Posts by Razziel

They are going to dump door to door or make some significant change in the way the preaching is done. Several weeks back the Watchtower made this comment.

That is a very good observation. I have to think even if they drastically overhauled the preaching work and stopped reporting time, they'd find a way to keep the Pioneer ranks. They really do have a large army of women serving as Pioneers. And I never saw a Brother fight tooth or nail or be absolutely devastated and heartbroken at stepping down quite like a Sister who has to drop out of the Pioneer ranks.

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I am starting a business and it requires your JW skills...

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Donnie Darko Style?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgt_kJQdjes

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The Governing Body intends to announce significant changes in academic literature (DOCTRINES) - Brazil

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dear randall.

good morning!.

here is the daniel of brazil (former bethel).. this week at the forum of former jehovah's witnesses had an interesting news!

Razziel

Kingdom Ministry School special elders prepare to accept and help others to accept the changes.

That's the important sentence. Something like ditching the two-witness rule in cases where it is a criminal offense could be handled by Letter to the BoE. Most of the other policy and doctrinal points could also be handled by letter, Watchtower article, or DC talk. If that quote is true, there could be an about-face about to happen on something core. There are hundreds or laws and customs, but there are only about a dozen core beliefs and policies that would really raise a question mark in long-time believers eyes.

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Help with Mathematical Concepts, Not Arithmetic

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my math background is embarassing.

my public education was very sad.

although i received good grades in college track math courses, i never understood the underlying ideas or motivations.

Razziel

Quendi it was my friend who really piqued my interest in FLT. After I graduated college, I took a podunk job just to get to the big city. Met a coworker Engineer and we quickly became friends. Turns out he was an Ex-JW who got DF'd and left because his newborn needed a blood transfusion. How strange is that?

Anyway, I'm astounded at the classical mathematical works he has read since then, and he has helped educate me a lot on the history of mathematics. We both switched jobs but get together every few weeks and work on mathematics and physics problems ranging from FLT to reconciling the Theory of Relativiy with Quantum Physics, to Green Energy.

He encouraged me to look at FLT, so I did and came up with that solution domain, and we have done some interesting things. I'm hesitant to say more simply because I have yet to find anyone else who has tried our path to a solution. Like I said, the odds are low simply because of how many people have tried to solve this before, but it's fun to try, and we've noticed/learned some very interesting things that may provide a path towards a solution without resorting to "new math".

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Help with Mathematical Concepts, Not Arithmetic

by Band on the Run in

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my math background is embarassing.

my public education was very sad.

although i received good grades in college track math courses, i never understood the underlying ideas or motivations.

Razziel

wha?

Well my laptop with Mathematica and MathCad died, so I'm limited to Excel now at home. Graphs and pattern recognition for the win!

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Help with Mathematical Concepts, Not Arithmetic

by Band on the Run in

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my math background is embarassing.

my public education was very sad.

although i received good grades in college track math courses, i never understood the underlying ideas or motivations.

Razziel

Several experts have expressed the opinion that the way he proved it, however, was not what Fermat had in mind - so, in that sense, the solution is still lost.

I think very few believe fermat ever proved it.

I have been working the last couple of months with a friend on Fermat's Last Theorem in our spare time, and we think a solution with elementary arithmetic operations might indeed exist. And we've found an interesting way to reframe what the equation is fundamentally describing using the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. Just by normalizing the equation and graphing it, it is apparent an integer solution is unlikely for n>2. If you graph the normalized equation, n=1 is linear, n=2 is the unit circle, and as n increases the graph quickly conveges towards a square. I've developed a spreadsheet that given a value for C and a value for n, I can tell you the finite domain where an integer solution would exist. We are now looking for ways to eliminate that finite domain.

That said, this is the most scrutinized mathematics problem of the last several hundred years, so the likelyhood we'll catch something that others did not is low. But it's still fun to try.

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Anonymous Message to Watchtower

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http://www.bit.ly/jwleaks-anonymous.

hello citizens of the world.

we are anonymous.. dear brothers and sisters,.

Razziel

"The rest consists of jamesmahon and cedars arguing over the effects that releasing the Watchtower's pedophile database to the public would have on the situation."

This is an argument for those that don't understand the concept of war. The idea of the WT fading off into the sunset and everyone living happily ever after is a pipe dream. If you want to break the cycle, innocent people will be hurt or wrongly accused. Some who have spent their entire lives in ignorance will spend their last breaths knowing their lives were in vain. Others may be unable to handle the truth and commit suicide.

There is always a price to be paid.

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Oil Companies Are Becoming Afraid

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potential disruptive technology that could change almost everything:.

http://www.mydigitalpublication.com//display_article.php?id=1104768.

metatron.

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I'm siding with Bohm on this one.

The posted article is light on science, but since it mentions transmutation (i.e. alchemy) in the absence of tremendous heat and pressure (i.e. fusion), I'll take a guess that the mechanism is quantum tunneling.

I'll grant that I believe such a thing might be possible in a lab, and quantum tunneling has a lot of applicable uses in electronics and other industries, but I find a hard time believing it can be net-energy positive. Even if it is, I think the efficiency would be insanely small compared with other energy sources, meaning economy of scale would make miniaturization almost impossible. Perhaps these are the engineering difficulties?

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Anonymous Message to Watchtower

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http://www.bit.ly/jwleaks-anonymous.

hello citizens of the world.

we are anonymous.. dear brothers and sisters,.

Razziel

That second video was F'n awesome.

Unfortunately doing what is right, and doing what is necessary are not always the same thing. Groups like Anonymous may not always be doing what is right, but they very well may be doing what is necessary.