i wanted to express appreciation to the members of this forum.
there are resources here that are deep.
like we heard from the stage, "what is your depth and breadth of bible knowledge?
The WTB&TS has lied to you and asked you to act dishonestly on their behalf.
Now they are "disfellowshipping" you, thus marking you as one who will not believe lies and acts in accord with your OWN conscience.
This is indeed something to be proud of!
We welcome you, and we are glad to have you join us!
this was meant to have nice inserted pictures and tidy hyperlinks but the forum's being glitchy today.
so unfortunately it's going to be a messy post where you're going to have to exercise your tapping fingers and click on the links to the pics to see what i'm referring to.
sorry about that.. in the article recently studied "do this in remembrance of me" (w13 12/15), there is a box on p. 23 giving the date of this year's memorial and how that date is arrived at.. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013926.
So they've picked the wrong day for their meaningless ritual of rejection. ...again.
Who's gonna be upset by that: the Universal Sovreign Yod-He-Vah-He, or The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Yod-He-Haw-He-Haw?
The destiny of our immortal souls is at stake!
The WORLD MIGHT END without you - and THEN what would you do? huh?
No, this is REALLY IMPORTANT SHIT AND STUFF! REALLY!!
as i have mentioned before, i love photography, and specially a technique called hdr.
hdr stands for high dynamic range, and it means the ratio of the "lightness" of the lightest spot in the picture to the darkest.. .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/high-dynamic-range_imaging.
You might want to take a look at Picture Window Pro by Digital Light & Color.
Digital Light & Color was founded in 1993 by Jonathan Sachs -- the programmer who created the first version of Lotus 1-2-3 back in 1982. The company has been distributing its electronic darkroom software, Picture Window, since 1994. Picture Window has been favorably reviewed in such publications as Petersen's Photographic, PC Magazine, Shutterbug, and Outdoor Photographer. Digital Light & Color is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The full program is $89.95.
Good work!
have you been touched by the tentacles of the watchtower i have and it was not like being touched by an angel!.
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https://youtu.be/ddbggciidwa.
That was hilarious! I think even Rick would laugh at that.
7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.
i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.
i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.
Congratulations on a MAJOR achievement!
If you specialize in proctology you can do WATCHTOWERectomies!
to all christ believers, truth about man made churches around the world.
these prophecies are of no private interpretation 2 peter 1:20. my testimony on video is all real just google "christ testimony of the churches around the world".this message is not a joke before the lord and his christ.
book of revelation and daniel prophecy about the beast and 42 months of spiritual perdition-i am the witness in seeing the beast ascended out of the bottomless pit and in spiritual perdition right now.
Surely this one has THE TROOTH. Let us follow him.
...buy don't call him Shirley!
i have done some research into radiometric and carbon dating but i have been unable to find an answer or explanation to my challenge on that.
i wonder if anybody here can point me in the right direction or possibly answer it.. the first is that it seems most if not all of these dating methods rely on measuring decay.
unless i am mistaken, decay is not equal everywhere.
EndfMysteries, I'd like to address two of your questions.
The first is this business about radioactive decay. Jgnat said that elements are elements forever, and that is not strictly correct, as Jgnat's illustration shows, the radioactive isotope Carbon-14 turns into Nitrogen-14 and two sub-atomic particles when it breaks down. So, if you have an old sample of Calcium Carbonate - CaCO3 - and you do an analysis of it and find some Nitrogen (N) in there, the Nitrogen had to come from somewhere - from the decay of Carbon-14 into Nitrogen-14, which is a stable non-decaying form of Nitrogen.
To this question, "It's also claimed the oldest rock/elements found on the Earth are 4.5 billion years old, so that is how old the Earth is. Does that mean that out of thin air the Earth appeared? What if those rocks and elements were floating in space from 4.5 billion years ago yet they clustered and gathered and formed the Earth only 1 billion or 1 million years ago? Is there more to the dating techique that specifies when they became part of the Earth?" I would offer:
First (more than 13 BILLION years ago) there was the Big Bang, then energy began to become matter - individual atoms. The atoms bumped into each other, sometimes becoming compounds, sometimes becoming dust bunnies. Bunches and bunches of dust bunnies bumped into each other and the dust bunnies became large enough so that their combined mass gave them some significant gravity, and so the rate of collisions with other dust bunnis began to pick up speed. As the mass grew, so did the gravity of the mass. Now the dust bunnies were becoming rocks. As these clouds of rocky particles came crashing into each other, they got hot. VERY hot. The heat allowed a couple of things to happen - the bits of rock were now blobs of liquid rock, and because the mass was liquid, elements of different densities separated. If we had a very old rock in which some of the potassium had decayed into argon, the argon, being a gas, could now boil off of the hot molten blob.
This had the effect of resetting the atomic decay clock. Once the molten blob cooled off, it containrd none of the argon it had before it melted. So when we measure the amount of argon in a rock that contains potassium, we know that when the rock was molten it had no argon in it, so all the argon we find must have accumulated after the molten blob cooled off. Thus we can calculate how long the rock has been solid. This is the age of the rock.
Many of the 90 naturally occuring elements have radioactive isotopes, and these elements decay at different rates. This gives us ways of measuring different lengths of time.
You said, "...I'm back in college now, in the fall I'll probably be fullfilling the GE requirement for physical science, I may or may not chose physics for that."
I don't know what "fullfilling the GE requirement" means.
Your intentions are good, but don't expect CHEM101 or PHY101 to answer all the questions you might ask. Become a science major (HARD WORK!) and study chemistry, physics, nuclear chemistry and LOTS of math.
would love your feedback!.
http://darrinhart.hubpages.com/hub/jehovahs-witnesses-a-study-in-hypocrisy .
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Good work!
we have had a letter read the last 2 meetings to all congs attenidng the detroit dc's... seems people are not going, or not booking their hotels.
and the society is pissed!
they are imploring every one to not wait for a new list with new hotels, it is not happening.
Detroit is the Mogadishu of America, a gleaming example of how brilliantly liberal politics works, and it gets no lovelier than it is this time of year.
Just say "FUCK NO" to District Conventions.
the guy i know was saying this the other day.. "it's been suggested this may be the last one", or words to that effect.. where & by whom?.
is this doing the rounds?.
LOL, Steve2!
