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  Will the 2014 Memorial partaking YOUR last?

  by prologos in

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  possibly yes.

  many wt doctrine dissenters have privately taken the bread&wine on that night for years.

  one reason is that the new covenant is not for heaven, but for forgiveness of sin, and jesus served the emblems to those with an earthly hope.

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  My last one was 2009 - when I gave the talk :-)
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  A great exhibition to be held in the British Museum in 2014

  by fulltimestudent in

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  image a book that begins like this:.

  this book is about an age of discovery.

  it tells the story of:.

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  I think I will take gander to that exhibition. Haven't been to the BM for a year or so.
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  New here, just wanted to say "Hello"

  by Goldiver in

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  hello all, it is nice to have a forum for former jw's and see i wasn't the only one out there having serious doubts.

  my parents got into it when i was about 4 years old.

  my family was part of the granville ny congregation.. my dad in time became an elder.

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  A Warm welcome
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  How Cold is it Where You Are?

  by PYRAMIDSCHEME in

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  with the polar vortex swirling further and further south and breaking records how cold is it where you are?.

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  here in gettysburg pa last night night we hit a low of -4 degrees but we were blessed with some wind that dropped the wind chill down to -22..

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  I am looking forward to my impending week in LA in February.
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  i wish more churches would preach truth like this

  by unstopableravens in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncehcvrvgq.

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  It's like arguing who is the true Dr. Who? Tom Baker oe David Tenant.
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  jw.org slipping down the search engine rankings?

  by besty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not sure if anybody else has noticed this but when i search for jehovah's witness i would expect jw.org to be the 1st result.

  until now.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/50714155@n07/11824103644/.

  seems they are down to 3rd position behind wikipedia and beliefnet..... this is great news if true - seems that their shiny new jw.org might not be quite seo'd enough....

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  It's number 1 when I google "Jehovah's witnesses"
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  So many new species being discovered......

  by cantleave in

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  2. friends

  i think some of you may enjoy this article, it makes a change from hearing about yet another species on the extinct list and shows why we need to conserve our natural heritage.

  http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleno/38639/title/new-species-abound/.

  in october, the world wildlife fund (wwf) published a list of 441 new species that have been discovered in the amazon in the last four years: 258 plants, 84 fish, 58 amphibians, 22 reptiles, 18 birds, and one mammal.

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  Also, people shouldn't get the impression that the new ones discovered make up for the ones going extinct. They don't balance out.

  Absolutely Simon. Of course with time diversity can in theory be restored by evolution, however it may require a mass extinction event to allow a suitable "restore point" for this to happen.
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  How Cold is it Where You Are?

  by PYRAMIDSCHEME in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with the polar vortex swirling further and further south and breaking records how cold is it where you are?.

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  here in gettysburg pa last night night we hit a low of -4 degrees but we were blessed with some wind that dropped the wind chill down to -22..

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  cantleave

  It's not cold here in the UK, just VERY wet and windy!
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  So many new species being discovered......

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
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  i think some of you may enjoy this article, it makes a change from hearing about yet another species on the extinct list and shows why we need to conserve our natural heritage.

  http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleno/38639/title/new-species-abound/.

  in october, the world wildlife fund (wwf) published a list of 441 new species that have been discovered in the amazon in the last four years: 258 plants, 84 fish, 58 amphibians, 22 reptiles, 18 birds, and one mammal.

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  I think some of you may enjoy this article, it makes a change from hearing about yet another species on the extinct list and shows why we need to conserve our natural heritage.

  http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/38639/title/New-Species-Abound/

  In October, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published a list of 441 new species that have been discovered in the Amazon in the last four years: 258 plants, 84 fish, 58 amphibians, 22 reptiles, 18 birds, and one mammal. That’s “an average of two new species identified every week for the past four years,” read a WWF press release, and “[t]his doesn’t even include the countless discoveries of insects and other invertebrates.”

  The findings are a welcome break from news of impending extinctions, and the new species are a reminder of the importance of continued vigilance and conservation. Of course, the Amazon is not the only place where new life is popping up. Thousands of new species are described each year, hailing from nearly every continent and diverse branches of life. In May, The Scientist covered the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University’s annual Top 10, with favorites chosen for their unexpected features or their unique habitats. Here are a few of candidates for the 2013 lineup:

  The big one

  A pair of Kobomani tapirs caught on camera trap COURTESY OF FABRÍCIO R. SANTOS This month, researchers described what is likely to be this year’s biggest new species: the Kobomani tapir (Tapirus kabomani), which roams the open grasslands and forests of Brazil and Colombia. Though it’s the smallest of the tapirs, it’s one of the largest animals in South America. Published in the Journal of Mammology, discovery of the tapir makes it the first new Perissodactyla species, which includes rhinos and horses, discovered in more than 100 years, according toMongabay.com.

  The new tapir species isn’t so new to local tribes, however, who regularly hunt the “little black tapir,” as they call it. “[Indigenous people] traditionally reported seeing what they called ‘a different kind of anta [tapir in Portuguese].’ However, the scientific community has never paid much attention to the fact, stating that it was always the same Tapirus terrestris,” lead author and paleontologist Mario Cozzuol of Brazil’s Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  Belo Horizonte told Mongabay.com. “They did not give value to local knowledge and thought the locals were wrong. Knowledge of the local community needs to be taken into account and that's what we did in our study, which culminated in the discovery of a new species to science.”

  Mammal in the trees

  Wild olinguito at Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Ecuador WIKIMEDIA, MATT GURNEY The olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) was this year declared to be a distinct species from its close relative, the onlingo, a member of the raccoon family. The new species was first discovered in a drawer, at Chicago’s Field Museum. Kristofer Helgen, curator of mammals at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, found a collection of skin, skulls, and bones that “stopped me in my tracks,” he told BBC News. “The skins were a rich red color and when I looked at the skulls I didn’t recognize the anatomy . . . right away I thought it could be a species new to science.”

  On the basis of a grainy video of an olinguito-like animal in the Andes, Helgen and his colleagues headed to Colombia and Ecuador to find the mammal in the trees of cloud forests. Furry, orange, and weighing less than a kilogram, the olinguito is solitary and nocturnal. It is smaller than the olingo, and the two species have differences in their teeth and tails. Helgen’s team published its findings August 15 in ZooKeys, noting that the olinguito is threatened; construction and farming and destroyed nearly half of its forest habitat. “This reminds us that the world is not yet explored and the age of discovery is far from over,” Helgen told BBC News.

  City bird

  Cambodian tailorbird JAMES EATON/BIRDTOUR ASIA A little bird by the name of the Cambodian tailorbird (Orthotomus chaktomuk), first seen during routine checks for avian flu in 2009, is finally recognized by science, according to a study published in the Oriental Bird Club journal. Belonging to the warbler family, the Cambodian tailorbird can be found living in and around the country’s capital city of Phnom Penh. It resembles other tailorbirds, the researchers report, but its plumage, song, and genes support its reclassification as its own species—something that is rare in urban ecosystems.

  “The modern discovery of an undescribed bird species within the limits of a large populous city—not to mention 30 minutes from my home—is extraordinary,” study coauthor Simon Mahood of the Wildlife Conservation Society told BBC News. “The discovery indicates that new species of birds may still be found in familiar and unexpected locations.”

  Once again, however, as the bird’s small habitat continues to shrink, prompting the researchers to recommend that it be listed as “near threatened” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List.

  Fish giant

  Arapaima sp. WIKIMEDIA, T. VOEKLER Sleek, eel-like fish known as arapaima have, for some time, been considered to comprise a single species, but new evidence suggests that a classic division of the group into four species is actually more accurate. Moreover, researchers claim to have found a distinct fifth species of arapaima, according to a study published by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Donald Stewart in the March issue of Copeia.

  “Everybody for 160 years had been saying there’s only one kind of arapaima,” Stewart said in a press release . “But we know now there are various species, including some not previously recognized.”

  A common target of Amazonian fisherman, arapaima are commercially important fish. Curious about the recognition of four species of arapaima in the mid-1800s, Stewart closely examined original specimens and found that they were indeed four species after all. One specimen, held at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia in Manaus, Brazil, even represents a fifth species (A. leptosoma), Stewart concluded. The sensory cavities on its head have a unique shape, and the fish has a sheath over part of its dorsal fin that other arapaima don’t have. It also has a distinctive color pattern.

  Unfortunately, arapaima have been overfished in the Amazon Basin for more than a century, bringing their current populations to near zero.

  Year of the sharks

  Scalloped hammerhead sharks WIKIMEDIA, YZX Off the coast of South Carolina roams another new species discovered in 2013, the Carolina hammerhead (Sphyrna gilbert), close cousin of the scalloped hammerhead. According to study published in August in the journal Zootaxa, the new shark species is genetically distinct, and has about 10 fewer vertebrae that the scalloped hammerhead.

  The Carolina variety was discovered by University of South Carolina fish expert Joe Quattro, who gathered what appeared to be 80 young scalloped hammerheads. Genetic and anatomical analyses proved otherwise, however. In the end, 54 of the 80 sharks belonged to the new species.

  Quattro expects that, like the dwindling populations of the scalloped shark, the Carolina shark is rare. “Outside of South Carolina, we’ve only seen five tissue samples of the cryptic species,” Quattro said in a release. “And that’s out of three or four hundred specimens.”

  You might think that finding a new species of the largest fish in the ocean is uncommon, and it is, but this year boasts another new shark species: Hemiscyllium halmahera, a shark that “walks” along the sandy bottoms surrounding a remote Indonesian island (see video). Publishing in July in the Journal of Ichthyology, marine biologist Mark Erdmann of Conservation International and his colleagues describe the species. The animals can grow up to 70 centimeters (27 inches) in length, and as with other walking—or epaulette—sharks, females lay their eggs under reef ledges.

  And many more

  With so many new species populating this year’s scientific literature, there simply isn’t room to cover them all. But suffice it to say that diversity is not what this list is lacking: a new orchid from volcanic islands west of Spain, a tiny crustacean found in an offshore reef cave near California’s Catalina Island, the Spectacular Guyane False-form beetle of the French Guiana rainforests, five species of“slavemaker” ants that steal the young of other ants, a humpback dolphin, two gecko species, and a Turkish scorpion. Plus many more just waiting to be found.
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  Theists - does your god DESERVE to be respected or worshipped?

  by cantleave in

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  or should she abdicate for lack of action / leadership?.

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  By worship I mean fervent adoration.