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  The bigger picture

  by Freeandclear in

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  i've been awake now for a good while.

  about a year.

  in that year i've done a lot of soul searching and thinking about god and religion etc.... as i'm sure most all of us have who've left this cult.

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  LisaRose

  So true. This moment in time, right now, is all you have, all you've ever had, all you will have. Living in the moment and making the most of it is the only route to happiness.
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  Witness Carts - A Vehicle for Significant Decline

  by slimboyfat in

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  i was stalking to a jw today about her recent experience on the carts and with being a jw generally.

  until this conversation i considered the carts as just an ineffective preaching method and a harmless waste of time.

  but now i wonder if the effect of the carts might be to produce noticeable decline in jw numbers.

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  LisaRose

  Going door to door you might be rejected by only two or three people in an hour but with cart witnessing you could be rejected by hundreds. People rush by, refusing to make eye contact, nobody shows interest, it has to be at least a little bit discouraging. I don't know how people can do it, it must feel like a big fat waste of time.

  As they say, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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  Feeling Sad After Uncovering TTATT

  by pale.emperor in

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  my initial pangs of unease and doubt led me to research some things.

  well, a lot of things really.

  i've never felt comfortable using the bible to try to calculate dates (1914).

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  LisaRose

  Welcome. I think most of us experienced something similar, it is a blow to find out everything you believed is a lie. It does get easier with time, although you are right that there is no acceptable path to leave, at least to those who still believe. Don't rush anything or feel you have to take a stand right away, give yourself the gift of time to get used to this. How you leave can have repercussions, so make sure it's on your terms, it's not dishonest to hide your true thoughts from those who would use them to hurt you. You have been deceived and lied to, so think of it as using their tactics to protect yourself.

  There is no need to rush to replace this religion with another belief system, people have struggled with these questions for centuries, you don't need to have the answers right away. As time goes on things will get easier and you will get some clarity on how to move forward. When I first left I wasn't sure if this religion was "the truth" or not, or even if I believed in God, I just knew I couldn't do it any more. I just didn't think about it for a while and focused on putting one foot in front of the other and eventually things came together.

  Good luck on your journey out of the darkness.

  Lisa🌹
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  Will Bro. Rogers be DF'd posthumously for drug addiction?

  by ShirleyW in

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  some have been df'd for suspicion of smoking cigarettes, yet bro.

  rogers death is because of an addiction, fentanyl is what they are saying is the drug that did him in which was reported on the news as being more potent than heroine.

  why is it that some nosy sister can report you because someone who looked like you was in the parking lot the same time as she was, yet bro.

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  LisaRose

  Seriously, what do you expect they would do at this point? He overdosed on painkillers, it happens. Yes, they probably are giving him a pass because of his celebrity, but it's hard to disfellowship a dead person anyway, so who knows what would have happened if he had been a regular person? Do you honestly expect the Watchtower to bring more attention to his tragic death by saying anything at this point?

  Whatever his demons were it's obvious the religion didn't help him any. Maybe he had been struggling with this and was afraid to say anything knowing how judgemental the elders would be. To me he is just another victim of the Watchtower.
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  Evidence for a Young Earth

  by Perry in

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  LisaRose

  This is another article that discusses this issue. Basically what they are saying is that while soft tissue usually degrades in a certain number of years, in some cases , under some conditions it does not.

  Bottom line: Soft tissue in fossils do not prove that the fossilization happened quickly, it just means that tissue does not degrade quickly in certain environments.

  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Soft_tissue_preservation
  

  The common thread in this claim is the great irony of creationists dogmatically adhering to the results of lab studies using uniformitarianpreconceptions of processes lasting millions of years which nobody has directly observed.
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  Evidence for a Young Earth

  by Perry in

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  LisaRose

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/27/t-rex-soft-tissue-discovery_n_4349214.html

  This is an article from the Huffington post. It discusses how they figured out what happened. It appears the iron in the blood preserved the tissue.

  Dinosaurs’ iron-rich blood, combined with a good environment for fossilization, may explain the amazing existence of soft tissue from the Cretaceous (a period that lasted from about 65.5 million to 145.5 million years ago) and even earlier. The specimens Schweitzer works with, including skin, show evidence of excellent preservation. The bones of these various specimens are articulated, not scattered, suggesting they were buried quickly. They’re also buried in sandstone, which is porous and may wick away bacteria and reactive enzymes that would otherwise degrade the bone.
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  Evidence for a Young Earth

  by Perry in

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  LisaRose

  I admit I went through your post too quickly and didn't really understand what you were getting at, in my defence it was a bit confusing. I understand now about fossils and tissue, see my answer above.

  But you aren't reading my posts either. I have already said if you have a pile of calcium carbonate you can form stalagtites very quickly. The problem is that in limestone caves you don't have a pile of carbonate, it gets extracted slowly.
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  Evidence for a Young Earth

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  LisaRose

  I found some information on the Hell Creek dinosaurs.

  The scientist who claims to have found tissue in fossils admits that she needs more work to prove this. Critics believe that the fossils were contaminated.

  This is where the scientific method works. This person comes up with these findings and it's interesting. But she has a long way to go before her findings are accepted in the scientific community. If what she found really happened she will be able to duplicate her results and other scientists will be able to duplicate the results using her methods. If true, they would have to revise common scientific thought on things. But that hasn't happened yet, it's one person, one experiment.

  Meanwhile, in the religious community of evolution deniers, this is passed off as proven science, because it confirms what they want to believe.

  
  Scientists agree on one aspect of Mary Schweitzer's research. The tissues she found shouldn't have been there, at least according to basic concepts of fossilization. Because of this, critics assert that what Schweitzer really found was a contaminated sample, not a breakthrough. Over 65 million years, there's plenty of time for other life forms to contaminate the bones of a dinosaur. Fossils also come into contact with human and other tissues during excavation. This presents a challenge for researchers trying to prove that a cell, tissue sample or DNA strand came from a specificextinct animal.
  After Schweitzer's first paper appeared in Science, some critics suggested that she published it before conducting enough analysis. Schweitzer agreed with this claim at least in part. She explained that the team published its findings as step to securing funding for later work [source:Yeoman].
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  Evidence for a Young Earth

  by Perry in

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  LisaRose

  
  Millions of years is pretty slow!
  It is amazing how the mineral deposits know how to grow slowly in caves but quickly in environments that contradict the naturalism ideology.
  Conspiracy!

  I have explained it to you, but you don't want to accept it.

  One last time, then I give up.

  If you have a big pile of calcium carbonate just sitting there you can form stalagtites quickly.

  But if you have a limestone cave, the carbonate is not just sitting there, it has to get out of the limestone, and that process is very, very slow. It's a chemical reaction, it takes time. The stalagtites can only grow as fast as the carbonate is freed up from the limestone.
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  Evidence for a Young Earth

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  LisaRose

  was working with a T. rex skeleton harvested from Hell Creek, she noticed that the fossil exuded a distinctly organic odor. "It smelled just like one of the cadavers [dead bodies] we had in the lab who had been treated with chemotherapy before he died," she says. Given the conventional wisdom that such fossils were made up entirely of minerals, Schweitzer was anxious when mentioning this to Horner. "But he said, 'Oh, yeah, all Hell Creek bones smell,'" she says. To most old-line paleontologists, the smell of death didn't even register. - Discover Magazine

  
  

  I am not sure what point you are trying to make with the dinosaur DNA. Somebody claims some Dino bones somewhere had an odor? So what? What proof is there the odor was decay? We're they tested? Do you have a lab report showing tissue with DNA were found in a stalagtite cave believed to be 100,000 years old? Really it sounds like some kind of modern urban legend, "The Fossils That Had an Odor!"

  You have just cut and pasted some things that prove nothing.