Posts by snare&racket

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ANY ILLUSTRATORS OUT THERE?

by DATA-DOG in

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i am planning on doing some creative writing.

i want to start a web comic.

i attended a comic-con and sat in on a seminar about web comics, and i met some great local artists.

I have an epic story for a comic series that I would love to make, but likewise can't draw it. I used to sketch and draw all the time as a kid, I passed my art exams at high school level and it ended there really. I did some sketching whilst learning human anatomy and enjoyed it but time became an issue so I couldn't complete it.

I have a JW pal illustrator who is very liberal and good regarding the issue of me leaving so I hope to do something with him, but the theme of my comic is science and evolution (in space lol) so I am hesistant to do it and put him in a difficult situation. The ship is called 'The Beagle'..... lol.

As a side note, there is a UK JW in the north west who is a resl comic illustrator. He has drawn spiderman comic covers etc.

Interesting fact, when they ran the story of spiderman taking his mask of to the world, the UK JW illustrator got the contract to draw the cover and sneaked in some of his own facial features for spiderman's face...

I was never a big comic guy, but my JW pal was and he got me into a few. I miss him and our geek outs! I also miss dedicating an evening to a post bath mug of coffee and 2hr graphic novel session. I have the HUSH graphic novel still that my friend bought me as a gift and I also have Birthright, which is a great one too.

anyway, let me know how it goes...

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Science proves there is a God

by seekchristonly in

fusion with god natural .

in the cosmos universe or whatever.

all things are made of the same materials etc so humans will always be fused with the universe in life and death because those building blocks are eternal.

snare&racket

Cass...... if someone walked amongst a pile of motor engineers and said "I think the future of motoring, you know the noisy thing you use spanners on in a car, well I think the future is the flux capacitor"..... they too would instantly realise that this person does not understand the basics of engineering, or the parameters of fiction and reality in engineering.

I really don't know a better way of mirroring back to you what it is like to to have a good understanding of science and read such posts as yours.

It isn't that I/we are smarter or better than you. You are ignorant of basic science information. I was also totally ignorant of the basics, right up until about 7 years ago when I got stuck into the sciences to see what was true and what wasn't. What embarassed me more was how much the JW's hold us back because most people know the basic sciences and were were raised devoid of the basic appreciation of chemistry, physics and biology.

I hope you find these books helpful if you truly want answers..

The Greatest Show On Earth

A Brief ?history of Time

Why E=MC^2

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Just letting you know I passed the exam

by will-be-apostate in

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hi, my apostate friends.. a couple of weeks ago i asked for some advice regarding studying methods.

then some of you asked me to let you know my score after i take the exam at mineralogy.. i scored 90%.

i'm pretty happy with it because the exams i take are not in my native language.. if i keep up with the good scores i might get a scholarship and then bye bye watchtower society.

snare&racket

Superb result, a great example of how hard work translates into a good exam result which itself results in educational opportunities which can result in amazing doors opening....

For so long in my life I had no idea how people achieved secular success and progress. Doing well in exams simply works, I have witnessed exam results change peoples lives for several years now.

You are a fine example WBA, keep it up, if you set out an academic and goal orientated path, it will come to be with hard work.

The Watchtower lied when they said academia does not work, it simply does. Choose a sensible career/end goal, then even if starting from scratch at a mature age (high school grades), you can become anything you wish... just simply pass the exams and you get moved up a stage, then you pass those exams and get advanced another stage etc etc. Do that a few years and eventually you get to the end of the required learning. It really is that simple.

Well done xxx

snare

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Lawrence Krauss

by KateWild in

krauss is an atheist activist and self-described antitheist.

hence his science is biased.

being an antitheist means he's anti god.. anyone disagree?.

snare&racket

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ONE REASON

by snare&racket in

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out of interest, and to formulate a cordial chat, would you give your top one reason for your belief or non belief?.

my foremost 'one reason' for non belief is:.

the historical evidence that provides an explination and timeline for how the modern religious doctrine's and dogma developed over time.. .

snare&racket

cool, apologies :D

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ONE REASON

by snare&racket in

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friends

out of interest, and to formulate a cordial chat, would you give your top one reason for your belief or non belief?.

my foremost 'one reason' for non belief is:.

the historical evidence that provides an explination and timeline for how the modern religious doctrine's and dogma developed over time.. .

snare&racket

I think that was a personal snipe, but been as I don't understand it, I'll stay hush about it .....x

Cheers prologos for the input, so I summise that you are swayed by the working universe we have around us.

That's cool, cheers.

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Lawrence Krauss

by KateWild in

krauss is an atheist activist and self-described antitheist.

hence his science is biased.

being an antitheist means he's anti god.. anyone disagree?.

snare&racket

Fernando, do help the world by explaining the mysteries of science via the ancient jewish scrolls.....

Or wait until science explains it then look for an ambigous verse that may be construed in it's many translated alterations to mean something akin to the scientific discovery.

No offence and sorry for the teasing, but your last reply is littered with HUGE claims of revelation and knowledge none of which I have seen demonstrated having read the bible several times and knowing the sciences to a reasonable level.

I have no idea how a book that said there was a firmamnet with stars hung on it above a flat circular disk of earth, can be helpfull to science or be in harmony with it. I sincerely looked for harmony between the bible and science fact and not only have i found not one piece or matching information, the words of the bible have been flatly proven wrong countless times by scientific discoveries.

Read Genesis with a biblical companion once more and compare it to the scientific facts of the issue, please come back to me if you find ONE scientific fact found in the Genesis account alone that we now know to be true that could not be simply be summised by logic by the Jewish scribes at the time. If you feel I am being unfair by adding that humans back then were,not idiots, then ignore my last point. But, keep in mind that thousands of years before the jewish nation existed, the egyptians worked out the circumference of the earth to three decimal places using triganometry, they were also doing cataract operations... so don't underestimate what was known back then.

Good luck....

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Matthew Powner- Advanced research on the Origin of life. How credible is he?

by KateWild in

i have come to the conclusion that science cannot prove or disprove the existence of god.

however the scientific evidence available is compelling enough for me to believe that a creator is responsible for life on earth.. i have read much about powner and understand the work he is doing.

i am interested in your views as to his credibility.

snare&racket

I have no idea why people are hanging god on a stage in a chemical reactions but each to their own?!

I must add however that physics is indeed the foundation of chemistry. We battled this one in our first ever chat Kate lol.

Chemistry is all about the atoms, what do,you think keeps the atomic parts held together, what do you think breaks apart and attracts the elements in these chemical reactions? ......Physics. Your opening post and first replies was all about the influence of physics on chemistry. Those bonds break as it is energetically efficient to do so based on....physics.

Physics gave way to chemistry which gave way to biology which gave way to evolution which gave way to me which gave way to boring replies on a forum...ta da!

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