A blog by Tom Sheepandgoats (aka Tom Harley)
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The Scientist from Iceland
A scientist from Iceland wrote an article favoring evolution over creation. Before he could log off, Sheepandgoats landed an email on his lap, citing evolution’s fatal flaws. But he countered that evolution had no fatal flaws, only points that had not yet been fully explained! Now….how to proceed? Do you tell the scientist that he doesn’t know his own subject, and that you know it…
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iPop Cleans the Basement
Need a tube for your TV set? Or a ribbon for your typewriter? How about the inner gears for your Super8 movie camera? Any of these things might have been yours for the asking had you been with me over the weekend. Once or twice in this blog, I have written about Pop. But I have not yet written about iPop. Inlaw Pop is one…
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Religion is a Snare and a Racket
Atheist Sam Harris came to town and City! newspaper welcomed him as a born-again would welcome the rapture. His visit was cover story and he apparently did not fail to promote his book. At any rate, a coworker rushed out to buy it and told me all about it the next morning, very impressed. Yeah, Tom, you should read what he says about religion!…
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Christians and the Internet
When Mr. Crowe came across the hateful website of that perennial apostate and general thorn in our side, Tom Barfendogs, author of Forty Years Down the Toilet: My Wasted Life With Jehovah’s Witnesses, he posted a comment in which he observed that the theme “JWs aren’t allowed to use the internet” is a recurring one among detractors like Barfendogs. What’s with that? he wanted to…
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Einstein, Euclid, and Parallel Lines
Parallel lines eventually meet. All you have to do to prove it is to look down the railroad tracks toward the horizon. You can see clearly that the rails touch. A contributor informed me, without much tact, that my scientific method was lacking in rigor. "Sheepandgoats, you moron! It’s perspective! Walk down to where they seem to meet and you will see they are as…
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Spurious Words at 1 John 5:7,8
It’s intuitive that the older the Bible translation, the greater the accuracy. After all, it’s closer to the events. It's intuitive, but incorrect. Thus, a fellow I met in the ministry was peeved because the modern New International Version deletes words from his favorite scripture: 1 John 5:7, a verse that, in the King James Version, clearly states the Trinity. For there are three that…
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Alanis Morrisette and New York Rock and Roll
Although the staff of the Sheepngoats IntoWishen Research Institute is mainly comprised of eminent theologians, such as Tom Weedsandwheat, best known for his groundbreaking, if plagiarized, research on the exothermic nature of hell, we do have a few slackers. Sheepngoats doesn’t have the heart to sack them as he should, yet you cannot get them to write about God to save your life. So we…
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Farewell Again to Mickey Spillane
Oh, for crying out loud! What is it with you, Sheepandgoats? How many farewells are you going to give this fellow? Didn’t you already do it here and here? Give it a rest, already! Yeah, I know, I know. But I can‘t help myself. One more time. It’s just that, if you read his interviews, he sounds like he would have made such a great…
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Wheatandweeds Defends Jehovah’s Witnesses
Last year that alternative newspaper City! published a cute article (they thought) poking fun at Jehovah’s Witnesses. We weren’t mentioned by name, but the description fit us exactly. Within hours, Tom Wheatandweeds zinged back a knee-jerk response. But it wasn’t enough! He pondered the matter for a day or so and responded again, this time on a more fundamental level. City! did not publish his…
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Forty Years Down the Toilet!
Forty Years Down the Toilet: My Wasted Life with Jehovah’s Witnesses! This title in the library’s new books section caught my eye. I snapped it right up and headed home because I love a good read. But only when I flopped into my armchair did I notice who the author was. It was Tom Barfendogs, formerly a colleague and fellow member of the prestigious Carriertom…