Yes, I know. She'll only see the reality if she wants to see it. But I wasn't going to let that one slide - what the brother had told them from the platform were outright lies and a complete distortion of the facts.
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I don't agree with that evidence, so I'll just ignore it. . .
by Flat_Accent injust a little experience i had a while back.
thought it was funny so here we go.
(there's also a couple of links you might want to use for your own reference).
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I don't agree with that evidence, so I'll just ignore it. . .
by Flat_Accent injust a little experience i had a while back.
thought it was funny so here we go.
(there's also a couple of links you might want to use for your own reference).
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Just a little experience I had a while back. Thought it was funny so here we go. (There's also a couple of links you might want to use for your own reference)
The other week my parents were picking me up from town and they told me about a talk the brother had given. My mom told me that the brother had said 'from 1986 to 1996 there were only 15 earthquakes 7.0 and above, but from 1997 to 2007 there were 99!' He had also claimed that 'More people have died because of war in the 20th century than in all the wars fought in the last 3000 years.'
Thankfully I'd already done some research on Earthquakes and Wars, and I immediately knew the brother had just pulled those statistics out of his ass. I decided to e-mail my mom the next day with this information:
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I think I managed to find the statistics you were referring to from this link:
http://www.earth.webecs.co.uk/
At the bottom of the page it says;
"...between 1986 and 1996 (incl), a period of 11 years, there were "just" 15 earthquakes listed by USGS of magnitude 7.0 or greater.
...But between 1997 and 2007 (incl), a period of only 11 years, there were 99 earthquakes with magnitude 7.0 or greater : This is more than a six-fold increase..."
This is patently false.
Firstly the NEIC locates around 15,000 earthquakes on average each year, and the averages for great earthquakes ranging from 5.0 - 9.9 have been constant since the beginning of the 20th Century. You can take a look at the yearly averages here. Notice at the bottom of the page it gives the number of recorded earthquakes from 2000 - 2011, you can also check the numbers for the 1990's, or use this list which goes back as far as 1970.
If you count the quakes ranging from 7.0 - 9.9 a decade from 1997, you'll see the total is actually 161, not 99.
Furthermore, if you count quakes of the same magnitude a decade from 1986, the total comes to 139, not 15.
Organizing earthquakes by decade also shows there isn't really a pattern of increase. It's much more haphazard.
Earthquakes 5.0-9.9
1970-1979: 15,344
1980-1989: 15,934
1990-1999: 14,768
2000-2009: 15,716
Earthquakes 7.0-9.9
1970-1979: 154
1980-1989: 105
1990-1999: 153
2000-2009: 144
Earthquake Deaths
1970-1979: 815,956
1980-1989: 58,880
1990-1999: 101,726
2000-2009: 471,015
For an understanding of why many think earthquakes have been increasing, you can have a look at the USGS response to that claim.
In terms of the other statistic mentioned, about there being more war-related deaths in the 20th century than in all the other centuries put together, I thought these numbers might interest you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll#Wars_and_armed_conflicts
You'll see that there are 9 Wars mentioned which started in the 20th Century, while the other 14 all started earlier. Keep in mind this isn't a count for ALL the wars, just the most devastating ones recorded in history.
Taking the most conservative estimate for all wars listed, two times as many people died in wars previous to 1900 than in those afterwards.
Taking the most liberal estimate for all wars listed, 126 million more people died in wars previous to 1900 than in those afterwards. (incl. WW1 + Spanish Flu estimate)
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This was her reply:
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Interesting stats..
I guess though that the fact still remains that the predictions for the last days have to be taken as a whole feature and are not dependant on
one single aspect.
Increases in
Wars - After what I just emailed you? Famine
Disease
Earthquakes - SERIOUSLY!?!? Lawlessness
Hate & Selfish attitudes etc..
The preaching of the good news
False prophets
Gods people hated and persecuted
all within this generation indicate we are in the last days.
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Does anyone else see the way she completely ignored everything I said??
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If you have a copy of the Orange brochure they released in 2010: 'The Origin of Life: 5 Questions Worth Asking' there's a section in there on Neanderthals.
The opinion of those 'scientific experts' at the Society think that any missing link between humans and the common anscestor are just humans, which kind of flies in the face of DNA evidence which suggests that even though Neanderthals exhibited human traits such as making tools and burying the dead, they were not human at all. Linky
Here's a nifty video that deals with the Neanderthal argument
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The world is getting better
by laverite inthe world is getting better in many ways despite the doom and gloom jws might claim.
the 24/7 news cycle seems to be all doom and gloom.
but is it all doom and gloom?
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There's one thing you have to understand about the Media, avengers: If it bleeds, it leads. (and no I didn't just pull that from the article >_>)
There are still lots of problems in the World that need fixing, but I'd rather be alive now than at any other point in history. I'd recommend giving Steven Pinkers book Better Angels of our Nature a read if you want to explore the trends in violent behaviour over the centuries. It's safer to be alive now than at any other point in time. The 21st century has seen one of the lowest points in homicide rate in the western world, second only to the 1950's.
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Higher Education compared to sacrificing your child to Moloch!
by Vidqun inforthcoming attraction at the next circuit assembly.
for those that are interested in attending.
if you encourage your child to pursue higher education, you are sacrificing him or her to molech (cf.
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My parents have just been to this Assembly over the weekend, though I think they were talking more about the HORRORS OF THE INTERNET!! BWAHAHAHAHA!
But I don't think this is the first time they've compared Higher Education to something terrible. Wasn't there an example in a recent mag??
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Wacky Witness Parent Rules
by breakfast of champions inhere's one of my favorites:.
my mother used to make me turn sesame street off when "the count" came on because count dracula was a real person who was under satan's influence and drank blood.. what completely whacked out rules did your parents make for you growing up?.
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ahh Jericho I've heard that one. My dad actually threw away all his Zep when he became a witness because of crap like that. And I guess Jimmy Page buying Aleister Crowley's old house had something to do with it as well.
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Be Inspired By The Word Tuesday, Feb 28th
by njuttabi inpastor chris.
for unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith to them that hear it (hebrews 4:2).. .
the old testament chronicles for us several inspiring miracles that god demonstrated amongst the children of israel in the wilderness, but, for forty years, they wondered in the wilderness until a whole generation perished.
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The word Tuesday is inspiring for me because it reminds me that even if you don't exist you can still get people saying your name for the next thousand years.
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Wacky Witness Parent Rules
by breakfast of champions inhere's one of my favorites:.
my mother used to make me turn sesame street off when "the count" came on because count dracula was a real person who was under satan's influence and drank blood.. what completely whacked out rules did your parents make for you growing up?.
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Good question. I'll have to think about this one. The only one I can remember off the top of my head is a sister who wouldn't watch Guys & Dolls because it was about the Salvation Army, but she would watch The Sound of Music, which is all about nuns. >_> some people. . .
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Oh, I agree designs. I think people need to be educated to avoid getting themselves into this kind of situation. That would certainly remove all this unnecessary stress and trauma. All i'm saying is that it's the right of the woman to choose whether she wants a baby or not. She's carrying the child, she makes the decision, that's it.
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Sulla, You make some interesting points, and really it gets to the heart of the issue: It's personal. All you can base these kind of opinions on is your own moral inclination and conscience. For me, there is a big difference between a foetus and a child. The main point being that, similar to the case of a coma patient - until he wakes up, all decisions rest with the next of kin. I value the decision of the mother more than the potential life she is carrying.
I don't know enough about how children develop and learn, or at what stage this happens to answer your 3rd point. - I didn't mean that children immediately have these traits - but until it is born, the child cannot be exposed to the outside world and begin developing them.
