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  At this point in time and onward, how technology may send the human race back to the stone age...

  by Bad_Wolf in

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  for thousands of years, the human race has slowly advanced by learning and mastering professions and grouping into cities allowing specializations.

  these trades were passed directly and through books.

  but everything until recently began with the ground up.

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  cofty

  Don't worry there will always be geeks who learn HTML and CSS just for the hell of it.

  To be fair, despite the myths, there are probably no ancient skills that can't be performed better by modern-day craftsmen and women.
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  Evidence of a form of telepathy, science and personal experiences.

  by Bad_Wolf in

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  i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.

  medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.

  on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.

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  cofty

  blondie - Good point. There are so many clues that we receive without even being aware of it. Body language, transient facial expressions, hesitations etc etc. Most communication is non-verbal. Some people are better than others at picking up on them. There might be a gender bias there in favour of females but I'm not sure if there is data.

  The other thing is that we are very good at noticing the things we get right and forgetting the many times we miss clues or make wrong assumptions — confirmation bias.

  As soon as somebody says ‘quantum’ the conversation has bottomed-out. Quantum effects are what happen to particles so small a neuron or synapse looks like a planet by comparison.
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  I wish all Witness men were like this ...

  by vienne in

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  my intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.

  my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.

  why aren't more witness men like this?

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  You haven't seen the complaints that Rachel is referring to but you assert they have nothing to do with JWs attitude towards the authority of men over women.

  Rachel has declined to engage with your argument from ignorance and you claim that is reason to lack confidence in the authors.

  That is arrogance.
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  I wish all Witness men were like this ...

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
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  my intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.

  my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.

  why aren't more witness men like this?

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  SBF - Your arrogance is astonishing.

  What is your motive for trying to discredit the authors of the blog?
  
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  Anyone every heard anything about your own blood?

  by Tobyjones262 in

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  i was wondering if there was any policy from the cult about your own blood in you cut your finger and put it in your mouth out of reflex ect.

  what if any is the position of this?

  i always thought the amount of blood is not the real issue, even a drop would be a sin?.

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  I don't know if there is anything in writing about this specifically but as a child we were taught not to lick a bleeding wound for this reason.
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  I wish all Witness men were like this ...

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
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  my intro essay for the new book caused all sorts of off blog controversy.

  my writing partner, a retired educator and a witness, responded.

  why aren't more witness men like this?

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  cofty

  Who are you to tell Vienne what the motivations are of complainants you have never met and whose emails you have never read?
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  Evidence of a form of telepathy, science and personal experiences.

  by Bad_Wolf in

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  i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.

  medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.

  on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.

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  cofty

  Blatant strawman.

  My position about the origin of the cosmos is simple - I don't know.

  My position on the supernatural is that it is nothing but a placeholder.

  All the burden of proof is with the merchants of woo.
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  Evidence of a form of telepathy, science and personal experiences.

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. social
  2. current

  i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.

  medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.

  on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.

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  cofty

  The burden of proof is on those who claim there is a factual basis for 'supernatural' events.

  Attempts to uncover objective evidence has so far failed 100% of the time. It is not open-minded to reserve judgement on the supernatural. It is obtuse not to be deeply skeptical.

  By the way, the mystery of why there is something rather than nothing is not the topic. The 'something' operates by consistent laws. Admittedly we don't fully understand those laws but that doesn't leave room for woo-woo.
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  Evidence of a form of telepathy, science and personal experiences.

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. social
  2. current

  i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.

  medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.

  on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.

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  cofty

  Confirmation bias, selective memory and embellishment after the fact.

  Intuition is nothing more than the way our brains subconsciously take short-cuts through data we already have available.

  Read 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins for a useful treatment of the subject.
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  Flat Earth Jw and Galileo Galilei

  by Earthmeasured in

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  in the image you can see what jw wrote about how galileo was treated by the catholic church.

  now they are disfelloshipping me because i believe the earth is flat.

  is this coherent?.

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  cofty

  It does indeed say the earth is flat. Yet another example of why it is silly to organise your life around the ramblings of Iron Age goat herders.

  Join us in the 21st century.