here's proof that armageddon has already arrived, "invisibly.
" we're living on the paradise earth, fellow apostates.. (when you click on the site, select the "slideshow" option.).
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29771063.
Big cats speak volumes for Jehovah's marvellous design.
Those sharp fangs for stripping seeds off grass.
Those powerful muscles and sharp claws for wrestling wild flowers into submission.
That short digestive system for getting all the goodness out of plant matter.
Surely, the way in which form follows function so perfectly is ample proof of an intelligent designer.
i know what circular reasoning is because i wrote about it, so i know i'm right .
http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/2010/01/what-is-circular-reasoning.html.
carlos.
Firstly this is off topic so I'll keep it short.
Re this TRex tissue.
If dinosaurs were as recent as young Earth creationists argue wouldn't we expect to see more dinosaur soft tissue. The fact that we don't (this was the first of anything like this apparent age) indicates to me that dinos are definitely way older than the YE'ers say.
is it such a bad thing to have sex before marriage?.
should you "try before you buy"?.
Sex before marriage definitely a social boon in my books. I recently read a book about the mathematics of sex (no seriously). The chapter on mate selection made a good case for trying out (I think) 10 to 20 partners before setlling down.
Also, I'm in my 40's and never married. I see nothing attractive or virtuous in being a 40 yr old virgin.
i live in a 'difficult territory', though there is a kingdom hall only 15 minutes walk away.. how do jw's deal with door knocking in difficult territories?.
our door can be hard to hear if people come knocking but there is usually somebody home.
i haven't seen a jw at my door in 10 years or so.. now most of you would think that was great i know, but it would be good to meet them in the flesh occasionally, without having to go to the hall or arrange a study.. .
I suppose I was in part questioning whether some areas are favored over others.
I guess large numbers of Muslims who in general take their faith more seriously will be more resistant to the 'Truth' than the average UK nominal Christian who only has a vague faith which isn't too deeply held. I mostly meant difficult in this sense.
There is also the problem of deciding whether houses are unoccupied and language issues.
I'm not sure how active our local KH is (not very in my neck of the woods anyway). The sister I mentioned in my previous post came in from a congregation some distance away. she was working on a specialist skill though (Chinese). She never got back to me with the literature I wanted either.
You must leave in a very difficult surrounding, since you as Christian are the minority.
Well, I'm an atheist, and whilst in a distinct minority I actually quite like it here. If I didn't I'd move out.
Wow, visits every other month in the old days. That's pretty active.
On a brighter and lighter note if the kingdom is to be preached worldwide to give everyone a chance to accept the 'Truth' before armageddon, it will be a while coming if my local cong doesn't pull their fingers out and start hitting the streets.
i live in a 'difficult territory', though there is a kingdom hall only 15 minutes walk away.. how do jw's deal with door knocking in difficult territories?.
our door can be hard to hear if people come knocking but there is usually somebody home.
i haven't seen a jw at my door in 10 years or so.. now most of you would think that was great i know, but it would be good to meet them in the flesh occasionally, without having to go to the hall or arrange a study.. .
I live in a 'difficult territory', though there is a Kingdom Hall only 15 minutes walk away.
How do JW's deal with door knocking in difficult territories?
Our door can be hard to hear if people come knocking but there is usually somebody home. I haven't seen a JW at my door in 10 years or so.
Now most of you would think that was great I know, but it would be good to meet them in the flesh occasionally, without having to go to the hall or arrange a study.
I live in inner city Bradford in the UK. For those who don't know the UK too well here's a little info on our area.
Our Council ward has an estimated mid 2007 population of 3077.
The 2001 census data shows
68.4% Muslim
7.9% Christian
14.2% had either no religous affiliation or chose not to say.
43% were immigrants.
The census was taken during our local university vacation, so our student population isn't represented in these figures. We know though that the more education you get the less likely you are to be duped. More recent years have seen the arrival of large numbers of immigrants from EU accession countries and Africa as well as large numbers of Arabs and Chinese students. Indeed the last sister I saw was outside a Chinese supermarket and she was learning Chinese to Witness to this group.
Here they'd face hostility from people of a strongly held altrnative faith, or incomprehension from people with poor standards of English, or intellectual stuff that would confuse them. I'd imagine doing the rounds in my area would be very frustrating for any JW that tried it.
How do JW's deal with door knocking in difficult territories?
How frequently do other people get the knock?
Do JW's deliberately target the low lying fruit in better areas where they've a better hit rate or at least a better reception, or do they not discriminate?
I seem to remember years ago my Mum saying that houses should get 2 knocks a year. Is this right?
hitching is also a paranormalist, an advocate of psychic evolution.... [hitching's book] earth magic is a wild, extremely entertaining and thoroughly psychic interpretation of megalithic structures.... hitching also includes in his scheme cosmic cataclysms, atlantis, pyramidology, dowsing, esp, miraculous healing, and astrology.
creation/evolution newsletter, 7, no.
5, pp.
Oh yes, and ignore the Dawkins link. I was completely up the wrong tree on that one.
How do we edit previous posts?
hitching is also a paranormalist, an advocate of psychic evolution.... [hitching's book] earth magic is a wild, extremely entertaining and thoroughly psychic interpretation of megalithic structures.... hitching also includes in his scheme cosmic cataclysms, atlantis, pyramidology, dowsing, esp, miraculous healing, and astrology.
creation/evolution newsletter, 7, no.
5, pp.
Oh yes that Ch4 quote seems to be WT Org quoting Hitching quoting Thorpe.
hitching is also a paranormalist, an advocate of psychic evolution.... [hitching's book] earth magic is a wild, extremely entertaining and thoroughly psychic interpretation of megalithic structures.... hitching also includes in his scheme cosmic cataclysms, atlantis, pyramidology, dowsing, esp, miraculous healing, and astrology.
creation/evolution newsletter, 7, no.
5, pp.
Some Hitching quotes from Creation book
Chapter2
Francis Hitching, an evolutionist and author of the book The Neck of the Giraffe, stated: “For all its acceptance in the scientific world as the great unifying principle of biology, Darwinism, after a century and a quarter, is in a surprising amount of trouble.”
The Neck of the Giraffe, by Francis Hitching, 1982, p. 12
Summarizing some of the unsolved problems confronting evolution, Francis Hitching observed: “In three crucial areas where [the modern evolution theory] can be tested, it has failed: The fossil record reveals a pattern of evolutionary leaps rather than gradual change. Genes are a powerful stabilizing mechanism whose main function is to prevent new forms evolving. Random step-by-step mutations at the molecular level cannot explain the organized and growing complexity of life.”—Italics added.
No reference given
Chapter 4
Thus Professor William Thorpe of the zoology department of Cambridge University told fellow scientists: “All the facile speculations and discussions published during the last ten to fifteen years explaining the mode of origin of life have been shown to be far too simple-minded and to bear very little weight. The problem in fact seems as far from solution as it ever was.”
The Neck of the Giraffe, by Francis Hitching, 1982, p. 68
Chapter 5
Evolutionist Hitching says of this foremost evolutionary model (accepted model of horse evolution): “Once portrayed as simple and direct, it is now so complicated that accepting one version rather than another is more a matter of faith than rational choice. Eohippus, supposedly the earliest horse, and said by experts to be long extinct and known to us only through fossils, may in fact be alive and well and not a horse at all—a shy, fox-sized animal called a daman that darts about in the African bush.”
The Neck of the Giraffe, by Francis Hitching, 1982, p. 31
Chapter 6
Francis Hitching observes: “The curious thing is that there is a consistency about the fossil gaps: the fossils go missing in all the important places.”
The Neck of the Giraffe, by Francis Hitching, 1982, p. 19
Chapter 7
So the depictions of “ape-men” are, as one evolutionist admitted, “pure fiction in most respects . . . sheer invention.”
27. The Neck of the Giraffe, by Francis Hitching, 1982, p. 224.
Here's the RichardDawkins.net forum page on Hitching's 'The Neck Of The Giraffe Book'.
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11077&start=50
Here's the Wikipedia entry for Hitching.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Francis_Hitching
Well, my thoughts have always been that the Creation book was a selection of misquotations and wrenching out of context to plant seeds of doubt about evolution. The Hitching stuff is not one of the sources I've looked at before.
You'd think with the wide availability of fundie Christian material ripe for plunder on the net that the writing committee would have updated the Creation book by now. It's mid '80s.
is it blackmail if i send very incriminating pics to someone without any words?.
Again, I'm no legal expert but I'd say blackmail would require you to threaten to send if you don't get whatever you're after. Sending them without a prior threat is just s**t stirring.
Do you really want to hurt somebody? You need to be clear in your conscience as well as clear of the law.
Whatever you're thinking of doing, don't do it on the same day as you got the idea, sleep on it and don't do it whilst pissed. Do you want the recipient to know where the photos came from? Remeber doing it by phone or computer is easily traceable.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weiyggwt6no.
TIme for a little electronica.
A crazy fun track recorded in 1968 requiring immensely laborious hand building of electronic effects and insanely complex recording techniques for it's time. David Voorhaus is the main genius behind this, ably assisted by Delia Derbyshire of BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Dr Who Theme fame).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRacpYt5F0
The White Noise - Here Come The Fleas
1983 track from German electronica aces Kraftwerk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8TGWGRWe0s
Kraftwerk - Tour De France
