Waton, the Titius-Bode law is intriguing to me, but Neptune always sits there as a big fat gassy giant spoiler. Because of Neptune, the jamming in of Ceres as a planet (or simply counting the asteroid belt as a planet... kinda weak) and the fact that the Bode law doesn't explain the "why" of anything, I tend to think of it as a mathematical coincidence with a degree of fudge rather than an actual law.
But, I could be wrong.
In any event it doesn't matter; my feelings about Pluto are more emotional than logical. Eris is nearly as large and probably just as strange, but it wasn't known in my childhood days when I first learned about our solar system. When Eris was eventually discovered, it seemed to be part of the reason Pluto was demoted. Booo! Down with Eris! Go away spoiler.
...now, that Planet X / Planet Nine? If that baby EVER shows up some day, then we might be talking a whole different story...
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The Amazing Solar System
by LoveUniHateExams ini gotta say, i don't know much about the solar system.
i never was particularly interested in it.. but i've recently read professor brian cox's book (which accompanies a bbc series) and it's completely fascinating.. i'm quite interested in pictures of mars.
martian landscapes seem familiar and different at the same time ….
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The Amazing Solar System
by LoveUniHateExams ini gotta say, i don't know much about the solar system.
i never was particularly interested in it.. but i've recently read professor brian cox's book (which accompanies a bbc series) and it's completely fascinating.. i'm quite interested in pictures of mars.
martian landscapes seem familiar and different at the same time ….
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Brock Talon
Personally, I love Pluto. When I was a child, I learned "there are nine planets in our solar system"... but since then, Pluto has been reclassified as a "dwarf planet" which is not a a first class planet at all. This was a very controversial decision that not all astronomers agreed with and I followed the argumentation with great interest. But because it had not cleared it neighborhood of other objects, "they" decided it was not a "planet" and that was that. Still, it qualifies for a dwarf planet, so it still is a "planet" in my book. (As apposed to an asteroid, comet, or some other more trivial celestial body.)
Well, I love all the odd things about Pluto, among these are:Pluto's biggest moon, Charon, is about half its width. They orbit each other like a dual planet system. (See photo)
Pluto has an elliptical orbit (year) that takes 248 Earth years to complete. If there were humanoid life on Pluto and their lifespan was similar to ours, they would never age to even one Pluto year old. Most would die before reaching 1/3 of a year old. Its orbit also comes closer than Neptune's orbit at its closest, but Pluto orbits at an inclined plane to that of the solar system's eight planets. Because of this very odd elliptical orbit, the methane can freeze and snow (with red snow!) and then thaw and refreeze again during its 248 year orbit as it gets closer and then farther from the Sun.
Pluto is tiny (about) 2/3 the size of our moon, but rotates at 153 Earth hours. If there were humanoid life on Pluto and they had to work 1/3 of a day like we do (working 8 hour days) their work day would be 50 hours.
Pluto was named by an 11 year old who was fascinated by Roman Mythology. Pluto was the god of the underworld, also named in Greek: Hades. All of its moons are named similarly: Charon, Styx, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos. If you don't know these names, you don't know your mythology! I always loved Greek and Roman mythology, so I love Pluto and its moons for this alone.There are so many other interesting things about Pluto, the most prominent of the Kuiper belt objects and probably the most well known dwarf planets.
I thought I would share this cool stuff about my favorite planet: Pluto. Yes, Pluto will always be the ninth planet to me. Go ahead and make the other dwarf planets actual planets if you wish. I don't care. And even though it rains diamonds on Neptune, Pluto's red methane snow rocks.
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I'm feeling cold
by Lost in the fog inwhen i was a jw i would look to the bible or the wt society to answer all of my problems.. now as an older person i get cold in the wintertime and have trouble getting warm down to bad circulation.
i found an answer in the bible at 1 kings 1:2, but i don't think my pimi wife will let me apply this bible principle.
lol.
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Brock Talon
Don't fool yourselves, back in those days pretty much EVERYONE was smelly, young or old, pretty or ugly alike.
Without constant bathing with soaps and body washes, deodorants and talcs, lotions, perfumes and colognes, dental hygiene aids, etc., we would all smell like farm animals.
Being a king and waited on hand and foot, David was probably one of the better smelling people back then.
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Video: Surprise Reunion After 10 years of Shunning
by NuzzleNudge inhttps://youtu.be/ribgldualbm.
my husband hadn’t seen his sister for 10 years.
we were jehovah's witnesses and thanks to their disgusting, arbitrary brainwashing, 10 years of loving our family was wasted shunning them.
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Brock Talon
On a beautiful Sunday morning with my family sleeping in and the whole house quiet, I was unexpectedly brought to tears by this video.
I guess it's because I know I will never experience this kind of healing with my estranged extended family, I was simultaneously happy for the people in the video and sad for myself.
Still, I wish I could watch a hundred more like this. Really, really wonderful. Thanks for sharing NuzzleNudge.
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The Worst doctrine of JWs- Ressurection and Paradise
by HowTheBibleWasCreated inbesides the facts that one needs to take numerous verses from the ot and nt and smash them together to make this theology (which works out to a modern day zorastriaism) the whole concept is realy horrific.. first it teachs that your life is worthless and should be exploited until the next one in paradise/or heaven.
second it teachs that you dead loved ones are still around either in heaven or jeblooper's memory.
so don't greive.
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Brock Talon
This issue is also one of my pet peeves as well.
See my previous post on this which I called "False Advertisements for a fake future that will never happen."
Notice too how much doctrine I mentioned in my experience at Bethel that happened to me 38 years ago that has since been changed with "new light"...
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What Fun Things Have You Been Doing While In Lock-Down?
by Simon inso we've all been locked down and there's only so much netflix / prime / disney / hbo you can watch and computer games you can play.
what has everyone been doing to pass the time?.
when you're completely stuck inside and working from home it can get a bit boring staring at the same walls all day and then in the evening as well.
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Brock Talon
Flew a kite today with my family in a local park. First did it a few days ago in our back yard (we live on a lake, but have too many trees nearby to do it well) and that was the first time in many years. We headed to the park for more room today. Instead of one kite for the family, I think we'll get one for each of us and see who can get theirs the highest, swoop the lowest, zig-zag the most, and try not to tangle in the trees or with each other. Great fun, a little exercise, fresh air, laughter and it makes me feel like a kid again. Costs next to nothing to-boot.
I just might try out the scooter idea next!
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Fruits of the spirit
by asp59 into all that been in betel service.
as 1440.000 are suppose to rule like kings they must also be an example of putting the fruits of the spirit in there daily life(charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity (kindness), goodness, longanimity (forbearance), mildness (gentleness), faith, modesty, continency (self-control), and chastity.).
have you meet a gb member or other from the 144.000 in betel when you were there that you could easy see that this person wakes up in the morning and is determined to apply fruits of the spirit in there life?
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Brock Talon
The short answer to this is "yes," there were some sincere (if not flawed) Governing Body members and other "heavies" I knew during my time at Bethel.
The long answer can be found in a few posts I wrote years ago on this forum...
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Elon Musk, And The CyberTruck That Homer Built
by Simon ini think tesla and musk have officially jumped the shark.. did you see the "cybertruck" they released?
it's like the car that homer built!.
it has to be the ugliest vehicle ever built.
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I'm getting one with the trailer!
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The Day I Met a Midnight Cowboy
by Terry in“the day i met a midnight cowboy”a hollywood memory .
he approached me at the service counter.
clutched in his hand : something in a small paper bag.
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Brock Talon
This was an interesting story, Terry. It has life lessons in it that are worth sharing. Thanks for doing so.
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"Gem from the November 2019 WT. Reject apostate material because JWs trust in "their brothers."
by Daniel1555 indear friends.
i didn't post for a while, but i still enjoy the great jwn community.. just wanted to share a "gem" from the november 2019 study watchtower.. paragraph 8 from the article "are you maintaining your large shield of faith?".
satan, “the father of the lie,” uses those under his control to spread lies about jehovah and about our brothers and sisters.
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Brock Talon
I have been labeled an apostate because I wrote a book that tells my own personal experiences that occurred at Bethel in the 1980s exactly as they happened to me.
I told of conversations and discussions of doctrine exactly as they occurred, including the 1975 fiasco I lived through, the generations discussion we had at Bethel back then and how it doesn't measure up to what they say now.
I explained how I was told as a child that I would never graduate high school, let alone college, yet here I am 30 years into my career that was enabled by a college education, one they tried to prevent me from having.
I explained that they claimed that all the Governing Body members I knew at Bethel (and other "Anointed") would not die out before the big "A" would come (they even published a Watchtower about it with pictures of the GB on the cover that I knew personally) yet ironically every single one of them has now been dead for decades.
I explained my feelings about all of this, how the lack of love was repeatedly shown to me for over 35 years in one congregation after another, and how it all adversely affected my life, and why I could no longer bear being a Jehovah's Witness any longer.
For that, I am called a liar and a tool of Satan for writing "apostate" material.
They got a lot of nerve.