Posts by botchtowersociety

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Is Pacifism Ethical?

by cofty in

in another thread about things the watchtower got right two posters have expressd agreement with the fact that the wt refuses to take part in war.. i don't want to derail that thrread so what's your thoughts on pacifism?.

personally i think there are times that killing your enemies is regrettably the lesser of two evils.. .

edited to add - this link may help in defining various shades of pacifism.

botchtowersociety

Pacifism is perhaps ethically defensible, but thoroughly impractical in a world with non-pacifist aggressors. The use of force is only ethical in defense. It is like the Force: Only for defense, never for attack. That is the Dark Side.

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I have a girlfriend now and "me so happy"

by RayPublisher in

here is my sweet survival plan, post jw life!

...yet another part of my healing process...yes healing is g o o d.... .

btw, it feels so great to not have to hide and to able to put my picture up anywhere i feel like!.

botchtowersociety

She's lovely Ray! You both look very happy together! Isn't life wonderful?

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Quantum Computers The Next Big Technology?

by frankiespeakin in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr7yplfmtag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8c8_vo-dy8&feature=related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruwfod_8jsm&list=lppmmjcbjynkw&index=1&feature=plcp.

botchtowersociety

There is a definite upper boundary we are approaching on transistor density. This also applies to storage, be it SSD, traditional platter based storage, NUMA based memory, traditional RAM or NVRAM.

True, but current technology only toggles between two states per element. It is binary. Manipulating electron spin (rather than charge) or using memristor technology would raise the number of discrete logical states per element, and thus the data density could be far higher. HP and Samsung are working on memristors, but there are others. NVE and Everspin are working on spintronic memory, but there are others here as well.

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Quantum Computers The Next Big Technology?

by frankiespeakin in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr7yplfmtag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8c8_vo-dy8&feature=related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruwfod_8jsm&list=lppmmjcbjynkw&index=1&feature=plcp.

botchtowersociety

D-Wave in Vancouver is the current commercial leader. "Adiabatic Quantum Computing." Google and Lockheed Martin are already customers.

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Neurosurgeon Has Near Death Experience

by metatron in

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interesting stuff:.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html.

i've had long, personal conversations with two people who've had these experiences.

botchtowersociety

Wow. It's actually scary in a way.

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My first grandaughter. Candace

by Glander in

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she is a beautiful young woman, inside and out.

i am very proud of her.

she was only 4.5 lbs at birth and dropped to .

botchtowersociety

Here is Glander's picture of his grandaughter. She is beautiful.

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Jason BeDuhn regarding Revelation 7 and the Great Crowd

by Sauerkraut in

a while ago i sent an e-mail to jason beduhn, that the society is quite fond of.

they like to quote him in publications.

so when i started researching the great crowd and the accuracy of the earthly hope doctrine i thought i might write him and ask him what the exact meaning of "before the throne" (revelation 7:9) and "temple" (7:15) is.

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Jwfacts-- More Lies But This Time About The Great Crowd

by Recovery in

jwfacts has an article that explains why the great crowd must be in heaven.

i am also aware that many of these are the same arguments that stemmed from the 'awakenings at bethel' so my statements are not simply attacks of jwfact's character (since these arguments are probably not original) but rather his copy and paste of what others have said instead of verifying it as 'fact' for himself.. so here are jwfacts arguments:.

1. he shows that russell and rutherford (at some point) believed that the great crowd were in heaven.. 2. each term that describes the great crowd of revelation 7 is else used to described the anointed by the wt.