Sheepish,
Hi, I have to say yes.
MOUTHY... you are awesome and God Bless you. You said it perfectly!!
Over the years I have been in several forums and written many former JW's and I can honestly say there is a change. I see that there is a very definate distinction between those that are trying to find a way to have God in their lives after being deceived by JW doctrine and those that are working diligently to "wish Him away." I realize that it is about choice and I judge no one.
Hope you like the facts below.
Our bodies contain enough water to fill a ten-gallon tank
We have enough carbon to manufacture 900 pencils
There is so much fat in our bodies that an average person could make seven bars of soap.
Fingernails are one of the human body's strongest components. hey contain keratin, which is also found in rhino horns, which refuses to erode after death.
Babies are not fully naked in the womb. In fact, their entire bodies are usually covered in a thin layer of dark hair by the end of the fifth month of pregnancy, which disappear when the bay is born.
People blink once every four seconds. That's because the eyelashes act as windscreen wipers, keeping dust and grime from getting into the eye itself.
Humans are one of the only mammals who are unable to 'turn' their ears in order to hear approaching predators.
An embryo is genderless for the first 6-8 weeks of pregnancy... after that the body decides whether the baby will be a boy or girl, dominant hormones emerge. Every tongue has its own individual print which is unique to each person.
The big toe is actually one of the most important elements within the body, as it balances the skeleton and enables the owner to move forward when walking without it, we would simply fall over
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every person has a unique tongue print!!!!
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet..
It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.
The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet
The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
The human brain is about 85% water.
The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart!!!!!!!! (guess that was just a fluke)
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional cross-legged position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.
The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.
The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.
The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the epidemic of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth. (even proper size teeth at the right time)
The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum. (funny special skin where needed most just happened)
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.
That was just fun statistics.........yet when my daughter studied nursing I was amazed beyond comprehension how complex we are. This is just a small dot of miracles when compared to this entire universe.
God does not need us. Everything is His. Rather......He wants us. He chose to love us. He loved us first before we ever gave Him a thought. Because the beauty around us and the miracles of creation somehow seem to evade us.... he went further to prove His love by sending His son to die for our sins.....and providing us with His Word the bible. He gave us hope, life, peace, love and a way out of this mess.
We all know those pointed scriptures drummed into our heads to prove all kinds of JW doctrine..... but how many have actually read the new testament like you would an owners manual. It's all there. You can see the simplicity of God's grace and gift if you chose to and make it your goal to know Him. I even found my answers in the New World Translation (though I would never recommend that bible.)
Yes.. there is awesome good stuff out there.......and there is bad too, with death being the top of the list..........but He promised to make it right again by His son.
If we can only focus on what we can get outta life NOW... and put nothing into what happens beyond that saddens me......................1Corinthians 15:19 "If only in this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
Thanks for listening.
Hugs and support,
gold_morning
ps..... mouthy.. will i be getting nasty PM messages?
