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  Heroes

  by done4good in

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  in jw land having such was verboten.

  who are some of yours and why?.

  1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.

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  Dariokehl, Marie Curie is one of my heroes too. The first woman to win a Nobel prize and the first person and only woman to win two Nobels. She won a joint Nobel with her husband for physics and a Nobel in chemistry on her own. An amazing person.
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  Heroes

  by done4good in

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  in jw land having such was verboten.

  who are some of yours and why?.

  1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.

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  1. William Wilberforce who led the campaign to abolish slavery in the British Empire and died three days after the act was passed in parliament.

  2. Emily Hobhouse who visited and drew attention to the 45 British concentration camps in South Africa where men, women and children were being starved by British forces during the second Boer War. She battled against the authority of Lord Kitchener and started a fund to feed those starving people.

  3.Lady Mary Montagu who while living in the Ottoman Empire discovered the local practice of variolation against smallpox which she brought back to England. After she recovered from smallpox herself she had her children protected with this method while in Turkey. She enthusiastically recommended it in England but met with much resistance. Edward Jenner built on her knowledge and developed the vaccination thirty years after her death.

  4. Eglantyne Jebb who founded Save the Children in 1919 to feed the starving children of the people who lost the war in Germany and Austria.
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  What history have you seen in the makeing???

  by karter in

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  i saw:.

  neil armstrong say those famous words...this is one small step for a man........... muhammad ali win and loose the world title 3 times.. the 1st women prime minster of the uk..

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  The big freeze of 1962-3, the year the higher Thames froze. It started snowing on Boxing Day I remember and the snow lay on the ground for months. I was four but I can remember running outside with my brother and sisters because it was snowing.

  My dad took us to school in January, I remember having to step in his foot prints because the snow was so high. Being a child and in the Midlands it was only years later I found out part of the Thames froze over. It happened a lot in the 18th and 19th centuries. They used to have fairs on the frozen river, but I don't think it's happened since '63.

  http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/freeze63.html
  
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  Introduction

  by shattered_origins in

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  i joined the forum yesterday and made 2 angry posts which received encouraging replies.

  i spent a good chunk of time today browsing various posts, and i can't get enough!

  i'm doing things backwards now and taking a moment to introduce myself.

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  Welcome shattered_origins. I pioneered too but it was a long time ago. Glad you've got your sister with you. Wishing you well for your fade.
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  Your thoughts on Halloween , yes, no or maybe ?

  by Finkelstein in

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  well its that time again when the ghouls come out to play.

  i personally think halloween is a bit irresponsible and inappropriate from a sociological perspective.. there's something about the intent of frightening young impressionable children minds with frightening objests.

  and feeding them candy which most likely cause tooth decay and stomachs is irresponsible activity conducted by adults.

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  Gawd nothing frightened my daughter when she was a kid. She loved Halloween, Lord of the Rings films, Harry Potter, Buffy. Now she loves Game of Thrones. Kids are very tough and they enjoy scary things. I'm glad I didn't have to stop her dressing up and going to parties at this time of year.
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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

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  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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    Viviane6 hours ago

    Viviane you still haven't answered bohm's reply to your challenge to name an evolving computer program.

    Yes, I did. And it wasn't a challenge, it was a request for proof of EoMs claim (which bohm was also unable to answer).

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  • You still haven't answered bohm. I don't know why anyone thinks this woman is an intellectual. She ignores people who answer her with facts and plays debating tricks with words. I seriously worry about anyone who values her intellectual prowess.
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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

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  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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    bohm. a day ago

    EOM: Computer programs absolutely can evolve!
    VIV: Awesome, name a computer program that evolved on it's own.

    This is fairly easy. You can find many examples of evolving computer program within the field of evolutionary computing. To start you can go to google scholar and search for "genetic algorithm" (1.9mio hits), or if you prefer an ordering by application domain and specific programs check out the list on wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_algorithm_applications

    if you prefer a single current example you can check out evolino, an application where neural architechtures are evolved for control tasks: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/evolino.html

    I notice you appended "on it's own" to EOM's statement. This would (strictly speaking!) make your statement true since a computer program "on it's own" presumably would be a computer program without a medium to run it, however this would clearly also be a strawman.
    
    

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    Viviane you still haven't answered bohm's reply to your challenge to name an evolving computer program. Debating tactics are quite fun but when you use them rather than replying to a valid answer it points to a lack of knowledge of the subject in hand.
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  Finally time to move on

  by Bungi Bill in

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  i have finally reached the point where i can forget that i was ever involved with such a $!%* cult as jehovahs witnesses.

  (a situation that has taken over 20 years to achieve).. this discussion board certainly helped in this process, and i want to thank everybody for their support over the time that i have been a member both of this site and the old www.jehovahs-witness.com website (where i used the acronym reefton jack).

  it is now, though, time to move on with my life, so i will say my farewells to everybody.. bill .

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  Bill, good luck. Have a great life 🌺🌹😄
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  The best advice I can offer to those trying to meet people and get a new social circle after leaving JW's.

  by EndofMysteries in

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  if like me, when you left the kh, your entire social network was gone.

  how do you meet people of the opposite sex or make new friends, etc?

  clubs, bars?

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  Good advice EoM. The meetup website is a good idea. Through it I recently joined a local group that go to pub quizzes. I like quizzes and as it's in a pub we can have a drink which helps everyone relax. Our team won the quiz last week and we came out with more money than we paid which was fun.
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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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  Xanthippe

  Stop lecturing like a disgruntled grandmother and engage with your own topic.

  Please don't call a man a women as a derogative. It's still sexist even if you don't use the p-word.