we got the inevitable letter today.. meet, associate and "encourage" in person unless sick or infirm.
also dress up for zoom if you must use it.
locally over half are on zoom, 3/4 no picture.
Gb are happy to make a show about how loving the org is by making online meetings available because of the pandemic.
However, the pandemic is far from over and is biting harder than ever in a lot of parts of the world.
Now they want butt cheeks back on seats but the bro's have had a taste of freedom and it might be hard to reel them back in.
so did anyone else have the misfortune of listening to sanderson’s talk corresponding to the saturday morning convention program?.
full title is “young people - choose a path that leads to peace!”.
the basic idea is, hey you teenagers, you ought to be pioneers, wt construction workers, and/or bethelites.. i tried to put myself back in time an embarrassing number of decades…if i were in this talk’s target audience, how would i respond?.
why on earth should I listen to this fat, greasy, dumb, smirking Gen-Xer who has obviously never worked hard for even a single day in his life
Pretty sure he is too old to be a member of gen x??
Edited: ok - yeh born in Feb 1965, cutting it really fine to be gen x.
Some definitions of gen x require being born between 1968- 1980. As I am a gen x'er, Ill stick with those. It doesnt feel right to be in the same generation as this guy.
the following dramatization of the full-length transcript between google ai researchers and lamda 'herself'.
a google engineer named lemoine recently made the headlines for claiming a.i.
below is the most mind-blowing interview i've ever seen in my entire life!.
Sentience does not require intelligence, or understanding equal to a human.
interesting remark i overheard today.
the physical attendance for the sunday meeting, in my local area, was 10. i tried to find out those on zoom.
i was told that the zoom attendees wasn’t mentioned.
Imagine if you were a Russian JW being tortured in prison and you found out that your fellow brothers in the west can barely make it to a zoom meeting in their own lounge room.
a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
Sb:
" BB model claims that stars and Galaxies have all burned up and reconstituted 3 times already. So surely we should see galaxies at every possible stage right?"
That's exactly what we see. There are a number of different shapes of galaxies.
a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
@ GabeAtHouse: Really? Please start a thread and provide your evidence. I have never seen ANY evidence that would "demolish" the Creation Account. What you got?
Personally I would like to know how plants survived before the Sun was created.
a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-first-stars-in-the-un/
This article says that the first galaxies took about a billion years to form. You would expect to see fully formed galaxies 13 billion years old if the universe is about 14 billion years old.
The Hubble telescope produced a similar picture in 2003/04. They mentioned the same ages then.
hi - quite the introduction, huh?
so the 'morning star' is christ himself and he has guided my thinking and studies to uncover where exactly the wtb&ts went off track, offending jehovah greatly and causing him to 'abandon his sanctuary'.
i've posted the information on reddit jwexwatchtower - please study the articles carefully and put them to the test versus scripture.
From Wikipedia:
Psilocybin mushrooms; commonly known as magic mushrooms, are a polyphyletic informal group of fungi that contain psilocybin which turns into psilocin upon ingestion.
gotta love jwdotorg as usual regurgitating the financially/politically motivated (and thoroughly disproved) climate change propaganda:.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/ruining-the-earth-bible-meaning-hope/.
Humans extra contribution of around 3-5% per year is a big deal.
Before the industrial revolution, CO2 in and CO2 out was pretty much in balance.
We are adding an extra amount of CO2 into the atmosphere every year that nature cant remove fast enough to maintain a balance.
Keep doing this for decades and it adds up.
Its not that hard to understand.
gotta love jwdotorg as usual regurgitating the financially/politically motivated (and thoroughly disproved) climate change propaganda:.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/ruining-the-earth-bible-meaning-hope/.
Simon:
Most charts are propaganda, with selective starting points (and different ones for different factors).
Some may be, but its hard to argue the evidence from ice core samples. They show a fairly stable level of co2 over the last 800 thousand years. During that time, co2 levels didnt exceed 300ppm. Around 1950, co2 levels broke out and are now at about 420ppm. It only took 60 years to break out of an 800 thousand year cycle.
Temperature increases precede CO2 rise (it's not "cause and effect")
I cant find anything that backs this up. Im not saying it isnt true, a link would be great.
