Is this 50 questions? Do I get a prize?
Or is this designed to lead the Witness your Honor? (pun intended)
Are you sure you've never worked in advertising?
Here is what's evident from your posts.
I think you need to qualify that statement...this is what YOU find "evident" from my posts after you have twisted what I said all out of shape....
You are a Jehovah's Witness.
Yes indeed for the last 45 years. Never had a moment's doubt about any of my beliefs. Never once been shown anything that was even remotely convincing from any evolutionists.
The Jehovah's Witnesses do not permit their members to be "evolutionists".
Wrong. JW's do not accept evolution in any way. It isn't a matter of "not permitted" but more a matter of finding the whole theory to be based on nothing that can be substantiated except by assumption. You are good at assuming, so perhaps that is why you believe in evolution.
If a Jehovah's Witness were to be an "evolutionist", they would be treated quite poorly by their fellow members, potentially including being disfellowshipped.
Wrong again. If one who was baptized as a JW, decided that evolution was too attractive to disbelieve, then what makes you think they would want to remain as a JW in congregation meetings every week, talking about the Creator? We have enough information in our literature for people to make a decision about the Creator's existence, before they take the step of baptism.
There would be no disfellowshipping if that person just quietly walked out the door never to return. However, if that person then took it upon themselves to try and subvert the faith of others, then we would take a dim view of that. Disfellowshipping would follow and we would have nothing more to do with that person. God hates rebels...and we don't want them either.We make no apology for that. Everyone knows exactly where they stand.
Such an outcome would be devastating for you, including losing purpose and meaning for your existence and being treated very poorly by your JW friends and family.
Oh good grief! Emotional appeals now.
Boo hoo....if I was disfellowshipped, it would more likely be for breaking God's moral laws, which is the primary reason for most disfellowshipping in our ranks. They are not common, thank goodness. But in all my years as a JW, I never once met anyone who swapped Jehovah for evolution. Its such a bad trade.
God's laws are not negotiable and if we break them, just as we would if we broke the laws of the land...there will be a penalty. If we were more concerned with losing our family and friends, don't you think it would be a good idea not to break the law in the first place? We think so because that is what the Bible teaches. Weigh up your options carefully and there can be no mistakes resulting in heartbreak.
You will not compromise your Jehovah's Witness beliefs.
We believe by choice, because we have spent a good deal of time on our research. No one is forced to believe anything. What JW's taught just made perfect sense to me....they still do.
You cannot join Jehovah's Witnesses....you have to choose to become one, and only after you have qualified to call yourself one. Wishy-washy indecisive people are nauseating, so we really have no place for such people. (Revelation 3:15-16) When we choose Jehovah over the musings of men that could all change tomorrow, we are in a committed relationship with the Creator of the Universe. Its a nice place to live. I have never wanted to move onto that shaky ground that the majority have chosen.
Tell me what is remotely attractive about it?
You will not compromise your views on evolution.
I will not compromise on any view that I hold with conviction. Will you? Is there anything I could present to you about creation that would touch any part of your apparently stony heart Mr Fly? I think not.
Your responses on these threads demonstrate how desperate you are to maintain your own convictions. Heaven forbid that anyone might believe the Bible and not science!
Nothing anyone posts here will convince you to change your mind on evolution.
There is no convincing evidence....how can you not understand this? Nothing that you or anyone else have presented to date is even remotely convincing to me. I have been given link upon link and I can dismantle all of them by simply highlighting the suggestive nature of the claim. NO facts mean that you have nothing with which to convince me. Can I make that any clearer?
You are welcome to the guesswork.
I have so much more than that.
Again, all I've done is repeat your own words back to you. Why would you post such statements and then expect everyone to ignore them?
Oh please ....all you did was twist my words by taking them out of context. I hope if anyone cares to check that they will use the opportunity to go to my old thread ("Just Accidental") which still adds about 100 hits a day since it was closed last year, because there are some good posts in that thread. It has topped 101,000 at last count. So.....someone is interested.
EDIT: Did you spark a landslide Mr Fly? I just checked...that thread had over 1300 hits overnight. How awesome!
The unmistakable conclusion is that you cannot ever accept evolution as valid, lest your life lose purpose and meaning.
Hog wash......the reason why I cannot accept what you accept is because I think its illogical nonsense based on nothing substantive. You have this monumental structure that all the devotees so admire, but it is built on toothpicks. A crash is inevitable.....sorry.
How did you come to that level of understanding given that you have only a high school level education and zero training or experience in evolutionary biology?
I have researched many things on science websites over the years, I
can read you know....and I am not devoid of intelligence, if that is what you are suggesting....? I don't have zero education in the
right knowledge. You do understand what "training" is don't you......I can do that with my dog.
You rejecting evolution is completely expected, as it is for all Jehovah's Witnesses.
If we thought for one moment that Jehovah wasn't real and that he wasn't the supreme first cause of everything, then we might be open to the suggestions made by science because we would have little in the way of other choices, would we? I like my choice and I will keep it because you have nothing better to put in its place, nor will you ever have. "Eat, drink and be merry" Mr Fly.
Again, all I've done is repeat your own words back to you. Why would you post such statements and then expect everyone to ignore them?
No you haven't...you have selected parts out of context to suggest things I never said....you like suggestions better than actual truth, apparently.
Your education in science is at the high school level.
Do I have degrees in science...am I trained like a seal to believe it? Nope. But I have read extensively and the things I have read all say the same things...."might have"..."could have" "must have"....there is nothing but suggestion backing the entire proposition. I don't consider that real science.
You have no training or experience in science.
And your training leads you where?
Can you back up a single thing with proof?
NO! Because science doesn't deal in proof....if there's no proof, there are no facts....no foundation
for your beliefs that are any more substantial than mine.
This is what 'training' results in.
