Reports out of WT land indicate that the discourse surrounding the construction of insiders and outsiders is changing with possible consequences. This worm sees things differently from the WT.
Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism
by slimboyfat 168 Replies latest jw friends
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slimboyfat
Somehow we're back on the topic of various perspectives on the earth's shape! But the important point is that we are capable of seeing the same thing differently.
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_Morpheus
That is incorrect . There are HUGE differences between attempts to categorize humans into sub categories (ie “races”) and in describing the physical shape of the planet we live on and therefore the physics of the universe.
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OrphanCrow
What I find confusing about these "different perspectives" as applied to science is this:
An inch is an inch is a f***ing inch regardless of who is looking at it
It is an inch and your positioning will not change that unit of measurement
What label we stick on that unit is redundant and only is a reflection of our cultural positioning but it doesn't change that inch. It doesn't make that unit of measurement measure anything at all other than what it says it does
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_Morpheus
You are spot on crow. What can change is what that one inch means to the observer. To an ant, one inch is huge. To an elephant, not so much. The inch never changed.
Race is an observable and even definable characteristic but it dosent change the basic fact that person being described is human. The earth is fucking sphere no matter who may observe it or try to define it Otherwise. The physics of the universe depends on it. I am all for questioning the assumed realities but the flat earth thing is a preposterous troll exceeded only by any attempt to legitimize it by arguing over it.
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slimboyfat
An inch of what?
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cofty
Postmodernism has added precisely NOTHING to human knowledge.
It is nothing but a bunch of self-important poseurs congratulating each other for their latest inscrutable ramblings.
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_Morpheus
Thats what she said, slim
😂😂😂😂😂
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OrphanCrow
sfb: An inch of what?
An inch of anything and everything or nothing at all
just an inch
Do you not know what a "unit of measurement" is?
"What" that inch is measuring has nothing at all to do with defining the inch
The inch is defining the "what", the "what" that the inch measures does not define the inch
Inch is distance and that distance does not change regardless of "what" it is applied to
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TD
Yes.
Or take Pi for example
It's the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 1 regardless of the unit of measurement. .