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What JW beliefs did you used to hate trying to defend?

by DuvanMuvan in

as one of the jw "young ones" i was always expected to witness to my friends at school if i wanted to make god's heart glad or whatever but i didn't.

the closest i ever got was just explaining why we didn't celebrate christmasetc.

even then i was just reciting things i read in publications.. one topic i always tried to avoid talking about was birthdays.

John_Mann

Birthdays.

Blood.

1914.

The generation thing must be a headache now.

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Human Brain And Quantum Physics

by frankiespeakin in

jw
friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4q9r2m8ss.

John_Mann

Maybe frankie are now using the "persecution" complex to stick even more to his belief in the voodoo woo woo video.

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Human Brain And Quantum Physics

by frankiespeakin in

jw
friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4q9r2m8ss.

John_Mann

I-want-to-believe in this video. LOL

It's just like christians trying to make sense out of the bible, because they have to believe in the bible.

It's an interesting self defense mechanism (to observe by distance).

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Apostate causes JWs to run away with their literature carts

by Watchtower-Free in

saw this on youtube.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_97rqlsjpkc.

John_Mann

Next time I would get a lot of people and everyone at same take one literature from the trolley and throw them in the garbage.

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Human Brain And Quantum Physics

by frankiespeakin in

jw
friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4q9r2m8ss.

John_Mann

The brain it's not a good place to perform quantum computing.

It's wet and warm, quantum computing needs hyper dry and cold environment.

Of course there are quantum phenomena in the brain as any other piece of matter, but it does not perform quantum computing.

But the neurons do classical computing, so the mind algorithm someday will be cracked and we'll be able to create an artificial mind.

And/or we'll be able to transfer our minds to a better substrate.

Actually there's a project doing this right now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project

When this project will be finished, they'll run this brain model in the future exascale computers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale_computing

Then we hope to get the so dreamed artificial intelligence, a mind that have the entire internet as memory and will have the processing power higher than all human brains combined.

I hope to be alive to see all these things.

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Human Brain And Quantum Physics

by frankiespeakin in

jw
friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th4q9r2m8ss.

What was the "theme" of each decade?

by ILoveTTATT in

if you could list the major themes of the watchtowerland per decade, what would they be?.

for example, 2010-2014: overlapping generation, gb=fds, jw.org, 100 years.

2000-2009: harder stance on higher ed.. 1990-1999: generation no longer a major doctrine.. 1980-1989: getting over 1975, ray franz, year of peace, end before 20th century ends, generation is 70 years old.

John_Mann

I like the definition by technological accomplishments:

1980-1997: First commercial PC (Apple III) to IBM Deep Blue/Popularization of Internet

1998 - 2011: IBM Watson (start of cognitive computing). I just can't imagine a JW using a cognitive software.

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Are you a good person?

by Xanthippe in

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friends

something happened this week to make me think about this again.. it feels like all bets are off and i really don't know what a good person is anymore.. when i left the jws i was so sure i knew what it meant to be a good person.. this has been revised many times since.. i tend to favour the utilitarian approach, the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.. sometimes you have to stick your neck out and say this is not good for me no matter what others may feel they need from me.. no idea where i'm going with this maybe this is a breakthrough in my life or maybe that glass of wine was stronger than i thought!.

any thoughts?.

John_Mann

Everyone thinks they're good in their own minds. Because you can always justify evil acts by guilting others.

Evil act in my own definition: force someone else to do what it does not want to do.

Good act: be indifferent to other people by default. Always react against evil acts against you. Keep always questioning what is your wants and try to detect what is someone else wants that you think is yours.

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What was the "theme" of each decade?

by ILoveTTATT in

if you could list the major themes of the watchtowerland per decade, what would they be?.

for example, 2010-2014: overlapping generation, gb=fds, jw.org, 100 years.

2000-2009: harder stance on higher ed.. 1990-1999: generation no longer a major doctrine.. 1980-1989: getting over 1975, ray franz, year of peace, end before 20th century ends, generation is 70 years old.

John_Mann

1980-1989: Entering 20th century. B&W to color.

1990-1999: Expansion. The 90's (more specifically 1990-1993) was the climax of WT.

2000-2009: Internet is pure evil.

2010-2014: Internet is no more evil, go to JW.ORG

2020-2029: Artificial Intelligence is the Beast of Revelation.

2030-2039: Artificial Intelligence is Jesus Christ.

2040-2049: Singularity is the Armageddon.

2050-2059: Entering 21st century...

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The Ray Franz Movie

by RayPublisher in

been wanting to talk about this for a while... three years ago on this forum my friend cedars brought this up.

let's do it!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sykaxxpyos.

John_Mann

Ray is a richful character.

He preached a interesting and very loose interpretation of christianity, not found in any specific denomination.

Sometimes I think he was a kind of atheist because he discussed fallacies and used them as a mean to detect false teachings. No religious person use fallacy detection as a method because if you follow this method you'll reject the very christianity as false.

He was a very interesting person. It would be great to see a documentary about him in BBC style.

John_Mann

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