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  Mind Body Dualism

  by Coded Logic in

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  2. beliefs

  i've never found dualism - the idea that the mind and the brain are two different substances with the mind being "immaterial" or "non-material" - a valid manner in which to address consciousness or any mysteries relating to it.

  to show the reasons why i think it's bad metaphysics i'll use analogous reasoning to make a case for my newly made up "mystic essence".. for hundreds of years scientists have studied plants and animals all across the world.

  but they still can't explain where ecosystems come from.

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  John_Mann

  I suppose a good start would be to ask you do you think the electrochemical reactions in our brains influence our thoughts? And do you think that, when we change the chemistry in the brain, it changes how we think (e.g. drinking coffee, alcohol, hallucinogens, etc).

  The same could be said if you change the circuitry of a radio/TV receiver. Every change you do in it would alter the broadcasting and you could assume the device itself is broadcasting. This is called the "brain as an antenna" argument.
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  Mind Body Dualism

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've never found dualism - the idea that the mind and the brain are two different substances with the mind being "immaterial" or "non-material" - a valid manner in which to address consciousness or any mysteries relating to it.

  to show the reasons why i think it's bad metaphysics i'll use analogous reasoning to make a case for my newly made up "mystic essence".. for hundreds of years scientists have studied plants and animals all across the world.

  but they still can't explain where ecosystems come from.

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  John_Mann

  I think there's something beyond "matter and mind". My guess is something like the will proposed by Schopenhauer. I'm not a dualist neither an eternalist.
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  Mind Body Dualism

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've never found dualism - the idea that the mind and the brain are two different substances with the mind being "immaterial" or "non-material" - a valid manner in which to address consciousness or any mysteries relating to it.

  to show the reasons why i think it's bad metaphysics i'll use analogous reasoning to make a case for my newly made up "mystic essence".. for hundreds of years scientists have studied plants and animals all across the world.

  but they still can't explain where ecosystems come from.

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  John_Mann

  Cofty, that's the view of eliminative materialism. Materialism is divided in three views: reductionist, revisionist and eliminativist.
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  Mind Body Dualism

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've never found dualism - the idea that the mind and the brain are two different substances with the mind being "immaterial" or "non-material" - a valid manner in which to address consciousness or any mysteries relating to it.

  to show the reasons why i think it's bad metaphysics i'll use analogous reasoning to make a case for my newly made up "mystic essence".. for hundreds of years scientists have studied plants and animals all across the world.

  but they still can't explain where ecosystems come from.

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  John_Mann

  Materialism is a dead-end hypothesis. Because ultimately it must affirm the conscious mind simply not exist at all (eliminative materialism). But I think it's an absurd to deny the existence of consciousness. It certainly exists. Ironically the materialistic view it's very close to Buddhism.
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  Does Jehovahs Suffer From Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Lets Go Down the List:

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. beliefs

  sorry for the cut and paste but they say it better than i can.

  anyway i typed in "god diagnosed with npd" and this is some of what came up.. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2fs11089-008-0139-9?li=true#page-1.

  god diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.

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  John_Mann

  I think every adult converted to JW cult is a Npd or have some temporary psychological disease.

  Npd is a permanent psychiatric disease. It's something related to neural connections.

  The diagnosis of Npd is almost useless to the person itself but extremely necessary to people living with a person who have a Npd. The only thing one can do to protect itself from people with npd is avoid them like the plague. If you cannot avoid them completely you must minimize the contact at least.
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  Geoffrey Jackson Royal Commission update

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hello people.

  the rc will still go ahead with it's live stream on friday 14th august.

  however, it seem that it will be a video link.

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  John_Mann

  Keep us informed because the link is not working. I think millions of people are connected to this link...
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  We're All Going To Die

  by Garrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  life has been busy, but i am now on 2 weeks vacation which allowed me some thinking room.

  and here's what's been on my mind.. we're all going to die.

  no matter what we do, our fate is sealed.

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  But even if we manage to cheat death (by science or some unknown mystical mechanism) the problem with death still goes on. If you realize death as complete oblivion you will see we already experience death because our memories just fade away or are imperfect. We cannot return to our exact frame of mind when we remember something. That's why Buddhism is so interesting to me...
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  If You Continue to do Bad, Sooner or Later You Will Get Caught.

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when one person finally spoke out that she was raped by cosby, no one believed it.

  then another person came out and the line started getting drawn in the sand.

  you now had two groups of people.

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  John_Mann

  In fact the JW religion disappear from each 20 years or less. The Watchtower is gone now is just JW. Org
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  This just happened within last 15 mins......

  by Lied2NoMore in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.

  the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .

  i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.

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  About The GB-7

  by coalize in

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  2. beliefs

  just asking about this "new light" of the 7 member of the governing body (the gb-7) being the fds.

  what is the point?.

  what biblical "argument" have they given about that ?

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  John_Mann

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/242395/what-think-about-we-just-love-this-idea-david-splane?page=1