I travelled 2,500 miles this weekend to spend a day with my rock & roll band heroes and had one h&%#ll of a day and evening with them. Tonight I'm going horse riding. Breaking down stereotypes can be done no matter what the status, whether it be inside, outside or in-between.
TheOldHippie
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What are your thoughts on writing DA letters?
by mamashel inas most of you know, i have been inactive for about 2 1/2 yrs and completely out for about 7 months.
i am debating on wether or not to write a letter of da to the org or not.
in some ways i just want closure, and on the other hand i dont want to play by their rules.
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Man can live again.
by sleepy in.
i believe that it is possible for us to live again after we die.this has nothing to do with relgion it just seams to make sense to me , although it doesn't mean that we will, only that it is possible.. this is based on the following reasoning .if our conciousness us just a function of our brain,and our brain is just a pattern of atoms, then all that needs to happen is a recreation of this pattern.. computers are getting more powerful, maybe sometime in the future we could map an entire brain and recreate it in a test tube.maybe the dna of dead people could be used to recreate them.
since the specific birth of yourself happened and your particular brain was "created" there is no reason it can not happen again with the right conditions, even naturaly.. if the brain is more than just what we think it is, and has an existance like a soul or is an effect like gravity caused by the physical makeup of the brian interacting with something else , then it should still be possible to live again if the brain is recreated.. whether this will ever happen i dont know.
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TheOldHippie
Maybe, maybe ..............
But does everything have to be so useful?
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Man can live again.
by sleepy in.
i believe that it is possible for us to live again after we die.this has nothing to do with relgion it just seams to make sense to me , although it doesn't mean that we will, only that it is possible.. this is based on the following reasoning .if our conciousness us just a function of our brain,and our brain is just a pattern of atoms, then all that needs to happen is a recreation of this pattern.. computers are getting more powerful, maybe sometime in the future we could map an entire brain and recreate it in a test tube.maybe the dna of dead people could be used to recreate them.
since the specific birth of yourself happened and your particular brain was "created" there is no reason it can not happen again with the right conditions, even naturaly.. if the brain is more than just what we think it is, and has an existance like a soul or is an effect like gravity caused by the physical makeup of the brian interacting with something else , then it should still be possible to live again if the brain is recreated.. whether this will ever happen i dont know.
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TheOldHippie
I found it intriguing to read the statement that "when you have been dead and buried for a hundred million years, then one fraction of a second of eternity has elapsed". Eternity is something more than "a very long time", it not only is something differently in a quantitative sense, but also in a qualitative sense. If the Universe is eternal, goes on and on forever, and time too, then everything which it is possible to imagine, everything conceavable, will happen - and so we WILL live again ................
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Primordial soup can it be simulated?
by haujobbz ini was wondering has anyone been able to simulate how life started in the primordial soup.
someone told me it was tested by stanley miller and it couldnt be reproduced, is this correct or has anyone else proved this theory.
also the jws used this to prove this theory wrong in the creator that cares book but does that really prove it was wrong.
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TheOldHippie
Yep, Jan - for once, your way of talking to me was civilized .............. Things are improving .......
I've bought a couple of Scherer's books, a German biologist who is also an anti-Darwinist or anti-evolutionist, and whose text books are used in quite anumber of schools in Germany, and I've bought Denton's books and Behe's. I think I'll try to really make a go at it this winter, and see what comes out next spring. I guess I still have a few more good years to reads, before the evening darkness starts sinking down on me.
One kind of gets overwhelmed as years go by, or tired, or disillusioned, or whatever. Starts reading junk books in stead. Or starts learning new languages just to have something to do in stead of reconsidering the fundamentals.
A glass of whiskey every evening, to be able to sleep .............
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If You're No Longer An Elder Or M.S.-- You're Zero
by minimus inone of the most interesting things about no longer being a m.s.
or elder is that when the circuit overseer comes around to visit, no mention is ever made of the person.
it's like they never even existed!
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TheOldHippie
minimus, old friend, you said that "The beauty of resigning as an elder is that it was I that made the decision. I have absolutely no qualms about whether I was respected or not. I really don't care what they might think......Never have."
Beautiful, and I did the same, and the reactions were - strange, sort of not being able to believe what they had heard me say etc. I did not agree with the "contact with df'ed family members" thing, and was given some weeks to reconsider and find out what I would do if such a question should be raised again. Of course, everyone (locals and CO and branch) expected me to say that I reconsidered and would follow procedure if such a thing would happen again, in future. But, I said "No!, I'll do the same thing over again, I will not regret the past and will do the same again."
So I continued giving small service talks and having chores to do etc., but "everyone" knew such a "half-favoured position" wouldn't last, because I had stepped down and clearly told why, not just saying it was due to stress or illness or family relations or whatever. Half a year, and they hit - and hit hard.
Now, I'm silent, but I'm waiting, and I'm patient.
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ENRICO FRASSINETTI is............. a "REAL...
by enricofrassinetti inyes dears all.. i have seen that beyond 300 views, has interested about my position.. i am an anointed member from 1998 of the congregation of the jehovah's witnesses .
only after many discussions with the elders, is comes my disfellowshipping, but "the truth" must to be continued inexorably.. sincerly.
enrico frassinetti
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TheOldHippie
Would have liked to, but at first I would have liked to have a talk with the translator?
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JW's knowledgeable in details
by jurs inwhen i was a jw i was so impressed with all the research into even the tiniest of details.
i couldn't believe how smart the brothers were!!
even when i left i thought i at least i learned the bible and bible trivia well.
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TheOldHippie
Strange, isn't it, that them there tour guides after having completed their three-days course know way more than have theologians and scholars been able to mass together for centuries .................
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Primordial soup can it be simulated?
by haujobbz ini was wondering has anyone been able to simulate how life started in the primordial soup.
someone told me it was tested by stanley miller and it couldnt be reproduced, is this correct or has anyone else proved this theory.
also the jws used this to prove this theory wrong in the creator that cares book but does that really prove it was wrong.
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TheOldHippie
So let's make love, larc, not war ........................
While leaning more towards special creation than towards blind lumps of slime starting to think that "Hey! Me thinks it would be one great advantage to develop some blue eyes!", I think the road in the middle is the most probable one. Wide possibilities for micro-evolution, but within specific, set boundaries, evolving around a middle pattern somehow, and then main groups somehow created - but I most of the time am too tired and busy trying to sort it out. Much of my spare time circles around riding my horse - and man! is she stupid!
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Primordial soup can it be simulated?
by haujobbz ini was wondering has anyone been able to simulate how life started in the primordial soup.
someone told me it was tested by stanley miller and it couldnt be reproduced, is this correct or has anyone else proved this theory.
also the jws used this to prove this theory wrong in the creator that cares book but does that really prove it was wrong.
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TheOldHippie
"evolution is a fact and not questioned by any serious scientist"
Oh, I just LOVE these kinds of statements!
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JW's knowledgeable in details
by jurs inwhen i was a jw i was so impressed with all the research into even the tiniest of details.
i couldn't believe how smart the brothers were!!
even when i left i thought i at least i learned the bible and bible trivia well.
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TheOldHippie
"Jesus and his father were carpenters not of wood but stone"
Thiede discusses this in his book "Eyewitness to Jesus" (commented on in two WTs), as part of the basis for pointing to the fact that both Jesus and Joseph worked for the Romans and were well trained in the Greek language, which was then the world language. The word seemingly means something like constructors, and at the time was used for those constructing pillars and elements for aquaducts etc.