Posts by nicolaou

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.

nicolaou

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?!

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Biden running in 2024 🤣

by LoveUniHateExams in

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..

nicolaou

"I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,”

“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything."

“I did try and fuck her. She was married. I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. … I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there and she was married.”

Yeah it's hard to work out why he has so little credibility when it comes to his behaviour around women.

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Top AI inventor Geoffrey Hinton reluctantly concluded that AI will probably humanity fairly soon

by slimboyfat in

geoffrey hinton, major inventor of artificial intelligence: .

“if you take the existential risk seriously, as i now do—i used to think it was way off, but now i think it’s serious, and fairly close—it might be quite sensible to just stop developing these things any further, but i think it’s completely naïve to think that would happen.

there’s no way to make that happen.

nicolaou

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.

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A Little About Me & What Is a Resurrection?

by Sea Breeze in

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.

nicolaou

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?

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A Little About Me & What Is a Resurrection?

by Sea Breeze in

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.

nicolaou

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.

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Another new missing part of the Bible found

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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 it’s released and compare with the rest of mathew.

nicolaou

https://youtu.be/b4VqbmeJ32U

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Better off PIMA than POMA or POMO.

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the situation is many of us are pima and all putting on a front, sometimes saying something we don’t fully believe.

or at least are actually agnostic about but a hope that it’s 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 let’s hope there is not much longer of this old system.. this can be useful in an awkward situation where you just don’t know what to do or say.

it’s a little bit of hope that can help when there is nothing else.. my agnosticism just means i won’t look back over decades thinking i wasted my life.

nicolaou

Evolution has been proven.

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Password using another language, or mixed languages?

by FatFreek 2005 in

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 русский английский.

i then used those words together as a password for a libre office word junk document, saved the document.

nicolaou

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$4j9^F%TP!e9NsCCTD&mM0@*Zuvy$