Jeez 10 years. So the bible writings from 1000 years ago have to be at least 100 times more outdated (if you do the math)... But, didn't it all come from Jehovah? WTF gives?
Kum Vulcan
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Do not circulate recordings or transcripts of talks at the meetings last night.
by life is to short inok i listening in for the meetings and will probably go to the special talk sunday, they are having it this week because of the special assembly day last weekend.. i am doing this for a very good reason but it is driving me crazy listening to this stuff.
i need to vent of else i feel i will go crazy.
it is so stupid.. ok so last night was the question box and it was about recording the public talks.
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How is a Jehovah'sWitness suppossed to know they are annointed?
by brainwashed-from-birth inare there any tests/interviews they have to go thru to prove it?.
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Kum Vulcan
I've been given the explanation: "You just know, just like you know if you are a man or a woman". I was itching to ask: "what if one was transgender?" but I didn't. Now regret it. Would have been fun to watch the elder's reaction...
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Measuring the power consumption of an appliance
by callitquits76 ini was wondering if anybody could help me get my head around this,.
i have a humidity machine running for a few hours a day.
it states 'power consumption : 70w'.
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Kum Vulcan
I second Jim's advice. Also, keep in mind that 70W (especially in an intermittent mode) is not really that much power. For example, if your device was on 50% of the time on a 24/7 mode, that will mean 840W a day. With average cost of electricity ~$0.15/KWH this translates to about $1.25 a day.
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Governing Body two-thirds majority
by wannabefree ini believe current count is 9 gb, so that makes 6 out of 9 for it to be so?.
how about two-thirds when all 10,800 or so are given a say?.
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Kum Vulcan
I think the +/- margin of error is too high with such a small cross section of people.
I agree. A classic "Hasty Generalization" logicall fallacy...
-KV
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Exactly How Did (Jehovah) God Scramble the Languages
by Kum Vulcan inwe all know the account in gen 10: 1-10, where jehovah scrambles the languages of the people building the tower so they can't communicate with each other anymore.. and exactly how was this accomplished?.
on the physiological level, speech and language is "coded" by physical connection between neurons in our brains.
there is much more to be explored by science on this and it surely is well beyond my knowledge on the subject, but nevertheless we can all agree that learning a language, be it a native tongue or a second, third, etc language later in life requires time and effort for those neuron connections to form.. rewind back to said gen account.
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Kum Vulcan
Leaves girls out, PSacramento...The switch was not gender specific :-)
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Exactly How Did (Jehovah) God Scramble the Languages
by Kum Vulcan inwe all know the account in gen 10: 1-10, where jehovah scrambles the languages of the people building the tower so they can't communicate with each other anymore.. and exactly how was this accomplished?.
on the physiological level, speech and language is "coded" by physical connection between neurons in our brains.
there is much more to be explored by science on this and it surely is well beyond my knowledge on the subject, but nevertheless we can all agree that learning a language, be it a native tongue or a second, third, etc language later in life requires time and effort for those neuron connections to form.. rewind back to said gen account.
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Kum Vulcan
We all know the account in Gen 10: 1-10, where Jehovah scrambles the languages of the people building the tower so they can't communicate with each other anymore.
And exactly how was this accomplished?
On the physiological level, speech and language is "coded" by physical connection between neurons in our brains. There is much more to be explored by science on this and it surely is well beyond my knowledge on the subject, but nevertheless we can all agree that learning a language, be it a native tongue or a second, third, etc language later in life requires time and effort for those neuron connections to form.
Rewind back to said Gen account. In an instant, millions (billions?) new, different and unique physical neuron connections were created, while at the same time millions (billions?) associated with the language already in use were severed?!?! That's BEFORE we take into account related implications of deleting other billions of connections associated with memories about accounts involving experiences, conversations, emotions all in that first native language...the resulting damage may be less if we put our brain into a food processor
I am fluent in 3 languages (English being my second) and let me tell you - YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR MOTHER'S TONGUE!! I don't care if you are in a coma, half-dead, almost dead, fried on LSD meth or whatever, the first spoken language stays with you till death!
OK, we also know about the omnipotence of (Jehovah) God, maybe that's a plausible explanation, although the Almighty used his powers to punish people for not worshipping Him properly...but this is another topic.
Do you have an opinion/belief on how exactly did that giant/instant/massive language scramble happen?
-KV
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Governing Body two-thirds majority
by wannabefree ini believe current count is 9 gb, so that makes 6 out of 9 for it to be so?.
how about two-thirds when all 10,800 or so are given a say?.
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Kum Vulcan
>7,200...Is this purely a math question, as we know that "votes" of the remaining 10,791 equal cos(90)...
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Most Annoying Things That Happen At JW Meetings
by LittleSister intoday i was remembering how angry i used to get at the meetings and all the little irritations that in the end would just make my blood boil these included:.
prayers that go on foreverstudy or wt conductors still taking comments when its clear that the point has been covered 20 times alreadymeetings over running by more than 5 minsmy favourite was this one elder who would play guess the point i am thinking of.
he would keep rephrasing the question from the wt until someone would bring up the point he was thinking of.
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Kum Vulcan
Constant references to the "New System". Enough, the Fu#k already, THERE IS NO NEW SYSTEM, PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! My delusional sister in law is holding off world travel until the New System (here it goes again), when we will freely travel everywhere...
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Have you ever deleted friends on facebook?
by asilentone inwhy did you do it?
i have done it on several occasions.
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Kum Vulcan
I am with Scully. Zapped my account. What a colossal waste of time....
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I'm Alone
by ~Jen~ ini have 1 friend since leaving the borg.
1 friend who lives an hour away.
we talk through out the day, everyday but we only see each other about once a month.. i just found out my ex boyfriend who was trying to win me back and have me come back to him got a girl pregnant about a week or two after we broke up.
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Kum Vulcan
Jen, you mentioned you've got the kids. Don't underestimate the emotional power kids hold. Make sure they are taken care of and everything else will fall in its place. Promise!