Wonderful choice. You have the experience of being a victim of a cult. Now you are going to arm yourself with the tools to put your life experience to great use, to help other. Be proud of yourself!
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Some Good News About Me (Although Anthony Morris Will Be Furious)
by pale.emperor injust wanted to share with you some good news i'm really excited about.
i have been accepted for university to study psychology and counseling.
my goal is to become a counselor and, in time, to specialize on treating those who have left high control relationships/groups like we all did.. it'll take a few years before im qualified but studying in university has been a dream of mine since i was 12, which was systematically dashed to pieces by watchtower.. .
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More than 75% of the human genome may be 'junk' DNA.
by fulltimestudent inmaking little or no difference to our daily lives, comes the claim that most of our human genome is not functional.. dan graur an (evolutionary) biologist at the university of houston and other academics made the claim in a paper published in an online journal, genome biology and evolution.. the group's calculations suggest that not more than 25% of the human genome is functional - the rest is seen as 'junk' dna,.
see science dailys coverage of the report at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170714140234.htm .
coverage of similar research at the uk's oxford university (reported in the guardian aust.
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never a jw
Perry,
How can you be so blind or hypocritical? Every time you try to pose a challenge to evolution you are forced to use information that has been discovered and provided by scientist. If it weren't for scientists you and your ilk wouldn't know about the existence of DNA or molecules, or anything in an elementary science book, let alone in any higher level books. You may argue that some religious people have made contributions to science, but we owe their contributions to their observations of the physical world and their use of the scientific method, not to praying. Christianity and the Bible have contributed zero, nothing, zilch to any discovery or invention that we enjoy today. The level of cognizant dissonance are at incredible levels in your brain. It's extremely frustrating that millions today actually believe your dishonest and fallacious arguments.
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More than 75% of the human genome may be 'junk' DNA.
by fulltimestudent inmaking little or no difference to our daily lives, comes the claim that most of our human genome is not functional.. dan graur an (evolutionary) biologist at the university of houston and other academics made the claim in a paper published in an online journal, genome biology and evolution.. the group's calculations suggest that not more than 25% of the human genome is functional - the rest is seen as 'junk' dna,.
see science dailys coverage of the report at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170714140234.htm .
coverage of similar research at the uk's oxford university (reported in the guardian aust.
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never a jw
Perry: "80 percent of the genome has a “biochemical function"
80%, 10 % or 100%, what difference does it make? It's a DNA that has been forming gradually for more than 3 billion years. Whether there's a creator or not behind this long process, the Bible can't offer a reliable account of anything, especially about the beginnings of human life.
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My story...
by ironsnake656 ini would like to share my brief experience about my life from liberal jw to a ex-jw.
as i told you in my first post, i'm from juarez, mexico.
i'm second generation born-in, well not really... my mother knew jwland in 1968 and a year later, she got baptized.
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Ray "Never a jw I'm taking physics too"
I took my last class 30 years ago, but I never stopped loving math and its favorite child, physics. For the last few years I have been relearning my math and physics to help my children. Unfortunately, for me, they both are off to college and their brains are running faster than mine.
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My story...
by ironsnake656 ini would like to share my brief experience about my life from liberal jw to a ex-jw.
as i told you in my first post, i'm from juarez, mexico.
i'm second generation born-in, well not really... my mother knew jwland in 1968 and a year later, she got baptized.
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never a jw
Interesting story. We have different religious backgrounds, but we share the same birth place. I was born and raised some 400 km south of Juarez. We also share a love for education and learning. I have read all those "apostate" books that you have read.
Regarding psychology, it never interested me until I did some research in my wife's religion.What a discovery on how the human mind can believe so much BS!! Now I value psychology a lot more than I did when I was taking my math and physics classes. Psychology may not be 100% objective, but is quite useful in understanding cults
How is el Noa, Noa?
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First Humans May Have Been European
by cofty inthe fossil record of early hominins in africa is very well established with patterns of later migrations into asia and europe.
the hypothesis is sometimes referred to as "out of africa".. however a new paper from researchers at the university of toronto describes two fossil specimens of an even earlier ancestor graecopithecus freybergi who lived 7.2 million years ago, putting it close to our common ancestor with chimpanzees.
crucially these fossils were not discovered in africa but in greece and bulgaria.. the team are proposing that environmental changes that led to the formation of the sahara pushed the ancestors of graecopithecus freybergi further north towards the eastern mediterranean where the chimp-human split occurred.. this hypothesis is likely to be controversial for all sorts of reasons!.
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Hell no. I have faith that the first humans came from Chihuahua, Mexico. Then later some of them cross the Atlantic to Europe. Enough of this euro-centric view that poisons everything.
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A judge in Mexico authorizes blood transfusion to a JW raramuri girl...
by ironsnake656 ini everyone, this is my new and first post.
i have like 4 years reading all the stuff in this forum and i like it!!!!
thank you for all your information that helped me to get out from the jwland.
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My ancestors are Tarahumaras. So she may be a distant cousin. It's great that judges are not putting up with this non-sensical right to kill under the protection of freedom of religion.
Are you from Chihuahua? That happens to be "mi tierra natal" Born in Cuauhtémoc, raised in Anahuac, high school and university in Chihuahua.
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North Korea viral video and JW Comparison.
by pleaseresearch ini watched this video yesterday from this brave young north korean woman.
hearing her share her experiences living in her country and what the people go through on a day to day basis is so very similar to jws today and how we lived.. please watch and tell me your thoughts.. thank you.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ijj3insyk.
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Simon: "everyone thinks the time they got served a Starbucks that had slightly not enough milk in it is exactly like the Nazi concentration camps ..."
To prove that the opening piece is ridiculous you make a ridiculous analogy. The comparison of North Korea and JW's is valid as long as there are some caveats. But your analogy is definitely ridiculous.
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Hello from Illinois
by Rob206 ini come from a catholic background, but most recently had been with the churches of christ.
i have contacted my local congregation and will be talking with someone tomorrow, hopefully setting a study up for next week.
i want to study scripture, but also want to immerse myself in everything jw publishes.
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I think Bart D. Ehrman is a good, easy start. Go to your library and get any of his books.
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Hello from Illinois
by Rob206 ini come from a catholic background, but most recently had been with the churches of christ.
i have contacted my local congregation and will be talking with someone tomorrow, hopefully setting a study up for next week.
i want to study scripture, but also want to immerse myself in everything jw publishes.
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never a jw
You need some mental cleaning. It takes years and a lot of study, yes, deep biblical studies. Go to your library and find some books on the Bible studies written by the people who know the Bible, bible scholars.
By the way, there are some decent Catholic bible scholars. They just never tell you what they know in your Sunday mass. For a good reason, the stuff they keep from you is the stuff that will drive you away from mass. It's your job to find out what that is.