hi people,.
just dropping by at random to say hi.
i used to be here a lot, from the really early days of jwd up until 2007 or 8 i guess.
Hi people,
Just dropping by at random to say Hi.
I used to be here a lot, from the really early days of JWD up until 2007 or 8 I guess. Picking fights with idiots mostly. Kinda grew out of it.
So what's the gossip? Who's still around?
All the best.
Abaddon/Gyles
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480676/approved-closed-doors-curbs-end-centuries-press-freedom.html.
very sad...... .
metatron.
Yes, and you would believe an article by one of the papers most opposed to regulation for what reason? Come on Metaron, you read the WT and A! long enough to pick up on the loaded language, surely?
And let's make no mistake, by regulation we are talking about (for example) making newspapers more laible for unwarranted intrusions into people lives. An example is when the some of the British press systematicallym over several years hacked into the voicemail of celebrities and private individuals who had come to the attention of the press - like a 14 year-old girl who was abducted and killed and whose parents were given false hope when their daughter's voicemail was picked up (as they thought it was her, not some gutter-rat scum sucker).
We are not talking about any real restrictions on newspapers reporting real news. We are talking about protecting members of the public from tabloid newspapers who don't care whose lives they wreck if it sells some copies. And make no mistake that newpapers couldd still publish what they wanted... they would just be more accountable for their actions, and people wrongly slandered by the press would be more likely to see some justice.
The newspapers would rather self-regulate, which is a bit like sharks self-regulating if it is bad to eat people.
This article is slightly more intelligently written, but then the Guardian is a proper newspaper, not a hate-rag:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/30/press-regulation-royal-charter-approval
found this on youtube fyi.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw8yu-r8g-8.
Farkel;
Then why did you do what was unnatural and even disgusting, you twit?
Hehehe, why is there no 'Like' button?
found this on youtube fyi.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw8yu-r8g-8.
Can we have a little less misogyny please? You can take the boy out the cult, but you can't take the cult out of the boy...
Maybe you would make comments like that if the person involved was a man... I doubt it, but I'll give you the maybe. Then you're just being unnecessarily rude.
I think the most noticable thing about her face is the SADNESS in it; she looks like she wants to cry. Given her story it is pretty obvious why.
http://sparlockthewarriorwizard.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/sparlock-and-the-simpsons/.
if rumors are true, and they generally are, then sparlock the warrior wizard is set to make a special guest appearance on an upcoming episode of the simpsons.. .
according to matt groening, the shows creator, sparlock will feature in a simpsons episode to air on thanksgiving day.
Very nice, Onion stylee...
Apostate!
Firstly their divine marshmallosities are plural. None of this single god or fire-sale three for one silliness.
Secondly, you speak of toasting them? Does not the First of Candy state, "So as they wish it be done to others so shall it be done unto them with knobs on"?
Wow. Same shit different decade.
I have not looked at a Flood thread in a long time. And they haven’t changed from the days when I used to play with the science deniers.
The same old tactics are in evidence; sheer mind-boggling ignorance, extraordinary claims without the evidence to back it up, massive arrogance and and idolatrous level of self-satisfaction about their own opinions that means they don't need no stinkin' facts.
Bit like racists and homophobes, except these people's bias is directed towards knowledge rather than other people (well, scientists get caught in the fall out but fighting ignorance is kind of the job of sceince, so...)
I've been to Egypt and seen buildings that magically survived 'the Flood', which musta kinda been a stealth 'Flood' as the Egyptian's quite literally went on eating, drinking and marrying when it was happening, and forgot to mention it.
Just like the dead rising from the graves around Jerusalem was forgotten about aside from one scripture that says this happened when Jesus was resurrected.
If Egypt’s too far for y’all, there are trees alive in California today that were growing on any possible date for the Flood, that could not have possibly survived it.
Add that in to the absence of any credible geological support for the ‘Flood’, the fact, as Terry points out ‘da maths don’t work’, the fact that any the Ark would have suffocated its occupants and been unable to cope with the mountains of shit even a modest estimate of the number of ‘kinds’ that would have been aboard let alone carry the required fodder… all ignored, or magiced away with god didit, even if they have to make claims not made in scripture, which Revelation expressly forbids people from doing...
Even the bits which kind-of show it was a STORY (survived the flood, first thing Noah does is KILL SOME ANIMALS FROM A VERY LIMITED STOCK TO SYA THANK YOU TO GOD, conservationist EPIC FAIL) are ignored.
Special pleading and extraordinary claims are deployed (the Himalayas grew in a few centuries, magic atmospheric layers the water could exist before the ‘Flood’ if you don’t engage with the laws of physics too strongly, etc..) but these people’s paradigms of belief mean that as they reached their beliefs without the benefit of scientific reasoning scientific reasoning will not persuade them to change their beliefs. It is like explaining algebra to a duck. Pointless, frustrating, and annoying.
From experience those that lurk and are not quite as bat-shit all out to not use their supposedly god-given mind are the ones who do benefit, not the ones who defend Biblical bullshit. They actually do take stuff on board.
Some even realise the irony is that people who supposedly want to worship god actually end up worshipping a book. But that book gives them closure and certainty, which is more important to them than updating their version of reality to allow for a belief in god and science, which loads of people have.
And by doing so they start to worship their own opinions rather than reason.
By way of example I can assert that giant marshmallows ruled the Earth 3,000 years ago and will return to take all true believers to candyland.
I know this by divine marshmallow revelation and am writing a holy book on iPads (with a crayon). Yes, I know other people claim divine revelation that contradicts mine but they are wrong. I know there is no evidence, but marshmallows do not leave fossil evidence and after they left there was a conspiracy to write-them out of history.
See? Come up with some bullshit and just explain away anything that contradicts it.
Another good example is provided by djeggnog: he ends up by claiming that the fact we are here proves he is right.
No mate, the fact you are here proves we really do share a common ancestor with primates.
hi everyone.
as a parting gift to you all before i take a much needed break from this forum, i thought you would be pleased to know that the independent, a leading uk newspaper, will be publishing a piece on the "mentally diseased" watchtower article in tomorrow's edition.. i would like to thank everybody who has assisted the journalist, jerome taylor, in his investigation.. best wishes to all of you,.
cedars.
Up to 585 comments... a prize to anyone who guess the handle I am using :-)
One apologist was spamming with the same post over and over and over and the mod very kindly deleted them all - I did request this but it was such blatent trolling I can;t imagine they'd of missed it...
hi everyone.
as a parting gift to you all before i take a much needed break from this forum, i thought you would be pleased to know that the independent, a leading uk newspaper, will be publishing a piece on the "mentally diseased" watchtower article in tomorrow's edition.. i would like to thank everybody who has assisted the journalist, jerome taylor, in his investigation.. best wishes to all of you,.
cedars.
The page is sometime coming up unavailable; it pops up again if you refresh, but that should give you an idea about the number of people reading this around the world.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_id=27686
.... where to start??????
how about what was missing from the article... like a reliable dating method by two sources?.
OK, it appears to be a real fossil, but boy oh boy...
They located the dinosaur’s skull the following day. Jordan Hall was digging with a pick axe when he hit bone and a piece flew up toward Taylor’s ear. Taylor caught the flying bone fragment, examined it and recognized sinus cavities in it.
Taylor was not happy about the sloppy work Pete and his sons had done. The vertebral column had been badly undercut, and, fearing damage, he was furiously repacking dirt beneath the fragile bones. To all within earshot, particularly the DeRosas, Taylor explained that paleontologists never remove dirt from directly under dinosaur bones until they are encased in plaster, stressing that without the support they could easily break.
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Perhaps the saddest thing about this situation is the tragically missed opportunity to glorify God it represents for the Creationist Movement. All too typically in the Christian community, what began in unity ended in disagreement and division, and, instead of benefiting all the groups involved and contributing significantly to the creation science, this God-given opportunity was used to enhance the work of a selfish few and received scant attention from genuine creation scientists. If the kind of selfishness and infighting characterized by this episode continues to take place when a valuable fossil is found by members of the body of Christ, it is likely that creationists will have little to contribute to the debate between creation and evolution for decadesto come, at least when it comes to the field of paleontology—often called the most evolutionistic of the sciences
http://documents.raisingthetruth.com/Chapter2/AllosaurusTBeh.pdf
In short, the allosaur was discovered in part a year earlier, a fee-paying expedition to 'find an allosaur' was organised the following year, the dig was done incompetently, and it all descended into a snarling mess. This website documents the entire mess: http://www.raisingthetruth.com
