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bboyneko
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Ray Franz and setting up a fund $ assistance &a...
by MrMoe inone final thing before i go on vacation:.
a while back a few of us discussed setting up a fund for ray franz, which i think is an excellent idea.
he has done so much for so many people and deserves financial help.
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Quotes
by h2o inwhile traveling near tampa, florida i passed the "jehovah's witness assembly hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.
gene spafford .
religion is the perfect justification for tyranny, because it doesn't require an ounce of reason or a shred of proof.
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At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.
If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the inpression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.
Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.
Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy
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Remote Viewing
by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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bboyneko
dave, no you didnt it will benefit JW lurkers who beleive it to be satanic work.
And I do have to contend that there is no concrete evidence for remote viewing, same as ghosts and UFO's. And same as ghosts and UGFO's, you prolly wont beleive it until you get kidnapped by a haunted UFO :)
I'm a beleiver of RV only because I saw it first hand. Before that point I was extremley skeptical and figured it was all slight-of-hand and hoaxes.
-Dan
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Paradise
by joelbear inone thing i have always wondered is this.. in the new system everything will be shared by everybody right?.
how come witnesses don't share everything with each other now in order to prepare for this?.
how come rich witnesses don't help out poor witnesses so they can come to meetings?.
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bboyneko
does sharing everything include significant others?
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Fear breeds ignorance. . .
by DCs Ghost inas requested by silver .
sometimes the truth is overshadowed by fear, .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10781&site=3.
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bboyneko
"Civilisation will not attain to its perfection
until the last stone from the last church
falls on the last priest"
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Prejudice and being a JW
by MrMoe inprejudice stems from fear.
often people are afraid of what they do not understand.
perhaps jw's are persecuted as they say, but they persecute others as well.
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bboyneko
I would say there is less racial predjudice in JWs than in the world.
How much of the governing body is composed of minorities? How about women in any position of authority?
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Matthew 25
by Farkel inwhen did we see you a stranger and receive you hospitably, or naked, and clothe you?
he was talking about food, clothing, shelter and supplication to the least of the brothers.
he could not be talking about anything else and here is why: could any human offer jesus spiritual food?
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A jogger, a woman, approached them as they stood on the KH steps and asked if she could use the bathroom....They told the jogger they were leaving; would not reopen the door and that a gas station was about 3 blocks away.
Once in the video game, The Sims I love building a giant hedge maze, place a big pot of coffee at the entrance, and at the other end of the meaze a nice toilet. They usually don't make it and up peeing themselves.
-Dan
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Remote Viewing
by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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bboyneko
I realize hypnotism is not psychic, I was simply stating that this is a bizzare fact about the human mind that we know is truth.
-Dan
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Remote Viewing
by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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bboyneko
Also President Jimmy Carter verified that remote viewers used by the CIA were succesful:
He [Jimmy Carter speaking about a 1978 incident] went on to discuss an incident in which a "special U.S. plane" (presumably a spy plane) had crashed, and a frantic effort to locate the plane yielded no results. Carter said the U.S. knew the plane had crashed in Zaire, Africa, but no one knew exactly where.
Satellite searches yielded no trace of the plane's wreckage, and in an apparent last-ditch effort to locate it, the Central Intelligence Agency called in a California woman who claimed to have psychic powers.
"I have to say that without my knowledge, the head of the CIA asked her to come in," Carter said. "She went into a trance. And while she was in the trance, she gave some latitude and longitude figures. We focused our satellite cameras on that point and the plane was there."
quotes on remote viewing:
'I never liked to get into debates with the skeptics, because if you didn't believe that remote viewing was real, you hadn't done your homework.'
Major General Edmund R Thompson, U.S. Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, 1977-81, Deputy Director for Management and Operations, DIA, 1982-84'You can't be involved in this for any length of time and not be convinced there's something here.'
Norm J., former senior CIA official who tasked remote viewers[b]'The secret is out: remote viewing exists, it works, it has been tested, proven and used in intelligence for over two decades. The recent (US) government admissions concerning the use of psychic warfare are crucial, irrefutable testimony that what I have said here is the truth...'
(U.S.) Major David Morehouse speaking after the 1995 revealtion that the CIA had funded psychics
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Remote Viewing
by funkyderek infollowing on from the anybody else had visions?
thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).
i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.
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bboyneko
It might interest some of you to know that Sony corporation of Japan funded remote viewing experiments for years:
Game over for sony corporation
by D. Trull
Enigma Editor
[email protected]"As the 21st century draws nearer, we can see that society's materialistic values, fostered in many respects by modern science and technology, have become outdated and unworthy. It is clear that we have come to another turning point in history and science. What we require to meet the challenges of these unpredictable and confusing times is a new paradigm to guide a new age. I believe that the key to this new paradigm lies in the research of biological, mental, and spiritual phenomena such as "Qi" and other psychic powers that have been overlooked by modern scientists.... I think that the results of my research could help bring about a significant revolution that might force our materialistic society to turn around, and concurrently reform the ways of modern science and technology."
--Sony ESPER Laboratory director Yoichiro Sako, speaking at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration (hosted by the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, June 1997).
The captivatingly improbable story bears the distinct flavor of an urban legend: a giant global corporation quietly conducts intensive research into ESP and paranormal abilities, while keeping its efforts heavily shrouded in secrecy. But this is no myth. The covert challenger of the unknown in this scenario is the Sony Corporation, which funded a seven-year project exploring psychic phenomena. And just to make it a perfect parable of conspiratorial folly in the techno-industrial complex, Sony claims to have proven that ESP exists, yet they shut down the psychic studies program... because they couldn't figure out a way to make a buck off it.
For years it has been reported that Sony was involved in some sort of psychic research, but the details have been few and poorly corroborated. The company plainly took deliberate measures to maintain low-key status for this most unconventional R&D unit, so that the average consumer would have no idea what strangeness might be unfolding at the home of the Discman and the PlayStation. Although more specifics are surfacing now that the program has ended, the full scope and substance of Sony's adventures in ESP remains unknown.
The founder and former director of the Sony psi labs is researcher Yoichiro Sako. With a background in mathematics and computer science, Sako first worked in a variety of multimedia and artificial intelligence departments at Sony. After establishing himself at the company, Sako began to pursue a personal interest in paranormal matters from within the bureaucratic corporate structure, like Sony's answer to Fox Mulder.
In 1990, Sony allowed Sako to head up a study on scientific evidence for the biological energy known as qi, which is an integral part of many Eastern spiritual beliefs. Sako's proposal might never have been approved were it not for the support of Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka, who is a firm believer in the principles of qi energy. The following year Sako was granted his own laboratory devoted to paranormal investigations, which was code-named ESPER (Extrasensory Perception and Excitation Research). Staffed with a small team of five researchers, Sako's program covered a wide range of phenomena, including telepathy, remote viewing, synchronicity, the practice of qi gong, the nature of consciousness, and undoubtedly much, much more.
But Sony made no announcements of its entry into a bold new field of research, and remained virtually silent on the subject of ESPER through the first several years of its existence. The company's first public acknowledgement of Sako's psi lab came in 1995, in the aftermath of the nerve gas attacks in Japan's subways. Public anxieties over the occult activities of the Aum Shinri Kyo terrorist organization forced Sony to speak out on its rumored dabblings in the supernatural.
"Sako's main interest is in pushing on the boundaries and definitions that shackle traditional science," Sony executive Mika Ishida told Wired magazine in 1996. "There might be a new type of communication system out there, a system that transmits data through mediums we've never before considered. We don't know, but we're trying to find out."
Sony's efforts to put a positive spin on ESPER were fairly successful, with the Japanese media stirring up a sensational wave of interest in the corporation's psychic laboratory, and the public responding mostly favorably. But the program also drew its share of condemnations, and among the harshest critics were dismayed executives and employees at Sony itself.
ESPER continued operations for several more years under extensive confidentiality, until Sony announced in July 1998 that the laboratory had been closed down. Only then did Sony make an official statement on the findings of the program. Quite casually and without pomp or circumstance, Sony issued the claim that its psi labs had verified the existence of psychic abilities. But there was one little problem: the company couldn't come up with any way to turn this incredible breakthrough into something marketable.
"We found out experimentally that yes, ESP exists, but that any practical application of this knowledge is not likely in the foreseeable future," Sony spokesman Masanobu Sakaguchi said in the South China Morning Post.
It seems almost like a parody of short-sighted corporate bloodthirst for profits, but there may be more to the story than that. Perhaps not coincidentally, Masaru Ibuka, the Sony founding father who blessed the founding of ESPER, died in late 1997. Some reports have speculated that Sony executives may have gladly brushed away the eccentric department once its powerful patron was out of the picture.
And what of Sony's "proof" that ESP is real? Details have emerged on two allegedly conclusive experiments that Sako's laboratory performed. One was a test of the remote-viewing type. Sako says that he would draw pictures or write words on a small square of paper, which he folded and tightly crumpled up. Then he would let test subjects make physical contact with the wadded paper, either placing it between their fingers or, bizarrely, sticking it into their ear. The subjects concentrated and drew or wrote down what they believed they could "see" on the concealed paper.
Over the course of 35 trials, Sako claims that the rate of "recognition" was an unbelievable 97.1 percent. The definition of the term "recognition" in the test is not certain, but there was apparently some degree of allowance for drawings that were judged as "close" to matching the target. Sako describes 18 of the test responses as perfect matches, some of which can be seen in the chart on this page.
How could such amazingly accurate matches be possible if not by means of ESP? It may be instructive to note that the test subjects' success rate plummeted when the wadded-up target images were placed inside an envelope. Some might call this evidence of psychic powers embedded in the tactile sense; others would call it evidence of cheating. In 1996, James Randi discredited a "psychic" Japanese girl who divined what was written on tiny pieces of folded paper. She used skillful sleight of hand to peek at the targets and trick her experimenters. It could be that Sako was similarly duped.
Another test at Sony's psi labs studied the mystical healing arts of qi gong. A qi gong practitioner would attempt to project qi energy into one of two side-by-side glasses of water. Then a second qi gong expert would attempt to determine which glass of water contained the imbued energy. Over an unspecified number of trials, the subjects reportedly named the correct glass at a rate of 70 percent. This is a statistically significant result. But without further documentation of the experiment protocol and the controls followed, it is impossible to declare it proof of a supernatural event.
Its vaunted evidence of ESP may be lacking, but the the fact that a Sony psychic center actually existed is a highly weird true phenomenon in its own right. The full story behind the ESPER lab remains to be told, and it may hold some further big surprises. Who knows, maybe the lab's shutdown is all an insidious ploy of misdirection, and Sony will one day unveil a portable Psychman mind-reading device, or a TV set equipped with telepathic remote control.
Sources: Fortean Times #115 ("Closing the Dream Factory," Patrick Huyghe); The Randi Hotline e-mail newsletter, July 8, 1998; Wired magazine, September 1996.
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