Jesus waited 100 years in invisibilty, then came out........via a website
snare&racket
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There will NEVER be another World Power. The end is near.
by defender of truth in"grace.
san francisco bay area.
posted 22 march 2013 - 08:14 pm.
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snare&racket
I hate such small minded thinking because it is such a selfish perspective of the world!
As the west has 'struggled' for the last 5 years, China has jumped out of poverty. But no, because we have had 5 years of slightly less cash in our pocket, everything is hurrendous! How ignorant and selfish! Whilst we have suffered one less holiday a year, with the fundamentalists claiming 'Look it's the end of the world' .. rural chinese workers have literally gone from rice fields to office jobs, from bamboo huts to electricity and high rise flats, from disease to medication....
Shanghai in 1990 (top) and in 2010 (bottom)
Start looking a little further than the ten feet around you!
Only a JW would claim that Anglo-America is the one and only CURRENT world power. What utter ignorant nonsense. America and the UK are in debt to China, it has the most exciting economy of all powers and it has the largest military, being twice that of the USA. I am not stupid enough to say the USA is not the most active and influencing nation today, but the UK has no real power, we can't even make our own laws they are made in Brussels. So the ANGLO-America 'prophecy' is already shot down.
The european union, the G4, the Arab League, the UN are powers with no mention in the bible yet they stand alongside the USA today. Russia has just flexed it's muscles without consequence, basically invading two countries and nobody can do a thing, paticularly the USA. This is not the picture of a one world power! Syria is slaughtering its people and the USA can't act because the government knows the media opinion is too fragile and it may be political suicide with public opinion.
It isn't the 1980's anymore, ignorance no loner rules. The world has gotten smaller and smarter, such Watchtower garbage no longer works.
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Doctor acquitted in post-surgery death of Jehovah's Witness
by TJ Curioso indoctor acquitted in post-surgery death of jehovah's witness by kim da-ye.
the supreme court upheld a lower courts decision thursday that a doctor who performed surgery on a jehovahs witness patient without a blood transfusion at her request is not responsible for her death.. .
a 57-year-old doctor, surnamed lee, was charged with occupational negligence leading to the death of his patient who died from complications caused by excessive bleeding during and after hip replacement surgery.. .
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Taking the Watchtowers advice about bloodless surgery has real life and death consequence, made evident here.
How sad, how shameful.
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It says much that as a JW I could not even explain the concept and evidence for the big bang and didn't meet a JW that could, yet the WT feel it necessary to NOT start with the mountains of evidence for it, but random decades old quotes from scientists that didn't have access to the evidence we now have.
The WATCHTOWER don't want to understand, they want to undermine, that is no place to start with science and is very dishonest to their readers.
The Jehovah's Witness writers have no place talking science that they don't understand. It would be irresponsible of someone even with a physics degree to write such an article! Anything on this topic from someone less than an expert, and I mean EXPERT, is useless, You need a full picture of cosmology and modern physics just to discuss such topics in an honest manner, never mind publish articles on it.
The realm of physics has exploded in the last 20 years with technology allowing modelling of theories via computers and large hadron colliders allowing physical experimentation of atomical physics for the first time!
Watchtower quoting doubts from stand alone scientists like Hoyle from decades ago is totally disingenuous and irresponsible. The article writer clearly doesn't not understand the topic or worse, does and is being deceitful, they were merely sewing together quotes from scientists asking questions out of context of the mountain of evidence, in order to undermine the big bang theory, NOT to understand it. This is important as I am yet to meet a JW that understands the theory.
In reality, with the big bang theory we have more evidence & more understanding of what went on 13 billion years ago..... than we do the theory of gravity!
Watchtower are just attempting to muddy the waters and make it appear like science is in conflict and unable to find truths. We have only had science as a method to understand the world approx 150 years and it has taken us from riding horses to internationsal space stations. The Watchtower leaders and writers have yet to predict or understand ONE thing correctly and have contributed NIL to society. Compare the progress of science to that of the 150 years of Watchtower, scrambling around in ignorant darkness. In 150 years the self proclaimed uneducated leaders couldn't even agree on what the word 'generation' means. Well, the truth being that armageddon keeps, embarrassing for them, not coming therefore requiring 'new light' on the meaning of the word...... so embarrassing.....who on earth are they to talk shop about cosmology! Really!
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Elder: I threw out all WT & Awake and only keep the last ten years...
by adjusted knowledge ini had a recent conversation with an elder from my mother's congregation.
he with another elder was at my mom's house.
my mother has all the bound volumes for both the awake and watchtower plus most of the older books.
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You are dead right, the religion I grew up in, no longer exists. It even has a different name that says it all really.... JW.ORG
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Do you know the Polar Bear? As in the Ice Road Trucker? I'm sure one of you do , Canada isn't that big right? Ay?
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5th anniversary Of Michael Jackson's passing
by designs inperhaps the best known of the celebrity jws and certainly the most controversial with the allegations that followed him to his death.. he was a good song writer and had the best in the music industry at his side.
the incredible quincy jones guided the "thriller" and "bad" albums to phenominal world wide sales.. i knew jws who were in the same kh with him and his mother.
the stories and gossip were fodder in the los angeles area.
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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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You are welcome x
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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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SM i have in fact written a paper on the evolution of bacteria, but to steer AWAY from you thinking this is a debate between me and you and back to it being you v the evidence, how about a layman explanation from the journal Nature.
That quote you just added to your last reply (sneaky) does not confirm what you said, once again you have miunderstood the text, see if you can spot the difference now..
You: "If no bacteria is resistant prior to the creation of the antibiotic then all the bacteria would be destroyed"
Your Textbook quote: "antibiotic resistance before exposure to the drug."
Antibiotic Resistance, Mutation Rates and MRSA
By: Leslie Pray, Ph.D. © 2008 Nature Education Citation: Pray, L. (2008) Antibiotic resistance, mutation rates and MRSA.
Suppose another student who had walked into the building just minutes beforehand had left the organism there, after grabbing hold of the same doorknob. Now imagine that you have an open cut on your finger, and some of the bacteria that are on that doorknob get into your wound. Although this seems like a minor event, it could actually have great repercussions for your overall health.
Mutation Rates and Bacterial Growth
Even if only a single S. aureus cell were to make its way into your wound, it would take only 10 generations for that single cell to grow into a colony of more than 1,000 (2 10 = 1,024), and just 10 more generations for it to erupt into a colony of more than 1 million (2 20 = 1,048,576). For a bacterium that divides about every half hour (which is how quickly S. aureus can grow in optimal conditions), that is a lot of bacteria in less than 12 hours. S. aureushas about 2.8 million nucleotide base pairs in its genome. At a rate of, say, 10 -10 mutations per nucleotide base, that amounts to nearly 300 mutations in that population of bacteria within 10 hours!
To better understand the impact of this situation, think of it this way: With a genome size of 2.8 × 10 6 and a mutation rate of 1 mutation per 10 10 base pairs, it would take a single bacterium 30 hours to grow into a population in which every single base pair in the genome will have mutated not once, but 30 times! Thus, any individual mutation that could theoretically occur in the bacteria will have occurred somewhere in that population—in just over a day.
Mutations, Antibiotic Resistance, and Staph Infections
Now, say that a few days after your initial infection with S. aureus, you decide to go to the local health center to have your wound examined. Maybe your finger is not healing as quickly as you had expected. Maybe its red color is a bit worrisome. Maybe the wound is starting to ooze a bit. Maybe you vaguely recall hearing or reading something about some kind of bacterial infection that is popping up on college campuses across the country and landing some students in the hospital. Concerned that your wound might be infected, the physician at the health center decides to prescribe an antibiotic.
Under a best-case scenario, the prescribed antibiotic would kill all of the replicating S. aureus cells in your body, mutant or otherwise, and your wound would quickly heal. After all, the potency of antibiotic treatment is why, when penicillin entered medical care in the 1940s, it was deemed a "miracledrug." Penicillin and other antibiotics have saved countless lives for more than half a century. Under a different scenario, however, any one of those mutations could give your S. aureus infection the ability to resist the particular drug you are being treated with. Luckily, in the real world, usually more than one mutation is required to generate drug resistance, and bacteria cannot double quite so quickly inside a person with a functioning immune system. But the problem still remains: The rapid division of bacterial cells causes them to evolve resistance to most treatments rather quickly.
Thus, although you are on antibiotics and you are otherwise healthy, a total of 600 mutations have accumulated by the time you go to bed that night. Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that, through one of a number of innovative biochemical means, does not die in the presence of whatever antibiotic the physician decided to prescribe—to render that antibiotic useless (at least for this particular infection). Moreover, when that mutant cell replicates, it will pass on its resistant phenotype to its daughter cells, and they to theirs. Thus, a rapidly growing proportion of the replicating bacteria still present in your body will be drug resistant. This is because the drug will kill only those cells that do not have the newly evolved drug-resistance capacity. Thus, the entire bacterial population will eventually become resistant to the prescribed antibiotic. When that happens, your infection will be said to be antibiotic resistant, and your physician will have to prescribe a different drug to combat it.
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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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Initially the antibiotic works well.... but you have no appreciation for the number of bacteria we are talking about and the biological process. Antibiotics do not work 100% for a start, just as the invention of a gun and bullet did not result in all humans instantly dying or all humans instantly dying whn a bullet is shot.
But, to explain, the longer that the bacteria are exposed to the new antibiotic,it the higher the chance they can survive exposure and evolve reistance. Why? the biggest issue in antibiotic resistance is giving too low a dose or the patient not finishing their prescription, stopping the pills when they feel better, allowing the bacteria to survive and adapt.
This is not just happening via doctors prescriptions, people are putting antibiotics in hand washes, domestic cleaning liquids etc, all exposing the bacteria to the new 'enviroment' without killing it.
I am afraid you are making evident you are part of your 99.9%
