I don't fully understand the science, so I'm really just looking for a yes or no answer from someone who does; have memes been scientifically proven?
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Have memes been scientifically proven?
by passwordprotected ini'm guessing lots of people here believe in memes.
my question, have they been scientifically proven?.
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eugenics anyone?
by ninja inthis is the brother of rahm emanuel not liking the spotlight being pointed at him.......we are in trouble folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-0shfeggo.
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Is the belief that humans should be bred in a specific way or that certain social types should be prohibited from breeding a meme?
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eugenics anyone?
by ninja inthis is the brother of rahm emanuel not liking the spotlight being pointed at him.......we are in trouble folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-0shfeggo.
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The thing is, ninja, lots of people just cover their ears and cried "LALALALALALALAAAH!" when presented with stuff like this. Whenever they see their human Messiah's as not being quite as honest and transparent as they want them to be, whenever they discover that their human leaders teach and believe things that are actually quite nasty, they don't want to know.*
*Yes, this same logic is thrown at Christians too, I absolutely accept that.
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Anyone listening to the confrence call?
by foolsparadise inthis guy got completely railroaded.
another person earns his freedom!
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If a religious organisation is seen to be a money making racket, building great expansive buildings, buying up tax-free land, using volutary labour to further its means and offering very little back in terms of honest humanitarian value, then I say tax it and tax it higher than 60%.
If a small church is seen to be making itself available to the community for whatever needs the community may have, if it is financially supporting drug rehab, supporting single parents and other patently humanitarian deeds, then I say don't tax it; it's probably saving the tax payer money.
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Have memes been scientifically proven?
by passwordprotected ini'm guessing lots of people here believe in memes.
my question, have they been scientifically proven?.
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Yes, but have they been scientifically proven, i.e. can they be replicated, manipulated, taken apart, put back together, quantified etc etc in a lab?
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Have memes been scientifically proven?
by passwordprotected ini'm guessing lots of people here believe in memes.
my question, have they been scientifically proven?.
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I'm guessing lots of people here believe in memes. My question, have they been scientifically proven?
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Recently disfellowshipped prominent Assembly overseer in Western Europe now speaking out against the Watchtower org.
by the research lady informer elder, and assembly overseer roberto from france will be joining barbara and joe anderson on tonight's conference call, july 18,2009. roberto was disfellowshipped in june 2009 and after many faithful years of service is now joining thousands of others who are speaking out against the evils of the watchtower organization.
our call tonight will be focused on how the country of france, as well as other european countries are investigating jehovah's witnesses.
the watchtower organization is experiencing difficulties in these countries for the inhumane treatment and exerting too much control over people's lives.
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I'd have thought knowing 6 pedophiles would suggest you're hanging out in the wrong social circles. SIX??
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Recently disfellowshipped prominent Assembly overseer in Western Europe now speaking out against the Watchtower org.
by the research lady informer elder, and assembly overseer roberto from france will be joining barbara and joe anderson on tonight's conference call, july 18,2009. roberto was disfellowshipped in june 2009 and after many faithful years of service is now joining thousands of others who are speaking out against the evils of the watchtower organization.
our call tonight will be focused on how the country of france, as well as other european countries are investigating jehovah's witnesses.
the watchtower organization is experiencing difficulties in these countries for the inhumane treatment and exerting too much control over people's lives.
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Reniaa, how are your kids? Remember when you posted this;
Hi I feel for you and understand, My first son was born severely disabled and is 10 years old he has multiple problems both physical and mental inc severe epilepsy, mental age that has leveled at 2 years old, I also have a 4 year old and a newborn baby and am a single mum, literatually my life is completely given over to my children.
Autism is a differcult decease to get diagnosed but once it is there is a lot of info out there about it, I will also say my niece had a learning delays and instead of talking created her own language that only she understood, very few understanble words about the same age as your son she got the help and within a couple of years she was talking normally now she 12 years old and perfectly ok, in fact is top in her school in maths and has been offered early exams, Sometimes for whatever reason kids are delayed on speech but this might just be a hiccup that just needs to be worked through. My sister used to have fun games trying to make speech fun, lots of rhyming and singing.to encourage her.
How do you find the time to post on here so prolifically? You're a testament to modern motherhood and should be applauded.
That being said, your JW judgements don't really wash.
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Recently disfellowshipped prominent Assembly overseer in Western Europe now speaking out against the Watchtower org.
by the research lady informer elder, and assembly overseer roberto from france will be joining barbara and joe anderson on tonight's conference call, july 18,2009. roberto was disfellowshipped in june 2009 and after many faithful years of service is now joining thousands of others who are speaking out against the evils of the watchtower organization.
our call tonight will be focused on how the country of france, as well as other european countries are investigating jehovah's witnesses.
the watchtower organization is experiencing difficulties in these countries for the inhumane treatment and exerting too much control over people's lives.
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Maybe this family member really thinks what he says and he's an example of 100 % successful indoctrination. Or maybe he doesn't and dishes you the official talk about apostasy out of a sense of duty but actually thinks much better of you than he will let you know.
When JWs imply that somehow the word of an "apostate" would be less credible had he been df'd for some other motive than apostasy, this means "apostasy" actually ranks high, not low, in their effective scale of values. Not that they will admit it, even to themselves.
It's important to remember the unique definition of the word apostate that the WTS teaches. It includes opposing Jehovah. This, to a loyal JW, is unforgivable.
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WTS causing more anguish
by GapingMouth ini don't really know where to start on my first post; i feel i have so much to say and yet i am so emotionally tired that it is hard to go through it all again in my head.
but, i do need support and advice and so i will make the effort.. i started having doubts about certain beliefs of the witnesses about 2 years ago and did research since that i now come to the belief there is no god, and witnesses definitely are a cult.. at first it bothered me more on the god issue, but now i am more bothered by the cult issue, mainly because it dictates my life even though i am aware of it.. when i was a child, my mother and father divorced and my mother told me i will live with my father because she was going to die at armageddon being a non witness.
i think, as well as many other pressures i cant list for fear of a very long post, this was the main pressure that made me get baptized even though i wasn't that happy being a witness.
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"Religion needs to be fixed because it causes so much trouble and ultimately is the perpetuation of false hope & an incorrect view of history & the place therein of certain groups of people"
Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot; common denominator? Wanted a world without religion. Oh, and atheism. They were morally autonomous and they murdered a lot of people along the way. Nice world to live in.
"You were preaching, pure & simple. It was inappropriate & poorly timed. And i called you out on it.
End of."
What do fundie atheists call it when they preach about science?
"Yes, he is very much against Hitler, as am i & pretty much most other people on earth. And don't go & equate eugenics with Darwinism, that has been debunked & is a strawman. Animal eugenics existed long before Darwin."
Is Dawkins very much against Hitler? Why has he stated that it's about time that we started seriously considering what Hitler was actually trying to accomplish? Surely what Hitler was trying to accomplish should be completely forgotten and disregarded?
As for equating eugenics with Darwinism well I wasn't - I was asking you if you knew what Dawkins view of eugenics was, but now you've brought it up, what was the title of Darwin's best known book? "The Origins of the Species By Means of Natural Selection Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". And what is definition of eugenics, exactly? I quote;
"the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)."
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At the end of the day, you've got your faith that science explains everything (which many scientists don't agree with, btw, hence so many of them being Christians I suppose) and I have my faith in the existence of God.
"If it's ok with you, i'll think for myself."
But do you? Or do you read books like everyone else to help you form your world view?
May you go in peace.