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  Solar Eclipse - How Common is It?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  of the 213 moons in our solar system, only ours provides a total solar eclipse.. coincidence?.

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  Sea Breeze

  The way light behaves is very interesting and looks like a a set up for observation.

  Our eyes pick up on photon particles. But, photons behave like waves while in transit. Upon observation, the wave function immediately collapses into photon particles that our eyes can detect and then the brain can interpret. Why?

  Light travels effeciently as centric waves. What happens when you cast a stone in a pond? It makes centric waves and the waves reach every bank of the pond.

  But, if light travelled as particles, then the farther away you are from something the less chance you have of picking up the photons on eye receptors.

  Think of a shotgun blast of birdshot where the BB's are likened to photons.

  
  

  If light were only particles, when looking at distant starlight, one photon might land in Europe and next one in New York..... very low density making distant light impossible to detect. The wave function of light in transit solves this problem and it certainly looks like it was designed to solve for the purpose of observation.
  
  Here's a quote from Richard Dawkins: "Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose."

  I think Richard Dawkins appears to have a prior commitment to atheism regardless of facts. After I left Watchtower, I found myself oddly without a prior commitment to hardly anything. I've gotten used to it now. But, it was quite exhilarating at first.
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  Solar Eclipse - How Common is It?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  of the 213 moons in our solar system, only ours provides a total solar eclipse.. coincidence?.

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  If the universe were different, then the universe would not be the same.

  That's deep.
  
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  Would Zinaida Portnova Have Made a Good XJW Activist?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  meet 17 year old zinaida portnova:.

  she killed over a hundred nazis in a food poisoning incident.

  from wikipedia:.

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  Sea Breeze

  Indeed she was. They probably wouldn't want her working in food service at WT head quarters.
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  Would Zinaida Portnova Have Made a Good XJW Activist?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
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  meet 17 year old zinaida portnova:.

  she killed over a hundred nazis in a food poisoning incident.

  from wikipedia:.

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  Sea Breeze

  Meet 17 year old Zinaida Portnova:

  
  

  She killed over a hundred Nazis in a food poisoning incident.

  From Wikipedia:

  In 1943, Portnova became employed as a kitchen aide in Obol. In August, she poisoned the food meant for the Nazi garrison stationed there. Immediately falling suspect, she said she was innocent and ate some of the food in front of the Nazis to prove it was not poisoned; after she did not fall ill immediately, they released her. Portnova became sick afterwards, vomiting heavily but eventually recovering from the poison after drinking much whey.
  
  After she did not return to work, the Germans realized she had been the culprit and started searching for her. To avoid the Germans, she became a scout of the partisan unit named after Kliment Voroshilov.[2] In a letter sent to her parents back in besieged Leningrad that month, she wrote that she is "in a partisan detachment. Together with you, we beat the Nazi occupiers".[Note 1][1] In October 1943, Portnova joined the VLKSM.[2]

  In December 1943 or January 1944, Portnova was sent back to Obol to infiltrate the garrison, discover the reason for the recent Young Avengers failures,[1] then locate and contact the remaining members. She was quickly captured. Reports of her escape vary. One is that, during Gestapo interrogation in the village of Goriany, she took the investigator's pistol off the table, then shot and killed him. When two German soldiers entered after hearing the gunshots, she shot them as well. She then attempted to escape the compound and ran into the woods, where she was caught near the banks of a river.[3]

  Another version is that the Gestapo interrogator, in a fit of rage, threw his pistol to the table after threatening to shoot her. Taking the pistol, Portnova shot him. Escaping through the door, she shot a guard in the corridor, then another in the courtyard. After the pistol misfired when Portnova attempted to shoot a guard blocking her access to the street, she was captured.[1]

  After being recaptured, Portnova was tortured, possibly for information.[1] She was later driven into the forest and executed[3] or killed during torture on 15 January 1944.[1]
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  Solar Eclipse - How Common is It?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  of the 213 moons in our solar system, only ours provides a total solar eclipse.. coincidence?.

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  Sea Breeze

  Of the 8 planets in our solar system, only Venus has retrograde rotation.

  @Jeffro: Wrong. Uranus has one too.

  I'm curious as to what the typical atheist response is to the goldilocks universe (where everything is juuuust right) that we find ourself in?

  For example, the current Astronomer Royal for the British Crown is Martin Rees. He has stated that if any of the 6 values listed below were different, our universe [and us] couldn't exist:
  
  

  Rees’s six numbers are:

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  (1)The number of spatial dimensions we live in – 3

  (2) The relative strength of the electrostatic to the gravitational force between two protons – This is a very large number approximately 10 to the 36th power.

  (3) The fraction of mass converted to energy when hydrogen is fused to form helium – approximately 0.007.

  (4) The average matter density of the Universe, rather than being expressed in kilogrammes per cubic metre, it is expressed in units where the critical density (10 to the 26th power of kilogrammes per cubic metre) is equal to one – approximately 0.32.

  (5) The average dark energy density of the Universe, also expressed in units where the critical density is equal to one – 0.68.

  (6) The final number is a measure of how tightly bound the large clusters and supercluster of galaxies are. On the scale used in Rees’s book it has the value 10 to the -5th power.

  
  

  Are the fine tuning charactericts of the universe and the total eclipse of the sun, (and the monthly perfect total eclipse of the moon) that we see; are they examples of intentionality?
  
  @SBF

  materialists have got their head in the sand with regard to the evidence of fine tuning of the universe and its implications.

  Agree. Materialism has not been a support for atheism for quite some time now.
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  What's the Worst Advice You Heard of an Elder Giving Someone?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  i believe an an elder told someone who's daughter (14 yo) became sexually active with a 26 year old in the neighborhood, that maybe they should get married.

  so, they did... with parental consent.

  he turned out to be a ex-convict who shot his first wife in the face with a shotgun.

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  @ RonW

  He offered me hand to hand combat on a quick build over something unknown to me that had upset him...I accepted.

  Who won?
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  Solar Eclipse - How Common is It?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  of the 213 moons in our solar system, only ours provides a total solar eclipse.. coincidence?.

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  Sea Breeze

  Of the 213 moons in our solar system, only ours provides a total solar eclipse.

  coincidence?
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  Did Geoffrey Jackson Actually Reject His Faith During the ARC Hearing?

  by xjwsrock in

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  as portrayed in the convention videos this year about sergei (the fictional jw character in cold-war-era ussr), the jw leaders expect loyalty, even enduring imprisonment and/or death.

  in one scene sergei was offered an early release from prison if he would sign a statement renouncing his religion.

  well he refused and spent 5 years in prison as a result.

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  What are the specific statements he made which are utrue?
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  What's the Worst Advice You Heard of an Elder Giving Someone?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i believe an an elder told someone who's daughter (14 yo) became sexually active with a 26 year old in the neighborhood, that maybe they should get married.

  so, they did... with parental consent.

  he turned out to be a ex-convict who shot his first wife in the face with a shotgun.

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  Sea Breeze

  I believe an an elder told someone who's daughter (14 YO) became sexually active with a 26 year old in the neighborhood, that maybe they should get married. So, they did... with parental consent. He turned out to be a ex-convict who shot his first wife in the face with a shotgun. It was a nighmare. The elder owned a janatorial company. .
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  Wanting advise on a draft copy

  by joe134cd in

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  i’m just curious what you think.

  this is in its draft stages.

  so excuse the mistakes and grammar.

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  Sea Breeze

  Balaamsass2: Elders to "help re-adjust you" code for: "deal with this apostate".

  The Wt is very good at readjusting people. They've had lots of practice. Here, Fred Franz has just completed readjusting the thinking of a questioning Bethelite. Unity has been preserved.