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  Humans used a hearth for fire and cooking 300,000 years ago!

  by Comatose in

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  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140127101236.htm.

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  when did humans really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs?

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  caroline77

  A lot of us have neanderthal DNA, so they must have been human.
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  Humans used a hearth for fire and cooking 300,000 years ago!

  by Comatose in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140127101236.htm.

  summary:.

  when did humans really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs?

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  caroline77

  I find this interesting and puzzling. Does it mean that humans have not evolved in the last 300,000 years?
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  Should Creationism Ever Be Taught In Schools?

  by nicolaou in

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  this is taken from the bbc's sunday morning show 'the big questions'.

  i was going to pick out a few highlights but really, you need to watch the whole thing - it's only 23 minutes.

  seriously, i could feel the bile and frustration rising in my gullet .

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  caroline77

  I had a very broad education and was taught about various peoples beliefs including creation, evolution and flat earth etc. I was interested in the thought that people thought that they would fall off the edge of the earth if they sailed too near. It gives more intelectual flexibility to be able to understand other people's ways of thinking, then you can select the ideas which seem most logical.
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  Resurrection without a soul that survives death.

  by Pronger1 in

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  one thing (among many) that always bothered me about jw teachings is what happens to the soul when we die.

  sure god could be capable of creating a body and implanting it with all of our life experiences an memories.

  but how would not be a just a clone instead of being actually us?

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  caroline77

  I understand that cells die and are replaced all the time, so where is the 'me' that existed 10 years ago, or 20 years ago etc.?

  I am a clone of those me's.

  My consciousness is electrical discharges in those cells.
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  Just become a window washer..............ya that.

  by ctrwtf in

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  i"m normally the kind of guy that likes to count his blessings.

  i've got two great kids.

  and a super wife who loves me despite myself.

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  caroline77

  You seem to be in a very good position, but just bored stiff. I used to have a job like that. I don't have a solution, but a lot of people I worked with were in exactly the same position. It makes you want to scream. Sorry I can't help. I wish I had the answer...but these jobs have to be done.
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  Well my JW elder dad has lost his job...

  by BU2B in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as a little background, my dad became a jw in 1980 i think, went to bethel, married my mom in 86' went back for another year and then i came along... he worked in the auto repair shop at bethel while he was there, and upon leaving, continued working in this field.

  my whole life they have been the type of jw parents that tell you how you will never get to high school, never graduate it, never get married in this system, never have children in this system etc.. i say this to illustrate the end is just around the corner attitude they have always had, probably because they fully bought/buy into the hype at the conventions/wt articles.

  my father has no plan in place for retirement, and he is physically slowing down doing such hard laborious work.

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  caroline77

  Talk to your wife. That's the place to start. She may be in full agreement with you. You could quote Genesis 2 v 24.
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  i finally had "the truth" talk with the hubby

  by monis in

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  i have been inactive for a couple of years.

  he has too, but wants to go back.

  he has never researched anything about jws.

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  caroline77

  Hi Scary21. The Christadelphians have not changed their beliefs a great deal since 1850. There are some fundemental differences between them and the JW's.
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  Inherit the Earth?????

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt has taught that some of the righteous will inherit the land and live on earth forever.

  this dogma is very hard to get over because some scriptures allude to this and even jesus said the meek will inherit the earth.

  but also jesus himself will inherit the nations but that doesn't mean he will reside down here with them.. so how does one explain that the meaning of inherit does not mean necessarily that one will have to live here on earth?

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  caroline77

  Genesis 15,16 &17 give an account of the promises to Abraham, and Galations 3 explains how it applies to Christ.
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  No more doubts for me! Good-bye JWN! We have THE TRUTH!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i could go on and on about my personal journey over the last 2 years or so, but i don't need to.

  everything i needed to hear to finally lay my doubts to rest happened on one meeting night.

  it could only be divine providence.

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  caroline77

  Whatever's MEPS?
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  Israel

  by caroline77 in

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  what is the jw attitude to the jews?.

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  caroline77

  Thanks, Jonah.

  Don't they know that Jesus was a Jew, and also the disciples?

  The verse prior to the one about 'one Lord, one faith, one baptism', mentions 'one body, one hope'.

  The JW's seem to have two hopes and two bodies. One body in heaven with the head, one on earth with no direct access to the head.