at one time scientists believed that living things and non-living things were made of different material, accounting for the unique properties of living things.
this idea is called vitalism and is no longer popular.
what does remain popular (in fact is still the dominant view) is a similar idea that things that experience the world (humans, frogs, mice) are different from things that don't experience the world (potatoes, rocks, snowflakes).
would a plasma constitute the melding of all the individual consciousnesses of all the included particles?
are we seeing the revival and justification of the pet rock phenomenon?
ps: just because the laws of creation/ nature allowed for the emergence of consciousness now, does not mean that it had to kick in right from the big bang on. imho
as someone who has been out a while, i wondered what publications a jw would turn to now if they want to do serious bible research.
are there any meaty jw publications left?
i haven't heard of the insight books being revised.
There are no more deep things in the cart displays, jworg. but, even current wt teachings are deep, because they are full of pitfalls, wt bible contradictions.
messages in clouds are written in water. condensed water, product of a purifying process. one that releases energy.
ha well- kind of.. i have read lots of cofty's post on evolution and tbh am so interested at his intelligent and thought proving threads.
they are all factual, unemotional and point to may scientific sources.
they cut through so may per-concieved ideas about life and do have that ring of truth.. but i feel empty and a little uncomfortable.
It would be awesome if you lived in a society that had developed the technology where programs like "Blue Planet" would create themselves as an outgrowth of our current capabilities.
That all Prior Art patents will have expired, would not mean that work was not involved.
so we all know that the special talk titled "who really is jesus christ?
" will be given before the memorial next year which is very new.
also new this year is that the special talk will be prerecorded and given by a branch committee member rather than a brother from the local congregation.
Anony Mouse:They have already demoted Jesus as being equal to them and no JW noticed,
details please? wanting to read wt tealeaves with you!
i've now seen a couple of references to this and did a little digging before leaving for work.
i saw someone on reddit in july saying that someone on the inside said a change was coming in 2018 with the jw message, and i've now seen two references to this in the past week.
help a former brother out.
If the hard ball (of ice) message is to start being preached, the anointed leadership of the WTBtS must already have disappeared.
Is not that message a feature of the great tribulation? and do not the anointed rise to their reward at the beginning of that disaster? and do not the angel dispose of the bodies of the anointed, like Jesus'>,--- just reading the tea leaves of past wt publicity. 2075 is far off.
Icecream castles in the air.
clouds are awesome, they suck more air upward. I like the lenticulars.
it has already been published and presented in a geology conference:it has been discovered that the earth´s rotation slows down a few milliseconds every so often, and when it slows down, about 5 years later there is a 5-year period where the frequency of large earthquakes around magnitude 7 or greater increases about 20-30%.so according to scientists, in 2018, around the tropical areas, we should expect around 20 major earthquakes, compared to the 15 average on a normal year.jw´s are likely to jump on this as "evidence" of the time of the end, and will probably be misquoted in a watchtower publication sometime soon.here are some news organizations covering the story:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/18/2018-set-to-be-year-of-big-earthquakeshttps://qz.com/1133304/as-earths-rotation-slows-2018-could-see-a-spike-in-large-earthquakes/.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/881536/earthquake-prediction-mexico-richter-scale-ring-of-firehttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4946729/earthquake-increase-earth-rotation-roger-bilham-tropical-region-2018/.
etc etc...here is the scientific paper (which i can´t read but if someone has access to the pdf, could you please share)?http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017gl074934/epdf?referrer_access_token=vbjkmgywttzofhkv3apupu4keas67k9qmdwultwmo8osvaslebfxhkk77yb6sfsjhcerrw6swpzkusqjvujli_iu4gpw3lhc8e988dzdvec-5e-nim3hd0bi_0wog1sqonpw4hesqbrwop_lp7uqignbyksopgnvatka48pyb2lonanvz5ehpaiaha2fika5y95lacwwxr1brsy2kk1m282ispv2uju5qsssy2kdzun57jytp1h56-wbice9ov6ipd93rnykjxybd3ykm7bjpa%3d%3dhere is the presentation to the geological society of america:.
If milliseconds in variation of rotation time trigger more and bigger quakes, imagine what should have happened in Joshua's and Isaiah's day when the earth stopped and reversed it's spin. yarns well spun.
at one time scientists believed that living things and non-living things were made of different material, accounting for the unique properties of living things.
this idea is called vitalism and is no longer popular.
what does remain popular (in fact is still the dominant view) is a similar idea that things that experience the world (humans, frogs, mice) are different from things that don't experience the world (potatoes, rocks, snowflakes).
Sbf: "..we talk about plants or even rocks having "awareness" we are not talking about high order "thinking"..."
"...Like how a candle and the sun are both combusting, but the gulf between the two is unimaginably huge..."
re examine these 2 assertions please.
lumping plants and rock into one sentence blurs the lines too much. I can imagine that the breaking forth, of flowers, leaves in spring is triggered by euphoria-like inducing chemicals, but is the plant aware? Many processes work in our bodies, that we are not aware of. or?
so... after seeing men who abuse children in the organization, i am out.
however this shit is in the "world" too.
my fellow alabama voters are still behind roy moore.
Moore of the right? how about Bill Clinton of the Democrats, and the other left skeletons left in the closed?
cigars anyone?
