Well here I am, they call me.....
...........Dr McNinja
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I asked our COBOE who counsels elders...
by stillin ini observed how they were always "helping others" by applying god's word and helping people to make adjustments, but who helps the local elders to see things more clearly?
his answer?
circuit overseers, of course!
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Stillin, whoever the elder is you are dissatisfied with.... Think about his secular job, think about his life, his qualifications, his role in society, then reconsider your opinion.
is it really suprising that these guys, window cleaners, builders, salesmen, shop workers, office men ..... Are not up to leading people in desicions of self, family, sex, marriage, health, happiness or even spirituality....
How many elders are made elders for their loyalty to Wt rules i.e. Hours in ministry over a good knowledge of the bible? Dont you think its odd that loyalty to the organisation is respected more than loyalty to the bible?
It all makes sense when you leave, they are just men.... Not paticularly smart or gifted, just humble men. Walk away or accept who they are.
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Another elder, another child abuse case....
by snare&racket in"a woman now in her 40s told detectives lawrence, an elder at mcalester's kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses, abused her when she was just eight years old, inviting her to his home, where he fondled her and raped her in his bathtub, according to her testimony found in lawrence's arrest warrant, which was issued tuesday.. two other accusers, also in their 40s, then came forward with similar stories of abuse.
both said they were very young, with one telling investigators the molestation took place from the time she was 10 until she was 13 years old.
she reported being assaulted in lawrence's swimming pool, at the lake and in the janitor's closet at the first national bank where he worked, his arrest warrant indicates.".
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"A woman now in her 40s told detectives Lawrence, an elder at McAlester's Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, abused her when she was just eight years old, inviting her to his home, where he fondled her and raped her in his bathtub, according to her testimony found in Lawrence's arrest warrant, which was issued Tuesday.
Two other accusers, also in their 40s, then came forward with similar stories of abuse. Both said they were very young, with one telling investigators the molestation took place from the time she was 10 until she was 13 years old. She reported being assaulted in Lawrence's swimming pool, at the lake and in the janitor's closet at the First National Bank where he worked, his arrest warrant indicates."
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Be honest. Am I an abusive Father??
by DATA-DOG ini was angry with my kid for questioning me.
i work, i pay the bills, i provide food, clothing and shelter for them.
instead of respect, i get attitude.
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Jesus.... Way to fuck your kids head up! Go apologise.... A LOT, then spend 10 years helping your kid become anything and anyone they want to be.
"Understanding emotional abuse
The aim of emotional abuse is to chip away at your feelings of self-worth and independence.
Emotional abuse includes verbal abuse such as yelling, name-calling, blaming, and shaming. Isolation, intimidation, and controlling behavior also fall under emotional abuse.
You may think that physical abuse is far worse than emotional abuse, since physical violence can send you to the hospital and leave you with scars. But, the scars of emotional abuse are very real, and they run deep. In fact, emotional abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse—sometimes even more so."
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Boeing 747s and Other Misunderstandings about Evolution
by cofty inperhaps the most common misunderstanding that prevents people from grasping evolution is complexity.. we see it almost daily on the forum where people mention dna or the eye or any of a multititude of examples and ask how it could have arose "by blind chance"?.
whenever you see a reference to chance and complexity it is obvious the person hasn't yet grasped the basics of the theory.
chance is only one part of the process.
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Kate, with the greatest respect do you know much about mutations?
its like saying when your clutch cable breaks and your car cant change gear, that its designed that way....?
Have you ever broke a zip,on a coat, dress or jeans etc? Was that designed or did it break ?
Mutations happen when things go wrong, when things break..... Hence it is random. We get mutations when things go wrong Kate, something breaks and the DNA code is copied incorrectly. If the code ends up as a useful bit of code i.e. Per enviroment, it is preserved by non random natural selection.
Cancer requires at least 4 mutations for it to be malignant, be careful what you assign your god Kate x
Sorry buddy but mutations are certainly random Kate, we KNOW they are, we KNOW what happens....Check out video link below :) xxx
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efstlgoynlk&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Defstlgoynlk
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Breaking Bad.... Walter White's house
by dazed but not confused inwe are visiting family in albuquerque nm for thanksgiving and we stopped by walter whites house and car wash. were big breaking bad fans.
had a great time.
sorry if the pictures come out too big.. .
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Boeing 747s and Other Misunderstandings about Evolution
by cofty inperhaps the most common misunderstanding that prevents people from grasping evolution is complexity.. we see it almost daily on the forum where people mention dna or the eye or any of a multititude of examples and ask how it could have arose "by blind chance"?.
whenever you see a reference to chance and complexity it is obvious the person hasn't yet grasped the basics of the theory.
chance is only one part of the process.
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Kate, I have read much of Dawkins work in the early days of my degree and for me, he was the first to HIGHLIGHT that the Christian argument was a problem of probability, He was the first for me to reduce the watchmaker argument to one of probability, what is the probability of something complex forming from something less complex. All he was saying was, if christians think that this is how the world works, then god being more complex than his creation, would himself need an even more complex designer than himself, IF CHRISTIANS are to use this argument.
After explaining this interesting reversal of the argument, he then moves on to life in the universe. The probability of it happening is low, but then with the age of the universe and the chemicsl lab that it is, it was going to happen...evident by the fact...IT DID. Humans are very bad at understanding and appreciating probability. How many people do you need in a room to likely have two people with the same birthdate?......... 21. If playing a quiz gameshow and there aee three boxes, one with the prize in, if you choose a box and then one non prize box is removed i.e. You now have two boxes one you chose and one remaining... What is the probability of owning the winning box, what should the player do when offered a swap? Well people think 'there are two boxes with one prize in one box, its 50/50' ....but it isnt, you should always ask to swap the box because of probability! The box you hold has 33.3% of bei b the prize, box two has 50% of being the prize. We have a terrible instinct for probability, so to use it to dismiss anything is unwise. Even the christisns with their silly numbers of improbability dont realise they see,saying it is still possible.
The miller experiment changed my perspective hugely. Amino acids forming from thin air in reconstructed early earth environments. Religious people dismiss the fact thst dna building blocks were formed from thin air by saying nobody knows the exact conditions of early earth, of course they are just trying to throw a blanket over the fact something formed from 'nothing' or thin air, nevermind it was the building blocks for dna! Christians and their dodgy math dont allow for the laws of physics naturally bringing atoms snd molecules together, instead they predict in ignorance that it all has to happen by accident.
I hear you kate, probability is important... But Biologists just want to know how something works, or IF something CAN work. We will never know all the factors and variables to know the probability of these events, so why spend time pretendiNg we can calculate them, besides... as we can see, it did happen.
The only other section I can think of where Dawkins discusses probability is talking about christisns and their examples of probability of life and evolution, JW's did it all the time, quoting ridiculous numbers of improbability. But they do bad math, they multiply every assumed probability of mutation over and over again to get a final number.... in reality its just the probabilty of each stage happening at each point They should be calculating for. It is very deceitful. They are also calculating the wrong element, instead of quantifying mutations, it should be on surroundings as they select the mutations, again as you can see this is incalculable due to the variables, so the math is made up bull crap. Either way... We watch evolution happening all athe time, every time it does we prove all those calculations impotent....
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How about a museum/gallery trip sometime?
by snare&racket inlondon baby!.
natural history museum, british museum, science museum, art museums a weekend of cheap hotels and eating out... maybe a show!.
wouldn't that be a great weekend?
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Sure thing, I come down often to go to the island.
(Sounds mysterious to people who don't know IOW)
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So, here's a new definition of 'apostacy'
by ItsMyLife inif you allow your child to have a part in the nativity play, it's apostacy.
even if the child just stands there, dressed as a an animal.
with no lines.. even if you've been inactive for several months.. talk about extremes and emotional blackmail!.
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Its their game, they make the rules, guess what... We can say 'f you Im not playing anymore' then their power and rules turn to thin air. They are nobody! If they choose to be vindictive and use your family to hurt you, well they and your family will have to live with themselves,for the rest of their life, besides it may wake them up a bit... Especially nowadays.
Its just a game, we dont have to play it... Just like a child who is told they can make the rules for the game, they have gone mad with power....
Bye Watchtower!
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Breaking Bad.... Walter White's house
by dazed but not confused inwe are visiting family in albuquerque nm for thanksgiving and we stopped by walter whites house and car wash. were big breaking bad fans.
had a great time.
sorry if the pictures come out too big.. .
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Its such a good program! I binge watched it between exams! Awesome