i found out that my husband has not only gone to the elders, but has been going to members of my family about me over a period of a few years.
this piece of news is just so depressing.
i've been wondering how my family knew i didn't go and thats why so many of them have becoming more and more distant.
How ironic that the Jws say a marriage can't be fully functional without "a third party"; Jehovah(aka: JW.ORG)...
They say it is needed for a truly strong and happy marriage. It is why so many marriages in the world don't last...
(that is not true either, Jws divorce rates are just as high as any other denomination)
here is an idea i tested.
works at both assemblies and conventions.
i have noticed at the last convention and at my last assembly that when i opened up my wifi setting, tons of hotspots came up for people tethering their tablets to their smart phones.
I like the idea!
Would be interesting to monitor the activity and see what things the Jws read on the "apostate" sites.
Apostate meeting in bathroom 1pm xD hilarious!
It might result in a bunch of elders going there and looking suspiciously at each other :P
The servants at "my" convention use what's app to communicate, so they will probably find out about these things fast.
when somebody posted this on fb, i was anxious to see how ridiculous it would be, probably worse then the gb prophecies, etc.
after watching the clip, i honestly don't know what to believe.
at the very least it's very entertaining and interesting.
I think this is a good example of deliberate data mining/lottery fallacy/cherry picking fallacy...
In a large set of data you can easily pick individual details to prove a certain point.
To be able to "foretell" 9/11 with the sample size of one movie is not likely, but if you look at all movies as a collective... The chance of finding one movie with all these connections is much higher.
Lottery Fallacy
The lottery fallacy is a misuse of statisics that generally argues that a particular phenomenon has such a low probability of happening that because it did happen, it cannot be by chance alone. This argument is often used by creationists in an attempt to argue that because the Earth’s conditions are perfect for life, the Earth must have been designed for us. Asking what is the probability that this particular phenomenon should occur? is asking the wrong question. The law of truly large numbers states that with a large enough sample size, any unlikely thing is likely to happen. A more meaningful question is what is the probability that any unlikely phenomenon should occur, given a large enough sample size?
simon.
this is your forum.
for the rc have it all wrong.. i am wrong to follow the accurate guidance of these commissioners.
Was wondering the same thing, found it here:
Looks like a misunderstanding that escalated with lots of hurt feelings as a result :/
I did not read the whole thing so I might be wrong.
My advice: both of you can just take the high road, forgive and forget. It seems like such a petty thing to argue about. (please don't attack me for expressing this opinion :P)
Hope this can be resolved in a loving manner :)
hey!
i've been hanging around her for a while.
this is the third attempt at my 'hello'.
researchers in york used magnetic stimulation to target an area of the brain called the medial frontal cortex in a group of volunteers.
a control group received a sham treatment.. both groups were asked to think about death.
the group who experienced the magnetic energy reported 32.8% less belief in angels, god and heaven.. when faced with difficult challenges people often take refuge in ideology.
The fool is the one that hangs on to a superstition and calls it faith.
Is there a distinction? :P
researchers in york used magnetic stimulation to target an area of the brain called the medial frontal cortex in a group of volunteers.
a control group received a sham treatment.. both groups were asked to think about death.
the group who experienced the magnetic energy reported 32.8% less belief in angels, god and heaven.. when faced with difficult challenges people often take refuge in ideology.
Sometimes missapplied, the quote in context:
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"
researchers in york used magnetic stimulation to target an area of the brain called the medial frontal cortex in a group of volunteers.
a control group received a sham treatment.. both groups were asked to think about death.
the group who experienced the magnetic energy reported 32.8% less belief in angels, god and heaven.. when faced with difficult challenges people often take refuge in ideology.
Interesting!
We who consider ourselves logical, rational thinkers should try this.
That way we can find out a lot of our biases and our ideological thinking that we are unaware of.
We humans like to think that we base our decisions and beliefs on rational thinking. But this is often not the case. We commonly resort to "lazy" thinking unconsciously. (cognitive shortcut that usually involve feelings instead of facts)
i made a medium level mistake at work today, and when i make mistakes it really shakes me up and takes me a long time to recover.
it completely rattles me, makes me feel awful about myself.
my mind keeps going back to the mistake reliving how i could have let it happen.
none of my jehovah's witness relatives called to tell me or my family.
just found out this morning.
That is horrible!...
My condolences Perry
