chinese scientists made progress on decoding the p16 gene in.
humans and in providing evidence that it is a major factor.
in causing aging.. www.lef.org/news/aging/2002/01/31/xh/0000-0863-china-aging-cell.html.
The solution is easy... have a lottery where people are chosen to randomly shoot other people. That should help cull the herd.
Or better yet, a secret government agency can start putting contraceptive drugs in the water! Hell, that is how they keep the pigeon population down in large cities!
part 5: the beginning of the end .
note: from this point forward begins not only my final journey out of the jws, but even more bizarre and twisted turns in the road.
i hope you all find this interesting, because to me it only gets more intriguing and weird for the 3 12 years following january 1992... moment of decision: i can point back to the mountain top visit with god, or maybe today i might call it a visit with my higher power, whomever she/he/it might be.
Amazing,
You are a very good writer... have you thought about writing a book about your life and experiences?
einstien's theory of time and space, made from the observation that the speed of light is a constant (in a vacuum) no matter what speed we,.. the measurer is traveling,.. either away from, or towards the light source.. as he says time not a constant,.. and length in the direction in which one is moving is not a constant.. only the speed of light is a constant.
(all true laws of physics are absolute.
)the speed of light is an absolute.. so from this he concluded that space and time our relative but the speed of light is absolute.. here's a question for all you physic buffs:.
Skeptic,
Great observation! You bring up a very good point!
You are right. Photons are a mystery. They are not yet understood. They obviously have energy (Collected in Solar Cells as electricity) and therefore have mass.
If you do the math and calculate how much force a photon’s mass would exert upon impacting with something, each photon would exert the same force as a bowling ball dropped from a few feet in the air.
It is obvious that we still do not understand everything and that our current models of the universe are not complete or 100% accurate.
Here is a good web site about that: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/photon_mass.html
The energy in a photo is about 6 x 10^-16 Electron Volts. Plug this number in to the old E=mc^2 and you get an approximate mass of 2 x 10^-24 kilograms (Almost nothing)
irishmen blow each other up in his name.
arabs blow themselves up in his name.
imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name.
anewperson,
Energy also has a source. The source is commonly called God.By what means did you come to this conclusion? What properties did you measure to confirm this and what instrumentation did you use?
einstien's theory of time and space, made from the observation that the speed of light is a constant (in a vacuum) no matter what speed we,.. the measurer is traveling,.. either away from, or towards the light source.. as he says time not a constant,.. and length in the direction in which one is moving is not a constant.. only the speed of light is a constant.
(all true laws of physics are absolute.
)the speed of light is an absolute.. so from this he concluded that space and time our relative but the speed of light is absolute.. here's a question for all you physic buffs:.
Alan,
Remember, you cannot travel at the speed of light relative to anything else... A spacecraft can accelerate and accelerate forever, but observers will always see it traveling at just below the speed of light.
A craft can accelerate until it can travel across the galaxy in one second as perceived by the occupants of the craft. However, observers outside the craft still would have only seen it traveling at a speed just under light speed. The occupants in the craft would emerge from the craft thinking that only one second had passed only to find out that 100,000 years had passed for everyone else. This is the effect of the time dilation.
* that anyone can respond to even if they weren't born in, or even if they never were in the borg.
the question is;.
"when do you first remember realising that you were a jw, and that the rest of the world wasn't?!.
I was in the first grade and a kid asked me if I believed in Jesus... I said: "I'm not sure, who is Jesus?"
I also had to tell the teacher that I could not pray with the class since I was a JW. All I knew was that some how what they were doing was evil, at least thats what my parents told me.
from the onion:.
judge orders god to break up into smaller deities.
washington, dc--calling the theological giant's stranglehold on the religion industry "blatantly anti-competitive," a u.s. district judge ruled monday that god is in violation of anti-monopoly laws and ordered him to be broken up into several less powerful deities.. "the evidence introduced in this trial has convinced me that the deity known as god has willfully and actively thwarted competition from other deities and demigods, promoting his worship with such unfair scare tactics as threatening non-believers with eternal damnation," wrote district judge charles elliot schofield in his decision.
Buahahaha!
ok everyone, i have had this on my mind since i decided to celebrate christmas this year for the first time since i became a jw at 19. i stopped because i was taught it was "pagan" and "idolatrous", and now on thinking clearly and with no jw's clouding my thoughts at meetings, i have reasoned personally, yes, jws will say that christmas is pagan and santa claus is a pagan lie to children.
and christmas is so commercialized and materialism is at it's finest.
yet when i think critically with powers of reasoning i see that though jws don't celebrate christmas, they love to go to disney world.
The same thing could be said about the pagan origins of clocks and calendars... interacting with the world by getting a drivers license... your photograph being a graven image and idolatry.
It all depends on who looks at it and how much authority that person has in the org. Some things like the blood and holiday issues take on a life and momentum of their own.
It’s all BS.
ok everyone, i have had this on my mind since i decided to celebrate christmas this year for the first time since i became a jw at 19. i stopped because i was taught it was "pagan" and "idolatrous", and now on thinking clearly and with no jw's clouding my thoughts at meetings, i have reasoned personally, yes, jws will say that christmas is pagan and santa claus is a pagan lie to children.
and christmas is so commercialized and materialism is at it's finest.
yet when i think critically with powers of reasoning i see that though jws don't celebrate christmas, they love to go to disney world.
Not if you look at the issue through JW Glasses.
einstien's theory of time and space, made from the observation that the speed of light is a constant (in a vacuum) no matter what speed we,.. the measurer is traveling,.. either away from, or towards the light source.. as he says time not a constant,.. and length in the direction in which one is moving is not a constant.. only the speed of light is a constant.
(all true laws of physics are absolute.
)the speed of light is an absolute.. so from this he concluded that space and time our relative but the speed of light is absolute.. here's a question for all you physic buffs:.
What he was saying is that all motion is relative. Think about this: If you were the only thing in the universe, how could you tell if you were moving or not. There would be nothing for you to look at to measure your motion. You are not moving unless you are moving relative to something else.
Another thing to think about... time and space are the same thing. The more space you travel through, the more time you travel through. The faster through space you travel, the faster through time you travel.
Also, since nothing can go the speed of light, your perception of the passage of time is dilated as you accelerate. This makes you "think" that you are going faster than light, when what is really happening is your clocks (on the space ship) are slowing down relative to the clocks on earth. Remember the old “Twins” experiment? One twin stays on earth, the other gets in a spaceship and travels near the speed of light and then returns to meet his twin on earth. Only, when the space-traveling twin gets home, he finds that his twin on earth is an old man. The space-traveling twin traveled through more space, and therefore, more time.
I recommend that you read A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
