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  Could you ever really relax in a self-driving car?

  by Simon in

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  i love science and technology and we are living in a golden age right now.

  the world has changed in so many incredible ways just in the time i've been alive.. my first car was a vauxhall viva.

  it was brilliant because it was my first car and represented freedom.

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  If the car was advanced enough w/ it's sensors to outperform any human for avoiding an accident then I might.
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  How much sediment would have been moved in Noah's flood?

  by Zoos in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i flew over this crate yesterday on my return home from las vegas.. .

  they say this crater was created by an asteroid about 50,000 years ago.

  then about 6000 years ago, presumably, god wiped out all life on earth with a global flood.. how much sediment would have been moved around during that flood.

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  Check out the Epic of Gilgamesh sometime. Babylon's side of the story for the great flood and many similarities and intersections with the Hebrew side.
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  How much sediment would have been moved in Noah's flood?

  by Zoos in

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  2. bible

  i flew over this crate yesterday on my return home from las vegas.. .

  they say this crater was created by an asteroid about 50,000 years ago.

  then about 6000 years ago, presumably, god wiped out all life on earth with a global flood.. how much sediment would have been moved around during that flood.

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  I have no doubt there was a flood event, but taking into account the biblical side of it, the entire physical Earth wouldn't be needed only where humans had lived.

  Having travel to Israel, Jordan, etc, I learned some things and had some observations. Israel is the lowest point in the world, the area around the dead sea, and Jerusalem is 1371 feet BELOW sea level. When I was in Jordan, the Wadi Rum desert there is a water line on the tops of all the rock/mountain like formations showing the area had been deep under water at some point in time. It's very likely if humans originated in that general area of the world that it would be completely flooded without it everything. To all human inhabited Earth, all areas humans lived could have been flooded while areas without humans were not.

  Recent evidence shows most of the water on Earth did not originate here, came after Earth's formation. Also read hypothesis about Earth potentially having had a ice ring similar to Saturn, all of this could support the flood gates of heaven opening up. (If aside from some event causing localized flooding, if there used to be a lot more dry land and those areas are under sea now).
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  Young Girl Exposes Jehovah's Witnesses at school video goes VIRAL last 2 days 273,000 views

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  original thread here.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/291080001/brave-high-school-student-exposes-abuse-corruption-within-jehovahs-witnesses.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvt_gyq-ls.

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  310,000 now 9 hours later.

  Anyway, SEND IT TO NEWS ORGANIZATIONS. Say it's becoming viral, local news, national news, if enough publish it then the rest will copy and add the story too so they can benefit from the viral views and publicity. Once that happens (it must within the next day) then it'll hit over a million views by the end of the week.
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  Brave high school student exposes abuse and corruption within Jehovahs witnesses

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvt_gyq-ls&feature=youtu.be.

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  Marked, great video! Glad it's gone viral, needed something like this!
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  Outright rejecting intelligent design is rejecting evolution

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. beliefs

  i've often heard by many that if all life on earth was created by some entity, and not the true origin of everything, then that's just passing things down and so they outright reject any sort of intelligent design and either there is evidence that everything was created by the ultimate entity or everything was spontaneous.

  if such was the thinking with evolution, then there would have been no chain to follow.

  either everything went directly from a single cell to what they are now or that's just passing things down too.

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  I find it intriguing that, among other things, Creationism teaches that a more complex entity is necessary to create a less complex one (e.g., the "God-created-man" thesis), but that the more complex one (e.g., God) was not created.

  That is religion. If creationism is along the lines of intelligent design then that's not the case. It's completely open for now. For example, we could create artificial intelligence and if programmed correctly where it becomes self aware and with limitless possibilities for learning and taking in information as well as the ability to repair and upgrade itself if the program was put into a robot or machine that allowed it to interact with the physical world as well it could far surpass us. Creationism/intelligent design doesn't have to involve religion and could be completely different than what every ancient writing says, but if the above case is similar to reality and there are fragments of truth in old writings, perhaps that is why the gods were afraid of man's potential and confused the languages.

  If life always advances down the chain then could be we came from something inferior, providing there was intelligent design. Or whatever made us kept us inferior, limiting life span, etc. But with science progression, if we were made by other biological life and programmed with genetic code, then possibly scientists will find a way to change lifespan or to change coding so our bodies can keep repairing itself and live forever.

  Your comment though is the barrier to even researching these possibilities. Take a statement of religious nature and imply that any sort of intelligent design can only apply to a religious teaching then there is no investigation into the possibility and we may forever be held back from advancing on a debate on how life originated here.
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  Outright rejecting intelligent design is rejecting evolution

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. beliefs

  i've often heard by many that if all life on earth was created by some entity, and not the true origin of everything, then that's just passing things down and so they outright reject any sort of intelligent design and either there is evidence that everything was created by the ultimate entity or everything was spontaneous.

  if such was the thinking with evolution, then there would have been no chain to follow.

  either everything went directly from a single cell to what they are now or that's just passing things down too.

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  http://www.cidmod.org/sidurisadvice/Gilgamesh.pdf

  Here are some of the parts that are interesting to me....

  page 66 on the PDF speaks of this person.l...."his body is matted with hair....with gazelles he grazes on grasses....when the hunter saw him, his expression froze, but he with his herds(the wild man) he went back to his lair.......

  (then whoever or whatever are those on the land after the hunter reports back send a harlot to seduce this wild man)

  page 73 on the pdf (The 'taming' of Enkidu)......

  "You are handsome, Enkidu, you are just like a god! Why with the beasts do you wander the wild?........Bread they set before him, ale they set before him. Enkidu ate not the bread, but look askance. How to eat bread Enkidu knew not, how to drink ale he had never been shown.......The barber groomed his body so hairy, anointed with oil he turned into a man. He put on a garment, became like a warrior...
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  Outright rejecting intelligent design is rejecting evolution

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've often heard by many that if all life on earth was created by some entity, and not the true origin of everything, then that's just passing things down and so they outright reject any sort of intelligent design and either there is evidence that everything was created by the ultimate entity or everything was spontaneous.

  if such was the thinking with evolution, then there would have been no chain to follow.

  either everything went directly from a single cell to what they are now or that's just passing things down too.

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  Epic of Gilgamesh is one small example, it describes almost an ape man or neanderthal.
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  Outright rejecting intelligent design is rejecting evolution

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've often heard by many that if all life on earth was created by some entity, and not the true origin of everything, then that's just passing things down and so they outright reject any sort of intelligent design and either there is evidence that everything was created by the ultimate entity or everything was spontaneous.

  if such was the thinking with evolution, then there would have been no chain to follow.

  either everything went directly from a single cell to what they are now or that's just passing things down too.

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  I've often heard by many that if all life on Earth was created by some entity, and not the true origin of everything, then that's just passing things down and so they outright reject any sort of intelligent design and either there is evidence that EVERYTHING was created by the ultimate entity or everything was spontaneous.

  If such was the thinking with evolution, then there would have been no chain to follow. Either everything went directly from a single cell to what they are now or that's just passing things down too.

  You can't deny that we may have been created by something else that also had it's origin elsewhere. You must go down the chain where ever it leads if you ever hope to learn the truth. By dismissing those possibilities means evidence isn't even being looked at or considered, it may be right under our eyes. Let's say were were created by other biological lifeforms, then could even be evidence on Earth or traces of them having been here we'll never figure out because it's not even considered a possibility to begin with, etc.
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  New Light! People CAN now be saved AFTER the Tribulation begins!

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for decades, i remember the society, publications, and elders saying that once the great tribulation begins, it is too late to repent or be saved.

  they said the "door of the ark will have been closed.".

  now, however, look at the brand-new clarified understanding / new light on this from jw.org, below.. they are still saying that the majority of worldly people will not be saved, but they are now saying it is possible.. the simplified july study watchtower says this:.

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  They don't even understand the bible, the old gb's made up things without ever reading in context.

  What the bible really says about the GT. In Revelation, when speaking about the congregations, those who have God's favor may be spared the ordeals that will come upon during the GT. The GT is to test those who aren't there yet, and give everybody one last chance to repent, change, etc.

  The WT very slowly at times tries to teach what it says in context vs their own ideas on cherry picking scriptures then proclaims it as divine new light when it's been there if read in context clear as crystal all along. Then all the drones get excited that they are pointing out the obvious that they never bothered to try to read since they are taught satan will infiltrate their minds if they read the bible and develop any interpretation outside of the GB's.