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  What phobias do you have?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so this is just a general question.

  call it curiosity.. what sort of phobias do we have?

  heights?

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  Cars. I control my phobia to moving cars (have to, living in cities most of my life). I still am extra careful crossing streets, though.
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  If mathematics teacher made a mistake, would it mean mathematics itself is wrong!

  by venus in

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  many people point to the irrationality in the depiction of god by the religions and their scriptures, hence jump into the bottomless pit of atheism.

  in either camp, god is not a factor because religion is only a means that misrepresents god, hence religionists themselves are atheists (literally, those who live without god).

  it is like saying there exists no earth because you found out your friend who taught earth is flat is wrong; or it is like saying mathematics itself is wrong because you found out your mathematics teacher made a mistake.

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  Many people point to the irrationality in the depiction of God by the religions and their scriptures, hence jump into the bottomless pit of atheism.
  

  Here we go again with people treating atheism as if it's another religion. Right off the bat, you're wrong. I for once, as well as many others, didn't "jump into" anything simply because I believe that the Bible is a completely useless book full of bullshit. BTW, believing in God and believing in the bible are not the same thing.

  In either camp, God is not a factor because religion is only a means that misrepresents God, hence religionists themselves are atheists (literally, those who live without God). It is like saying there exists no earth because you found out your friend who taught earth is flat is wrong; or it is like saying mathematics itself is wrong because you found out your mathematics teacher made a mistake. Mathematics exists whether mathematics teachers understand it or not.
  

  That is just so badly reasoned at so many levels! I could go on and on and on over that nonsense salad you just tossed at this forum, but I think that a good start is to simply Google the term "faulty logic". Another good term to research is "simplistic reasoning". Start with those and then take a look at your post again.
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  Watchtower Organizational Structure

  by Wild_Thing in

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  does anyone know of any diagrams online that show the current hierarchical structure of the watchtower compared to the previous hierarchical structures of the past.

  i know they have complicated it on purpose to try to protect themselves legally from lawsuits.

  i would like to try to understand their current structure compared with the past.

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  That picture pretty much sums it up. Accurate.
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  Those of you who can explain mathematical concepts, please reply.

  by compound complex in

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  i know who you are; you posted, rather eloquently, on venus' thread regarding a teacher making a mistake in mathematics.. my brain is not wired to explain concepts that come to you naturally.

  certainly, it is a combination of both your innate ability as well as training in a field in which you excel.

  my question centers on those of us who did well in mathematics but cannot explain what we are doing.

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  I'm going to generalize, when I taught something like differential equations, matrix analysis or complex numbers, the issues with explaining and transmitting knowledge in a way that flows is hindered (at times) when the students lack or barely understand the foundation for whatever concept you are teaching.

  Math concepts are progressive and incremental, meaning that lacking a basic skill or concept harms understanding the next. Many times it's not what/how you are explaining, is making the assumption that the foundation to understand a given concept is there when sometimes it's not.

  In Engineering school I had a lot of professors who were great Engineers but horrible teachers. The number one issue that I had with them was them not knowing how to review or introduce a given concept.

  When you teach art, many times you have to introduce some context to understand a concept. The same applies to math, only that the context is something that is supposed to have been learned and practiced; it's more implicit.

  They way I used to explain math when I taught it was showing some practical application when I could find it (There were many things that were more applicable to developing the analytical skills, not directly applicable knowledge per se). As I explain a concept, I give an example, show step by step how to arrive to the solution, explaining in each step what is needed to know from previous math material. And then repeat, repeat, repeat. I give a few classroom practice exercises and discuss them, them leave them on their own and hope I gave a good class.
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  Higher Education

  by Brian J in

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  just spent 8 hours in a 1 day elders school last weekend.

  clarification given: "moving forward any elder, ms, or pioneer who themselves or someone under their roof enrolls in higher education, may no longer qualify for privileges in the congregation.

  their qualifications will have to be reviewed by their boe.".

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  This is a frekin joke right? The grape juice keeps getting more purple.
  

  Not only it's not a joke, the most pathetic part of the whole thing is that that's what they call progress. Before it was "no, no , no". Now that added a "maybe". In their minds they are being flexible.

  Here's their most pathetic joke about it: That's how they expect to make money from their people.
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  Should I stay or should I go?

  by BlackWolf in

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  hello everyone, i haven't posted anything on here for a while and today i just really felt like i needed to get my thoughts together.

  (if you don't know me please read some of my previous posts).

  so pretty much not much has changed in my life, i'm still living with my parents and going to all the meetings and service.

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  Hello, and good to hear from you. I remember your previous posts. I don't like giving advise since I know that I may not know all the details, but something that I notice in your post is that it makes several statements about what your parents think immobilizing you from taking action. Though you want to be respectful to your parents, you cannot make good decisions for yourself always considering what they think. If they want to force you to remain JW, obviously they are not thinking about what is bet for you, as much as the JW thing works for them.

  Removing from your parents may help you feel less depressed. If your situation with your non-JW aunt helps you feel less depressed, it sounds like a good option. Nothing worse than looking for work while under pressure and depressed.

  Whatever your parents make of your move, if they don't believe it when you tell then what your reasons are, and if they take the position of accusing family of manipulating you, that's their issue, their nonsense, and any action they take over their misinterpretation of the facts is their responsibility, not yours.

  Try staying with your aunt for a week, a month or some time (if possible). You can get a better sense of what that move will look like to you, and if you feel that it may work for you to be there in a longer term, then make the move. Just in case, make sure that when/if you move with your aunt, you have a very good grasp of what living with her is.

  I hope this helps.
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  305 killed in Mosque

  by James Mixon in

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  so why do we have a decline in religion..if god would wipe these militants groups off the face of the earth i might believe there is a god.....so they (sufis) practice some strange things, veneration of tombs, the sacrificial slaughter of animals and what is termed sorcery and soothsaying, that is no reason to kill 25 children and 280 adults.

  i don't give a damn if they worships rats, what is the harm...what the hell is with this group, the islamic state and other sunni extremist groups deem sufis group heretical..stupid a---holes.

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  I don't give a damn if they worships rats, what is the harm...What the hell is with this group, the Islamic State and other Sunni extremist groups deem Sufis group heretical..Stupid A---holes
  

  I know, just like those Christians that open fire in a Christian church in Texas. I don't give a damn if they worship their Jesus. Stupid A-holes indeed.
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  HQ must be paying Google to get the top hits

  by nonjwspouse in

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  i typed into google jehovahs-witness and the first four hits were borg sites.

  this site was not even on the first page .

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  I typed into google jehovahs-witness and the first four hits were borg sites. This site was not even on the first page
  

  And? It's a common practice for organizations, companies and people, as well as the media, to pay for search engine optimization services. There are companies dedicated to that, and Google has nothing to do with any of it.

  Also, your search results may be influenced by websites the you yourself have visited, and the WT has nothing to do with any of it.
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  Can JW's celebrate Hannukah?

  by Splash in

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  what's the official teaching on celebrating this jewish festival?.

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  The best way to find out information about what JWs do and don't do is by asking JWs directly and/or by going to their official website.

  Just sayin'
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  What Do You Think A CIA Or NSA Security File On The Watchtower And Tract Society And It's Governing Body Would Say?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  i'm sure that a top secret security clearance not very high up the chain of command would show a ton of information, .

  i mean everything that happens on the internet and on computers i'm sure is assessable to the us intelligence community, why would the government not pass up an opportunity to spy on it's population and run all internet data through homeland security to protect it's interest both home and abroad, realistically thinking that is.. so with this in mind what would a highly classified report look like?

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  What Do You Think A CIA Or NSA Security File On The Watchtower And Tract Society And It's Governing Body Would Say?
  

  Bunch of wackos!

  Seriously, I think ti has some kind of summary about them, an overview of what they are, and some kind of scale that measures the level of relevance that they have to the work that they do. Nothing fascinating.

  The WT is a mediocre, irrelevant, vapid organization. I doubt that they (if at all) have any relevant information on them for their purposes.