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  I've Come To Realize That "Facts" Don't Mean Much If A Person Refuses To Accept Them

  by minimus in

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  ...and that applies to religion as well as politics.. if someone simply believes such and such is true, it doesn't really matter whether you "prove" it or not.

  people will believe what they want to believe..

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  The mind has a life of its own, heh. The mind is like an engine, it keeps on ticking over, never shutting off. It even keeps going when we are asleep. Do you know what YOUR mind is doing while you sleep?? (Joke) It's been doing that since we were born (or before). It has developed its own habits, habitual ways of thinking and its own thoughts. If we have developed bad thinking habits, they are hard to break. We are always talking to ourselves. Many of us manage to change the contents of that self talk. How many can shut it off, for a while? Shutting thought down for a bit is like a reboot. Its a chance to look at facts in a new way, without the yrs of preconditioning that we all have developed.

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  Satanus ... you pretty much nailed it on belief systems and freewill... WOW!
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  I've Come To Realize That "Facts" Don't Mean Much If A Person Refuses To Accept Them

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...and that applies to religion as well as politics.. if someone simply believes such and such is true, it doesn't really matter whether you "prove" it or not.

  people will believe what they want to believe..

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  have you seen the PBS series "Closer to Truth".. it explores cosmos consciousness god... this episode cover this topic

  "How belief systems work" basicly we all have a core deep belief... and we will make everything else fit that... no matter what the facts are..

  http://www.closertotruth.com/topic/How-Belief-Systems-Work/176

  I've been DVRing this show for over a year ... it has been a real eye opener.. especially about Freewill .. which if you really exam it isn't true..

  We do what we do because of who we are.. we are who we are because of circumstances beyond our control.. since we can't control that .. we don't have freewill..

  thats not exactly how it was stated on the show, I'm still trying to find that episode.. anyway I should start my own freewill topic..

  since you don't have freewill Facts are meaningless .. to a persons belief system..
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  Head Over Heels - Oscar-nominated Short Film

  by Tater-T in

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  a friend of a friends, nephew is up for an oscar... it's really good ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khs3pe32b8q.

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  edit; hit home
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  Head Over Heels - Oscar-nominated Short Film

  by Tater-T in

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  a friend of a friends, nephew is up for an oscar... it's really good ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khs3pe32b8q.

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  @ jgnat... I wondered if it home with you and marital situation...

  @sir82 thanks for the link .. wanted to check out the others...
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  Valentine's day

  by Pterist in

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  don't forget the love of our life ;) or.

  dog house for the next week lol !

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  Head Over Heels - Oscar-nominated Short Film

  by Tater-T in

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  a friend of a friends, nephew is up for an oscar... it's really good ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khs3pe32b8q.

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  A friend of a friends, nephew is up for an Oscar... it's really good ..

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHs3Pe32b8Q
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  I sometimes feel like I'm in the twilight zone

  by cognisonance in

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  being out of the cult that i spent the first 3rd of my expected life span in, now on the outside i keep having this amazement that i was actually in a cult!

  what we were told was the "real life" now seems so surreal and dreamlike that i feel like i lived an episode of the twilight zone.

  i also feel like.

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  i'm right there with you on all that..... it blows my mind too. I can't believe anyone is still in at this point..

  thanks for sharing that comercial I want to seee it .. but have a DVR so I skip through them

  very JW esque..real knowledge .. acurate knowledge..
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  Richard Dawkins Standup Comedian

  by cptkirk in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qonqsra7mos.

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  What's wrong with the way we interpret prophecy?

  by EdenOne in

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  i've posted this somewhere else, but i think it's worth some discussion here as well.

  the original thread revolves around the interpretation of the time for the great tribulation to occurr.

  i've pointed out if the problems we ran into in the past and present about interpreting prophecies are troubled by the false premise that we are living in the "last days".. .

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  ? What's wrong with the way we interpret prophecy

  The fact that anyone trys too.. just give up.. there is nothing there... it's all over but the crying for the BIBLE..

  It would have happened along time ago ..if it ever was going too ....get on with the real world..
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  Do you believe that God is using the faithful and discreet slave

  by trujw in

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  it seems that this question is used by elder to trap us and close their minds(the jw elder) to thinking.

  if you answer no they wrap up a jc in short order.

  i was wondering if any have tried to use a more pointed question to actually get them to think themselves.

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  big fat..............................

  NO