losthobbit

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  Too much to do, not enough time!!!!!

  by sinis in

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  god, growing up it always felt like the day wouldn't end, school went on forever, and i couldn't wait to be a "grown up".

  now, i wish the days were longer, i had more time to do the things i need to do, and someone else would take care of me.

  too much to do, and not enough time!!!

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  losthobbit

  I had a dream last night that I was turning 1000.

  By the way, if you can afford it you can hire a virtual personal assistant from about $4 per hour. You may want to read "The 4 hour work week", by Tim Ferris.
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  Study with the Johovah, Witnesses

  by Mary k in

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  i have a friend who wants me to do bible study with him,my bible is not good enough for him and tells me i have the wrong icture.please help me..

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  losthobbit

  Before studying with a Jehovah's Witness, there are a few things one should research on one's own... it's easy, just use google and type these keywords:

  jehovah's witness psychological problems

  jehovah's witness cult (or mind control, or brainwashing)

  jehovah's witness failed prophecies

  jehovah's witness shunning

  That ought to do it. If you want feel like watching some interesting videos, check out "cs the apostate" on YouTube.
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  Have you ever successfully persuaded anyone?

  by losthobbit in

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  i've had many conversations with religious people and am always surprised that i am never able to get anyone to put their programmed beliefs aside and process the logic that proves how unreasonable their doctrines are.. so, i'm wondering, have you ever successfully persuaded someone to change their mind about something that they had been brainwashed with, and if so, how did you do it?.

  thanks in advance .

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  losthobbit

  Since I'm currently high on coffee, my mind is in an altered state and I just came up with an idea for persuasion... I wonder if it would work...

  Basically, if you found yourself in a situation with two rational people and one irrational person, the two rational people could have a conversation in which they regard the irrational person's suggestions as just silly, using peer pressure to encourage rational thinking.

  An example could simply be two rational people discussing evolution, or the age of the Earth, or the time light takes to travel to the stars. In such a conversation a young-Earth theorist could be made to feel very stupid.

  I'm just putting my thoughts out there... haven't really thought this through.
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  Have you ever successfully persuaded anyone?

  by losthobbit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've had many conversations with religious people and am always surprised that i am never able to get anyone to put their programmed beliefs aside and process the logic that proves how unreasonable their doctrines are.. so, i'm wondering, have you ever successfully persuaded someone to change their mind about something that they had been brainwashed with, and if so, how did you do it?.

  thanks in advance .

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  losthobbit

  Thanks Qcmbr :)
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  Have you ever successfully persuaded anyone?

  by losthobbit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've had many conversations with religious people and am always surprised that i am never able to get anyone to put their programmed beliefs aside and process the logic that proves how unreasonable their doctrines are.. so, i'm wondering, have you ever successfully persuaded someone to change their mind about something that they had been brainwashed with, and if so, how did you do it?.

  thanks in advance .

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  losthobbit

  I've had many conversations with religious people and am always surprised that I am never able to get anyone to put their programmed beliefs aside and process the logic that proves how unreasonable their doctrines are.

  So, I'm wondering, have you ever successfully persuaded someone to change their mind about something that they had been brainwashed with, and if so, how did you do it?

  Thanks in advance
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  Study with the Johovah, Witnesses

  by Mary k in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a friend who wants me to do bible study with him,my bible is not good enough for him and tells me i have the wrong icture.please help me..

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  losthobbit

  I'd recommend printing out this book (free download): http://www.box.net/shared/uclytd91jd

  Take it with you, and use it as a guide for your bible study. The version of the bible doesn't really matter.
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  Are we really mortal?

  by cptkirk in

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  or could we be immortal?.

  what is consciousness?

  is it not the formation and function of the organ we call the brain?

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  losthobbit

  There's a type of bad statistics that's used whenever you only have only one piece of information... it's called a point estimate.

  Here's how it works in this context:

  I am currently alive, therefore chances are that I am normally alive.

  Of course this is bad statistics, because one needs many samples for statistics to be accurate, something which cannot be done, because we are each only one consciousness / soul / point of experience... whatever you want to call it.

  Another way to say this is: I existed after presumably having not existed (before being born), therefore it is possible to exist again (in a different form of course).

  Another way to do a point estimate like this is, to try and calculate the odds of now being a point in time in which you're alive: e.g. 13 billion years / 70 years = presuming you only exist once, the chance that you're currently alive now is 1 in 185,714,285. That means either you're REALLY lucky, or you don't just exist once.

  Nice topic, by the way, Captain... and a VERY important one.
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  Those sweltering assemblies!

  by highdose in

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  anyone from the uk remember the assemblies at twickenham?

  cytrstal place?

  gillingham?.

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  losthobbit

  It's a "beautiful, sunny, summer" day in Wimbledon today... only had to wear one jersey :)
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  viewing porn makes you demonised!

  by highdose in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  or so claims every jw i've ever met.

  porn also makes you turn into a sexual deviant who is likely to become a homosexual, rapist or peadofile.. .

  porn has specail powers that once viewed allows the demons to get into your mind and start controling it!!.

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  losthobbit

  Actually... just for fun, you could ask them to describe in detail exactly what constitutes porn, and why that exact detail has the presumed result.
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  viewing porn makes you demonised!

  by highdose in

  1. watchtower
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  or so claims every jw i've ever met.

  porn also makes you turn into a sexual deviant who is likely to become a homosexual, rapist or peadofile.. .

  porn has specail powers that once viewed allows the demons to get into your mind and start controling it!!.

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  losthobbit

  Don't need to debunk it... it's them that need to supply the stats to backup their claim.