I've spent some time thinking about this stuff...
The Double-Slit experiment fascinated me (and still continues to), because of its implications concerning the nature of reality.
For a long time, I thought that consciousness caused collapse of the wavefunction; probability becomes certainty, and all that...
Then I saw this lecture by Stuart Hameroff, where he postulated that maybe we have had it backwards...namely, maybe collapsing wavefunction is causing consciouness.
It really sent me back to square one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHg-mr4aqWk
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Einstein On Quantum Mechanics
by Brokeback Watchtower inalbert einstein said "i like to think the moon is there even if i'm not looking at it".. i'm thinking the double slit experiments could have been a major factor in his attitude towards qm.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/double-slit_experiment.
"[t]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.".
werner heisenberg.
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Climate Change - True Believer or Skeptic?
by Simon inclimate change ... who doesn't believe it?
crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.
it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.
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How often have you (as in anyone reading this) actually changed your mind over any subject?
Actually, I'll bet that many readers here had that very experience, concerning a rather weighty matter, at least once in their lives.
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New Upcoming Changes - No More Publisher Record Cards & Reporting Hours
by thedepressedsoul inpublisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.
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coming soon.. made this post 4 years ago, it happened - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/24020002/kingdom-consolidation-sales-coming-reliable-source.
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No matter how much informal pressure is applied, if no hours are reported, JWs will take this as a signal to stop preaching. Just as they took the abolition of cover prices for the literature as a signal to stop paying for them. No amount of exhortations to voluntarily contribute to cover the cost of printing did the trick.
I think this is prescient. JWs are tired out after decades in the hamster wheel. ANY 'signal' from HQ that could otherwise be construed to diminish the 'ministry' will likely be seized upon.
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Are You Horrifed if Someone Goes Into a “Massage Parlor”?
by minimus inyesterday, robert kraft, the owner of the new england patriots, got busted for getting a massage and more.
they say there is another more high profile person who also got busted.. does this stuff upset you that some men have gone into a massage parlor for possibly more than a massage?
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Or maybe Mr. Kraft went into a 'low rent' place precisely because of who was likely available there...
And I don't mean because women who are newly into the country are available for abuse, but rather because such newly arrived women would most likely NOT know who he is.
Consider it: sure Bob Kraft can afford any high-priced call girl working out of Boston. It's not a matter of price. Any of those high-priced call girls would know exactly who he is, and potentially extort Kraft beyond the initial transaction.
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Who is your favorite Star Wars character?
by LoveUniHateExams inthe star wars franchise has lots of memorable characters, no doubt about it.
the sw extended universe is a big space.. there are lots of characters in the extended universe that i know little or nothing about - i may have only heard their names.. so if you could pick just one character, which one is your favourite?.
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R5-D4: if he didn't blow his 'motivator', then Luke and R2 don't meet....
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What Are Your Rights?
by Simon inrights seem to be everywhere nowadays.
say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.
people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.
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If people are too untrustworthy to leave to their own devices in a libertarian society, how could they be trusted with the powers of the levers of government in a socialist society?
Are they somehow not going to use them to serve their own interests?
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Service experiences
by former2free ini know what you may be thinking by the title but bear with me.
have you ever reflected on past service experiences and think wow if only i had listened to a householder?
two things come to my mind of personal experience.
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I was probably 12 or 13 at the time.
I was out in service on a terribly cold, inhospitable winter morning. I was paired with a slightly older (age 15-16) peer.
One woman opened her door, and with equal parts puzzlement and disgust, said words to the effect of: 'I can't believe that they have you out doing this, on a morning with these awful conditions.
My peer said: 'But this is Our Choice.'Well, it might've been true for him - but it sure as hell wasn't true for me.
No, I was out there because my mother expected it of me. Nothing more than that.
And that's when it hit me - front and center.
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Just About To Leave For My Work's Christmas Party
by pale.emperor init's my work's christmas parts this evening.
just getting myself ready for it and decided to wear a suit rather than casual shirt and pants.
it's funny because i've just noticed that i now only own one suit.
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Isn't it grand to NOT have to wade through and drag around all the BS WT baggage about everything?
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Did you know Banks create money out of thin air?
by TerryWalstrom inbanks create money “out of thin air.”empirical studies have been undertaken to prove this thesis and this is the conclusion:.
in the 5,000 year history of banking, banks have been thought of as “deposit taking institutions which lend money”.. 1. what is the legal reality?
banks don’t take deposits and don’t lend money.the public is under this false impression on purpose because the language of banks is not legal language.. so--what is a “deposit”?a deposit is not actually a deposit.
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no banks cannot manufacture money out of thin air.
But they can loan money that they don't actually have deposited....
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Do you remember this?
by Gorbatchov inwhen g. was a litle kid, remembering the watchtower study at age 9, hearing all the stuff, the paragraph, the questions, the answers, about topics i could not understand, so it became so abstract that it was not entering my ears and brains.
it felt that i was no part of the group, someone alone on a distant planet.. do you remember this feeling?.
g..
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To the OP point - yes, I remember not really being able to wrap my mind around doctrine, and felt like I didn't fit it in because I didn't understand everything I was expected to...little did I know that accepting WT doctrine was NOT an exercise of rigorous logic, but rather a suspension of such thinking.
Not to mention, some of my Kingdom Hall contemporaries were starting to 'reach out', as-it-were, and Auxiliary Pioneer over summers and school breaks, and since I hated Field Service fiercely, I couldn't walk that plank...
While at the same time, the WT and my parents did their best/worst to make sure I didn't fit in with the kids at school...
Few friends in school and fake ones in the Kingdom Hall. I was a kid on an island.
And yet they were all astonished that I bailed on the religion. I was miserable in there, and yet it threw them for a loop that I balked at a lifetime on the hamster wheel. They really couldn't understand me - never could, I guess.