how did the kangaroo, the koala bear, and the platypus get from noah's ark to australia?
how did any animals get to australia for that matter?i know that this has been considered before but i just love asking jws this question.. nvr.
or even better, get the witnoids to explain the difference between placental and marsupial mammals, and why noah was instructed to drop the different types off on different continents. and then you could always get into "convergence" with them.
similar animals, filling similar ecological niches on different continents. one is placental, the other marsupial.
tetra
darkness and light.. something and nothing.. heat and cold.. happiness and sadness.. love and hate.. which of the above are actually existing things and which are conceptual constructs?.
hint: this is a trick question.
but, go ahead and answer anyway.
Uh-huh. Stick your hand in a bonfire for a few minutes and tell us if your third-degree burns actually "exist" or have simply "occurred"....LOL....
uh huh. the burns exist and the fire occurs? i dunno. no one said that because you were a scientist that you had to use your brain ALL of the time.
okay people. ready?
BASIC thinking .... TEST ... BASIC thinking .... TEST ... BASIC thinking .... TEST ... BASIC thinking .... TEST ... BASIC thinking .... TEST ... BASIC thinking .... TEST ... BASIC thinking .... TEST ... terry has a test for you all. a test of BASIC THINKING. will you PASS?? it's a TEST you know!!
uuuuhhhhhhh..... i feel nervous now. what if i fail my "TEST" at "BASIC thinking"??!! oh NOOOOOO!!!!
tetra
what qualifies as successful?
a huge bank account, at work, health, family, friends, education?.
abr.
metric is prefered. and then that way success is always measured in units of 10.
tetra
in times past, who was regarded as the king of the north and south?
was it really the soviet union?
now that it is basically non- existent who are those kings supposed to be now?.
ahem.
using my bible-based insight, and after labouring many hours on this deep, deep subject, i have come to the conclusion that the king of the north is none other than
the cookie monster.
BEWARE!! the time of choosing has come upon YOU!
sincerely, your brother,
tetrapod
they left me alone for a long time but the "territory" i live in seems to be more active.
i am unable to just be the "nice lady" anymore and feel like i have to give them a 'thought for the day".
i have always been a bit cautious as i am a 'final fade" for the past 17+ years and still have familiy in but the more i know, the less i can just wish them a nice day and respect what they are doing....
What do you do when the jw's call?
i take them to task about evolution of course!
tetra
many of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.
for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.
for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.
Does Knowing the Truth Make you a Happier person?
yes gumby bro. the truth will set you free. never forget it, even if it's the truth about God.
tetra
so we're remodeling a bedroom in our house, and that includes me adding (at considerable expenditure of personal energy, i might add!
) a new shelving layout in the closet.. now, i ask kate what she thinks is best, and add a full shelf here, and a bank of multiple shelves there...and then, all of a sudden she starts going on and on about how much extra space she's going to have for all her "stuff" (guys, you know what i mean!
lol).
...uh, sorry. thought this was a thread about locking women in closets. not sure why. *tip toes away*
tetra
although i don't go to meetings anymore, i'm inactive, never was disfellowshipped, i still have a "spiritual side to me", something that is deeply rooted in.
on one side, i see errors the watchtower makes, and on the other side i take what's good about them, and that's why i don't fit in with them.
i don't meet their standards, nor do they meet mine.
Man has been told he is weak, ineffectual and confused and needy. He believes it to be true and doesn't recognize his power. By disabling man's conscious realization of his power to shape his own world he falls prey to parasites who use him for their own ends.
sounds very gnostic, terry!
tetra
although i don't go to meetings anymore, i'm inactive, never was disfellowshipped, i still have a "spiritual side to me", something that is deeply rooted in.
on one side, i see errors the watchtower makes, and on the other side i take what's good about them, and that's why i don't fit in with them.
i don't meet their standards, nor do they meet mine.
i don't define spirituality as supernatural. i am not convinced there is a need to. i see humans as endowed with all the tools for a spiritual life at birth, by nature. our brains produce the strongest psychedelic substance known to man, dimetheltryptamine. DMT can also be extracted from many plants, and has been used as a spiritual sacrament by south american shamans for millenia. DMT has been implicated in OBE, NDE and other types of "pan-dimensional" spiritual experiences. if anyone is interested in more information about DMT, the pineal gland and spirituality/expansion of consciousness, here are some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine
http://www.popocculture.com/50/soma-pinoline-blinded-by-the-light
i do define spirituality as expansion of consciousness. evolution of psychological and philosophical concepts. the art of being. comunion with nature. a benevolent acceptance of my history. the beatitude of reason.
i also approach cannabis sativa as a sacrament. i personally think that it has played a fairly large role in the evolution of human spirituality over the last several millenia. for me, cannabis + spinoza =
tetra
i'm an evolutionist.
one cannot argue that evolution isn't a fact.
however, i'd be interested in the better informed amongst us here explaining in simple terms how the feeling of love evolved.
great post spaz!
tetra
