Posts by LoveUniHateExams

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Is It Israel or Palestine??

by minimus in

jw
friends

does palestine actually exist?

does israel have the right to exist!.

if the Palestinian extremists would stop sending their crude rockets and stop the bombings and suicide attacks AND Israel would stop the Gaza blockade that is preventing foreign aid to help the human suffering, [italics mine] - Gaza gets aid every year. Hamas should stop spending aid money on rockets and spend it on its citizens instead.

stop the illegal settlements - you're right here. Israel should definitely stop the illegal settlements (in West Bank, not Gaza, although you mention this just after your point on Gaza, making it look like Israel is stealing land from citizens of Gaza).

The cycle of violence often begins and ends with Hamas/Gazan Palestinians.

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Is It Israel or Palestine??

by minimus in

jw
friends

does palestine actually exist?

does israel have the right to exist!.

LoveUniHateExams

would not a One State solution be the best - when people talk of a 'one state solution', they're usually talking about one state ruled by Arab Palestinians.

There is no reason to believe why such a state would be any good at all. Bye bye gays, atheists, etc.

But, yes, one state ruled by Jews might be best, but so unlikely as to be impossible.

Israel has existed since 1948 - it also existed thousands of years ago, too.

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Is It Israel or Palestine??

by minimus in

jw
friends

does palestine actually exist?

does israel have the right to exist!.

LoveUniHateExams

It's definitely Israel.

Israel is a country, the world's only Jewish state, and has a right to exist.

The situation is complicated and heart-breaking, really.

I know some Palestinian people on FaceBook (well, one Palestinian and one Jordanian) and they're really nice people.

I hope a sensible solution can be found.

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Did Jesus die on a stake or pole?

by sweetyj in

we already know how jws will respond ( on a pole).

but i found an article that talks about jws views on how jesus died.

i didn't know that there was a time when jws accepted the cross unlike now.

LoveUniHateExams

surely the real reason that the WT makes a big deal of this is to separate JWs from other faith groups . Another " ya shucks boo to you, we've got the truth and you haven't " - yep, 100%.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner, laydees n gennelmen!!!

I admit I'm partial tin foil hat. It's sort of a Pascal's wager in tin foil - hahaha XD

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Greenland For Sale

by Poztate in

the donald has recently suggested that he would like to look into buying greenland from denmark in the same manner that alaska was purchased from the russians.

i think the danes would be smart to look into selling it as it is costing them money every year with very little returns for their investments so far.. the alternative might well be that donald declares greenland a national security threat and invades them so that the world remains safe for democracy.

i would suggest to the danes that as any other real estate transaction that they put it on the open market and see how much russia or china are willing to offer .

LoveUniHateExams

Ask your country that same question - well, I don't need to because British imperialism is commonly denounced.

But why does Danish imperialism go under the radar?

PS - you need to take the Falklands off that list. The islanders voted overwhelmingly to continue being part of the UK.

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Greenland For Sale

by Poztate in

the donald has recently suggested that he would like to look into buying greenland from denmark in the same manner that alaska was purchased from the russians.

i think the danes would be smart to look into selling it as it is costing them money every year with very little returns for their investments so far.. the alternative might well be that donald declares greenland a national security threat and invades them so that the world remains safe for democracy.

i would suggest to the danes that as any other real estate transaction that they put it on the open market and see how much russia or china are willing to offer .

LoveUniHateExams

Shouldn't Greenlanders want independence?

Why is everyone seemingly ok with Danish imperialism?

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Did Jesus die on a stake or pole?

by sweetyj in

we already know how jws will respond ( on a pole).

but i found an article that talks about jws views on how jesus died.

i didn't know that there was a time when jws accepted the cross unlike now.

LoveUniHateExams

If the Romans wanted to kill someone, they wouldn't go all PC Snowflake - indeed.

I remember one 'argument' the WTS has for a stake and not a cross is that the supposed origin of the cross is for the pagan god Tammuz.

The WTS claims (I think) that this makes the cross pagan. Well, so what? The Romans, being pagan themselves at that point, wouldn't give a crap, would they ...

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Evolution - A Conversation with Alex Williams

by cofty in

alex - thank you for your offer to have a conversation about evolution.. i accept the scientific evidence that all life - including humans - evolved from a common ancestor through unguided evolution over millions of years.

this isn't even a controversial position in the scientific community.. the evidence rests on the data from many interconnected fields including paleontology, comparative anatomy, geology and especially genetics.

it is no exaggeration to say that the evidence for your own non-human ancestry is contained in every cell in your body.. it is my experience that jws are generally quite ignorant (not in a pejorative sense) of the scientific case.

LoveUniHateExams

Just to sum up this thread so far ... Cofty wants to have a dialogue about evolution with Alex Williams.

Alex posted a comment about abiogenesis, not evolution. Then he posted a comment about how he doesn't need to prove anything, he just knows.

Alex, please reconsider and join in the conversation.

There are many talking points about evolution.

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Did Jesus die on a stake or pole?

by sweetyj in

we already know how jws will respond ( on a pole).

but i found an article that talks about jws views on how jesus died.

i didn't know that there was a time when jws accepted the cross unlike now.

LoveUniHateExams

This form of capital punishment is called crucifixion.

So, the Romans put people to death on a cross, perhaps?

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Evolution - A Conversation with Alex Williams

by cofty in

alex - thank you for your offer to have a conversation about evolution.. i accept the scientific evidence that all life - including humans - evolved from a common ancestor through unguided evolution over millions of years.

this isn't even a controversial position in the scientific community.. the evidence rests on the data from many interconnected fields including paleontology, comparative anatomy, geology and especially genetics.

it is no exaggeration to say that the evidence for your own non-human ancestry is contained in every cell in your body.. it is my experience that jws are generally quite ignorant (not in a pejorative sense) of the scientific case.

LoveUniHateExams

@TD - those skulls you posted, I'm guessing the four on the right belong to the genus Homo.

Is that correct?

PS - the four on the left don't. They belong to other genera, Paranthropus and Australopithecus perhaps.