i can confirm that the co during one of his service talks stated that zoom is a provision for elderly, infirmed, as well as people who might need it on occasion due to health reasons, otherwise you are expected to be in person at meetings and in the ministry.
this had to come down from the top.
maybe they do not want to put it in a gb update or broadcast since that would be too public i suppose.
Hard to imagine the sorts of journeys WTWizard and others are describing just to get to a KH meeting in the US. I've been out for over 20 years now but wherever I've lived in the UK the nearest KH was only ever a few minutes away.
How is this knackered old horse of a religion still limping on?!
i've filed this under news and world events, although i could've posted it under entertainment, lol.
apparently, joe biden will be seeking re-election for another term in the white house.. this, despite a recent poll showing that 70% of people don't want him to run again.. biden just has to be the worst president i've seen.
his gaffes, over-relience on a prompter, and, more than any other president, his refusal to answer journalists' questions, all go to make him top of the list in terms of bad presidents.. it will certainly provide entertainment, if nothing else..
"I just start kissing them. Itās like a magnet. Just kiss. I donāt even wait,ā
āWhen youāre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab āem by the pussy. You can do anything."
āI did try and fuck her. She was married. I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. ā¦ I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldnāt get there and she was married.ā
Yeah it's hard to work out why he has so little credibility when it comes to his behaviour around women.
geoffrey hinton, major inventor of artificial intelligence: .
āif you take the existential risk seriously, as i now doāi used to think it was way off, but now i think itās serious, and fairly closeāit might be quite sensible to just stop developing these things any further, but i think itās completely naĆÆve to think that would happen.
thereās no way to make that happen.
cofty: How will AI kill us all exactly?
I don't think the fear is that AI will reach sentience and seek to annihilate us in some Schwarzeneggeresque apocalypse. As I understand it the worry is over the potential for misinformation. Imagine a future where anyone with a bad motive can easily utilise AI to produce the narrative and results they want.
You think we've got it bad now with conspiracy nuts and anti-science ideologies? Wait until these guys have the tools to prove they are right.
a little about me first: i was a 4th generation jw who had major reservations about the wt growing up, but finally got on board at age 23 when i got baptized.
spent 8 very active years in, then 8 years out as an agnostic.
got saved in 2004 and been living the born-again christian bible-believing life ever since.
Anyone have any problem with this so far?
I do. Your definition of logic is not strictly speaking true. The logical process itself doesn't presuppose anything in the sense that it operates on a set of rules and principles that are independent of specific assumptions or beliefs.
I get that in practice, when conversations are had on specific topics, certain assumptions are made but these should be spelled out clearly at the beginning.
What are you assuming Sea Breeze?
a little about me first: i was a 4th generation jw who had major reservations about the wt growing up, but finally got on board at age 23 when i got baptized.
spent 8 very active years in, then 8 years out as an agnostic.
got saved in 2004 and been living the born-again christian bible-believing life ever since.
Having lived 60 years now, on both sides of the theological fence
We're about the same age, trust me, you haven't been on both sides of the fence until you've lived with unbelief for a while.
JWs are just another subset of Christianity which in turn is a subset of Abrahamic faith which in it's turn is a subset of all religion.
That ALL exists on one side of the theological fence. Us freethinkers, atheists, apostates, heretics and all the folks who simply never give religious faith a second thought are waving at you from the other side.
It's nice over here. Come visit us.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22011278/new-bible-chapter-hidden-verses-discovered-erased-scribe/.
i wonder what the remaining members of the gb will make of this?.
i excited to read all of this once itās released and compare with the rest of mathew.
the situation is many of us are pima and all putting on a front, sometimes saying something we donāt fully believe.
or at least are actually agnostic about but a hope that itās true.. but it can be useful if someone is really going through a hard time or has something they are very worried about, to say things like well letās hope there is not much longer of this old system.. this can be useful in an awkward situation where you just donāt know what to do or say.
itās a little bit of hope that can help when there is nothing else.. my agnosticism just means i wonāt look back over decades thinking i wasted my life.
Evolution has been proven.
i just tried something in windows 10 and it worked (i think).. i went to the google online free translator, entered a couple english words, then translated them into russian.. the two words i entered are russian english.
the translator returned ŃŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ Š°Š½Š³Š»ŠøŠ¹ŃŠŗŠøŠ¹.
i then used those words together as a password for a libre office word junk document, saved the document.
I use Bitwarden to manage my passwords. I can generate passwords up to 128 characters.
Imagine trying to crack this:
ygccF$u9Am8VVeAOeB1cAmEl%lDWi3Z6chC!0N1T5iVy8XOM%hfjR7rMh0$!0hM8@zG$zJ3IYGW#UEg9q1o%*Yp8$8gRTSdh0Xc$4j9^F%TP!e9NsCCTD&mM0@*Zuvy$
the situation is many of us are pima and all putting on a front, sometimes saying something we donāt fully believe.
or at least are actually agnostic about but a hope that itās true.. but it can be useful if someone is really going through a hard time or has something they are very worried about, to say things like well letās hope there is not much longer of this old system.. this can be useful in an awkward situation where you just donāt know what to do or say.
itās a little bit of hope that can help when there is nothing else.. my agnosticism just means i wonāt look back over decades thinking i wasted my life.
ExBethelite, you may enjoy this old topic;
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/123456/there-no-such-thing-agnosticism-agnostics-do-exist
the situation is many of us are pima and all putting on a front, sometimes saying something we donāt fully believe.
or at least are actually agnostic about but a hope that itās true.. but it can be useful if someone is really going through a hard time or has something they are very worried about, to say things like well letās hope there is not much longer of this old system.. this can be useful in an awkward situation where you just donāt know what to do or say.
itās a little bit of hope that can help when there is nothing else.. my agnosticism just means i wonāt look back over decades thinking i wasted my life.
when someone is going through a real hard time itās very helpful to say the Bible promises no more pain and suffering
I disagree. If, for example, a mother loses her child is it really "helpful" to tell her she can have her child back again? How does such a lie help her grieving process? How unspeakably cruel is it to offer hope that cannot possibly be fulfilled?
