Posts by cappytan

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March JW Broadcast: Once again disparaging Higher Education - this time in the Music Video.
by cappytan in
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2. beliefs
i will have the music video separated shortly.

will post the link once it's done..
cappytan

I will have the music video separated shortly. Will post the link once it's done.
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First law of thermodynamics vs God vs Big Bang
by EndofMysteries in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
first law of thermodynamics, that energy cannot be created or destroyed but changed from one form to another.

how does that fit in with god and the big bang to you?

does it make one make more sense then the other to you?
cappytan

bohm:
Just to clarify, for a person in the car, everything outside the car would be compressed in the direction he is moving.(sorry English is not my native language so "stretched" and "compressed" might mean the same thing).
Perhaps "stretched" was the wrong word to use. Distorted?
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Constructive hobbies
by zeb in
1. jw
2. experiences
hm have a hobby?

im not asking what.. hm have taken up a constructive hobby since leaving?.
cappytan

Golf and Fly-fishing.
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Why are extraterrestrials pictured in ugly form in movies?
by abiather in
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2. beliefs
humans have produced many movies on extraterrestrials.

yet all of them are shown in ugly form.

why cant we depict an et more beautiful/handsome than humans.
cappytan

Real question is not about ugliness:
"Why can’t we depict an ET more beautiful/handsome than humans?
With our infinite potential for imagination, we are still UNABLE even to depict something better than humans just in physical appearance!?
I still say, who's to say that what has been depicted isn't better?
The point is, how do you know that these depictions aren't better or more beautiful/handsome than humans?
Beauty and handsomeness are subjective. For instance: I love the desert and find it beautiful. I love the cactus, heat, thorns, rock formations, everything about the desert. However, there is likely a large portion of the population that would look at what I call beautiful and say it's horrible, desolate and ugly.
The point is that your initial premise requires bias to be true.
From an unbiased point of view, nothing is beautiful and nothing is ugly. Everything is what it is and nothing more. Beauty and ugliness are just personal tastes.
To say that human depictions of alien races are somehow less beautiful or inferior to humans is a fallacy.
Your biggest problem, abiather, is not looking at things from a rational, objective point of view. Confirmation Bias is written all over your arguments.
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Climbing out of a hole.
by Defianttruth in
1. jw
2. experiences
a few months ago, i was in a downward spin.

i was sad and having panic attacks.

i finally went to the doctor.
cappytan

I don't mean to digress from the thread, but I have to say, every time I see the title of this post, all I see are the words, "a hole."
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Why are extraterrestrials pictured in ugly form in movies?
by abiather in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
humans have produced many movies on extraterrestrials.

yet all of them are shown in ugly form.

why cant we depict an et more beautiful/handsome than humans.
cappytan

Why are extraterrestrials pictured in ugly form in movies?
Ugly according to who? Humans? Who's to say that we aren't ugly from an extra terrestrial perspective?
Faulty reasoning.
You might want to brush up on these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
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First law of thermodynamics vs God vs Big Bang
by EndofMysteries in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
first law of thermodynamics, that energy cannot be created or destroyed but changed from one form to another.

how does that fit in with god and the big bang to you?

does it make one make more sense then the other to you?
cappytan

Space-time conforms to the speed of light.
Take this example. Turn on your headlights of your car. Then, hypothetically accelerate your car close to the speed of light. The photons would leave the headlights. However to an outside observer of the car passing by, the vehicle would appear squished. However, the behavior of the light would appear undisturbed.
From the perspective of a passenger inside the car, the world around them would appear stretched.
Space-time conforms. It is relative to your perspective. Light remains constant.
I'm not a physicist, so I may be oversimplifying things, but this is the current understanding.
They're hard concepts to grasp, but they are mathematically sound and have been proven. (Gravity Probe B, synchronized atomic clocks not matching up after one travels through space, etc.)
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How do Americans feel about Canadians and Britons interjecting their opinions onto hot localized political topics: gun laws, abortion, ect?
by adjusted knowledge in
1. jw
2. friends
in addition to the above question, why do citizens of the two above mentioned countries, or other countries, feel the necessity to tell americans how they should interpret the american constitution for localized issues?.

i fairly much have an idea what the general population in the usa feels in regards to the first question.

this could be one of the possible reasons cnn piers morgan poor ratings and eventual firing.
cappytan

In case y'all didn't realize it, I was being ironic in my earlier post. (Although I do love guns.)
everyone is entitled to their own opinion on any subject no matter where they're from or who the subject affects.
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Why I resent being baptized into jw.cult
by freemindfade in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hate being lynched by my family for being skeptical or rational.

witness treat you as though all morality and good end with belief in the ot god yhwh.

so even if you met or exceeded their moral level and you even doubted his existence.
cappytan

Have they reported you or are they just treating you like crap?
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Just woke up
by Doctor Who in
1. jw
2. experiences
new to the site.

currently i am a ministerial servant and was told i was appointed to be an elder.

i told the brothers i was not ready for that assignment.
cappytan

Hey man. Welcome.
I'm Still in though mentally awake. I Was born and raise in the Truth. 7 years of Full Time Service including Bethel. Former MS. On the verge of being recommended again though. (Was already told it was coming next CO visit.). I know it'll be very surprising to the elders when I turn it down.
For years I've been wanting to be reappointed. But now that I'm awake, that's when Holy Spirit decides to kick in? Goes to show its all BS.
If you haven't already, look into reading Crisis of Conscience. (Google "Crisis of Conscience PDF" and you'll find a free download.)
its an excellent book and helped to solidify all the feelings I had about the Truth.