in stalin's ussr the science of genetics was deemed "reactionary and decadent".
scientists were sent to the gulags or simply disappeared.
dmitri konstantinovich belyaev lost his job at the at the central research laboratory of fur breeding in moscow because of his commitment to classical genetics.
Pretty amazing!
The same selective breeding has been done with things we can now eat.
Unfortunately we've had people like Bush jr. putting genetic research to a stop because of religious ideology that is clearly not in line with truth...a lot of misinformed, sincere people believing false conspiracy theories about the food revolution that's safe and saving millions from starving...etc.
Scientific illiteracy is dangerous!
i wish that it was not my day.
oh, god.
why was that happen?
Dipped in chocolate or marinated in booze
i can't see another thread but maybe i missed it:.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jehovahs-witnesses-paedophile-sex-abuse-7278824#comments-section.
Tried for 10 minutes to load that page, after answering 9 repetitive survey questions. Had to give up.
so i posted a question on yahoo answers asking about what christians feel god feels about non-christians.
the overwhelming answer was that he feels they must convert to christianity or risk hell/death/distruction (john 3:16).
i just don't understand how this could be!
There is a question discussed in many basic philosophy courses that is profound: The question of evil.
A loving god could not be all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good. The things preached by the creator and his son in the bible are inconsistent with being omnibenevolent.
the rule was (is) that you go to your assigned congregation.. growing up, i think our family was in our assigned congregation only one of three times.
the family made two major moves when i was a kid and each time my folks would visit the various congregations in the area and pick the one with the most kids.
given our association restrictions with the world, they wanted to make sure we had plenty of friends.. i have to give them credit where due.
It would be interesting to know if their fear is correct--is attending a non-assigned kingkongregation associated with subsequent inactivity?
I think they may be a bit off though. It's not always a causal relationship. Sure, the lights can turn on once you have a fresh perspective, or the pressure to participate is interrupted while you're moving. But...sometimes it's because people are trying to stay in despite serious concerns that they change kingkongs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szwaf8zgang.
hey ya'll!
i have been lurking for years on this site and others but never had the courage to post anything.
actually i was afraid of posting on an apostate site in the event i was wrong.
Welcome.
Maybe you can avoid saying stuff and just listen. Keep placating and thanking them, "You've given me a lot of spiritual food to digest."
so i'm back from the store walking to my apartment, over a hundred units in the complex - all jws and ex-jws - and i see someone talking to an ex-jw neighbor of mine.
she turns around and says "now there's some else i have to apologize to".. she identified herself as an old neighbor who used to play as a jw child right by my place.
she had told me how she was raised to consider me and all the ex-jws in the apartment complex as evil and thought she had to apologize for that.. made my day.
so i'm back from the store walking to my apartment, over a hundred units in the complex - all jws and ex-jws - and i see someone talking to an ex-jw neighbor of mine.
she turns around and says "now there's some else i have to apologize to".. she identified herself as an old neighbor who used to play as a jw child right by my place.
she had told me how she was raised to consider me and all the ex-jws in the apartment complex as evil and thought she had to apologize for that.. made my day.
This post made me remember something I had forgotten. After leaving, I tried making amends to those I harmed as a result of being in the cult. I apologized the RC church for writing a DA letter. I apologized to many worldly relatives and others. For the most part, they seemed totally uncomfortable when I brought it up. A few felt relief.
I don't know if any of these apologies made anyone feel better overall, come to think of it.
im on my phone, so im really limited.
i came out to my family about my doubts and my sexuality.
shit hit the fan.
My mother had gastric bypass
Amazing what mental gymnastics allow her to believe she's a-ok with her sin and you're a dead man walking.
