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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

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  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  cofty

  I didn't ask for a definition of consciousness, I said that on previous occasions you have declined to define 'awareness'. Still waiting.

  Rocks are 'aware'? And you can say that with a straight face?

  How does methodological naturalism offer evidence against the idea that awareness is fundamental to matter?

  It can't because it is 'not even wrong'. The burden of proof is all yours. 'That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.' - Christopher Hitchens

  Methodological naturalism works.
  
  
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  cofty

  You cry foul when I say that panpsychism claims that rocks are conscious but you then assert that rocks have 'awareness'.

  From past experience you refuse to define 'awareness'.

  This is how you play tennis without a net.

  there is also little or no empirical evidence that can be offered for the common materialist conception of the world either.

  Apart from absolutely everything that has been discovered since the Enlightenment.

  Methodological naturalism works. Consistently. With astonishing results.
  
  
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  cofty

  Finding 1,000 doctors and engineers who are willing to resort to the 'god-of-the-gaps' is unremarkable. I'm surprised the Discovery Institute hasn't been able to find 10,000.
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  Favourite New Film

  by jhine in

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  l recently went to watch green book , which l thought was excellent , it had everything , it took me though the whole range of emotions , from anger to joy , laughing then wanting to cry .

  the quiet dignity of dr shirley mixed with volatile nature of tony lipp and seeing their emerging friendship was wonderful .

  what really shook me was that these attitudes existed in my lifetime , not that long ago .

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  cofty

  Thanks for the recommendation. We will probably go and see Green Book. I totally agree with you about The Favourite. I disliked every single character in the story. It was as interesting as watching paint dry.

  Mary Queen of Scots is worth watching as long as you view it as entertainment rather than history. There are plenty inaccuracies in the plot. I also enjoyed Vice. It is the story of Dick Cheney and his role in the Iraq war.

  For me the best film of the last few years was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.
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  Diversity is White Genocide

  by corrie54 in

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  asia for the asians, africa for the africans, white countries for everybody!.

  everybody says there is this race problem.

  everybody says this race problem will be solved when the third world pours into every white country and only into white countries.. the netherlands and belgium are just as crowded as japan or taiwan, but nobody says japan or taiwan will solve this race problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.. everybody says the final solution to this race problem is for every white country and only white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.. what if i said there was this race problem and this race problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into every black country and only into black countries?.

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  cofty

  See The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray.
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  Remember The Green Song Books

  by new boy in

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  then new and improved purple song books that came out in 1966. then there was the brown song book and a even newer one in 2006. .

  thousands of hours wasted singing those stupid songs and their stupid lyrics.. song 106 "watch how we walk and watch we talk.

  i remember inserting different works in the lyrics to relive the boredom.

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  cofty

  Hated all the song books after the pink one.
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  10 years ago I woke up and found this site

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was my first post on here...... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/177753/hi-hope-am-welcome .

  there have been a lot of changes since then .. i am healthier, happier, wealthier.

  i have put the jw's well and truly behind me.

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  cofty

  Great post - Having kids is the best reason to get out and make a clean break.
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  What Do You Think of Socialism?

  by minimus in

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  do you support socialism?

  is it something that you would want in your country?.

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  cofty

  I think the word has less extreme connotations this side of the pond. It is a spectrum.
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  Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by iliketreasure in

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  jehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.

  on par with the is and other terroristic groups.

  it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.

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  cofty

  The new, surviving Russia is very, very wise - Old Navy

  Either you are an apologist for an authoritarian regime that has stolen countless billions of dollars from the Russian people and who routinely imprisons and murders critics, journalists and political opponents. A regime who is a friend and supporter of the worst tyrants on earth. A regime that has bombed its own citizens in a black-flag operation to trigger a war in Chechnya. A regime that shows no regard for international law...

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  You are profoundly ignorant of Putin's Russia.

  I could suggest a reading list if you wish but in the meantime stop embarrassing yourself.
  
  
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  "Lone Ranger Christianity"

  by leavingwt in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some may enjoy this thread at the channel c forum.

  by jim penton, it's about what he calls, "lone ranger christianity".

  there are quite a few responses there, in the ongoing discussion.. .

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  cofty

  He was one of my favourite members. He and his family are doing well.