And remember, 0% "increase" really amounts to a ~1.5% decrease when you figure in born-ins.
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Year Report for New Zealand out - 2% increase.
by skin incan some one tell me why the last month of the service year (aug 07) has an almost 10% increase over the other months of this year?
july 07 had 12868 pubs, whereas aug 07 had 13852 pubs.
the same increase happened in the previous service year in the last month.
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Anyone have the answer sheet for the TMS Review this week?
by breakfast of champions injust wondering.. my wife will be very impressed by "apostate power" if you can come through with this.
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Just wondering.
My wife will be very impressed by "apostate power" if you can come through with this.
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Evolutionary psychology?
by Laika ini've read a little bit of work from the field of evolutionary psychology, but nearly all of this stuff comes across as pseudo-scientific bs to me.
much of this stuff just seems to me to be a case of preferring a particular human behaviour over another one, and then saying that this is what nature intended with a story about how it 'evolved'.
a lot of evolutionary psychologists also seem to use evolutionary psychology as cover for their misogyny or racism.. i think most of our behaviours are socialised rather than genetic.. i am hardly an expert here however so could, of course, be completely wrong.
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COFTY - No. I can't - but I'm working on it! The more I know, the more I'll share. Anyway, I've chosen cog sci as my field of study, thus my bias.
I don't think evo/psy is trying to or can explain the "how" of the mind. It may have some answers for the "whys" but I think the "hows" are far more interesting (since no one really knows!).
OUBLIETTE - thanks! See my answer to COFTY. I'm still a "newb" to cog sci, but I'm at a great school with some great minds in the field with whom I can talk to face to face whenever I want. Pretty damn cool. Not an expert on Phil of sci, but we did discuss it to some degree in one of my cog sci classes.
Off to bed myself.
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Evolutionary psychology?
by Laika ini've read a little bit of work from the field of evolutionary psychology, but nearly all of this stuff comes across as pseudo-scientific bs to me.
much of this stuff just seems to me to be a case of preferring a particular human behaviour over another one, and then saying that this is what nature intended with a story about how it 'evolved'.
a lot of evolutionary psychologists also seem to use evolutionary psychology as cover for their misogyny or racism.. i think most of our behaviours are socialised rather than genetic.. i am hardly an expert here however so could, of course, be completely wrong.
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COFTY - I'm with you about Gould, and I don't doubt the endeavors of researchers in the field of evo/psy. However, I think working from a cognitive perspective back to evolutionary theory will ultimately yield stronger results.
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Evolutionary psychology?
by Laika ini've read a little bit of work from the field of evolutionary psychology, but nearly all of this stuff comes across as pseudo-scientific bs to me.
much of this stuff just seems to me to be a case of preferring a particular human behaviour over another one, and then saying that this is what nature intended with a story about how it 'evolved'.
a lot of evolutionary psychologists also seem to use evolutionary psychology as cover for their misogyny or racism.. i think most of our behaviours are socialised rather than genetic.. i am hardly an expert here however so could, of course, be completely wrong.
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OUBLIETTE - good catch. Without good philosophy, good science is impossible.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-27-2014 WT Study (PROVIDER/PROTECTOR)
by blondie inhttp://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com.
http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com.
http://www.jehovahswitnessrecovery.com/.
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Thanks for the preview BLONDIE.
Attended the "special talk" and stayed for about half the WT.
My favorite part was a comment from someone's loose-cannon bible study, who related a lengthy experience about how praying in traffic saved her life in a terrible highway collision. YESSSSS!!!!
Of course, it met with the nervous titters of the congregation who were left confused as to what exactly the hell god is doing anyway.
Always refreshing to hear the voice of someone not completely brainwashed (yet) even if they are utterly incoherent.
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Evolutionary psychology?
by Laika ini've read a little bit of work from the field of evolutionary psychology, but nearly all of this stuff comes across as pseudo-scientific bs to me.
much of this stuff just seems to me to be a case of preferring a particular human behaviour over another one, and then saying that this is what nature intended with a story about how it 'evolved'.
a lot of evolutionary psychologists also seem to use evolutionary psychology as cover for their misogyny or racism.. i think most of our behaviours are socialised rather than genetic.. i am hardly an expert here however so could, of course, be completely wrong.
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I am no expert in evolutionary psychology, but I think a healthy skepticism about it is understandable.
Ultimately, if you believe we are material beings, and that "mind" is a result of natural, material processes, yes, to think of mind in evolutionary terms makes sense.
However, I think that at this point, we do not have enough information about how cognitive processes work to make sweeping generalizations about the efffects of evolution on human behavior/cognition.
That is why COGNITIVE SCIENCE ROCKS!!!!!!!
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The REAL reason for the elder and ms appointment change......
by EndofMysteries inas seen in recent posts, beginning later this year appointments and deletions of elders and ms will only happen through the circuit overseer.
this means that individual congregations and elders have no say anymore.
if the gb want only certain people in or out, they tell the co and he makes it happen.
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Yes. What JOE134CD said.
When the court says "Who appointed this child molester as elder?" the WT now will be able to say "Oh, it was that guy who's 70 years old and completely broke living in a trailer in the desert in New Mexico. That was HIS decision, not ours. "
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It will come in real handy with the new "donation" arrangement.
CO: "Brothers X, Y, and Z. . . . You don't want to turn over the hundreds of thousands of $$$$ in your cong. accts to the society?"
BROTHERS XYZ: "No."
CO: "Delete, delete, delete. Brothers, you are dismissed. .... Now, what do the rest of you have to say about turning over your cong. acct. to the society?"
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HOSER - yes! I forgot to say, she also doesn't "advertise" her MJ use - just a few people close to her know.
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I know of one instance of this in CA. The person had problems with pain and got a prescription for MJ lollipops to suck on, thus avoiding the mandate on smoking. So far as I know, the person is still in "good standing" but does not have any privileges (although they had none to start with - read: it's a woman)