besides being overworked and overstressed almost everyday in the past few months,.
i've had to deal with a 'broken heart', insecurities with my physical appearance (gained a lot of weight),.
and being lonely because i started distancing myself from the 'congregation', i just want to cry, sob, and bawl out here in my bedroom.
I'm sorry you are in a bad place right now but things can get better. Here's what I like to do in this sort of situation, although I'm sure this advice is not for everyone.
Go hit the gym (or start some workout routine depending on age/ability). Get sweaty and tired and scream "F*ck you, Life! I'm hitting back!" Just because you're not in control of all that life brings, it feels good to start controlling the things you can control.
the answer to this question is not that easy or obvious as you might think.
if your answer is "creationists" you are wrong, they are evolutionists a rare breed of evolutionists, but evolutionists at last .. at this stage of my argumentation you might think i have lost my mind for stating jehovahs witnesses are evolutionists, but this might be because you are thinking as the wt has taught you to think.
the wt has presented a distorted view of the theory of evolution.
The best way to describe them is that they are old-earth creationists.
somehow, i don't have a warm fuzzy feeling when i keep hearing from the center of disease control, "ebola is not spread through the air ...".
ever sneezed?
the famous myth busters had a revealing show on the power of the sneeze anecdotally it has a velocity of some 35 miles per hour and travels a distance of some 30 feet.. ever traveled in the close confines of an air liner?
simmone17 here is a couple quotes from http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html
"Ebola on dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature."
"Once someone recovers from Ebola, they can no longer spread the virus. However, Ebola virus has been found in semen for up to 3 months. People who recover from Ebola are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms for 3 months."
Ok that is saying IF Ebola was on a dried surface. But that means that a bodily fluid was there. You'll note that it says it does not spread by sneezing or coughing unlike airborn viruses, unless you sneeze directly into someone's eyes or mouth or something like that. I agree that if someone left bloody prints on something, it is infected for quite some time. But that is only if the person were symptomatic and only if that person was oozing stuff, which would pretty much be isolated and quarantined immediately to be cleaned (which is easy to do). Definitely true about the semen, I wouldnt have sex (condom or no) with an Ebola survivor for at least three months, that's for damned sure.
I appreciate you having sources. I still think that Ebola is not airborn as it says here and that you are at very little risk even if a person with Ebola were to be on a plane with you. I will be willing to be all the people who flew with this latest victim will come away perfectly fine :)
Have a nice day :)
somehow, i don't have a warm fuzzy feeling when i keep hearing from the center of disease control, "ebola is not spread through the air ...".
ever sneezed?
the famous myth busters had a revealing show on the power of the sneeze anecdotally it has a velocity of some 35 miles per hour and travels a distance of some 30 feet.. ever traveled in the close confines of an air liner?
Simon17 do some research. All of that has been verified. Let me simplify this, the virus is EXTREEMLY contategous... we are just apparently fortunate that you arn't particularly contegous till late in the illness.
No, why don't YOU show me YOUR research. Because every paper, scientific research, etc in the entire world says the OPPOSITE of what you are saying. So show me YOUR sources.
somehow, i don't have a warm fuzzy feeling when i keep hearing from the center of disease control, "ebola is not spread through the air ...".
ever sneezed?
the famous myth busters had a revealing show on the power of the sneeze anecdotally it has a velocity of some 35 miles per hour and travels a distance of some 30 feet.. ever traveled in the close confines of an air liner?
Ebola also survives for hours on hard surfaces, days on wet ones, months in semen, and unknown how long in soiled fabric.
No it absolutely does not.
This Ebola outbreak is now about 11 MONTHS old. If it spread like this, you'd have millions upon millions of infections across the world. It is an extremely easy virus to contain if you know what you are doing. A guy bled out, vomitting, everything on a plane to Nigeria and no one on the plane got sick. Only the doctors who were treating him like a non-Ebola patient and contacting his bodily fluids got sick.
If this was the 10th century than Ebola would be the modern day bubonic plague. But its the 21st century. Its not a big problem in places that have 21st century medicine.
faders: why do we bother staying in?.
we cling to some false hope that people we love will accept us despite our not believing, even though its as much a fairytale as the dogmas based on untruths.. ive never been anything but a good friend and human being and would do anything for the people i love; i couldnt dream of shutting out someone i care about.
and its not like theyd revel in the idea of doing it either, yet its seen as not just the only choice, but also as undoubtedly the right thing to do.
It was her who alerted the elders after a picture of my ear was seen sitting next to my sister
This sounds really disgusting
we are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .
selection to account for the complexity of life.
careful examination of the .
Being skepitical is a good thing, critical analysis is another good thing. Testing theories - well that is what scientists do.
I am not sure signing this says anything other than scientists agreeing to good scientists.
Exactly, nothing wrong with wondering about current theories. They are not claiming it is false. Its not their specific field of study, in probably contradicts with their religious belief, and they would like to look at it further. Nothign wrong with that. Not all scientists believe in evolution (yet..)
in his preesentation, he speaks to "you the young ones".
"you are the next generation of " adult witnesses.
this one sentence using generation in the normal way, at a stroke, shows they just made up the overlapping teaching to get themselves out of a hole.. .
This is interesting, but a tenuous conclusion is drawn. Specifically jumping on the word "generation" is not productive because the overlapping generation teaching has to do with the anointed ones who will not die before the end comes. Whereas, whether it's in this system or the next, the kids Lett is speaking to will grow up eventually.
But I think the important point is his use of the word "generation". If the way to understand the use of 'generation' in the gospels is as they say it is, then it would be improper to say "young ones-you are the next generation." The next generation, according to their definition, would be all yet unborn JWs who are born after the last person alive right now dies. Which according to them doesn't even happen, so technically they should really refer to people now as the last generation. Which of course is ridiculous and hence his normal usage in this sentence!
suppose the following choice were offered you, and you had to choose one or the other.
which would you pick (and perhaps why):.
1) you can continue living your life as it is, die when you might, and that's that.. 2) you can instead agree to die in 1 year in exchange for this: you will be granted access to the entire past and future history of intelligent life in the universe.
Guys, you're forgetting two big points:
1. You could convince anyone of anything because you know the FUTURE, not just the past. It wouldn't take long to become known as a successful prophet and then everyone would hang on your every word.
2. You can't do that anyway. simon17 said "You cannot share ANY information with anyone else in any way."
Exactly...
suppose the following choice were offered you, and you had to choose one or the other.
which would you pick (and perhaps why):.
1) you can continue living your life as it is, die when you might, and that's that.. 2) you can instead agree to die in 1 year in exchange for this: you will be granted access to the entire past and future history of intelligent life in the universe.
Isn't that basically, Wikipedia ?
No, it is not. We know so little about the universe and next to nothing about the future. You would learn things like: Humans will live another 50,000 years and colonize the solar system before some catastrophe nearby wipes that civilization out. Or that there have been 34 civilizations that have reached current human level of intelligence in the history of the Milky Way, 10 of which currently exist (and where, and what they are like, and how they developed). Etc etc etc.
