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  Clickable Link Function

  by cofty in

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  hi simon - the site seems to be stripping out links.. can work around it by pasting the url but it was neater to be able to embed the link in some text.

  is it a temp glitch?.

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  KateWild

  Okay fair enough he can be a bit stubborn I've noticed that, so it wouldn't surprise me that he would make threats. Totally reasonable.
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  Terrorist attack in Belgium

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  check the news.

  there was a terrorist attack in brussells, couple of bombs detonated in the brussell airport and the metro.. 36 dead so far.. i send my sincerest condolences to the people of belgium.. the motive seems to be revenge for the capture of the last surviving member of the paris terrorist attacks..

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  KateWild

  a couple of days ago some parents withdrew their kids from the trip and told everyone to think seriously about not going as it is far too dangerous at the moment...we were joshing each other for being neurotic parents..we' re not joshing anymore. - Diog

  That's terrible Diog. The terrorists are terrorising people to cancel travel plans. My parents had booked to go to NY in Dec 2001, and I remember pleading with them not to go. They refused to be terrorised, they said they had paid and were going. I was livid, because I was pregnant and gave birth on 20th Dec and wanted my parents to meet my new born son.

  I really know how you feel. Obviously they came back safe. But they were telling me I was irrational. Doig you posted this four months ago and I missed it. I will send you a PM with the link in case you're offline for a while.

  Kick50r, they cancelled the trip after the attack not before.
  
  
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  Theocratic Greeting Cards?

  by Bangalore in

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  somebody in the uk has started a theocratic card business.looks like there is good money in jw businesses.. https://www.bennettcards.co.uk/product-category/47/theocratic-greetings-cards/.

  bangalore.

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  KateWild

  Don't you just love it that they have a card for every occasion except birthdays and holidays. Baptism come in a set for £10.95. They are expecting the speeding up as we are so close to the end. Individual cards cost £2.99.

  Soon they'll have mother, father, daughter, son etc for some of the occasions too. they don't even state how many is in a set. Could be 2.

  What a way to take advantage of innocent cult victims. Bet the company is run by Elders and pioneers and recruit JWs and pay them a shit wage.
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  Clickable Link Function

  by cofty in

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  hi simon - the site seems to be stripping out links.. can work around it by pasting the url but it was neater to be able to embed the link in some text.

  is it a temp glitch?.

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  KateWild

  I blocked some domains that came up with errors to prevent it wasting time trying to follow the links / images. It must have been a previously defunct domain at some point but since resurrected - Simon

  I read your intentions for blocking links. Your intentions are reasonable. I don't understand what...... "domains that came up with errors" means. But I know you did it because it wasn't working properly. That's all I meant.

  
  http://jwsurvey.org/

  Why doesn't this link work? It works on my computer. There seem to be no domain errors, whatever that means. the reverse works. A link to this site from http://jwsurvey.org/. Sorry to be belligerent, but I don't understand computer stuff like you and I am not insinuating anything
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  KateWild

  oops I made a mistake about the 20p there is no puzzle here.

  Toss a 20p 100 times autocatalysis never occurs you get 50 heads and 50 tails (never imbalance even at the point of formation)

  Too late to edit my post. But I will summarise in a few days.
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  KateWild

  K99,

  I am finding your link really interesting and it's more up to date than Soai's reaction. This is an excerpt

  Furthermore, such organoautocatalytic reactions should involve merely linear autocatalysis (unlike to Soai's example) in the light of lacking coordination sites at a metal allowing to form multiple catalytic aggregates. Linear autocatalysis alone, though, cannot result in the observed asymmetric amplification

  To put in simple terms

  50p yield different results that are not asymmetric amplification. I don't how to assign the 50p and I don't know the results. I haven't finished the paper but I will do some research to fill in my gaps of knowledge. I might even find out that they are talking about the 20p, but I doubt it.

  Also noteworthy is the fact there are more chemicals than coins. I have only two left, or three if you count 1p which I didn't start with. So really this also shows that I didn't randomly choose coins, I am intellectually dishonest for saying it was random. Seriously though it just highlights that many random things have organisation. Even a coin toss which usually results in 50/50. But I can see why this would be a reason why a coin toss is not a suitable way to simplify. But it was the best if you only use four chemicals.
  
  
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  Clickable Link Function

  by cofty in

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  hi simon - the site seems to be stripping out links.. can work around it by pasting the url but it was neater to be able to embed the link in some text.

  is it a temp glitch?.

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  KateWild

  You seem to be very balanced, rational, kind, forgiving and open minded. More so than me.
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  KateWild

  K99 I am interested in the link. I will read it now
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  I conclude evolution is guided

  by KateWild in

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  your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

  k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

  in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

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  KateWild

  Cofty’s Challenge.

  First of all I would like to make very clear. Cofty’s challenge doesn’t answer K99 questions about the specifics of my research and how it supports the existence of a deity. From the thread that we have both linked earlier today.

  I just have formal Applied Chemistry qualifications, cantleave can confirm this as he has the same or better qualifications. I haven’t done any specific research with regards to supporting the existence of a deity. I feel any google research I do would be bias and I would not find it credible.

  My OP is simply my opinions based on my knowledge, which may be less extensive than cantleave’s knowledge and he has the opposing opinions with similar chemistry background.

  Even though Soai solved the puzzle of homochirality this http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar5003208 is not related to this ……….

  The fourth form — the DL mixture, is not a single molecule, but a mixture of equal amounts of D and L isomers. It does not rotate polarized light (like the meso form) because the rotation of light by the D and L forms is equal in amount but opposite in direction. It is possible to separate the DL mixture into the two isomers, each of which does rotate light. In the 1840s, Louis Pasteur determined that each of the two isomers of tartaric acid rotated light in opposite directions, and the meso form was inactive in this respect. He also separated by hand, crystals of the racemic mixture to show that it was made of equal amounts of the D and L forms, making it different than the meso form of tartaric acid.

  Cut and pasted from here http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar5003208

  This is what I said in my word salad a few days ago when I discussed refractive index and racemic mixtures I think my word salad, a few pages ago says the same as this. The word meso has the exact same definition and the word racemic, which I just found out today. But they are different. A racemic mixture means the d-enantiomer and the l-enantiomer are not chemically bonded, and a meso compound means that the enantiomers have positively and negatively charged ions and this means the enantiomers are chemically bonded. I learnt this today. It was fun. Another difference is that a meso compound apparently cannot be separated and a racemic mixture can. Because Luis Pasteur said that the meso compound is not optically active. But it’s very likely that a chemist has found a way to do it today. People are on forums discussing it. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.chem/C_vvHxrufhQ

  Cofty if you understand your link I am confused why you don’t understand my cut and paste, my word salad, and why my conclusion or opinion has nothing to do with solving the puzzle of homochirality.

  But you gave me a challenge to put it in simple terms so I will.

  Skip to simplification if you wish

  I am going to explain it in terms of a coin toss and probabilities. Cofty, I know you think it’s NOTHING like a coin toss. I saw your caps lock comment before you deleted it, using caps lock doesn’t substantiate your point. Explain succinctly why a coin toss explanation is wrong. If you prefer to use caps lock to explain it feel free to do so, but caps lock has no bearing on any information I read.

  I am going to assign…………….

  l-enantiomer = heads

  d-enantiomer = tails

  Alanine = 2p

  Glucose = 5p

  Methanol = 10p

  Tartaric acid = 20p

  The size of the coins has no bearing on scale in relation to the size of the molecule. I just assigned the coins randomly. You could invert the assignment too if you like.

  Toss a 2p 100 times autocatalysis always occurs you get 99 heads

  Toss a 5p 100 times autocatalysis always occurs you get 99 tails (never heads)

  Toss a 10p 100 times autocatalysis never occurs you get 48 heads 52 tails or 52 heads 48 tails (slight imbalance)

  Toss a 20p 100 times autocatalysis never occurs you get 52 heads 48 tails or 48 heads 52 tails (slight imbalance)

  The probability of these results without guidance is lower than the probability of these results with guidance. Each different coin or chemical will always yield the same results.

  The website I found my word salad on is just a company that sells tartaric acid. It’s not an organic chemistry book. So if you dispute it’s credibility that’s fine. I won’t argue with that. But I know it’s right because I learnt my word salad from an organic chemistry book that I can’t reference because I gave it away. But I might buy a new one, because it’s useful.

  K99 this in no way is evidence that supports the existence of a deity. I don’t claim to have this evidence.

  Angus I agree that this is evidence of guidance by the laws of physics and chemistry perhaps the creators name is Laws of Physics and Chemistry. Does that mean I am a deist or pantheist, or believe in Spinoza’s God? I actually think I believe in Sam’s God, a definition of my very own that no one else has.

  Yes I agree also that life is what chemistry does. If there was no chemistry there would be no life. But that’s abiogenesis. A different thread.
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  Clickable Link Function

  by cofty in

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  2. tech-support

  hi simon - the site seems to be stripping out links.. can work around it by pasting the url but it was neater to be able to embed the link in some text.

  is it a temp glitch?.

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  KateWild

  Thanks for sorting this out. I actually suspected Simon was blocking it, that's why I was suspicious. But he was blocking it for different reasons anyway, so I shouldn't have shown needless credulity.

  I suppose I am completely not trusting as opposed to gullible. I need to develop more balance. I left WT in Nov 2013 and it's surprising that I haven't really fully recovered as I thought I had. Being a JW is still impacting me today.

  Whereas K99 is still in and doesn't seem to be affected at all since he woke up.