This is like arguing over what the definition of is, is. Bill Clinton would be proud.
Razziel
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Jwfacts, Why Do You Equate Miracles With Magic?
by Recovery ini have a question for the author of the website jwfacts.
as i was reading the sparlock article, i couldn't help but notice something seriously wrong:.
"the bible abounds in vivid fantasy, such as its many celestial descriptions, or the portrayal of warring kingdoms with imaginary beasts.. the sparlock message is confusing, as much for an adult as for a child, as the bible shows that god's followers practice magic, even if they are usually referred to as miracles.
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Jwfacts, Why Do You Equate Miracles With Magic?
by Recovery ini have a question for the author of the website jwfacts.
as i was reading the sparlock article, i couldn't help but notice something seriously wrong:.
"the bible abounds in vivid fantasy, such as its many celestial descriptions, or the portrayal of warring kingdoms with imaginary beasts.. the sparlock message is confusing, as much for an adult as for a child, as the bible shows that god's followers practice magic, even if they are usually referred to as miracles.
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Razziel
This is also a misleading and inaccurate representation of what was demonstrated in the video. In fact, the mother encouraged the child's critical thinking when she asked him who it would be pleasing to and who it would not be pleasing to.
I suppose you think the questions in the Watchtower study are thought provoking and encourage critical thinking too.
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Very Good News Regarding Inexpensive Green Energy That Can Drastically Change Our World
by JamesThomas ini, like many of you, love science and the new breakthroughs that are happening on almost a daily basis.
i particularly am enamored by new nonpolluting energy technologies.
technologies that can put a halt to our co2 emissions and also be used to easily scrub our atmosphere and waters clean.
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Razziel
JamesThomas, I will continue to read the latest and greatest as you do. And as a matter of fact, I work with PhD's day in and day out. My company has a joint research facility with MIT in Cambridge as well. They do some great work. And they do a lot of dead-end work. Don't put too much faith in someone simply because they have a PhD. Many are geniuses. And unfortunately, many are morons. The vast majority fall somewhere in between. Just like the general population.
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Very Good News Regarding Inexpensive Green Energy That Can Drastically Change Our World
by JamesThomas ini, like many of you, love science and the new breakthroughs that are happening on almost a daily basis.
i particularly am enamored by new nonpolluting energy technologies.
technologies that can put a halt to our co2 emissions and also be used to easily scrub our atmosphere and waters clean.
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Razziel
I invite you to research the concept of Exergy. This is the amount of useful energy that can converted to work given the ambient environment. Let's say I'm able to build a cold-fusion reactor that is able to create a thermal gradient of 2 degrees. Yay, I had a net energy gain! Unfortunately, this is utterly useless in the real world for providing power to the masses.
For comparison, an ocean water power plant in the tropics using a thermal gradient of 20 degrees celsius between the warm surface water and cool deep water would have to pump over 12 million gallons of ocean water per minute to create 100 MW of power.
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Very Good News Regarding Inexpensive Green Energy That Can Drastically Change Our World
by JamesThomas ini, like many of you, love science and the new breakthroughs that are happening on almost a daily basis.
i particularly am enamored by new nonpolluting energy technologies.
technologies that can put a halt to our co2 emissions and also be used to easily scrub our atmosphere and waters clean.
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Razziel
This is a fancy term for cold fusion, which we've discussed ad nauseum here.
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Do you think our society is on the verge of collapsing?
by jam innot to sound like the gloom and doom cult we were apart,.
but are we heading for an collapse in our society?.
iam sure we all are familiar with the signs that bring about.
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Razziel
Well uh yeah, they really thought the socialist revolution could bring down the West. The Red Scare may have been overblown, but there were a LOT of communist sympathizers in the West. Particularly before WWII, it was en vogue in many elite circles in the US.
Hell, even George Orwell had trouble finding a publisher in the West for Animal Farm because it was a satire on Communism, which was popular in the West at the time.
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Do you think our society is on the verge of collapsing?
by jam innot to sound like the gloom and doom cult we were apart,.
but are we heading for an collapse in our society?.
iam sure we all are familiar with the signs that bring about.
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Razziel
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Do you think our society is on the verge of collapsing?
by jam innot to sound like the gloom and doom cult we were apart,.
but are we heading for an collapse in our society?.
iam sure we all are familiar with the signs that bring about.
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Razziel
My point is BOTH parties have played the middle class. They have distractred us with ancillary issues like abortion and gun-control, and divided us into a false dilemma of black-and-white thinking while the few at the top siphon off the top of the economy and steal us blind regardless of which party is in power.
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Do you think our society is on the verge of collapsing?
by jam innot to sound like the gloom and doom cult we were apart,.
but are we heading for an collapse in our society?.
iam sure we all are familiar with the signs that bring about.
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Razziel
As the average life expectancy increases, there are increased opportunities for the emergence of diseases of older age, including cancers.
It's all about quality of life. We've learned how to extend life, we still aren't especially learned in how to extend quality of life. Longevity on its own is a poor statistic. We are very adept at prolonging life for years using machines and intravenous concoctions. I personally do not look forward to living 10-15 years in a quasi-lucid state in a nursing home or managed care facility as my grandparents did. I hope and believe it's realistic that we will improve the quality of life for our elderly, especially if we get past some of our moral and ethical turpitudes.
There is really no such thing as death with dignity. But I respect those who choose to end their life while they are in full control of their mental faculties rather than live their last years in either perpetual pain, narcotics induced oblivion, or child-like dementia. And whether I'm 75 years old or 200 years old, I personally would never choose such a thing. And when that time comes, I've already made my peace and will do what I feel honorable, longevity statistics be damned.
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Do you think our society is on the verge of collapsing?
by jam innot to sound like the gloom and doom cult we were apart,.
but are we heading for an collapse in our society?.
iam sure we all are familiar with the signs that bring about.
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Razziel
We are simply following the natural progression of Civilization as I've posted time and time again. The US is on the decline, but like as not, we'll hang on for a few more generations as the dominant power before the hourglass flips. 50 years, even 100 years is a short time in history. Republicans aren't completely stupid. Having the strongest military and not being afraid to use it to protect commerce is key to having the strongest economy. In the mean time, the divide between rich and poor will exponentially worsen, and the middle class will continue to shrink over time regardless of if we elect Democrats or Republicans. This is mathematically inevitable because we refuse to recognize the effect of compound interest and tax accordingly.