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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  Corbyn is popular. It's just that it's only amongst enough of his own party to ensure he can be voted leader. Twice.

  This country's politics are seriously screwed. I want to see credible opposition to the Tories. I want to see May held to account for whatever the Brexit deal ends up being. I want to see them held to account for the cuts to social care and the welfare state, especially mental health care. This is what Corbyn speaks yet cannot manage to translate into a message that engages with the enough of the UK population to be considered in the least bit credible.

  The Liberals are no less of a joke. They paid the price for allowing Cameron to screw them right up the arse in return for a seat at the table and may never recover.

  UKIP have been a nice middle ground for white, working class traditional Labour voters to migrate to the Tories on the back of fears of immigration and perceived loss of sovereignty.

  This election will be a landslide for the Tories (except in Scotland and Wales). Labour will remain a nonsense and the Liberals back to being a squeaky noise on the side just like in the Spitting Image days.

  May has made a sensible and tactical decision that secures the Tories in power for at least another 5 years and probably another 5-10 past that. Not only that, they will have no serious opposition for years to come. And that's a joke.
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  So, any comments from the Memorial?

  by NewYork44M in

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  perhaps i missed the comments, but i did not see a lot of comments from, or about, the memorial.

  it happened last night, right?.

  in years past the jwn board was hot with comments.

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  err - I went....

  ...and had a nice 45 minute snooze which some plonker spoiled by thrusting a plate and glass in my hand.
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  What on earth is happening to Arsenal?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  it turns out arsenal were soundly beaten 3-0 yesterday by crystal palace.

  apparently, the score-line flattered arsenal, not palace.. arsenal have conceded 3 goals in each of their last 3 away games and lost those games.

  a few weeks ago, they lost 10-2 over two legs to bayern munich.

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  They're still the greatest team the world has ever seen...

  No they're not.
  
  
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  Scientism - Nothing But a Childish Insult?

  by cofty in

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  it is not uncommon for theists to accuse rational people on this forum of "scientism".. in my opinion it is nothing but a cheap shot from those who know they lack evidence for their beliefs.

  if something like "scientism" actually does exist then i have never encountered it.. here is part of an exchange from another thread - i have brought it here as it was off-topic.... scientism = claim of scientific method being universal and the only valid method of knowledge.

  followers of scientism always demand scientific evidence to anything.

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  Testimonial evidence is accepted as valid in Law for instance

  A witness saying "I saw that man in the dock rob the bank" is not the same as "I prayed for something nice to happen to me today and then someone put a £50 through my letterbox therefore God answered my prayer."
  
  
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  Scientism - Nothing But a Childish Insult?

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it is not uncommon for theists to accuse rational people on this forum of "scientism".. in my opinion it is nothing but a cheap shot from those who know they lack evidence for their beliefs.

  if something like "scientism" actually does exist then i have never encountered it.. here is part of an exchange from another thread - i have brought it here as it was off-topic.... scientism = claim of scientific method being universal and the only valid method of knowledge.

  followers of scientism always demand scientific evidence to anything.

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  I don't think is possible to have scientific evidence about God.

  Which is convenient.
  

  But there are physical evidence, testimonial evidence, logical evidence and metaphysical evidence (like visions, prayers, intuition, etc).

  You mean evidence which is baseless interpretation, highly subjective, carries a high risk of confirmation bias, difficult to independently verify, not subject to peer review and so on. In other words, everything that scientific method has been developed to avoid.
  
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and Love

  by Cold Steel in

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  comments?

  stories?

  reminiscences?.

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  I think there can be a lot of love amongst Witnesses. The problem is that it is conditional.

  If you watch The Path on Amazon there is a character who is removed from the cult and goes to see another person who has been out of the cult for help. The guy can't help him and as he is leaving the character says...

  "I wish I hadn't believed you lost your worth when you lost your faith"

  This is exactly what happens with Witnesses. You lose faith and you lose your worth, your human capital, with those still in.
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  Mathematically Measuring Evolution.

  by towerwatchman in

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  mathematically measuring evolution.. when judging relationships in terms of morphological characteristics we will always be bound by the subjective.

  morphologically one cannot exactly measure the distance between two organisms strictly in mathematical terms.

  using the standard method of taxonomy we cannot quantify the difference between a horse and a mouse, or know which is closer mouse to cat, or mouse to fish.

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  Interestingly enough data analysis is exactly what has resulted in a new paper being presented that questions the classic two groups of dinosaurs - bird hipped and lizard hipped.

  http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/t-rex-gets-new-home-shakeup-dino-family-tree

  The work is causing some waves and the hypothesis may yet be proven false however the interesting thing is how the conclusions have been reached.

  It is not possible to examine dinosaur DNA to work out the genetic relationships but it is possible to examine different traits in the skeletons and process this massive dataset to look for similarities and patterns.

  The author of the paper was interviewed in a recent BBC Radio 4 Science programme and he is expecting his findings to be rigorously challenged because this is how science works but is nevertheless a great example of how mathematics can be scientifically used to understand the evolutionary process.
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  Mathematically Measuring Evolution.

  by towerwatchman in

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  mathematically measuring evolution.. when judging relationships in terms of morphological characteristics we will always be bound by the subjective.

  morphologically one cannot exactly measure the distance between two organisms strictly in mathematical terms.

  using the standard method of taxonomy we cannot quantify the difference between a horse and a mouse, or know which is closer mouse to cat, or mouse to fish.

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  Absolutely. Brilliant.
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  JW Russia Ban Threat Being Reported on BBC

  by konceptual99 in

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  just for information really.. the bbc is reporting the jw ban.

  they have a news article and have been running a video report amongst headline items on the bbc world news channel.

  the article is below, i cannot find the video report online yet.

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  Just for information really.

  The BBC is reporting the JW ban. They have a news article and have been running a video report amongst headline items on the BBC World News channel. The article is below, I cannot find the video report online yet. The video report highlights the wider impact of the law on extremism on free speech including an atheist and political activists.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39304984
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  Apologists saying that the JWs shouldn't be banned, what the hell!??

  by Crazyguy in

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  it's been brought to my attention that there are xjw that say they support the witnesses and don't think russia should ban them.

  i would just like to remind all of you that jws are guilty of murder, causing higher rates of suicide, covering up child molestation, and keeping members in prisoned because if they leave they loose family, financial support, possible employment etc.. sure their not strapping bombs to their chests but they easily get members to kill themselves with their blood policies.

  they are an extremist group!

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  Criminalising 150,000+ people does not protect Russia.

  The undermining of human rights and the abuse of the legal system to do so by the government is far more dangerous to the Russian people. Extremism is growing in Russia but it's actually government sponsored thuggery and a growing sense of freedom for right wing and nationalistic groups that is the real concern.