Saintbertholdt

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  A question on natural selection

  by The Rebel in

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  last friday my boy of ten was very late back from school, so i called the school, they called the police, and to cut a long horrible exsperience short he had been helping a younger boy fly his kite.. but what has occurred to me is that when orlando was 5 years old he was totally dependent on mummy and daddy, whilst horses, cats, birds and other animals are born and are independent within days.. so my question on natural selection is, how are we humuns still here?.

  the rebel..

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  These offspring are termed precocial (hence 'precocious'). Species which produce precocial young are typically herbivores that must grow up quickly to avoid being eaten by predators. Within a few hours of being born, young zebra and wildebeest can run and keep up with the herd.

  Yeah and there's another thing with precocial species. Their brains are pretty much hard wired (mostly instinct). Human babies on the other hand have all the brain hardware but its not all wired up yet. This is because the wiring can change depending on the environment. What and how one learns is determined by the surroundings.

  Some species have few offspring and invest lots of time nurturing them, ...

  The whole thing is a tradeoff. Do you want to reproduce with thousands of offspring which are hard wired but cannot really learn a lot of new things. Or do you want few offspring which require a lot of nurture but can learn and adapt to new surroundings.
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  LOOK! Something new and shiny!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  isn't it amazing just how easily distracted the average witness is?.

  with the flood of stuff being produced and uploaded on the website, from embarrassing corny videos and songs, to music for kids, to cartoons etc, the average witness has no time to actually stop and think about the actual doctrines or facts about the organisation.

  nor the past, nor the scandals being exposed by real news outlets and media.

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  Its like being force fed fast food designed to keep them from getting hungry...and to prevent them from looking for real substance....

  Before I left I felt that the spiritual feast was just cold gruel. Gruel gruel every day.

  Gruel soup. Gruel with mash. Gruel souffle. Gruel casserole. Left over Gruel. Gruel pudding.

  Today witnesses get double cheese burgers with fries and even get it intravenously force fed to them.

  God's fiery chariot now comes standard with Bluetooth and a 4G connection.

  What an age we live in.
  
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  Gay Jihadis?!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  apparently, aseel muthana, a yemeni-british man from cardiff, was radicalized to follow his elder brother to travel to da'ish.. he was encouraged by forhad rahman and two other extremists.

  according to the gay times, muthana and rahman exchanged flirty texts, with rahman alledgedly calling muthana a welsh cutie.. when police arrested the three extremists for supporting terrorism, they tried to stop the text exchanges from being made public, out of concern for aseel muthana's safety - what with him travelling to da'ish, the possible gay nature of the texts, and da'ish's hatred for gay people.. i don't know if this is true, but it seems as if it is.

  where to start?.

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  This world is full of strange yet interesting individuals.

  
  
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  Astounding! How much do you REALLY know the history of the Jehovah's Witnesses? I bet you DID NOT know about this!

  by park ave boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  quick background.

  a few days ago someone brought up an old new york newspaper called the "brooklyn eagle.

  " during lunch i had a little time to do some research about the whole jw.borg and what i found almost knocked me out of my seat.

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  The Brooklyn Eagle has been snarky to the Watchtower ever since the Miracle Wheat trial. If I remember correctly (I might be wrong) they were in a quite gloating mood when they reported on the UN debacle over 90 years later.

  LOL... My granddaddy was a NY newspaper man, and he had it in for Russell after Russell sued. I'm his great grand daughter and by gum I'm going to keep up the tradition!
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  Karma kind of makes me smile.......am I bad?

  by KateWild in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today at work one of the clients that came in for advice was an elder and his wife.

  they must be having issues they need help with.

  this elder was the elder that told us not to go to a domestic violence shelter or not to go to the police when my daughter got a black eye.. am i bad because i smiled inside that they are having problems?.

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  Am I bad because I smiled inside that they are having problems?

  Schadenfreude is pretty human.

  What is strange though is that the Germans have an actual word for it :)
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  Good NYT article on gravitational waves discovery

  by done4good in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=homepage&clicksource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&wt.nav=top-news&_r=0.

  probably the biggest find since the higgs.. d4g.

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  Hi sparrowdown,

  I'm still sticking to Morgan Freeman. Picture the scene, a sailboat on a clear lake. Morgan's silky smooth voice narrates:

  Visualize the luffing of a sail as a sailboat comes about or tacks. The waves in the sail’s fabric are similar in many ways to gravitational waves, but instead of sailcloth fabric, gravitational waves move through a “fabric” of space. Einstein called this fabric the “space-time continuum” in his 1916 work known as General Relativity. Although this theory is very sophisticated, the concept is relatively simple.

  Scene cuts to a busy New York intersection:
  

  This fabric is four dimensional. It has the three usual dimensions of space—east-west, north-south, and up down—plus the fourth dimension of time. Here is an example: we define a location on this “fabric” as 5th Street and Third Avenue on the forth floor at 9 AM. We can’t see this “fabric,” just as we can’t see wind, sound, or gravity for that matter. Nevertheless, those elements are real, and so is this “fabric.” If we could generate ripples in this space-time fabric, many applications would become available to us. Much like radio waves can be used to transmit information through space, we could use gravitational waves to perform similar functions...

  To be continued...in 2019
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  Good NYT article on gravitational waves discovery

  by done4good in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=homepage&clicksource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&wt.nav=top-news&_r=0.

  probably the biggest find since the higgs.. d4g.

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  It's not real until it's been explained to me in simple terms by Morgan Freeman.
  
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  Waves in Gravity detected, another lucky hit?

  by prologos in

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  gravity waves sound like a special kind of sound, so is this another lucky hit in the otherwise discredited bible?

  gen i: 3,6,9,"said" like in acoustics?

  note the subject area, and be objective.

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  Sound pressure waves require a medium like water or a solid.

  See the movie tagline: "In space no one can hear you scream."

  Gravity waves do not require a medium and can propagate in a total vacuum.

  There's also a vast difference in speed of propagation between sound and gravity waves.

  So no gravity waves are not like sound waves.
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  A JW experience

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is a quick experience i have recently had and i have two questions at the end.. a couple of weeks ago, the dogs were barking at the gate on saturday morning and wouldn't you know it, it was some witnesses.

  there was a father with his lovely wife and their young daughter.

  the father did all the talking as mother and daughter just dutifully smiled and watched.

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  Out of curiosity, which scripture did he read, by the way?

  Daniel 2:44

  You basically ruined the presentation he prepared by going off script
  

  Oh yes I forgot, the householder has to agree :)
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  A JW experience

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is a quick experience i have recently had and i have two questions at the end.. a couple of weeks ago, the dogs were barking at the gate on saturday morning and wouldn't you know it, it was some witnesses.

  there was a father with his lovely wife and their young daughter.

  the father did all the talking as mother and daughter just dutifully smiled and watched.

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  Saintbertholdt

  Hi jookbeard,

  So would you then say that counter arguments to their preaching have just become so much more sophisticated?