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  Ayn Rand - Opinions?

  by cappytan in

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  for those of you familiar with ayn rand and her ideas on morality, rationality and reason, what is your opinion of those ideas?.

  i'm talking about her actual ideas, not the ideals that libertarianism has adopted and, in some cases, perverted.

  do you think she's a charlatan?

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  I was forced to read her book, Atlas Shrugged, for philosophy class. It was a very long read for a 19 year old with little attention span. I didn't give it much thought back then. I still have my copy from 1996, and read it again a few years ago. I can see why conservatives would hold some of her ideology in high esteem. I only know about her as an author, and the discussion I had in college some 19 years ago. I will watch these videos later tonight.

  I understand that Any Rand supposedly is the founder of Objectivism philosophy, with the main principle of laissez-faire capitalism. I don't see how this is a new concept. All one has to do is research the history of American capitalism in the early 19 hundreds. Read about Standard Oil, and see what happens to a society that has no regulation, or government intervention.
  
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  JW Table at My Student Center Today, My Response

  by breakfast of champions in

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  they're baaaack!!!

  jws "tabling" at my student center again, first time in over six months.

  i wonder if the fact it's been 15 degrees out had anything to do with it?

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  I sometimes see the JW on my college campus. They didn't have a table or cart, they just stood there with their magazine in hand. It seem like a complete waste of time.
  
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  The Theory Of Everything

  by 88JM in

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  question: should able-bodied actors play characters with disabilities?.

  i got myself into a bit of a quandary over a discussion on a facebook group.

  it was partly based on this article in the guardian:.

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  He wasn't fully disabled at age 21; it was a rather slow progression compared to others.

  A healthy man acting the part of a disable man; is called acting. Too many people whine about non-issues.
  
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  Are we heading for III World War?

  by abiather in

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  the leaders of russia, germany, france and ukraine are slated to meet in minsk (the belarusian capital) tomorrow to discuss a ukrainian peace plan!

  some countries such as hollande believe there is going to be a total war.

  when they met last year in the same place, they had put forward a peace plan (a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery, prisoner exchanges and other concessions) that were never fully implemented!

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  The book of Daniel I found to be an interesting read, and the prophesies in that book made sense to some degree. It has been argued the book was written after the events occurred.
  

  The book of Revelation reminds me of the writings of Nostradamus. By creating symbols throughout a prophesy, any time an event occurs you can claim it was prophesied by substituting the events with the symbols.
  
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  What is the furtherest your car group traveled to a return visit that counted as time?

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  growing up i lived in the middle of florida in the southern part.

  i had a friend whose father was an elder, and would stay at their homes during the weekends.

  one of the "rules", as we all know jw love rules, was that who ever spent the night had to go out in field service on saturday.

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  adjusted knowledge

  Growing up I lived in the middle of Florida in the southern part. I had a friend whose father was an Elder, and would stay at their homes during the weekends. One of the "rules", as we all know JW love rules, was that who ever spent the night had to go out in field service on Saturday. At first I dreaded the idea of being forced into field service. My dad wasn't a witness and my mother wasn't uber, so I had little pressure at home. But it turned out not to be a big deal.

  The Elder would do a return visit on Saturday to a gator farm, out in the middle of no where. It was an hour drive, and mostly entailed us watching gators be fed and harvested. So, one return visit was 2 hours in driving, and about 2 hours of BSing.

  
  
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  Which of these activities bothered you the most?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  which of these activities did you hate/bothered you the most?

  rank them from 1-5 with the most hated to the least.. .

  field service.

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  Field service was the worst. I enjoyed the assemblies, because my family rarely did anything together. It was nice to get a "vacation". It would of been so much better if I had an Ipad, but Steve Jobs was only pumping out the Apple IIs back then.
  
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  Did you go to your prom or belong to a "worldly" club while you were a witness?

  by minimus in

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  i didn't go to the prom but i did belong to a chess club until the awake article said it was a war game and suggested true christians wouldn't play such a game.

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  I didn't go to my prom, nor developed any natural friendships with my peers. I wasn't allowed any extracurricular activities that was school related. I did join a small local chess club. An Elder taught me chess and I became a solid player. I was never a master of the game, but I eventually was able to beat this Elder. He then scolded me, and said I spent too much time on chess.
  
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  New LDC Meeting KH Video

  by wifibandit in

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  been away from the site for a few days...because i have been busy getting these!!!!!!

  (pixel, thank you!

  ) they did not make it easy, plus technical difficulties.. for the main attraction:.

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  I don't know if this was touch on before, but doesn't The Society increase its liability with their business plan? They want to have complete ownership of all Kingdom Halls, leave a minimal bank balance in local congregations, provide direct communication broadcast via broadband, and make all expansion decisions.
  

  These decisions, along with their continual talks given by the Governing Body, provides evidence that The Society does not allow the congregation autonomous decision making even in local matters. A lawyer when seeking damages goes after the deepest pockets, and these broadcast, especially this one is damning evidence at the amount of control The Watchtower Inc., has over its Elders and members.

  
  
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  Man is designed to be God-oriented, shows new scientific study!

  by abiather in

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  meditation slows age-related loss of grey matter in the brain, finds a new study.

  (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150205142951.htm) (see also http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/10/health/can-meditation-really-slow-aging/index.html).

  when we eat certain type of food, it shows how it affects our body.

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  @cofty Faith is for lazy people. It is a substitute for thinking.

  So I guess you've been lazy for most of your life. You criticize people that have faith, but don't forget you not only were an Elder, but after you were DF, you involved yourself in another Church. You've only been enlighten for a decade. Though I agree with everything I've read you posted, I am reminded about a conference that Neil Degrasse Tyson attended. He stated to Dawkins and the others on stage that he was concerned with basically their harshness to those with faith. He basically stated that to change people's opinion,viewpoint, or to even think about the issue may be impacted by the hostility these atheist have towards those of faith.

  Though you are well read, and now are certain with your current belief; it wasn't that long ago you too had faith in a God. It is hard for people to accept that this life is it.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Devolution, not evolution

  by abiather in

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  scientists discovered an organism that has not evolved in more than 2 billion years (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150203104131.htm) .

  one can dismiss this as an exception*!

  yet overwhelming proofs are too obvious to miss if we take the community as an individual (community is the reflection of the behavior pattern of the individuals that make up the whole).

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  adjusted knowledge

  That is the most muddle-headed post in the history of the internet.

  Organisms only evolve if there are selection pressures. In a stable environment, with no competition there is no advantage in change.

  The rest of your post is the usual negative, cultish whinging.

  I concur. OP, you really need to read and study science. The Governing Body of Jehovah Witnesses don't want you to seek higher education, so that you remain ignorant.

  An organism, if the environment is stable, will reproduce. Not hard to understand.