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Posts by ihunt
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42Why are GMO's bad?
by cappytan inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4bi60alzu.
first person to say, "this scishow episode is a monsanto conspiracy," is a rotten egg..
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Why are GMO's bad?
by cappytan inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4bi60alzu.
first person to say, "this scishow episode is a monsanto conspiracy," is a rotten egg..
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ihunt
"If they were, for example, to use peanut genes in corn and a consumer has a major allergy to peanuts then that could be a problem."
This isn't necessarily the case. Peanuts have thousands of genes and only a handful of them code the protein that causes allergic reactions.
Beyond that, I see a common misconception cropping up here (no pun intended). Monsanto and other agrochem companies use genetic modification to boost plants metabolism/resistamce to pesticides (currently glycophosphate aka roundup, next rna interference), whereas other companies and projects (such as golden rice, ebola cure) have engineered plants to produce novel or exogenic proteins. The risk of the first is, "what is the effect of heavy pesticide use, both on the plant and the environment?" The risk of the second is, "what are the effects of the consumption of this protein/metabolite?"
Pro GMO, down with monsanto!
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How many teens stay because they have their eye on someone they hope to marry?
by purrpurr ini was just watching a documentary film about the amish.
this one girl who left said she didn't leave until her early twenties because as a teen until then she had her eye on one of the boys in the church.
she had a crush on him and hoped to marry him.
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ihunt
I would say it also depends on whether you are male or female. I have been told by a professor of mine that there are 3x as many women witnesses from the ages of 18-30 as there are men. Combine that with the fact that jdubs have one of the lowest average annual incomes of all religious groups (something like 30k a year? Sorry, no references, I should be shot...), and you have quite the biased playing field. Oh, so you're a man who is a MS/Elder/good cultee and you make a decent living? Here's 100 single sisters who would all marry you before even meeting you. -
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Cells! Awake
by ihunt init's been a while since i've posted, but i've been lurking more and more lately (men never made it to the moon :p).
i recently saw a copy of the august awake magazine entitle cells!
living libraries!
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ihunt
It's been a while since I've posted, but I've been lurking more and more lately (men never made it to the moon :P). I recently saw a copy of the August awake magazine entitle Cells! Living Libraries! I was surprised to find this quote in the magazine
“The filament of DNA is information, a message written in a code of chemicals, one chemical for each letter,” wrote evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. “It is almost too good to be true, but the code turns out to be written in a way that we can understand.”
I find it interesting that the organization is willing to quote such a militant evolutionist. Will any interested ones look into Richard Dawkins? The lack of scientific information is astonishing, and their metaphors are misleading to say the least. It seems to me that they are opening the door for some dangerous questions with articles like this.
For example, consider this-
In 1999, fragments of very ancient pottery with unusual markings, or symbols, were found in Pakistan. The marks still remain undeciphered. Nevertheless, they are considered man-made.
A few years after Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA, two physicists proposed searching for coded radio signals from space. Thus began the modern-day search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
You don't need any schooling in logic to see the flaws with that reasoning. They are crumbling...
Ian
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The mathematical probability of spontaneous order (no designer/creator)
by Fernando inthere seem to be many prerequisites for life as we know it.. to name a few: order, function, compatibility, availability, sustainability, intelligence, consciousness, intuition and so on.. focusing on only one, namely order.. what are the chances of order arising spontaneously, by chance, with no creator/designer?.
i have often pondered this and recently came across a mathematical summary of the big picture:.
if every particle in the known physical universe (10^80 particles), participated in one trillion interactions (10^12 interactions) per second, for the entire 30 billion years of the universe's existence (10^18 seconds), then we would by now have covered only 10^110 permutations.. if you had only 100 components in a container, what are the chances that a blindfolded person could lay them out in order on a table?.
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ihunt
You state that there are many prerequisites for life. I would disagree with a number of them, namely consciousness, intelligence, and intuition. All of these are components of advanced systems but certainly are not required for life to begin. A number of your other prerequisites can really be boiled down to the idea of self replicating patterns. Their function and sustainability are a product of their order, not independent attributes. This is the selective factor that determines whether or not something would "live", that is, can it function to reproduce itself. Only those random lifeforms whose intrinsic properties allowed for repetition would continue to exist past the brief frame of time when they happened into existence.
While a fully functional human being may be an impossibly complex system to come across randomly, a short RNA sequence with the ability to self replicate (possibly only a few dozen base pair long) is certainly not.
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All the changes
by vinman inare their any newer people here, who recently found out ttatt, who has been disturbed by all the new changes in the organization?
it is turning into something that feels impersonal.
i know change is good.
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ihunt
The cart song is quite the piece of propaganda, that was the first JW video that I have ever seen. Is this really what they are giving out as "spiritual food" these days? -
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How To Witness to Jehovah's Witnesses Video
by Perry ini recently shared my views on how to witness to jehovah's witnesses to a local congregation.
the video link is also below:.
maybe this will help some reach out to loved ones that are still members.. .
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ihunt
I can't give an exact time, but somewhere around 40 minutes in he talks about questioning witnesses about the new covenant and the 144,000. I skipped around it and didn't listen to it very thoroughly, but there may be some points towards the end. -
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Road to Recovery
by vinman ini am totally new to this.
i was raised as a jehovah's witness.
i made it my own at the age of 5. i was a "true believer ".
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ihunt
Vinman, welcome!
I have found that one of the most exhilarating aspects of being free from the Watchtower has been using my mind to freely observe and think critically- we were always taught that all the answers of life could be found on some page of one book or another! After everything has been read, take your time to observe and to reason on things with your own mind. Best of luck...
iHunt
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Hello All!
by ihunt ini figure it's about time that i stop silently lurking around this community and actually add to the conversation, so here goes a first post.
a little about me-i was born "half-in", that is, my mother has been a witness for the entirety of my life whereas my father has never been.
i was an active part of the congregation (at least for what an unbaptized publisher can do) until i turned 18 and got an opportunity to attend a university (go school!).
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Giordano- its awfully funny you mention the hair, I started growing it out as soon as I stopped attending meetings ha. The fact that women are never allowed to lead in the congregation was also something that struck me from a young age as being incorrect- seeing that there are female prophets in the Bible, it never made much sense.
Kairos- I was never present for such a discussion, but I'm sure it happened at some point. At the same time, I don't think my father ever educated himself about Jehovah's Witnesses' control structure or about their doctrine, and its awful difficult to convince someone that their beliefs are incorrect when you are completely ignorant to their stance.
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Hello All!
by ihunt ini figure it's about time that i stop silently lurking around this community and actually add to the conversation, so here goes a first post.
a little about me-i was born "half-in", that is, my mother has been a witness for the entirety of my life whereas my father has never been.
i was an active part of the congregation (at least for what an unbaptized publisher can do) until i turned 18 and got an opportunity to attend a university (go school!).
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ihunt
Hello everybody! I figure it's about time that I stop silently lurking around this community and actually add to the conversation, so here goes a first post. A little about me-I was born "half-in", that is, my mother has been a witness for the entirety of my life whereas my father has never been. I was an active part of the congregation (at least for what an unbaptized publisher can do) until I turned 18 and got an opportunity to attend a university (go school!). After my freshman year, I returned home to a somewhat nightmarish scene, where a large portion of the community that I had been a part of since my childhood completely ignored my presence solely due to the fact that I had a desire to continue my education (I will say, however, that this was not true of all of them, and that I received some genuine support from unexpected places). That was when I began actively searching for TTATT. After finding Crisis of Conscience, In Search of Christian Freedom, 30 Years a Watchtower Slave, as well as the innumerable stories on either this site or similar sites, I finally had the evidence to back the inklings that I have had since my childhood.
Anyways, back to the present. I am still a student and am always searching for more information on the history, actions, and motives of the WTBTS (as I think any of us with family still in are...), which is one of the reasons why I have joined this site. Besides that, it is comforting to see others that have gone through similar struggles, as it is certainly not a shared experience between my peers and I at school. I would like to say thank you to Simon for creating this hub for open discussion, thank you to Crofty for that page o' essays, and all those that have posted their experiences and struggles on this board. I will be chatting with y'all soon!
-iHunt