if all life was truly random, then what happened that allowed humans to it's current intelligent state, do you think non humans could and will reach that in the future?
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Chimpanzees are estimated to have the intelligence of about a 13 year old human.
Corvids (species of bird including magpies, jays, crows, and ravens) are highly intelligent too. Checks this out (if you don't have time to watch the whole thing, just watch the first 2 and a half minutes):
jw don't believe in evolution .
how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?
sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .
Soooo... when they say 'animals' are they just talking mammals? Because there are many other species that eat meat such as birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, bacteria, insects, arachnids, mollusks, fungi...
Could you imagine if nothing ate meat what this Earth would be like? Holy crap! We'd be overrun, competing for food big time, as well as suffocating in carcasses.
the watchtower today says not to think of sex, or to have sexual fantasies.
i'm just wondering... how many people in the hall hearing this watchtower today would be having sexual fantasies?
sitting there thinking about sister hottie or brother hunky ?.
"Don't have sexual fantasies."
That's like telling people not to breathe.
jw don't believe in evolution .
how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?
sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .
I think Lewis Black explains things fairly well here:
what do you make of this graph?.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+population+of+earth.
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Simon is 100% correct. Oil is the foundational energy that supports everything we've come to know in our world and enables us all to have everything we own including your vocation.
I've always found that the facts, the math never jives with religious ideas. As an example, Botchtower's "We're preaching to all the inhabited Earth". This is 100% bull shite! There aren't enough JWs to accomplish this.
Check out Dr. Hans Rosling's presentations on stats. In one of his talks he says the world population will probably plateau at around 11 billion (if I remember correctly). Here's one of his TED Talks - very interesting stuff:
i read this article on exjwreddit and thought it was so well written, that just summed everything up.
i've cut and paste it.
here is the link to it on reddit.. https://m.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/4spw99/where_have_all_the_jws_gone/.
"There are just not as many "older ones" at the Kingdom Halls."
Well, my Dad doesn't attend anymore. He is chronically ill. My Mom is dead, so are most of her family that were JWs, and so are a lot of their friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ox2ypajugq.
sit a spell and listen to my story.. i once met a fella unlike any other.
let me tell you about the man--a strange and wonderful guy--one of a kind--but housing two personalities at the same time.here’s a quick list to capture your interest.. .
Terry, thank you for sharing your story about meeting Tom Laughlin. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
I was a kid when the movie Billy Jack came out. It came to television and was one of 2 movies I remember 'sneaking' to watch (the other one was a few years later at the theatre - we got in underage to Life of Brian). There are some very disturbing scenes in Billy Jack. The "One Tin Soldier" song is one of my all time faves.
i was skimming the july 2016 wt study article and came across a paragraph indicating that, despite scriptural evidence, the governing body indeed feels that god's son now knows the exact day and hour of armageddon.
is this 'new light'?
from the second study article, page 14, pgh 4:.
I still don't understand how a 2,000+ year old dead guy can have any thoughts at all. A decomposed brain and central nervous system are no longer functioning.
so real quick, i know this comes up now and then and i've looked over some of the posts from the past but here's the thing.. when i was a jw i drank all the cool aid, i was 100% and so i have all my own arguments (from the jw's) for why the bible is inspired.
i no longer believe this but i'd really like to read something that is pretty much 100% academic on this subject.
i want to read what scholars have to say about the authenticity of the bible and it's claim at being the inspired word of god.
Hey Freeandclear... researching the history of the Bible and previous belief systems (eg read up on the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" and pagan beliefs) helped educate me on the false claim of the Bible being inspired by any sort of god.
As cofty stated, the issue of Theodicy, why an all loving, all powerful god allows evil to persist is an issue most believers have to face at some point. Once again, I will reference Bart Ehrman, as cofty did and recommend his podcast on The History of the Bible:
Bart Ehrman - The History Of The Bible: The Making Of The New Testament Canon
is physical and emotional abuse taken seriously in jws ?
do they address this form of abuse that their members inflict on others?
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All cults use emotional abuse as a control mechanism. JWs are no different. So no, they don't 'deal' with it. They encourage it.
