John_Mann

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  Human Brain And Quantum Physics

  by frankiespeakin in

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

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  John_Mann

  This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2io596_7U9o
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  Anyone remember the old Beliefnet Poster - Apologist?

  by TheListener in

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  2. beliefs

  several years ago on beliefnet there was a jw apologist named "apologist".

  he was very well written and defended the dubs very well.

  he had several debates with auld soul and others on beliefnet which were fun to read.. i recently found out that the poster "apologist" is no longer a witness and does not consider them to have the "truth".

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  John_Mann

  It boggles my mind that rational truth-seeking people can leave the JWs but retain Christian Bible beliefs.

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  The same method used to refute the WT can be used to refute every form of christianity.
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  What JW beliefs did you used to hate trying to defend?

  by DuvanMuvan in

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  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.

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  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

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

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  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

  1. jw
  2. friends

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

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  saw this on youtube.

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

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  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

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

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  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

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

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  John_Mann

  frankie-ad-hominem-speakin
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  What was the "theme" of each decade?

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. 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?.

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  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.