It's an interesting exercise that shows how many people read phonetically; people often don't look for the actual letter but the letter that has a /f/ pronunciation that leads them to miss the examples of F when it is pronounced /v/. Those with synesthesia, I think, are less likely to be misled in this way (I simply picked out the letters with the same color). Similarly, I have a weird version of the Stroop effect. When I tested myself at the Exploratorium, I actually read the words faster with the interference than without it. That particular version didn't print the words in Stimuli 1 in black type but in matching colored letters. I think what happened was that I was getting interference in both instances (as the printed colors clash with my perceptive colors), and the addition of the second interference kind of allowed me to ignore the interference altogether. Or something like that.
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Are you a genius?
by jam inin ten seconds count the f,s.
don,t cheat.. finished files are the re.
sult of years of scienti.
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Star Wars Episode VII
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas init's happening!.
disney compra lucasfilm y fija 2015 para el estreno de 'star wars: episode vii'!.
http://www.elseptimoarte.net/bombazo-disney-compra-lucasfilm-y-fija-2015-para-el-estreno-de--star-wars-episode-vii--15973.html.
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Leolaia
Phantom Menace was bad; Attack of the Clones was a dozen times worse.
Watch RedLetterMedia's reviews.....they are way more entertaining than the movies themselves.
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It's Time to Dump the Hebrew Scriptures.
by smmcroberts inwhy do christian religions continue to pretend that the hebrew scriptures (aka the old testament) is god-inspired and that it describes a loving god?
don't they see that the ot is largely an embarrassment to its believers?
please read my blog to see why i think christianity should dispense with the ot all together:.
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Leolaia
The NT is joined at the hip with the Hebrew Scriptures. It is thoroughly embedded with quoted scriptures and OT material otherwise shapes the diction and thought. It is impossible to understand much of the NT without having the OT as background material.
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Anyone with blood pressure problems?
by jam ini stop taking my blood pressure meds.
the other day.
while at the dentist they took my blood pressure, 177 over 101.. i,am taking my pressure pills again.
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Leolaia
The dizzy spells aren't as common as they were when I was younger. I think in general my blood pressure is higher than it used to be.
It's the pulse pressure that kind of worries me. It only happens when I'm in bed in the middle of the night and I awake with palpitations, and then I start trembling all over for about five to ten minutes. And if I measure the blood pressure, it comes out as very narrow (below 20 mmHg). The trembling feels like it normalizes things and makes the palpitations go away. But it's kind of scary. And yeah, I've tried to get it checked out, and nothing...I've had holters three or four times. I had a stress test which was pretty worthless since it is the exact opposite of the situation in which I get these symptoms (and so my pulse pressure widened to like 60 mmHg or more). And those tests cost me a small fortune. So my boyfriend things I'm just being a hypochondriac, which makes me feel reluctant to get things checked out further.
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Threats for leaving
by l p ini have been out since 2002. i have absolutely nothing to do with the borg.. in the last week i have been threatened twice by 2 different witlesses.
the first one in an email said: 'you know what the consequences are for leaving the organisation'.. i took absolute offense to this for a few reasons.
firstly, threatening someone is against the law.
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Leolaia
'you know what the consequences are for leaving the organisation'.
Jeez. Reminds me of a certain scene from The Firm.
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Anyone with blood pressure problems?
by jam ini stop taking my blood pressure meds.
the other day.
while at the dentist they took my blood pressure, 177 over 101.. i,am taking my pressure pills again.
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Leolaia
I have the opposite problem...I have had some bad bouts with low bp, with associated dizziness and syncope. Recently I had some experiences with very narrow pulse pressure (like a 17 point spread) with palpitations, but otherwise I'm totally normal.
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The FIVE exciting Watchtower Presidential Eras
by Dogpatch incharles t. russell era (1879-1916)date: late 1800's.
okay, july 1879 if you want to be picky.. current religious views: many apocalyptic leanings, prompting the origin of several major eclectic religious groups claiming that god had rejected the mainstream christian churches for their apostasy in the fourth century, and that he has now chosen a new prophet, a spokesman, a faithful messenger to re-educate the world as to the truths of the bible, long-lost and unattainable by any normal human being.
to gain eternal life, man must listen to the new gospel of this messenger(s).. this century sees the birth of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints (mormons), adventism and its various offshoots (including jehovah's witnesses), christian science, christadelphians and other smaller groups, each one claiming a modern-day prophet and new or once-forgotten revelations to the populace, many of whom we find shopping for new ideas, yet disenchanted with the churches.. scenario: a young man who can't understand theology from a historical development point of view begins to feel that he is the "seventh messenger" (rev.
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Leolaia
Frederick W. ("Freddy") Franz Era (1977-1992)
Wow, I never realized it before. I attended my first meetings in 1977 and my last meetings (I think) in 1992. Squarely within the Franz era.
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Truth in Translation and Phillip Harner's JBL article
by NCC-1701 inif this topic has appeared in the forum before, please accept my apologies.. just wanted to share what i wrote about jason beduhn's handling of phillip harner's article in the journal of biblical literature (1973) in the book, "truth in translation" for those who may have their own copy of it.. it's a bit lenghthy, but i wanted to record as much of harner's thoughts as possible to understand his position.
i hope it is helpful to someone.. .
a friend recently offered his copy of jason david beduhn's "truth in translation" for me to read.
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Leolaia
Yes, this is one of the things that makes BuDuhn's book seem very superficial to me in its handling of the material.
I commented on this specific issue in 2008:
Indefiniteness pertains to class membership of an entity whereas qualitative predication expresses attributes pertaining to the nature of the entity — which may or may not be reflective of class membership. The two semantic concepts are distinct, although there is some overlap....BeDuhn bases his discussion on Harner's study of qualitative predicate nouns in Greek: "What Harner calls the 'qualitative' function of Greek predicate nouns, and what I call the Greek 'expression of class' amounts to basically the same thing. A person who writes a sentence in this way is telling us that the subject belongs to the class or category represented by the predicate noun" (p. 124). Harner however was quite clear that qualitative DOES NOT IMPLY indefinite, and his analysis of John 1:1a also precluded the reading that BeDuhn prefers. On p. 83 of his article, for instance, Harner cites John 1:14 as an example of a predicate noun in which "the qualitative force of the predicate is most prominent" but which "could not be translated as either definite or indefinite". Harner then goes on to rule out indefinite, definite, and unspecified qualitative as nuances of the predicate in John 1:1c (which would better be expressed via different constructions), explaining that the sense is not that the logos is equated with ho theos NOR that the two entities are construed as two divine beings belonging to a category or class of theos (pp. 84-86). The idea is rather that "the Word is 'divine' in the same sense that ho theos is divine" (p. 86), such that:
"In terms of the analysis that we have proposed, a recognition of the qualitative significance of theos would remove some ambiguity in his interpretation by differentiating between theos, as the nature that the Logos shared with God, and ho theos as the 'person' to whom the Logos stood in relation. Only when this distinction is clear can we say of the Logos that 'he was God.' ... Perhaps the clause could be translated, 'the Word had the same nature as God.' This would be one way of representing John's thought, which is, as I understand it, that ho logos, no less than ho theos, had the nature of theos" (pp. 86-87).
This is the position I have been advocating in this thread as well, that theos is the quality or nature that ho theos and ho logos share (just as sarx "flesh" is the nature that ho logos would later share with man in v. 14). This is very different from understanding theos non-qualitatively as a member of a class or category; Harner specifically argues against this indefinite reading. 1 John 4:8 is a nice parallel to John 1:1c because [ho theos] apagè estin "God is love" is syntactically similar (involving an anarthrous predicate nominative noun and a copular "to be" verb) and qualitatively expresses the nature of the articular subject (i.e. "God has the same nature as love", compare Harner's translation of John 1:1c as "The Word has the same nature as God"). Ignatius of Antioch (who was influenced by the Johannine literature and frequently applies theos to Jesus) gives another example with anarthrous theos that so far has not been noticed in the literature on John 1:1: "Faith is the beginning and love is the end, and [the two existing in unity] are God ([ta de duo en enotèti genomena] theos estin)" (Ephesians 14:1). This reproduces Holmes' translation, which has a definite rendering of theos as "God", but theos here is an anarthrous predicate nominative noun just as it is in John 1:1c. The idea is not that faith and love are two divine beings, or that they both are to be identified with a unique definite entity "God", but that theos is the nature that faith and love share when they are in unity. This also shows how the sharing of a common nature does not necessarily imply membership in a class. In this case, the nature of theos is an emergent property of two abstract entities when they are in a unity.
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Nebuchadnezzar's accession year in 625 B.C.E
by biometrics indoes anyone have info on why the watchtower's view that nebuchadnezzar's accession year was in 625 b.c.e is incorrect.. from the cd rom:.
jerusalem came under final siege in zedekiahs 9th year (609 b.c.e.
), and the city fell in his 11th year (607 b.c.e.
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Leolaia
The statement in Josephus is interesting but it is of doubtful historicity. It claims that Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt in his 23rd year (582 BC) and Egypt's king (Apries) died in battle. In reality, Nebuchadnezzar's army was besieging Tyre in 582 BC and he did not invade Egypt until his 37th year when the siege was over (567 BC), and the deposed Apries fought on the same side as Nebuchadnezzar against the usurper Amasis (who continued to reign over Egypt for the rest of the Neo-Babylonian era and into the Achaemenid period). So it seems that Josephus' statement was an inference made from Jeremiah's prophecies (particularly what is found in Jeremiah 43:10-11, 44:30, 48:1-47, 49:1-22, 52:28-30). Indeed the statement occurs within an extended paraphrase of Jeremiah ch. 40-44. It is still possible however that there is some independent information that Josephus was drawing on. Many scholars believe that the deportation of exiles in 582 BC was a consequence of the anti-Babylonian rebellion that culminated in the assassination of Gedaliah, who managed the farming population that continued to work the fields of Judah (particularly in Benjamin) following the fall of Jerusalem (cf. 2 Kings 25:22, Jeremiah 40:6-7, 10-12). Dating the assassination to 582 BC gives a much more plausible account of the events leading up to the assassination, rather than the alternative which squeezes everything into the two months that followed the destruction of the Temple (see Doug Mason's discussion of this), and it gives historical context to a major exiling of Jews in Nebuchadnezzar's 23rd year as a reprisal against the anti-Babylonian rebellion. Josephus' statement about a campaign against the Moabites and Ammonites fits well in this context, as in fact the Ammonite king was behind the murder of Gedaliah (Jeremiah 40:14, 41:15). Although the Society wants to claim that Gedaliah was killed just a few months after Jerusalem fell and the land emptied of all Jews immediately afterward, the exiling of Jews in the 23rd year indicates otherwise (cf. also Ezekiel 33:21-27 which implies that there were Jews still living in Judah after the time the Society claims Gedaliah was killed).
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Nebuchadnezzar's accession year in 625 B.C.E
by biometrics indoes anyone have info on why the watchtower's view that nebuchadnezzar's accession year was in 625 b.c.e is incorrect.. from the cd rom:.
jerusalem came under final siege in zedekiahs 9th year (609 b.c.e.
), and the city fell in his 11th year (607 b.c.e.
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Leolaia
The other main point that the WTS. totally disregards is the the gradual start of captivity of Jerusalem's citizens to Babylon, which can a approximately calculated by using the bible at 605 BCE., gradually segmented to the finally destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
And even then there were still people sent into exile from Judah several years later (Jeremiah 52):
This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:
in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,
832 people from Jerusalem;
30 in his twenty-third year,
745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.
There were 4,600 people in all.
The idea that Judah was wholly devastated when Jerusalem was destroyed, with the land emptied of people, is a fiction. And clearly, the Babylonian Exile began many years PRIOR to the destruction of Jerusalem.