Posts by HintOfLime

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Cheater?

by vikesgirl101 in

my boyfriend introduced me to a couple that he has been close to off and on for several years.

i immediately loved the wife, who is cool, outgoing and fun.

we just clicked.

HintOfLime

I've been cheated on, and Avishai says it right. You don't blame a new car for the mechanical failures of the previous car, do you? So don't blame a new friend on the faults of the previous love.

We're all human, and in the same circumstance, we might well fall prey to the same mistakes (despite our moral intentions). So stop judging people over crap that is in the past, allow them to be themselves, grant them freedom to do what they want to do, and enjoy what is happening now.

And tell your boyfriend to grow up and leave the past in the past.

- Lime

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Did You Feel The Love As A Jehovah's Witness?

by minimus in

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other than feeling "love bombed" when you first started associating with the "brotherhood", did you experience the "love" in your years within the organization?.

if you felt truly loved, was it in reality, a "conditional love"?.

HintOfLime

Not at all.

Our congragation was repeatedly counciled regarding gossip, slander, social cliques, and the endless bickering in the hall.

There were literally three 'camps' every newcommer would have to choose from, and they were always at war with eachother. The "quick-witted" camp that endlessly teased everyone else, the "materialistic" witnesses (anyone from Evil California), and then the super-witnesses.

It was very difficult to find love there, as everything was so polorized, and if you were loved by one group, you were hated by 2 other groups. I think it may have been a factor in the 2 suicides the congragation had in the 9 years I was there.

I once got in trouble with my parents for the remarking on how kids at my high school got along better than the witnesses.

- Lime

21

What good was Field Service?

by BurnTheShips in

it seems like a massive waste of time.. how many people would successfully convert to the witnesses from field circus?

it was pretty much a waste of time in spanish language the last several years, and yet english language bros would join the spanish congos because they thought it was so much more productive!.

bts.

HintOfLime

It stimulates the american economy by burning through tons of gasoline. (And chocolate milk and donuts)

- Lime

12

MJ's own beliefs re "Where is Michael Jackson Now?"

by Spike Tassel in

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http://www.lasentinel.net/where-is-michael-jackson-now.html.

HintOfLime

Last I heard, he's still dead.

- Lime

17

Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism

by whereami in

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has anyone ever read this?.

most atheists come from a family where the father was missing, dead, weak or abusive.

paul c. vitz has written a very interesting book entitled faith of the fatherless: the psychology of atheism (spence, 1999).. .

HintOfLime

At least in my case, my father and I were, and still are pretty close. We spent over 10 years in business together, and talk every few days on the phone (in spite of his being a JW elder and my being an athiest).

Meh. Generalizations.

- Lime

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Paleontologists Brought to Tears, Laughter by Creation Museum

by leavingwt in

paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by creation museumthe museum argues that the fossil record has been misinterpreted and that tyrannosaurus rex was a vegetarian before adam and eve bit into that sin-inducing apple.. jardine, a palaeobiologist graduate student from the university of birmingham, was having fun on the tour, but told a reporter that he was disturbed by the museum's cartoonish portrayal of scientists and teachers.. "i feel very sorry for teachers when the children who come here start guessing if what they're being taught is wrong," jardine said.. arnie miller, a palentologist at the university of cincinnati who was chairman of the convention, said he hoped the tour would introduce the scientists to "the lay of the land" and show them firsthand what's being put forth in a place that has elicited vehement criticism from the scientific community.. http://www.physorg.com/news165555744.html.

paleontology and creationism meet but dont mesh .

but here in the creation museum in northern kentucky, earth and the universe are just over 6,000 years old, created in six days by god.

HintOfLime

When you don't know the explanation for something and need to fill in the blanks, faith can.

OR... you could just say "I don't know" and not try to fill in any blanks. Leave the blanks for someone else with a more sophisticated brain (no offense meant - I certainly can't connect all these dots) to try to internalize a model of these things and provide us with an answer.

"I don't know" is the most honest answer I've ever heard. And "I don't know" doesn't require any sort of 'faith' - just humble agreement.

- Lime

50

Questions regarding Shamus 100

by beksbks in

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friends

what's up with that guy?

was he ever really a monkey?

and why do his threads suck?.

HintOfLime

He never was a monkey, but rather, he shares a common ancestor with monkeys and the other primates. It's an evolutnary biologist joke. Get it? Wakka-wakka!!

- Lime

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Paleontologists Brought to Tears, Laughter by Creation Museum

by leavingwt in

paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by creation museumthe museum argues that the fossil record has been misinterpreted and that tyrannosaurus rex was a vegetarian before adam and eve bit into that sin-inducing apple.. jardine, a palaeobiologist graduate student from the university of birmingham, was having fun on the tour, but told a reporter that he was disturbed by the museum's cartoonish portrayal of scientists and teachers.. "i feel very sorry for teachers when the children who come here start guessing if what they're being taught is wrong," jardine said.. arnie miller, a palentologist at the university of cincinnati who was chairman of the convention, said he hoped the tour would introduce the scientists to "the lay of the land" and show them firsthand what's being put forth in a place that has elicited vehement criticism from the scientific community.. http://www.physorg.com/news165555744.html.

paleontology and creationism meet but dont mesh .

but here in the creation museum in northern kentucky, earth and the universe are just over 6,000 years old, created in six days by god.

HintOfLime

Hint of lime.. You seem to be denying the laws of the universe always existed. or maybe I misunerstand what you are saying, can you clarify the following?

I am not saying that the laws of the universe were 'created'. There is no reason to think that "1 + 1 = 2" suddenly became true at the big bang. We do know that the universe began at some point (because we can follow the trajectory of all known galexies to a common origin), and we know the universe follows rules of physics and mathmatics. What caused the universe... or what came before it.. is something we will probably never know. That knowledge is likely lost and time, and forever outside of our perspective.

But just because something is outside of our perspective does NOT mean that suddenly anything goes. I may not know what is inside a particular sealed cardboard box... but the fact that I don't know what is inside of it doesn't make the odds better that a fairy is inside of it.

Physics and mathmatics are the gods of our universe. Most likely, they were the gods of the universe before all that we see through telescopes came to be as well.

- Lime

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Paleontologists Brought to Tears, Laughter by Creation Museum

by leavingwt in

paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by creation museumthe museum argues that the fossil record has been misinterpreted and that tyrannosaurus rex was a vegetarian before adam and eve bit into that sin-inducing apple.. jardine, a palaeobiologist graduate student from the university of birmingham, was having fun on the tour, but told a reporter that he was disturbed by the museum's cartoonish portrayal of scientists and teachers.. "i feel very sorry for teachers when the children who come here start guessing if what they're being taught is wrong," jardine said.. arnie miller, a palentologist at the university of cincinnati who was chairman of the convention, said he hoped the tour would introduce the scientists to "the lay of the land" and show them firsthand what's being put forth in a place that has elicited vehement criticism from the scientific community.. http://www.physorg.com/news165555744.html.

paleontology and creationism meet but dont mesh .

but here in the creation museum in northern kentucky, earth and the universe are just over 6,000 years old, created in six days by god.

HintOfLime

Nobody created God. You don't have to be a genius to understand that. The uncaused Cause, by definition.

If God can 'just happen'... and God is intellegent (intellegence requires a system of organized connections to sort, process, build internals models of, and act upon data.. so complex we haven't figured everything out yet, just the basics)....

Then it is much more likely it is that the universe 'just happened' - a bunch of stupid dust bouncing off itself until physical laws like gravity reigned in over the chaos to create patterns (which can be demonstrated on a graphic calculator).

Why resort to a complicated solution when a simpler solution exists? (Oh right,.. death is scary.)

- Lime

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Paleontologists Brought to Tears, Laughter by Creation Museum

by leavingwt in

paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by creation museumthe museum argues that the fossil record has been misinterpreted and that tyrannosaurus rex was a vegetarian before adam and eve bit into that sin-inducing apple.. jardine, a palaeobiologist graduate student from the university of birmingham, was having fun on the tour, but told a reporter that he was disturbed by the museum's cartoonish portrayal of scientists and teachers.. "i feel very sorry for teachers when the children who come here start guessing if what they're being taught is wrong," jardine said.. arnie miller, a palentologist at the university of cincinnati who was chairman of the convention, said he hoped the tour would introduce the scientists to "the lay of the land" and show them firsthand what's being put forth in a place that has elicited vehement criticism from the scientific community.. http://www.physorg.com/news165555744.html.

paleontology and creationism meet but dont mesh .

but here in the creation museum in northern kentucky, earth and the universe are just over 6,000 years old, created in six days by god.

HintOfLime

Every year, DNA and fossil evidence supporting the theory of evolution gets stronger. Every year, biologists make predictions based on principles established by Darwin's theory, and so far, those predictions have delivered (for example, the difference in chromosome count between humans and other primates prompted scientists to wonder why. Using the theory of evolution, scientist predicted that as we shared an ancestor, we should find that one of our chromosomes formed from the fusing of two others. As predicted, human chromosome 2 exhibits this pattern.) Every year, the theory is upheld by thousands of experiments and observations.

Unfortunately, creationists couldn't embrace the concept when it was young - it would mean conceding defeat as it were, at least on some points. Now, like the little kid caught telling a lie, they dig their heels in more and more, making fools out of themselves with ridiculous abominations like this 'creation museum'. The only hope left for creationists is that God will suddenly appear one day, and all these nasty little facts will go away.

Meanwhile, in the real world, eventually all medicine could very likely be based on genetics and evolutionary biology. People will move past this speed-bump of hard-headedness, and when they have, what will they write in their history books about those who lost at the Dover trial?

Evolution isn't new, and while the theory may be improved, it isn't going to go away. Best get used to the idea.

- Lime