It is pretty contained in africa despite much poorer health systems, this is not a big deal IMO
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34I really don't understand this
by keyser soze inwhy, if you're a health care worker who's been exposed to the ebola virus, would you get on an airplane and travel right after?.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/second-texas-nurse-with-ebola-had-traveled-by-plane/ar-bb9f6bs.
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900 Top Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Macro-Evolution
by Perry inwe are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .
selection to account for the complexity of life.
careful examination of the .
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perry == troll.
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900 Top Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Macro-Evolution
by Perry inwe are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .
selection to account for the complexity of life.
careful examination of the .
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Yes 900 top scientists, each and everyone from top universities and with an extensive publication record in fields strongly connected to evolutionary biology has used their expert knowledge to determine there are problems with evolution.
This is certainly worth noticing, take for instance Mark Apkarian, one of the 900 top scientists who first obtained his PhD from the university of mexico in the field of ... kinesiology ... now employed at the top-rated ... biola university ... with an extensive publication record of ... no publications at all.
Certainly when Mark Apkarian says something, the scientific world listens!
Or to take another from the list, Suzanne Phillips, a professor of biology and (supposedly, however her webpage does not tell) leader of the biology department of the internationally acclaimed university of ... Southwestern Adventist University ... a position she landed based on her strong publications record composed of ... 5 articles ... not all of which she is the first author.
Lol. Not everyone on the list is a a joke, but you don't quite get the impression it is too hard to make the list if you have a PhD in something or another. More to the point, if we should be convinced by a person having a PhD, then would that not mean we should all subscribe to evolution since this is what most PhDs believe?
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Noam Chomsky On Artificial Intelligence , Cognitive Science , and Neuroscience
by frankiespeakin inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcqzj7_tho.
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Saw this a few months back, a really interesting panel, unfortunately they had to little time.
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Accounts of Jesus From Hostile Ancient Sources
by Perry infrom ancient accounts hostile to christinity, we can learn the following:.
jesus was born and lived in palestine.
he was born, supposedly, to a virgin and had an earthly father who was a carpenter.
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shadow:
An insignificant, illiterate, itinerant preacher with a tiny following, who went wholly unnoticed by any literate person in Judaea somehow started a religion that changed the world.
Yes, it is indeed very interesting. I am just now listening to a podcast on the first world war; did you know that the assasination attempt on Franz Ferdinand first failed and it was only by a series of coincidences the would-be assasin later that day came near Ferdinand when his car accidently stalled outside the bar where the assasin was eating a sandwhich? We could aks the same question: how did an insignificant serbian nationalist who desided to eat a sandwhich somehow cause WW1 and WW2?
Jesus started a small religion like so many others; then by wild coincidences, and because the historical circumstances was correct, that religion grew (and changed properly beyond all recognition!) to take over the remains of the roman empire and here we are today.
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How to tell how effective JW.TV will be
by bohm inhere is a simple and obvious way to tell how effective jw.tv is going to be:.
in the past, how effective has religious tv been for you?
has watching religious tv made by moonies, evangelists, mormons or scientologists made you seriously reflect on spirituality?
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jwfacts: if you made it to the end you deserve a medal :-).
Anyway, I think the use of rock music to give a more popular appeal is GREAT news. The obvious point to compare against is the the evangelic church in the US which is strugling very badly to retain the younger generation:
if there is one trend I associate with the evangelic church is is the attempt to make it appear more "cool" to the younger generation using all the techniques middle-age people assume teenagers think are cool like bad rock music, books and tv programs with biblical themes. This obviously isn't a recipe that guarantes success.
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How to tell how effective JW.TV will be
by bohm inhere is a simple and obvious way to tell how effective jw.tv is going to be:.
in the past, how effective has religious tv been for you?
has watching religious tv made by moonies, evangelists, mormons or scientologists made you seriously reflect on spirituality?
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slobbyjoe: I think the tv is already effective. It's not about conversions, it's not about donations. It's about the organization advancing due to jehovahs blessing and convincing the current jws of that.
And it will work wonders the next six months, it is already now all over facebook. Then what? Whats really next for Jehovah? A movie? A drama series with a biblical theme? childrens TV? A closed social-media platform would IMO be a disaster.
Religious TV has been done since the 80s. Other religions (most notably scientology) has been trying their best at the internet. Is this really something that is affecting us?
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How to tell how effective JW.TV will be
by bohm inhere is a simple and obvious way to tell how effective jw.tv is going to be:.
in the past, how effective has religious tv been for you?
has watching religious tv made by moonies, evangelists, mormons or scientologists made you seriously reflect on spirituality?
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Justnowout:
We don't really know what the TV is going to be comprised of yet, but lets assume that it's roughly going to be about a mix of "Sister Ann used to do drugs, now she is a jehovahs witness, see how happy she is", an old guy talking about the bible, caleb/sofia, a play or something else aimed at children and how awfull everything is in russia. In other words, it will be the average convention/meeting experience with better production value.
The point here is that (in my view) many don't really go to conventions to hear the talks which they can't recall afterwards anyway, but to show others that they go to conventions, to chat, because "that is what everyone else does", for the experience, to find a mate or to meet other people. The TV-show should more or less be compared against a DVD recording of an old convention: If this was really exciting to the average dub, DVD recordings would already circulate quite far and wide and be viewed often. I know recordings do circulate and some obviously watch them, but how often did you get a recording and watched it for the great experience in your living room? If you had access to 12 recordings, would you watch one every month? I could be wrong (never was a dub) but I would bet my girlfriend when she was the most in would not have bothered at all.
My point is not this will be a disaster, I would guess half of all jehovahs witness would watch this regularly. But getting most JWs to watch this somewhat regularly is *not* a success unless it translate into getting them more exited and involved than just going to meetings, reading magasines, doing service and once in a while a book. I just don't think TV is very effective at that.
More importantly, this is saying nothing about getting OTHER people involved. So far I cannot imagine this will be effective AT ALL for that job.
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How to tell how effective JW.TV will be
by bohm inhere is a simple and obvious way to tell how effective jw.tv is going to be:.
in the past, how effective has religious tv been for you?
has watching religious tv made by moonies, evangelists, mormons or scientologists made you seriously reflect on spirituality?
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Here is a simple and obvious way to tell how effective JW.TV is going to be:
In the past, how effective has religious TV been for you? Has watching religious TV made by moonies, evangelists, mormons or scientologists made you seriously reflect on spirituality? Has it ever made you do anything? Has it even come close?
For me, the answer is a resounding no. In my experience religious TV has always been a complete joke, even less effective by far than talks or books promoting a particular religion. I cannot put a finger on why this is the case but it just appears to be so.
Turning to the particular case of JW TV I don't even think they did a good job insofar as religious TV is concerned. What is their most important story? That they build a TV set in two months. Who exactly are going to be impressed by this information? Suppose scientology claimed to have build a TV set in a single month, would anyone give a crap?
The content was awfull; within three minutes we had both heard that the TV show was a trial yet god had helped them build the tv-set. This is both contradictory and cultish. I could not bother to watch all of it but it seems comprised of booring talks and was unecesarily bland and condescending: "what come after twelve....thirteeeeen!".
No doubt the quality will improve, but I still have a hard time imagining anyone who is not a JW would really choose to watch this type of show over other content freely available. I am also curious if even hard-core JWs will want to watch it, it seems like meeting/convention type content but without any of the social interaction or peer preasure.
It is going to make for great youtube material though.
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Is the AGM today?
by hamsterbait inanybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.
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3rdgen: lol! Hillarious