Posts by Fisherman

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Evolution is a Fact #21 - Footprints in the Sand

by cofty in

back in the pliocene epoch a volcano called sadiman erupted depositing a layer of ash across the landscape.

some time later it rained at laetoli in modern day tanzania turning the ash into wet cement.

birds and animals walked across the cement, then sadiman erupted again sealing the footprints under a second layer of ash.. fast-forward to 1976. a team of paleontologists led by mary leakey are searching for human origins on the serengeti plain when andrew hill ducks out the way of elephant dung being thrown at him by a colleague.

Fisherman

If you find a wooden chair made from a 10,000 year old tree, that does not mean the chair was made 10,000 years ago. Does that question even make sense? DD

I think that you are asking that if scientists found a flint tool made from a stone that they determined to be a billion years old, how would they know with any reasonable certainty that the tool is of the same age as the stone?

If that is what you are asking, the age of the tool should not be determined using only the "dating method" that scientist used to formulate the age of the stone that was used to make the tool, obviously more evidence is needed to extrapolate the date of the tool.

If I were a scientist, I would not go to Africa to find million year old humanoids buried inches above ground, I would go to Cuba and only after a couple of days or so I am going to find "Desi's" elbow waiting for me, sticking out of the earth. I will write books and become very famous and rich.

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Blood fraction?

by Fisherman in

a vampire is taken to the emergency room on a stretcher.

the doctors notice what he is so instead of giving him an iv they show him a cross to subdue him, so he says to them: " i am jw and i don't believe in the cross," so the doctors say to him: "you haven't eaten in a very long time, we need to pump 5 gallons of whole blood into you.

" the reformed vampire then informs them that he refuses the blood on religious grounds.

Fisherman

A vampire is taken to the emergency room on a stretcher. The doctors notice what he is so instead of giving him an IV they show him a cross to subdue him, so he says to them: " I am JW and I don't believe in the cross," so the doctors say to him: "You haven't eaten in a very long time, we need to pump 5 gallons of whole blood into you." The reformed vampire then informs them that he refuses the blood on religious grounds. And then the doctors tell him: "We hate to break it to you but in that case, it's curtains for you -take him to the morgue if that's where you'd like to be."

And so the JW vampire tells the doctors: "In that case, I'll take half -and can you please add a little salt while you are at it?”

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What is your "INTUITION" about THE SECRET "law of attraction"?

by Terry in

ever hear somebody say, "trust your gut..."?.

or, like obe wan kenobe: "trust your feelings...."?.

have you ever followed that "little voice" that whispers to you that you should or should not do something?.

Fisherman

I do not believe in intuition. I think it is bunk and should not be trusted prima facie. I do believe in a subconscious; the brain processes information faster than a person is aware of and uses reasons a person is not aware of, then motivating a person. But there is something physical about a person that is attractive to another person, many times subconsciously so - but that ain't intuition or is it?

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"New light"?

by winstonchurchill in

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-june-2016/man-with-inkhorn/.

so i guess baptism is no longer the "mark for survival".. as a matter of fact, that key aspect of the 'old light' is not even acknowledged in this article.. they are just publishing new understanding without even bothering to explain the full extent of the change, hoping nobody will remember how it was... and they may be right about that..

Fisherman

So I guess baptism is no longer the "mark for survival".

The JW article you linked speaks for itself, but it needs to be read.

The "man with the ink horn" scripture that you reference in your post is only one of many scriptures that describes some facet of salvation that the Bible says is to occur at Armageddon. There are also many other scriptures that explain other aspects of being saved. The teaching of salvation from God's angelic executioners is a Bible doctrine that does not depend on WT interpretation of the Bible.

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This thread is for proof that God exists

by juandefiero in

jw
friends

however, i haven't found any evidence to support that belief.. have you?

if so please, show me the evidence that god exists, and i will believe along with you.. criteria:.

(1) you must specify which god you are talking about;.

Fisherman

It is logical to conclude that reality has nature, or a mechanism, or dynamics.

If nothing existed until there was a change, It is logical to conclude that such change did not happen on its own, something caused it.

Nothing can exist without something being eternal. Something cannot exist with nothing being eternal. If nothing is eternal then something cannot exist. Since something exists, nothing is not eternal.

It is logical to conclude that something caused the change that resulted in the formation of the universe.

That is how I see it

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This thread is for proof that God exists

by juandefiero in

jw
friends

however, i haven't found any evidence to support that belief.. have you?

if so please, show me the evidence that god exists, and i will believe along with you.. criteria:.

(1) you must specify which god you are talking about;.

Fisherman

Of course, a person thinking about the concept of unicorns doesn't mean that unicorns exist in the real world. The same is true of Gods.

While it might be true that believing in (mythological) unicorns or in anything that has not been measured or tested does not establish that they are real does not invalidate the existence of Jehovah by comparing belief in the existence of Gods to belief in the existence of unicorns.

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This thread is for proof that God exists

by juandefiero in

jw
friends

however, i haven't found any evidence to support that belief.. have you?

if so please, show me the evidence that god exists, and i will believe along with you.. criteria:.

(1) you must specify which god you are talking about;.

Fisherman

It is only after you see its testes, then you exclaim: "It's a male!"

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Was Adam "born" Circumsized ?

by RubaDub in

i guess we have to assume that jesus was circumcised on the 8th day but what about adam?

he was "perfect", so did he have the weenie cut or not?.

i would like to bring this question up at a "get-together".. rub a dub .

Fisherman

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What Happens To You When You Die?

by minimus in

jw
friends

are our dead loved ones watching over us at all or are they really just gone now?

Fisherman

I do not believe in a torturous hell after death. I hope that death is like taking a nap.

Or going to sleep at night, you don't feel hundreds or thousands or more years pass by. It is as if time did not exist while you where asleep during a nap or many hours at night - both feel the same in sensing time. No waiting, no time gap between being awake and being dead.

Not the "fear of something after death," but the fear of being helplessly unconscious without any hope of being able to be conscious again.

What happens when you die?

ans: It appears that you don't wake up.

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What do you think is the source of your consciousness? Can it be copied or transferred?

by EndofMysteries in

this seems to be a question that even scientifically is still in the air.

right now your consciousness, is it the physical part of the brain?

the electrical signals in the brain?

Fisherman

I don't leave posts with name calling because I don't like them. -cs

"your lack of substance is more than made up for by your childish oblique." -cs

Sure you do; read the above, and if you mean to say that name calling refers to insulting the person, then cofty's post is not an offense about your person, only a remark about what you posted. I agreed with his view about your post.