slimboyfat: How do you explain Pi without God?
I used to take you seriously, sfb
That comment, though, makes me question my perception of you
OrphanCrow
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Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism
by slimboyfat inin the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.
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.
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Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism
by slimboyfat inin the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.
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.
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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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OrphanCrow
nobody can answer my question lol.
bullshit
your question has been answered
just because you won't accept the answer doesn't mean it didn't happen
*to add: lol!
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OrphanCrow
what on earth is that quote supposed to disprove???
Basically, it disproves you
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Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism
by slimboyfat inin the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.
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.
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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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Flat earth vs round earth
by Jrjw inmy 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?.
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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 inmy 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.
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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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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 inhttps://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.
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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 inearlier 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!
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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.