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  What's The First "Worldly" Thing You Did When You Exited The Cult?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when you finally and officially exited the cult, whether it be by disfellowshipping, disassociating or fading - what was the first things you did that are considered "worldly"?.

  for me, it was like crash landing on another planet that looked like earth but was completely different to the earth i knew.

  i wanted to learn everything that i thought i already knew.. first things i did:.

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  EdenOne

  First worldly thing I did when I exited ... I played the Euromillions lottery :) There was a huge jackpot that week. I figured that If i win, then my decision had Yahweh's blessing :P
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  Canadian Medical Doctor Exposes Dr. Aryeh Shander's Faulty Bloodless Research

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  in the june 2016 issue of cmaj, dr. hebert published an article, survival without transfusion is possible but not recommended for all, that critiques dr. aryeh shander's research study outcomes of protocol-driven care of critically ill severely anemic patients for whom blood transfusion is not an option, published in critical care medicine 2016. .

  http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/citation/2016/06000/survival_without_transfusion_is_possible_but_not.31.aspx.

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26807684.

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  EdenOne

  Thank you for this great piece of information, OC.

  Once again, the stench of something rotten can't be avoided when someone notices the alliance between the WT and the "bloodless surgery" industry. I wonder who's using who.
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  Latest Ancient Coin - 660 Year Old Fourpence

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. physical

  after a very quiet couple of hours detecting this afternoon i was chuffed to find this silver coin.. it is a groat of edward iii of england.

  for a long time the only coin available was the silver penny.

  if you wanted to spend half a penny or a quarter you literally cut it up.

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  Cool find.

  I'm about to pull the trigger and order a Minelab X-Terra 705 with a few extras. I'm ordering it from a UK shop, JoanAllen.
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  Found Another Medieval Coin This Evening

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i got in an hour metal detecting this evening and found this almost immediately.. it is a silver penny of henry ii minted in london by "davi" between 1180 and 1189. this adds a king i didn't have in my collection.

  i now have the series of henry ii - john - henry iii - edward i - edward ii - edward iii.. i now need richard the lionheart to fill in the gap.

  he was the brother of john and reigned after the death of henry ii.

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  BTW, there appears to be a new v4.0 version of the XP DEUS detector with a new coil that will be 12cm x 24cm or approximately 4.7" x 9.5" which is very close to the standard established for VLF gold prospecting detectors. This new coil via the V4 software will enable operation at 10 kHz, 20 kHz, 30 kHz, or 40 kHz. That sounds like a detector that can do double duty as coin/relics as well as gold detection. However it costs almost double the price of the Minelab. Is it worth the price difference? i can't find it for sale yet, btw ...
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  Found Another Medieval Coin This Evening

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i got in an hour metal detecting this evening and found this almost immediately.. it is a silver penny of henry ii minted in london by "davi" between 1180 and 1189. this adds a king i didn't have in my collection.

  i now have the series of henry ii - john - henry iii - edward i - edward ii - edward iii.. i now need richard the lionheart to fill in the gap.

  he was the brother of john and reigned after the death of henry ii.

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  Cofty, I'm seriously considering purchasing a Minelab X-Terra 705 Dual Pack. I want to look for coins and relics but there are also promising areas with ancient gold mines so I would like to try my luck with gold nuggets as well. As I understand this is a reasonable compromise between the two. Do you have any experience with this?
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  Directed panspermia - a plausible theory of intelligent design?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have just read an interesting article by astrobiologist jacob haq-misra.. in this article he describes a process called "directed panspermia" as a plausible way that one form of intelligent design - one not related with religious driven agendas involving theism - could be involved in the process by which life developed on earth and possibly in other planets as well.. sounds like a speculation that's worth entertaining.

  your thoughts?.

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  Sure, it's only speculative thinking. But a lot of great scientific discoveries started out as speculations too. It could be a viable path of future investigation. Also I agree that it doesn't quite answer the question of how and where and when life originated in the universe - it just pushes the horizon line further into the past. But as I said, it would settle once and for all the question whether life appeared on Earth by special creation acts of a deity or deities - thus rendering false all accounts of creation described on religious 'holy books'.

  I don't like the implications of the word 'directed' either. Because it could have been a random event.
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  My Favouite Inappropriate Watchtower Pictures

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'd love to see you're favorite wt illustrations/photo's that they think are fine to print - but are actually kind of creepy/wierd.. .

  here's my three fave from my book of bible stories (yes, a book for children!)..

  man gets his head nailed into the floor with a tent pin by a good jehovah worshipper:.

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  EdenOne

  The cruxifixion scene at the Creation book is from a german "wordly" artist, Max Klinger, painted in 1890.

  look here
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  Directed panspermia - a plausible theory of intelligent design?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have just read an interesting article by astrobiologist jacob haq-misra.. in this article he describes a process called "directed panspermia" as a plausible way that one form of intelligent design - one not related with religious driven agendas involving theism - could be involved in the process by which life developed on earth and possibly in other planets as well.. sounds like a speculation that's worth entertaining.

  your thoughts?.

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  EdenOne

  But besides the fact that extraterrestrial life is highly speculative (as there is no evidence) you are still left with the problem of where did the extraterrestrial designers come from in the first place? Wouldn't they have had to evolve themselves? It doesn't really answer the question of where intelligent life came from.

  True, it doesn't answer that question. But it might answer where OUR earthly life came from. And it would close the case for theism - at least on OUR planet with OUR religions and OUR 'holy books' :)

  And since you mention Space Odyssey, it's more or less what's behind the plot of Carl Sagan's "Contact".
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  Directed panspermia - a plausible theory of intelligent design?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have just read an interesting article by astrobiologist jacob haq-misra.. in this article he describes a process called "directed panspermia" as a plausible way that one form of intelligent design - one not related with religious driven agendas involving theism - could be involved in the process by which life developed on earth and possibly in other planets as well.. sounds like a speculation that's worth entertaining.

  your thoughts?.

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  EdenOne

  Only problem is that the entire Intelligent Design exercise is already - and always was - intended to be a "religious-driven agenda".

  Not in this case. Have you read the article? The very assumption in which it rests is obviously at odds with the biblical account of creation.
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  Directed panspermia - a plausible theory of intelligent design?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have just read an interesting article by astrobiologist jacob haq-misra.. in this article he describes a process called "directed panspermia" as a plausible way that one form of intelligent design - one not related with religious driven agendas involving theism - could be involved in the process by which life developed on earth and possibly in other planets as well.. sounds like a speculation that's worth entertaining.

  your thoughts?.

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  EdenOne

  I have just read an interesting article by astrobiologist Jacob Haq-Misra.

  In this article he describes a process called "Directed Panspermia" as a plausible way that one form of intelligent design - one NOT related with religious driven agendas involving theism - could be involved in the process by which life developed on Earth and possibly in other planets as well.

  Sounds like a speculation that's worth entertaining. Your thoughts?