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  Trying to use facts to reason with a Jehovah's Witness

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr_is6wqnaa.

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  Landy

  I think it's difficult to reason with any person who has fundamental religious views - not just JWs.
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  Is the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses really an inferior form of Christianity?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. beliefs

  seems to be quite a few posters recently pulling down the beliefs of jw's as not biblical or truly christian.

  maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, i really don't care.. in some important ways though mainstream christians often behave better than jehovah's witnesses; most don't practice shunning or impose lethal medical prohibitions on their members.

  many are far more tolerant of the lgbt community and a few even make the awkward attempt to square the fact of evolution with their faith.. please note that i'm saying some, not all.. so i suppose it's fair to say that differing forms of christianity can be better or worse for individuals, families and the wider community.

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  Landy

  You can point at all the different world events you like - none of them either prove nor disprove a theist God, or a devil come to that.

  For you to ascribe them to a god or to a devil is only indicative of your state of mind - nothing to do with reality.
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  Evolution is a Fact #2 - DNA Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the first thread in this series we looked at how the same protein molecule can be assembled by many different sequences of amino acids.. we took the example of cytochrome c and saw that there are many times more possible sequences than atoms in the known universe.

  however the sequences in humans and chimps are identical, and as we look at species less closely related to us by evolution the more differences we find.

  this is very compelling evidence for common ancestry.. in this post we are going to look more closely at the dna code behind those amino acid sequences.. the "language" of dna is made up of just 4 "letters" - a,c,g and t.. sequences of letters are read off in groups of 3 called codons.. acggcctcgaatgccttc would be read as acg gcc tcg aat gcc ttc.

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  Landy

  Deepak Chopra said this about evolution.

  Darwin's theory of evolution is an enormous over-simplification. It's helpful if you want to connect the dots and understand the interrelatedness of life on the planet -- and it's simple enough to teach to children between recess and lunch. But it fails to capture the driving force and what's rea

  Ahh, another nutter acording to wiki :)

  Or perhaps not, I wish I could charge gullible patients a small fortune for handing out a placebo.
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #2 - DNA Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the first thread in this series we looked at how the same protein molecule can be assembled by many different sequences of amino acids.. we took the example of cytochrome c and saw that there are many times more possible sequences than atoms in the known universe.

  however the sequences in humans and chimps are identical, and as we look at species less closely related to us by evolution the more differences we find.

  this is very compelling evidence for common ancestry.. in this post we are going to look more closely at the dna code behind those amino acid sequences.. the "language" of dna is made up of just 4 "letters" - a,c,g and t.. sequences of letters are read off in groups of 3 called codons.. acggcctcgaatgccttc would be read as acg gcc tcg aat gcc ttc.

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  I am only 9 hours into those Kent Hovind videos from the last thread

  Only another 6 to go then.
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  Landy

  And it's only the creationists that are throwing insults and names about.
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  Landy

  Watch these videos and you will see Cofty has no idea of what he speaks about.

  that's a very bold statement.

  I have no intention of wading through that crap. I'll stick with the facts of evolution if it's all the same to you.

  You are free to continue to use whichever crutch you need though.
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  Landy

  That's two or three times you've mentioned how wealthy you are.

  I'm pleased for you. Really I am.
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  Your Jehovah’s Witness Is Showing

  by David_Jay in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since i just signed up and posted a few times without doing this yet, here is my story..

  i think that i became a jehovahs witness because of my immaturity.

  i had some quirky personality traits, and i joined finding that i fit in because, as i said to myself: these people get me.

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  Landy

  My Grandmother always said converts make the best zealots. I suppose that works for conversion in both directions.
  
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  Molested by a Jehovah Witness.

  by SaffronSands in

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  2. child-abuse

  they act like i did something wrong.

  i was 20. tier 3 offense they would be on sex offender list for life.

  they should be.. doesn't the church teach morals.

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  Landy

  Sorry to hear this.

  I don't know where you're based but please get professional help.
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  No Sports Cars Please!

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i read on a jw forum that jw's came in for disapproval if they drove either sports cars or 2-door cars.

  the reasoning was that a driver couldn't easily take fellow dubbies out preaching in such a vehicle.

  was that ever official policy or just local nonsense from a grumpy po?.

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  Landy

  Lol - Love the registration Stan