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  This thread is for proof that God exists

  by juandefiero in

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  2. friends

  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;.

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  There was a survey done on the members of the royal institute a few years ago, and iirc, it came out that about 8% believed in some sort of god. (Not necessarily theistic). Interestingly there were no biologists among them.

  I'll see if i can google it when i get near a pc.

  I'm not sure why theists feel the need to grasp the coattails of the odd (normally fruitloop) scientist who states a belief in God.

  If you compare the number of scientists that were believers in the nineteenth century to the number of believers now you will see a very sharp drop.

  I would hazard a guess to say that the next generation of scientists will contain no theists at all.
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  Conversation with JW mom on this years memorial date and Nissan 14 discrepancy.

  by Question_Mans_interpretation in

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  i'm having an ongoing texting conversation with my mom right now on the march 23rd memorial date.

  she completely goes into cult mode.. me: why is the memorial on march 23rd this year and not april 22nd/23rd when the corresponding nissan 14 commences?

  since when did the organization stop following the jewish calendar for passover?.

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  The JWs are right in this instance - it's a leap year in the jewish calendar but only the jewish observe the leap year.
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  Evolution is a Fact #21 - Footprints in the Sand

  by cofty in

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  back in the pliocene epoch a volcano called sadiman erupted depositing a layer of ash across the landscape.

  some time later it rained at laetoli in modern day tanzania turning the ash into wet cement.

  birds and animals walked across the cement, then sadiman erupted again sealing the footprints under a second layer of ash.. fast-forward to 1976. a team of paleontologists led by mary leakey are searching for human origins on the serengeti plain when andrew hill ducks out the way of elephant dung being thrown at him by a colleague.

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  Ignorance is not a bad thing - it's simply not knowing. To be content in one's ignorance however .......
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  Actively Fading and The Memorial

  by All for show in

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  2. friends

  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?.

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  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.
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  Evolution is a Fact #6 - Human Chromosome 2

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  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.

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  • 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.

  • I sense some bitterness there SBF :)
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  Spotlight won Best Film

  by Sugar Shane in

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  2. child-abuse

  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?

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  It could have been a reference to anything.
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  What TV shows were forbidden in your JW household?

  by Funchback in

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  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..

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  Our CO condemned the A-Team,

  Crazy damn fool.
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  This thread is for proof that God exists

  by juandefiero in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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;.

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  Landy

  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.
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  Evolution is a Fact #25 - Deep Time

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  Bryson's book 'A short history of nearly everything' has a fair amount on Hutton and geology. An interesting and entertaining read.
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  Some observations...

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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.

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  Landy

  Is there a particular reason you've started a new thread on this instead of using the existing one?