Posts by Rivergang

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Climate propaganda

by neat blue dog in

gotta love jwdotorg as usual regurgitating the financially/politically motivated (and thoroughly disproved) climate change propaganda:.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/ruining-the-earth-bible-meaning-hope/.

Rivergang

There has been considerable speculation about the role of volcanoes in the release to the atmosphere of greenhouse gases.

Going by the example of the Mt Pinatubo eruption (Philippines, 1991), the short term effect of a major volcanic event is to in fact cause lower temperatures. That volcanoes release large quantities of sulphur is self-evident to anybody who has ever been in a volcanic area (For example, the city of Rotorua in New Zealand's Volcanic Plateau, throughout which the "rotten egg" smell of hydrogen sulphide gas permeates everything!).

This results in an "aerosol" of fine particles of sulphuric acid in the atmosphere, which reflect the sun's rays - see the following link to a CSIRO discussion about this effect, and the result it has on surface temperatures.

(CSIRO = Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

Volcanic eruptions and climate change (csiro.au)

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Climate propaganda

by neat blue dog in

gotta love jwdotorg as usual regurgitating the financially/politically motivated (and thoroughly disproved) climate change propaganda:.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/ruining-the-earth-bible-meaning-hope/.

Rivergang

Sea Breeze,

Not sure why that article you quote includes a link to NASA, because if you follow that NASA link, it mentions nothing about Arctic sea ice being greater in extent in 2021 than in 2007? Rather, it confirms that the area under sea ice in the Arctic (as measured each September) has consistently decreased every year from 1979 until the present.

FEE writes:

In 2021, the Arctic sea ice extent was 4.72 million square kilometers, about 11 percent more than the 4.16 million kilometers in 2007, according to NASA’s estimates.

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Climate propaganda

by neat blue dog in

gotta love jwdotorg as usual regurgitating the financially/politically motivated (and thoroughly disproved) climate change propaganda:.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/ruining-the-earth-bible-meaning-hope/.

Rivergang

Solar activity is something else which also affects the earth's climate. (For example, where I grew up, the annual rainfall peaks with the 11 year sunspot cycles. During a peak year in sunspot activity, 97 inches of rainfall in just a three month period is not at all uncommon).

For those who are interested, though, the following discussion outlines why it is thought that the current warming trend is not the result of increased solar activity.

Is the Sun causing global warming? – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet (nasa.gov)

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Climate propaganda

by neat blue dog in

gotta love jwdotorg as usual regurgitating the financially/politically motivated (and thoroughly disproved) climate change propaganda:.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/ruining-the-earth-bible-meaning-hope/.

Rivergang

Further discussion from NASA, re. the Milankovitch Cycles

https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/2949/why-milankovitch-orbital-cycles-cant-explain-earths-current-warming/

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"Jehovah God"

by Jeffro in

the expression "jehovah god" has always seemed strange to me.

even when i was a jw, i found the term awkward, and never used it myself.

both words are nouns intended to be synonyms of each other, unless the name "jehovah" is being used as an adjective, which is also weird.

Rivergang

The results of the latest census in Australia reveal that under the heading of “Religious Affiliations”, those that state their Religious Affiliations as “Non Religious” are in the clear majority (over 38%)

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Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

"for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

Rivergang

Looking at these census results in another way, out of the Top Five "Religious Affiliations", the non-religious (aka "Bush Baptists") now lead the list at 38.9%, with the Catholic Church second at 20%, Anglican Church third at 9.8%, Islam at 3.2% and Hinduism at 2.7%.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/cultural-diversity-census/2021#:~:text=Media%20releases-,Key%20statistics,during%20the%20Census%20collection%20period.

Also of note is the percentage of the population who are foreign-born, at 27.6% With one in every four of the population born outside of Australia, "migrant - bashing" might not be a healthy occupation! (To say nothing of a hypocritical one).

On a concluding note, it is good to see how well my "church" is faring - i.e. the one of which I was a member of before becoming a JW, and the one I have been with ever since I gave that lot away.

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Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

"for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

Rivergang

I believe in earlier times those in this category were known as "Bush Baptists!"

There were always a few of them around.

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Has Anyone Had any JWs PHYSICALLY Put Their Hands On You (And Not Within A Family Unit Situation)?

by HiddlesWife in

i was asking the above question because a pomo friend of my family told me about an incident involving her and a couple of dubs who were physically abusive in the past.. a single sister who was running around from one cong to another cong looking for a husband.

she was visiting my friend's cong for less than a year.

there was a commuter bethellite bro who was very friendly towards my friend (which i'll call her "q") and her fam members.

Rivergang

What Simon observed.

JWs are no more immune from that sort of thing than anybody else. (I have heard of some very fiery rows breaking out in the Australian branch office).

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Big Win in Supreme Court of the U.S. today for all of the 2nd Amendment folks

by StoneWall in

jw
friends

i'm so happy about this.this will have major implications for states such as california and their laws not only new york.let freedom ring!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv70otfd8ck.

Rivergang

Well, during in my time in a certain cess-pit of Third World violence, I saw several alternatives to that.

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Big Win in Supreme Court of the U.S. today for all of the 2nd Amendment folks

by StoneWall in

jw
friends

i'm so happy about this.this will have major implications for states such as california and their laws not only new york.let freedom ring!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv70otfd8ck.

Rivergang

I lived for several decades in a certain crime-ridden Third World country, whose capital city is regarded as one if the more dangerous places in the world. Furthermore, some of its outlying districts - such as the one I lived in - are even worse. In common with most expatriates who have experienced that country, I could go on all day with stories which fit the category of “The truth is stranger than fiction.”

From that experience, I have serious reservations about the level of protection afforded by carrying a firearm on ones person.

The only persons whom I knew who got shot were both carrying a 9mm automatic (which both of them knew well how to use).

Maybe the Australian country singer John Williamson got it right in one of his songs - a stanza of which reads “ The way to get shot is to carry a gun”.