Coded Logic

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  Could trends and group think be evidence of a form of telepathy?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  i was thinking the other day about trends.

  think back over the decades and how generally the majority of people will feel or like or dislike the same things.

  people comment how awful and ugly things that trended in the past were.

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  I don't feel we should be surprised at all that similar brains processing similar information will arrive at similar conclusions.

  In any sufficiently complicated system emergent properties almost always arise. At every scale things are more than the sum of their parts. Atoms are not just quantitatively greater than the neutrons, protons and electrons of which they are made -but they're also qualitatively greater. That is to say, atoms have properties that its parts don't.

  As we scale up complex molecules have properties that the atoms of which they are composed simply don't - like metallic, ionic, and covalent bonds. Chains of these molecules - like RNA and DNA - also have emergent properties - like self replication. Put enough of these self replicating molecules together and suddenly you have something even greater - like cell. Put a whole bunch of cells together and you end up with something even greater - like an animal. Put enough of these animals together - like humans - and you get something even greater - like societies and cultures.

  And trends in culture shouldn't surprise us. To the contrary - they are to be expected. No telepathy required.
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  My RC hearing brought forward. Will be in two weeks

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  through this forum of wonderful freaks, i have met someone who is coming with me to my hearing.

  initially i was slated for next year, but will be attending in two weeks time.

  all is in place from travel vouchers, support, where to go ............very efficient and well done.

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  I feel there are several things that can be done to help protect the victims:

  1.) When an Elder or MS first hears of a child abuse complaint they should be required to encourage the accuser and or guardian to file a police report.

  2.) Regardless of the accuser's and or guardian's intention to - or not to - file a police report the Elder or MS must make the authorities aware of the complaint.

  3.) Any and all testimony taken from the accuser by the Elders must be recorded and made available to the authorities upon request.

  4.) Any and all testimony taken from the accused by the Elders must be recorded and made available to the authorities upon request.

  5.) Upon receiving a complaint of child abuse the Elders must inform the congregation that a child abuse complaint has been made by one of the congregation members against another congregation member. If the accuser and accused are in separate halls the notice must be made in both halls. The identity of both the accuser and accused must remain confidential.

  6.) If the accused confesses to the Elders that they abused a child then the identity of the accused and nature of their crime must be made public to the congregation. If the accused transfers to another congregation the new congregation shall be made aware of the name accused and that they have admitted to child abuse.

  7.) If an individual has been convicted of child abuse in the court of law it shall be made known to their congregation by the elders that their is a convicted child abuser in the congregation and the identity of the offender. When the individual transfers to a new congregation it shall be made know by the elders that individual is a convicted child abuser.

  8.) If a complaint is made in a hall or it becomes known that a convicted child abuser is in the congregation a special public needs talk shall be given on what children should do if they are abused, on what members should do if they suspect a child has/is being abused, and what legal resources are available to them.

  9.) Parents who have children that are minors in a congregation that has a confessed or convicted child abuser must be allowed to transfer their families to another congregation if they wish to without interference from the BOE.
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  Does this sound like a man who is inspired by God?

  by Coded Logic in

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  absolutely disgusting!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzc2m8_mba.

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  Coded Logic

  Well clearly women who "run a company, a university, a science department and even a country" must be homosexuals.

  ;)
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  Does this sound like a man who is inspired by God?

  by Coded Logic in

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  absolutely disgusting!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzc2m8_mba.

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  I'd still use it. Doesn't matter when he said it. He's never walked back the statement. And he IS a member of the GB!
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  One possibility…?

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  tornintwo's recent topic spurred me finally to post an idea i've been thinking about.

  i don't see the gb as being financially greedy.

  yes, they enjoy numerous perks like having their physical needs met by servants, jetting around the planet, living in a greater degree of comfort than fellow bethelites, getting frequent and sometimes expensive gifts from the r&f, etc.

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  Coded Logic

  nonjwspouse,

  
  

  I've often wondered that too - how much authority do the GB actually have in financial matters? And who really is running the show?

  I can't say for sure but over the past couple of years I've come to suspect that no one is truly in charge. It's just a whole bunch of people following other people following others. But how could we ever know?
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  The Exodus confirmed..

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
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  for those of you that don't research this stuff i will give a little back story.

  we all know about the moses exodus, but history and archeology didn't seem to confirm this event.

  the only exodus out of egypt ever recorded was that of a group of asiatic tribes that had taken over egypt for a bit over 100 years called the hyksos and the followers of the pharaoh akhenaten who perpetuated a monotheistic idea of worshiping only one deity the aten.

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  I think this makes better sense then to think the whole story was just made up.
  -Crazyguy

  In what way does it makes more sense?
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  We discovered a Dyson Sphere! . . . maybe

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
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  okay, okay, okay - i know we're not supposed to jump to conclusions.

  but the odds this is a "naturally occurring event" are pretty low.

  and it's just the sort of megastructure we would expect an advanced alien civilization (type 2) to build.

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  But despite the evidence, they're still not ready to discount the alien megastructure idea entirely. "We can't really say it is, or is not," said Marengo.

  
  

  Yup, definitely aliens!!!

  jk
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  The Burden of Being Right by Tim Minchen

  by cofty in

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  Coded Logic

  Well said. And it's a difficult idea for people to get their heads around.

  The percentage of a population who believes a particular claim says nothing about the validity of that claim. The majority of people in antiquity used to believe that the Earth was flat - but that didn't mean the Earth was any less spherical back then. Only that Eratosthenes was one of very few people who was right (240 B.C).

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8QWuSn_Wxw
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  The Exodus confirmed..

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those of you that don't research this stuff i will give a little back story.

  we all know about the moses exodus, but history and archeology didn't seem to confirm this event.

  the only exodus out of egypt ever recorded was that of a group of asiatic tribes that had taken over egypt for a bit over 100 years called the hyksos and the followers of the pharaoh akhenaten who perpetuated a monotheistic idea of worshiping only one deity the aten.

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  Coded Logic

  So if we just ignore what is meant by "The Exodus" and redefine it to mean "any exodus" we can confirm it actually happened? Really?

  The writer of the OP seems to be confused about what "The Exodus" is. Namely, 2 million Israelites who left Egypt by walking across floor of the Red Sea and then went off to wander in the desert for forty years under the guidance of the patriarch Moses.

  Anything else is not "The Exodus". It may be the origins of the story of "The Exodus" or it may be completely unrelated. But either way it doesn't confirm the event. The linked article is a fascinating bit of speculation but - until such a time as we have good reasons to believe the Hyksos were the origins of story - the proposal is ". . . not only not right - it's not even wrong."

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/288811/science-stoppers
  

  
  
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  Apathy carts - Apathy D-2-D

  by Zoos in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i think it was punkofnice who came up with the phrase, "apathy carts".

  how apropos.. yesterday i encountered a car group of witnesses in my community as i was coming home from the gym.

  actually, their van was blocking me from entering my driveway.

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  Coded Logic

  I remember not wanting to be the person knocking if I suspected someone was home. And if someone was out raking their yard or tinkering in their garage we would mostly skip those too because the people were "busy".