Posts by Twitch

anyway, i remember the jws used to use jupiter (and probably still do) as an example for how unique and special our solar system is (and thus designed) -- namely, that jupiter protects the earth from astroids, comets, and meteors.

convincing if one doesn't know any better, especially circa 1994 when jupiter stepped in front of a comet for us... but this isn't the full story!

Twitch

There have been 5 major extinction events in history, the largest being the Permian-Triassic extinction about 250 million years ago where approx 96% of all species on earth were wiped out. A cause of this is believed to be major volcanic activity in Siberia and release of mass quantities of CO2 and other gases which induced a greenhouse effect and caused the oceans to become more acidic. Life eventually rebounded but it was a close one.

Asteroids and comets aren't the only harbingers of death and change...

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Jupiter protects the earth... another example of intellectual dishonesty and an argument against design

by cognisonance in

i'm taking a university astronomy course, and i must say it's really fun to read about this field.

anyway, i remember the jws used to use jupiter (and probably still do) as an example for how unique and special our solar system is (and thus designed) -- namely, that jupiter protects the earth from astroids, comets, and meteors.

convincing if one doesn't know any better, especially circa 1994 when jupiter stepped in front of a comet for us... but this isn't the full story!

Twitch

Twitch here is a sequence that resembles a chromosome, with fixed ends at both ends, pronounced as useless by many astronomers, like a decoration superflouis but fitting, and compatible with what emerged out of the big beginning (ba..)

Ah, I see.

I tis really out there, , t()wich can not be said about wt way out doctrines)

I've little doubt it's really out there.

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Jupiter protects the earth... another example of intellectual dishonesty and an argument against design

by cognisonance in

i'm taking a university astronomy course, and i must say it's really fun to read about this field.

anyway, i remember the jws used to use jupiter (and probably still do) as an example for how unique and special our solar system is (and thus designed) -- namely, that jupiter protects the earth from astroids, comets, and meteors.

convincing if one doesn't know any better, especially circa 1994 when jupiter stepped in front of a comet for us... but this isn't the full story!

Twitch

Lordy, not the Titus Bode thing again. Almost consistent to prediction does not a law make.

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I just don't have the lies to give...

by Captain Schmideo2 in

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friends

a friend of mine (a jw) delivered a premature baby, and the outlook is grim.. she is posting updates on facebook, and where everyone else is offering prayers for them both, and how "jehovah loves them both very much", and i got...nothing.

nothing that would be comforting.

big man in the sky has zero to do with this, only medical science and chance will have any bearing on this.i wish i could lie convincingly to her and to myself and have something nice to say.

Twitch

I just don't have the lies to give...

Then give your honesty You'll sleep better...

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Hyper Tech

by IveBeenBitten in

this "world event" is a few years away but i'm in the field so i work everyday to prepare for it.. our technology is advancing at an exponential rate.

shit will hit the fan because of it.. even as a jw i knew this was coming.

in fact, i thought that's what the bible was talking about.

Twitch

Maybe I feel weird about it because I've always been a super alarmed state because "Armageddon was coming".

Johnny, tell our good poster what they've just won, would you?

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What is the purpose of life?

by slimboyfat in

while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

Twitch

But...if that happened, some people would lose their purpose in life

True but much like the Hindenburg, you can't help but watch the thing go down in flames.
Oh the humanity

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What is the purpose of life?

by slimboyfat in

while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

Twitch

What is the purpose of life?

To live.