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Are We Living in Critical Times?
by hamilcarr inin this video steven pinker presents a brief history of violence showing evidence that violence has been in decline for long stretches of time and that today we're probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence: critical times refuted and modernity defended!.
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JWs win early primaries - will they go on to win the nomination :)
by Qcmbr inhttp://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2008/02/jehovahs-witnesses-fastestgrow.php .
"jehovah's witnesses are the fastest-growing church body in the u.s. and canada, now with more than 1 million members, according to new figures that track church membership in the u.s. and canada.
although jehovah's witnesses ranked 24th on the list of 25 largest churches, they reported the largest growth rate -- 2.25 percent -- of all churches.
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Statistics 2007 Poor Growth Potential Europe
by hamilcarr inhere is an interesting comparison between high-ranking countries by peak witnesses and bible studies (as an indication of growth potential):.
peak witnesses: bible studies.
1. u.s. of america 1,084,005 1. mexico 742,364.
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We don't celebrate holidays because ........
by RubaDub ini just can't stomach the time wasted in meetings and in the literature about the jw stand on holidays.. we try to explain why we don't celebrate christmas, mothers day, halloween, thanksgiving day, etc, etc, etc.. yet in reality, other than the memorial and anniversaries, we don't celebrate anything, regardless of the origins of the holiday.
if a new holiday was created encouraging people to be nice to each other, we still wouldn't celebrate it ... it would be worldly!!!.
all the time and energy put into determining the origins of certains days is just a waste of time.
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Some Interesting quotes about "Evolution"
by Blackboo in"not one change of species into another is on record...we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
" ---charles darwin----.
"no has witnessed, in fossil record, in real life, or in in computer life, the exact transitional moments when natural selection pumps its complexity up to the next level.
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Proof WBTS is downgrading 1914
by yesidid inmaybe they're keeping the doctrine but they are not writing about it as much in the watchtower.. below are statistics from their 07 cd showing how many times 1914 was mentioned in the watchtower for each year 1950 to 2006 .
i have divided the years 1950 2006 into segments of eight excepting for the last, which is nine.. on the side i have the average for those years.
notice they have gone from 88.87 a year to 24.44. .
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Making a case for evolution: answer to ID advocates
by hamilcarr into all defenders of intelligent design: it is wrong to assume that evolutionary mechanisms cannot be empirically observed.. i'll give only one example to show evolution is all around us:.
fish are becoming smaller and growing more slowly in response to pressures introduced by fishing, scientists say (google ulf dieckmann).. researchers call this fisheries-induced adaptive change, showing that harvesting drives evolution towards smaller fishes.. many people think evolutionary mechanisms require millions of years to bring about such drastic changes and that it is therefore impossible to empirically observe adaptive change.. it is, however, becoming more and more clear that only two or three decades are needed to provoke large changes, in particular when pressures are high.. although some of darwin's are outmoded and easy targets of id advocates, these data perfectly fit in with the mechanisms he predicted to steer evolution..
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Fun with study article April 2008
by hamilcarr inperhaps it is not surprising that in lands where many have received such an education [at college or university] belief in god is at an all-time low.. w2008-04-15 repudiate "valueless things".
perhaps it is not surprising too that in lands where many haven't received such an education, crime, violence, war, deprivation, starvation, child death, female suppression and mind control are at an all-time high.
is this not a clear fulfillment of the words paul wrote to timothy that we are living in critical times?
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"Making a case for 'intelligent design'"
by inkling inthe following guest editoral ran in a mainstream fairly liberal city newspaper:.
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What is the motives of the GB?
by sweet pea inok guys and dolls, want your input here.
a friend of mine has a question...... .
"the brothers in bethel/headquarters seem very sincere and loving - what possible motive would they have in trying to deceive people, what do they get out of it?