does palestine actually exist?
does israel have the right to exist!.
would not a One State solution be the best - when people talk of a 'one state solution', they're usually talking about one state ruled by Arab Palestinians.
There is no reason to believe why such a state would be any good at all. Bye bye gays, atheists, etc.
But, yes, one state ruled by Jews might be best, but so unlikely as to be impossible.
Israel has existed since 1948 - it also existed thousands of years ago, too.
does palestine actually exist?
does israel have the right to exist!.
It's definitely Israel.
Israel is a country, the world's only Jewish state, and has a right to exist.
The situation is complicated and heart-breaking, really.
I know some Palestinian people on FaceBook (well, one Palestinian and one Jordanian) and they're really nice people.
I hope a sensible solution can be found.
we already know how jws will respond ( on a pole).
but i found an article that talks about jws views on how jesus died.
i didn't know that there was a time when jws accepted the cross unlike now.
surely the real reason that the WT makes a big deal of this is to separate JWs from other faith groups . Another " ya shucks boo to you, we've got the truth and you haven't " - yep, 100%.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner, laydees n gennelmen!!!
I admit I'm partial tin foil hat. It's sort of a Pascal's wager in tin foil - hahaha XD
the donald has recently suggested that he would like to look into buying greenland from denmark in the same manner that alaska was purchased from the russians.
i think the danes would be smart to look into selling it as it is costing them money every year with very little returns for their investments so far.. the alternative might well be that donald declares greenland a national security threat and invades them so that the world remains safe for democracy.
i would suggest to the danes that as any other real estate transaction that they put it on the open market and see how much russia or china are willing to offer .
Ask your country that same question - well, I don't need to because British imperialism is commonly denounced.
But why does Danish imperialism go under the radar?
PS - you need to take the Falklands off that list. The islanders voted overwhelmingly to continue being part of the UK.
the donald has recently suggested that he would like to look into buying greenland from denmark in the same manner that alaska was purchased from the russians.
i think the danes would be smart to look into selling it as it is costing them money every year with very little returns for their investments so far.. the alternative might well be that donald declares greenland a national security threat and invades them so that the world remains safe for democracy.
i would suggest to the danes that as any other real estate transaction that they put it on the open market and see how much russia or china are willing to offer .
Shouldn't Greenlanders want independence?
Why is everyone seemingly ok with Danish imperialism?
we already know how jws will respond ( on a pole).
but i found an article that talks about jws views on how jesus died.
i didn't know that there was a time when jws accepted the cross unlike now.
If the Romans wanted to kill someone, they wouldn't go all PC Snowflake - indeed.
I remember one 'argument' the WTS has for a stake and not a cross is that the supposed origin of the cross is for the pagan god Tammuz.
The WTS claims (I think) that this makes the cross pagan. Well, so what? The Romans, being pagan themselves at that point, wouldn't give a crap, would they ...
alex - thank you for your offer to have a conversation about evolution.. i accept the scientific evidence that all life - including humans - evolved from a common ancestor through unguided evolution over millions of years.
this isn't even a controversial position in the scientific community.. the evidence rests on the data from many interconnected fields including paleontology, comparative anatomy, geology and especially genetics.
it is no exaggeration to say that the evidence for your own non-human ancestry is contained in every cell in your body.. it is my experience that jws are generally quite ignorant (not in a pejorative sense) of the scientific case.
Just to sum up this thread so far ... Cofty wants to have a dialogue about evolution with Alex Williams.
Alex posted a comment about abiogenesis, not evolution. Then he posted a comment about how he doesn't need to prove anything, he just knows.
Alex, please reconsider and join in the conversation.
There are many talking points about evolution.
we already know how jws will respond ( on a pole).
but i found an article that talks about jws views on how jesus died.
i didn't know that there was a time when jws accepted the cross unlike now.
This form of capital punishment is called crucifixion.
So, the Romans put people to death on a cross, perhaps?
alex - thank you for your offer to have a conversation about evolution.. i accept the scientific evidence that all life - including humans - evolved from a common ancestor through unguided evolution over millions of years.
this isn't even a controversial position in the scientific community.. the evidence rests on the data from many interconnected fields including paleontology, comparative anatomy, geology and especially genetics.
it is no exaggeration to say that the evidence for your own non-human ancestry is contained in every cell in your body.. it is my experience that jws are generally quite ignorant (not in a pejorative sense) of the scientific case.
@TD - those skulls you posted, I'm guessing the four on the right belong to the genus Homo.
Is that correct?
PS - the four on the left don't. They belong to other genera, Paranthropus and Australopithecus perhaps.
alex - thank you for your offer to have a conversation about evolution.. i accept the scientific evidence that all life - including humans - evolved from a common ancestor through unguided evolution over millions of years.
this isn't even a controversial position in the scientific community.. the evidence rests on the data from many interconnected fields including paleontology, comparative anatomy, geology and especially genetics.
it is no exaggeration to say that the evidence for your own non-human ancestry is contained in every cell in your body.. it is my experience that jws are generally quite ignorant (not in a pejorative sense) of the scientific case.
Here is a piece of data ...
It's a fossil of a young male who lived more than 1 million years ago.
Evolution has it that we share a common ancestor with the great apes and extinct species of Homo, and modern humans evolved gradually hundreds of thousands of years ago. JWs believe that all life was created by God, and that humans, a special act of creation, are 6,000 years old at the most.
How well does the above piece of evidence fit into the theory of evolution? ... And how well into the biblical belief in divine creation?
