Posts by rmt1

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Scientists Find One Source of Prayers Power

by alecholmesthedetective in

this is an interesting article from scientific american about a study on how prayer helps increase one's self-control through social connection.

this adds to previous research on the subject.

it's a short article and a worth read.. .

rmt1

I would put prayer with methods of intense visualization and with the hypothesis that dreams are drills or rehearsals. The mother-in-law preaches "Law of Attraction" where you can attract good things if you concentrate on good things but bad things if you concentrate on bad things, with "manifestation" being the related idea that if you picture yourself in the desired circumstance, the law of attraction will pull you towards that eventuality. I put this woo through a distillery and came up with what I think is a rational inventory and instruction set of moving parts: If you intensely vizualize a circumstance you are not in but want to be in, or, if you know what you want to be the end product, the degree of 'reality' with which you visualize it can trigger iterative reverse engineering that probes back through parameter space to the available starting conditions. If you want the job in the shiny building, you visualize yourself in it, you make it so real that you can barely believe your fortune, and you are forced to ask yourself, "How did I get here?!", and that tricks your subconscious problem-solving abilities into grappling with it as if it were a real-life / non-hypothetical problem.

I've got zero tips or insights on making yourself a "better person".

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SO you turned your back on God

by maccauk11 in

ok so you had a bad experience and you stopped going to church which ever one that is.

but did you stop believing or are you that peeved you blame god etc.

i would encourage you to humble yourself before your messiah and seek him, he will let himself be found by you and come dwells within you.

rmt1

Uh. I devoutly worship with those who seek out whatever lies above, behind, underneath, throughout, or outside of our physical universe and experience, using methods of iteratively and separately reproducable testing.

I'm not going to go crazy and actually look up a bunch of 4000 year old chicken scratch, but I am recently intrigued by what the old yarn says about testing god. E.g.:

http://www.openbible.info/topics/testing_god

Insofar as the -let's call it the observer- is permitted to use his cognition and conduct a test on the premise or promise of the benevolent god black box, I *think* a reasonable interpretation of the data of millenia is that there are far more heinous and horrendous events that receive no god-like remediation than there are heinous and horrendous events that DO receive god-like remediation.

And insofar as observer is Not permitted to test god, well, what does that say about the premise that god values or intends for you to utilize, leverage, capitalize on the cognition he supposedly gave you?

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They are Definitely Attacking "Higher Education"

by XBEHERE in

jw
friends

a friend of mine recently had his co visit and in the elders meeting the co out-right asked the question: how are the friends doing in your cong.

as regards pursuing higher education?

the co continued...you know in view of all the counsel from the slave regarding the dangers.

rmt1

Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018.

http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/fullreport.pdf

tl;dr : Just start looking at the graphs and projections starting in Part 4 on page 63.

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They are Definitely Attacking "Higher Education"

by XBEHERE in

jw
friends

a friend of mine recently had his co visit and in the elders meeting the co out-right asked the question: how are the friends doing in your cong.

as regards pursuing higher education?

the co continued...you know in view of all the counsel from the slave regarding the dangers.

rmt1

I think this issue is an abuse of human rights greater than the pedophilia issue, not in specific degree per instance, but in gross numbers of people affected. Both are institutionalized violence.

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This weeks LIE in the brochure

by DS211 in

this week in the brochure for the "bible reading" it states on subject 24. that jehovahs witnesses wrote a century ago that jehovahs bacjs us and we do t take donations "and we never have!!!!

".....please someone post the information to prove this as a lie as we all know they used to charge for literature.

this is an outright lie lol ridiculous..

rmt1

I remember the deep relief transitioning from the awkward plaintive mew of asking for 50 cents for the both of them, and seeing the householder check his pocketses for change, and sometimes finding some and sometimes not, and sometimes me sheepishly putting the mags back in my bag because he could/would not pay for them, to the awkward plaintive mew of asking the householder to just take the goddam forsaken soul-crushing pieces of trash out of my hand FOR FREE and let me get away.

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They are Definitely Attacking "Higher Education"

by XBEHERE in

jw
friends

a friend of mine recently had his co visit and in the elders meeting the co out-right asked the question: how are the friends doing in your cong.

as regards pursuing higher education?

the co continued...you know in view of all the counsel from the slave regarding the dangers.

rmt1

"I am intending, among other things, to conduct studies comparing the psychology of JWs to random samples of non-JWs. Being a JW is so influential on one's cognition that they just might see the world differently in a quantifiable way."

The wife has accused me, because of being so long in the cult and sitting through thousands of hours of platform, that my ear-brain connection actually turns off when I hear her say certain thing (things that do not make sense to me), or details irrelevant to what is at hand, etc. I may just have no memory allocation for these things.

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They are Definitely Attacking "Higher Education"

by XBEHERE in

jw
friends

a friend of mine recently had his co visit and in the elders meeting the co out-right asked the question: how are the friends doing in your cong.

as regards pursuing higher education?

the co continued...you know in view of all the counsel from the slave regarding the dangers.

rmt1

This position Does have the unassailable benefit that it helps the shepherds to protect the flock from wind chimes.

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"How can girls guard against temptation in this sex-crazy world?"

by Apognophos in

this is from the questions from readers in the 12/15/61 watchtower.

i present it unabridged and without comment.

your own comments, however, are welcome.. "when a girl reaches the age of puberty or physical maturity, her body has developed in the matter of sex more than in the mind.

rmt1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k

I figured out I was in the right and consistent universe when in Evolutionary Psychology they said that female chimpanzees sneak out of the alpha male harem at night to hook up with other males.

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