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  Sister may have had a slight heart attack, do I text her?

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  so my cousin phoned and told me my jw sister was taken to hospital with chest pains and it may have been a slight heart attack or possibly she's starting with angina.

  now as some of you know my sisters and brother have had little to do with me for 29 years.

  we've met at funerals, or arranged them, but i just thought today what if she did die?

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  cofty

  Don't over-think it. Of course express your best wishes that she recovers. Maybe one day you will get your sister back maybe not. Either way you win.
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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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  Old Navy - This is just another example of equivocation.

  Evolution simply explains how the millions of species alive today, and the tens of millions that have gone extinct, all descended from a common ancestor through natural processes, including but not limited to, natural selection.

  Evolution does not attempt to explain ultimate causes, cosmic origins or the dawn of life.

  On the other hand there are many things that are part of biological evolution that are yet to be discovered. In almost every case a great deal has already been uncovered if you care to do the research.

  Your answer to every mystery is 'god-did-it'. That is the antithesis of scientific enquiry. It's lazy and pathetically boring and dull. It is a non-answer, an intellectual dead-end.

  You have stated the same thing dozens of times on the forum in the past few weeks. Please try to engage with the facts.

  Here are forty separate pieces of evidence for evolution. You are welcome to refute any of them but please stop repeating the same hackneyed canards about the motives of those who accept the evidence.
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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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  The best that can be said for panpsychism is that it is impossible to prove that it is bollocks. The same can be said for the hypothesis that invisible trolls live inside washing machines and survive by eating fluff and occasionally feasting on left socks.

  In other words it is 'not even wrong'.

  Harris is far more polite than I am.
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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

  By your standard does that make him gullible?

  No not unless he conceded that rocks are aware. In that case, by any standard, he would be a woo-woo disciple on the scale of Deepak Chopra.

  At what point in the conversation do they discuss rocks?
  
  
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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

  I watched that video last time. He really doesn't 'entertain' the awareness of rocks. Even if he did so what? My thoughts are not coterminous with those of Harris or anybody else.
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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

  The idea that rocks are aware will always be ridiculous to all but the most gullible.
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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

  Yes and what sort of absurdity is required to draw the line of awareness at a point that includes rocks? utter gibberish - but here you go hijacking yet another thread.
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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

  I have never said rocks have personalities

  You asserted that rocks are aware. The most that you would say about what that means is that awareness and consciousness are only a matter of degree. It follows that anything that is aware is conscious to some degree. Anything that is conscious exhibits traits that we can call personality.
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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

  It is impossible to avoid misrepresenting you as your opinions are a moveable feast. Despite numerous requests you consistently failed to define 'awareness' over-against consciousness.

  You insist rocks are aware but cry foul when anybody suggests that implies they are conscious.

  It is literally ridiculous.
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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

  pantheism, panpsychism, seem like reasonable explanations..

  Rocks with personalities are not reasonable explanations for anything.