Scientific facts PROVE Creation
To write the verb in uppercase don't make it true...
yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.
many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.
but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.
Scientific facts PROVE Creation
To write the verb in uppercase don't make it true...
yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.
many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.
but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.
"Creationnist propaganda" comes from Churchianity- not science- as that article is fron Discover magazine- the top left paragraph mine.
Ps 100:3 Is certainly part of the discovery article too....
what I call "Creationnist propaganda" is all you add at this article...
the subject of the study was jesus resurrection .
my post is not about the subject and whether or not that can be believed in.
millions of christians do and it is not my place to debunk religious faith.
Now when I see someone write about a recent magazine or part on the meeting, I can't wait to get into the article. It's the most intensive study of the WT I've ever done!
Exact I feel exactly the same. In fact I see now that I never study the WT before, I just underlined the answers of the stupid questions...
the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).
before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.
first, the reason i think it should be shown:.
yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.
many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.
but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.
the subject of the study was jesus resurrection .
my post is not about the subject and whether or not that can be believed in.
millions of christians do and it is not my place to debunk religious faith.
"that which can be asserted without evidence, can.
be dismissed without evidence.
" - christopher hitchens.
I discover your story only now. Very interresting.
And you are the living proof than, even the guy the more Jdub on earth, the one that everybody think he's "in" until the neck and it's impossible he think one second to look at another thing that the voice of the GB, can open his eyes one day.
It's a very heartwarming story for all those, like me, who have Jdub around them
yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.
many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.
but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.
If you SERIOUSLY study science articles, filtering out the opinions, assumptions, and errors- the picture becomes VERY clear!
If in your brain, " filtering out the opinions, assumptions, and errors" means "filtering what's not WTS-compatible" then yes it's CLEAR...
CLEAR but ERRONEOUS!!!
watchtower considers masturbation to be a form of uncleanness but not a disfellowshipping offence because the bible says nothing about masturbation.
a jw who masturbates is likely to face no more than losing privileges in the congregation.. like masturbation, smoking is considered by jws to be a form of uncleannes and like masturbation, the bible says nothing about it.
but a jw who smokes faces disfellowshipping.. yes, smoking is known to be deleterious to a person's health whereas the jury is still out on the adverse health effects of masturbation.
Imagine trying to find a sister after that.
Yes and No.. If he find one quickly after that, he can be sure he win a kind of jackpot! :)
i have updated the article at memorial partakers with the figures released for 2014. no surprises here, it has risen yet again, this time by 6% over last year, and is now 14,121.. .
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To make the calcul, we have to make some guess :
1) Let's begin to count in 1935. The datas from the year before are not really consistent for a model.
2) Let's say that the youngest of the 52 000 partakers of 1935 was 30 years old and the oldest was 100 years old and that the age distribution follow a classic symetric regular normal distribution.
3) Let's say the life expectancy of a annointed is 80 years.
We build an approximative model, who can follow and be adjusted every year with the people lacking or the people added.
The first thing to notice easily, with this model all the partakers from 1935 are dead now. Then the number of taotal partakers is more than 52 000.
Now we have to ajust the model years after years. I won't explain all the calculs here, they are very boring, I will make an article more precise soon. But let make us a fast idea
on the 52 000 partakers in 1935, according to our normal law:2 000 was less than 40 years old, 34 000 was more than 60 years old, and in those 9 000 was more than 80 years old.
Then, if the annointed never died, on these 52 000 partakers, only 2 000 was less than 80 years old in 1975.
But they die like another people : With the life expectancy chosen at 80 years, it means than in 1975, it was only 2 000 partakers alive who was partakers in 1935. 1 000 of those was between 70 and 80 years old, 1 000 of those was more than 80 years old. And then in 1975 the nomber of anointed already dead was 50 000
Let's ajust with the number of 1975. the number of partakers was around 10 500. It means it was 8 500 new partakers who wasn't partakers in 1935.
Let's assume the distribution was the same than in 1935 for these 8 500 new people. It means :
on the 10 500 partakers in 1975 :300 was less than 40 years old, 7 500 was more than 60 years old, and in those 2 500 was more than 80 years old.
Then, if the annointed never died, on these 10 500 partakers of 1975, only 300 was less than 80 years old in 2014.
But they die like another people : With the life expectancy chosen at 80 years, it means than in 2014, it was only 300 partakers alive who was partakers in 1975. 150 of those was between 70 and 80 years old, 150 of those was more than 80 years old. And then in 2014 the nomber of anointed dead since 1975 was 10 000
And then the nomber of anointed dead only between 1935 and 2014 was around 60 000!!!
In 2014, 14 121 partakers, then in those around 14 000 wasn't partakers in 1975.
We have then since 1935 : 74 000 different partakers.
And in this fast calcul we don't count :
1) the partakers who enter and die between 1935 and 1975 ( around 5 000)
2) the partakers who enter and die between 1975 and 2014 (around 1 000)
3) the partakers who enter and die before 1935. (I don't have a clue : let's say 20 000)
Then we arrive easily at a total of 100 000 individual partakers. And I use a method who tend to give a minimum...