Posts by Bas

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Background Information

by Carmel in

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many use their avatar as an indication of their personality.. how about your computer screen?

what do you have for a background and does it make a statement about you?.

i like to change mine every week or so.

Bas

I have the Green Field that comes with XP..I used to have the Chinese Wall on my old pc.. guess I'll be on the lookout for a new background now...

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Easter Bunny

by Prefect in

i apologise if this has been posted before.

Resurrection to Spirit Form, Your Opinion would be Appreciated,

by jeanniebeanz in

2 corinthians 5:6-8 seems to indicate that, according to traditional christian thinking, once a christian dies they are immediately present with the christ.. .

2 corinthians 5:6-8 (kjv).

6. therefore [we are] always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the lord, 7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight;) 8 we are confident, i say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the lord.. .

Bas

Well, I don't believe in the bible, being an atheist. What I do think is that your spirit will never die. When your body dies however, all memories carried by that body die with it. Only you inner eye is what is left and that is blind until it finds a new body. My main reason for believing this is that when you have lived once, according to mathematical principles you must be born again, however long a time is in between your two lives (maybe billions of billions of years). Vice versa this principle proves to me that everyone has lived before however long ago this maybe(perhaps in a universe existent before our present one; a paralel universe) I don't think you're reborn within 1000's of years or on this planet because the circumstances might be only right for a life once every universe or so. Anyway, in between lives i think you're in a state of rest, not conscious of time. So it in fact it when you die it might feel like you're immediately born somewhere else while this "someplace else" might in fact be billions of years later or in the next universe.

Well, that's my thoughts on it and I'm sticking with it

Bas

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What evolution is NOT, Installment 1: "How coud it all happen by chance?"

by seattleniceguy in

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as a supplement to my series on simple evidences for evolution, i thought i would also write occasional articles addressing common misunderstandings regarding evolution.

in this one, we'll address that common stumbling block, "but how could something so complex have come about by chance?

the probability is just too small.".

Bas

Golf, DNA is the blueprint of you, me, everybody

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Hypothetical

by watson in

what would happen if satan repented and asked his father for forgiveness?

Bas

they would become friends and live happily ever after

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Last Two anointed JW's on life support at Bethel !

by moshe in

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i posted this last week on the e-watchman website .

they didn't laugh much.. i looked on the internet and found that in 1935 you had 52,000 partakers, last year you had 8570..according to the wt, 1935 was the cutoff date for new anointed, after 1935 all are replacements.

lets assume that in 1935 the average age for an anointed was 35 yrs, probably older, but this is convenient.

Bas

Does anyone think the 8570 number is false? are they all replacements? just wondering.....

Bas

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What evolution is NOT, Installment 1: "How coud it all happen by chance?"

by seattleniceguy in

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as a supplement to my series on simple evidences for evolution, i thought i would also write occasional articles addressing common misunderstandings regarding evolution.

in this one, we'll address that common stumbling block, "but how could something so complex have come about by chance?

the probability is just too small.".

Bas

Hi Seattleniceguy, thanks for your swift reply. I know my question was difficult, I happen to have a friend who almost has his master-degree in biology. We talked alot about evolution and also the origins of life. What i remember from talking to him is that "they" now think that the diffrent organels within a cell have originated seperately and then got to work together in symbiosis to form the first cell, after which the evolution began. What are your thoughts on this?

Bas

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What evolution is NOT, Installment 1: "How coud it all happen by chance?"

by seattleniceguy in

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as a supplement to my series on simple evidences for evolution, i thought i would also write occasional articles addressing common misunderstandings regarding evolution.

in this one, we'll address that common stumbling block, "but how could something so complex have come about by chance?

the probability is just too small.".

Bas

Very good explaining, seattleniceguy. Did you write this yourself? Well, since you seem to have some good understanding on the subject I'm going to ask you the million-dollar question which should be very difficult to answer: How did life originate in the first place?

Bas

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