Posts by OrphanCrow

i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).

but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.

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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Flat earth vs round earth

by Jrjw in

my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

what are people's thoughts on this?.

OrphanCrow

sfb: Things appear differently from different perspectives. How you describe something depends on how you look at it and the reason for the description. The trouble is we simply cannot see things from a perspective that is not our own. For some people this inability to see from other perspectives leads them to conclude that other perspectives in some sense are not real or that they are inferior in some essential respecf.

When you apply the concepts of a postmodernist theoretical positioning to science, the end result is science fiction

Don't confuse fiction with fact by assuming that postmodernism can be applied with impunity to the scientific process

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Wave your phone lights and dance at the Assemblies!

by days of future passed in

my sister sent me this youtube.

in it are witnesses waving their phone lights and dancing in the aisles.

sorry if this vid has been posted before.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k7iw-zisgw.

OrphanCrow

dubstepped: How was that video less than 2 minutes? It felt like an eternity watching it. Wow.

Yeah me too. Same feeling. It never ended. I confess to doing the skip ahead thing. I thought it would never end and it was still under one minute when I became...wow

Did anyone else notice the guy(s) taking photos and videos of face shots of the people having fun etc? I had the impression that the whole thing was done for a photo shoot of some kind. Watch for smiling happy laughing faces in some new videos and/or brochure they will put out. Or maybe the org has a contract to sell happy faces images to somebody

Damn I am cynical, huh?

*it felt like I was watching some kind of teambuilding exercise - "how to build enthusiasm thru participatory auditory and kinetic activity". Haha! I confess to scrolling thru youtube to try to find an Amway convention with singing and dancing but...no luck

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The Scientific Method

by cofty in

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OrphanCrow

captaingrl - joined one day ago

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and makes this statement:

"science is not progressing like it used to"

Shaking my head, trying to come up with a response to that...nope, can't do it. It is too stupid. Can't deal with stupid this early in the day

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St Petersburg Assembly Hall to be given to Russian scientists

by OrphanCrow in

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https://realty.newsru.com/article/26dec2017/iegov_med.

(the following article is translated using google translate).

the building selected in "jehovah's witnesses" in st. petersburg will be given to scientistsdecember 26, 2017 publication time: 09:42. in a building selected from a banned organization in russia, "jehovah's witnesses", will soon be able to read scientific lectures.

OrphanCrow

AndersAnderson:
Apparently the branch office building was owned by Watchtower Pennsylvania, and CCJW Russia then leased it (back)?

Something like that

The property, that the Russian JWs contributed funds and labor towards and had owned at the beginning, was transferred (given away) to the American corporation back in 2000, I believe. It was when the org was facing yet another court case in Russia and they had been banned in Moscow at the time. They transferred ownership of the Russian donations out of their own country in anticipation of this very moment.

Basically, they engaged in quasi-fraudulent behavior and now they are using that behavior to whine about losing their property

And noteworthy too is the failure of the org to scream about the "religion" being discriminated against. Now, the concern is that Russia is being bad towards the org doing business in Russia.

Yeah. Well that was the whole idea all along. As a religion, the org was doing business that wasn't in their charter as a religion to do. And now they whine. Typically, the org is following a century of WT deceptive behavior - they want their cake and they want to eat it too.

The org has spent over a century trying to deceive everyone around them - they pretend to be a religion and yet the org's purpose is to siphon money from other countries around the world all the while claiming that the American corporation is "helping" foreign JWs. It is an upside down and backwards corporate structure that claims to be a religion

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Latest JW.org Statistics Are Confusing & Lack Context

by steve2 in

earlier this week a new post on this forum announced that the 2017 worldwide annual service report was available on jw.org.

wow - that's earlier than the statistics for the 2016 service year which appeared in the 2017 yearbook last january!

good effort, jw organization!

OrphanCrow

Justme2: Is there anyone with access to the old yearbooks who could check this out?

Here you go. This is your very own "access to the old yearbooks":

http://www.watchtowerwayback.org/en/static1/library

Look under "books" and you will find the yearbooks. Search for the years that you think the chart that you want to access could be in.

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St Petersburg Assembly Hall to be given to Russian scientists

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

https://realty.newsru.com/article/26dec2017/iegov_med.

(the following article is translated using google translate).

the building selected in "jehovah's witnesses" in st. petersburg will be given to scientistsdecember 26, 2017 publication time: 09:42. in a building selected from a banned organization in russia, "jehovah's witnesses", will soon be able to read scientific lectures.

OrphanCrow

https://realty.newsru.com/article/26dec2017/iegov_med

(The following article is translated using google translate)

The building selected in "Jehovah's Witnesses" in St. Petersburg will be given to scientists
December 26, 2017 publication time: 09:42

In a building selected from a banned organization in Russia, "Jehovah's Witnesses", will soon be able to read scientific lectures. The city authorities will give the former site for worship to the medical research center named after VA Almazov. The building on Kolomyazhsky Prospekt is planned to be used as a place for conducting educational programs. In the building there is a huge cult hall and the largest toilet in St. Petersburg.
"There is a pilot project according to which in accordance with the President's decree on the basis of the building on Kolomyazhsky Avenue, 21 it is planned to organize a scientific and educational platform, " the medical center told Interfax .
According to the website of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in Russia, the center for holding religious meetings on Kolomyazhsky Avenue, 21 opened in September 1999. The building was built according to the project of the Finnish architect Helenios Osmo Ilmari. The cult hall with an area of more than 1.4 thousand square meters. meters in the days of congresses could hold 1,6 thousand people. According to the site, the center has the largest toilet in the city, equipped, in particular, for people with disabilities. Also ramps for the disabled are equipped with an entrance to the building, and in the very center there are elevators.
An informed source told Interfax that the Russian representative office of Jehovah's Witnesses had 55 real estate properties in St. Petersburg, the total cadastral value of which exceeds 2.1 billion rubles. The total area of objects is about 190 thousand square meters. meters.
"The court turned 16 objects previously belonging to the religious organization in the village of Solnechnoye in the village of Solnechnoye.The interested authorities will in the future order to draw up the necessary documents through the Federal Property Management Agency and the Ministry of Justice of Russia, which originally filed a lawsuit on the prohibition of the activities of the "Jehovah's Witnesses" in Russia.For each facility, a decision will be made about its further use, "the agency's interlocutor explained.
Recall that in early December, the Sestroretsky Court of St. Petersburg seized 16 real estate assets of "Jehovah's Witnesses", including a former pioneer camp of 10 hectares with many buildings. The cadastral value of all facilities is 880 million rubles, but the market value of buildings may reach 2 billion rubles. The religious organization was accused of transferring property to the US legal entity under the gift agreement, but continued to use these buildings even after the ban on activities in Russia.
Let's remind that in the summer the Ministry of Justice of Russia included the religious organization "Management Center of" Jehovah's Witnesses "in Russia" and 395 of its branches in the list of banned organizations liquidated for extremism.

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Hi, all...I'm a faithful JW who is sick of lies about us

by James Donalds in

i was baptized 30 years ago and have been in the faith for over 35 years.. our organization isn't perfect.

but i'm sick to death of seeing stereotypes about us.

we are not mindless automatons.

OrphanCrow

Haha!

James is likely counting each response on this thread as a "Bible Study"

That should get those failing numbers up