It's much more likely to be part of a dead end family off the main branch of primate evolution... but hey, if I were the discoverer, I suppose I'd bill it as a "missing link" and get my own TV sepcial too....
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Missing Link Found
by Satanus inscientists at a norwegian university claim that a fossil found in germany is a link between apes, monkeys, other mammals and humans.
their dating puts it at 47 million yrs old, a time when mammals were the newbies on the planet.
they have labelled it darwinius masillae, and the specific skeleton 'ida'.
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I Am So Bad~Yard Sale Experience
by StAnn ini went yard saling today.
had lots of fun, got some great bargains.
at one of the yard sale, the people were firm on their prices.
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This story is made of win.
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Whale Wars? Piracy or not?
by Brocephus inok, i am hooked and the new season starts tonight.
plus the show looks great on my new hdtv.
here is my question:.
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parakeet: Why don't we ask the whales what they think? They have more at stake than anybody else regarding this issue.
We did... the whale consensus was "squeak, murmur, splash."
Witnes007: it's a good cause....stopping the extiction of a helpless species
Does this legal whaling actually threaten extinction for the species?
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District Convention Audio?
by Hikaru inexcuse me.
i read in a topic that someone had the audio to the convention?
is there anyway they can come forth and send them to me?
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...God forgive me for saying this. But if it's wrong and it doesn't come, then okay. But isn't it better to be safe then sorry? To belive incase it DOES come?
Pascal's Wager. How horrible.
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Topics for discussion with JWs - part 3: Homosexual animals...
by Albert Einstein ingod hates homosexuality very very much ... right?.
being wicked homosexual ... you are to be destroyed in armageddon ... right?.
people were created by god as heterosexual, but some are today homosexual as a result of imperfection - punishment for disobedience of adam a eve..... but why there is so much homosexuality among god created animals?
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The "animals are homosexuals too" argument is wrong for a few basic reasons:
1. From a religious view, humans are supposed to be "above" animals, so using animalistic behavior to justify human behavior is ridiculous.
2. In the JW view, animals are also 'tainted' since man's fall... remember in the new system lions won't eat meat.
3. Animals also have sexual activity with immature animals... yet we don't claim that pedophilia is OK because animals do it. Same goes for murder, cannibalism, or any of the other things that animals do that are unacceptable among humans.
Arguing that homosexuality is natural because it's found in animals is confronting the JW argument as if its basic premise had any validity, which it doesn't.
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Have you noticed that JW's who've been "raised in the truth" are crappy spellers?
by gubberningbody ini hate that..
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I was a homeschooled JW and was academically years ahead of my "worldly" peers... spelling was never a problem. Grammar were my problem.
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Jehovah Helps Man Win Lottery
by Fadeout inarcher said, "the number 11 was the last one i saw and at that very moment i lifted my hands in the air and said thank you jehovah god for blessing me!".
daniel archer, a resident of mahogany heights, said that he has been playing lotto for more than six years.
http://www.guardian.bz/all-news/59-other-news/157-another-quick-pick-lotto-winner.
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Archer said, "The number 11 was the last one I saw and at that very moment I lifted my hands in the air and said thank you Jehovah God for blessing me!"
Daniel Archer, a resident of Mahogany Heights, said that he has been playing Lotto for more than six years.
http://www.guardian.bz/all-news/59-other-news/157-another-quick-pick-lotto-winner
Jehovah is apparently a lotto fan. His feelings about Indian casinos are still unknown.
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What Type Of TOILET System Will Be Used In "THE NEW SYSTEM"?
by african GB Member inwill it be sewerage system?.
or will it be back to ancient "style" of digging the ground and relieving oneself?
at the back of the "villages"?.
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I imagine we'll use the same Godly system the Israelites did... go outside the camp and dig a hole.
Or perhaps God will use antimatter to eliminate waste products the moment they escape the anus.
One thing's certain... it'll be an adventure!
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Looking for philosophy experts
by jstalin inhello all, i'm looking for some expert(s) on philosophy, specifically ancient philosophy.
the short story is that i don't want to raise children within a specific religion, but i'd still like to raise them with a philosophical underpinning for the important ways to live life.
i've been looking at some ancient philosophical systems that encompass my core beliefs.
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I'm not sure what makes an ancient philisophical system any more valid than one synthesized from your own beliefs.
But you've got pre-Socratics, such as Pythagoreans, Eleatics, and Sophists.
The earlist Ionic philosphers, Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, and Empedocles.
Socrates of course revolutionized philosophy, and as anyone on the cutting edge, faced persecution for it, but paved the way for Plato and Aristotle, who tutored Alexander the Great.
I've always fancied the Epicurean notion that "while we live, death is not, and when death is, we are not, and that, which by its presence cannot affect our happiness, ought not to trouble us when thought of as future."
And as long as you are studying philosophy, there's no reason to limit yourself to the ancient... Descartes is the father of modern philosophy and was certainly one of the all-time great minds. Cogito ergo sum. And having the Cartesian plane named after him ain't bad neither.
While Descartes never lost the fear of God, Spinoza managed nearly as dramatic an impact on philosophy but had a downright heretical conception of God, especially considering he lived in 17th-century Europe. We would probably call him an atheist.
You've got Thomas Hobbes and John Locke as we move into the modern era... David Hume, the Scot whose arguments against God the Watchtower loves to quote and tear down, and even though he's dead I think he still got the best of them.
Kant and Hegel are probably the two most important philosophers of the last 300 years. Ayn Rand is a polarizing but important figure of the 20th century.
Those are just some highlights... I pick and choose what I like, but it's all interesting as it demonstrates various ways of looking at the world.
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The Potter: Do You STILL Want to Worship This?
by WTWizard injeremiah 18 starts like this:.
1: the word which came to jeremiah from the lord, saying, .
2: arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there i will cause thee to hear my words.
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As under cover of departing Day
Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away,
Once more within the Potter's house alone
I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.
Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some loquacious Vessels were; and some
Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.
Said one among them--"Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure moulded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."
Then said a Second--"Ne'er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy,
And He that with his hand the Vessel made
Will surely not in after Wrath destroy."
After a momentary silence spake
Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make;
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"
Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot--
I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot--
"All this of Pot and Potter--Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"
