Posts by Phizzy

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I miss this from A$$€mb£i€$
by punkofnice in
1. jw
2. experiences
hellas chocolate bars.
Phizzy

Ah Norwich ! went there a couple of times, by car, we had to park the car a little way from the Stadium, a walk along the canal to go get, left the wife and kids , went to get the car, but, Lo and Behold ! a handy Pub right on the towpath ! Phizzy had a crafty pint, before collecting the family, then went out for some more in the evening !
Got to make the whole thing as pleasant as you can, ain'tcha ?
I found out after I left the org. some sensible JW's hired a barge and moored next to the Pub as their accommodation !
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Chance or intelligent design?
by ExBethelitenowPIMA in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
cofty could you answer how the single cell came about by chance?.

i know the argument for complexity in nature says natural selection over billions of years but this could not explain the complexity of the single cell the building blocks of life?.
Phizzy

I found this an interesting comment on another Site about Abiogenesis :
" Before DNA was RNA, which serves a similar function but is less stable. Before that there was no life. The RNA came first - it forms spontaneously on basaltic glass. Life started when a bit of self-replicating RNA got caught up in a lipid bubble."
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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body
by WingCommander in
1. jw
2. friends
this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
Phizzy

From the org website just now : (No mention of Tony the Boozer)
Who are the members of the Governing Body?
The members of the Governing Body are Kenneth Cook, Jr., Gage Fleegle, Samuel Herd, Geoffrey Jackson, Stephen Lett, Gerrit Lösch, Mark Sanderson, David Splane, and Jeffrey Winder. They serve at our world headquarters in Warwick, New York, U.S.A.
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Chance or intelligent design?
by ExBethelitenowPIMA in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
cofty could you answer how the single cell came about by chance?.

i know the argument for complexity in nature says natural selection over billions of years but this could not explain the complexity of the single cell the building blocks of life?.
Phizzy

While I am here, my thanks go to Cofty for his succinct summary and explanation of Evolution and Abiogenesis. And to others who have added to what his post said.
I appreciate what Cofty and you guys do.
(is the Nick lane Book "Life Ascending" , rather than "Arising" or are they different books please ?).
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Chance or intelligent design?
by ExBethelitenowPIMA in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
cofty could you answer how the single cell came about by chance?.

i know the argument for complexity in nature says natural selection over billions of years but this could not explain the complexity of the single cell the building blocks of life?.
Phizzy

"If something was possible by chance then it would be possible in lab?"
By chance ?
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1975 on the back burner
by Fisherman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
“1975” still marks 6000 years from the creation of adam in wt calendar.

according to “all scriptures inspired” book, there is a gap between the creation of adam and the creation of eve and her marriage to adam.

it was at that point in time when eve was created that marked the end of the 6th creative day and the beginning of god’s rest, the 7th day as recorded in genesis.
Phizzy

My aged memory may be faulty, but did they back-track on the 7,000 year long "Creative days" once, and say those days were of indeterminate length, or am I confusing them with something I have read from a slightly more rational source than J W org ?
As Jeffro rightly points out, it is all nonsense when you look at the literary origin of the Eden Story. And as Jeffro has ably shown many times, the 1914 thing is the most utter, monumental, nonsense.
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Mass Shooting at Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany
by EdenOne in
1. social
2. current
mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.

at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.

single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.
Phizzy

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230310-eight-dead-in-shooting-at-jehovah-s-witness-hall-in-german-city-of-hamburg
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"Mankind's Search for God" book
by My Name is of No Consequence in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this book was published around 1990, but was never studied (to my knowledge).

does anyone know the reason why?.
Phizzy

If that Book is the one that gives a Thumbnail sketch of many religions, we did study it at the Tuesday group study, held in private homes. Prove me wrong.
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Breaking News: Anthony Morris III no longer serving on the Governing Body
by WingCommander in
1. jw
2. friends
this has been announced on the jw's official website, in the "jw news" section.

this is not a joke.

anthony moron da turd is out as a gluttonous body member!
Phizzy

Cirrhosis of the Liver ?
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Details of Noah’s Ark
by enigma1863 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
jw magazines have claimed the flood story has so much detail that it couldn’t be just a made up story.. is it detailed?

name one person outside of noah’s family.

name one nephilim.
Phizzy

" the author gave no thought to the seaworthiness of the vessel, and pictured a box to keep valuables in."
The Author no doubt did not have the necessary knowledge about sea-worthiness, I read a long article by an Engineer who showed that regardless of the shape of the vessel, the mere size would put such stresses upon the support beams within, that the boat would have sunk within hours, even in a slight swell !
Your second point is pertinent too, the Story is not unrelated to the Ark of the Covenant stories.
Our old friend Leolaia also showed in one of her wonderful threads that the whole Noah Story is an Interpolation. So, even those who threw Genesis together were aware it was not in any way History, so we cannot expect the details to be accurate in any way.

Phizzy

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Who are the members of the Governing Body?