Thanks for posting - very interesting. As more and more people move away from organized religion, I expect we will see more articles like this (not just attacking JWs).
bemused
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Herald Sun: Let's not be witnesses to a load of elitist nonsense
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/lets-not-be-witnesses-to-a-load-of-elitist-nonsense/story-fni0ffsx-1227086665115?nk=b07e7946458087eb383b8c7efb0a06e1.
melbourne, australia.
lets not be witnesses to a load of elitist nonsense.
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University Application Personal Statement dilemma - Should I mention my jw past?
by will-be-apostate ini am applying to chemical engineering course in the uk through ucas (a lot of things changed since i've posted last time).. i have a lot of skills i developed while regular pioneering, like public speaking skills, ability to reason (even if it's bs), presentational skills etc.. i feel it would boost my personal statement a lot, but i'm also afraid they would say "this guy beleives in god, and loves science, he must be creationist.
away with him".. how could i mention that i gave interviews front of thousands of people and did voluntary work in my hometown without giving a bad impression?.
i don't want to go into details and start explaining myself that "however i don't beleive in god", or something like that.
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bemused
Hi w-b-a. Couldn't you just say volunteering for your 'church' rather than 'JW'?
In any event, don't stress out about it. Exam results massively outweigh personal statements at UK universities, particularly for academic subjects like yours. Good luck!
PS - I don't know where you're applying to but I hear good things about Loughborough.
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900 Top Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Macro-Evolution
by Perry inwe are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .
selection to account for the complexity of life.
careful examination of the .
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Simon17 - I think you may be being a bit generous. I hope they do look at evolution further - nobody's stopping them. However if there is nothing more to it than they don't understand evolution fully, why make this public statement?
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900 Top Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Macro-Evolution
by Perry inwe are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .
selection to account for the complexity of life.
careful examination of the .
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bohm - agreed, many of them don't seem qualified in this area. I wonder how much evolutionary science Robert W. Bass had to study to get his Ph.D. in mathematics?
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900 Top Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Macro-Evolution
by Perry inwe are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .
selection to account for the complexity of life.
careful examination of the .
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bemused
'Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.'
Indeed. Perhaps a few of these 'top scientists' should do just that.
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The Americans are back!
by Xanthippe intoday will be the third time this year there were american tourists at my local national trust stately home calke abbey, derbyshire.
nice to see they are coming back to visit the uk.
haven't been many around in my part of britain in the last few years.
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bemused
Actually it's not a silly question if by 'met' they meant have you been close enough to William and/or Kate to say hello on one of their many walkabouts. I know several people who have 'met' the Queen in this way, though they couldn't claim to be close friends.
I hope we continue to get many US vistors to the UK. They are a masive boost to the economy and all those I've met have been extremely polite and incredibly enthusiastic.
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Cave paintings dated using new technology to near 40,000 years old
by Crazyguy in.
http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2f7_0_s_1_1_a&sa=t&usg=afqjcnhcpipe10p58ljubtvloutaxqdx5g&cid=52778628265280&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.latimes.com%2fscience%2fsciencenow%2fla-sci-sn-found-cave-art-in-indonesia-at-least-40000-years-old-20141007-story.html&ei=xww2vojinaecwqgy0odada&sig2=1jnk1_g9hcotbeldxv69ia&rt=homepage&vm=standard&bvm=section&did=-2009528260911208438&sid=en_us-snc&ssid=snc.
i guess science really is blowing up the bible, awesome!.
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bemused
Cave paintings of this age have been found elsewhere (Spain). The significance of this finding is that, now there are two known examples of art, separated by thousands of miles, it's quite likely that the practice of making artitistic representations began even earlier.
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JW's are the slowest walkers in the world
by Unclepenn1 inthat's all i wanted to say.
you can always spot them by the 'less than 1/2 miles per hour' they stroll down the street.
salvation by the hour.
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bemused
Perhaps the magazine racks are just a natural evolution. JWs have slowed down so much when preaching that they are effectively stationary so why not capitalize on that.
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The Goal of ISIS is to turn the west against Islam and to the capititalise on the backlash that reults from that..
by smiddy inwhile these idiots think beheading innocent aid workers journalists who have the welfare of the people at heart in these circumstances and then butchering them in such a barbaric manner is going to swing public opinion in their favour is beyond me .. if their is ever a reason to go on the ground including going into syria to rid this pox off the face of the earth this is the last straw and needs to be done now.. no more now pussyfooting around with barbaric medieval murderes , go in and annhillilate the bastards.
in the air on the ground and whatever it takes.. smiddy.
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bemused
It could have unintended consequences - some Muslims might begin to question their whole religion. On the other hand, most Christians I know just ignore the awkward bits of the bible and don't feel that the actions of the Ku Klux Klan, for example, have anything to do with their religion.
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Leaving the JWs, experiencing Christianity and finding freedom! (But it took awhile)
by im_free inthis is my first post here.. i was raised in "the truth", and am an ex-bethelite who worked in brooklyn for several years back in the 90's.
a few years after i left bethel, i started to become disillusioned after doing research about the society and reading crisis of conscience (i know..i wasn't supposed to do that lol).
i eventually stopped attending meetings and going out in service.
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Im_free
I was a bit puzzled by your second post. You seem to be under the impression that atheists deny that Jesus ever existed. In my experience most people accept that there probably was such a religious-political Jewish leader active in the Middle East at that time. However atheists reject the notion that this individual was in some sense divine, on the grounds of lack of supporting evidence.
You are arguing I think that the subsequent growth of Christianity could not have happened by chance. In fact its major influence on Western society might never have happened without one event - the conversion of the Roman emporor Constantine. Anyway, couldn't a Hindu argue in exactly the same way? How could their religion have grown to 1 billion adherents by chance?
You're obviously full of questions and I'm sure you'll be searching for answers. My recommended reading would be 'The Magic of Reality' by Richard Dawkins - it's very clear and readable.