Anony Mous

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  Does capitalism DEPEND on socialism for its survival?

  by The Fall Guy in

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  the banking industry needed the kiss-of-life 12 years ago via tax-payers' money; uk privatised railway companies are totally dependent on tax-payers' cash for survival, and now airlines will be queuing up to receive public money to ensure the survival of their private companies.

  "european aviation faces a precarious future and it is clear that co-ordinated government backing tax-payer's money will be required to ensure the industry survives...” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51904769.

  where should the line be drawn?.

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  Infusing the market in case of emergency isn't socialism. Socialism is a state of emergency day in and out, it'd basically mean you're bailing out all thousands of businesses and ventures that fail every year, not just one time to stabilize an economy.

  You're confusing capitalism with libertarianism though, a pure capitalistic country does not exist, the US is libertarian in its policies, there is room for government in some cases but for most of the rest, government (should) stay out of it. However as time progresses, the US has become a lot more socialist, ever since the New Deal and Social Security was established, we've pumped more and more money into the failing system.

  Social Security is a clear demonstration of failed policy - if you were able to invest all your funds into a private fund instead of Social Security, your rate of return would be 4-6x higher - people would retire with, on average, $2M in the bank, instead the rate of return is 2%, barely enough to stave off inflation of the funds you originally 'invested'.
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  School project on evolution

  by Leonie1234 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hey!.

  first of all i want to mention that i'm not a member of the jehovahs witnesses.

  however i'm open and non-judgemental towards any kind of religion.

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  @Sea Breeze: You're utterly misrepresenting people. First of all, people that are skeptical of Darwinism, either don't understand it, have some religious reason that trumps both truth and evidence, or in case of some scientists, they have a slightly modified view of the current mainstream interpretations and are often misquoted as such.

  The quote from Dr. Lewontin is both out of context and misinterpreted, he is basically arguing that you cannot accept supernatural explanations, how easy and obvious they may look because they do not match with reality. Materialism in science means basically "observable and subject to the scientific method", so by definition any explanation that is not materialistic cannot be accepted by anyone seeking truth and answers.

  It is fine to have an alternative viewpoint, but you have to be able to substantiate it and prove it in a materialistic way. Just handwaving at it and declaring something the truth is not how people do science.
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  School project on evolution

  by Leonie1234 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hey!.

  first of all i want to mention that i'm not a member of the jehovahs witnesses.

  however i'm open and non-judgemental towards any kind of religion.

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  There are plenty of reasons why evolution is the primary theory of how things got there. You can see evolution in action if you have a petri dish and some solution that kills bacteria on one end and a solution that feeds them on the other - over time, generations of new bacteria will develop resistances to the deadly solution and sometimes even start evolving to use it as food.

  Look up Sam Harris, Richard Dawking, Stephen Gould. Learn the history of evolution from Lamarck to Darwin. You can't just develop a conclusion if you don't know what the theory is in the first place.

  You will have a hard time debunking the theory, because this scientific theory has been proven to be the most likely and correct explanation of a natural fact through experimentation and observation. It's very similar to an axiom in mathematics, it's just accepted to be true and to change that you'll need a significant amount of evidence to the contrary.

  I sometimes put it as such: If you have evidence that the theory of evolution by natural selection is wrong, please write a paper to the contrary and pick up your Nobel price on the way - that's how impactful evidence that can be scientifically replicated would be.
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  How Will the Quarantined Dubbies React When the "All Clear" Sounds?

  by Room 215 in

  1. social
  2. humour

  seriously, i can't help wondering whether their hiatus from meetings and service will alter their post-covid-19 lifestyle once they experience the freedom of life in the absence of the hamster wheel?.

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  One big reason is going to be when they have to join the online meeting and instead of the address bar, a lot of people will use Google to find the 'correct site' and see some interesting snippet of text from an "APOSTATE WEBSITE" on their first page. They will initially ignore it, but sooner or later, curiosity will kill the cat.
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  Dead Sea Scrolls FORGERIES at Bible museum (scandal)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/ independent researchers funded by the museum of the bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s dead sea scroll fragments are modern forgeries.

  the museum ceo exclaimed, “we’re victims—we’re victims of misrepresentation, we’re victims of fraud.” the pieces are probably made of ancient leather, they were inked in modern times and modified to resemble real dead sea scrolls; all with the intention of deceiving for profit.

  the researcher's report’s findings raise grave questions about the “post-2002” dead sea scroll fragments, a group of some 70 snippets of biblical text that entered the antiquities market in the 2000's.

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  There are no real originals of the dead sea scrolls or pretty much any portion of the Bible. Even the oldest fragments are copies or even considered outright forgeries. Over time, these "Bible books" were often copied and modified to fit a particular narrative at the time with originals, sometimes even intentionally, destroyed. Like the Jews cannot prove they are Jewish because the original documents of lineage have long been gone, the Christians cannot prove they are original Christians because both the documents and their interpretative texts are either missing or conflicting.

  Even what we currently understand as the 'modern Bible' (a collection of Christian books, stories and prophecy, most of which were removed from canon and have gone missing after the Nicene convention) is largely organized around the 1600's King James Version, which is not necessarily chronological or ideologically organized in a single story, and even KJV has changed significantly since.

  The unerring word of god has changed meaning a ton over time.
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  @Simon: I know our hospitals will be stretched and there will be issues at some point. I'm in meetings daily discussing these things with immunologists, planners, purchasers, government officials, we've gone over worst case scenarios and it ain't pretty.

  We hope it doesn't come to that though and at this point, pretty much all systems should be operating at 'normal'. The epidemic-level events China saw in February hasn't materialized yet, if you're closing services now, what are they doing later?
  

  Our hospital system has sufficient face masks, gloves etc for the entire system, both critical and non-critical care at least 3 months without any re-supply though and the DHS has promised that the most critical things will be able to be supplied from local sources when necessary (although we're not sure their plans are going to materialize in the time necessary). I understand some systems out in the boonies that have minimal funding may not be able to sustain very long, but Toronto is a major city.
  

  I agree about Toronto government bungling it though, we've seen people that were refused entry into the US, take a detour to Canada/Toronto and cross the border there to come to our hospital system to get checked out (from China in particular). Insane, those people should be arrested.
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  @Simon: Our hospitals should have sufficient stretch for this though. There are a few hundred cases around Toronto, that's barely a single floor of a single wing of a hospital and as you know, most hospitals operate with "this space intentionally left blank".

  I've heard people complain very often when walking through or visiting, why are our taxes paying for so much room per patient, and look, there's like 3 oxygen hookups and outlets etc - the answer is - because a "single" patient room is built to sustain 2, 3 or 4 patients.
  
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  @newsheep: Why is MRI cancelled? Is the hospital infected? I work for a hospital not too far from there and it is continuing to operate, we have infectious disease protocols.

  To clarify our mass outbreak protocol here in the US: All of our hospitals have huge corridors (if you ever wonder about all the empty space in US hospitals, that's what they're for) and thousands of various types of beds and supplies in the basement with the necessary technology and plastic sheet barriers. In case of a mass outbreak, we simply pack out the supplies. Currently we are screening people at the entrance of the hospital parking and making people that show any symptoms (primarily fever) go to another entrance.

  The primary problem will be 3 months down the road - if China makes true on its threat to block supplies to the US, our hospital systems will start to run out of supplies for current care levels and start to ration certain supplies. The US, since the end of the cold war, has given up on production independence, that's about to change.
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  5 German Watchtower Letters Arrived!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2020 march 10, letter.

  https://docdro.id/chspeam.

  2020 march 10, letter.

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  @waton: Swedish Chef: Die Hurten Urrten
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  Italian--2020--March 4th--Letter--Coronavirus!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2020 march 4, letter italian.

  https://docdro.id/coljmy1.

  petra!.

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  They seem to be basing it around local state recommendations, which is different between the EU states. It seems they continue wanting to maximize the meetings and preaching work, but it seems there is a ton of conflict in the branches about which is the best approach. This letter just screams: our committees can't agree, the older ones want to continue pushing on, we didn't cancel during WWII, and the younger ones just want to cancel everything.

  I think the EU Federal Government should come with a harsh recommendation, unlike Trump, their bureaucrats aren't too keen on giving advise and leading their country, causing a huge difference in local government reactions between their states and given the open borders between states, this is going to cause a ton more casualties than necessary.