Posts by Satanus

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If man evolved?

by tornapart in

i know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.

however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?

surely there'd have been many billions by then?.

More and more, it is recognized that the earliest humans were as smart from their beginning, as they are today. They didn't need to learn to be smart. What they did need to learn was all the other things that make civilzation successful. The tough conditions and lack of accumulated, useful knowledge were their handicaps. Seems, they were faced w a hand to mouth, day to day existence as the staus quo for thousands of yrs. If they don't know any better, they don't do any better - kind of like many people today. Its our nature, as it was theirs.

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I don't get it ... 80% of people in Oklahoma DON'T have a Tornado Shelter. Are they nuts ????

by RubaDub in

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i really don't understand.

how can any homeowner in his right mind, not have a tornado shelter ???

i understand that some people live in apartments and condos, but someone with any size yard (even a driveway) could have a shelter.. to me it's a no-brainer.

Satanus

In a mobile home park (trailer park), one lot could be set aside to be used for a shelter for the residents. A container could be used for this; anchored to a concrete pad, anchored into the ground. Either the park owners or the municiple govt or state govt would need to be involved. Noone would take the responsibility or spend the money (the residents likely don't have the money), unless legislation forced them to. Just a thought.

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Neanderthals, Early Modern Humans, and a Creator

by Comatose in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neanderthal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cro-magnon.

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102011413#h=8:0-9:682. were neanderthals like us?.

Satanus

moshe

'The genographic project uses familytreedna to do the tests- go directly to them, save money and match up with your lost ancestors/cousins in their huge database- it worked for me.'

Is this something that works without you having to send in dna? Can a person freely access their data base?

S

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More piks of rural North Korea from FP magazine

by fulltimestudent in

hope these can be accessed.

the american foreign policy magazine is now a pay site.

for whatever reason i could access these piks, but not other pages.

Satanus

It won't let me see. Wants mony or login.

S

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Do any of you know of a religion that does not believe in the Trinoity?

by orbison11 in

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i have such internal conflict on the trinity,,,i do not believe it,,,i dont know if it is jw brainwashing.

or if logically thinking applies here.

help :).

Satanus

Pantheists aren't trinitarian. They think everything is god.

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Mel

by glenster in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sysnkpayypk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3y_qwjjsh4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aizkz3c1ml8.

Satanus

Mel is effing crazy. I mean that in a nice way.

S

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Do some x witnesses shock you despite being one?

by Seraphim23 in

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Satanus

I was trying to fix an electric baseboard heater and i was shocked. It was a 220 volter, so a good solid shock was felt by this xjw.

S

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Oklahoma Senators Jim Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Face Difficult Options On Disaster Relief

by Pterist in

washington -- as frantic rescue missions continued monday in oklahoma following the catastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, it appeared increasingly likely that residents who lost homes and businesses would turn to the federal government for emergency disaster aid.

that could put the state's two republican senators in an awkward position.. sens.

jim inhofe and tom coburn, both republicans, are fiscal hawks who have repeatedly voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country.

Satanus

Damn socialism. Let those victims pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Buncha wusses.

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Do some x witnesses shock you despite being one?

by Seraphim23 in

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Satanus

Back, when i professed christianity, just after leaving the wt, i took the attitude of jesus. Jesus went to anyone who needed a cure. The story goes that he came to cure the sick and broken. The sick and broken, today in our western nieghborhoods, are the drug addicted, the street people, the prostitutes, the mentally disturbed... I did try to help a few of those, for quite a while.

From my experiences there, i find what you list here as very mild and unshocking, by comparison. Ask yourself, would jesus be shocked. I think not. I think that you are working on some issues, seraphim. That is a good thing.

S

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My chat with 2 Dubs yesterday about UN membership

by jookbeard in

i live close to a resonanbly busy street, 20 odd shops banks, a train station,a couple of cafes and coffee shops etc and usually see dubs doing street work close to the station and i'm now on nodding terms with an elder who is out most days of the week and have got close to recognizing most of the hard core of about a dozen of them , i was walking out of the cafe yesterday to be greeted by a couple of newbies i'd never seen before , a scruffy short dumpy man and a fairly well presented middle aged lady, i'll try and abridge the conversation as best as i can, we must have chatted for about 15 minutes and it was all in a good mannered style;.

me " have you sold many of those this morning ?".

jw guy " oh no we dont sell them we give them away for free" (like i didn't know that).

Satanus

In his first post, he claims to be fading, says the xjw version vis a vis the un/ngo issue seems legit:

'Hi, I'm just starting to "fade", for various reasons, not least of which due in part to the U.N. thing and the comparison with say someone joining the Y.M.C.A for even just using the gym. I came across this site though while looking into it, http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/

The reasons, and rationale seem pretty legit to me..........any thoughts on the matter, after reading it?

Thoughts on the difference between a DPA N.G.O and an ECO/SOC N.G.A for example?

Cheers in advance.'

S