Posts by WhatshallIcallmyself

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Is he interested?

by Sunnybear in

i met a wonderful man on match.com several months ago.

on our first date, there was amazing chemistry and we ended up having sex.

it was not planned, it just happened.

He probably is a wonderful human being. Unfortunately this wonderful human being has been infected by the cult of Jehovah's Witnesses. He will be emotionally damaged and immature in many ways. He can be cured but not by pandering to his beliefs and his wishes.

It will be down to him (and him alone) to chose to leave the JWs and move on without them. It is very unlikely you will be able to do anything directly because he will have been indoctrinated his whole life to see all such attempts at help as Satanic manipulation to lead him away from 'the truth'.

I understand that he is probably afraid of losing all his family and friends but that is the price of leaving the JWs.

1 - If you want to join this cult then be prepared to cut off all ties with your current friends and, to an extent, your family. You will lose freedom of expression and be expected to fulfil a certain role in your husbands life (yes that reads correctly: you play a role in your husbands life).

2 - If you want to leave it all behind then dump him. Tell him you want nothing to do with such a damaging, unnatural cult!

3 - If you want to stay with him on your terms tell him you will be honest with his family about your current relationship (i.e. explaining about your normal healthy relationship) and see where that goes...

If you dump him hard he may just go back to the cult and find condolence in the belief that you were just another worldly woman sent to lead him astray.

If you dump him with love and explain why you want no part of a cult (don't mince your words) he will probably run back to the cult and believe you were just another worldly woman sent to lead him astray but he will also have time to dwell on you words and just maybe sort his head out enough to eventually leave the JWs.

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Is Satan Real ?

by jdash in

i've been pondering on this question for awhile now, and i'm starting to think this malevolent spirit creature isn't real.

.

do you guys believe satan is real?

WhatshallIcallmyself

Atomant -

Grow up...

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Jehovah's Witness Books in Guinness Book of World Records

by TerryWalstrom in

http://ed5015.tripod.com/jwbookscirculation.htm.

new light.

predicting world events--yet--containing not even 1 successfully completed prophecy.how is any of it "food"?

WhatshallIcallmyself

Also, it's worth bearing in mind that most of those on that list have been produced due to a real world commercial demand.

In contrast, the WT crowd simply mass produced their publications and distributed them to all the KHs where they stayed until they could fob them off onto an interested party.

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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".

WhatshallIcallmyself

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

Well we are doing our best to rid ourselves of the indefensible and illogical religious beliefs about the nature of reality which have been thoroughly indoctrinated into our society from millennia ago...

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A crisis of scientific reproducability

by Outahere in

https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970.

more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.

i didn't know it was so widespread...but it's a big problem in biology/medicine..

WhatshallIcallmyself

The interesting thing about peer review is not the peer reviewed piece itself but how many times that piece is cited by other scientists in their work; indeed not just how many times (if at all) but by who.

The charge against science here is serious and makes you wonder just how our knowledge and abilities have progressed if such things are true.

Well as usual the reality is not quite what is being portrayed in these headline-seeking articles.

Going back to what I initially stated, it is not what the peer reviewed article is, rather it is all about how it affects the scientific community as a whole. When a research paper is released the idea is to publish the findings of experiments and research so all of that teams peers around the world may benefit from the addition of knowledge in whatever field(s) the research has been undertaken. Good and helpful papers will then be cited as reference points in further experimentation which may further bolster the claims of the original paper (or debunk them) and so on and so forth.

After a while you will see certain papers being cited by other groups numerous times, particularly those papers at the boundaries of current understandings or those that are particularly useful for numerous avenues of research.

This is what science is all about after all; the passing on of knowledge

Contrast that with the types of peer reviewed articles that are only published to give support for a politicians angle or for a corporate need. You will rarely see them being cited at all. And why would that be? Because they exist solely to support that immediate goal and have no value as science in and of itself.

Scientists know this; Politicians know this; CEOs know this; The layman generally does not...

This is another reason not to allow yourself to remain scientifically illiterate.

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A crisis of scientific reproducability

by Outahere in

https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970.

more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.

i didn't know it was so widespread...but it's a big problem in biology/medicine..

WhatshallIcallmyself

"and less to discover (obviously)"

There's far more to discover now! Let's not forget that science doesn't just try to discover but also attempts to understanding something.

As far as corruption is concerned: there is a lot of money to be made in the next big drug that treats the next big disease... Where there is money there will be corruption...

As far as the OP is concerned: this all depends on the questions asked and the context that the participants were answering in; we also need to know who they were asking specifically.

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The Dark-Skinned Early Briton.

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

i'm sure many others noted in yesterday's news feeds, that scientists deciphering the dna of the skeleton remains of a man thought to have died some 10,000 years ago in the south of england, have presented him as:.

as blue-eyed (now that's quite english) but as dark skinned.

and, that's not very english, to the horror of many.. (link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd/ ).

WhatshallIcallmyself

Half Banana -

Excellent past, thank you. I wanted to keep reading but you stopped writing...!

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Engaged Couples Living Together

by ILewis in

my question is this.

is it wrong for a jehovah's witness to allow an unmarried couple to live together under their roof?

same room, same bed, they are allowing full on cohabitation.

WhatshallIcallmyself

I've no idea whether this person is a troll and to be honest I didn't really think about that due to the other problems I saw in the OP. There was enough biblically inspired bigotry in that post to warrant the poster getting a large slap and that appears to have happened, happily.

If the OP had just asked the question without resorting to adding their own insecurities then I feel the response would have been more positive for them.

Perhaps this will be a good learning point for that person...

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JW.facts graffitied on a wall?

by Miss Worldly in

jw
friends

did anyone see the trevor macdonald programme in the u.k. last night?

the one about james bulgers killers?

close to the end mr macdonald was walking through an underpass, at the exit, graffitied on the wall in massive black letters was ‘jwfacts.com’ it was plain to see........

WhatshallIcallmyself

"so it did make me wonder if it was a vey strategic shot by some director, producer etc who knows about the JW scandals? ... or was it just coincidence?" - Miss Worldly

I'm seeing Jehovah's hand in this issue...

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The Dark-Skinned Early Briton.

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

i'm sure many others noted in yesterday's news feeds, that scientists deciphering the dna of the skeleton remains of a man thought to have died some 10,000 years ago in the south of england, have presented him as:.

as blue-eyed (now that's quite english) but as dark skinned.

and, that's not very english, to the horror of many.. (link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd/ ).

WhatshallIcallmyself

It would make sense that the earliest colonists of the higher latitudes would retain their darker skin pigmentation. The evidence collected so far shows that the rate of our expansion into new territory happened extremely quickly. Once there the new settlers then adapted to their new environment (colder climate and less sun light) and this led to the lighter skin tones giving advantage over darker ones in the main because of our ability now to produce enough vitamin d.

The blue eyes are interesting though. However if this was a recent descendant of the first settlers there would have been a lot of genetic variation in the population whilst the population attempted to fit in with its environment.