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  Jordan Peterson - Messiah or Poseur?

  by cofty in

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  a jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.

  it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.

  i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.

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  Jehalapeno

  I’ve discussed with my friends his reluctance to take a firm position one way or another about his faith or religious beliefs, and I think I know why he is this way.

  Because many times it’s not relevant to the discussion.

  “Stand up straight with your shoulders back” - faith or belief in God is irrelevant to the point he’s trying to make.

  “Don’t let your kids do things that make you dislike them” - again, the God question is irrelevant to the point.

  And I think that’s the point of him not wanting to talk about it. Especially with his opposition searching and looking for anything to criticize him about and go on an outrage news cycle. “Jordan Peterson believes in God! No wonder he hates homos!”
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  Jordan Peterson - Messiah or Poseur?

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  a jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.

  it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.

  i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.

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  Jehalapeno

  Jordan Peterson's interviews are far better than his lectures.

  His book 12 Rules for Life is excellent. Again, far better than any of his lectures.

  I've seen CLIPS from his lectures that on their own are great points. But the long, drawn out lectures are just like you describe, Cofty.

  I would compare his lectures to the Tolkein Ents arguing over whether to go to war with Isengard.
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  JW Statistical Charts - 2011-2019

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. interesting stuff.

  definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth.

  the most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.. .

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  Hmm, perhaps a slight increase overall.

  I don't even view it as that. All things are trending flat or, in the case of congregations, down.
  Increases in average publishers and peak publishers are diminishing every year...they're at a plateau and if the diminishing trend of "increase" continues that trend, we will start seeing our first 0% growth over the next decade. I'd put some money on even seeing decreases in the next decade.
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  Which songs give you goosebumps?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. entertainment

  i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?

  ', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.

  y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.

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  All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera, including the Reprise.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75STnoaR1w
  
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  JW Statistical Charts - 2011-2019

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. interesting stuff.

  definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth.

  the most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.. .

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  Jehalapeno

  Here are some more charts showing total numbers of the stats over the last decade.

  
  

  

  
  
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  JW Statistical Charts - 2011-2019

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. interesting stuff.

  definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth.

  the most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.. .

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  Jehalapeno

  Nevertheless it's interesting to see how for example, the number of baptisms are going up, though I doubt it's in the West, since on any given assembly, there is only a handful of suckers.

  Honestly, the baptism figures are all over the place. I wouldn't say it's trending up. It just shows that the baptism figure is flatlining.

  Look at these numbers:

  

  
  
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  JW Statistical Charts - 2011-2019

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. interesting stuff.

  definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth.

  the most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.. .

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  Peak Publisher Inc/Dec by year - This charts the difference of the year's publishers compared to last years. So if there were 7,900,000 publishers in Year 1 and 8,100,000 publishers in Year 2, the number charted would be 200,000.

  Same for the other charts, just using the reported Average Publisher, Baptism & Congregation data.

  Charting this info is useful for showing growth trends over time.
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  JW Statistical Charts - 2011-2019

  by Jehalapeno in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. interesting stuff.

  definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth.

  the most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.. .

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  Jehalapeno

  Just made a few charts using data from 2011-2019. Interesting stuff. Definitely not the charts you would associate with an organization experiencing healthy growth. The most interesting trend, in my opinion, is congregations.

  

  

  

  
  
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

  by minimus in

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  good move or bad?

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  Jehalapeno

  You broke it - you own it.

  Imagine if the US had followed that advice when Europe was in turmoil in the 20th century.
  
  
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

  by minimus in

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  good move or bad?

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  Does no one realize that we invaded Afganistan after 9/11 and not Iraq?

  The connection between Iraq and 9/11 was tenuous, and I'm being extremely generous there.

  The biggest lesson Iraq taught me is that we should be extremely skeptical of the Intelligence Community. That's why I don't believe a word they say about Russia Russia Russia.