Topics Started by psyco

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They need to be a legal entity for human law: but which law?
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i could be mr. green and, due to mistrust considering the times and what is happening, study with the jws as mr. brown.. get baptized as mr. brown.. become one of their congregation elders as mr. brown.. etc.

etc.. all this since i am not required to provide any signature and/or document to identify myself as mr. brown.. are they complying with human law?

but which law?.
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Why do exJWs sign disassociation letters?
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by law, they ask you to sign to leave a society/organization when, by the same law, they do not ask you to sign to join it.. imagine being in court with a representative of the jws.. the judge asks you: "are you a jw?"..

you could respond: "let them prove it!"..

question: how would they prove it?
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Do we have "original" indipendent documents proving that Rutherford was an alcoholic?
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i was wondering if you could prove with "original" independent documents that rutherford was an alcoholic.... .

i read penton, but since he is a former jw he could not be considered an independent source.... .
More on free will
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if the presidents of russia and usa have free will, they can push a button and kill 8 billions of people using all the available nuclear weapons they control.

will god prevent that?

if so, do they really have free will?
Free will
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
regarding my previous post about why god, who cannot lie, create creatures who can lie, i receive these answers:.

- because he did not create machines;- because he gave free will.

but none of the two really answers my question.having been a computer programmer myself and knowing the basics of artificial intelligence i know for sure that you can instruct a neural network, which means computers which means machines, to give false (0) answers, which means not telling the truth which means lying, instead of true (1) ones since they work using a binary logic: 0 or false and 1 or true.
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God cannot lie
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the bible does not say that god does not want to lie, but that he cannot lie or it is impossible for god to lie.

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so, if god cannot lie, for what purpose and why did he create creatures (satan, demons, humans) who can lie?.
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A little bit of biblical Math
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. bible
jacob had 13 children (am i wrong?

): 12 boys and 1 girl.. if you flip a coin 13 times, the probability to have 12 heads is about 0.002!.

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[GOOD NEWS] My PIMI wife became PIMQ!
by psyco in
1. jw
2. experiences
after a few years, unexpectedly, my pimi wife became pimq.. today she even asked me a question that i found very interesting:.

if god has been anointing women to be part of the kings and priests over humankind, why cannot they currently rule and guide 8 million people being part of the governing body (acquiring experience in that role as well)?.
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I do not understand the universal issue anymore
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
to explain the universal issue we are often referring to a teacher and his/her students.. let us imagine that a teacher (god) has an hour (everlasting) class to show his students (humans and angels) how to fix a broken clock (to reign).. one student (adam) says he is able to fix it better independently, without the teacher's help (universal issue).. the teacher let him demonstrate that in front of all the others, but instead of an hour lesson he gives him only 5 minutes (death after a limited period of time) and he blocks one of the student's hands behind his back (imperfection).. if i were one of the other students watching i could think: but those were not the initial conditions the student was in when he said he could, and what would have happened leaving him more time and both hands free?.

am i crazy?.
Obedience and loyalty test: Jesus vs Adam
by psyco in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if i remember well, jesus gained immortality as a prize only after his obedience and loyalty (apparently for the first time) on earth.

this means his obedience and loyalty were tested because of certain circumstances (otherwise they would have not) and a lot of time after being created.. first question:.

1) why did god create his first perfect spiritual creature (jesus) without needing to be immediately tested regarding his obedience and loyalty, but he created the first perfect human creature (adam) with that need?