Happy, happy birthday, Mouthy!
Have a happy day, and just enjoy yourself.
Rod P.
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62All voices raised in song please ///78 today
by mouthy ini expect at least 1 good wishes...please!!!!
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Can any one tell me ?
by Angry inwhy the hell did this crap make me like i am?
all the years of abuse going on.
i'm angry and very confused.
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Rod P
Angry,
One of my favorite mottos is:
"I don't get angry; I get even!"
I don't suggest you should never feel anger. We all feel it, and it is entirely understandable. But after a while, when it feels more like you have things under reasonable control, then you can begin to stir your "creative juices". You can start to think of ways to channel your anger into some things that will allow you to release that anger, that energy, into something constructive. The anger becomes the engine that drives your creativity. And how do you get even? By taking your knowledge, your experiences, your insights that you have gained from having to experience what the WBTS/GB, thru the Elders, etc. have meted out to you, and share it with others. You do not let them get away with the things they did to you without them having to pay a price.
You reveal to the world the injustices, the inconsistencies, the unilateral acts of judgment and condemnation being carried on in the name of Jehovah and "truth", the lies, the cover-ups, the manipulations, the false prophesies, the changing doctrines, etc, etc. It all should be exposed for everyone to see. It should be shouted from the housetops, rather than allow ourselves to become victimized, licking our wounds, and suffering in silence in the corner of our little world.
Take your little pebble and drop it in the pond. See the little ripples in the water. Now I will drop my little pebble in the pond, as we both watch the ripples. Then let's both drop our little pebbles in the pond, and see how many more ripples this creates. Notice that after every so many ripples, some of yours intersect with mine, and create "standing waves". Now suppose dozens of us dropped our pebbles collectively into this pond. Those little ripples start to turn into big waves. They become bigger and bigger, until everyone else starts to notice. Pretty soon, a lot of others get the point, and they start dropping in their pebbles too. The waves get still bigger. And so on.
So you see, your little pebble is important. It really counts. And that's how you constructively "Get even".
All the best!
Rod P.
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Can you solve this paradox?
by Rod P inyou have a bow and arrow.
you shoot the arrow with the bow from point a to point b.. but the arrow will never reach point b, it's destination.
before the arrow can reach point b, it must first travel half way (let's call that point c).. but before the arrow can reach point c, it must first travel half way (let's call that point d).. but before the arrow can reach point d, it must first travel half way (let's call that point e).. do you see the problem?
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Rod P
Satanus,
I presume you are referring to the Zeno's Paradox.
As stated previously, just go back to Page 1 of this thread, and you will see the explanation.
Rod P.
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Can you solve this paradox?
by Rod P inyou have a bow and arrow.
you shoot the arrow with the bow from point a to point b.. but the arrow will never reach point b, it's destination.
before the arrow can reach point b, it must first travel half way (let's call that point c).. but before the arrow can reach point c, it must first travel half way (let's call that point d).. but before the arrow can reach point d, it must first travel half way (let's call that point e).. do you see the problem?
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Rod P
On the Mirror question, Yes, there is a reverse image.
Try this experiment. Take a piece of paper and a pen. Now, sit at a table, and place the paper on the underside of the table. Now write your name on the paper while it is on the underneath side. Now look at the paper, and what do you see? Your name will be written backwards. Now go to the mirror and hold up your paper to the mirror. What do you see?
Now, take a piece of paper or a small card and write the following letters:
b q
d p
Look at this in the mirror. You would see in the mirror the same thing that you would see if you could hold the paper up to a light, and then looked at the letters from the other side of the paper.
What if we could turn this paper (card) over (i.e. rotated it about the vertical axis)? Here's what we would see:
p d
q b
In other words, the image would be reversed left-right.
What if we rotated this card or paper 180 degrees (i.e. rotate it about the horizontal axis), so that it is now upside down. Now look at this upside down paper in the mirror, and what do you see? It would look lke this:
p d
q b
In other words, it will be reversed up-down. This is true, regardless of whether we look at it in the mirror, or if we looked at the letters thru the backof the paper (card).
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On the question of Protagorus versus Euathlus:
Where Euathlus went wrong was he was a Defendant in his own lawsuit. (He had a fool for a client). What if Euathlus had hired another lawyer to handle his case. Then if his lawyer won the case for him, then Euathlus would still not have won his first case. That way, according to the terms of the original contract, Euathlus would have to pay Protagorus only on the condition that Euathlus won his first case, and under these circumstance, it could still be said that Euathlus was not yet practicing law, and so had yet to win his first case. Therefor, Euathlus should not have to pay.
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Outoftheorg,
If you go back to Page 1 of this thread, you will see the explanation of Zeno's Paradox that explains the fact that the arrow does move from Point A to Point B, which is mathematically consistent with both space and time.
Terry,
On Page 1 of this thread, in my reply to Dr. Mike, I stated why I avoided taking this paradox analogy down to the minute or sub-atomic particle level.
The Heisenberg Principle of Uncertainty is primarily about the consciousness of the observer affecting the thing being observed, so that one can never know with certainty its exact location/position or speed. I see how the Heisenberg Principle is materially relevant when it comes to the tiniest particles and sub-stomic particles of the universe. But I hardly think this would be all that relevant at the scale of the arrow in the "normal" observable day-to-day world we live in. When we get to the point of measuring the infinitely small units of time and distance remaining for the arrow, I doubt that our observation of the arrow in flight would materially influence its position in space and time. In other words, Heisenberg does not influence, or interfere with, the problematic nature of this paradox.
Rod P.
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Can you solve this paradox?
by Rod P inyou have a bow and arrow.
you shoot the arrow with the bow from point a to point b.. but the arrow will never reach point b, it's destination.
before the arrow can reach point b, it must first travel half way (let's call that point c).. but before the arrow can reach point c, it must first travel half way (let's call that point d).. but before the arrow can reach point d, it must first travel half way (let's call that point e).. do you see the problem?
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Rod P
Double Edge,
I have heard of that one many years ago; now you have brought it all up again.
But no, I cannot remember the answer. Just don't know what it is, at the moment.
So now, I am going on a random search, based on this understaindting (Halleluja! Hallejuja!)
So why do I suddenly feel go sad???!!!!.
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Dead Relative Due To Blood Policy?
by AlanF in.
i'd like to hear comments from anyone who had a relative die because of the watchtower society's misguided policy on blood transfusions.. alanf
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Rod P
This whole thing is very sad, and very sick. There are people on the inside of the organization who know better than anyone, that the thinking of the Borg is beginning to rethink its polcy on blood!"
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Ex elders, have you apologized to anyone you df'd?
by avishai infor instance, especially kids under the age of eighteen, or dfing folks for questioning the society?
i think if i had been involved, i'd have to get on the horn with everyone i'd df'd.
except the child molesters
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Rod P
Well, Yes! They have some answering to do, don't they?????
Where is everyone one on this one?????
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Can you solve this paradox?
by Rod P inyou have a bow and arrow.
you shoot the arrow with the bow from point a to point b.. but the arrow will never reach point b, it's destination.
before the arrow can reach point b, it must first travel half way (let's call that point c).. but before the arrow can reach point c, it must first travel half way (let's call that point d).. but before the arrow can reach point d, it must first travel half way (let's call that point e).. do you see the problem?
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Rod P
Dr. Mike,
You are right, of course.
I deliberately avoided particle physics and all those arcane and esoteric discussions that would cause almost everyone one else on this forum to "virtually" disappear. I know that modern day scientists and mathmaticians have taken this whole paradox into an entirely new level that the Greeks would never have contemplated.
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On a lighter note, What is a paradox?
Answer: A couple of Doctors.
Rod P.
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The Perfect Map
by Rod P in"the perfect map" is a paradox.. where would we be without maps?
they provide us with much information to give us directions, pinpoint locations, quantify distances and areas, and identify landmarks (roads, tracks, intersections, towns, cities, signs, etc.
it is a scale drawing of the real world.
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Rod P
Ballistic,
You have made some interesting comments. I was aware of fractal theory (at an introductory level).
I am also familiar with what happens to a coastline, say if you could reconfigure it into a straight line. The distance or length would be quite astounding.
Your point about the amount of detail (albeit in your example, at the subatomic level) is precisely the point I am trying to make about the map paradox, namely that if you made a map on a scale of 1:1, then such a map, in all of its (infinite) detail, would no longer be needed. It would defeat the purpose for the map in the first place.
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Can you solve this paradox?
by Rod P inyou have a bow and arrow.
you shoot the arrow with the bow from point a to point b.. but the arrow will never reach point b, it's destination.
before the arrow can reach point b, it must first travel half way (let's call that point c).. but before the arrow can reach point c, it must first travel half way (let's call that point d).. but before the arrow can reach point d, it must first travel half way (let's call that point e).. do you see the problem?
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Iggy,
Yes, it is one of Zeno's several paradoxes, and your explanation isn't too bad.
The answer is very well explained at the following website:
Allow me to paraphrase their explanation (to fit my example of the arrow):
"What this actually does is to make all motion impossible, for before the arrow can cover half the distance it must cover half of half the distance, and before it can do that it must cover half of half the distance, and so on, so that in reality it can never move any distance at all, because doing so involves moving an infinite number of small intermediate distances first.
Now, since motion obviously is possible, the question arises, what is wrong with Zeno? What is the "flaw in the logic?"
Suppose the arrow was to travel one mile from point A to point B. Now suppose we take Zeno's Paradox at face value for the moment and agree with him, that before the arrow can travel a mile, it must first travel a half-mile. And before the arrow can travel the remaining half-mile, it must first cover half of it, that is, a quarter mile, and then an eighth-mile, then a sixteenth-mile, and then a thirty-secondth mile, and so on. Well, suppose the arrow could cover all these infinite number of small distances, how far should it have travelled? One mile! In other words:
1 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32 +...........
At first this may seem impossible: adding up an infinite number of positive distances should give an infinite distance for the sum. But it doesn't- in this case it gives a finite sum; indeed, all these distances add up to one (1)! A little reflection will reveal that this isn't so strange after all: if 1 can divide up a finite distance into an infinite number of small distances, then adding all those distances together should just give me back the finite distance I started with. (An infinite sum such as the one above is known in mathematics as an infinite series, and when such a sum adds up to a finite number we say that the series is summable.)
Now the resolution to Zeno's Paradox is easy. Obviously, it will take the arrow some fixed time to cross half the distance to the other side of the room, say 1/2 second. How long will it take to cross half the remaining distance? Half as long- only 1/4 second. Covering half of the remaining distance(an eighth of the total) will only take 1/8 of a second. And so on. And once the arrow has covered all the infinitely many sub-distances and added up all the time it took to traverse them? Only 1 second, and here the arrow is on the other side of the room after all.