Posts by RAF

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You alright tonight?............

by ScoobySnax in

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some beer on the go here, amy winehouse playing, it's friday, nice weekend off from work to look forward too, what could be better eh?

what you all up to tonight you filfthy apostates?

hope you having a good time too.

RAF

Yeah ... I'm taking care of my body, my hair ... and have a look on here from time to time

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LOVE, ALTRUISM & EVOLUTION

by Dansk in

i'm an evolutionist.

one cannot argue that evolution isn't a fact.

however, i'd be interested in the better informed amongst us here explaining in simple terms how the feeling of love evolved.

RAF

SNG : For example, making deals with trustworthy reciprocal altruists and cutting off cheaters is a smart strategy. But a primate doesn't need to consciously think, "By golly, if I keep losing resources to that cheater, it will decrease my ability to effectively raise offspring!" Instead, it just feels anger at being cheated, and that feeling causes him to cut his losses.

The difference is that a human being (not all) because he can see a bigger picture (by ideology on long terme even for after him) is able to forget about himself (not because he is weaker but he knows that he is able to sustain it - and can accept any loss even his life for his ideology). his/her primal need then is to be usefull at any rate (just because it's more important for him to be satisfied).

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LOVE, ALTRUISM & EVOLUTION

by Dansk in

i'm an evolutionist.

one cannot argue that evolution isn't a fact.

however, i'd be interested in the better informed amongst us here explaining in simple terms how the feeling of love evolved.

RAF

TP: I'm not picking on you particularly RAF but the words "gives you the feeling that you are usefull" make me question whether this is altruism or not. I really wonder about what really motivates people. Is it their desire to help others as a sole motive or is there an ego-based need that is asking to be filled. Do we help others, express love, show affection, etc. for the other or is it because it makes us feel better about us?

tall penguin

Ego can help (but who cares when it helps) it'sabout being a solution (you can / you do : and it satisfies you) Now if any ask for his/her name to be in the dictionnary for that (for instance) well I guess it's ego based and of course have nothing to do with altruisme but Egotisme.

There are some situation I just do not react ... just because I know I can't offer the solution espected or needed or I'm just not able to.

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LOVE, ALTRUISM & EVOLUTION

by Dansk in

i'm an evolutionist.

one cannot argue that evolution isn't a fact.

however, i'd be interested in the better informed amongst us here explaining in simple terms how the feeling of love evolved.

RAF

(since I'm willing to joke about that) : the swin from what I came from ... LOL ... (why not after all - since scientists can state whatever with no links from other kind evolutions) feel that love is alchimic (when the two or more are in love it gives a need to stay connected in a way or an other even just by knowing or feeling it - true love don't even really need physical attachement - nobody is somebody else's property - and love can't be a jail) but altruisme is rational reaction (depending on our state of mind) you can do something to help someone you just do it (even if you don't know them / will never see them again / won't get anything from them) just because it's cool and gives you the feeling that you are usefull and can bring something into other peoples life. Eddited to add ... some people even don't care dying for that ... just because it's important for them to usefull in the matter they are willing to act on.

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Favourite quotes from films.....

by fifi40 in

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i love this quote and often find myself using it on the kids and my dog.

it is from cats and dogs and james earl jones doing the voice over.

"not for you young puppy, for you the war is over".

RAF

Twich ... I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this part of the movie ...

Chaplain: Let us praise God.
[The congregation rises.]
Chaplain: O Lord…
Congregation: O Lord…
Chaplain: … ooh, You are so big…
Congregation: … ooh, You are so big…
Chaplain: … so absolutely huge.
Congregation: … so absolutely huge.
Chaplain: Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.
Congregation: Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.
Chaplain: Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and…
Congregation: … and barefaced flattery.
Chaplain: But You're so strong and, well, just so… super.
Congregation: Fantastic!
Chaplain: Amen.
Congregation: Amen.
[The congregation sits again.]
Monty Python - The Meaning of Life

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First & Last, One-time post

by journey-on in

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i have been lurking for quite some time now on jwd.

my story is pretty much just like everyone else's, "only the names have been changed".

in reading your posts, i have both laughed and cried till tears ran down my cheeks.

RAF

J. Thomas ... You'll be wellcome, wellcome, wellcome!!!

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Why I Came Back

by Badger in

it's been a long, long time since i've posted on any of the boards.

partially, i had gotten out and busy.

this board was indispensable and helped me leave the organization with a lot of confidence in what i was doing.. but, it's not all completely over.

Global Warming Hysteria

by metatron in

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http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2007/02/quacks-cranks-and-junk-science.html.

are global warming skeptics really just cranks?

i don't doubt that we are having some effect on .

RAF

doomsaying about the End of the World

It won't be the end of the world ... but what a change ... How many losses? ...
Since we won't agree (all countries and citizens to really care about this for our imediat confort) we will have to face IT ... Also less soil available = More WARS (differents kinds for differents things) ... I guess we may learn for good from that ...
Eddited to correct my spelling ...

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An explanation: Life*****sucks: And--

by onacruse in

first of all, i'd like to sincerely thank all of you who responded to (and called me, and p/m'd me) about my recent thread (read: blind raging rant).. i've had more time to think about why i reacted, and felt, the way i did, and i've talked to my closest friends, and i chose to start this separate thread because what i felt has more to do with jw/exjw/christian upbringing than the particular circumstances in which my rage was induced.. simply: my rage was because a raw nerve had been touched, a nerve that i thought i had long since healed---the feeling that nothing i do is ever good enough!!.

i remember that feeling as a jw: now a publisher, but, that's not good enough...you must put in more time.

now a vacation pioneer, but, that's not good enough...you must now become a regular pioneer.

RAF

Well I don't know what to say ... anyway it's like you feel better
Oh and to me a good carpenter just can't be lowly ... the exchange Market can crash he will still be able to build his own log house and everything needed in it for him and others (since there are wood left of course) who wouldn't exchange something they can give you for this service?

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First & Last, One-time post

by journey-on in

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i have been lurking for quite some time now on jwd.

my story is pretty much just like everyone else's, "only the names have been changed".

in reading your posts, i have both laughed and cried till tears ran down my cheeks.

RAF

I'm happy, happy, happy ... Journey-on (didn't want to get into J. Thomas - has a very specific way to speak - quiet deep - and stuff and just say well it's interesting to get into his reasoning - as believer or not - since I was not sure of your state of mind about the whole matter yet) it feels better now ...
Read you soon ...