The answer is always 42. It's just a matter of finding the right units. In all actuality, though, we're trying to double check a measurement made in a previous experiment called LSND (Los Alamos Solar Neutrino Detector). Either the LSND measurement is wrong, or if it isn't then there's another generation of subatomic particles that we haven't found yet. I'm personally hoping for the latter of the two--that's job security right there.
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A New Voice
by apfergus ini haven't been involved with the jws in nearly five years now.
i was raised as a witness from the time i was seven until i was 17 and a junior in high school.
i don't have any particularly sad stories to tell, really, except that the process of leaving the organization--even though i was never baptised--was the hardest thing i've ever gone through.
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Current GB—None of the 1975 GB left
by AuldSoul init just dawned on me that not one single person from the governing body of 1975 is on the governing body today.. here are a few other facts about the current gb:.
geoffrey jackson was 20 years old in 1975, he was not at risk of being drafted for viet nam because he was too young at the time.. sam herd and guy pierce were 21 the year sputnik was launched.. gerrit losch was 20 at the dawn of flower power and the free love era in the united states.
of course, his circumstances were very different in the country in which he was located.. david splane, stephen lett, and anthony morris were all of an age to be at risk for the viet nam draft.. a brief rundown of historical context for 7 of the 10 current gb members.
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apfergus
Wow. I had no idea that the entire governing body was anointed. I was actually kind of hoping that once all the 144,000 died that the whole organization would have no choice but to crumble. But from what it sounds like, they've already thought about that and have worked some nonsense into the doctrine about the anointed still being present when Armageddon comes to justify the continued presence of the anointed even though they probably now number in excess of 144,000.
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by apfergus ini haven't been involved with the jws in nearly five years now.
i was raised as a witness from the time i was seven until i was 17 and a junior in high school.
i don't have any particularly sad stories to tell, really, except that the process of leaving the organization--even though i was never baptised--was the hardest thing i've ever gone through.
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apfergus
Whoah. Sorry about the delay. But as to what area of physics I'm in, I work on neutrino physics. I'm working on Mini-BooNE (Booster Neutrino Experiment) at the moment, but I've been involved in a couple other things on the side. It's all really cool, or at least I think so.
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WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED ON APRIL 3 AD 33?
by badboy inthis was the day a lunar eclipse happened,the gospel does say the moon went blood red.
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apfergus
Even if it was on April 3rd according to the Gregorian calendar, remember that the day of the Memorial is set using the lunar calendar and the date changes year to year.
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WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE NOW?
by bubble ini've been disfellowshipped for 4 years now (for loose conduct - lol) .
what i want to know is, what am i supposed to believe now?
i was brought up a jw but i know that so many of their teachings and doctrines are completely false.
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apfergus
I've been right where you are now. I identified myself as an agnostic for years before I ever managed to find anything more certain (and as an atheist/secular humanist, I'm still not too much more certain). But as JW you've been taught that everything you were told was certain and undeniably true. Now it's just starting to dawn that there isn't anything in life that you can actually know for absolute certain. I know that I spent a good few years just searching for certainties. It took me a long time to get comfortable with living with doubts, but once I did I could never go back.
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Watchtower comments that were extremely lame!!!!!
by free2beme ini always remember a point to the watchtower study, was that your comments should be about something that meant something to you or something you learned from the experience.
well, did anyone have a brother or sister in the congregation who did this .... "i would like to define the meaning to the most simplest word in this paragraph, to see if i can seem smart for knowing how to use a dictionary?".
... when i say simple word, i mean people defining "honor" or maybe something like "knowledge" or any other word a person with an education beyond the forth grade would know without the look-up.
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apfergus
The Watchtower publications were always so full of contradictory or just plain garbled rhetoric that it's really no wonder the people who live by them can't form any clear independent thoughts on any of them. I'm personally ashamed that I ever believed, much less spoke out loud, some of the blatant logical fallacies that came up time and time again in the Watchtower.
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A New Voice
by apfergus ini haven't been involved with the jws in nearly five years now.
i was raised as a witness from the time i was seven until i was 17 and a junior in high school.
i don't have any particularly sad stories to tell, really, except that the process of leaving the organization--even though i was never baptised--was the hardest thing i've ever gone through.
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apfergus
LGBT is just Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender--a blanket term to refer to anyone who identifies as any superposition of those.
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A New Voice
by apfergus ini haven't been involved with the jws in nearly five years now.
i was raised as a witness from the time i was seven until i was 17 and a junior in high school.
i don't have any particularly sad stories to tell, really, except that the process of leaving the organization--even though i was never baptised--was the hardest thing i've ever gone through.
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apfergus
Well thanks for the warm welcome, everyone! I do keep in regular contact with my parents (only my mother is a JW, my dad was never involved), and even though the whole JW thing can put a strain on my relationship with my mother, both my parents have been fairly supportive of me. I know that my mom really wants me to come back. Every time I'm back home from school she always winds up getting me to go out to dinner with someone from the old congregation in the hopes that something will make me want to come back. She has NO IDEA how unlikely that is, and I do my best to hide my complete lack of interest from her to avoid breaking her heart all over again.
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apfergus
I don't think "proof" is a good word for such a question. There is no proof either way, all we have is evidence. And there is just as much evidence to support the existence of God as there is to support the existence of two metaphysical donkeys orbiting Neptune--that is to say, none. That is why I have absolutely no problem dismissing the possibility of God. Atheism is no more a leap of faith than is denial of anything else with no supporting empirical evidence. Which isn't to say that there necessarily is no God, simply that there is currently no supporting evidence.
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A New Voice
by apfergus ini haven't been involved with the jws in nearly five years now.
i was raised as a witness from the time i was seven until i was 17 and a junior in high school.
i don't have any particularly sad stories to tell, really, except that the process of leaving the organization--even though i was never baptised--was the hardest thing i've ever gone through.
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apfergus
Hello! I haven't been involved with the JWs in nearly five years now. I was raised as a Witness from the time I was seven until I was 17 and a junior in high school. I don't have any particularly sad stories to tell, really, except that the process of leaving the organization--even though I was never baptised--was the hardest thing I've ever gone through. It's years behind me now, but it's something that I don't think will ever really be behind me. I left before things got really bad, and I knew they would get worse if I didn't just walk away. Even so, it's something that none of the people I love and trust have ever really understood about me. No one else has been through the same or similar transition, and I really don't think it's possible for them to completely comprehend everything it entails. So I'm just here in the hopes that I might be able to make some friends and acquaintances I can relate to on that front (from what I've seen so far, this seems likely). Anyway, I'm a former JW-child, a current skeptic and atheist, and a proud member of the LGBT community. I'm also a physicist-in-training, which I love to talk about to no end. I look forward to future interactions with the online ex-JW community. -Fergus