The admonishment - "Know thyself" - was carved on the temple wall of the Delphic oracle (the oracle at Delphi). In the classic period, the Delphic oracle was the supreme oracle of Greece, presided over by the god Apollo. The site of the Delphic oracle was assumed to be ther very center of the Earth, marked by the sacred navel-stone (the so-called "omphalos"). Actually, the Delphic oracle had its roots in very remote antiquity; it antedates the Greeks by many, many years. Even the ancient Greeks recognized their Apollo as a late-comer to this site.In any case "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much" were two of the oracle's most famous exhortations.
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Proof of Jesus existance
by Jew in.
to all christians, or others, is there any proof of the promised messiah being jesus of nazareth and if so, how can you be sure if he existed?
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The Protestants are a bigger Whore than the Catholics!!
by gumby inyes sir e folks....., that's what the faithful and discreet slave has said........the protestants are sluttier than the catholics and are more reprehensible because they have more knowledge about false doctrine and the bible than the catholics, and still they whore with the political beast and commercial elements!.
also notice the subtle way they talk about pat robertson of the u.s. to show as proof protesantism is more reprehensible because she whores with the beast.
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I noticed that they omitted any and all mention of the third great tradition of Christianity, namely the Orthodox (i.e. Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthdox, Armenian Orthodox, etc.) tradition. This particular Christian tradition must have gone undetected, slipping by under their "cultural radar" as it were. Just the same, it's strange that they pay it no mind, as if the Orthodox Christian tradition did not exist at all. They seem to have forgotten that the first great "split" in Christianity was not the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, but rather the Orthodox schism a few hundred years earlier.
Of course, their greatest evil lies in their insulting denegrating of people based solely on the fact that other people believe in the doctrines of another religion. Religious intolerance is quite similar to racism and xenophobia (hatred/fear of foreigners) because religion and culture are so closely intertwined. Religions begin in specific cultures, and develop in response to the requirments and worldview of that culture. Just as no one culture, or language, is inherently or intrinsically better than any other culture, so it is that no religion is essentially more true or better than any other religion. All varieties of religious experience are equally valid just as all languages are useful. People are born into and learn the codes of a particular culture, along with its religion, just as they are born to learn a specific language. Chance alone dictates what culture - and therefore which language and religion - we are born into. Why hate another person simply because chance had him/her born into a different culture, and thus believing in a different religion?
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How Many JWs or ExJWs Have Some Type of Mental Problems?
by minimus indo you think they are more succeptible to illness than others?
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Go the google and type in "jehovah's witnesses and psychosis." Scroll down to the Watchtower.observer.org site, "An eye on the Jehovah's Witnesses." According to one study, the rate of psychosis is seventeen (17) times higher in the witness population as compared to the general population.
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How Many JWs or ExJWs Have Some Type of Mental Problems?
by minimus indo you think they are more succeptible to illness than others?
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This is a follow-up to my previous post. I went to Google and typed in "jehovah's witnesses and psychosis." On the list of sites that appears, I scrolled down to the "watchtower.observer.org" heading "An eye on jehovah's witnesses"; you have to scroll down a little. They mention that in fact there have been numerous, large studies done on this issue. Ons study found the rate of psychosis among witnesses to be seventeen (17) times higher that the general population.
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How Many JWs or ExJWs Have Some Type of Mental Problems?
by minimus indo you think they are more succeptible to illness than others?
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In regard to the issue of Jehovah's Witnesses and mental health, I recall reading on some site - I think it was on *this* very site - about a study done in Australia (it may have been conducted in New South Wales, Australia, but I am not sure) on schizophrenia among Jehovah's Witnesses. As I remember, the researcher in question used the approach of analysing admissions for schizophrenia to psychiatric wards in New South Wales. The study was quite rigorous and clinical. Basically, the results showed that Witnesses constitute a quite disproportionately higher percentage of these admissions than would be expected. In other words, in statisitcal terms, there was a deviation from the norm regarding the percentage of Jehovah's Witnesses in this group of admissions cases.
I also recall othe studies that showed that instances of schizophrenia, depression and other psychiatric ailments was statistically higher among the population of Jehovah's Witnesses than the population in general.
I'm sure that if you go to Google, or some other search engine, and type in "jehovah's witnesses and mental health (problems)," or "mental illness and jehovah's witnesses," or "jehovah's witnesses - a psychological profile," you will get a lot of websites for researching. Although I read it a long while ago and don't remember much, I know that the study done in Australia that I spoke of earlier is considered to be a very important one.
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Bangalore, India, set to over-take 'silicon valley'
by Simon inbangalore, india, home to outsourcers such as infosys, tata consultancy services, and wipro technologies, now employs 160,000 high-tech workers?a number indian government officials project will grow to 200,000 as soon as next year.
california's silicon valley employs 175,100 high-tech workers, according to statistics from the california employment development department.
what's gone wrong?
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Regarding the prediction that China will be the world's richest power in ten years, I suppose that it's possible. Anything is possible, I suppose. I live a stone's throw (or should I say, a missle's course?) from China. I live on Taiwan (a.k.a. "Formosa"), and we who live here are concerned with every "twitch" of the big Asian dragon. China has been getting richer and richer due to the influx of foreign (especially Taiwanese) capital. But the Chinese have huge factors working against them. They are trying to graft a modern, capitalist economic system onto a political system which is hopelessly corrupt and useless. China is facing enormous problems with their infrastructure. One big problem is that it seems that one day soon, they will be unable to insure a steady supply of electrical power. Even now, their richest cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou are suffering power cuts. People are saying that their entire power supply system may one day "crash." When that happens, all those foreign firms will withdraw their factories. China is also having to deal with a huge gap in income and lifestyle between their urban population on the east coast, and the farming population in the interior. People in the cities can afford to buy cars, Rolex watches and designer clothes. People living in the interior have to scrape by on 50 U.S dollars - 50 U.S. dollars a year. Also, the Chinese banking system is one huge, fetid time bomb waiting to explode. China is on the verge of total chaos. The only thing holding it together is the Chinese Communist Party. The problem is that the Party has lost just about all of legitimacy and moral authority to govern. Just about the only card that the Chi Coms still have to play is the old nationalism card (read: "Let's 'liberate' Taiwan!). Meanwhile, the twenty million people on little Taiwan are going their own way. They are quickly developing a strong "Taiwanese consciousness." They are developing their own national identity. And their attitude toward China is: "Get f*****. Sooner or later, there will be war; it' s inevitable. With the outbreak of war, Japan will definitely get involved. And probably the two Koreas also. If China fails to annex Taiwan, China will definitely fragment socially and politically. Tibet and China's Muslim provinces in the far western region will definitely secede. After that, it's abybody's guess what will happen. I just hope that the Chinese will find a nice, safe place to store their nuclear missiles so that no one gets hurt.
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I thought I'd share a bit of the book I'm reading...
by Surreptitious in"i'll be honest about it.
it is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics.
doubt is useful for a while.
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Patio 34 - Of course, I don't mind at all. Boy oh boy! I'm flabbergasted! This is the first time anyone has expressed any appreciation for one of my posts. I can't believe it!!! This can't be true! I have to pinch myself to make sure that I'm not dreaming all of this!! Be still, my heart!!!
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I thought I'd share a bit of the book I'm reading...
by Surreptitious in"i'll be honest about it.
it is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics.
doubt is useful for a while.
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Sirius Dogma - To tell you the truth, I myself don't know anything about Wilson Mizener, although I greatly appreciated his quote. I had never heard of Mizener until I read this quote in an article by Arthur Schlesinger entitled "The Opening of the American Mind" {which, of course, is an ironic allusion to Allan Bloom's book "The Closing of the American Mind"). This article of Schlesinger's is printed in a book entitled "The Fontana Postmodernism Reader," in a section dealing with religion in our postmodern age. If your interested in reading or ordering this book, the I.S.B.N. number is 0-00-686370-1 If your interested in this topic, then you might also want to read Armand Nicholi's "The Question of God," in which the author juxtaposes Freud's atheism with C.S. Lewis' Christian views. Although Freud and C.S. Lewis never actually met, what the author, Nicholi, does is to arrange a sort of imaginary "dialogue" between the two. This technique of contrasting two diametrically opposed viewpoints is an ancient one which goes back to the ancient Greek sophists.
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I thought I'd share a bit of the book I'm reading...
by Surreptitious in"i'll be honest about it.
it is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics.
doubt is useful for a while.
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To quote Wilson Mizener: "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." Since the time of the ancient Greeks, doubt has always served as a counterbalance to - a check upon - dogmatism and fanaticism. Just think, if only more Nazis had only doubted a little bit what they believed, then maybe some Jews would have been spared. This notion led Bronowski to proclaim at Auschwitz: "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, know that you may be mistaken." When doubt is supressed or banished, that is when atrocities, such as the Holocaust and the pogroms, occur. Doubt is absolutely nescessary for tolerance and peaceful civilization to flourish, or even to exist. There absolutely must be doubt in both the political and religious spheres in order for a society or a civilization to enjoy calm. That is why religious fundamentalism is so dangerous in American society, or any other society. This is becasue both the religious realm and the political realm are areas of society where relative values should reign. By relative values, I mean a realization that various people have differing viewpoints. In my opinion, it is obvious in American society how religious fundamentalism has become a source of confusion in politics, precisely because religious fundamentalism and fanaticism both introduce their warped and intolerant absolutes into the realm of relative values. Religious fundamentalists everywhere are the enemies of democracy and civilization. A rational civilization can only be based on doubt - a hesitation in one's convictions that allows for tolerance and prevents a person from imposing his/her beliefs on others by means of violence.
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bethel tour today. what a joke
by johnny cip ini drive past patterson about once a month.
and read here about tours there.
so i stopped.
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Frenchbabyface says: "Hum. It smells good." Hey, aren't you quoting what Bill Clinton said about that cigar? A propos, ou habitez-vous en France? Vous etes de quel coin en France? Moi, j'ai passe une annee dans la Dauphine, a Grenoble. Apres, j'etais a Rouen. Il faudrait bien que vous excusiez mon francais affreux. Pour ce qui de l'expression en francais, j'en ai bel et bien perdu le tour de main. Je vous demande pardon!