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  SJW thinking on the right: The lack of agency

  by bohm in

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  the nut-left got a dilemma with islamic terrorism: on one hand their natural instinct is to defend muslims from any (perceived) attack on islam and on the other hand radical islam is shock full of values that are 100% opposed to everything they believe: the nut-left would simply be stoned to death in a country which properly followed sharia law.. how do you fix the cognitive dissonance?

  well, the standard script includes the following items:.

  first, you don't really defend sharia, at least not in its entirety, but spend time talking about the evils of the west, in particular, israel.

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  2017 Yearbook released

  by bohm in

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  i saw this on reddit:.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/5mlgsm/2017_yearbook_of_jehovahs_witnesses/.

  overall the numbers are better than last year (1.8% growth compared to 1.5% last year -- as i predicted ;-) ) with an increase in all major figures including 1300 more congregations (i assume this is not physical kingdom halls?).

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  November JW broadcast is up, this time on not telling the truth, shunning

  by bohm in

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  november broadcast is up:.

  https://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=mp4&output=html&pub=jwb&issue=201611.

  we learn interesting things.

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  More money-grubbing: Give us your money even if you can't afford food

  by bohm in

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  the message would appear to be that jehovah needs money more than that old lady needs food:.

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  Rumor: Discouraging news from GB at upcoming CA?

  by bohm in

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  this is on the reddit frontpage and sounds super weird.

  can it be confirmed in any way by anyone here?.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/4u72dk/what_kind_of_announcement_could_cause_jws_to/.

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  Jwtv: act of love = giving money

  by bohm in

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  i kid you not, giving money is an act of love according to jwtv (juli edition).

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  How baptism rate at conventions relates to yearbook growth rate (Discussion)

  by bohm in

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  we had a number of posters report on the baptism rate at conventions which is usually less than 1% and rates lower than 0.5% is by no means uncommon.

  despite this there is still a positive growth rate in the us (0.71% according to the yearbook) and i wonder how these numbers relate.

  i wonder if anyone can help me out if these assumptions are true:.

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  JW TV, this month about evolution

  by bohm in

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  this month the last segment is about evolution.

  one is with a sister with a university education in biochemistry who (presumably) teaches at a highschool or public school.

  she says that left handedness of amino acids indicates life was created because "if it was a random process half would be right handed and half left handed" (paraphrased).

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  What's in the secret rooms beneath Chelmsford:

  by bohm in

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  the basement.

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  Interesting new nature article on the creation of self-replication molecules in the lab (abiogenesis)

  by bohm in

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  full text here:.

  we have been able to monitor in real time and at a molecular level the diversification of self-replicating molecules into two distinct sets that compete for two different building blocks (food) and so capture an important aspect of the process by which species may arise.

  as diversification into sets takes place on the timescale of weeks and can be investigated at the molecular level, this work opens up new opportunities for experimentally investigating the process through which species arise both in real time and with enhanced detail.. how new species emerge in nature is still incompletely understood and difficult to study directly.

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