It's a good job that arrows are too stupid to realise that they can't actually fly...
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iggy_the_fish
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Can you solve this paradox?
by Rod P inyou have a bow and arrow.
you shoot the arrow with the bow from point a to point b.. but the arrow will never reach point b, it's destination.
before the arrow can reach point b, it must first travel half way (let's call that point c).. but before the arrow can reach point c, it must first travel half way (let's call that point d).. but before the arrow can reach point d, it must first travel half way (let's call that point e).. do you see the problem?
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Can you solve this paradox?
by Rod P inyou have a bow and arrow.
you shoot the arrow with the bow from point a to point b.. but the arrow will never reach point b, it's destination.
before the arrow can reach point b, it must first travel half way (let's call that point c).. but before the arrow can reach point c, it must first travel half way (let's call that point d).. but before the arrow can reach point d, it must first travel half way (let's call that point e).. do you see the problem?
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iggy_the_fish
Zeno's paradox it's called, although I think he used Achilles chasing a tortoise or something like that.
The answer definitely lies in the fact that you're moving through increasingly small amounts of time, which it turns out you can do in a finite time, EVEN THOUGH there are infinetly many of them.
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They really don't have the truth! Their own web server admits it!
by AlmostAtheist inhttp://www.watchtower.org/thetruth
in case you have friendly html errors turned on, here's the output i get from the watchtower's site when i go searching for thetruth:.
it's nice to see them admitting it.
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iggy_the_fish
LOL, that's funny AA, ya big silly
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Can you solve this paradox?
by Rod P inyou have a bow and arrow.
you shoot the arrow with the bow from point a to point b.. but the arrow will never reach point b, it's destination.
before the arrow can reach point b, it must first travel half way (let's call that point c).. but before the arrow can reach point c, it must first travel half way (let's call that point d).. but before the arrow can reach point d, it must first travel half way (let's call that point e).. do you see the problem?
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iggy_the_fish
Wasn't it one of the greek philosophers who first started thinking this one over? I forget which one.
The answer lies in infinite sums having finite limits. In this case, you're adding 1/2, then 1/4, then 1/8 etc. If you sum this infinite series (1/{2^n}) from n=1 to infinity, you get the answer 1. If the arrow travels at roughly a constant speed from A to B, the time taken to traverse each segment in the series takes exponentially less time also. You travel smaller and smaller distances (to your mid points), but this is balanced by you traversing them in less and less time. This infinite sum has a finite limit.
Interestingly enough, if you sum the series 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, ... you don't get a finite answer, it's infinity, even though the terms in the sum get smaller and smaller as you go on...
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What are your Healthy Releases?
by GetBusyLiving in.
when you are stressed out of your brains or bored, what sort of activities do you do to make yourself feel better?
gbl
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iggy_the_fish
heh heh. Healthy releases. heh heh.
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Make "your own" JW door to door presentation...
by JH inhey!
my name is minister rat, and i just happened to be in your neighbourhood.
have a look at this cool babe on the front page of this june awake.
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iggy_the_fish
ROFLMAO, there's some gold on this thread. You people are GENIUSES!
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Speaking of music,,,,,what "nerdy" singer do you secretly adore?
by LyinEyes ini didnt know what other word to use but nerdy,, but you will get the picture when i tell you a couple of my favorites.
or maybe they are not so much "nerdy" as they are just off the beaten path singers,,maybe even a bit odd.
barry mannilow,.
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iggy_the_fish
We can speak freely here, without fear of ridicule, right?
Every now and again I thoroughly enjoy an evening with my...... Glen Campbell CDs. There. I said it. It feels good to share.
Galveston, woh Galveston....
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If this was your last post on JWD, what would you say?
by Rod P insuppose something came up that was beyond your control, but you were given one last chance to say something on this forum for all the posters here.
what would you say to all of us for the last time?.
rod p.
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iggy_the_fish
so long, so long, and thanks......
...for all the fish!
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compilation of biblical inconsistinceys
by candidlynuts inlink http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/inconsistencies.shtml.
example of some that are listed.... mt 5:16 good works should be seen.. mt 6:1-4 they should be kept secret.. mt 5:17-19, lk 16:17 jesus underscores the permanence of the law.. le 10:8 - 11:47, dt 14:3-21 the law distinguishes between clean and unclean foods.. mk 7:14-15, mk 7:18-19 jesus says that there is no such distinction.. 1ti 4:1-4 all foods are clean according to paul.. mt 5:17-19, lk 16:17 jesus did not come to abolish the law.. ep 2:13-15, he 7:18-19 jesus did abolish the law.. mt 5:39, mt 5:44 do not resist evil.
love your enemies.. 2jn 1:9-11 shun anyone who does not hold the proper doctrine.. mt 5:43-44, mt 22:39 love your enemies.
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iggy_the_fish
It's been said on this board before, but if you're a work of religious literature, you don't get nowhere unless you're all things to all people. Also, being very long seems to help.
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Zerubbabel's Temple
by myelaine inyou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together.
the third time let the sword do double damage.
it is the sword that slays, the sword that slays the great men, that enters their private chambers.
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iggy_the_fish
Cool, a spam fight!
