Posts by Viviane

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Islam is a religion of Peace

by Coded Logic in

warning: poes law may apply.

i just wanted to take a moment and remind everyone that all muslims are good people.

"real" muslims would never kill in the name of their religion .

Viviane

The pussyfooting around by do-gooders , bleeding hearts , in western society is taken as weakness , and only encourages more such like attacks to occurr

The death penalty has never been shown to deter crime and it cost at least 3x incarceration, at least according to every study ever done. Why should other people pay more and get less just so someone can satisfy a bloodlust?

Also, anyone who has ever studied history, read a book by anyone who studied history or seen a movie by someone who read a book by someone who studied history would know that crazy people gonna do crazy things and the death penalty doesn't stop it. Never has, never will.

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2014 Statistics and Graphs for USA, UK and Australia

by jwfacts in

i have done a breakdown for the usa, since the majority on this forum are american, along with the uk and australia.

us growth has slowed, but still moving along, but uk and australia have are at a virtual standstill, and in fact decreasing against population growth.. .

jehovah's witness publisher statistics - united states.

Viviane

I am saying the PEAK YEAR for JWs for a given time frame is less than halve of the overall growth for that time frame for the population at large. In other words, the JW best year is less than half as good as the 10 year overall growth. I could get more specific and combine the exact years for JWs and get an overall or break down, year by year, the growth for the US, UK or AUS, but, you know, I'm feeling lazy

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2014 Statistics and Graphs for USA, UK and Australia

by jwfacts in

i have done a breakdown for the usa, since the majority on this forum are american, along with the uk and australia.

us growth has slowed, but still moving along, but uk and australia have are at a virtual standstill, and in fact decreasing against population growth.. .

jehovah's witness publisher statistics - united states.

Viviane

From 2000->2010 the US population growth was +9.7%, the peak growth for JWs was under +4%. Expressed as a percentage of population, the religion is shrinking, at least in the US.

For the UK, between 2003 and 2013 it was +7.5%. JWs grew at a peak of < +3%. Also shrinking as a percentage of the population.

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Astronomers Find Some Other Earthlike Planets Out There

by freemindfade in

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2015-01-06/astronomers-find-some-other-earthlike-planets-out-there.

this is not really anything new, but every time i see one of these articles about earth like planets in habitable zones, i can't help but hear he echo of past indoctrination at wt studies etc saying "oh how unique earth is to be placed where it is blah blah blah impossible odds".

there are many more articles on this subject that have much less conservative ideas of potentially how many "earth like" planets could be out there, staggering numbers actually.

Viviane

The ancients knew a lot more than we give them credit. Heck, if a Greek could stick a stick in the ground, measure its shadow and tell you the circumference of the earth, my hat's off to 'em.

Is your argument that because someone used repeatable and provable science and math to move knowledge forward that his cultures unprovable myths might also be true? Because I saw a dog and can prove it, UFO abductions might also be real?

As usual, religion gets it exactly backwards.

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Scientists almost created life in a lab?!

by abiather in

the scientists at the scripps research institute, california, have almost succeeded in creating the world's first living organism with artificial dna!.

http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb/43-first-organism-with-artificial-dna.

http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20140507romesberg.html.

Viviane

1) We replaced perfect language (eg. Sanskrit, according to NASA, something they found out in their process of developing artificial intelligence) with imperfect languages.

As your first proof, you shouldn't pick something that never happened, that's only reported on blogs with no source reference and nothing, absolutely NOTHING every said by NASA about this.

Once again, you've got it exactly backwards.

racemic mixtures formed in the lab with no catalyst remain racemic. No sides win out in this case cofty.

Which, as has been pointed out many times, is still not evidence of anything you claim. It's simply your belief.

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Scientists almost created life in a lab?!

by abiather in

the scientists at the scripps research institute, california, have almost succeeded in creating the world's first living organism with artificial dna!.

http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb/43-first-organism-with-artificial-dna.

http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20140507romesberg.html.

Viviane

Kate, simply picking random things and saying "this is evidence of a guided process" doesn't make it so. To say something is evidence means to show a connection between the things. You've not done that. You've not shown how to connect the dots.

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Scientists almost created life in a lab?!

by abiather in

the scientists at the scripps research institute, california, have almost succeeded in creating the world's first living organism with artificial dna!.

http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb/43-first-organism-with-artificial-dna.

http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20140507romesberg.html.

Viviane

HAD to be? That is a pretty bold assumption. Why does HAVE to be guided?

Because reasons and stuff. It's not, of course, evidence for any such thing, but that doesn't stop people from saying it.

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Scientists almost created life in a lab?!

by abiather in

the scientists at the scripps research institute, california, have almost succeeded in creating the world's first living organism with artificial dna!.

http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb/43-first-organism-with-artificial-dna.

http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20140507romesberg.html.

Viviane

But it opens mind-boggling opportunities: they may present to us completely man-made cells in the near future, thus would prove beyond any doubt that AN ORGANIZER was needed for the emergence of life in the first place, just like these scientists are ORGANIZERS of the doctored life!

Or, creationist, as usual, have it backwards.

http://www.salon.com/2015/01/03/god_is_on_the_ropes_the_brilliant_new_science_that_has_creationists_and_the_christian_right_terrified/

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Still pointing your Finger when having a Rafter in your eye?

by DocHouse in

yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.

many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.

but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.

Viviane

Doc, you've not the foggiest idea what Jesus taught. Stop pretending you do.

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2014 Watchtower Publisher Statistics

by jwfacts in

the 2014 grand totals page has been released onto facebook.. .

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i have started updating the statistics and graphs at jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php, and will release highlights as i work through it during the rest of the day..

Viviane

I would live to see these numbers for the past five years as a per capita number. I can whip up a spreadsheet to show that if anyone has raw numbers for the JWs.