Posts by prologos

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Happy Pi Day

by dothemath in

tomorrow is march 14 (3.14), so its known as pi day, to honour the all-important constant.. incidentally, the bible has been criticized by mathematicians because the scriptures give a very poor value of pi.. the scripture is based on 1kings 7: 23 and reads as follows:.

"and he proceeded to make the molten sea ten cubits from its one brim to its other brim, circular all around; and its height was five cubits, and it took a line of thirty cubits to circle all around it".

now that shape is actually mathematically impossible to construct, because if the diameter is 10 cubits, the circumference would have to be 31.4159 cubits.

prologos

"The diameter is 10 cubits ,the circumference would have to be 31.4159 cubits (circumference =pi x diameter )" ?

Smiddy, please read my post above. It can not be the same circle that is measured, the diameter across of the vessel, is rim to rim, is bigger than the lower measurement of the container just below it, like the rim on a cup.

Thank you Fisherman, for the illustration it is impossible to stretch a measuring line (scotch tape was not invented yet) along that thin edge at the top, 31. 4--- long, but easy above the ring of pomegranates, to keep it from slipping down.

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Happy Pi Day

by dothemath in

tomorrow is march 14 (3.14), so its known as pi day, to honour the all-important constant.. incidentally, the bible has been criticized by mathematicians because the scriptures give a very poor value of pi.. the scripture is based on 1kings 7: 23 and reads as follows:.

"and he proceeded to make the molten sea ten cubits from its one brim to its other brim, circular all around; and its height was five cubits, and it took a line of thirty cubits to circle all around it".

now that shape is actually mathematically impossible to construct, because if the diameter is 10 cubits, the circumference would have to be 31.4159 cubits.

prologos

Here is a pi question: if you stretched an ideal rope around an ideal even surface path on the earth, and then added 16 meters to the 40 Million meters of the rope, lifted it evenly everywhere, could a mouse get under it? or who?

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Happy Pi Day

by dothemath in

tomorrow is march 14 (3.14), so its known as pi day, to honour the all-important constant.. incidentally, the bible has been criticized by mathematicians because the scriptures give a very poor value of pi.. the scripture is based on 1kings 7: 23 and reads as follows:.

"and he proceeded to make the molten sea ten cubits from its one brim to its other brim, circular all around; and its height was five cubits, and it took a line of thirty cubits to circle all around it".

now that shape is actually mathematically impossible to construct, because if the diameter is 10 cubits, the circumference would have to be 31.4159 cubits.

prologos

If they used a measuring line, it would be impossible to t stretch it along the the cusp of the lily shaped (cross section) of the rim. That line must have stretched at a narrower part, lower. The line would have easily stretched across the open top, the diameter. I0 and 30 are not a measure of the same circle, but the smaller lower vessel circumference and the wider rim. The bible is often wrong, but logically explained on that one. look under the rim to be a winner eh?

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Just in time for Memorial season...

by OutsiderLookingIn in

this is short and quick but maybe it's a seed to plant in the 10 days until the memorial.

i have talked to jws who tell me their reason for not eating the bread and drinking the cup is because that was only a new covenant with his disciples (and in their wonky extension, the 144,000).

but i just thought of a few things.

prologos

Jesus would be removed as an elder and disfellowshipped for active apostasy, because he served the bread and wine to non-anointed people with an earthly hope, ordering them to eat and drink. think.

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This thread is for proof that God exists

by juandefiero in

jw
friends

however, i haven't found any evidence to support that belief.. have you?

if so please, show me the evidence that god exists, and i will believe along with you.. criteria:.

(1) you must specify which god you are talking about;.

prologos

is This thread (is) for proof that god exists ??, no, it is for proof that for some, ego matters, no matter what.

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Question: refuse, or limit to collaborate with elder inquiry?

by prologos in

should a teen, a child of a believing mother, cooperate in the fact-gathering of the elders into the waywardness (not sex related, hopefully) of some local teenagers?

what scenarios can you see playing out?

all teens to clam up?

prologos

A A: "--potentially self destructive behaviour, probably the parents should be made aware.--" good points. thanks. Could not the initiative of the elders be viewed as a valid, though thankless task to help parents to help their kids? getting conversations going where communications have stalled between the generations? as a valuable side-effect of the elders rule-based mentality?

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Question: refuse, or limit to collaborate with elder inquiry?

by prologos in

should a teen, a child of a believing mother, cooperate in the fact-gathering of the elders into the waywardness (not sex related, hopefully) of some local teenagers?

what scenarios can you see playing out?

all teens to clam up?

prologos

thank you, that would be an easy rule, but many issues, vandalism, under-age drinking, driving incidents, for example would span both spheres of interests, how about the secrecy, legal implications?

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This thread is for proof that God exists

by juandefiero in

jw
friends

however, i haven't found any evidence to support that belief.. have you?

if so please, show me the evidence that god exists, and i will believe along with you.. criteria:.

(1) you must specify which god you are talking about;.

prologos

Fisherman: Did you take debait when I underlined High School? we need an abating of the off topic offerings.

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Question: refuse, or limit to collaborate with elder inquiry?

by prologos in

should a teen, a child of a believing mother, cooperate in the fact-gathering of the elders into the waywardness (not sex related, hopefully) of some local teenagers?

what scenarios can you see playing out?

all teens to clam up?

prologos

Should a teen, a child of a believing mother, cooperate in the fact-gathering of the elders into the waywardness (not sex related, hopefully) of some local teenagers? what scenarios can you see playing out? all teens to clam up? squealers later shunned, or innocents tarred and feathered by the congregation if the truth is hidden? thoughts please:

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Why don't we have dominion over the animals?

by Coded Logic in

a devout christian had his buttocks mauled by a lion after challenging the big cat to a duel in order to prove the “lord’s power over animals”.. alec ndiwane, who has been described as a “prophet” in african media, was on safari at the kruger national park in south africa when he confronted the pride.. determined to prove to fellow tourists that god would save him, ndiwane is said to have gone into a trance and started speaking in tongues before opening his car door and charging at the lions.. but the lions were quick off the mark and bit him viciously on the backside as he clambered into the vehicle.. a warden managed to scare the big cats off by firing a gun in the air.. “i do not know what came over me,” ndiwane told ghanaweb.. “i thought the lord wanted to use me to show his power over animals.

is it not we were given dominion over all creatures of the earth?” he added.. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6994224/devout-christian-has-buttocks-mauled-by-lions-after-challenging-big-cats-to-a-duel-to-prove-the-lords-power-over-animals.html?cmp=spklr-_-editorial-_-twitter-_-thesunnewspaper-_-20160311-_-news-_-394160343-_-imageandlink.

prologos

Here is where evolutionists win, do you ever wondered about the missing rear end of the Hyenas? they are tangling with lions all the time too. Christians, since the Roman days only occasionally. Alec will, no doubt, do less bible study now, seeing that he sacrificed a good amount of "Siztfleisch"t