Posts by Mariusuk.

are ufos fact or fiction?

recalling my days as a jehovahs witness i recall the watchtower society or jehovahs .

witnesses explaining away the phenomena of unidentified flying objects as something .

Mariusuk.

Problems I have with E.T Intelligent life

a) Ok there are billions of billions of stars, but as far as we know certains conditions are required for basic life, quite tight conditions to be fair

b) Assuming that a proportion of stars have planets with the attributes to support life, a high proportion of those planets will have conditions which make just existing a challenge

c) Even IF a number of planets have ideal conditions that does not automatically mean intelligent life will evolve, if billions of years of life on this planet only one species has reached technological evolution. The dinosaurs were around for hundreds of millions of years and never reached that level

d) Assuming some planets are ideal and do produce a technological advanced race they may have destroyed themselves once they reached nuclear level

e) Assuming that some planets do not succumb to point d they could also be wiped out by disease, natural disasters etc

f) Even then if all of the above have been met the planets which fit the criterias may be just at our level, below our level or may have reached that level a hundred million years ago and are now extinct

If you do the equations there is every chance that only a few intelligent species may exist in the universe at any one time even in a universe of almost countless stars

This is before you come to difficulties in traversing an extremely large universe, why would an alien come to earth unless they felt there was a need to? If you work on the basis that they have detected our radio waves we have only been releasing them for a hundred or so years, with light travelling at........light speed that still means that only a handful of stars could have possibly received them which gives our "catchment area" a very limited scope. If you work on the basis that using spectrometers they have detected water which increase the chances of possible life then they still would have to be within a close distance, the nearest star is Proxima Centauri which is 4.3 light years away which means even travelling at approx 186,000 miles a second it would still take 4.3 years to reach us and according to einstein light speed is the speed limit of the universe, yes maybe a really advanced race can overcome this but that is pure speculation with no basis

Last of all why after travelling this ridiculously huge distance would an alien then decide to land in a cornfield, abduct a dumbass redneck and abuse him anally?

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Are UFOs Fact or Fiction?

by The wanderer in

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are ufos fact or fiction?

recalling my days as a jehovahs witness i recall the watchtower society or jehovahs .

witnesses explaining away the phenomena of unidentified flying objects as something .

Mariusuk.

The chances are at this moment in time we are actually alone in the universe (as in a highly evolved technological race)

I do have good reasons for this thinking

So no I do not believe in et flying ufo's

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Why do witnesses intentionally avoid having kids?

by NotaNess in

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1) don't want to deal with it at meetings is what i think would be on the top of the list.they see what others have to go through.. 2) i know a married couple jws, that are avoiding having kids, and i've heard of reasons from them like.... "don't want to raise them up in this system".

"time is too short".

"i'll wait until the next system of things".

Mariusuk.

The spin would be armageddon is really close and with our new insight Jehovah has shown us we will need to do a lot of rebuilding work. We will not be made perfect immediately. Should we test Jehovah hoping He will do everything for us? Surely not! (insert some random scripture referencing hard work)

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Will The New Watchtower Kill Off The Awake?

by metatron in

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i don't know if any of you have considered this but is the new watchtower arrangement partly intended.

to permit the end of the awake magazine?.

it is a financially difficult thing for a religion the size of the "truth" to publish one - much less two .

Mariusuk.

The writing is truly on the wall for the wtbts, when the internet became the phenomenom it did some people assumed that the availability of info on the organisation would be its downfall. I think though that its decline is going to be due to its inability to move with the times. Any business not utilising the internet now faces big problems. The wtbts has a problem, a move to take advantage of online presence is a natural and neccessary progression for most businesses however it also realises that opening that Pandora's Box is going to lose them large numbers of "employees"

Seriously with the internet at your fingertips who wants a crappy, badly written, poorly illustrated rag?

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Why do witnesses intentionally avoid having kids?

by NotaNess in

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1) don't want to deal with it at meetings is what i think would be on the top of the list.they see what others have to go through.. 2) i know a married couple jws, that are avoiding having kids, and i've heard of reasons from them like.... "don't want to raise them up in this system".

"time is too short".

"i'll wait until the next system of things".

Mariusuk.

I suppose at present the JW leaders want parents to have children because they are not increasing that much as a group and most of their new recruits are home grown. They need them to keep their numbers up.

It would not surprise me if they started actively encouraging this soon which will certainly set some alarm bells ringing for some JW's

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