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  The Greatest Paradox

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now that i have been a born again christian for 10 years, i see things that just boggles my mind.

  like this: we all spent untold hours in the field service telling people (mostly christians) about the paradise earth.

  that was the reason we were at their door.

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  The Rebel:

  The heart has no emotional feelings like love, it's simply a muscle for pumping blood. Using it in a figure of speech is fine but not for realistic thinking. Like "His heart is in the right place" as a figure of speech is fine, but realistically where else would it be? In his elbow? Good powers of perception have no place for basing decisions on feelings, it's the very reason people in high risk and dangerous professions are taught to control their instincts - instincts all too often influence poor decision making and cost lives.

  Evaluation should be pragmatic, not emotional. Compassion is an emotion which motivates us to make us evaluate events which bother our conscience, but evaluting the events themselves should not incorporate emotions, they will only serve to cloud the facts and lead to irrational decisions.
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  The Greatest Paradox

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now that i have been a born again christian for 10 years, i see things that just boggles my mind.

  like this: we all spent untold hours in the field service telling people (mostly christians) about the paradise earth.

  that was the reason we were at their door.

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  OnTheWayOut:

  Exactly.
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  The Greatest Paradox

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now that i have been a born again christian for 10 years, i see things that just boggles my mind.

  like this: we all spent untold hours in the field service telling people (mostly christians) about the paradise earth.

  that was the reason we were at their door.

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  The Rebel:

  People with good powers of perception don't focus one one aspect of their observations. They don't take things at face value and base their conclusions on a vast array of information and try to form conclusions based purely on what they consider to be facts. A well trained soldier for example is taught to quickly observe his surroundings, evalute them and how his current situation relates to them, try to decide firstly what he does know for certain and then calculate all the plausible possibilities. Once he feels he has made an accurate evaluation as possible, he will plan his next move. It is not possible to be a great tactician without being skilled at perception. Fortunately people are able to be trained to be better at perception but it demands a lot of self-discipline.

  Luminosity has a great app for training your brain, and getting yourself into good habits like forcing yourself to learn and ask questions, playing games of observation while just walking down the street or sitting in a restaurant, drawing conclusions then comparing them with the conclusions of others and learning how they arrived at theirs all teach you how to be perceptive.

  So next time when the TV is on consider immersing yourself in a game of perception because it is a skill and a life tool you have to keep practicing. I know I need a lot of practice.
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  The Greatest Paradox

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now that i have been a born again christian for 10 years, i see things that just boggles my mind.

  like this: we all spent untold hours in the field service telling people (mostly christians) about the paradise earth.

  that was the reason we were at their door.

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  SecretSlaveClass

  Perry:
  And making decisions based strictly on feelings is unwise. As humans, limited in perception, we can EXPECT to be deceived, especially in our feelings.

  
  Obviously you're referring to yourself here.
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  The new 'classes' jehovahs-witness.net has created. Which one are you?

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  over time a number of different 'classes' of members have arisen on this forum.

  1] apple watch watchers - this group takes a great interest in watches worn by members of the governing body.

  2] cult escape consultants - one who freely offers advise on how to flee from a cult - mainly the wt society.

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  AGGRESSIVE CONTEMPT CLASS - that's me.
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  The Greatest Paradox

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now that i have been a born again christian for 10 years, i see things that just boggles my mind.

  like this: we all spent untold hours in the field service telling people (mostly christians) about the paradise earth.

  that was the reason we were at their door.

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  SecretSlaveClass

  Punk that's exactly right. I Would,rather be poor and not fooled than be a rich fool.
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  The Greatest Paradox

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now that i have been a born again christian for 10 years, i see things that just boggles my mind.

  like this: we all spent untold hours in the field service telling people (mostly christians) about the paradise earth.

  that was the reason we were at their door.

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  SecretSlaveClass

  Religion is not evolving, it merely exists in different variations of which none have supplied any evidence of anything, science on the other hand evolves daily and offers new evidence constantly. Theoretical science may not get some things completely right from time to time, but even those theories encourage further investigation and better theories are born out of them and great theories become the foundation from which more discoveries are made. Religion has NEVER discovered or contributed anythimg real for the benefit of this planet. And to suggest that science contributed to global plroblems is shifting the blame from human incompetence where it truly belongs.
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  Arctic Ice Increasing

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice the last three years.

  red shows the september 2012 minimum extent.

  green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. the arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.. article.

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  bohm:

  He won't. He prefers to only pay attention to claims which support his view. Like comparing 1970's science with superior updated science. Modern evidence and the causes for climate change are not a guessing game like his religion is. By far the volume of science supporting global warming and it's primary cause outweighs anything to the contrary. Do I think global warming will be the doom of the planet? I don't have the answer but I'm sure science will.
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  New hominid Species Discovered in South Africa

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  homo naledi has been added to our family tree but exactly where, is still to be discovered.

  read more here.... over 1500 fossils making up 15 separate individuals have been discovered in a cave near johannesburg.

  here are a few highlights of it's anatomy.... the skull was globular, like a member of our genus but the brain was small and primitive.

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  SecretSlaveClass

  Sorry Cofty I accidently thumbs downed you. Meant to hit the thumbs up.
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  Hysterically tragic - the west stuffs up in Syria

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a former lebanese (christian) terrorist once told me a story (meant to be funny) about west asian politics.. a turtle was swimming past the shoreline of the red sea.

  on the shore a scorpion calls out,"hey!

  give me a lift over to the other side.

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  Xanthippe:
  I think we have both agreed this is a complex situation and simplistic solutions will not fit the bill.

  
  

  Absolutely. My hope is wide spread access to technology will eventually allow for better communication and understanding of facts which will slowly but surely corrode away idelogies, expose corruption and hold politicians hostage with knowledge.