Posts by Spectre

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Higher Education... Some ideas for those that think it is too late

by adjusted knowledge in

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so many witnesses lost the opportunity to pursue higher education in their youths.

perhaps it took decades for many here to leave and now feel it is too late.

degree you will also earn multiple certifications from other agencies:.

Spectre

I've been taking a bunch of the coursara classes lately. I don't pay for the certificate as I'm only taking them for entertainment.

Some are really good but with some I can't get past the accent. Not really their fault but when you can't inderstand them, what are you going to do?

With some it seems like the should have a chemistry prerequisite as the instructor is talking in terms I've never heard of before.

Overall though, with some things have really clicked and they've been really fascinating. And since they are free, if I don't like them I haven't continued the boring ones.

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New Star Wars movie trailer

by poopsiecakes in

the first trailer has been released!

true confession - i'm kind of a geek, always loved star wars and it gave me a bit of a lady boner.

anyone who knows the franchise is probably familiar with the character wedge antilles.

Spectre

I'm excited to see the new ones but not holding my breath. I'm glad Lucas isn't directing them but I wasn't sold on what Abrams did with Star Trek.

RotJ was great. The emperor far made up for the ewoks.

The prequels just sucked because Lucas got such a big head and no one could tell him his ideas sucked. Joseph Campbell influenced Lucas a lot with the originals and it really showed. In the new ones, there wasn't anything that meant anything. Tidbits like Vader making C-3PO was cool but irrelevant. Otherwise it was just "ok, I'm a sith and you're a jedi, lets get this mandatory light sabre duel over with." Good(horrible) comedy with that last Vader "NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" though.

A lot of younger people I know always try and compare A New Hope with some newer movie(Serenity somehow always comes up). I tell them there is no comparison as SW was first. It was THE groundbreaker. My 10 year old self sitting in the theatre when it came out was blown away when in the first few seconds of the movie, saw the coolest space ship EVER! A few minutes later saw the coolest villian EVER! A few minutes later saw the coolest floating car EVER! a few minutes later saw the coolest sword EVER! A few minutes saw the coolest space ship EVER(yep, cooler than the one I just saw). It was EPIC! MAGIC!

Then in the prequels we get Jar-Jar Binks! Yeeeeaaaaaahhhh!

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At This Point In Time Would You Ever Subject Yourself To A Judicial Committee?

by minimus in

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i certainly wouldn't.

and if the elders wanted to have a meeting with me, i would respectfully decline.

if the elders wanted to deal with you, would you talk with them?.

Spectre

I think I would. Just for the fun of it.

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Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and all the stuff you weren't allowed to play as a JW

by marmot in

by nature i'm a total geek.

i read the lord of the rings for the first time in grade 3 and i would probably have had a 20-sided die hung around my neck if it weren't for the silly superstitious restrictions against playing rpgs among jws.

if anything they should encourage role playing games among the youth because it'll keep them virgins forever.

Spectre

The only game I play is the miniature game of Warhammer 40k. It's fun to build them, fun to paint them and then a fun game to play.

I had a game store for 10 years and have sold a ton of Magic, D&D and a bunch of other games. There's enough out there to pick your poison. I found I prefer the the modelling aspect and 3-D aspect of the tabletop style.

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Scientific explanation of how spirit creatures could materialize

by EndofMysteries in

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in my science class book i was just reading about particles and antiparticles.. i'll just quote a few parts, "every type of particle in nature must also have an alter ego, an antiparticle........one fascinating property of particle-antiparticles pairs is that if you bring such a pair together, the two particles will annihilate each other......when the pair annihilates, the mass of the two particles is converted into energy which is carried away by a pair of photons.....the reverse is also possible, two photons may collide to produce a particle and it's antiparticle-by a process called pair production.. so assuming spirit creatures are made of energy, there is a scientific explanation of how energy can become physical mass, and physical mass to energy.

whether you believe they exist or not, i thought that was an interesting read and a way to explain how they could materialize and de-materialize.. .

Spectre

Of course spirits are made of energy. That's why the hair on the back of your neck stands up when they are nearby.

Yo, it's science!

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What should the WBT$ do to get on track?

by punkofnice in

it looks as if the gb are blundering around and really showing themselves up for the buffoons they are.

all the stupidity about tight trousers is laughable and if the general public were to see these selfmportant cult leaders blabbing this stuff then the last shred of their credibility would be destroyed.........perhaps.. the wbt$ seem to have dug themselves into a deep pit of no escape with their lies, new light(tm), paedophile protection and all the other nauseating peripherals they have.. we also suspect that the wbt$ have their spies here because they are either predictable or get ideas form forums like this.. so!

are you listening watchtower(r)?

Spectre

My advice is to humanize the religion more by putting more of a face to it.

So get more of those talks out there by the GB. No need to keep them on script, they're smart guys, they're guided by holy spirit, let them say whatever comes to mind.

Get more of those cartoons out there. Make sure there's always that look of disapproval from the mom. Kids respond well to that.

Since they re-define a lot of words anyways, why not just go ahead and write a dictionary? Maybe then more people can appreciate the linguistics of the word 'generation'.

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Is it really allowed for a JW to listen to radio or look at TV??

by Mr Fool in

if almost every song, every radio host, every actor is influenced by satan it should be forbidden for every jw to listen to radio and look at tv, right?!

or have i missed something?.

Spectre

Yep. We all sin everyday. Every activity beyond going to jw.org, going to meeting, out in service and studying is sinning.

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Ridicule as a weapon

by compound complex in

in reference to ridicule being used to deflate the message of hate groups:.

http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/ridicule-as-a-weapon-of-choice/.

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Spectre

After South Park or some other show does a mormon, etc. spoof, I see people here wanting the same to be done to the JWs. But can you imagine what a boring episode that would be? They usually only get a 5 second remark about them being a doomsday cult or something (I still want the WT that looked like the one that Family Guy 1st used of the nuke mushroom cloud).

I'm always glad whenever they themselves bring on the ridicule. It's a win-win situation for us. We don't look like raving lunatics and they bring that crap upon themselves.

Speaking of which, I miss Sparlock.

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