, than that also needs to have a beginning...
As long as something got a size, or something just exists, there need to be something outside of it, otherwise it wouldn't exist imo. But if something is the ultimate everything, the thing that overcomes everything, that rules everything, it can't be smaller than anything else.
The only solution to this problem is that there's no beginning and no ending. That's the only solution to the "infiniteness" of space: Everything is just part of a much larger thing whose size isn't imageable to the parts it consists of and there are always beginnings and endings within this larger part, there are plenty of big bangs, it's just part of the game..
my very highly educated (musician) cousin "tilted" totally about a year ago. he said that he went to sleep one night, woke up immediately pretty soon after actually being in sleep for a while, opened his eyes and "realized" what he missed because of his religion. (no tv, no other music than churchmusic or classic, no alcohol and so on.). he smashed his entire room upside down because he was so angry - middle of the night. when he got home once later (didn't contact his parents even once after "tilt") because of the funerals of our grandpa, in the evening (my sister told this) he was just swearing and screaming as loud as possible and asking why they lied everything during his life so far. but I need to point out that this dude is very intelligent. not only because he's highly educated, but he's like genious, a mastermind. that's why i'm not too surprised even if "tilting" as this is afaik very, very unusual
some people just realize it suddenly, some people are just either too dependent of their religion/hope or scared to leave. it's their own choice, but I can tell that their parents are pushing them very much.
(Imagine like dots on a balloon and blowing it up -> dots spread)
We also only know 4 dimensions ,it's possible there was another dimension whilst it was created -> see Black Wholes ..
I could continue for hours but :p
As i said , the substance was incredibly pressurised untill it exploded, try it yourself with a balloon , press it so hard untill it explodes , same thing
the pressure caused by the attractance of a black whole
Im an agnostic, allthough i have my own ideas about the universe and knowledge about the universe.
I'm very interested in the idea of an eternal universe. Do you realise that in a few million years, the universe will have expanded so much that evidence of the Big Bang will no longer be visible? It'll become legend.
Anyway, back to the eternal universe. I'm interested in the idea of an infinitely collapsing and expanding universe. The Big Bang was simply the result of the universe collapsing in on itself, and becoming so dense that it exploded - resulting in the Big Bang. I'm interested in the idea of this happening lots and lots of times.
Since the universe may not really be 13.7 billion years old, you know? Only the observable universe is 13.7 billion years old. It's a possibility, and I'm not so ready to commit to the idea of the universe having a 'beginning'.
Smallminded tbh
I don't believe anything that's not proven , why should i?
to be perfectly honest, i think the science, at least the part that is trying to discover how the life began, is full of shit. i watch national geographic channel and a few others now and then, and i can't beleive how many documentaries with totally different theories are made about things related to the topic of this journal.
but seriously, atheists here on crossfire (well, in general too, same shyt happens in real life as well) aren't behaving anything better than jehovah's witnesses. everyone is going around trying to prove something to religious people, being "offensive" with their arguments, just like jehovah's witnesses are
but the otherside to that is :
if its not DISPROVEN, dont reject it.
can't have it both ways logicman.
Even if you KNOW its false.
Example: Prove that I'm not God.
Sure, you could use your logic to understand that Im not,
but no matter what you say you can't prove it.
"humanity has found old left-overs like old weapons, cave paintings etc (stone age). you could lay all this stuff we found on this table, and it still wouldn't be full. what i am trying to say is, that all scientists say 'they lived like that and that' but for real now: we don't know anything about them."
i think you can quite conclude that for evolution and all other kinds of stuff.
for myself i dont know what to believe in...50/50 i believe that there maybe are some other dimensions and things beyond our power of imagination and also i believe that science has proven many many things and explained a lot.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103800/
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103801/
and btw who gives a flying fuck about how people think, its ok to think what you want as long as nobody dies or smth.
It was something about a timeline and carbon 14 dating...
Didn't happen .. they r saying other stuff now
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23cjXModWpA
whether or not you share those views is irrelevant. If they arent having an effect on your life, who really gives a fuck ?
Just look at different counterys with different religions and how their laws are different to be more suitable for their religion.
Or whats accepted to do in your countery might not be in another one where a different religion is the main one.
Unfortunately, creationism is becoming an increasingly important issue in the West.
She's smart actually but still so ignorant about something like that... unbelievable
Retard that believes something,flashes or thinks "let's make some money" -> Ignorant , non-educated or people that need certain thing to hold on to start to follow . Believe used to be so easy to spread because almost everyone was non-educated.
If you want to start a believe now you can only go to USA where the dumb idiots are there for the taking.
And dont forget that there is no proof that God doesnt excists (as well as the other way around though) so you cant dismiss the fact that there can be a God.
Dont get me wrong, I dont believe in the excistence of a God either, but you can also just let people have their own views (unless it ofc goes really out of border, then you should just avoid confronting them)
If they were right i'd be dead by now
Problem is just that their belief is so strong it instantly blocks out any critism incoming. You would do best not to go into that, because you cant just 'redeem' her. The best thing would idd be to say that she's old enough to research herself about what's right and what not.
Otherwise a nice point.
[NL] De basis van Geloof is twijfel, want als je het zeker weet dan geloof je ook niet meer, dan weet je het. Dus als ze gelooft dat God bestaat, dan twijfelt ze eigenlijk :P [/NL]
So i can't understand you hold on to this
Clear ? :D
but santa not true ? :'<
Why? Well, I'm always waiting for the omnipotent and omniscient Jehovah to whisper
in their ears that they are being tricked by a non-theist.
Unfortunately, to this day, that never happened. I guess Jehovah (or any other god) is
too busy at those moments.
It's pointless for you to try to convince her, she won't believe a shit you tell to her. Anyways even science has only theories about evolution and stuff, no facts. Given the options with religion and science, I choose science anyways. There's not even one religion that doesn't have a stupid fairytale that is supposed to be a true story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI
school based like studying 24/7? thats not intelligent imo :P
What are we living for?
Reproducing, evolving!
Do they reproduce and evolve?
Yes!
Logical conclusion?
Let them live!
Just as a tip, here's what I do: Let them think what they want, as long as they don't bother me with their belief. If they come to me for a serious debate on religious issues I'm in for a serious, open-minded debate and if they come up to me with ignorant arguments and false facts I gently ask them to piss off. Easy as.
DEMAND AN "DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD"-POLL
atheists should stay away from religious debates, they have nothing to fall back on ;D
I so fucking hope they will proove the Big Bang theory and cut all the sensless bullshit.
ps. with all respect to those who are believers. This was only my opinion. :--)
I think alot of people use it to make them feel better and make their lifes easier.. And then they pass it on to their children that gets raised with it..
Retard
u know what, I'll explain you in dutch tomorrow or smth, because you obviously lack the needed english skills to understand what I say :/
Je zou van jezelf moeten weten waarop je kan flamen & waarop niet.
[dutch]
Normally they are scared since I sound like heavy singer at hungovermornings :-)
I'll make a prophecy right now , in 100 years we will have flying cars.
If you really believe a book based on a prophecy you are really retarded :D
You really believe people walk over water? Or a bush catches fire & starts speaking? You must be on some strong drugs before you write something down like that.
Prophecies can be done by any mongol or mental ill person , some will be right , will that make him a god ?
Nostradamus had prophecys that came true ( depends on how you comprehend them). So what ,...
yes, i believe it, and im not on drugs. I dont even drink alkohol in such amounts like u maybe. Wonders happen today too - np for GOd, he had a power to create everything, all, earth, people. And to speak to Mose as a bush is izi bash for him - coz he says in the bible "nobody can see him" - so he used bush.
"Prophecies can be done by any mongol or mental ill person , some will be right , will that make him a god ?"
loooooooool. U must be really stupid. I dont know any mongols speaking prophesies which happen 3000 years after they were sayd - in exactly way, i know only mongols saying such a bs like u.
And I still wanna know if you base your bible-prophecies on the work of Drosnin...
I dont really understand what u mean. Who is this Drosnin and what did he? I read the prophesies direct from the bible, and parallel - arheologic facts.
That's your big problem
other than that, people like her are naive and being naive to me is basically the same as being stupid no matter how much time she spends studying to try and convince everyone she's intelligent :P there's a difference between book intelligence and natural intelligence xd
other than that dont even get me started on the matter of religion :P I think it's a good thing certain people have something to fall back on in hard times that's about the only positive side to religion i can think of
Gotta test part 1
true. Bible dont says anything against science.
You can't back-up any of your stories ... None are proven
Only the existance of a person "jesus if you wish" that helped the poor.
There are tons of people that help the poor.
BTW church & your religion are the most retarded ever , they controlled people & indoctrinated them for ages , some idiotic pope is still saying condoms are wrong...
They banned science in the middle ages by putting the books on the index.
The catholic people also removed parts of the bible as they didn't match their believe system.
I say NOT. Prove it. I read the bible and i dont have conflicts with science, coz i love science an know it very well.
Fail. U have to differ between catholic and evangelic. U have to differ between real religious people (which love other and do only good things) and specious "religious" poeple, who speaks about god but does bs like catholic church in the middle age.
" No it wasn't us it was them"
But you originated from them so stfu
I can proof people can't walk over water and a bush can't speak
Your turn
Scientific fact = evolution -> THIS IS A PROVEN FACT , NO DISCUSSION POSSIBLE
ape -> Man
Bible
Adam & Eva -> Eva originated from a rib of adam
"OK"
Thousands of things were proven, and no 1 disproved. This is the reason why i believe further things which bible says.
Your story from adam & eva went to the shitholes with that. You just don't want to see it because your blind as hell to reality, keep on living in your imaginary world ,you won't achieve much if you don't start opening your mind
you are the most ignorant fuck ever
Fossils are found from (an early edition of a ) men about 1.2 million years ago, not possible according to your thing since were only 8000 years old ..
You can even see evolution now over the past 100 years
People get taller , their iQ lowers (you can check that on yourself) , people live longer
THAT'S EVOLUTION , SOMETHING DENIED BY YOUR BOOK
Getting more knowledge is not an evolution. Bigger IQ is a result of bigger knowledge. People live longer coz of better life standarts.
Nevertheless, darwin's evolution theory is already old-fashioned and is modernized in many ways and will be modernized even more in future. We can't know everything, that's sure - but ffs, you can't deny the facts of evolution. Creationism is soooo stupid, it's unbelievable.
One thing to ur bible knowledge - do you even know when the bible was written? When those books it consists of were chosen?
fucking idiot , do some research moron
Nice brainwash you had , gratz mr smartass
all bunch of theories with only 1 criteria: they cannot be proven false
that doesnt mean they are correct by any means
In the most basic sense, a scientific fact is an objective and verifiable observation; in contrast with a hypothesis or theory, which is intended to explain or interpret facts.
Read it yourself
u really believe that every scientific fact atm is 100% correct? a.k.a F A C T
scientific facts always change with time
u must be blind if u cant realize that
this is the only point ive been trying to make here
I want to believe im an atheist, a real one but I have these interests for other religions. I was into satanism and when times got harder I somehow believed the christian God inside of my head. But i guess its just something to do with the raising where my parents told me to pray if something feels that God is only one able to help. You cant even imagine what if feels like when the thing you 100% dont believe, still comes up in the subconscious
Like i said every theory we have requires something out of nothing so The Matrix is probably closer to the truth than you think.
The prokaryots which live today have a era of 3 billion years of evolution behind them. The first so-called "life" would have consist of some aminoacids and maybe lipids around them. No huge informative DNS, almost nothing, just some chemical substances of which our live today consists now (which can easily create themselves in a rough atmosphere like in the early earth - check the Lloyd Miller experiment.)
It's the nature of chemical substances that they form their most "solid" structure, and so did those "pre-cells", too. I can imagine that the amino-acids could only exist for a longer period while being trapped in a circle of lipids or what-so-ever, and like that, also other materials got accidentially trapped, too, which influenced again the aminoacids, and so on.
In trillions of random "trapping" experiments and billions years of time, the chemicals "evolved" to something that could even look for special chemicals which helped them "to survive", to stay in their structure, and to fucking just divide itself into two pieces if they grew too big, what's called ...damn english...you know what I mean - in other millions of years this was called life - imo.
But ofc..God formed one man out of dirt and formed his wife out of his rip...