http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/michelle-jenneke-australian-hurdler-dancing-sensation-042218109--oly.html.
When I was a teenager, I used to walk through the apartment complex to the pool or other destinations. I'd pass this group of kids that were 12 and under. They would chant, "Left, left, left, right left" and then laugh loudly.
Ah. This is, as you no doubt know, the origin of the song, "Honkey Tonk Badonkadonk," which includes this very chant. And, no, it is not a curse.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/michelle-jenneke-australian-hurdler-dancing-sensation-042218109--oly.html.
I'm outraged?
thoughtful christians including scientists like francis collins and kenneth miller accept the evidence for evolution unconditionally.
the only thing that distinguishes their understanding of life from the views of dawkins is that they believe god planned and started the process intentionally.. just a word about the subtle but vital distinction between "theistic evolution" and "intelligent design".... over-simplifications alert - intelligent design is creationism in disguise.
it is a modern twist on the "paley's watch" argument.
I guess we just have to wait for science to figure out when we developed spiritual souls and tell us what the meaning of life is, then.
da judge j. f. rutherford had some rather bizarre ideas regarding many things, it is however quite rare to come across anything quite so strange as his opinion of the prohibition in the us in the twenties.
rutherford loved his booze and didnt take kindly to the prohibition.
in an article with the title prohibition published in the november 1, 1924 issue of the watchtower he really let it rip and showed his power of reason in full flight.
Ok, but Prohibition really was a Satanic plot. The Lord of the Flies sometimes uses really ugly biddies to do his bidding, in this case, to take away some of the joy of life.
In one of the times the Catholic Bishops of the US stood up for right in our nation, they condemned Prohibition as an unjust law. An unjust law is, of course, no law at all and no one is under obligation to obey it.
thoughtful christians including scientists like francis collins and kenneth miller accept the evidence for evolution unconditionally.
the only thing that distinguishes their understanding of life from the views of dawkins is that they believe god planned and started the process intentionally.. just a word about the subtle but vital distinction between "theistic evolution" and "intelligent design".... over-simplifications alert - intelligent design is creationism in disguise.
it is a modern twist on the "paley's watch" argument.
Good question pseudosomething. Don't we have evidence of a conceptual leap: in one time, we don't do art but in another time, we do? Total speculation, but it seems to me that the abstract/artistic thinking is a key attribute. For example, I don't think homo ergaster, buried their dead, but neanderthal did. I know, there's, like, a million years difference between these guys, but you catch my drift.
my kid sister is dfd and can't get federal aid because she is still considered a dependant.
she lives alone, has no job at the moment, and has no friends.
my folks won't give her a dime for college, so she's basically screwed.
In the American context, the idea that parents would actively fight the idea of college education is very weird. I could easiy be assumed that any such claim as your sister's is just an attempt to game the system. Doesn't make it any better, I know, but there is a certain rationality behind it, I think.
thoughtful christians including scientists like francis collins and kenneth miller accept the evidence for evolution unconditionally.
the only thing that distinguishes their understanding of life from the views of dawkins is that they believe god planned and started the process intentionally.. just a word about the subtle but vital distinction between "theistic evolution" and "intelligent design".... over-simplifications alert - intelligent design is creationism in disguise.
it is a modern twist on the "paley's watch" argument.
Evolution is an effective way to maximise suffering.
It is. It is also an effective way to maximize the smarts of creatures. Without evolution, we don't get dolphins or chimps or you and me.
Evolution is a massively wasteful process. Over 95% of life forms that have ever lived have gone extinct, they got thrown on the scrapheap of failed designs.
It is. But "scrapheap" is a little harsh, I think. They were effective for a time but got obsolete because of counter-responses from the competiton.
A god must have observed suffering on an unimaginable scale for millions of years.
And observing still. Assad has done some really shocking things to the children of the opposition, to pick a curent example. He is not really an innovator in this field.
God's passive role in all of this has to give us pause.
Yes. You are speaking specifically of the horrors inflicted to and by non-human creatures. For these we cannot really simply ascribe evil as a function of free will and so on.
So, evolution is brutal. But doesn't this amount to a complaint that God chose not to short-circuit the process? A sort of wish that the Genesis story were literally true and not a myth? I guess my question back is: is it really true that a good creator could only have created life (and the universe, really) without using a process as brutal as evolution? That the whole process of placing life in every possible place on the planet could only be justly implemented by herbivorous creature who gently pass from this life painlessly and in their sleep?
Maybe it is better to start at a different point. Seeing all this suffering, couldn't one conclude that God is very much like Ares, who actually likes suffering and pain? It seems to me that the answer is yes. I think that an awful lot of societies actually embrace brutality as an expression of justice and the proper order of things (Aztec, for example, or the Huns or somebody). If you go back to Gilgamesh, say, there certainly isn't much of an idea that creation and the creator(s) are good, quite the opposite, I think.
i had been watching jwfairytale's videos recently, and he's been including snippets of this short film about a guy that becomes a jw and then changes to a born again, or so i think.
you can watch it here.
it's very dated, but quite enjoyable:.
Of course it makes sense, the Church has always been convinced in the divinity of Jesus. It is generally a mistake to think there should exist proof texts. But it is quite obvious that the Early Church Fathers held the view that Jeus was God.
those are just symbols that indicate a numerical value, but to me, they mean much more than that.. my clock showed 6:07 as the time a few minutes ago, and i immediately thought of 607 bce.. a friend's address is 1914 neighbor road - guess what comes to mind.. crazy, isn't it?.
lol..
"Scholar" was everywhere back in the day. Really good stuff; I remember he used to say that renowned Wt scholars laughed at secular historians who couldn't tell whether Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 or 588, while JWs knew it was just he single year, 607. Very excellent crazy-talk.
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Very well done. By the way, you just got disfellowshipped.
