A really good couple of books for you to consider would be "Who Wrote the Bible?" by Richard Eliot Friedman and "The Bible Unearthed" by Neil Asher Silberman.
marmot
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I am having trouble believing in God...
by thedepressedsoul ini was raised a jw and i am still one but recently i have been having trouble believing in a god.
this is not meant to offend anyone who does, i am just curious to see if i am the only one who thinks this..... to start, i am a very black and white person.
if 1+1=2 it makes sense to me and i can agree with it.
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I am having trouble believing in God...
by thedepressedsoul ini was raised a jw and i am still one but recently i have been having trouble believing in a god.
this is not meant to offend anyone who does, i am just curious to see if i am the only one who thinks this..... to start, i am a very black and white person.
if 1+1=2 it makes sense to me and i can agree with it.
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marmot
Welcome aboard! I was a born-in too (and a real zealous one at that) until I started having doubts in my twenties about the silliness of the WT's literal interpretation of the biblical flood account and the general unpleasantness of the homicidal Old Testament God.
It was a long journey but now I'm a happy and fulfilled atheist.
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Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt
by QC inif you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.
this is a game changer.
the bomb!.
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marmot
So it "doesn't matter" that there was a verifiable (by chemical DNA testing) separate hominid species with advanced social constructs and toolmaking skills that lived paralell to modern humans? I'd say that's a pretty big freaking deal.
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Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt
by QC inif you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.
this is a game changer.
the bomb!.
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marmot
Neanderthals are like "squatty eskimos" who are "100% human"? Are you for real?
They have sequenced Neanderthal DNA from bone samples and it is not h. sapiens sapiens. Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA differs by 202 base pairs compared to modern humans.
That's chemistry, not conjecture.
(Also, the word is Inuit, not "Eskimo" and they are by no means "squatty" you ignoramus. Their traditional clothing is bulky to keep warm but I've worked with and gone to school with Inuits and they're just regular people, as proportioned as you and me. I mean seriously, you sound like you're from the 19th century.)
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Nervous dating stunted
by d indo you feel nervous and stunted when trying to date?
i still do and i am 23..
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Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt
by QC inif you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.
this is a game changer.
the bomb!.
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marmot
Yeah, I'm still sad he hasn't answered my question about neanderthal DNA.
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Getting bariatric surgery in March!
by marmot inafter being on a waiting list for three and a half years i've finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel and am going under the knife for a gastric sleeve operation in march.
i can't tell you how pumped i am because i'll finally be able to re-take my life after being severely overweight for several years.
i gained a ton of weight after being put on meds for bipolar disorder and it made exercising a painful chore.
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marmot
Just got off the phone with the inpatient clinic, official date for the surgery is March 13th. Woohoo!
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Getting bariatric surgery in March!
by marmot inafter being on a waiting list for three and a half years i've finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel and am going under the knife for a gastric sleeve operation in march.
i can't tell you how pumped i am because i'll finally be able to re-take my life after being severely overweight for several years.
i gained a ton of weight after being put on meds for bipolar disorder and it made exercising a painful chore.
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marmot
Thanks again for all the support and kind words! Someone mentioned gastric bypass versus the sleeve, my surgeon determined that due to my very high BMI it would be safer to go with just a sleeve because there is less risk of complications. I have a friend who had the RnY bypass done and he literally melted over the course of a year, a bit too much if you ask me. He's 6'0" 165lbs now and that's with approximately 30 pounds of excess skin still hanging on him, to give you an idea of how skinny he got.
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Getting bariatric surgery in March!
by marmot inafter being on a waiting list for three and a half years i've finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel and am going under the knife for a gastric sleeve operation in march.
i can't tell you how pumped i am because i'll finally be able to re-take my life after being severely overweight for several years.
i gained a ton of weight after being put on meds for bipolar disorder and it made exercising a painful chore.
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marmot
I had to first get a referral to a specialist from my family doctor, then a screening appointment, then a three and a half year wait, then lung tests, sleep apnea tests, assorted blood tests and finally a seven-week pre-op liquid diet to shrink my liver in preparation for the surgery.
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Getting bariatric surgery in March!
by marmot inafter being on a waiting list for three and a half years i've finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel and am going under the knife for a gastric sleeve operation in march.
i can't tell you how pumped i am because i'll finally be able to re-take my life after being severely overweight for several years.
i gained a ton of weight after being put on meds for bipolar disorder and it made exercising a painful chore.
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marmot
Thanks for the support! It's been so embarassing not being able to do so many of the things that I used to love to do, lord it'll be nice to walk the dog again without getting winded and having back and knee pains after one block.
Right now the liquid diet is pretty rough. I don't like sweet things to start with and having to drink four sickly-sweet chocolate shakes a day is gross. The cravings for real food just around bedtime can get pretty severe but so far I've been able to push through them.