Howz 'bout using Reverse Theocratic Warfare? Then all the faders could be Double Agents. Hell, I may re-join so I can have some fun.
-BONEZZ
Posts by BONEZZ
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90Are the Society planning a 'Pledge of Allegiance'? IT MAY BE TRUE!
by nicolaou ini've just learned from a trusted contact at thewatchtower.org 'norris', that the society intend to put a resolution to the congregations shortly - though definately not at the 'special talk' meeting next month.. here's the scary bit.
this resolution needs to be responded to by all baptized jehovah's witnesses.
we have not been able to get hold of the wording but have been informed it is intended to provide the brotherhood with the opportunity to affirm their loyalty to jehovah and his organization.
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Williams sisters get reality show
by BONEZZ indon't know if this has been posted...
abc family has ordered six episodes of a reality series about venus and serena williams.
the show will highlight their lives both on and off the court.
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BONEZZ
Yeah, I have no doubt that the girls are nice people. But I wonder if they know they're leading a "charmed" life in the fact that they get away with crap that would have gotten any one of us bounced faster than Freddy could put on unmatched shoes!
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Williams sisters get reality show
by BONEZZ indon't know if this has been posted...
abc family has ordered six episodes of a reality series about venus and serena williams.
the show will highlight their lives both on and off the court.
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BONEZZ
Don't know if this has been posted...
ABC Family has ordered six episodes of a reality series about Venus and Serena Williams. The show will highlight their lives both on and off the court. "They came in and we completely fell in love with them, said Paul Lee, president of ABC Family. "They are perfect for ABC Family." TVweek.comI am sure they'll use this opportunity to make a fine witness to the nations.
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The evidence AGAINST evolution
by AlmostAtheist inno, sorry, i won't be providing any.
this is a thread for those that have done some research and concluded that evolution is not how various species came to exist.. have you done the research?
do you believe that species exist as a result of god's direct creation?
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Don't know if anyone saw this in the Times this week...kinda interesting. -BONEZZ Thursday, March 24, 2005
Compiled 2 AM E.T.
March 23, 2005
Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene
By NICHOLAS WADE
n a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue University say they have found plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier. The finding implies that some organisms may contain a cryptic backup copy of their genome that bypasses the usual mechanisms of heredity. If confirmed, it would represent an unprecedented exception to the laws of inheritance discovered by Gregor Mendel in the 19th century. Equally surprising, the cryptic genome appears not to be made of DNA, the standard hereditary material.
The discovery also raises interesting biological questions - including whether it gets in the way of evolution, which depends on mutations changing an organism rather than being put right by a backup system.
"It looks like a marvelous discovery," said Dr. Elliott Meyerowitz, a plant geneticist at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. David Haig, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, described the finding as "a really strange and unexpected result," which would be important if the observation holds up and applies widely in nature.
The result, reported online yesterday in the journal Nature by Dr. Robert E. Pruitt, Dr. Susan J. Lolle and colleagues at Purdue, has been found in a single species, the mustardlike plant called arabidopsis that is the standard laboratory organism of plant geneticists. But there are hints that the same mechanism may occur in people, according to a commentary by Dr. Detlef Weigel of the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. Dr. Weigel describes the Purdue work as "a spectacular discovery."
The finding grew out of a research project started three years ago in which Dr. Pruitt and Dr. Lolle were trying to understand the genes that control the plant's outer skin, or cuticle. As part of the project, they were studying plants with a mutated gene that made the plant's petals and other floral organs clump together. Because each of the plant's two copies of the gene were in mutated form, they had virtually no chance of having normal offspring.
But up to 10 percent of the plants' offspring kept reverting to normal. Various rare events can make this happen, but none involve altering the actual sequence of DNA units in the gene. Yet when the researchers analyzed the mutated gene, known as hothead, they found it had changed, with the mutated DNA units being changed back to normal form.
"That was the moment when it was a complete shock," Dr. Pruitt said.
A mutated gene can be put right by various mechanisms that are already known, but all require a correct copy of the gene to be available to serve as the template. The Purdue team scanned the DNA of the entire arabidopsis genome for a second, cryptic copy of the hothead gene but could find none.
Dr. Pruitt and his colleagues argue that a correct template must exist, but because it is not in the form of DNA, it probably exists as RNA, DNA's close chemical cousin. RNA performs many important roles in the cell, and is the hereditary material of some viruses. But it is less stable than DNA, and so has been regarded as unsuitable for preserving the genetic information of higher organisms.
Dr. Pruitt said he favored the idea that there is an RNA backup copy for the entire genome, not just the hothead gene, and that it might be set in motion when the plant was under stress, as is the case with those having mutated hothead genes.
He and other experts said it was possible that an entire RNA backup copy of the genome could exist without being detected, especially since there has been no reason until now to look for it.
Scientific journals often take months or years to get comfortable with articles presenting novel ideas. But Nature accepted the paper within six weeks of receiving it. Dr. Christopher Surridge, a biology editor at Nature, said the finding had been discussed at scientific conferences for quite a while, with people saying it was impossible and proposing alternative explanations. But the authors had checked all these out and disposed of them, Dr. Surridge said.
As for their proposal of a backup RNA genome, "that is very much a hypothesis, and basically the least mad hypothesis for how this might be working," Dr. Surridge said.
Dr. Haig, the evolutionary biologist, said that the finding was fascinating but that it was too early to try to interpret it. He noted that if there was a cryptic template, it ought to be more resistant to mutation than the DNA it helps correct. Yet it is hard to make this case for RNA, which accumulates many more errors than DNA when it is copied by the cell.
He said that the mechanism, if confirmed, would be an unprecedented exception to Mendel's laws of inheritance, since the DNA sequence itself is changed. Imprinting, an odd feature of inheritance of which Dr. Haig is a leading student, involves inherited changes to the way certain genes are activated, not to the genes themselves.
The finding poses a puzzle for evolutionary theory because it corrects mutations, which evolution depends on as generators of novelty. Dr. Meyerowitz said he did not see this posing any problem for evolution because it seems to happen only rarely. "What keeps Darwinian evolution intact is that this only happens when there is something wrong," Dr. Surridge said.
The finding could undercut a leading theory of why sex is necessary. Some biologists say sex is needed to discard the mutations, almost all of them bad, that steadily accumulate on the genome. People inherit half of their genes from each parent, which allows the half left on the cutting room floor to carry away many bad mutations. Dr. Pruitt said the backup genome could be particularly useful for self-fertilizing plants, as arabidopsis is, since it could help avoid the adverse effects of inbreeding. It might also operate in the curious organisms known as bdelloid rotifers that are renowned for not having had sex for millions of years, an abstinence that would be expected to seriously threaten their Darwinian fitness.
Dr. Pruitt said it was not yet known if other organisms besides arabidopsis could possess the backup system. Colleagues had been quite receptive to the idea because "biologists have gotten used to the unexpected," he said, referring to a spate of novel mechanisms that have recently come to light, several involving RNA.
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Watchtower Society - The Thief of Time
by truthseeker incan't do more in jehovah's service?
start buying out time from non-essential activities.. how many times have we heard this phrase?.
ever wondered how much an average jw who preaches 10 hours a month, spends on jw activities in a year?.
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truthseeker....
Thank you for that excellent time evaluation...however, if you relayed that to any braindead dub they would be programmed to respond with something like..."Yes, won't it be great when we can give all our time to Mother?"
I wish de-programming methods could be found.
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Jesse Jackson thinks Michael is a traditional Christian and a good JW
by Dogpatch inhttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/7231414/
'scarborough country' for march 17 .
read the transcript to the thursday show
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BONEZZ
Does he mean "traditional" in the sense of carrying on the JW "tradition" of child abuse?!
-BONEZZ
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I know it's really sneaky and underhanded but I think I'm gonna...
by BONEZZ in...make up some signs and post 'em around where the street folks hang out.
signs will say something like...
"free celebration, thursday - march 24th at sundown
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BONEZZ
...make up some signs and post 'em around where the street folks hang out. Signs will say something like...
"Free Celebration, Thursday - March 24th at sundown
Free Wine and Crackers for those attending" (give address to K.Hall)
Hey, I'm just tryin' help them boost their numbers.
-BONEZZ
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Where do you think evil (or bad behavior) comes from?
by wordlywife inbeing worldly i try to get my head around this sometimes, and wondered what others opinions are.
being that my husband is a long time witness i know what the witness view is, it is all satan's doing.
since most of you are "out", has your view on the source of evil/unacceptable behavior, (whatever you personally find just out-right wrong, for me it is child sexual abuse), changed?
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BONEZZ
...from the producers of JackAss.
-BONEZZ
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Mikronboy's First Hate Message Via Ebay.
by Englishman injust got this from mikronboy.
(who is that guy?
) it appears that the sale of a library ticket upset one or two people:.
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BONEZZ
Hey, the Angels got their own baseball team so why couldn't they use Ebay? I know it was them sumbitches that beat me outa some deals!
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GREAT TO BE FREE
by Dansk indear all,.
it's a little over a year now (2 years last february) that my family and i left watchtower and i can't begin to tell you how wonderful life has been!.
ok, i'm saddled with a serious illness at present and enough has been said about it, but i'd just like to focus on how much a family can really grow once it has been freed from watchtower's yoke.
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Ian & Family,
Not easy for me to be mushy...so I'll just quote an old Budweiser advert..."I love you man." No it's not the beer talking. Just happy you and fam are happy.
-BONEZZ
n a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue University say they have found plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.