LOL, he just couldn't say "no".... instead of "Er, uhhhhh that would depend on..... ummmmm.... how do I put this...."
Leolaia
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a JW caught on video with foot-in-mouth disease!
by moshe inthis brother really digs a hole for himself--.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybhw9bc-kc0&feature=related.
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Evolution of languages
by oldlightnewshite inhere's an interesting tidbit from the yahoo website, about the evolution of languages, all threading from a common ancestor about 8,000 years ago.
could be a good thing to talk about to help family members realise ttatt...... tower of babel my arse.. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/english-language-began-turkey-180502182.html.
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Leolaia
Here is the cladistic analysis (from 2009, published in Science) for the Austronesian languages:
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Evolution of languages
by oldlightnewshite inhere's an interesting tidbit from the yahoo website, about the evolution of languages, all threading from a common ancestor about 8,000 years ago.
could be a good thing to talk about to help family members realise ttatt...... tower of babel my arse.. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/english-language-began-turkey-180502182.html.
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Leolaia
No, Hungarian belongs to the Uralic family of languages (which include Estonian and Finnish). Proto-Uralic has a similar time depth as Proto-Indo-European, and the Nostratic hypothesis regards Proto-Uralic, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Afro-Asiatic, and other protolanguages (including Proto-Dravidian and Proto-Kartvelian) as descended from an original Proto-Nostratic.
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Leolaia
LoisLane.....The info is all here, enjoy: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/77915/29/Rutherford-Exposed-The-Story-of-Berta-and-Bonnie#3764414
EndofMysteries....It is provenanced to former Bethelites William & Joan Cetnar who published it in "An Inside View of the the Watchtower Society" in 1983 (p. 72 of Questions for Jehovah's Witnesses). Their source surely would have been the Moyles, who left the Society shortly after the letter was written.
The letter was written en route during Rutherford's 1938 trip to Australia. The trip is discussed on pp. 447-448 of Proclaimers. Among Rutherford's entourage included Bonnie Boyd Heath, William Heath, Berta Peale, and his son Malcolm Rutherford and his wife Pauline.
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does the watchtower still believe this?
by lastchance inquestions from readers ?
some animals have characteristics that seem especially suited to killing, such as lions and poisonous snakes.
how can this be, if they were all vegetarians at one time?l.
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Leolaia
Is there anyone on the earth who can say from personal observation how these animals acted six thousand years ago?
Well, one could start with the Battlefield Palette from 3100 BC:
Then one could observe Paleolithic cave paintings of predation, such as the the following depiction from c. 30000 BC of a pride of lions hunting bison:
Then one could look at fossils of animals in the gutt of extinct carnivorous animals, including dinosaurs:
Of course, one does not need to look for direct evidence of dietary behavior; it should be clear that animals like tyrannosaurs, sharks, and smilodons were physically equipped to be predators.
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YouTube and Fair Use exceptions
by King Solomon inthis is posted as information hopefully helpful for those who've posted sparlock videos, or other ip (intellectual property) which is owned by wtbts, and have received a dmca takedown notice from youtube (yt).. i host many vids on yt, and have much first-hand experience with the dreaded dmca takedown process, largely thanks to a video that was posted by me years ago that gets alot of traffic (currently 700k hits) and is subject to recurring take-downs notices from nbc universal (it is an snl skit that i use as a launching point for a discussion of the principles of sexual harrassment law.
nbc universal has a huge skyscraper in l.a./n.y., teeming with ip lawyers: this is what they do to earn their keep).
i've talked to ip lawyers, just to make sure i understood the process (which is easy to handle yourself).. disclaimer: i am not a lawyer: spend your own $$$ on legal advice, if you are in doubt.. the first thing to realize is that the takedown process largely is automated by yt, wherein content owners (networks, movie studios, corporations, etc) submit a dvd or video footage of their protected work(s), which is automatically screened against existing and uploaded yt user videos looking for a finger-print "match" of the footage.
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Leolaia
A famous Youtube video about fair use (by Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University) made entirely with Disney clips....online since 2007:
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When You Were A Witness Did You Ever Celebrate A Birthday or Holidays?
by minimus ini knew some families that celebrated "family day" on christmas eve or some time around the holiday.. i don't know of too many witnesses that actually celebrated but kinda came close....haha.
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Leolaia
Yeah. UBM FTW!!
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Evolution of languages
by oldlightnewshite inhere's an interesting tidbit from the yahoo website, about the evolution of languages, all threading from a common ancestor about 8,000 years ago.
could be a good thing to talk about to help family members realise ttatt...... tower of babel my arse.. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/english-language-began-turkey-180502182.html.
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Leolaia
That's an uninformed counter. There is absolutely no evidence that all languages originated in Mesopotamia in c. 2250 BC; indeed the linguistic evidence is flatly against it. As I pointed out, the article only concerns the Indo-European language family which just so happens to have originated geographically near the ANE. What about other language families which had their Urheimat nowhere near Mesopotamia? There are many in the Americas and Asia, as well as Africa. They also have similar time depth: the Austronesian family originated in Taiwan about 6,000 years ago. We know this from both archaeological evidence (pertaining to the migration of the Austronesian-speaking peoples into Taiwan and then into Indonesia and the Pacific) and linguistic evidence (the majority of Austronesian languages come from just one branch of Proto-Austronesian, all the other major early branches are Formosan languages, and the closest relatives of Austronesian are the Tai-Kadai languages in Southeast Asia). The situation is similar with the Indo-European languages. The cladistic analysis given in the new Science article has all non-Anatolian Indo-European languages branching off in a single branch (iirc the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals are preserved only by the Anatolian languages), the time depth required to connect the various branches together is about 8,000 years, and the migration of younger daughter families through Europe and South Asia point to an Urheimat in Anatolia (Turkey):
We can see that around 2250 BC, there were multiple Indo-European families already in existence, including multiple Anatolian languages. The earliest written evidence of Hittite (in the Akkadian texts from Kültepe) dates to around 1850 BC, and this was just one of many Anatolian languages. And this doesn't even count all the other languages that were attested before 2250 BC. In Mesopotamia itself, we have evidence of Akkadian (a Semitic language) as far back as 2600 BC (in the form of PNs) and Sumerian (a language isolate) as far back as 3100 BC. Outside of Mesopotamia, the earliest written evidence of Egyptian goes back to 3400 BC. Akkadian, moreover, was only a form of East Semitic and was a daughter language of a prior Proto-Semitic. A similar analysis for Proto-Semitic done in 2009 points to an origin around 3700 BC:
And Proto-Semitic was itself a daughter language within a larger Afro-Asiatic family; ancient Egyptian was itself a cousin. Dates for the breakup of Proto-Afro-Asiatic vary considerably because the evidence is less clear on account of the great time depth; estimates range between 16000 and 7500 BC, with most converging around a date c. 11000 BC. Then there is the unsettled question of whether Proto-Afro-Asiatic was itself part of a larger Nostratic language family (with Proto-Indo-European as a younger cousin of Proto-Afro-Asiatic). If such a language existed (and the question is controversial), then the date of Proto-Nostratic would take us back into the Pleistocene epoch.
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Evolution of languages
by oldlightnewshite inhere's an interesting tidbit from the yahoo website, about the evolution of languages, all threading from a common ancestor about 8,000 years ago.
could be a good thing to talk about to help family members realise ttatt...... tower of babel my arse.. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/english-language-began-turkey-180502182.html.
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Leolaia
This does not concern all languages, only those in the Indo-European family. I'm surprised at the time depth of 8,000 years, that's greater than earlier estimates.
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Favorite LAST episode to the ending of series drama or sitcom?
by dreamgolfer in1) mine, newhart show #2 - when "bob" wakes up and and said he had a dream he was running an inn in new hampshire.
and it is suzzane pleshette next to him.
still can't get it outta my little noggin.
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Leolaia
Oh...how could I forget the Larry Shaders Show finale. I mean, what show could have a finale that itself remarked about other shows' finales, and have Jim Carrey in the episode begging for the series (or rather the series within the series) to stay on the air (scroll to 1:08):
