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  For the Supporters of Those Who Love Jehovah

  by lovesjehovah in

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  2. friends

  i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings, crimes, and other outlandish behaviors of specific people affiliated with the religion.

  i know that my relationship with jehovah is not influenced by any outside factors.

  i do not condone any crime.

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  ihunt

  From the OP,

  "i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings..."

  This line strikes me as awfully strange. As others have noted, a lot of the terminology used isn't correct. No long term witness would ever say "I am jehovah's witness", but rather "I am one of jehovah's witnesses", or "I am a jehovah's witness". Also, I feel that this correlates with his(her?) other posts (the clouds, the rain, the drugs...). This person may legitimately believe they are, more or less, a prophet of jehoobah.
  
  This is a link to a study that was conducted in the 1990's regarding mental illness and religious tendencies, and there are others available online.
  http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.660
  
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  Songs that have a JW meaning?

  by GrownMidget in

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  2. friends

  do you have any songs that you have listened and then thought that it also works from an apostate point of view?i have always liked this song, but one time realized that i was thinking how it sounds awfully familiar, if you think about those who have lost family/friends due to leaving.this song was originally made/written because one of the actors died in a car accident.

  movie was still being filmed and many spots he was needed were never finished with him.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgkafk5djsk.

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  ihunt

  Lauryn Hill - Mystery of Iniquity.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wc3WYkqH2E
  
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  Farewell

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  "don't be dismayed by good-byes.

  a farewell is necessary before you can meet again.

  and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

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  ihunt

  If people continue to post on this site in the manner Viv often does, and without moderation from the site admin/moderatorals, I believe that this

  "and provide a friendly, tolerant and informative environment where you can ask questions, share information and make new friends."

  should be edited to more accurately describe what this community is (has become), a place where long time posters will lampoon and harass anyone with a differing opinion, where moderators do not moderate, and where empathy is more scarce than it is inside a doomsday cult.
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  Antimatter not so different after all ... poor old Freddy wrong again,another light dims in the JW heavens.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  back in the years after ww2, newly discovered antimatter was perceived as destroying ordinary matter, so in one of old freddy's insane nightmares (forget which book, but it was the early 1950's) he envisioned yhwh-jesus hurling antimatter at the hated humans who refused to submit to him, and destroying their bodies bit by bit.. now, his vision dims:.

  antimatter not so different after all.

  scientists help make first measurement of antiproton attraction.

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  ihunt

  To clarify, the linked article does not claim that antimatter and matter do not annihilate one another (in fact, it reinforces such an idea). What it does claim is that the forces between antimatter's elementary particles, in this case antiprotons, are very simar to the forces between normal matter particles (protons). This leads to questions about the relative abundance of matter and antimatter in our universe, namely, why there is so much matter and (apparently) so little antimatter.

  EDIT

  This has already been clarified, sorry for the repost
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  Heroes

  by done4good in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in jw land having such was verboten.

  who are some of yours and why?.

  1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.

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  ihunt

  To name a few, (and my favorite work from them)

  1) Leohnard Euler - Euler's identity

  2) Albert Camus - Exile and the Kingdom

  3) Friedrich Nietzsche - The Antichrist

  4) John von Neumann - First Draft

  5) Paul Dirac - Dirac Equation

  6) linus Torvalds - Linux

  7) Carl Guass - Modern mathmatics, matrix algebra

  8) Linus Pauling - bonding theory

  9) Dante Alighieri - The Divine Commedy

  10) Lou Reed - The VU
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  Why are GMO's bad?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://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

  "2. GMO plants do not produce seeds, leaving the farmer with no option except to buy new seed every year."

  This is simply not true.

  http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top-five-myths-of-genetically-modified-seeds-busted

  
  
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  Why are GMO's bad?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://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

  A good read for anyone interested in the field

  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/us/food-industry-enlisted-academics-in-gmo-lobbying-war-emails-show.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/

  Sorry if the link is off, im on my cellular
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  Why are GMO's bad?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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!

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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