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  Interesting article on challenges to Darwinian model of evolution ...

  by EdenOne in

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  this article, published on the huffington post by stuart a. newman, shows that modern science has found that there are other mechanisms at play in nature that disprove certain tenets of the darwinian evolutionism based solely on natural selection.

  i've spoken before about the mechanisms of hybridization and their potential to introduce lasting changes, but this article speaks of other mechanisms as well.

  interesting read:.

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  Agreed, Cofty. It was an extrapolation of his ideas applied to social sciences.

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  Interesting article on challenges to Darwinian model of evolution ...

  by EdenOne in

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  this article, published on the huffington post by stuart a. newman, shows that modern science has found that there are other mechanisms at play in nature that disprove certain tenets of the darwinian evolutionism based solely on natural selection.

  i've spoken before about the mechanisms of hybridization and their potential to introduce lasting changes, but this article speaks of other mechanisms as well.

  interesting read:.

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  Ruby, social darwinism has caused as much damage to mankind as religion. Although it has fell into disfavor among the scientific community, it still survives and it's deeply engrained in neoliberal economics these days. I personally never felt Darwinism was the end-all theory of life, and these new researches open new alleys of knowledge that appear to be much more in tune with reality - or at least fill the gaps that "natural selection" couldn't explain.

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  Interesting article on challenges to Darwinian model of evolution ...

  by EdenOne in

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  2. current

  this article, published on the huffington post by stuart a. newman, shows that modern science has found that there are other mechanisms at play in nature that disprove certain tenets of the darwinian evolutionism based solely on natural selection.

  i've spoken before about the mechanisms of hybridization and their potential to introduce lasting changes, but this article speaks of other mechanisms as well.

  interesting read:.

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  This article, published on the Huffington Post by Stuart A. Newman, shows that modern science has found that there are other mechanisms at play in nature that disprove certain tenets of the Darwinian evolutionism based solely on natural selection. I've spoken before about the mechanisms of hybridization and their potential to introduce lasting changes, but this article speaks of other mechanisms as well. Interesting read:

  Link to the article

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  Advice needed on Crisis of Conscience

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, some of you may have seen my thread from yesterday about my wife waking up.. we had further discussion yesterday evening after i sent her the pbs video on the abuse scandals plaguing the watchtower.

  she was so furious and pissed off at wt hq.

  apparently a close relative of her's was abused by an elder and the only reason he was reproved and removed as an elder was because he confessed.

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  No need to rush. Let it ferment for a while. If she needs it, she will ask again. My wife didn't need to read CoC in order to make the decision to leave. The paedophilia policy of the GB did it for her and all came tumbling down in a matter of days. Nowadays she hates everything JW with even a greater passion than I do.

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  Beards are evil, but do you know why?

  by free2beme in

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  2. friends

  as a witness, i knew several men who attempted to grow beards.

  when they did, and attended meetings, it did not take long to be talked to by elders and told, "as spiritual men, they should not display an outward form of rebellion.

  " why was this a form of rebellion?

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  I have yet another theory that stems from this curious real story that happened in my country, and I've heard it told in a radio show a few years ago while a writer was being interviewed. He told this story from his days in the military:

  Because he had university studies, this man progressed quickly in the military ranks until the rank of Captain. He was transferred to a barracks unit in the south. When he got there, he was briefed by his second-lieutenant about the ins and outs of the military facility. While they were touring the facility, the second-lieutenant pointed to a wood bench right in the middle of the central square where the troops assemble. He said: "You should know, It's strictly forbidden for anyone to sit on that bench, Sir". When he was asked why, he shrug and said "I can't say for sure, but those are superior orders - no one sits on that bench". Intrigued, the Captain insisted: "How long has this order been in place?" "I don't know, but I've been here a few years already and those orders were already in place and my previous superiors were very clear that no one was to sit on that bench, and they weren't revoked yet".

  The Captain was intrigued, but didn't insist any further. However, as time went by, he noticed that everyone strictly avoided sitting on the said bench. So, one night while he was on duty and bored, he decided to go through the books of the military unit, and find out when and why the "no-seat" order had been issued. He went back nearly 25 years. Then, he found it! Written by a former Coronel, there it was, plainly stated: "FRESHLY PAINTED BENCH IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SQUARE - DO NOT SIT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE." ......

  I believe something similar happens with the beard issue. The roots go back to Rutherford's anxiety to bury the memory of Russell. Ever since those days, everyone wanted to please the "Judge", so it became something strictly enforced in the congregations, even if nobody knew exactly why. The, 'post-hoc' rationalizations came along, such as trying to tie beards with hippie counterculture and communism, therefore, rebellious spirit. It's a story that is entirely baseless from a Bible perspective, and nobody knows exactly how it came to be, or why, except to say it's "superior orders".

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  Governing Body Member Stephan Lett Lies On JW.TV

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i thought it would be important to clearly point in the recent talk by governing body member stephan lett, that he did in fact deliberately lie concerning what he described as lies and false information by apostates, concerning the organization being permissive toward people in the organization who had been involved in pedophilia.

  the truth of the matter is thats exactly what the organization has been doing and perhaps for a long time.

  the recent candace conti law suit where she was awarded 28 million dollars was levied against the wts for its irresponsible behavior by the elders who gave no notification of the accused jonathan kendrick that he had been charged with pedophilia and spent months in jail for his actions .

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  A major part of the issue here is that the Branch calls upon itself the task of determining who is a sexual predator. Notice that they differentiate between a 'molester' and a 'predator'. Positive, preemptive action will only be taken regarding a "predator", but since it's up to the Branch to decide when a 'molester' must be also considered a 'predator', the local BOE has its hands tied because the GB directives say so. In the meantime, a molester [or a predator taking advantage of the Branch's lack of expertise on the subject] has a green pass to reoffend because no special vigilance was required in the congregation. And all the GB cares about is to blame the victims and the whistleblowers - because, above all, they care for the Organization's "good name". Sick bastards.

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  A whole decade?

  by Caedes in

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  according to the new software i have been here for ten years.

  should i be getting parole around now?

  doesn't time fly when you are having fun!

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  Yes, but you're my evil twin ;)

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  Splane's Anti Catholic Rant

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a talk was given by gb member david splane in the february 2015 jw broadcasting video.

  he talks about unity and sings the praises of jws.

  he points his finger at the catholics and says this about them (39.32)-.

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  On September 28th, 1933, Martin Herbeck, delegate for Rutherford's Jehovah's Witnesses of Europe, wrote a petition that was delivered to Germany's president Von Hindenburg, the Reich's Chancellor Adolf Hitler, and to the minister-president of Prussia, stating that:

  "We have never accepted Communists or Marxists in our religious denomination. And the denomination certainly does not include any Jews. Even so, all IBSA members appreciate the National Socialist government because of the fact that Hitler and his State profess to be Christians".

  - From the book "Jehovah's Witnesses - Between Resistance and Martyrdom"

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  Splane's Anti Catholic Rant

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a talk was given by gb member david splane in the february 2015 jw broadcasting video.

  he talks about unity and sings the praises of jws.

  he points his finger at the catholics and says this about them (39.32)-.

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  EdenOne

  Brother David Splane, you should be reminded of a very inconvenient fact.

  Not only the Jehovah's Witnesses did nothing to help the Jews, which is something that you point the finger to Roman Catholics, they actively supported the Nazi regime in its anti-semitic vitriol, and, even more incredibly, scolded and disavowed any Witness who denounced Hitler's ill treatment of the Jews!

  In May of 1933, the Gestapo raided the house of a former Jehovah's Witness, Ewald Vorsteher, thinking he was still an active member. They found in his house materials denouncing the anti-semitic and inhuman objectives of the Nazi regime. When the HQ of the Witnesses in Germany realized that the Gestapo was mistakingly linking the Jehovah's Witnesses with anti-Nazi activity, they became very uncomfortable and embarrassed. So, they promptly went on to denounce Mr. Vorsteher in the harshest terms and distance themselves from any disharmony with the Nazi authorities. In a letter of January 28, 1935 to the Nazi Home Office by one of the Watchtower Society’s official representatives Hans Dollinger, it reads:

  “… I became painfully aware of the outrageousness of what this man named Vorsteher has done. I can really understand that the National Socialist state will not put up with such a thing… Never during all the years that National Socialism fought for Germany has the Bible Student’s Association tried to impair the fight. Never in any talk given, nor in written form, nor in it’s overall policies the association has given any negative statement against National Socialism. This applies to Germany… as well as to foreign countries in general.”

  It's only ironic and hypocrite that, in 1996 (Awake! June, p.4), and really to this day, the Witnesses keep actually bragging how they “courageously spoke out and exposed Nazism as the evil that it was.”

  What a bunch of opportunistic, revisionist, hypocrites!

  
  
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  Splane's Anti Catholic Rant

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a talk was given by gb member david splane in the february 2015 jw broadcasting video.

  he talks about unity and sings the praises of jws.

  he points his finger at the catholics and says this about them (39.32)-.

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  EdenOne

  One can ask just the same:

  What have the Roman Jehovah's Witnesses did for the Jews in Rome during WW2? Anything worth mentioning or that went on record?

  And what is he comparing? Catholics who did nothing to help Jews, whilst Jehovah's Witnesses "risked their lives on behalf of fellow believers..." Apples and oranges. Jehovah's Witnesses did NOTHING to help the Jews either.

  Brother Splane, you utter ignorant and hypocrite, consider, for example, Mr. Aristides de Sousa Mendes: "A Portuguese diplomat and devout Catholic, Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954) was one of the greatest heroes of World War II who disobeyed his superiors' orders to save 30,000 refugees, including over 10,000 Jews, during June 1940 while Consul General of Portugal in Bordeaux, France." So, there - here's an example of a "devout catholic" who saved the lives of 10.000 Jews who weren't even his "fellow believers". Because of his disobedience, the authorities of the Portuguese dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar made sure that he lost his job and diplomatic career, and he died in absolute poverty. Only decades after his death were his humanitarian heroic acts rediscovered and his memory rehabilitated.

  Hypocrites!

  Eden