those of you fading- with the memorial approaching are you going to appease family?
not going and making up an excuse?
acting like your going but not really?.
One question: When we were all "perfect witnesses", how did we feel about those "once a year" attenders? In my part of the world, they were always spoken of in a derisive and condemning way...so why become another source of negative gossip for them?
We used to call them 'Submarines' as they surfaced once a year.
That was my reason for not going to them in the early years of my stopping going.
part 1 - protein functional redundancypart 2 - dna functional redundancypart 3 - ervspart 4 - smelly genespart 5 - vitamin c.
the big book of how to build a human - your genome - is approximately 3 billion letters long.. the text is arranged in long molecules of dna called chromosomes.
each letter of code in a chromosome is joined to its compliment - a to t and c to g - and the whole string is arranged in the iconic double-helix shape discovered by watson and crick in 1953.. our chromosomes come in pairs, one from our father and one from our mother.
Another thing I remember now. It says when women reach 35 they begin to habitually conceal their age in online dating profiles. The reason they do this is because many/most men routinely filter out women over 35, but when they are "tricked" into meeting an older woman many men "settle" for the older woman in real life. It also said that women who conceal their age are much pickier than those who don't. Plus women unwittingly give away their own age when specifying which men they are interested in meeting. A woman who is interested in meeting men who are aged 40 to 55 for example are 99 times out of 100 aged at the starting end of the range themselves - about 40 - regardless of what they've said about their age elsewhere.
during the post-awards interview, the director said that the story is not over.
it's still ongoing.
could this have been a vieled jab at jws, and/or a hint at a spotlight part 2?
in the u.s., three's company was not allowed.
it was explained to me that it was an immoral show because a man and women lived together and no one was married.
the sister who gave this observation was a family friend and we were newbies to the religion.. at least i somehow managed to watch the benny hill show undetected..
Our CO condemned the A-Team,
Crazy damn fool.
however, i haven't found any evidence to support that belief.. have you?
if so please, show me the evidence that god exists, and i will believe along with you.. criteria:.
(1) you must specify which god you are talking about;.
The root of the issue isn't a belief in creationism or any of the other bible stories.
When it comes down to it, it's a choice between rational, evidence based thinking vs superstition.
in the 18th century the calculations of archbishop james ussher regarding the age of the earth were still accepted without question.
according to ussher god made the earth at 6pm on the evening of saturday 22nd october 4004 b.c.. this naive certainty was to become a victim of the scottish enlightenment and the brilliant mind of james hutton.
having qualified as a medical doctor in 1749 hutton returned to the family farm in berwickshire not far from where i am typing this now.
Bryson's book 'A short history of nearly everything' has a fair amount on Hutton and geology. An interesting and entertaining read.
theburstbubble: just as a translation is it as accurate as they say it is?
or have they played with some of the verses to suit the beliefs?
just curious... i don't know why but i find it quite sad if the nwt is so misleading to support their own beliefs.
cofty- perhaps you would like to teach us the "first thing about evolution".. truth doubter .
It's almost as if it wasn't a sincere challenge.
Surely not.
one of the most common thing thrown at atheists is - lots of intelligent people believe in god.
this darkmatter 2525's video is an excellent explanation as to why very logical people possess religious belief systems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.
we'll never get the truth of the matter if we dismiss it because it will ' create more questions'.
How to contradict yourself in one easy sentence!
I don't have all the answers. Science doesn't have all the answers. Lots of science's answers create more questions. That is A Good Thing. I'm quiet happy to accept that we don't have all the answers yet. You're quite happy to ascribe the unknowns to God.
If you'd lived a thousand years ago you'd be out sacrificing goats so the the rain god will allow rain to feed your crops. In another thousand years people will look back on current day believers in tne same way we look on those who worshipped in ignorance a thousand years ago.
i know how hard it is to awaken people still inside the cult bubble.
there are many reasons for this, chief among them the unwillingness to read or watch anything critical of their religion.
on the other hand, jws love few things more than hearing bad stuff about other faith groups.
