My friend tells me he gets sick of silly questions. I tell him its part of the assimilation process. What do you think?
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Stupid Questions to Ask Gay Guys
by fulltimestudent inmy friend tells me he gets sick of silly questions.
i tell him its part of the assimilation process.
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A Country where no-one under 25 believes the biblical creation story.
by fulltimestudent inno icelanders under the age of 25 believe the creation story that god was responsible for creating the universe, a new poll claims.the poll, commissioned by the icelandic ethical humanist association, claims that 93.9 per cent in the under 25 category responded that the universe was created by the big bang.
just over 6 per cent responded with ‘don’t know’ or ‘other’.
none of the respondents, however, believed that the universe had been created by god.
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Village Idiot : Iceland is very advanced as a society having a high standard of living compared to the United States and a highly competent educational system.
And much more:
1. The first nation (that we know of anyway) to elect a party with a lesbian as leader, who became the nation's first Prime Minister.
2. Just about the only nation to have the guts to imprison bankers, as a result of the GFC.
Iceland just sentenced their 26th banker to prison for his part in the 2008 economic collapse. The charges ranged from breach of fiduciary duties to market manipulation to embezzlement.
More at: http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/01/17/iceland-sentences-26-corrupt-bankers-to-74-years-in-prison/
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The Winter festival in Harbin - piks of this year's ice constructions.
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flipper :
Thank you, fulltimestudent, for posting this.
My 22 year old niece is living in Jilin and she loves it. She works as a teacher and has made good friends there. The ice sculptures are beautiful there, too.
Mrs. FlipperSounds like your nice is enjoying herself. Seems lots of younger people report that the love living in China.
Jilin province, in particular is interesting, being so close to the Russian and North Korean borders and also having its own unique blending of peoples and cultures, down in the South east of the province there is the third Korea, the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, which is mainly Korean people (albeit Chinese citizens). The majority native peoples of Jilin (and some other adjacent provinces) are Manchus, who captured China in the seventeenth century and formed the Qing dynasty (the last Imperial dynasty). There are Japanese influences also, as the Japanese wrested it off China during the long (150 years) of Qing/China weakness. Pu Yi, the last Qing Emperor became the Japanese puppet emperor of Manchukuo (the Japanese name for Manchuria) until 1945. And also up in the north Jilin adjoins Inner Mongolia (another Chinese province), with a somewhat different culture. The Manchus are a Mongolian sub-group, and the Mongolians (of course) have been one of the most influential peoples in the world. Their influence stretches from France (as the Huns) to Korea and Japan and across the Bering sea to form the ancestry of the north and south American native peoples.
Here's a couple of images of Mongolian 'fun' in winter:
The Winter Camel Culture Festival held in January.
Mongolian herding horses in Winter. Each winter there are also horseback events.
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A Reminder of Russian North America
by fulltimestudent ina research team in alaska believe that they have discovered the site where the iconic russian research ship neva was wrecked.
the team led by former alaska state archaeologist, david mcmahan found the site near sitka, where the survivors struggled to stay alive through the harsh arctic weather.. the story invokes memories of russian attempts, complete with indian wars, to plant a russian colony in north america.. this story from the alaska dispatch news:.
https://www.adn.com/article/20160114/archaeologists-believe-theyve-found-artifacts-alaskas-cursed-warship-neva.
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A research team in Alaska believe that they have discovered the site where the iconic Russian research ship Neva was wrecked.
The team led by former Alaska State Archaeologist, David McMahan found the site near Sitka, where the survivors struggled to stay alive through the harsh arctic weather.
The story invokes memories of Russian attempts, complete with Indian wars, to plant a Russian colony in North America.
This story from the Alaska Dispatch News:
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A Country where no-one under 25 believes the biblical creation story.
by fulltimestudent inno icelanders under the age of 25 believe the creation story that god was responsible for creating the universe, a new poll claims.the poll, commissioned by the icelandic ethical humanist association, claims that 93.9 per cent in the under 25 category responded that the universe was created by the big bang.
just over 6 per cent responded with ‘don’t know’ or ‘other’.
none of the respondents, however, believed that the universe had been created by god.
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slimboyfat : They don't believe in creation, but around 50% believe in elves.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27907358Thank you, slimboyfat, for posting that addition to the first story. possibly we may be seeing that there is an age divide in Iceland in connection with superstitious beliefs. Older people accept superstition, younger people may not.
Another perspective: In the BBC report you posted Professor of Folklore Adalheidur Gudmundsdottir is quoted as saying:
"You can't live in this landscape and not believe in a force greater than you,"
Faced with trying to explain natural phenonema ancient man explained it by attribution to unseen forces. Even somewhat more sophisticated humans used similar processes of explanation - the Jews,who saw themselves as having the one true god as 'their' god, were at a loss to explain why their one true god did not protect them from subjection to more powerful states, so went on to invent 'prophecies' that foretold their eventual domination of the world.
The human mind can be very imaginative.
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Elder Mentioning an "Apostate Problem"
by Simon Templar ini bumped into a sister that i have known for at least 40 years or so.
we were catching up.
she and her husband have been in the truth for decades.
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A Country where no-one under 25 believes the biblical creation story.
by fulltimestudent inno icelanders under the age of 25 believe the creation story that god was responsible for creating the universe, a new poll claims.the poll, commissioned by the icelandic ethical humanist association, claims that 93.9 per cent in the under 25 category responded that the universe was created by the big bang.
just over 6 per cent responded with ‘don’t know’ or ‘other’.
none of the respondents, however, believed that the universe had been created by god.
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Well, why would they?
No Icelanders under the age of 25 believe the creation story that God was responsible for creating the universe, a new poll claims.
The poll, commissioned by the Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, claims that 93.9 per cent in the under 25 category responded that the universe was created by the Big Bang. Just over 6 per cent responded with ‘don’t know’ or ‘other’. None of the respondents, however, believed that the universe had been created by God.
The Iceland Magazine, which reported the findings, added that the poll showed younger people and inhabitants of Reykjavík were the least religious. It added: “80.6 per cent of those older than 55 identified as Christian and only 11.8 per cent said they were atheists. At the same time 40.5 per cent of people who were 25 years or younger said they were atheists, and only 42 per cent said they were Christian. -
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I can't let go of this obsession...
by juandefiero ini really want to let go of the exjw obsession.
but i can't.
i keep coming here and other sites several times a day.i want to shout from the rooftops to my family and friends and say, "it's all a lie!
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juandefiero : I really want to let go of the exJW obsession. But I can't. I keep coming here and other sites several times a day. I want to shout from the rooftops to my family and friends and say, "IT'S ALL A LIE!" But, they won't listen. Their cult personalities shut down and they don't give your point of view the consideration a friend or family deserves.
Does it matter? Christianity promotes obsessiveness. The attitude pervades many individual Christians (particularly those from extremist sects like the JWs), the Churches that they belong to and even Christian nations. (the West is always trying to make non-Christian nations conform to their standards)
Eastern Buddhism has a line of thinking called wu wei. "doing something without effort." It may help you to just relax about what other people do with their lives.
Wish to hell I'd knew about it before I wasted my life trying to get people to do what I thought they should do.
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New Converts: When Does It Start?
by Cold Steel injohnny normal is watching television one day when he hears a knock at the door.
answering it he sees two jehovah's witnesses clutching bibles; and one a brief case.
over the next few months things are going well.
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Haha! Cold Steel
Johnny Normal is watching television one day when he hears a knock at the door. ... Any examples anyone can share?
Yeah! I've heard of some.
These blokes were working one day, and a guy comes past and says:
"Come, follow me, and I will send you out to fish for people."
So they left their work and went off with him and became itinerant preachers, living rather lousy lives and in the end they got executed for their troubles.
Should the bloke that told them to do that, have done so?
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Evidence of Human Activity in Northern Siberia 45,000 years ago.
by fulltimestudent inthis information makes the biblical dating of human origins a sad joke.
quote: " when they dated the remains, the researchers got another surprise: the mammoth died 45,000 years ago.
that means that humans lived in the arctic more than 10,000 years earlier than scientists believed, according to a new study.
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Makemeanunbeliever : Oh boy here we go again. Another clueless do gooder evolutionist wanna be.
No one can prove or disprove a creator or no creator. Pick the one you want and stop wasting your time and ours.I seem to have upset you. Sorry about that! But why do you feel I MUST believe in a creator?
To be bluntly honest I really don't care very much, whether you believe or unbelieve (or, even whether you want to be a faithful JW).
But for some curious reason I find myself wanting to talk about this with you, perhaps you may like to listen.
I need to talk a bit about myself first - so you know where I'm coming from,
I used to be a faithful JW, from about the age of 17. At that time Jesus became my model, I tried very hard to become a footstep follower of him (1 Peter 1:21). I'm not sure that I was a very good at that, but I tried very, very hard. IF I could not exactly accept all the things the WT said, I had the ability to park them in a corner of my brain and wait. And, I think that's likely why I spent near 40 years as a JW. But the last 10 years of that, particularly after 1975, that particualr corner of my mind got a bit crowded.
Having read the bits about 1975 in Freddy Franz's 1966 opus (Life Everlasting in the Freedom of the Sons of God) I knew that Freddy had a few escape clauses planted there. I'd even told my wife not to be surprised if the big A did not come in 1975, in spite of the WTS/GB doing such a big "rah, rah, rah-Stay alive in 75" job in the preceding years. So that crowded corner of my mind started to ferment and by the end of the 80's I'm just a lump of sh*t in the minds of my former loving brothers and sisters, and therefore chucked out onto the garbage dump.
And that made life complicated, my former wife came from a "zealous" family - and you can guess the rest. I decided not to make it even more confusing for my kids, so just gave my wife everything (a nearly paid for house, a car, etc) and walked away from the mess I'd created by refusing to ask questions. (Yeah! and I'd even known that 'faith' is based on knowledge and knowledge comes from getting answers to questions).
OK - enough about me. But you surely understand that if the Bible is the word and work of God, that it must stand up to scrutiny. Does it? I can no longer accept that it does. The OT of Bible is just a collection of documents that some (and quite possibly not all ) Jewish people thought explained things from a viewpoint that they valued. The same for the NT when Emperor Constantine sat the bishops down at the Council of Nicaea and forced them to think about the unity and beliefs of the church. When they finally got around to 'defining' truth and selecting the documents they valued most as 'special, or 'sacred,' a couple of hundred years had elapsed. What do you know about writings that are 200 years old? For example, William Miller?
The biblical documents therefore 'sees' things from the perspective of people living in Palestine. But note, it doesn't talk about lots of things. You'd never know from the biblical documents that Palestine was once part of the Egyptian Empire, would you? AND, have you ever read Genesis 10 and tried to understand how the families of Noah's sons became the ancestors of all humans?
"These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood." (Genesis 10:32.NIV)
Does that really make sense to you? Some creationists set the date of the flood as 2348 BCE, a little over 4300 years ago.
I can demonstrate to you that by that time, there were millions of people living in East Asia. Chinese recorded history goes back about nearly 5000 years (The Chinese by the way have their own flood stories, because floods on the Yellow and Yangzi rivers have had an affect on their lives).
Not to mention the Siberian hunters mentioned in my posted overview. As Nelim, in a ;previous post, points out the remains of the mammoth shows clear evidence of human activity.
If that's true, somethings wrong with the biblical record. If it was recorded under divine instruction, then the divinity involved did not know a lot about human history.
If I had asked more questions when I was 17 I would have had better answers and therefore choices in my life. I've asked them now, but you express bitterness at my doing so. Why?
Would you like to respond?
