hi people,.
i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).
1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.
Hi everyone:
I spoke with a friend who's got a PhD in Economics and he told me that I need to make a "time to death" graph, it is done in hospitals for analysis of whether one treatment leads to less mortality or not, and it is used by engineers to determine time to failure, etc...
So it can be applied here... the "time to failure" is the time from when you were baptized to when you came out. It can be compared between decades...
i have a sincere question related to macroevolution:.
microevolution happens on a small scale (within a single population), while macroevolution happens on a scale that transcends the boundaries of a single species.
despite their differences, evolution at both of these levels relies on the same, established mechanisms of evolutionary change:.
apparently it's true!!
omg!!.
i did not want to believe these news, i still feel it's a hoax, it can't be true!.
I am not almost 100% convinced that the story is fake.
Checking the original source of the story, it seems to be a fake news site with the quality of National Enquirer.
Then many other low-quality sources started copying it.
Today was different, a "decent" quality source had it and so I thought it was true. But I called that newspaper, and the newspaper from which that newspaper got its story, and here's the thing:
Zocalo newspaper - the lady that wrote the article refused to give me her source.
El Debate newspaper - the editor said that she agreed with me that there was a problem with the story because Zocalo did not list its sources and there has been no official word on the news story on the Senate.
apparently it's true!!
omg!!.
i did not want to believe these news, i still feel it's a hoax, it can't be true!.
I called both newspapers that had the note, and, in an appalling display of lack of fact-checking (welcome to Mexico), there is no actual source for the news.
I called the Mexican senate and apparently it is not possible to know what will be discussed in the future unless the senator who plans to introduce the bill tells you.
I don't know how to confirm, but I would really love to confirm if this is real or not.
apparently it's true!!
omg!!.
i did not want to believe these news, i still feel it's a hoax, it can't be true!.
These days, though, they'd be way too chicken.
Not the Mexican JW's!! I think they will fight this tooth and nail!
i have a sincere question related to macroevolution:.
microevolution happens on a small scale (within a single population), while macroevolution happens on a scale that transcends the boundaries of a single species.
despite their differences, evolution at both of these levels relies on the same, established mechanisms of evolutionary change:.
There have been many documented, visible cases of speciation. These usually occur in small living things, like mosquitoes, bacteria, etc because of the short time it takes for them to have a new generation (some bacteria can duplicate as fast as every 20 minutes). Because changes big enough for it to be considered a speciation event take possibly thousands of generations, it is very difficult to observe speciation in a human lifetime.
Even at 20 minutes and 1000 generations, it would take almost two weeks for an appreciable change to occur. If the change happens within 10,000 generations and the time between generations is an hour, it would take 1 year and 52 days...
This experiment with E. Coli takes about 4 years for every 10,000 generations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment
The E.Coli bacteria evolved new features!
This is another experiment that shows that unicellular life can evolve into multicellular:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v517/n7536/full/517531d.html
apparently it's true!!
omg!!.
i did not want to believe these news, i still feel it's a hoax, it can't be true!.
apparently it's true!!
omg!!.
i did not want to believe these news, i still feel it's a hoax, it can't be true!.
apparently it's true!!
omg!!.
i did not want to believe these news, i still feel it's a hoax, it can't be true!.
Apparently it's true!! OMG!!
I did not want to believe these news, I still feel it's a hoax, it can't be true!
But it appeared in a news outlet I sort of respect, and as I write this it seems to be appearing in dozens of other news outlets in Mexico (it seems like the story was confirmed and is breaking today).
Below is the translation of the article:
"Jailtime for those who preach at inappropriate hours"
"Law will be discussed that will impose a fine upon those that have a high volume during worship."
"Next 25th of may in the Senate of the Republic a law will be debated to protect the home that will impose fines or charges of up to 6 weeks in jail to those that preach the word of God at inappropriate hours.
"This initiative constitutes a violation of freedom of religion", indicated Samuel Carrillo Gonzalez, director of Religious Affairs. He added that they have solicited Daniel Rivera, subdirector of Religious Affaris of the Government Secretary, information about the position he will take regarding this.
The law also will impose fines upon the congregations that have high volume at the time they're having their services, or if they are on the streets visiting homes to look for recruits to certain religions or in any way bothering people walking, stopping in the same manner the actions of bill collectors or even the police itself and everyone that dares to violate the integrity of the family.
http://www.debate.com.mx/mexico/Carcel-a-quien-predique-en-horas-impropias-20160404-0020.html
millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens... [...].
what about watchtower society's holy money?.
https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-overview.html?goal=0_ffd1d0160d-4ddea55429-100339089&mc_cid=4ddea55429&mc_eid=bfe834e473.
