"as some people suggest"
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snare&racket
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99.9% Of a People Who Believe In Evolution Don't Understand It.
by Space Madness ini never believed in evolution as i thought it didn't make sense and that what was proposed was simply impossible.
how could an environment alter an organism's dna?
as we can see however, bacteria cannot become resistance to antibiotics.
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org is dying
by lambsbottom ini don't understand why so many ex jws and faders think that the jws will continue to grow and thrive as a religion.
i still attend a meeting once a week and you can smell the death of the religion creeping up when you hear the talks, read the study wts and hear the letters from the gb.
the way the organization has changed is a sign that it reached its peak (in "healthy" membership) long ago.
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The irony.....
When I was young, the Governing Body communicated to us that a career in the 'world' was akin to polishing the brass on a sinking ship.
Now I am a secularist adult, I see 7 million brass polishers whilst 8 men await the construction of a life boat in a field....
So glad I walked away from the inevitible disaster. It isn't as if the HMS Watchtower was a pleasant place to be.
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99.9% Of a People Who Believe In Evolution Don't Understand It.
by Space Madness ini never believed in evolution as i thought it didn't make sense and that what was proposed was simply impossible.
how could an environment alter an organism's dna?
as we can see however, bacteria cannot become resistance to antibiotics.
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SPACE MADNESS
These things are well understood, why not open a textbook.
Random mutations happen millions and millions of times a day. In a culture of bacteria, the antibiotic enviroment is constantly testing the mutations, when one is successful such as adjusting the cell wall so that the antibiotic can no longer access the bacteria, that is now a resistant bacterium that will replicate and dominate more than the others. That new wall may have come about through billions of mutations through millions of generations of bacteria, that may in realtime be 8 years. The pressure or 'thinking' as you called it, quite incorrectly, is nothing more than the USE of antibiotics. By using them we change the enviroment, we alter natural selection.
Lets say we invent a new antibiotic called 'abx x' and we introduce it to a population, the bacteria are still,going about their normal replication and random mutations, now lets say after 11 years some bacteria develop a thixker cell wall and the drug stops working, these bacteria will now dominate that gene pool and become the norm for that species of bacteria, in the geographical area that the drug 'abx x' is being used. Now lets say the drug was never invented, and at year 11 the same bacteria developed that thick wall, it has no advantage and the gene does not dominate the species as it is of no use.
As you can see there is no thought process or intelligence at all.
No offence but you are mistaking your ignorance, assuming that others don't know these things either. They have long been understood. Hence my constant reccomendations of books. You could have easily known this stuff a LONG time ago.
Stop being lazy and open a textbook. The fact that you are talking about bacteria and dna not having a means to think means you have no idea how evolution works. YES we however do, hence it is in tne textbooks, hence you can do the tests yourself.
I work in a hospital, everyone with a confirmed bacterial sepsis gets blood cultures. we find the species of bacteria and we test it for antibiotic resistance. Why because bacterial species have differenct sensitivities depending on the local antibiotics prescribed. So in North Wales the GP's use a lot of Amoxicillin as it is cheap. When someone comes into the hospital very unwell and we have to tackle that bacteria, most of the bacteria in that region of wales was resistant to Amoxicillin. The same evolution and mechanism of testing sensitivity/eesistance applies to every region now.
Drug comapnies have stopped investing in antibiotics because it takes 7 years to get a drug from design to the streets due to all the testing. Because bacteria are evolving so quickly, a drug developed now, is no good in ten years time so it is no longer financially viable to create new antibiotics. It is about to be a BIG problem. So your theory that they were always resistant is nonsense. I see them develop and change sensitivities within my job. I see in real time how prescribing alters bacterial resistance.
Show some humility and pick up a book.....
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What would be your favorite job if you could do anything.?
by new hope and happiness inon the basis that most of us realise the w.t wasnt really the best " job" or way to spend our days, it would be fun to find out what people would really have liked to have done with there lifes and if this is still possible.
or maybe its not even a very realistic ambition just a dream.
in my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.maybe i need a phycholgist?.
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cheers wander x
Everyone should read The Alchemist
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'The Compound' is coming on nicely...
by snare&racket inwarwick precursory site work on the watchtower bible and tract society's 45-acre jehovahs witnesses world headquarters project in sterling forest has been completed, meaning construction of the planned eight-building complex on long meadow road along the warwick-tuxedo town line is poised to begin in earnest.. the warwick town board on june 12 agreed to reduce watchtower's town-mandated $33.103 million performance bond by a third to signify the completion of approximately one-third of the project.. .
bond reduction totals $11.114 million.
watchtower bible and tract society of new york associate general counsel richard moake and spokesman david c. day, a newfoundland attorney who has represented jehovah witness clients in significant canadian religious freedom rulings, said the $11.114 million bond reduction means preliminary site work has been completed and inspected.. .
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Cheers DD
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Disturbing Footnote in Tomorrow's Study Article...
by HeyThere inarticle is basicqlly about families where a spouse is working away from home for an extended period, etc...a foot note says basically that some studies have shown that working away from home can cause serious consequences, such as infidelity, homosexuality, or incest.
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pull it up on jw.org...that is what it says.
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No Way!
A long distance job can cause incest or homosexuality....... Nah, no way are they that ignorant or stupid.
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What would be your favorite job if you could do anything.?
by new hope and happiness inon the basis that most of us realise the w.t wasnt really the best " job" or way to spend our days, it would be fun to find out what people would really have liked to have done with there lifes and if this is still possible.
or maybe its not even a very realistic ambition just a dream.
in my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.maybe i need a phycholgist?.
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First Last Name...go online and order the brochures and funding documents for a neuroscience degree. Do it now buddy! See what grades you need to get in, if you don't have the exact grades, go order the brochures and funding applications to get the grades necessary done. By september you WILL be on your path to fulfilling a life dream or a life goal. It is that simple. I know, I did it.
The key to doing these things is soooooo simple..... just fuc*ing do them!
Yesterday I read a book on top of a mountain, looking down at the sea. I was lying in the grass under the sun and realised how happy I was. To my right in a valley was my accomodation and my hospital. I felt so content, I was in the right place and time in the universe for me, doing the right things for me, I somehow have become an emergency physician at age 33, when at age 25 I had nothing, not even the grades. No money, no hope, no nothing. I had just lost my religion, just lost my friends and some of my family. I could't even get a crap job and had an inevitible low mood and apathy and soon I was homeless. I felt trapped, like I had no power over a prewritten script that was my shitty existence.
8 years of education later......
Yesterday on the mountain, I realised how much I have shaped my own life for myself, I had lost everything and so what else was there but to be my own maker, self determining the world around me. Less than a decade later I am not only doing well, I am doing my childhood dream, medicine.
It is as simple as doing it.....sorry to repeat it again, but that is the truth of the matter. Just do it.
I know I am so fortunate to answer this question this way, but .... I wouldn't swap my job for anything in the world.
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My friends don't believe dinosaurs existed ....
by wannabefree ini just found this out last night.
(preface: this is a husband and wife that i have come to be friends with after leaving the borg, they are christians).
we were sitting around visiting last night and having a good time when my friend starts in on illegal immigration and politics and starts throwing out his hate speech which eventually turns to homosexuals.
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Jam, we were all functioning with presupositions and programmed minds, almost like robots. Don't be too tough on yourself.
Also, there is plenty of time to make up for it. This is half my motivation for being informed now.
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'The Compound' is coming on nicely...
by snare&racket inwarwick precursory site work on the watchtower bible and tract society's 45-acre jehovahs witnesses world headquarters project in sterling forest has been completed, meaning construction of the planned eight-building complex on long meadow road along the warwick-tuxedo town line is poised to begin in earnest.. the warwick town board on june 12 agreed to reduce watchtower's town-mandated $33.103 million performance bond by a third to signify the completion of approximately one-third of the project.. .
bond reduction totals $11.114 million.
watchtower bible and tract society of new york associate general counsel richard moake and spokesman david c. day, a newfoundland attorney who has represented jehovah witness clients in significant canadian religious freedom rulings, said the $11.114 million bond reduction means preliminary site work has been completed and inspected.. .
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Data , what did you mean about jw.org?
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'The Compound' is coming on nicely...
by snare&racket inwarwick precursory site work on the watchtower bible and tract society's 45-acre jehovahs witnesses world headquarters project in sterling forest has been completed, meaning construction of the planned eight-building complex on long meadow road along the warwick-tuxedo town line is poised to begin in earnest.. the warwick town board on june 12 agreed to reduce watchtower's town-mandated $33.103 million performance bond by a third to signify the completion of approximately one-third of the project.. .
bond reduction totals $11.114 million.
watchtower bible and tract society of new york associate general counsel richard moake and spokesman david c. day, a newfoundland attorney who has represented jehovah witness clients in significant canadian religious freedom rulings, said the $11.114 million bond reduction means preliminary site work has been completed and inspected.. .
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WARWICK — Precursory site work on The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society's 45-acre Jehovah’s Witnesses World Headquarters project in Sterling Forest has been completed, meaning construction of the planned eight-building complex on Long Meadow Road along the Warwick-Tuxedo town line is poised to begin in earnest.
The Warwick Town Board on June 12 agreed to reduce Watchtower's town-mandated $33.103 million performance bond by a third to signify the completion of approximately one-third of the project.
Bond reduction totals $11.114 million
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York Associate General Counsel Richard Moake and spokesman David C. Day, a Newfoundland attorney who has represented Jehovah Witness clients in significant Canadian religious freedom rulings, said the $11.114 million bond reduction means preliminary site work has been completed and inspected.
Day said construction will "begin soon" on the site and the project is on track to be completed "by the end of 2016."
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York - Jehovah Witnesses - purchased 253 acres in Tuxedo and Warwick along Long Meadow Road within 22,000-acre Sterling Forest State Park in 2009, including the former 50-acre International Paper plant in Tuxedo.
The Jehovahs now produce their nationally published magazine, "The Watchtower," from their Tuxedo plant and plan to move their world headquarters from Brooklyn to a site near the plant on Long Meadow Road in Warwick.
Last July, the Warwick Town Planning Board approved the Jehovah's world headquarters proposal, which calls for a 45-acre campus including an administration building, services building with kitchen, laundry, storage and infirmary; four residential buildings housing 588 one- and two-bedroom units for approximately 1,000 residents; a vehicle maintenance building; a waste-separation plant; a powerhouse/maintenance building, and a gym. Most parking will be in attached underground parking structures.
Code enforcement officer upgraded
Warwick Town Supervisor Michael Sweeton said with construction gaining momentum and bound to "take up a great deal of time," the town has added a full-time code enforcement officer to its staff to help handle the anticipated spike in the project's pace.
Sweeton said Daniel P. Gibson, a part-time town building inspector, will be retained full-time with an annual salary of $70,000 that will be paid by the impact fees generated by the project."
