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Evidence Regarding the Evolution of Cetaceans - Whales etc
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this excellent little video sumamrises some of the evidence for the evolutionary history of cetaceans.. if focuses on comparative anatomy, embryology, fossils and dna.. .... .

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runForever

Cofty: thanks for your opinion.
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Evidence Regarding the Evolution of Cetaceans - Whales etc
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this excellent little video sumamrises some of the evidence for the evolutionary history of cetaceans.. if focuses on comparative anatomy, embryology, fossils and dna.. .... .

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runForever

cofty I don't need to read a book when I see it coming from his mouth directly.

23:12 it looks like a small rat-deer to me. Regardless he believes some small rat like deer/wolf mammal turned into a whale. case closed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1m4mATYoig
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Evidence Regarding the Evolution of Cetaceans - Whales etc
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this excellent little video sumamrises some of the evidence for the evolutionary history of cetaceans.. if focuses on comparative anatomy, embryology, fossils and dna.. .... .

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runForever

cofty: nice strawman. Does jerry coyne believe that a deer turned into a whale or not?
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Evidence Regarding the Evolution of Cetaceans - Whales etc
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this excellent little video sumamrises some of the evidence for the evolutionary history of cetaceans.. if focuses on comparative anatomy, embryology, fossils and dna.. .... .

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runForever

I know I don't even have to watch the video. A fish turned into a deer then that jumped back in the ocean and ballooned into a whale. It's amazing how a deer can just metamorphisize like that. That's what jerry coyne believes anyway.
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Top Scientist descent from Creationism
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309064066&page=25.

http://www.nas.edu/evolution/intelligentdesign.html.

http://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-board-resolution-intelligent-design-theory.
runForever

and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb"
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Is the Watchtower Trolling?
by runForever in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the public edition jan 1, 2015 is talking about a survey of praying to jesus and makes this comment:.

youth crossed out the name jesus on the survey.

and wrote god instead.. it then goes on to say no one talked to a heavenly creature that is not god without being spoken to first?.
runForever

The public edition jan 1, 2015 is talking about a survey of praying to Jesus and makes this comment:

However, one
youth crossed out the name Jesus on the survey
and wrote “God” instead.

It then goes on to say no one talked to a heavenly creature that is not God without being spoken to first?

" In all such
instances, the heavenly creatures initiated
the communication. Faithful men and
women reserved prayer for God alone."

right off the top off my head Paul asked Christ to remove the thorn in the flesh and Jesus wasn't talking to him and also the same with Stephen when he said "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."

Are they trolling? What are they trying to accomplish by this obvious false statement?
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Melbourne's Herald Sun -- "confessions of a Jehovah's Witness"
by MrMonroe in
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2. beliefs
all the dubs pouring into melbourne, australia for the international convention gonna choke on their cornflakes when they read this .... http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/former-jehovahs-witness-lifts-lid-on-stifling-doomobsessed-religion/story-fni0ffsx-1227092921890.

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runForever

It's really good he told the audience that witnesses often hate 'service' as much oftenly much more than the householder. This will help

all the forlorn witnesses if people had empathy for them.
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Trained to Exploit Emotionally Vulnerable People?
by dontplaceliterature in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i don't post here much anymore, but i am working on a project with a few academics from my area who are in the psychology field.

we are looking for printed evidence in their literature that jehovah's witnesses train their publishers/pioneers to target people who are suceptible to being recruited - i.e.

people who have experienced a loss, or who are emotionally vulnerable.
runForever

Nursing home campaign they started recently.
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Does money buy happiness and a longer life? You decide...
by Brock Talon in
1. social
2. current
i poured over time magazine's sep 8-15 2014 edition article "who we are" and put together this spreadsheet on the results from their poll.

i found the statistics quite fascinating.. most people would say that "money doesn't buy happiness", but this poll seems to me to indicate the exact opposite of that.

it also correlates education levels with higher earning that result in that happiness.
runForever

Pretty complicated subject but I think some of it is basics and some of it has to do with the world we live in.

In western and 1st world economies money is very important so I think it has alot to do with that.

I remember seeing a video about "the happiest people on earth" and it was a small country where the king actively tried to promote

a HDP instead of a GDP(happiness domestic product) and the people were very happy. Also islanders are very happy and they are not rich so

again I think it is partially do to the way life is setup in 1st world economies. Gorillas playing in water are very happy but they don't have money.

So security is important to happiness, health, and relationships which money affords in 1st world economies. I often see rich people excercising much more than others. Stress produces depression which can happen if you don't have money. It might also have to do with genetics - let's face it some people are just smarter than others and this makes life much easier for them when there is alot less stress to be able to achieve something. But happiness doesn't just come from having money alone. If there was no such thing as money but you could have all the things money affords would people be happier? I think so.
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How do Jehovah's Witnesses get around this one?
by runForever in
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2. beliefs
i am the vine; you are the branches.

if you remain in me and i in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.if you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.".

according to jehovah's witnesses this only applies to the annointed brothers of christ.
runForever

Crazyguy: john 15 whole chapter and that is true. OldHippie: Thanks for that, I guess they are trying to say there is a rubboff effect as in if you associate by

osmosis you will have fruits.

insight says this about anointed ones regarding the body of christ:

"One who is an anointed member of the Christian congregation, the body of Christ, and who commits fornication is taking a member of the Christ away and making that one a member of a harlot."

but just down from there it says this about non anointed "followers":

"One who is a member of the body of Christ, as well as other dedicated persons who are associated with these spiritually begotten body members, must avoid not only physical fornication but also spiritual fornication."

so they are saying in fact that if you are not anointed you are not part of Christ's body.

KateWild: out of curiosity why do you think the bible is nonsense?