I believe a materialist is one who upholds the credo of science - "If it cannot be measured it does not exist."
I've never encountered a single person who believes that. It is certainly not 'the credo if science'.
Posts by cofty
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70A Growing Problem for Materialists
by Sea Breeze inthe famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.
matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.
scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.
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cofty
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A Growing Problem for Materialists
by Sea Breeze inthe famous double-slit experiment proves that light travels both in individual particles called photons and also as a mathematical probability wave.
matter itself exhibits this particle-wave duality which allows objects to exist in two different places at the same time, depending on whether of not you are looking (testing) at it.
scientists have recently been able to get molecules as large as 2000 atoms to exhibit this duality!.
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cofty
'Information' in this context is a metaphor. You are committing a category error.
Please define what you mean by 'materialists'. If you simply mean that there is no such thing as an omnipotent god holding the strings then count me in.
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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big
by minimus ina month ago it might have been questionable.
not now.
after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.
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cofty
Equating and both-siding the two situations serves nobody
I didn't
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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big
by minimus ina month ago it might have been questionable.
not now.
after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.
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cofty
It's very illegal. It's voter fraud and it undermines democracy. Would you approve of Biden supporters stealing other's votes?
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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big
by minimus ina month ago it might have been questionable.
not now.
after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.
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cofty
I resent YOUR smug attitude (probably dripping with white, male privilege too) that my escape didn't have any suffering involved in it - Carmichael
'White, male privilege' is a myth. People who indulge in that sort of identity politics use it as a lazy way to attack their interlocutor rather than deal honestly with the topic of discussion.
I never at any time even suggested you did not suffer as a result of your time with the cult. Maybe you could read my comments more thoughtfully instead of resorting to ad hominem replies.
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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big
by minimus ina month ago it might have been questionable.
not now.
after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.
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cofty
you can look in other threads here where you speak about people feeling they have to join religion after leaving the exJWs as a sort of crutch or something to that effect
No you can't and that is not my position.
In fact I have threads that extol the value of religion even if the content of the faith is not objectively true.
There are of course exJWs who are looking for something to fill the void, that is true. What I am railing against is the endless accusations by people on very side that exJWs they disagree with are behaving 'like a JW'. THAT is smug and lazy.
By the way, just for the record, I think Trump is unfit to be president (faced with the choice Americans have in November I would vote for him)
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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big
by minimus ina month ago it might have been questionable.
not now.
after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.
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cofty
I really detest when people accuse exJWs who have suffered to escape the cult of behaving like a JW.
It is smug, lazy and cowardly. It ought to be taboo in an exJW community.
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The Power Of Unconditional Love
by 1234 inthe most powerful love in the universe is unconditional love.. a love that has no requirements or conditions.
no actions are necessary to receive it.. this love is all around us and can be easily seen.
watch any mother with its new born baby.
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cofty
We are spiritual beings having a physical experience
Prove it.
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Belgium: Jehovah's Witnesses will be tried for hate crimes on February 16.
by yalbmert99 inbelgium: jehovah's witnesses will be tried for hate crimes on february 16.. https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20200915_93224449.
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cofty
Of course a court can't tell anybody who to be polite to. That isn't the issue.
The practice of enforced shunning - including close family - might just be something a court can take action against.
The defense that JWs make their own personal decision to shun won't hold up to the most cursory examination.
The Closed Brethren got into some difficulty with the Charity Commission in the UK for similar policies.
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Is There a Higher Conscious
by LetTheTruthBeKnown inmost of the individuals here from what i have read have gravitated to believing in evolution for various reasons and no longer have a belief in a creator.. the questions begs though, is there a higher conscious in the universe than mankind's.
i am sure everyone agrees that animals are conscious, but to what extent can they reason?.
here is the link to dr. rupert sheldrake's - is the sun conscious.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhsobpja8a.
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cofty
LTTBK - You are confusing having an open mind with a head that is so open your brain fell out.