I have a question for those who believe in creation as well - if in fact, there is an intelligent force behind all that's around us, why does it logically follow that this force should be - or is worthy of - worship?
poopsiecakes
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A honest question to all creationists
by bohm inhey!.
i have a question regarding creation thats burning me.
i dont have any clever arguments depending on what is answered, i am just curious.. first off i want to say that i think people are free to believe whatever they want.
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DNA memory
by poopsiecakes inhas anyone here ever researched or thought about dna memory?
there's a lot of weird, esoteric stuff out there concerning this, like you can somehow access your ancestors' memories.
that's not really what i'm talking about - to me, that sounds a little too fanciful.dna is a relatively recent discovery and obviously, there's still a lot to learn.
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poopsiecakes
Thanks so much for the links, frankiespeakin - I can't wrap my head around them right now (had a shitty day) but I'll definitely delve into them on the weekend.
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DNA memory
by poopsiecakes inhas anyone here ever researched or thought about dna memory?
there's a lot of weird, esoteric stuff out there concerning this, like you can somehow access your ancestors' memories.
that's not really what i'm talking about - to me, that sounds a little too fanciful.dna is a relatively recent discovery and obviously, there's still a lot to learn.
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poopsiecakes
wow! Thanks for all of these great replies. This whole subject has fascinated the fringes of my mind for a long time and reading all of your opinions and knowledge is interesting to say the least. What's intriguing to me is that we just don't know for sure to what extent DNA affects us at the molecular level and where the imprints begin and end. I still strongly believe that experiences - both positive and negative - imprint on us somehow to the extent that it can be transmitted to our progeny. A lot is made of negative impact, but what about positive? When you're in a place where you're truly happy, I mean deep down happy, can that not have an imprint so that your descendants somehow feel happy where you did? It sounds so ridiculous but at the same time it's an intriguing hypothesis - at least to me!!
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WTS Smoking in the 1940's
by cantleave ini went to meeting today.
during the public talk it was mentioned that as far back as 1942 the society pointed out the dangers of smoking tobacco and that it wasn't appropriate for christains.
as usual there were no references given.
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poopsiecakes
What a load of hoohah. I'm not advocating smoking in any way but the whole issue seems to have stemmed from someone's pet peeve and in order to make a rule about it, they had to do some serious reaching to connect spiritism (the big bad word). As far as I'm concerned, if you're going to make something a df'ing offence, with everything that goes along with that, it had bloody well better be in black in white in the bible. Other than that, personal choice has to remain personal choice - the same way that nobody swats a big mac out of their hands when they're at McDonald's for a coffee break.
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DNA memory
by poopsiecakes inhas anyone here ever researched or thought about dna memory?
there's a lot of weird, esoteric stuff out there concerning this, like you can somehow access your ancestors' memories.
that's not really what i'm talking about - to me, that sounds a little too fanciful.dna is a relatively recent discovery and obviously, there's still a lot to learn.
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poopsiecakes
Thanks for the links, BTS. Cool stuff...
jdhf I appreciate your insight - I have never studied anything like genetics and I'd love to hear more of what you've learned. I just can't help but think that something as complicated as DNA or the brain has a lot to teach us and it's right here in our own bodies!! There's so much to learn and since breaking free of JW imposed thoughts I love being able to look at things like this from all angles. There's so much that we don't understand and I believe that the way they're researching DNA will unlock a lot of interesting stuff that we can't even fathom right now.
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DNA memory
by poopsiecakes inhas anyone here ever researched or thought about dna memory?
there's a lot of weird, esoteric stuff out there concerning this, like you can somehow access your ancestors' memories.
that's not really what i'm talking about - to me, that sounds a little too fanciful.dna is a relatively recent discovery and obviously, there's still a lot to learn.
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poopsiecakes
Has anyone here ever researched or thought about DNA memory? There's a lot of weird, esoteric stuff out there concerning this, like you can somehow access your ancestors' memories. That's not really what I'm talking about - to me, that sounds a little too fanciful. DNA is a relatively recent discovery and obviously, there's still a lot to learn. Do you think that your experiences become a part of your DNA and can be passed along the same way that eye and hair color, body type and other physical characteristics? I started wondering about this a couple of years ago...it could explain simple things like deja vu or even why we can feel an instant connection with a place we've never been to before or why we're drawn to certain personality types. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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New member Let me intro myself
by God Chick inhello all you scary apostates.
ill try to be brief, prob could do a whole topic on each point.. i was born a jw, one of 7 kids.
my mum ruled house with iron fist (whole story just there) we were the perfect jw family, never missed fs or meetings all baptised at magic age of 14, all pioneered.
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poopsiecakes
Welcome, God Chick!
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How is magisterium different from Governing Body?????
by Terry inlet me introduce you to a term used in the roman catholic church you may not be familiar with: governing body.
in the roman catholic church the word "magisterium" refers to the teaching authority of the church.
this authority is understood to be embodied in the episcopacy, which is the aggregation of the current bishops of the church, led by the bishop of rome (the pope), who has authority over the bishops, individually and as a body, as well as over each and every catholic directly.
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poopsiecakes
You have a glass of water in front of you. You are told by the highest possible trustworthy authority it is poison.
I remember that same illustration being used from the platform repeatedly using false religion as the topic - if there's even a drop of poison in a glass of water, would you drink it? Meaning that there can be good in all religions but that one drop of false teaching makes the religion false. Ironic, huh?
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poopsiecakes
Yay for scruff!
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A Question About "Insecure" People
by minimus ini want to tell you what truly irritates me.
when i see a person come off as being extremely confident and punky, and someone else will say, "he/she is like that because they are really insecure".....yeah, right!.
if someone projects an image of supreme confidence, always tells everyone else why they're supremely right, and puts down others and always exalts themselves, would you believe that their behavior is because of their being "insecure"??
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poopsiecakes
For some people, yes - you can tell the ones who have insecurity issues when you turn it around on them. Truly confident people don't wilt or lash out when they're being challenged, they stick up for themselves calmly. When you have to be extremely careful of everything you say around a 'confident' person, they have insecurity issues in my opinion.