Posts by tetrapod.sapien

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When Christians experience the "power of the Christ" ...

by ithinkisee in

is this a feeling unique to christians?.

because i felt tremendously at peace when i came to terms with the facts about (what i feel is) the lack of authenticity of the bible and it's status as an inspired book - almost as if the universe was telling me, "just let go.

things are out of your control.

tetrapod.sapien

ya man, nice write up.

i believe that christ mind is the same as buddha mind. one's pineal gland and serotonin receptors are also implicated. not that this cheapens the experience. i don't see a christ or a buddha having problems with understanding the experience. on the contrary. it's empowering, spiritually, to understand our nature physically.

richard bucke drew some interesting parallels between christ consciousness and buddha consciousness.

it's good you are meditating man. it's quite the direct experience. so different from the mind states we experienced as witnesses.

tetra

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Ricky Gervais - The Bible

by zensim in

i don't know if this has been posted before.

i am getting all excited about ricky gervais again as extras starts back this week - yaaaay!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_exqdj4l7i&nr.

tetrapod.sapien

LOL! that was great, ha HA!

"the punishment of the snake was..."

lol

tettra

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DON'T BUY EPSON PRINTERS!

by Elsewhere in

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i have the epson stylus photo rx620 and it is probably the worst piece of crap printer i have ever owned!

the problem is with the print heads.

they get clogged but cannot be removed!

tetrapod.sapien

LOL.

i personally like piezo printheads. but they are high maintenance indeed.

the epson desktop printers are nothing to write home about. but the wide format ones are. but again, high maintenance.

are you using the ultrachrome inks? there are lots of inkjet companies giving epson a run for their desktop money. if you prefer thermal printheads, go with HP imo.

tetra

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I dedicate my post # 666 to ALL YOU APOSTATES here at JWD... :)

by Kudra in

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yeah!!!

thank you all for the help you've given me in learning the truth about the "troof".

now i don't want to get all teary eyed and such, ;p but you all have made me laugh, get pissed off and cry with your stories, your facts, your research and all the other goodness you throw out to everyone on the forum.

tetrapod.sapien

LOL, ya, my 666 was totally wasted as well. lacklustre to say the least. ha ha~!

happy antichristing!

tetra

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Who is your Devil?

by Lumptard in

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who or what is the devil to you now that you are out/fading out of the wts?

has your opinion of the devil changed?

do you still beleive that satan is real?

tetrapod.sapien

i certainly do not believe in the xian literal satan any longer. he went out the window with yhvh.

if he exists, he is inside us all as an archetype..

tetra

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Who knew...?

by exwitless in

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i was just curious-did any of you on this forum know each other while you were both still active j-dubs?

i mean as friends or acquaintences that you only knew as jws, not family members.

were you in the same congregation together?

tetrapod.sapien

ya for sure. GetBusyLiving and i hung out a few times when we were still in. i went with him and a bud to see mighty mouse in calgary. i wasn't going to stay on this board way back in the beginning actually, but thought i would drop in and make a few posts. then i saw GBL's face in his avatar. and i didn't even know that he had DA'd cus my meeting attendance had been so "poor". lol. we still hang out. he had a great birthday party last firday night.

tetra

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Sex in the Organization

by Save My Soul in

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i have been associated with the organization for almost 40 years.

i have served and been on several assemblies.

i am now irregular, but still attend meetings occassionally.

tetrapod.sapien

Did these things happen when you were associated with the org? Questionable Parties?
Is this common in your area, active JW women having sex and never being discovered? Wife Swapping?

wife swapping i have been unaware of. but the rest, for sure man. humans are humans. rules get in the way.

it seems like the only parties where anyone had any fun were questionable.

tetra

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'What the (bleep) do we know?'

by Twitch in

http://www.whatthebleep.com/whatthebleep/.

not your average movie in that car chases do not seem to exist, such as to be perceived anyways :-) though i wouldn't agree with some of the more "new age" viewpoints, it's a nice piece of mind candy, that quantum mechanics/metaphysics thing.

and a few interesting opinions on the nature of god,...... a day in the life,...... .

tetrapod.sapien

and where they say the US government and way of life, not Ramtha, is a cult.

well, looks like everyone except tetra is wrong again. they're both cults.

the real debate should be which is loonier vs. which is more dangerous.

i believe both cults take a respective prize.

tetra

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'What the (bleep) do we know?'

by Twitch in

http://www.whatthebleep.com/whatthebleep/.

not your average movie in that car chases do not seem to exist, such as to be perceived anyways :-) though i wouldn't agree with some of the more "new age" viewpoints, it's a nice piece of mind candy, that quantum mechanics/metaphysics thing.

and a few interesting opinions on the nature of god,...... a day in the life,...... .

tetrapod.sapien

The third example was the work of Masura Emoto, who tapes words to bottles of water. The water is chilled and forms into crystals descriptive of the words used. For example, if the word “love” is taped to a bottle, beautiful crystals form; if the words “you make me sick” are used, ugly images appear.

What the film makers didn’t say is that Emoto knows the word used, and looks for a crystal that matches that word (biased data selection). To demonstrate a real effect, Emoto would need to be blind to the word used. James Randi has said that if Emoto could perform this experiment double-blinded, it would qualify for the million dollar prize. (He has never applied.) Such a protocol would show there is no correlation between the words taped to a bottle and the crystals formed within. These experiments have not been performed to a scientific protocol and have never been independently replicated.

for sure. although, i do not believe that the crystals are forming in the bottles. rather the water is influenced in the bottles, and once it is "healed" water is sampled for crystalization.

if this is the case, this skeptic needs to get his facts straight before sitting down to type.

either way, if he won randi's million dollar award, it would be a big first, and something to write home about. i don't see why he won't try it. i would if i were him.

tetra

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'What the (bleep) do we know?'

by Twitch in

http://www.whatthebleep.com/whatthebleep/.

not your average movie in that car chases do not seem to exist, such as to be perceived anyways :-) though i wouldn't agree with some of the more "new age" viewpoints, it's a nice piece of mind candy, that quantum mechanics/metaphysics thing.

and a few interesting opinions on the nature of god,...... a day in the life,...... .

tetrapod.sapien

lol, ya it's funny.

the first time i saw this movie i was on lsd and i was like "whooaaa man! crazy sh!t!" lol - it was a fun trip, but... you know, what the bleep!

and then the second time i saw the extended edition and i was sober and i knew that if i went looking online i would find a lot of skeptical treatment of the movie. and sure enough, it's there. and all pretty valid, although skeptics (myself included) are sometimes some of the most pedantic literalists of them all. literal to physical objectivity. it gets boring, which is why i like doing psychedelic drugs sometimes. frankly. but reality is boring! i really don't buy this "awe and wonder" crap that us skeptics spout off about all the time, LOL.

anyways, in the extras on the extended edition, they have extended interviews. and the one with the physicist, forget name and school, was hilarious, because he had been so horrified that he was so misrepressented in the movie, and he wanted to say some extra stuff. he proceeds to blast the original movie and realign himself with a sense of reality that he feflt was lost in the first film. ha ha~! it was great. said some very interesting things about god.

i like what the movie is attempting to represent, even though i am skeptical of its manifest objective reality. if reality turned out to be like that, i would be cool with it. but until then, it's just a flick.

i was impressed with the water crystal thing, but frustrated with the lack of variables described in the experiements. i see the japanese guy has several books out about it. i assumed that he describes more detail, but i haven't really looked into them far. again, i would be very impressed if there was something to write home about this.

oh well (sigh)

bleepity bleep bleep,

tetra