A JW who works where I work saw a New Age CD with an image of a rainbow on the cover, and immediately said "This is homosexual". Is this a widespread feeling among JW's, or fundamentalists in general?
gaiagirl
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Word/image Association: What does "Rainbow" make you think of?
by gaiagirl ina jw who works where i work saw a new age cd with an image of a rainbow on the cover, and immediately said "this is homosexual".
is this a widespread feeling among jw's, or fundamentalists in general?
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Jehovah's Witness Cannibal eats man's thumb
by MinisterAmos inhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline=cannibal-munched-pensioner-s-thumb--&method=full&objectid=18860588&siteid=89520-name_page.html
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gaiagirl
I wonder if he took precautions to insure that the thumb was properly "bled" before consumption?
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Gore is no expert....
by Bryan ina staunch critic of the climate change debate says al gore's oscar for his film an inconvenient truth makes a mockery of the awards.. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/423466/1005652.
a top hurricane forecaster called al gore "a gross alarmist" friday for making an oscar-winning documentary about global warming.. .
"he's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things.
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gaiagirl
AuldSoul, to answer the question you posed, first understand that Earth's climate is regulated in large part by removal of Carbon from the atmosphere, and holding it in isolation where it cannot interact with the atmosphere. Carbon is stored in large amounts in forests, where it forms part of the cellulose structure of vegetation. Carbon (Dioxide) is also stored as a dissolved gas in seawater. Some, but not all of the carbon in the sea is used by marine organisms, and ends up forming limestone and dolomite when those creatures die. Think about what happens when you open a can or bottle of soda or beer...it bubbles, right? Those bubbles are CO2 gas escaping as pressure is released. The ocean has huge amounts of CO2 stored as a dissolved gas in the cooler waters at the poles, and especially at depth. You may have also noticed that an opened bottle of soda still tastes fizzy as long as it is cold, but if it warms up, it goes "flat"? This is because cold soda is capable of holding much more CO2 gas in solution than the same volume of warm soda. As the temperature rises, the CO2 gas dissolved comes out of solution and escapes into the atmosphere. Most of the CO2 in the ocean is in deep water, where the high pressure and cold temperature keep the gas in solution. The depth below which the bulk of CO2 gas is stored is called the Carbon Compensation Depth. Now, imagine that the average ocean temperature rises by just one degree. This means that some of the CO2 which is stored in solution in trillions of tons of cold, deep ocean water will be released into the atmosphere, where it joins with the greenhouse gases already there to help trap more heat. Changing the temperature of the atmosphere is much easier than changing the temperature of the ocean, and all evidence shows that the atmospheric temperature has been slowly rising. So, the answer to your question is that once human activity releases enough CO2 into the atmosphere to cause an increase in the oceans temperature, the expected result could be for even more CO2 to be released from the warmer ocean. In a worse case scenario, the ocean could release enough CO2 to create a climatic spiral, more greenhouse gases causing higher temperatures, resulting in more CO2 released from the ocean, eventually making Earth somewhat like Venus, with a thick, dense atmosphere trapping almost all the heat from the Sun, instead of reflecting significant amounts back into space. Venus elevated surface temperature of 800 degrees or so is almost all due to its atmosphere, and not so much to its position nearer the Sun. For more information and detail, I recommend the writings of James Lovelock, an atmospheric scientist who has worked for NASA, and has several books on the topic of global warming, starting as far back as 1979.
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Jesus last word......on the "cross"
by new boy init was either.
"this a hell of a way to spend easter sunday".
"please god......protect me from your followers".
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gaiagirl
"I'll be back"
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Gore is no expert....
by Bryan ina staunch critic of the climate change debate says al gore's oscar for his film an inconvenient truth makes a mockery of the awards.. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/423466/1005652.
a top hurricane forecaster called al gore "a gross alarmist" friday for making an oscar-winning documentary about global warming.. .
"he's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things.
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gaiagirl
Gore may not be an expert, however with a Masters Degree in Environmental Science, I can say that I am an expert. Gore is doing perhaps the most important "warning" work that anyone has done in the history of the planet, and future generations will revere him as a prophet. People who claim that his data is flawed are exactly like those JW's who look at a Neanderthal skeleton and say "That can't be 100,000 years old, there were no people then." They already have their mind made up to reject anything which doesn't agree with what they already believe. Thats why Gore's film was titled "An Inconvenient Truth". The changes which are happening, and which will continue to happen, are going to inconvenience millions of human beings, and alter lifestyles. And they are TRUE, all you have to do is look at the changes in the icecaps over the last 30 years, which at both poles are smaller than they have been in hundreds of thousands of years. Or, check the atmospheric composition by using the ancient ice layers in the Greenland ice cap. Again, atmospheric CO2 is higher than at any time since the Cretaceous. Here are some changes which you can expect in your lifetime: Rising sea level, enough so that some coastal regions will be flooded. Continued shrinking of the ice caps, and melting of glaciers worldwide. Redistribution of rainfall as weather patterns change. Some regions will experience severe droughts and may become uninhabitable. This is not a punishment from Jehovah, but something people are doing to Earth, and to themselves.
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? for dubs re age of human race
by Mile 0 inalthough it is generally known that skeletal remains and fossils give us a much older date for the existance of humans, do jws still take the bible's cronology as literal fact?
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mile 0.
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gaiagirl
Poor Otzi, closer examination of his body have revealed that he has an arrow wound, which may have been a mortal wound, as it looks as if it could have penetrated a lung. This raises the question "Why was someone else angry enough at him to kill him"? Was he an escaped prisoner, or someone from one tribe trespassing on the lands of another? Did he try to run away with someones daughter, only to be caught and killed on the spot? I remember seeing an exhibit in a museum in Texas which showed native Americans who had lived in that region for something like 12,000 years, the age confirmed not only with radiometric means, but by dendrochronology (tree rings). There is a JW and another evangelistic Christian where I work, and they both believe in a human race only 6,000 years or so old. The last time they brought it up, I said, "OK, perhaps your Adam DID live 6000 years ago. However, my people are not descended from him, but were already living in Nod. You may have read about Adams son, Cain, who travelled to our land and married one of our people?"
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Silly Things You Can Do For Which Jehovah Will Kill You...
by gaiagirl ini was thinking about all the various people who the bible says have been killed by jehovah or his angels for various acts of disobedience.
here are a few of the ones i thought of....feel free to add your own eating a piece of fruit (slow death, 930 years) picking up some sticks on the sabbath preventing the ark of the covenant from falling when the guy carrying it stumbles living in a city where your family has lived for generations, in a region where jehovah has "given" the land to his "chosen" people dancing for your victorious warrior father, not knowing he has vowed to offer the first one out of the house as a burnt offering.
disagreeing with moses
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gaiagirl
I was thinking about all the various people who the Bible says have been killed by Jehovah or his angels for various acts of disobedience. Here are a few of the ones I thought of....feel free to add your own Eating a piece of fruit (slow death, 930 years) Picking up some sticks on the Sabbath Preventing the Ark of the Covenant from falling when the guy carrying it stumbles Living in a city where your family has lived for generations, in a region where Jehovah has "given" the land to his "chosen" people Dancing for your victorious warrior father, not knowing he has vowed to offer the first one out of the house as a burnt offering. Disagreeing with Moses
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Anyone here drop out of high school pre 1975?
by Threestars injust wondering.
and if so, were you able to go back later on and finish?
i barely made it in under the wire, so to speak, but my three younger siblings had to quit (our dad made them--he said they would be better off "pioneering" but in reality he put them to work in a gardening business he started since he had quit his job and maxed his credit cards--waiting for "the end".
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gaiagirl
There was a brother in my congregation who had dropped out of school in the early '70s to work in his fathers business, installing underground lawn sprinklers. He later got his G.E.D., then eventually moved away to somewhere in central Texas.
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Books that SHOULD be movies?
by gaiagirl ini just finished reading "mammoth" by john varley.
a sci-fi thriller in which a mammoth is found frozen in northern alaska, along with the frozen bodies of a man and woman.
however, as they are uncovered, it is seen that the man is wearing a wristwatch.
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gaiagirl
I just finished reading "Mammoth" by John Varley. A sci-fi thriller in which a mammoth is found frozen in northern Alaska, along with the frozen bodies of a man and woman. However, as they are uncovered, it is seen that the man is wearing a wristwatch. The man in charge of the dig hires a brilliant but socially challenged young mathmetician to repair another artifact found with the bodies, which may hold the key to time travel. The identity of the man and woman, and how they came to be 15,000 years in the past is slowly revealed. I thought I had it figured out, but was surprised by the ending. I'd love to see this made into a movie.
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The Forbidden Library
by MsMcDucket inshould the bible have been forbidden?
interesting?
this site has a list of books that have been forbidden by one authority or another.
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gaiagirl
I think that by reading about atrocities in the past, we can learn to not "go down that road" again. For that reason, I don't agree with any list "forbidding" certain books. Certain ideas are uplifting, others are not. Some ideas might sound like a good solution to some social problem, unless you already knew from reading historical events what happened the LAST time that particular idea was tried. For example, Germany experienced lots of unemployment and crime in the early 20th century. Many blamed the Jews, and eventually, those in power began to enact legislation against Jews, leading eventually to the Holocaust. Similarly, the Bible deals with horrible things as well, including genocide against Cannanites, etc, extreme punishment for what we would consider trivial offenses (picking up sticks on Sabbath, sassing ones parents), horrendous betrayals (David setting up one of his trusted men to be abandoned by the army so David can take that mans wife), and on and on. So, if we weren't allowed to read about these things, we might easily be seduced when someone tells us that THEY speak for God and God wants US to do similar things.