Posts by rmt1

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OMG Have you seen this?? This site is sooo hysterical. It reminds me of The Onion, but for exJW's

by noni1974 in

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http://jehovahstrumpet.com.

i read the cat baptisim article and i doubled over laughing.

one time when i was a kid i asked why my kitty couldn't go to the kh with us and my mom told me that animals were perfect and didn't need to go to the kh.. .

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse

by 5go in

un-covering is what the word really means in greek.

i no longer long think of the apocalypse as the death of six billion people but the uncovering of the truth about what is really going on.

so in a metaphoric sence i have been through it already..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calypso
""concealing the knowledge", which combined with the Homeric epithet δολ?εσσα, meaning subtle or wily, justifies the hermetic character of Calypso and her island."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calypso_music
The wife is in a steel drum band that plays arrangements of Trinidadian Calypso music (which function in Tucson as rain dances for senior citizens who want to relive their Caribbean cruise). She said that at least colloquially, calypso music is characterized by hidden meaning, innuendo, suggestiveness. It was doing this in the 40's and 50's, which sort of justifies the distinctive term in a specific context, and it certainly would not have a monopoly on suggestive lyrics by today's standards.

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Are JWs more negative than normal people?

by Julia Orwell in

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compare a typical conversation with a jw to one with a random non-jw:.

run into jw in the shops.. .

jw:[surprised] julia!

rmt1

The most insufferable, infantile, petulant, pernicious scripture I have ever heard from the NWT is, "It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."

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Are JWs more negative than normal people?

by Julia Orwell in

jw
friends

compare a typical conversation with a jw to one with a random non-jw:.

run into jw in the shops.. .

jw:[surprised] julia!

rmt1

JO: "One of the things that actually helped me wake up was taking a look around at beauty and goodness in the world and honestly saying to myself, "It's actually not that bad...""

Pioneering in rural and semi-suburban central PA (Halifax, Dauphin, Lebanon) got me to a lot of landscaped beauty and well-appointed porches right out of Homes and Gardens, a lot of hill-top and mountain-top vistas, a lot of river-side (Susquehanna) and creek-side residences, a lot of farming fields, in all weathers, under a covering snow, sheets of rain, mists, baking summer sun, under day-long overcasts. Drove across bridges over the Susquehanna, etc, hundreds of times - passing the naturally serene while selling genocide. During one of the last years, I and my younger cousin went up the west shore of the Susquehanna and stopped at some teens who were fishing. I trotted out my tired line, it was just what I did, knowing it was all nonsense, but I just did it, like a small number of other persons, apparently. And the oldest boy, younger than me, but clear-headed enough to know nonsense when he saw it, hears what I trotted out, flings his line out skillfully, plonk in the gentle eddy of a backwater behind some of the islands that dot the Susquehanna like a beauty you've never seen in the lush springtime unless you've seen it, and then he turns to me and says, "Why are you doing this?"

Nature saved me, I would have to say. I knew it was all crap because Nature announced it to be so. I had to verify it was all crap by doing time at Bethel and Patterson, and by giving one public talk, and conducting Book Study groups, to overturn any last stone of evidence. But that last bit was calibration data, not actually crucial to the brutish conclusion, but more of a refinement. The brutal truth was watching a teenager fishing.

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Who Really Will Give JWN Members the Proper Food at the Proper Time?

by nochoice in

hello friends.

do we have a board member that has committed to divulging the annual meeting highlights as soon as they're out?

i understand the live show will be at 10:00 am on saturday.

rmt1

Stanley isn't that huge. This makes me wonder if TWS has its own counter-espionage database that could search any username posting here and link it, forever more, to the attendance list (that I assume they have) for Stanley. Then, do that twice, for some other event that has an attendance list.

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"Do you believe in God" is an absurd question! Why? Because.....

by Mr Fool in

if a jw asks me "-do you believe in god?

" and i answer "-no, i dont believe in god" he/she assumes that i m not interested.

and that s because of a total closed mind.

rmt1

"The recent Mars origin blip is an example of terrestrial abiogenesis being up-ended". There we go.

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Apostate article in new December 15, 2013 Watchtower lead article major contradiction of featured scripture 2 Thess. 2:1,2

by Poindexter Lionel Humperdique in

the below is the title and theme scripture of the lead article in the latest watchtower about apostates.

notice that the watchtower is unknowingly labeling themselves as an apostate, as the man of lawlessness, as we briefly review the context of its own theme scripture.. .

avoid being quickly shaken from your reason!.

rmt1

Store up treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor moth consume.

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Not all believers in a creator are dumb, may be deaf, so accomplished atheist explain this:--

by prologos in

rmt1

Clarion.

I recall a sensation that bordered on mystical as I watched my orbital mechanics code spit out these columns of numbers for an arbitary eliptical orbit. I could see how the planet sped up at perihelion and slowed down at aphelion. The kinetic energy remained half the potential energy at all points, when the numbers reached max at perihelion and when they reached min at aphelion. A bound orbit, you see, is characterized by the gravitational potential energy being twice that of the kinetic energy of the orbiting body. I had heard about this. But it was entirely different, sepuchral, seeing it with my own eyes. All the code had was a number and an operation. It operated on the number. It spat out a new number. That number became an input. But the effect of these many tiny operations - that was an entire orbit, repeated ceaselessly.

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"Do you believe in God" is an absurd question! Why? Because.....

by Mr Fool in

if a jw asks me "-do you believe in god?

" and i answer "-no, i dont believe in god" he/she assumes that i m not interested.

and that s because of a total closed mind.

rmt1

Hi cofty. I don't know who you address with some of what you assure. So since I can't fit the shoe, I don't wear it. In the event you were assuring me that evolution is a fact, insofar as responsible qualified scientists agree to act like grown ups and settle upon an undersanding that requires the least number or least size of black boxes, well, then I have to say thank you.

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Not all believers in a creator are dumb, may be deaf, so accomplished atheist explain this:--

by prologos in

rmt1

"fine tune the solar system once in a while to keep it working."

This is the finest argument for why we need vastly more science and statistics on extrasolar planetary systems, their accretion models, particularly the frequency of comet shielding jupiters at jupiter distances, and if at all possible, the frequency of terrestrial magnetic fields, and the frequency of terrestrial moons. The closest thing in our solar system to fine tuning is jupiter and what it does with asteroids and comets, and the moon and what it does, and the odds that it formed how it did, and what it did and continues to do for the earth. But raw numbers and computer modelling, and things called gravitational focusing, and impact parameters, and Lagrange points, and Hill spheres, and Roche lobes, and conservation of angular momentum, and virial theorem, along with hydrostatic equilibrium, can address these marvels.

Edit add: The carbon/oxygen ratio is a recent hot item in planetary science that offers questions on the prevalence of water. If there's "too much" available carbon, it grabs the oxygen and there is much less oxygen to form water. But if there is "just" the right ratio of carbon to oxygen, there's plenty of oxygen left to form water. There are a surprising number of stellar effects that can alter where the ordinarily average complement of carbon gets placed early on. So more research, more modelling, more observations, more white papers are required. Unless that happens, all we really have is a god, a firmament, two waters, an old book, an aetiology, and some people that rely on what their parents and culture told them, and their intuition, when more quantitatively and qualitatively powerful tools of analysis exist. Their choice.