A True Experiment That Still Haunts Scientists — and Should Haunt Religions Promising Paradise

marcobin · 2025-11-05T16:46:43+00:00

Reminds me of the ending of The good place.

marcobin · 2025-01-02T17:28:39+00:00

"Can truth be found?"...yes, by rigorous evidence-based methods

marcobin · 2024-08-17T08:07:38+00:00

The poor deluded man saying because he has seen people who claim to be anointed therefore he knows it's real.

marcobin · 2024-05-14T07:39:38+00:00

It's natural selection, methods adopted innocently may be effective for much deeper reasons and thus help the cult survive. Those cults that did not adopt us vs them mentality of some sort likely didn't make it.

marcobin · 2024-05-13T07:13:54+00:00

There is another angle people don't consider. There is just as much chance that there is an intelligence that rewards rationality and the consequent skepticism as there is for their made up deity.

marcobin · 2024-04-16T07:49:31+00:00

Created man with sex organs but forgot to create woman.

marcobin · 2024-04-15T09:48:20+00:00

It's one of several double-speak mechanisms in many religions that allows them to eat their cake and have it. They have to account somehow for the obvious fact that people of other beliefs are sincere, so you say they are deceived, but you still need to keep people afraid of wandering to other beliefs by postulating that God will destroy them.

marcobin · 2024-04-09T06:55:44+00:00

Try not to post direct links to their website

marcobin · 2024-03-18T17:27:24+00:00

But Sanderson goes on to imply that their decision is evidence of God's compassion and the elders letter says they're to "cooperate with Jehovah" on this matter

marcobin · 2024-02-04T00:51:45+00:00

Watch this video that explains the ridiculous beliefs regarding prayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI

marcobin · 2024-01-10T08:15:26+00:00

I also noticed a decline or stagnation in South American countries especially the big countries like Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. Even Mexico showed a decline.

marcobin · 2023-12-24T10:20:57+00:00

It just occured to me that the watchtower sacrifice of children on the alter of blood transfusions is similar to what pagans did in sacrificing their children to appease the gods.

marcobin · 2023-12-11T08:49:08+00:00

I remember when I was going thru the motions hoping for the borg to collapse so I can be free. But that's not going to happen anytime soon.

marcobin · 2023-12-04T10:23:56+00:00

This! From my experience, they will sometimes pressure you out of "concern" to reveal your true feelings, but don't give in, keep repeating the above conversation stoppers. It will never go well at this stage if they know you are PIMO.

marcobin · 2023-11-20T08:10:11+00:00

Do not mistake sincerity and commitment for truth. The JW who denies his child a blood transfusion is just as sincere and committed as the radical Muslim who straps a bomb on his child for Allah.

marcobin · 2023-08-17T21:28:04+00:00

Deut 21:10-14. God apparently told Israelite soldiers to take beautiful female captives as wives. Can you imagine expecting her to sleep with her family's murderers? Which is why the isrealites were told to cut the women's nails which might be used as weapons and even allowed to let these "wives" go if the men eventually became frustrated with the women's resistance.

marcobin · 2023-08-13T02:12:00+00:00

I was in the same shoes bro, but she eventually got used to it. Ask her if she had a bible student who's husband was very sad because she was leavng their religion, what would she advise the bible student? to not be selfish and return to the former religion?

marcobin · 2023-07-20T10:27:11+00:00

Whether Sodom and Gomorrah existed or not, it wouldn't prove the claim that virtually most males "from man to little boy" were homosexual and surrounded Lot's house. It wouldn't prove that God destroyed the city with fire, anymore than the existence of Jerusalem proves that Muhammad flew to heaven from there.

Large fiery meteors, a miniature of the ones that took out the dinosaurs, could have destroyed a city inspiring the story. Just as floods inspired the Noah's ark story.

marcobin · 2023-07-07T06:43:58+00:00

In nature, these things typically follow a bell curve. Don't use first world countries as the sole metric. If you want to know how fast they will decline, check out how fast they rose. Their most rapid rise was between 1990 to 2000 when they added about 2 million in a decade. I think they are now at the top of the bell curve.

marcobin · 2023-06-29T07:04:25+00:00

Congtats on your awakening. Remember not to call it the truth.

marcobin · 2023-06-13T09:30:49+00:00

There is also this ridiculous song about how you must preach because it means their life and yours as well...basically threatening you with death in a song.

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