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In The Closing of the American Mind, Professor Allan Bloom makes the observation that “There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes or says he believes, that truth is relative…The students, of course, cannot defend their opinion. It is something with which they have been indoctrinated” (p. 25).

Indefensible and illogical non-religious beliefs about the nature of reality has been thoroughly indoctrinated into our society.

Excellent subject. Thanks for posting this.

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Dead Wrong (A Tolerance for Ambiguity)

by TerryWalstrom in

what is your level of tolerance for ambiguity?.

ambiguity is a clunky, uncomfortable word, imho.. .

ambiguity means "open to more than one interpretation".

Perry

Much more succinctly put than my previous post Morpheus!

Lots of ideas have inherent falsehoods integrated into their thesis and do not need an empirical apparatus with which to test it.

The statement "nothing is black and white" is either true or false. It cannot be said that some things are black and others are not, and still preserve the thesis.

Terry says:

I cite the above example not to rebut your reasoning, only to represent the nature of "grayness" in outcome possible in black and white reasonableness.

So it does sound like at least you are suggesting that some things are "gray" when they appear black or white. So do you also make room for absolutes?

Cofty says:

Perry - That is a silly semantic trick.

If you say so. Highlighting the illogicality of denying the usefulness of black and white thinking is beneficial, because I believe logic to be useful.

We all use use this kind of reason everyday to try and benefit ourselves and improve our circumstances.... all perfectly normal.

As previously pointed out the statement "nothing is black and white" is an inherently false statement, no doubt believed upon in a misguided attempt to improve a persons life in some way.

The question is not whether or not some things are black or white (true of false); but rather which things are so.

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Dead Wrong (A Tolerance for Ambiguity)

by TerryWalstrom in

what is your level of tolerance for ambiguity?.

ambiguity is a clunky, uncomfortable word, imho.. .

ambiguity means "open to more than one interpretation".

Perry

Everyone utilizes black and white thinking to some degree.

If you step off the roof of a ten story building without something to defy gravity, you will fall to the ground.

If you are shot through the heart, you will bleed.

All airplanes in our atmosphere eventually land.

2 + 2 = 4

If you do not know the Japanese language, you will not be able to speak it.

If you don't breathe, you will die.

The claim “absolute truth does not exist” is either absolutely true or it’s not. But, of course, it can’t be absolutely true, since that would create a contradiction:

Since it cannot be absolutely true, without making the statement false, we must concede that there are some cases in which the proposition “absolute truth does not exist” must be false…in which case, we’re back to affirming the existence of absolute truth; or as you put it "black and white thinking."

This is an example of an absolute truth known apart from the empirical and scientific testing.

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Gordon Nehemia - Finding God's holy name with full vowels

by Da.Furious in

i was just sent a link to a jewish scholar that apparently he has found 1,000 manuscripts with yehovah and latest discovery is one with vowels that supports the spelling yehovah.

so this pits the myth that jews have forgotten the name into rest.. i got excited jws about the finding in support of the nwt showing the name as it should be.. just wanted to share this with you guys.. link to the blog and podcat: https://www.nehemiaswall.com/1000-manuscripts-yehovah#more-13611.

also link to michael rood (blog:https://www.michaelrood.tv/) interview who is his friend:.

Perry

Interesting .... Thank you for posting this.

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What else is there to the so called "Truth"

by jdash in

first of all, i want to say thanks to all of you guys who gave me advice on my first post.

it really helped and i will try to use all of it.

now, i been doing research on what is false about the jdubs.

Perry

WT culture maximizes the laws of God, and minimizes or ignores the fundamental nature of God - Love...much like the 1st Century Rabbis did. There is a clip from the Jesus film that really reminds me of the Watchtower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GleZNngPsa8

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Ex-JW meet-up in the Austin/San Marcos/New Braunfels/San Antonio area

by Roger Kirkpatrick in

jw
friends

my daughter and i are ex-jws, and we live halfway between new braunfels and san marcos, which is halfway between austin and san antonio.

we are interested in meeting up with any ex-jws in this area.. please feel free to contact me by email at [email protected] .

roger kirkpatrick.

Perry

Hi Roger,

I just formed an EX-JW Meet-Up Group for New Braunfels. I hope to have a first meet-up in 4 to 6 weeks. Let's get together sometime.

I'll send you an invitation to join.

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More than 75% of the human genome may be 'junk' DNA.

by fulltimestudent in

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friends

making little or no difference to our daily lives, comes the claim that most of our human genome is not functional.. dan graur an (evolutionary) biologist at the university of houston and other academics made the claim in a paper published in an online journal, genome biology and evolution.. the group's calculations suggest that not more than 25% of the human genome is functional - the rest is seen as 'junk' dna,.

see science dailys coverage of the report at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170714140234.htm .

coverage of similar research at the uk's oxford university (reported in the guardian aust.

Perry

80%, 10 % or 100%, what difference does it make?

Alot. A genome with 80 to 100 percent functionality doesn't fit the the evolutionary narrative.

Lots and lots and lots of things do not fit the evolutionary narrative. If most any one of the key things are true, evolution goes up in smoke.

RSR's List of Not So Old Things
List of Evidence Against the Big Bang
List of Big Bang Predictions
List of Fine Tuning Evidence
List of Scholars Doubting Darwin
List of Creation Science Predictions
List of Shocked Evolutionists
List of Solar System Formation Problems
List of Papers that Shock Potheads
List of Carbon 14 Everywhere it Shouldn't Be
List of Dinosaur Soft Tissue Journal Papers
List of Answers to Hydroplate Objections
List of Proofs for the Genius of Ancient Man
List of Missing Transitional Fossils
List of Genomes that Just Don't Fit
List of Fresh Fossils
List of Solar System Transient Events
List of Whale Evolution Problems

Atheism is the driving force behind the standard godless evolution narrative, not facts.

At least some evolution biologists are aware and honest about their ideological commitments. Here are the words of Richard Lewontin:

Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, IN SPITE OF its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, IN SPITE OF the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a A PRIORI adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.–(“Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review of Books, Jan. 4, 1997, pg. 31. Emphasis in original, though they were italicized, not caps)

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More than 75% of the human genome may be 'junk' DNA.

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

making little or no difference to our daily lives, comes the claim that most of our human genome is not functional.. dan graur an (evolutionary) biologist at the university of houston and other academics made the claim in a paper published in an online journal, genome biology and evolution.. the group's calculations suggest that not more than 25% of the human genome is functional - the rest is seen as 'junk' dna,.

see science dailys coverage of the report at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170714140234.htm .

coverage of similar research at the uk's oxford university (reported in the guardian aust.

Perry

Just the latest attempt to run damage control to the evolution-destroying-findings of the Human Genome Project (now ENCODE) published a few years ago:

According to ENCODE’s analysis, 80 percent of the genome has a “biochemical function”. More on exactly what this means later, but the key point is: It’s not “junk”. Scientists have long recognised that some non-coding DNA has a function, and more and more solid examples have come to light.

But, many maintained that much of these sequences were, indeed, junk. ENCODE says otherwise. “Almost every nucleotide is associated with a function of some sort or another, and we now know where they are, what binds to them, what their associations are, and more,” says Tom Gingeras, one of the study’s many senior scientists.

And what’s in the remaining 20 percent? Possibly not junk either, according to Ewan Birney, the project’s Lead Analysis Coordinator and self-described “cat-herder-in-chief”. He explains that ENCODE only looked at 147 types of cells, and the human body has a few thousand.

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