Posts by GrreatTeacher

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St John's wort

by wannaexit in

st john's wort is accepted by the medical literature for use in mild to moderate depression.

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if anybody is using it could you share your experiences with it?

GrreatTeacher

Some people are allergic to it. It's related to ragweed, I believe. Might be a concern if you have allergies.

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East Coast Blizzard 2015

by breakfast of champions in

jw
friends

where we're at, we won't get it as bad as nyc, long island or new england.

even so, my university is closed until wednesday morning, and we're expecting well over a foot of snow.. anyone else out there "hunkering down"?.

GrreatTeacher

I am down near Washington, DC. We are only getting 3 to 5 inches. Enough to mess up the roads tomorrow, but then it will move farther north. Wednesday is supposed to be sunny.

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New forum: one month progress report

by Simon in

well, we survived the first month at least!

yes, the new forum is now 1 month old.. of course there have been some issues and i'm grateful that people have been patient while i worked on them.

a big thank-you to everyone who's been patient, have provided useful feedback or just been willing to adapt to something new during the transition.. i've also made some improvements along the way and am fairly happy with how things are from a basic functionality and performance perspective so it's time to start looking at some of the new features i've been planning.

GrreatTeacher

Thank you for all your hard work, Simon. I have a Samsung tablet and once I figured out that I had to use Chrome in order to post, I was fine.

I also like the brief descriptions of the new posts on the active page. It really lets me home in on what I want to read without the Click, No thanks, Previous page dance on the old forum.

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Happy Australia Day

by Bungi Bill in

jw
friends

happy australia day to all here who reside in australia:.

- and for those who have actually got the day off, halve your luck!.

(yet again, i have drawn the short straw and am working today - oh, the joys of remote site fifo work!

GrreatTeacher

Happy Australia Day. I'm sorry you have to work.

We happen to have no school because of teacher work days before report cards, so we'll celebrate along with you. Oh, and it's going to snow!

Try to do some relaxing after work. And enjoy the summer weather!

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I got half custody!

by outsmartthesystem in

jw
friends

so it has been quite a while since i've last been on this site.

the jist of my story is that about 5 years ago, i started a research journey that took me 2 1/2 years to complete.

against the advice of this board, i decided to show my wife because i mistakenly thought she valued truth.

GrreatTeacher

Great idea to get her to the counsellor. Never underestimate the ability of a child to protect the organization, though. I hope she finds a counsellor who understands high control religions and undue influence.

Great job, Dad.

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I got half custody!

by outsmartthesystem in

jw
friends

so it has been quite a while since i've last been on this site.

the jist of my story is that about 5 years ago, i started a research journey that took me 2 1/2 years to complete.

against the advice of this board, i decided to show my wife because i mistakenly thought she valued truth.

GrreatTeacher

Congratulations on you custody win. It seems the courts really have a problem with alienating behavior. I'm sure you are documenting all overt examples. But, what about covert alienating behaviors? Do you think this has just driven your ex wife's behavior underground?

I'm glad you have had good success with your youngest and hope your oldest makes great strides soon, too.

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Be nice to theists - they are victims of their genes

by cofty in

identical twin studies show there is a strong inheritable component to religiosity.

thomas bouchard studied identical and fraternal twins raised apart and tested them on religious attitudes.. the correlation for the former turned out to be 62% compared to just 2% for the latter.

his colleague.

GrreatTeacher

In the nature vs. nurture debate very rarely can you completely control for one or the other. Monozygotic (identical) twins allows science to completely control for the nature portion because they have the exact same genetic code.

So,the remainder of the behavior would be a function of nurture, right? Not so fast, because twins are raised in the same environment. So, finding a pair of identical twins (same nature) raised in a different environment (different nurture) would allow us to draw the conclusion that similarities of behavior would be a function of the similarities of nature (in this case the identical genome). The environment (they grew up in different homes) would, in this case not be a cause of similarity at all since it is completely different.

Straight causation would need a 100% similarity of behavior rate ( in this case, religiosity). In this case, there was a 62% similarity of religiosity behavior. Is this significant? Yes, because no correlation at all would be 0%, and this is very nearly the statistic found (2%) in the case of fraternal twins raised apart. They had different nature (genes) and nurture ( environment.

So, we can conclude that there is a 62% correlation between genes and religiosity. Statistically speaking, this is a strong positive correlation.

However, this leaves room for other factors as well.

This is why the natural experiment of identical twins raised apart gives us tremendous insight into the relative amounts of nature and nurture that cause certain human behaviors.

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Just ask simple questions and make street witnesses move along

by OnTheWayOut in

you don't have to know much to talk to jw's and show them they don't want to really discuss the matters.they consider a discussion on the matter they are pushing to be "confrontational.".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfw_txpmsj8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lqtadagucq.

GrreatTeacher

The JW in the first video actually seemed like a nice guy.

The one in the second video seemed like a condescending, holier-than-thou, pompous ass. He has a great future in the organization.

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what type of faith do you REALLY want?

by atheist_R_stupid in

i find that when talking people who say they "used to be a jehovah's witness" they say words that show they have in fact, never been one.

it's like a man that worked for the post office for 30 years in a main major urban hub like chicago or new york... and you ask him, "in your last position, what was your rdo?

" and the man says "whats an rdo?".

GrreatTeacher

Good for you working indoors now, truthseeker! I always wondered at the irony of the term Inside Wireman!

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what type of faith do you REALLY want?

by atheist_R_stupid in

i find that when talking people who say they "used to be a jehovah's witness" they say words that show they have in fact, never been one.

it's like a man that worked for the post office for 30 years in a main major urban hub like chicago or new york... and you ask him, "in your last position, what was your rdo?

" and the man says "whats an rdo?".

GrreatTeacher

You certainly would call yourself a Journeyman in the US, as in Journeyman Wiremen. It's all over the IBEW Journal. You might also say you are a Master electrician if you've passed the Master's test. This distinction does come up on the job.

If you are an apprentice, you might call the electrician you are working under your Mechanic.

Sometimes you might "pull a nooner" (leave at lunch), "get some gook" (skim some copper wire off of the job to resell), or even "drag up" (quit), and "go get your money" (collect your wages up until the last moment you've worked).

You might need a "pair of dykes" (small diagonal cutters for snipping small wires), but your company may have realized how offensive the term is and banned its use, especially if there are women on the job.