Posts by snare&racket

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How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

by pistolpete in

remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

snare&racket

Drearyweather you have blown my mind.....

That conversation has been rattling around in my head for decades. My parents had left the witnesses and returned in 1991, I started high school in 92 and I believe it was that year I was indeed working with the CO on the ministry. I even remember the weather and the village we were in.

I wonder if he wrote in, it seems so exact to what I asked?

I mistakenly thought I had asked it as an adult in the past, but on picturing who the CO was (Edward Molyneux, his facial expression is burned into my memory) I was a kid when he was our CO, starting high school.

Crazyyyy

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Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

by Simon in

anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

snare&racket

The whole world has watched that video with disgust,

The Minneapolis use of force police coordinator Lt Mercil called the knee restraint seen on film "unauthorised" and an "act of aggression." LA police sgt Stiger called it "excessive" force.

The fentanyl/cardiac disease hypothesis are embarrassing.

Let personal bias and prejudices begin....

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How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

by pistolpete in

remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

snare&racket

100% agree pistol pete

I remember asking a circuit overseer if Adam in the garden of Eden needed a sword for any reason? He said no...

So Jehovah invented the Sword, not man then? i asked. He looked confused,

The spinning sword protecting the garden of eden, existed before Adam sinned. Why would god invent a weapon, a weapon responsible for the death of millions?

Why does nobody attribute its design to god? Surely this makes the concept of a sword unique, holy?

He thought I was crazy, I was just a kid though!

Re-read the bible without the cult hat on and there is a "Wait a minute!l" every other verse!

I think it was Ingersoll who said "Why would I listen to the advice on raising children by the same God that decided to drown his own?"

My favourite, Hitchens said, had god asked him to take his child to a mountain, bind him then slaughter him like an animal.... he would say "F**£ you!" and suffer the consequences!

People put a 'dunce' hat on when reviewing these stories and remove themselves emotionally, logically and ignore anything inquisitive.

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Whatever Happened To The Flu?

by minimus in

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friends

has the flu vanished?

has it been replaced by covid?

no one is talking about making sure you get you flu shots.

snare&racket

1) Every season is dominated by the most virulent, contagious pathogen. Basic evolution.

2) People are isolating and using hand hygiene and masks.

3) People acted on the concern of flu/CV19 concerns and got jabbed

4) The flu hasn't gone anywhere, we still detect it on PCR (hail to all the new PCR internet experts who qualified in 2020).

5) Incidentally in the UK alone we have approx 110,000 additional deaths to a normal year, the expected number of deaths include the flu. As you may remember the experts saying, this global pandemic is not 'just like a flu' so the numbers and news coverage don't compare...rightly so.

6) Brazil has just reported 60,000 deaths in a month. The flu is kind of not the story right now......we are in the middle of a CORONAVIRUS pandemic, not INFLUENZA. However 'the flu' is said a lot on internet forums nowadays.

7) Don't worry, If you live long enough, you may see an influenza pandemic too!

8) Jab or don't jab, it is your life, your choice, your critical appraisal of the data/youtube vids!

9) "What if-----------THE FLU IS COVID!!!!!!" - piztol pete

!0) "Pistol, do you think??Do you know how many people have said that a year and a half ago they had strange symptoms that the doctors didn’t know what it was except they said it was probably the flu and that they needed to take a flu shot." -minimouse

Yeah so going back a good 15 years plus now, patients that comes in with flu symptoms to a hospital, get a PCR test that checks the DNA of the pathogen... if they have influenza.... DING... the DNA would match Influenza strains. If they had a brand new, yet unseen DNA related to the CORONAVIRUS pathogen...then DING it would have been discovered as a novel coronavirus or 'COVID ..18' amongst the population.

What do you think all those people that park in a hospital staff car park do? They are not all pretending to be JD and Turk. What do you think all the hundreds of thousands of virologists, biologists, lab technicians do to pay the mortgage? They work in a hospital establishing why you and all the people you coughed on feel 'sicky poops'.

All those hospitals around the world, all of the millions of PCR's done a year, all of the virologists and lab technicians in all of the labs.... discovering this secret novel coronavirus in 2018, just hit career jackpot and will write papers and become leaders in their field..... "Ha Ha Frank Peterson, you may have had a 3% average on me in our 6 years of Virology school but look at me nowwwwww... I have the POWWWEEERRRRRR..."

Or they may just keep it under their Quaker Oats man looking illuminati hats..... because they want Joe Biden to take your guns....

Wow the intellect and mysteries that get solved here nowadays! It's like a box set of Columbo!

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Complexity, Evolutionists Biggest Problem

by Sea Breeze in

recently, some scientists modeled one of the simplest known cells - that of a bacteria.

it took an army of 128 computers running for 10 hours to process the data required in the 25 categories of molecules that are involved in this "simple cells'" life processes.

think about that for a moment - 128 computers running for 10 hours just to compute the data, not actually do it mind you; but just to model the known processes in one of the simplest known cells, which is many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell.

snare&racket

Ahhhhh.... so you are choosing comfort.

All the best with that,

Snare.

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Complexity, Evolutionists Biggest Problem

by Sea Breeze in

recently, some scientists modeled one of the simplest known cells - that of a bacteria.

it took an army of 128 computers running for 10 hours to process the data required in the 25 categories of molecules that are involved in this "simple cells'" life processes.

think about that for a moment - 128 computers running for 10 hours just to compute the data, not actually do it mind you; but just to model the known processes in one of the simplest known cells, which is many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell.

snare&racket

With respect, complexity keeps the ignorant ignorant.

It takes seconds to read and believe "God created the heavens and the earth."

it takes literally years to learn advanced physics, chemistry and biology so as to understand how theories such as evolution works and the evidence for it. How far in to your studies are you?

It is like deciding to post about how unlikely it is that planes fly in the sky because of how improbable aeronautic theories seem to you, having never picked up an aeronautics textbook or attended a class on it.

Just to prove a point, you have been impressed and moved by a 'real cross-section X-ray' of a human cell. After 6 years in university, I was instantly able to say "No it isn't, that is clearly an artists cgi rendition of cellular organelles." I could easily identify the mitochondria, the sarcoplasmic reticulum, the ribosomes...

Education is not about ego or elitism, it is a safety net for ignorance, as easily as you can be caught out by an artists fake picture, assuming it was a real xray, you can be seduced by a fringe narrative that suits your biases and beliefs.

It is always your choice, what do YOU really want to know?

The TRUTH about the universe

or

A narrative that reinforces your beliefs, i.e. COMFORT

Truth v's Comfort..... not easy, but your choice...

P.s. my reason for posting was because your OP was incredibly misleading, though I suspect unintentional. You started with a quote and reference to an experiment but then added a lot of personal conjecture. Only after seeing the 'Atlantic' article (not science) was I able to differentiate what you had read, what you had misunderstood and what you had added as conjecture as someone I assume not trained in science or statistics. I think it is important to be more transparent in the future, your conjecture is wildly mistaken/untrue and I am sure you would not want to intentionally mislead someone.

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Did The Witnesses Mess Up Your Sex Life?

by minimus in

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friends

most of the witnesses i knew never really talked about sex.

whatever couples did was pretty much kept quiet.

every once in a while a wife might complain to the elders or a friend that the husband is too demanding or even immoral because of the sex practices the husband wanted.

snare&racket

When I left the JW's to go to University, I attended a JW party before I left, I was considered a JW drop out and was there on the periphery.

During the party, the topic of sex and being privately reproved came up. To my shock, ignorance and naivety.... someone asked how many had had sex before marriage and I was one of a couple of people who had not, I was off out the JW's and there I was a mid 20's virgin, amongst all these pioneer/MS/good example kids who had all been messing around.

I felt so naive and stupid to have been a 'good JW' all those years, a whole youth and meanwhile all these elders kids had been doing as they wished. Literally all of them.

The irony is that these are all elders and pioneers etc now, preaching judgment and partaking in disfellowshipping and punishing people for the many petty things on the JW naughty list.

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Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

by minimus in

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friends

does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

are you offended if you see a flag?

what about a confederate flag?.

snare&racket

An inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly-emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.

"Snowflake"

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RIP Murray Walker. The world is a sadder quieter place now,

by Slidin Fast in

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friends

any f1 fan of a certain vintage will shed a tear for murray.

the embodiment of enthusiasm..

snare&racket

Sunday afternoons, race home from the meeting, F1 on the TV .....Murray Walker was at his pulpit and we were ready to heed his words..

Go, Go, Go.......

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Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

are you offended if you see a flag?

what about a confederate flag?.

snare&racket

It is very simple....

Nobody has the right to NOT be offended.

It is not a LEFT or RIGHT political issue. It's relevant to all humans that have a differing point of view on any passionate/emotive topic.

If you feel offended by the feelings or speech or actions of someone with differing view to your own.... that is for you to deal with, not the other party.