Posts by DuvanMuvan

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Want to know why people accept evolution ?

by snare&racket in

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do you have questions about or want to understand evolution?

it is a difficult concept to communicate and so if it is not explained well , it is understandable that we would dismiss it.. i sincerely want to talk with people who want to learn more or see what all the fuss is about.

we are all learning and increasing our knowledge all the time and it is good to go over facts with critical eye.. evolution we can discuss, looking at the foundational facts and evidence, one at a time for you to go and check, agree or disagree with and return.. no pressure to accept it, you can decide for yourself, also no mocking etc of what you have to say.. .

DuvanMuvan

I live and go to school in the uk and for gcse biology one of the topics is evolution. Theres always a question that comes up in the exams which is basically "what was Darwin's theory of natural selection". The answer they were looking for was along the lines of:

"A random mutation occurs in a species that alters the dna of the organism with that mutation. If this mutation is beneficial to the species them the organism is able to survive and pass on its beneficial mutation to their offspring through sexual reproduction. Over time the organisms without this mutation die out leaving only the ones with the mutation left."

I always enjoyed seeing that question in an exam because it was an easy 4 marks. It was also the definition I gave to my mum when she did a dub and confused evolution with abiogenesis.

I'm not 100% if this is right though because they have a habit of leaving out all the details and stuff out of gcse level science

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Need to find those Km or Wt articles encouraging all to read the old publications!

by stuckinarut2 in

i have been dropping comments to a few re some classic old beliefs and teachings etc... and when asked "where did you read that, or how come you are saying such and such?

" i have replied "well, you remember we have often been told to study and research our old 'theocratic history' and 'old gems' of material?....

now though i have been challenged to prove where this has been printed!.

DuvanMuvan

Quick question, unrelated, what does "marked" mean? I'm still pretty new here.

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How many members of our forum are there, and where are most from?

by stuckinarut2 in

i would love to know where most of our fellow forum members are from.... is there a way to compile a quick list?.

for example, i would love to know how many live near me......

DuvanMuvan

bristol, uk

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Congregation Contributions

by nolongerconfused in

do you guys remember when the congregation's monthly contribution report was read out loud in the service meeting?

obviously, they don't do that anymore... does anyone here know why exactly they stopped reading the report publicly?.

seems fishy to me.

DuvanMuvan

WTWizard at the assemblies in my circuit there was always a deficit but that was probably rectified after the announcement as all the people who now felt guilty for not donating went and chucked a fiver or two into the contribution box after it ended

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"the world has never been worse" - not according to this website..

by disposable hero of hypocrisy in

next week's wt is full of helpful encouragement not to believe satanic propaganda that might tell us that the world is getting to be a better place to live in.. .

well, i stumbled across this article here, that contains lots of so-called 'facts' and 'figures', i'm sure glad i read my wt first so i can recognise that this is nothing but lies, all lies.. .

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DuvanMuvan

Found this gem in the wt study that DHOH was talking about. Apparently this is evidence that human wickedness is increasing.

" And many recognize that homosexuals have a loud voice in the fields of entertainment and fashion, promoting their lifestyle in the public realm. How thankful we can be that we know God’s view!" -paragraph 9

I love how they mention "God's view" right after a pretty shocking statement like that. It's like they're playing the god card so people can't disagree with what they say

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Going to a meeting for the first time in a while- love bombing expected

by DuvanMuvan in

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friends

long story short, i have to go to the kh on tuesday with my mum and i havent been in at least a month now.

the reaon im going is because when i got my mum to finally let me make my own decision about whether or not i want to be a jw she made me promise that i'd go to the memorial, assemblies and if she had a talk.

she's already told me that people have been asking for me and only a few people in my cong know that i dont think it's the truth.. when i was trying to leave a couple brothers really piled on the "encouragement" and i dread to think about what it will be like when they see me again.

DuvanMuvan

Miss Fit your reasons are the exact same as my mum's

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Need advice, really wanna play COD

by DuvanMuvan in

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friends

well my ps3 is downstairs because i had no idea how good games looked on tvs that weren't older than you are and i've run into a problem.

my mum doesn't know that i have "bad" games like cod, gta 5, legend of zelda and final fantasy (yeah ik last two aren't that bad but loads of religious stuff and magic) and it's getting harder to keep it a secret.. i was just wondering if anyone had any ideas on how i should go about this.

should i just wait a while and slowly introduce the idea to my mum that i play these games or should i just come out and play them and act like it'a nothing?.

DuvanMuvan

Perfect1 thanks for the advice. But for no.6 my mum makes me take the iPad so it at least looks like I'm paying attention and I just read a book or something when she isn't looking.

wearewatching it's kind too late for that, I grew up on mario kart double dash and Pokemon. I'm pretty lazy in some aspects but I'm doing pretty well in school so my mum doesn't mind too much

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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!

by DuvanMuvan in

title pretty much explains it all.

lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?

maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .

DuvanMuvan

" if you dont mind me asking--DuvanMuvan-----are you homosexual ?"

Not unless Jennifer Lawrence is secretly a man no

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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!

by DuvanMuvan in

title pretty much explains it all.

lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?

maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .

DuvanMuvan

if you don't mind me asking bigmac, how old are you? You seem like you're really in favour of "tradition"

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Premarital sex--how prevalent?

by wafflesandpancakes in

in my old congregation, everyone seems clean.

mostly chaste courtship, kingdom hall wedding, blah blah.. well there are lots of cases of fondling but they were soon forgotton.

when my husband and i confessed to sex before marriage, the elders were disgusted.

DuvanMuvan

The thing is that unless sex ed is being taught in schools, the average jw wouldn't know a lot about contraception. This is a major problem for us teenagers stuck in "the bloom of youth". Everyone having sex without knowing how to stop all the downsides that the wts talk about. (which funnily enough is all they talk about)