I see that this topic thread of mine eventually got processed and posted (though it was delayed by about half a day); I am thankful though it is now posted.
Disillusioned JW
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Science News article: ‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans
by Disillusioned JW ina news article has the headline of " ‘case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans"; see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/case-closed-999-of-scientists-agree-climate-emergency-caused-by-humans .
the article says in part the following.. 'the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the cop26 summit in glasgow.. the degree of scientific certainty about the impact of greenhouse gases is now similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics, the authors say, based on a survey of nearly 90,000 climate-related studies.
this means there is practically no doubt among experts that burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, coal, peat and trees, is heating the planet and causing more extreme weather.. a previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering earth’s climate.. this has been updated and expanded by the study by cornell university that shows the tiny minority of sceptical voices has diminished to almost nothing as evidence mounts of the link between fossil-fuel burning and climate disruption.. the latest survey of peer-reviewed literature published from 2012 to november 2020 was conducted in two stages.
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Yahweh OF Samaria
by peacefulpete inmost everyone has heard of the 8th/9th century bc kuntillet ‘ajrud inscriptions that mention yahweh and his ashera, that is that yahweh was understood as having a female consort.
interesting as that is, often overlooked in the inscriptions are the names of the god yahweh himself.
the writings are themselves apparently practice work by scribes learning the trade and cover many topics.
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Thanks peacefulpete for the post about the inscription. So according to the inscription the Asherah is the means of salvation provided by Yahweh, and not Jesus (Iesous)! Apparently she was a savior god/goddess. That reminds me of the goddess Ishtar of the Babylonians who besides being a goddess of love was also a goddess of war who defended her people.
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Science News article: ‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans
by Disillusioned JW ina news article has the headline of " ‘case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans"; see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/case-closed-999-of-scientists-agree-climate-emergency-caused-by-humans .
the article says in part the following.. 'the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the cop26 summit in glasgow.. the degree of scientific certainty about the impact of greenhouse gases is now similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics, the authors say, based on a survey of nearly 90,000 climate-related studies.
this means there is practically no doubt among experts that burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, coal, peat and trees, is heating the planet and causing more extreme weather.. a previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering earth’s climate.. this has been updated and expanded by the study by cornell university that shows the tiny minority of sceptical voices has diminished to almost nothing as evidence mounts of the link between fossil-fuel burning and climate disruption.. the latest survey of peer-reviewed literature published from 2012 to november 2020 was conducted in two stages.
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A news article has the headline of " ‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans"; see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/case-closed-999-of-scientists-agree-climate-emergency-caused-by-humans . The article says in part the following.
'The scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.
The degree of scientific certainty about the impact of greenhouse gases is now similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics, the authors say, based on a survey of nearly 90,000 climate-related studies. This means there is practically no doubt among experts that burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, coal, peat and trees, is heating the planet and causing more extreme weather.
A previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering Earth’s climate.
This has been updated and expanded by the study by Cornell University that shows the tiny minority of sceptical voices has diminished to almost nothing as evidence mounts of the link between fossil-fuel burning and climate disruption.
The latest survey of peer-reviewed literature published from 2012 to November 2020 was conducted in two stages. First, the researchers examined a random sample of 3,000 studies, in which they found only found four papers that were sceptical that the climate crisis was caused by humans. Second, they searched the full database of 88,125 studies for keywords linked to climate scepticism such as “natural cycles” and “cosmic rays”, which yielded 28 papers, all published in minor journals.
The authors said their study, published on Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, showed scepticism among experts is now vanishingly small.
“It is really case closed. There is nobody of significance in the scientific community who doubts human-caused climate change,” said the lead author, Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at Cornell University.
This echoed the view expressed in August by the world’s leading scientific body, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which said: “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.”
The general public does not yet understand how certain experts are, nor is it reflected in political debate. This is especially true in the US, where fossil fuel companies have funded a disinformation campaign that falsely suggests the science is not yet settled, similar to the campaign by tobacco industries to cast doubt on the link between smoking and cancer. '
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Evolution News: Humanlike Footprints in Crete Dated to 6 Million Years Ago!
by Disillusioned JW ini find it astonishing that humanlike feet could have existed that long ago.
i wonder if some non-human upright ape might have had that kind of feet that long ago.
see https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/humanlike-footprints-in-crete-dated-to-6-million-years-muddle-archaeologists-1.10301706 and https://scitechdaily.com/oldest-footprints-of-pre-humans-identified-in-crete-six-million-years-old/ .
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Correction: In my prior post where I said .... I have meant to replace it with the words "Graecopithecus freybergi".
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Evolution News: Humanlike Footprints in Crete Dated to 6 Million Years Ago!
by Disillusioned JW ini find it astonishing that humanlike feet could have existed that long ago.
i wonder if some non-human upright ape might have had that kind of feet that long ago.
see https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/humanlike-footprints-in-crete-dated-to-6-million-years-muddle-archaeologists-1.10301706 and https://scitechdaily.com/oldest-footprints-of-pre-humans-identified-in-crete-six-million-years-old/ .
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The above mentioned science articles made a reference to .... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170523083548.htm is a science article about two fossils of Graecopithecus freybergi. The article is called "7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains found in the Balkans: New hypothesis about the origin of humankind suggests oldest hominin lived in Europe". That article is from the year 2017 and a summary of it says the following.
"Scientists analyzing 7.2 million-year-old fossils uncovered in modern-day Greece and Bulgaria suggest a new hypothesis about the origins of humankind, placing it in the Eastern Mediterranean and not -- as customarily assumed -- in Africa, and earlier than currently accepted. The researchers conclude that Graecopithecus freybergi represents the first pre-humans to exist following the split from the last chimpanzee-human common ancestor."
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Evolution News: Humanlike Footprints in Crete Dated to 6 Million Years Ago!
by Disillusioned JW ini find it astonishing that humanlike feet could have existed that long ago.
i wonder if some non-human upright ape might have had that kind of feet that long ago.
see https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/humanlike-footprints-in-crete-dated-to-6-million-years-muddle-archaeologists-1.10301706 and https://scitechdaily.com/oldest-footprints-of-pre-humans-identified-in-crete-six-million-years-old/ .
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I find it astonishing that humanlike feet could have existed that long ago. I wonder if some non-human upright ape might have had that kind of feet that long ago. See https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/humanlike-footprints-in-crete-dated-to-6-million-years-muddle-archaeologists-1.10301706 and https://scitechdaily.com/oldest-footprints-of-pre-humans-identified-in-crete-six-million-years-old/ .
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News: Democrats weigh changes in filibuster to pass voting rights legislation after GOP opposition
by Disillusioned JW insee https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/24/pelosi-biden-call-filibuster-reform-voting-rights-bills/6165368001/ .
the article says in part the following.. ' “i'm not really ready to say ‘let's get rid of it altogether," sen. angus king, i-maine, said sunday in an interview on nbc news' "meet the press.
" king, like many of his colleagues in the caucus, supports a "talking filibuster" that would require senators blocking legislation to be present on the floor for debate when stopping legislation.'.
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See https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/24/pelosi-biden-call-filibuster-reform-voting-rights-bills/6165368001/ . The article says in part the following.
' “I'm not really ready to say ‘Let's get rid of it altogether," Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said Sunday in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press." King, like many of his colleagues in the caucus, supports a "talking filibuster" that would require senators blocking legislation to be present on the floor for debate when stopping legislation.'
I think the idea of changing the filibuster to a "talking filibuster" is a good idea, and for at least two decades I thought all filibusters in the USA Senate were "talking filibusters", due to a black and white movie (though fictional) I had seen on TV which depicted such a filibuster.
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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!
by pistolpete injust a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.
today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.
what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.
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The young woman at work one day made an insensitive comment about men (or a man) whose penis had been cut off them (or him) against their (or his) will and while she was smiling (and maybe also laughing) called those men (or a man) "broken men" (or a "broken man"). [Maybe this was at the time in which the news was reporting that a woman cut off the penis of her husband named John Bobbitt; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt .] Something she said gave me the impression that she would like to cut off a man's penis. In response I then angrily told her "how would you like it if someone took a drill and drilled out your ovaries?!" That shut her up on the subject of joking about a 'broken man'. Perhaps that was the day she kicked me in the leg; I don't know. -
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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!
by pistolpete injust a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.
today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.
what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.
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Revision of last paragraph of prior post: I purchased a booklet called The Magna Charta of Woman (of an edition from 1975, but originally published in 1919 as The "Magna Charta" of Woman "According to the Scriptures"), by Jessie Penn-Lewis (a woman). [Its scripture quotes are from the Revised Version Bible of 1884.] I am also impressed by that book, and that book says that according the scriptures women don't have to be silent in the church nor keep their heads covered in church. It also says women should be allowed to preach and teach in the church. I think I read a reference to that book (or maybe to a reference to woman named Dr. Bushnell") from Montgomery's NT. Reading this book, the NT by Montgomery, and footnotes in the RSV Bible, during the time I was an independent minded Christian (though still attending the JW memorials and some JW conventions at the time) convinced me that the Bible, when translated properly and interpreted accurately, does not forbid women from being deacons or even elders in Christian congregations.
The last paragraph in the "About the Author" section of The Magna Charta of Woman book says the following.
"Few women in modern times have left so profound an impression on their generation, and few have so boldly and biblically stated the value of their gender. Jessie Penn-Lewis was the embodiment of Women's Liberation in its best and noblest sense." The first chapter of the The Magna Charta of Woman book is called ' "Ye All Can Prophesy...." '.
Correction: In my recent post about hitting (the one which is two posts prior to this one), where I said "One a young woman ..." I should have said "One time a young woman ...". Where I said " I didn't fight back because I believed that a man should never hit a woman in (at the time) but should I had kicked her back?" I should have said " I didn't fight back because I believed (at the time) that a man should never hit a woman, but should I had kicked back at her?"
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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!
by pistolpete injust a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.
today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.
what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.
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If women are to receive and maintain equal rights with men then that means they should have equal responsibility for their actions and receive equal punishments as men as well. If a woman has a right to hit a man in self defense, then a man should have a right to hit a woman in self defense - if the woman is to have equal rights with men and not some special unequal rights over men. Feminism is about equal rights for both women and men. Men, not just women, can than be feminists (without having to act feminine). I believe in feminism (since my teen years in the 1970s), though I am a man, because I believe in equal rights. The political party in the USA called the Green Party has feminism as a part of its political platform and for a period of time I was a member of that political third-party.
The entire time I was a ministerial servant I disapproved of the WT/JW policy of not allowing women to be elders and ministerial servants in the congregation, but I went along with the policy because of writings in the Bible attributed to the Apostle Paul teaching such. But, I also (though secretly) disapproved of the Apostle Paul (and thus also the Bible) teaching such. Many years later, after I stopped attending JW meetings (other than the memorial and the conventions for several years), I found at a thrift store an New Testament translated entirely by a woman scholar (who was a baptist) and published by a Baptist publishing house. [Her translation was the second NT to be entirely translated by a woman and the first to be published by a publishing house instead of being self-published. The first one to be translated by a woman was a very literal Bible translated from the Hebrew and Greek (consisting of both the OT and the NT).] It had footnotes saying that Paul was not against women speaking and teaching in the congregations and being deacons in the congregations, and it gave textual reasons in support of such. It also said that in a verse in the NT the Greek text says that a particular woman was a deacon. I was surprised and pleased to learn such and I accepted such as truth.
The baptist NT Bible translated by a woman interestingly had the name Jehovah used in one verse in the first printing of that NT Bible. That Bible is called the Centenary Translation of the New Testament, Published to signalize the completion of the first hundred years of work of the American Baptist Publication Society, Translated by Helen Barrett Montgomery A. M., D. H, L., LL. D. It is copyright 1924. In a later edition the title was changed (to say, I think, the Montgomery New Testament).
I purchased a booklet called The Magna Charta of Woman (originally in 1919 published as The "Magna Charta" of Woman "According to the Scriptures"), by Jessie Penn-Lewis. [Its scripture quotes are from the Revised Version Bible of 1884.] That book also says that according the scriptures that women don't have to be silent in the church nor keep their heads covered in church. It also says they should be allowed to preach and teach in the church and I think I read that Montgomery made a reference to that book.