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  Survey: Out of all the doors you went to, how many asked..............

  by whyizit in

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  could you estimate how many doors you went to within a year's time, what percentage claimed to be christians, and how many asked good thought-provoking questions?

  questions that made you really think and wonder if something was not quite right with the wt.

  how important do you think it would be in the lives of jws to have this happen on a more regular basis?

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  DannyBloem

  Okay, when doing normal fieldservice we did between 50 to 100 doors per hour, depending on the teritory.

  60% is not at home (including the ones pretending not be home)
  30% opens the door/answer the intercome etc, and closes the door without saying a word when they realize you are witnesses
  5 % are very direct and say NO! I am not interested!
  4 % are more polite and come up with a lame excusee. Busy, going out, or whatever.

  from the 1 % that is left over:
  30% don't want to be unfriendly and take some magazines in order to make you go away. (they do not realize the return visit sceme)
  20% is totally crazy, and can't have any real conversation.
  20% think you are someone else, let you in, and come to this embarassing conclusion later
  15% feels so lonely that they preetend to be interested
  10% want to talk to you about their own belives, religions etc.
  4 % gives though prevoking questions
  1 % is actually interested

  Can people agree on this?

  Does this answer your question?

  Danny
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  Uses of The 4th Dimension (Einstein was wrong!)

  by use4d in

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  since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.

  throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.

  from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.

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  DannyBloem

  Albert Einstein envisioned the relativity between energy and matter through his relatively simple formula E=MC 2 .

  He expressed this relativity in the concept that energy and matter cannot be destroyed, but rather they convert to one another at the speed of light.

  If we slow energy down it becomes matter; if we speed up matter it becomes energy.

  Some scientists believe that the universe began from an exploding Black Hole (The Big Bang Theory).

  Black holes are so dense and exert such a gravitational pull that even light cannot escape.

  Is this where energy reverts back to matter?

  Not got the science completely right here....
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  Is it reasonable for Christians to believe in 'aliens' ?

  by Franz in

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  by "aliens" let's assume beings capable of making moral choices, having intellect, emotion, and a will (angels, who are extra-terrestrials, also fit into this category, but this answer will deal with three-dimensional, physical beings).

  i'll briefly address the question of algae or even dog or cat-like animals later.

  but first, a few scientific facts:

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  DannyBloem

  I have to make some comments on your assumptions:

  To say that there is no life on other planets because were we looked was none, is illogic. How many percet of the universe did we explore?

  We have not found planets on other stars who can support life, not because there are not there, but because we can not see them yet. They are too small to see. So this arguments shows some ignorance.

  To make any logical argument based on the bible that was written for humans in the huuman context is absurt. It shows more ignorance then people who believed the earth was flat, or the sum moved around the earth, because of some bible logic.

  Even with bible logic you make many assumptions. Assumptions are the mother of all errors.
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  Uses of The 4th Dimension (Einstein was wrong!)

  by use4d in

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  since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.

  throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.

  from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.

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  DannyBloem

  flyphisher

  There are some threads on this subject and related subjects that were discussed before.
  Maybe they are of interest to you:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/94089/1.ashx

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/94587/1.ashx

  I think all scientist would like to discover the GUT, and many are working hard on it. Even if this theory will be discovered then there is still enough to write about.
  I do not think that we can say that there are no people like Einstein etc, around now. Well, Einstein was very special of course, bu physics has changed. It is no longer individual work, and almost all experiments are done in groups. There are of course still theoretic work done alone, but much more is then used to be is shared and leaned on other works. Things go also more rapid then in the time of Einstein. I do not think you can compare it that easily.

  I think each scientist has much more to gain then to lose, in coming up with a big new theory.
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  Wow, you gotta read this.

  by IP_SEC in

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  well might not interest everyone, but about 2/3s down the discussion of scanning and modeling the human brain reverse engineering it into nonbio counterparts is really amazing.

  http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1

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  DannyBloem

  It is an amazing article indeed.
  But I can't agree with all I read, some conclusions are oversimplified and are based on lots of assumptions.

  For example the growth of technology is not easy to measure. Let alone to make a conclusions on it.

  There can also be other examples of graphs that will show other things. For example, money it takes to develop new technics for scientific discoveries.

  Danny
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  Uses of The 4th Dimension (Einstein was wrong!)

  by use4d in

  1. social
  2. current

  since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.

  throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.

  from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.

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  DannyBloem

  Danny Bloem

  As I see it. Every observation can result in a collapse of the quantum wave function. A single photon can. That a more complex sturcture is needed to measure it, does not man anything in my opinion. Whould the collapse of the wave function not have happened if you did not measure this photon?

  We should not confuse or confound notions, when we discuss QM.

  Look at http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/qphil.html and read e.g. as follows:

  "So far the experiments are confirming Einstein's worst fears. Photons, neutrons and even whole atoms act sometimes like waves, sometimes like particles, but they actually have no definite form until they are measured. Measurements, once made, can also be erased, altering the outcome of an experiment that has already occurred. A measurement of one quantum entity can instantaneously influence another far away.This odd behaviour can occur not only in the microscopic realm but even in objects large enough to be seen with the naked eye..."

  Note: The OBSERVATION (or = DETECTION) defines the form of e.g. a single photon. If NOT observed, it is behaving like a wave, if observed, it is behaving like a particle (better said: it definitely "becomes" a particle). The latter is called "collapse of the wave function". If it is a complete system consisting of elementary structures, that is interacting with an environment showing "observing features" (also named: sensorium), then the entire systems changes from a "wave-like-behaviour" to "particle-, btw. matter-like-behaviour" (or, what we call the --> "classical world"). This change is called "decoherence" in QM.

  Of course, the observing entity (detector) has to show a certain minimal-configuration (or adequate complexity) to serve as detector or observer. Atomic structure can serve. Single particles can certainly not. They can be detected or observed, but they cannot serve as a detector or observer through themselves.

  Flyphisher,

  As I see it, the collapse of the wave function is not dependend if there is a observer or not. It depends upon the possibility that this information could be known, if you measure it or not.
  So in some cases a single elementary particle can in my opinion be enough.
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  Uses of The 4th Dimension (Einstein was wrong!)

  by use4d in

  1. social
  2. current

  since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.

  throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.

  from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.

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  DannyBloem

  flyphischer:

  Consider: If I indeed would know the concepts for such simplifications, and I would make a lot of students happy, what advantage would it be for myself?
  
  That sounds like you believe in some kind of conspiracy, to keep things complicated. (or maybe I am reading it wrong)
  I think it would benifid all. These simplifications would mean that new theories could be vuild easier etc.

  Danny
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  Answer from the "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses"

  by Lilycurly in

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  some of you might remember my situation....i have daed myself a while ago, and my father is the only jw in the family.

  since i am very close to him and the family, he has read everything related to shunning, he even asked elders and even them are not sure.

  so he wrote a big long letter to bethel to have an answer.

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  DannyBloem

  I am so sorry to hear this Lilycurly

  This is what the elders-book says about it:

  Normally, a close relative would not be disfellowshipped

  for associating with a disfellowshipped person unless there

  is spiritual association or an effort made to justify or

  excuse the wrongful course.
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  Do you kiss your dog?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  and is it just a peck or a nice wet one on the nose?.

  jeff [of the i am bored tonight class]

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  DannyBloem

  No, maybe if I had a dog... but a dog or a stranger ehhh.

  Then did you ever ate dog?
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  Need advice

  by Rook in

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  can anyone give me some advice on picking a good solid laptop?

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  DannyBloem

  It all depend on what you want, where you are going to use it for.
  If you want to travel a lot, you can consider a very small one, at elast you do not have to drag your laptop of 4 kilo's everywhere.
  if you need many features you choice differently. if you just use it for word, excel etc, the normal stuff, you really do not need the latests fastest laptop, and you could consider a much cheaper one.

  If you know about what you wnat, go to a site with user reviews and comparing of features and prices. (do not know any sites in english for this)

  DB