it is now thought that we have been interbreeding with neanderthals as early as 100,000 years ago.. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35595661.
craziest thing i just realized: some women still breed with neanderthals up to this day.
rihanna and chris brown anyone?.
I really hope we find some complete Denisovan skeletons, or at least skulls, so we can get some idea of what they looked like. Some of the more modern Neanderthal reconstructions have been very clever in gently subverting the 'ape man' or 'captain caveman' ideas which were once common. These guys survived around 80,000 years in an ice age. With only stone tools.
it is now thought that we have been interbreeding with neanderthals as early as 100,000 years ago.. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35595661.
craziest thing i just realized: some women still breed with neanderthals up to this day.
rihanna and chris brown anyone?.
John Hawks wrote a nice article on the implications a couple of weeks back:
https://aeon.co/opinions/human-evolution-is-more-a-muddy-delta-than-a-branching-tree
TL:DR - it's possible there were many species of hominins who could inter-breed over several million years. We're only just at the start of identifying them if so.
less than an hour old:.
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/how-child-sex-abusers-get-reinstated-as-jehovahs-witnesses/.
albeit how the church handles sinners and confidential information they have on them is church business and confidential whether you like it or not.
Confidential information has to be handled confidentially for it to be confidential. Otherwise it's not, well, confidential. The JW investigative/judicial process is not confidential by any objective standard. As at least two courts in the US have noted down the years when giving a judgement on the issue. I know JWs try to redefine confidentiality (eg your medical records inside aren't confidential to another JW) but it doesn't work like that for those outside JWland.
Did WBTS ever appeal the ruling of Charissa et. al vs WBTS in 2005 on the judicial process not being covered by penitential privilege in California? Or did they settle?
these numbers and letters:--gbr659967--are the only identifying markson this boe..the "informant" who sent it said:.
"this letter came through the congregation inbox and so hasn't got theusual identifying information.
the name of the file is probably thebest way to identify it.
i have been reading about the early history of russelites/jws and in the beginning, it seems the organization was formed and headed by quite a few educated people.
lawyers, doctors, businessman.
you could buy voting rights within the organization for $1000, which by today's standard would be somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000, something most of us do not have on hand, unless you are highly educated and/or wealthy.
The question Russell is answering, which is just before that quoted by JWFacts, gives a good indication of the views even back in 1910 (which is the date given to this question and answer) to higher education.
To what extent should the Truth people, Bible Students, educate their children, knowing the shortness of the time between now and the time of trouble, for instance, and also in view of the fact that in any higher education there is a tendency toward infidelitv, higher criticism and agnosticism?
Will paste the full answer to that question too (I've edited Russell's views on teaching children music out).
My thought, dear friends, would be that the majority of children would be better off if they would not go beyond, or much beyond, a common school education. I do not know of a college anywhere that would really do them any good. I remind you of a young man who came from India. His father was a native of India and had embraced Christianity, and, according to this son, his father was a genuine Christian, and so this young man was very anxious to come to America and get his education. Apparently his father was connected with the Methodist Church Mission in India. At all events, the young man sought out a Methodist college here. Not having great means, he worked his way through college, and in the four years that he spent in getting his education he lost every bit of his Christianity, and every bit of his faith in the Bible, and was turned out, graduated from a Methodist college, a higher critic, a total unbeliever. That young man subsequently was met by one of the Bible students, and it was suggested he attend one of the conventions. He said he did not have the money to spare. The party gave him the money for his expenses. He attended and was considerably interested, but not convinced, because he had lost his faith to such a degree. It was suggested that he should study further, and that he should study the six volumes of SCRIPTURE STUDIES. He went through the six volumes, and at the completion said that he rejoiced that he had found God and the Bible again, and the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior. He is back again in India, preaching Christ there, and preaching him from the true standpoint. Now I would not run the risk with any child I loved--and I would love any child of mine, I am sure; every parent ought to love his children--I would not want to do for that child anything that would result in the loss of the best thing he has--his faith. It would not be with my consent that my child would go even through the high school, because you will find the same higher criticism now even in the ordinary high schools, and not merely in the colleges. They have these so-called scientific text books, about man having been a monkey and dropping his tail, etc.
The same arguments really which they've rehashed ever since. You'll learn evolution at university! (Actually not so true - I didn't have a single class on evolution. But then I didn't read biology...). The end is coming! etc etc etc.
you all know jwfacts (run by paul grundy).
on this website, under “did the last days start 1914” ---> “pestilence”, it says:“during the 1800's five cholera pandemics killed around 100 million people.” .
there is no link to any source of info, so i emailed paul and asked where i can verify that total number?
True. But the Indian sub-continent clearly indicates huge differences to European rates. Didn't Japan have an outbreak which killed close to 1 million too? It's orders of magnitude out from, say, the 5,000 dead in Britain for an outbreak in the late 19th century. Or even the 100k in Prussia for a mid-19th century outbreak. Russia was 500k for one outbreak wasn't it?
Most of Europe got off very, very lightly (relatively) as the pandemics headed west it seems.
given derek o'hares legal issues for his brave protests i have created an fb banner to show not only exjwsolidarity but also that we appreciate derek's protests.
if you have not viewed his protests go to the "derek ohare1" youtube channel.
here is the fb banner that was i created fix it to your own fb page and show support for derek and all strugglers!.
i was just watching the jw broadcasting network and the topic being discussed was forgiveness.
the fellow presenting the topic was talking a brother who had sinned many years ago.
he finally came clean with the local elders, accepted his discipline and got on with his life.
In Britain, there have been high profile killers (and more) baptised. Male and female. Here's one of them:
If we'd had death penalty in this country though he'd not have been alive long enough to convert. As it is, he's planning his funeral inside.
They've changed their ideas on Armageddon and what happens I believe. I think the current idea is that there's a certain point after which you're doomed and just get to listen to the JWs telling you that they told you so. But the finer detail of their current beliefs escapes me at times. A resurrected murderer would get a 1000 year panda hugging holiday in paradise just like your average JW, and then they get the final test. Which makes you wonder about the benefits of conversion and explains why the WBTS is so keen on always having the end arriving tomorrow.
you all know jwfacts (run by paul grundy).
on this website, under “did the last days start 1914” ---> “pestilence”, it says:“during the 1800's five cholera pandemics killed around 100 million people.” .
there is no link to any source of info, so i emailed paul and asked where i can verify that total number?
Chinese numbers would be very hazy for sure, how many would die in a population of 430m during a 2 year pandemic in 1820s? Or five years if you take alternative suggestion it ran 1817 through 1822?
But the estimates for India place the European and North American figures in perspective. High population density, little in the way of health care. It's going to be grim.
i was recommended to this forum by a member of jw recovery.
i am a former jw studying a psychology degree in the uk.
i am conducting a survey looking at former and current jehovah's witnesses and their beliefs.
Hope you get a good response to this survey and it helps with your degree Reborn.
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For anyone wondering, the e-mail addresses at the end of the survey are for a genuine British university and lecturer at that university.
