a question: "what does identity mean?
" if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck have feathers like a duck: it is a __?___.
hans christian anderson taught us this lesson in the famous story of "the ugly duckling" (**spoiler alert**) the ugly part of the duckling was misleading to observers who later discover it is a swan.
Science (Biology) teaches: "An organism has a phenotype and a genotype." - yes, this is correct, established science.
All the following are human phenotypes, coded for by genotypes:
eye colour
skin colour
height
weight
body fat
muscle mass
male/female (biological sex, not 'gender')
behaviour
i saw this on twitter the other day and it blew my mind.. tyrannosaurus is closer to us than to stegosaurus.
that is, when tyrannosaurus lived, stegosaurus were already fossilized and those fossils were older than tyrannosaurus fossils are today to us, by a good 20 million years!.
in a similar vein, the star wars prequel movies are now older than the original star wars movies were when those prequels were released.. how about that we're closer in time to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built.. what 'ya got?.
The bite force of crocodiles is amazing.
Crocs and alligators need a strong bite to drag prey animals into the water and drown them, without the victim struggling free.
The bite force of a 4.7 m saltwater croc (Crocodylus porosus) is tested in this video. Pretty amazing, I gotta say.
i just watched the oprah interview.
i know that many view them with little interest as just entitled wastes of space and i get that.. however, the description of how they were "trapped" and silenced and forced into perpetuating the system with little or no personal freedom rang bells for me.
they are effectively shunned, estranged and disparaged by their family and cut off from support.
The following video may shed some light on the Oprah interview.
According to Lady Campbell, the supposedly 'racist' royal whom Meghan said referred to Archie's skin colour was Princess Anne, only Lady C allegedly claims that Anne made no comment on skin colour but instead criticised Meghan for being culturally ignorant and lazy.
Hmmm, the plot sickens. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvXl_FjMGuA&list=UUYjZ89DFZ9_kR_RA-TXMdMw&index=2
^^^ What d'ya think?
i saw this on twitter the other day and it blew my mind.. tyrannosaurus is closer to us than to stegosaurus.
that is, when tyrannosaurus lived, stegosaurus were already fossilized and those fossils were older than tyrannosaurus fossils are today to us, by a good 20 million years!.
in a similar vein, the star wars prequel movies are now older than the original star wars movies were when those prequels were released.. how about that we're closer in time to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built.. what 'ya got?.
Here's another planetary fact that is pretty amazing: Saturn is less dense than water.
So, if you had an ocean large enough and could somehow put Saturn on it, the planet would float. <--- wtf?
i saw this on twitter the other day and it blew my mind.. tyrannosaurus is closer to us than to stegosaurus.
that is, when tyrannosaurus lived, stegosaurus were already fossilized and those fossils were older than tyrannosaurus fossils are today to us, by a good 20 million years!.
in a similar vein, the star wars prequel movies are now older than the original star wars movies were when those prequels were released.. how about that we're closer in time to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built.. what 'ya got?.
Here's a fact that blows my mind: Jupiter has no hard surface.
We're so used to standing on hard ground on our planet, seeing the sky (atmosphere) above us and seeing the sea (hydrosphere).
But Jupiter is a gas giant - it has no hard distinctions between land, air and sea. There are outer layers of gas, and as you go beneath the surface, thousands of miles down into the planet, the gas gradually becomes compressed or becomes liquid (don't think astronomers are sure).
So, humans can't stand on Jupiter (if our technology allows us to reach the planet).
recently, some scientists modeled one of the simplest known cells - that of a bacteria.
it took an army of 128 computers running for 10 hours to process the data required in the 25 categories of molecules that are involved in this "simple cells'" life processes.
think about that for a moment - 128 computers running for 10 hours just to compute the data, not actually do it mind you; but just to model the known processes in one of the simplest known cells, which is many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell.
@Disullusioned JW - I don't know what your point is.
One gene makes a lot of difference for humans and chimps or gorillas. Well, so what?
Humans and chimps diverged at least 8 million years ago, although chimps are our closest living relatives.
The chimp genome is approx. 98% identical compared to ours.
The only sensible conclusion is this: humans and chimps share a fairly recent (in geologic terms) common ancestor.
Edit: just realised you're not actually dismissing evolution, lol.
a preteen asked me , “did jesus have a dog”?
i thought the question was hysterical.
why wouldn’t jesus have a dog or pet cat or sheep?
If Jesus really was a first century Jewish carpenter, I doubt he would have had a dog.
The Jews of the time considered dogs unclean, didn't they?
Here is an example of the type of dogs which live in Israel and Arab countries …
^^^ Beautiful, isn't he?
we live in strange times, in the middle of a culture war where saying certain opinions have consequences.
<--- so much for free speech.. thank goodness for satire.. https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-factory-graciously-offers-to-house-unaccompanied-migrant-children.
Lol, this meme's some next level sh1t …
https://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.
hope link works.
The d2d work was abandoned long before the pandemic.
Perhaps because the WTS is a registered charity and knocking on people's doors endangers WT charity status?
Follow the money ...
we live in strange times, in the middle of a culture war where saying certain opinions have consequences.
<--- so much for free speech.. thank goodness for satire.. https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-factory-graciously-offers-to-house-unaccompanied-migrant-children.
We live in strange times, in the middle of a culture war where saying certain opinions have consequences. <--- so much for free speech.
Thank goodness for satire.
https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-factory-graciously-offers-to-house-unaccompanied-migrant-children
