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  I like you more if you are literratte

  by usualusername in

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  as a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .

  if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .

  if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .

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  cliff

  @jgnat

  I always read your posts with pleasure: Brief, to the point and thoughtful.

  I would not find them thus if bad grammar, punctuation and sloppyness got in the way.

  Cliff (UK, BBC listener - but they are losing the battle)
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  god-of-the-gaps. Should we or shouldn't we fiil in the gaps with God?

  by KateWild in

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  2. beliefs

  science imo does not have all the answers.

  when i discover gaps in science, it's easy for me, as a temporary measure to fill in the gaps with god.

  i do this until i have learnt something new.. what about you?

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  Kate,

  already answered above, I think. Do not confuse intellect with faith. Different planes.

  Cliff
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  god-of-the-gaps. Should we or shouldn't we fiil in the gaps with God?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  science imo does not have all the answers.

  when i discover gaps in science, it's easy for me, as a temporary measure to fill in the gaps with god.

  i do this until i have learnt something new.. what about you?

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  I was never a JW so perhaps I don't understand your mind-set.

  Replacing "I don't know" with "god did it" is an intellectual cop-out. There is no evidence for it.

  For me there should be a reason to believe something.
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  god-of-the-gaps. Should we or shouldn't we fiil in the gaps with God?

  by KateWild in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  science imo does not have all the answers.

  when i discover gaps in science, it's easy for me, as a temporary measure to fill in the gaps with god.

  i do this until i have learnt something new.. what about you?

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  Why is it so difficult to say of a (so-called) gap in our knowledge, "We don't know (yet)?"
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  Child indoctrination explained by transactional analysis

  by paranoia agent in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the purpose of psychology is to explain and help others to change, if suffering from depression or anxiety or we just want to understand the other or improve ourselves there are different types of psychological therapies to help us.

  we are aware that psychologists have the know-how, just has mechanics know cars and astronauts know space shuttles and psychics, but we know they know a lot but we know very little possibly because its too complicated, it doesn't make rational sense, we don't have enought time or just like my diploma in accounting if its not put to good use it will turn into a vague memory.. look at my previous thread in cognitive dissonance, it sounds alien to many, it sure sounds to those that i explained it to, that is because its not something we normally hear about so explaining it to others these words and their context also requires a connotation from the listener for cognitive dissonance to make any sense.. my very first assignment was on cognitive dissonance in a paper titled media illiteracy or cognitive dissonance which discussed statistical discrepancies between what people said regarding their preferred news media output -tv or newspapers- and the actual sales/view/quality figures of those two media outlets, in the usa during the 70's and 80's.

  it turns out that people lied about tv news medium being higher quality than newspapers because the quality is lower than newspapers (local news recorded in many states), the truth is that nobody wants to admit (during the questionnaires for this empirical data) that watching news on tv is easier and lazier than reading.

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  Much danger of misunderstanding due to (necessary) oversimplification here!

  PAC (Parent, Adult, Child) roles in transactional analysis use the words in different senses from normal everyday use.

  The Parent voice is the "Do as I say", You are very bad", etc stance. Rules.

  The Child voice is the "You are always picking on me!", "I hate you!". Feelngs

  The Adult voice is the "We seem to have a problem here, let's talk about it". Thoughts.

  We can all be all three at different times and in different situations, but growth in self knowledge and confidence comes from being able to direct out energies and responses through the Adult part of ourselves.

  This is grossly oversimplified, but search for "Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis" for more.

  The book "I'm OK, You're OK" is a good primer, but I don't know if it is still in print.

  Cliff
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  Is this guy for real?

  by cantleave in

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  pat robertson says gay men deliberately infect people with hiv by special rings that cut you during a handshake!!!!.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2403732/they-want-people-pat-robertson-says-gay-men-viciously-spread-hiv-shaking-hands-using-special-rings.html.

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  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2158765/Poison-tip-umbrella-assassination-of-Georgi-Markov-reinvestigated.html

  Why is posting a link so difficult?? I still cannot do it!
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  My daughter got her A Levels yesterday and is off to university in September

  by Xanthippe in

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  2. friends

  she took english, maths and physics and acheived a* a* and a. .

  it is the best thing possible for me, even better than seeing her opening birthday presents or the day she won the halloween fancy dress prize at school.. her dad died five years ago but she has coped and done so well at school.

  it has shown me that despite what happens in life you can still do well and reach your goals, especially if you take a cult upbringing out of the equation!

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  Maths and Physics at such grades is not easy - she must have great talent AND be a hard worker!

  My daughter did similar 18 years ago and has just left Europe this morning for a junior professorship at NIH, Washington in Micro Biology.

  Pass on to your daughter the advice I gave to mine all those years ago: Find something you really love doing and are passionare about - then find someone else to pay you for doing it! You will never need to "work" again!

  Very best wishes to you both!
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  I'm famous...

  by diana netherton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay..maybe just locally.

  but the newspaper did an article and interview with me about my profession.

  check out my video clip at:.

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  Cool!

  As a kid I was fascinated by the court steno in Perry Mason (which always ended in the trial court with a suprise "bomb-shell"!) using only a few keys to make a tape (like telex) which could then be read back to confirm a point.

  Phonetics, of course!
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  What does 100 calories look like?

  by jgnat in

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  have you ever marvelled, as i have, at the marketing genius that sells us less food for more money?

  the marketer who came up with the "100 calorie" packaging ploy deserves a consumer's medal.

  i am recording my own 100 calorie snack wonders, that are balanced for a diabetic (carb, protein, and roughage).

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  Nestlé Smarties are a colour-varied sugar-coated chocolate confectionery popular primarily in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada,Australia, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Greece, the Nordic countries, South Africa, and the Middle East. They have been manufactured since 1937, [1] originally by H.I. Rowntree & Co.. They are currently produced by Nestlé .

  Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5 mm (0.2 in) and a major axis of about 15 mm (0.6 in). They come in eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, pink and brown, although the blue variety was temporarily replaced by a white variety in some countries, while an alternative natural colouring dye of the blue colour was being researched.

  Smarties are not distributed in the United States, except by specialist importers. The Smarties Candy Company manufactures a hard, tablet sweet under the name Smarties (known as Rockets in Canada), which is unrelated to the Nestlé product. M&M's are similar to Smarties, but aren't related.

  Cliff. Grew up on them ....
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  Crisis of Conscience republished and on Kindle

  by losthobbit in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hi guys.

  sorry if this has been mentioned before... i haven't visited this forum in a while.. i've noticed that crisis of conscience is no longer ridiculously expensive on amazon.co.uk (now 9.38), and they have a kindle version which is even cheaper (6.84 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/b00bqou5rc).

  unfortunately the publisher did an absolutely useless job of formatting the kindle version.

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  The problem is almost certainly caused by the original (paper) volume being electronically scanned and then OCRd (Optical character recognition) to produce the computer file.

  Any work that has lots of footnotes, references and quotations will give this kind of problem as the software program has to "guess" where the footnotes go and often, as in this case (!) makes a real dog's breakfast of it!

  Because of the numbers involved, converting books to text files at this price level has to be almost totally automated without any time for human intervention and judgement.

  I found with CoC that one just has to Kindle "page forward" a bit to find the relevant quote or footnote.