frankiespeakin
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DNA Reading And Synthesizing Speeding Up
by frankiespeakin inas we are 10 years into the 21st century technology has sped up to beyond our expectation:.
craig venter on dna and the sea.
http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_on_dna_and_the_sea.html.
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Governing Body Member Learns the Truth About The Truth Scenario Played Out
by frankiespeakin insuppose a gb member is perusing the god forsaken internet(dirty word to a gb) and he stumbles on this site or randy's free mind site and his faith in the god almighty wt organization gets crushed beyond all repair.
say he's one of the younger bucks on that body and that he's only 65 years old.
and he well knows what happened to raymond franz.. what kind of turmoil will he be faced with?
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The Gradual Change From Worshiping Jehovah To The Worship Of the Governing Body
by frankiespeakin ini first began my misadventures with jehovah's witnesses in 1972 as a youth(18 years old) and was baptised in that same year.
i was young inexperienced and they caught me at a low point when i was weak and looking for god to solve problems.
being raised as a catholic and going to all the religious indoctrination up to the point of confirmation, i guess you could say i was indoctrinated from birth to believe a certain way which left me vulnerable to the jw propaganda.. fast foreword to the time of my departure in 2001 february.. for a couple of years (late 90s) before i left i started noticing out right lies in the wt publications about their history and the luster that these magazines used to have started to fade rapidly also around that time i really began to notice the gobs and gobs of praise they were bestowing on the organization and the representative members of the so called faithful & discrete slave(gb).
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The Future New Lights (jw speak for corrections) Of the Illustrative GB
by frankiespeakin inthe scene of the world is changing and so must the jw religion in order to keep pace and keep losses in currant membership to a minimum and still offer an attractive lure for prospective new converts.
this must be done on a regular basis just to keep them afloat as old teachings were actually made by a group of old men with old ideas and old dates that have to give way to the obvious reality of unfulfilled predictions.. the wt publishing company has sought new blood in the way of younger men appointed to the high ranks of the gb,, some receiving their calling to the anointed latter than 1960 long after the once imposed cutoff date of 1935 for those with the heavenly calling.
i remember as an elder back in the 80's being told by the co not to count some in the congregation who were partaking of the emblems at the memorial, because they were not baptized early enough and the reason given was that they obviously had some emotional problems that caused them to make the claim and that counting them would throw the wt figures out of whack.. apparently the wt corporation's ceos are on the horns of a dilemma caused by their short sighted predictions and literal interpretations of the #144,000 in revelation, and adding to the mix of doctrinal problems is also the ever increasing scientific knowledge being taught in grammar, middle, and high schools much to the chagrin of bible fundamentalist who are seeking and even demanding equal time for their theory of intelligent design creationism.. will the wt go with the flow and learn from the catholic church(who at one time tortured and killed heretics) but now accepts the earth is not the center of the universe and who's leader the pope now claims the fact of evolution is not at odds with the bible?
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Will the Society Ever Print Another Evolution Verse Creation Book?
by frankiespeakin ini think if they do they will have to make many revisions now that information is so prevalent on the internet.
and with all that is known about dna and how it proves darwin was right i don't see how they could.
but i guess you can never put nothing past the wt and it's crack smoking writers to dig up something ridiculous to blur the lines of reality for the friends, for sure its got to be way harder to write such a book today and keep a straight face..
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Right to Die Issue Terminally Ill, Hopelessly Paralized, Etc..What Are Your Thoughts?
by frankiespeakin infirst off let me say this is not about me, i'm happy and healthy.
it really about all the suffering i see people going thru.
examples in my family over the years have caused me to think very seriously this.. i could give you a couple of examples and i'm sure some of our posters can tell other horror stories they'd witnessed where perhaps it would have been much better for them and their family if they could have passed away painlessly and with much more dignity.. one of my sisters developed breast cancer and died after about a 12month struggle, we saw her waste away to just skin and bones, it was hard on me as well as her two young children and husband.
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Dangerous Knowledge
by frankiespeakin inbbc-dangerous knowledge 1 of 10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw-znrncf90.
bbc-dangerous knowledge 2 of 10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpwxt9ymbnw&feature=related.
bbc-dangerous knowledge 3 of 10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aavwb5wynk&feature=related.
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Astronomy: Steven Beckwith (Looking Back In Time)
by frankiespeakin inthis lecture has some very interesting slides and gives one a really good perspective about what we are learning the age of the universe and evolution of galaxies.
you have to skip to about 10 minutes in this presentation to get past the intro and accolades into the really good stuff:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x22o8tudouw.
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The Many Faces of Jesus in the Bible
by frankiespeakin inone thing that i marvel @ are the many types of jesus- es found gospels & other books of the church endored new testament.
it is obvious the the jesus of the pauline letters is completely different than found in the gospel of mark and the gospel of john jesus different than mark's jesus and so on and so forth, the revelation jesus seems to be a lot crueler than all the jesus- es combined.
do we chalk it up to just different writers about jesus?does this in any way trouble those who believe the bible literally to be god inspired to see so many different types of jesus-es running around in the orthodox accepted bible not to mention the many other type of jesus-es found in the other ancient books dating back to the time the gospels were written?.