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  Human Origins

  by cofty in

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  fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

  click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

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  cofty

  Radiometric dating is solid science.

  Fishy - What books or articles that present the scientific evidence for radiometric dating have you studied?

  I predict ...

  1 - The honest answer is none.

  2 - You will lie, obfuscate or ignore the question.
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  DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

  by cofty in

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  north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

  pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

  it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

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  Standing up to NK is not the same thing as a world leader trading sophomoric personal insults.
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  Human Origins

  by cofty in

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  fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

  click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

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  cofty

  I tried using Google translate on your post Fishy but they said they don't do gibberish.
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  Human Origins

  by cofty in

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  fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

  click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

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  cofty

  Still waiting for you to actually say anything interesting on evolution Fishy.
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  DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

  pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

  it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

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  cofty

  North Korea has taken President Trump's recent statements as a declaration of war. Pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down American planes even if they are not inside their airspace.

  I listened to Trump's speech to the UN with dismay. It demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on Kim Jong-un. Trump has access to the best informed experts in the world on North Korea and yet he either ignores advisors or he has surrounded himself with "yes-men".

  NK follows a political doctrine of "Juche" - roughly translated as self-sufficiency. It is a development of Marxism-Leninism created by Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il and now enforced by the grandson Kim Jong-un. The official line is that Juche was invented out of "whole cloth" by the Great Leader and its Soviet and Maoist roots are denied.

  Russia and China are officially denounced in the DPRK as "revisionist" and defectors from true Socialism.

  As part of Juche, which encompasses every facet of policy, the entire nation is embodied in the person of the Leader. To insult the Leader is to insult every North Korean and everything they believe in. The overwhelming outpouring of grief at the death of Kim 1 in 1994 and of Kim 2 in 2011 was not entirely manufactured.

  The doctrine of Juche makes change virtually impossible. Despite the cult of personality around Stalin and Mao both countries were able to reform after the death of their respective leaders. Nikita Khrushchev did 'deStalinise' the USSR and Deng Xiaoping introduced partial reform to China. The DPRK has no similar option available. "Military First" is hardwired into their failed economy. It cannot now be otherwise anymore than the current Governing Body could adopt the Trinity without deligimatising every single thing done by their predecessors.

  Trump is dangerously incompetent.

  Kim 3 is of course an irrational and despicable human being who rules over one of the most oppressive regimes on earth. However the objective of every politician must be to avoid massive loss of civilian life. Trump shows no sign that this is his priority.

  War seems likely. How devastating it will be remains to be seen.
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  Human Origins

  by cofty in

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  fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

  click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

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  I agree Vidiot. Human evolution cannot be reconciled with Watchtower theology. The facts prove the entire edifice of JW doctrine is built on top of an error.
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  Police cordon around Honiton's Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses after fatal stabbing

  by ShirleyW in

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  hey uk folks, what's going with this story?

  was it an unbelieving mate that attacked and elder or something?.

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  Thanks for the update.
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  I had been waiting for this video since 2013... DEFINITIVE PROOF that the Flag is placed in Kingdom Halls in Chile!

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  now with english subtitles!.

  this is the definitive proof that kingdom halls in chile display the flag.

  a brave person went inside the kingdom hall while the meeting was happening and took video of the flag being displayed inside the kingdom hall property.

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  It would take the most hardened fanatic to be able to deny this video

  Countdown to Fisherman's denial .........
  
  
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  Human Origins

  by cofty in

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  fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

  click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

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  LV101 - Here is that article on the possibility that human origins may be European although the evidence is still a bit tentative...
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  Human Origins

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  fantastic graphic produced by the smithsonian institute illustrating human origins.

  click on any of the group or species labels for more detailed information.. meet your ancestors here....

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  cofty

  FTS - The Denisovans are usually grouped as a sub-group of Homo sapiens.

  The diagram is absolutely not the last word on the taxonomy of our ancestors. So much is still to be worked out and new discoveries will change things in the future. One problem is that the popular press publish modest contributions to the science as if they were earth-shattering revelations that have changed everything. Progress is almost always slow and steady and open to constant revision.