Posts by truthseeker100

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How does the brain process the enormous amounts of information it has to deal with

by fulltimestudent in

a fascinating insight into our mental processes:.

researchers at nyu langone medical center have captured images of the underlying biological activity within brain cells and their tree-like extensions, or dendrites, in mice that show how their brains sort, store and make sense out of information during learning.. .

rendering of dendrites in brain (stock image).

truthseeker100

Excellent post FTS.

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The mathematical probability of spontaneous order (no designer/creator)

by Fernando in

there seem to be many prerequisites for life as we know it.. to name a few: order, function, compatibility, availability, sustainability, intelligence, consciousness, intuition and so on.. focusing on only one, namely order.. what are the chances of order arising spontaneously, by chance, with no creator/designer?.

i have often pondered this and recently came across a mathematical summary of the big picture:.

if every particle in the known physical universe (10^80 particles), participated in one trillion interactions (10^12 interactions) per second, for the entire 30 billion years of the universe's existence (10^18 seconds), then we would by now have covered only 10^110 permutations.. if you had only 100 components in a container, what are the chances that a blindfolded person could lay them out in order on a table?.

truthseeker100

Fernando I don't think most physicists would agree that the universe is 30 billion years old. That kind of throws a monkey wrench into your math right from the start.

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The 50 Ways to Be Disfellowshipped

by Wild_Thing in

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i was wondering ... what are all of the "official" reasons provided by elders for disfellowshipping someone?

i know the most common reasons are adultery and fornication, but what about the others?

a couple of years ago i traveled back to my hometown` and one of my old jw acquaintances told me that her grown son had been disfellowshipped for refusing to stop associating with another disfellowshipped person.

truthseeker100

I think mine probably said apostasy. I kept asking questions they couldn't answer and I did not show up for my last JC. Thats about all I can say without identifying mysef. I still have familly in even though they are Jw's I still love them and they couldn't handle me being an official appostate. When my mother dies I will give a full acounting of who I am. I was a young man at the time my focus should have been on girls. That came later I had a few things to put in order. I did put them in order and my new familly and I have had a great life.

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The Lords Evening Meal: Partaking and Awakening

by Generation Me in

so i chose to attend the memorial last night.

it was a hall i don't usually go to but chose to go there because i felt like it would be the closest.

mind you i am not a jw and was never raised a jw and don't have any family who are jw.

truthseeker100

Gen me. If you can save someone, even one person from a life time of toil and delusion in the wtbts I'm with you 100 per cent. Just make sure that you don't get caught up in any of their delusions. You don't appear to be that type but you never know. Semper Fi.

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In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?

by stuckinarut2 in

what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?

truthseeker100

I think not sure where to go takes the cake on this topic.

I thFrom 1920 WT publication "Talking with the Dead":

p. 116 Materializations

"These materializations occur by a power which the demons posess of being able to draw out of the mediums body connected streams of the cells of which her body is composed, and then changing the form of these living cells into any desired appearance. They thus transform the medium into a hideous octopus-like creature, and this is the reason seances occur in a dimly lit room, with the medium in a cabinet, so that the circle of investigators cannot witness the horrible scene as it really is."ink not sure where to go gets the best prize for the wakiest.

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The Lords Evening Meal: Partaking and Awakening

by Generation Me in

so i chose to attend the memorial last night.

it was a hall i don't usually go to but chose to go there because i felt like it would be the closest.

mind you i am not a jw and was never raised a jw and don't have any family who are jw.

truthseeker100

Generation me, they don't want your help I think it is laudible that you tried to talk to this new study. The WBTS has ways of dealing with people like you. I commend your effort. They have been doing this for a long time. Do you think your the first one who has tried?

Best of luck and drop in whenever you want and inform us of your succeses and failures.

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The Lords Evening Meal: Partaking and Awakening

by Generation Me in

so i chose to attend the memorial last night.

it was a hall i don't usually go to but chose to go there because i felt like it would be the closest.

mind you i am not a jw and was never raised a jw and don't have any family who are jw.

truthseeker100

It's true they can't silence you after the meetings but they sure as hell can during the meetings. They will give you a little time for the brain washing to take effect. Then the will make you their biggest poriah and the only ones who will hang with you ,for a while ,will be the JW's Weirdo's and believe me thats a truly weird lot. They might even lable you as spiritualy weak and undesirable for associaction.

I guess its hard for me to believe a sane person would want that.

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The Lords Evening Meal: Partaking and Awakening

by Generation Me in

so i chose to attend the memorial last night.

it was a hall i don't usually go to but chose to go there because i felt like it would be the closest.

mind you i am not a jw and was never raised a jw and don't have any family who are jw.

truthseeker100

Generation, I believe it's possible that what you say happened. I just can't understand your motivation? I mean you have no familly in the cult and have not been ostracized by them. What are you trying to accomplish? I ask these questions respectfully.

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The Bible Gods Word or Mans

by azor in

i remember studying this book years ago and how it impacted my belief system.

i no longer believe the bible is god's word.

however i do have a couple of lingering questions on this subject.

truthseeker100

Tenacious the observable universe is a very violent and disordelly place. Just because there is some sembalence of order we observe in our neck of the woods does not indicate inteligent design. Would an inteligent designer create an ebola virus or engineer the spanish influenza outbreak of 1919? Why design the earth's orbit with a slight wobble(precession) that causes ice ages? Why design a meteor impact that wiped out the dinasours?

Not everyones kidneys or brain function works properly for example.

How come some people die so young others seem to go on and on. The list just goes on and on.

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How do you feel about religion as a whole?

by FatherFirst in

it just seems to me religion in general primarily makes truly bad people worse, not genuinly good people better; and in many cases has even made good people do bad things in the name of their religion.

just curious, a personal poll if you will.

what are you guys' current views on religion as a whole?

truthseeker100

How do I feel about religion? I think it served some purpose in our evolutionary history. I have spent a lot of time recently with the Inuit in Canada's far North. The Inuit are a very superstitious and religious people. For the Inuit being superstitious and religious is a matter of survival. It's crazy some of the things they believe!