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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".

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

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.

John_Mann

frankie-ad-hominem-speakin

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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

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.

John_Mann

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