Posts by SAHS

This is because the religion of the Watchtower is missing something fundamental. Something that, according to Jesus, is most important. I?ll give you a hint what that is:

?SAHS

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It's my opinion...

by teejay in

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friends

i know what i think about the watchtower society.

i know what i think about the current state of the republican party and its standard bearer george w. bush.

i know what i think about the ford motor company.

SAHS

?teejay?:

I think that your post was very enlightening, and that?s my opinion. . . . Or is it?

?SAHS

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wowwwwww, that would be soooo encouraging to have 5 days specialy having hurricanes, your soo gonna love the convention,and the drama is amazing.. i brought a taperecorder and taped most of the talks.. its like your in paradise the whole time, im sooooo sure your gonna have a great time!!

!.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mizsweetheart01/11096.html

SAHS

. . . instead of burdening the brothers with 5 days of convention wouldnt it be better to assist those harmed in the hurricane?

Well, brothers, it?s not good for us to get involved in such worldly distractions being soooo close to the end, is it not? Isn?t it? Is not it? Yes. Is it not?

?SAHS (of the oh-so-talented Writing Department class)

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Whats the Biggest JW contradiction?

by sleepy in

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friends

what do you think the biggest contradiction was in jw teaching or logic?

i remember people confronted us with the argument that maybe over thousands of years the bible has changed, we would probably say any changes were minor, and we have the dead sea scrolls etc that don't vary much from the bible today.

yet when asked by people with a little knowledge about the bible why the name jehovah was not in any manuscripts of the new testament, we would effectivly says its because they have been changed over time.

SAHS

?God?s earthly organization.? Does he reeeeally need one?

?SAHS

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? for victims of severe emotional trauma ...dream threapy

by LyinEyes in

this question is directed to those who still endure painful nightmares, nightterrors or disturbing dreams years after emotional abuse, physical abuse, child abuse,,,,both physical and sexual.

i am interested in any ideas some of you may have from your own experiences with dealing with dreams , maybe advice from dr's, any other health professionals, books, or just your own ways of working these things out.. i have always since i was a very young child had very vivid , realistic dreams.

i have always enjoyed my dreams when they are good , because they have helped me to look deep within myself .

SAHS

?LyinEyes?:

I too have had the reoccurring tornado dream since around early puberty! I used to have this dream about looking at the horizon and seeing a dark storm coming with multiple funnel spouts. I used to have a real fear of being caught in a tornado. In my dream, the funnel spouts are steadily advancing toward me, and I?m trying to run away from them.

It doesn?t take a genius for any of us to figure out the real meaning of the tornado storm in the dream (i.e., the ?big A?). It was particularly grievous to me, as my elder father used to scare me about sinning against the holy spirit, which, during a somewhat troublesome puberty and having ?unnatural? desires and fantasies, I thought I had done. (Thus my user name.)

After recently receiving an interesting ?education? at Web sites such as this one, the tornado dream doesn?t seem to be happening anymore.

Of course, who knows what kind of dreams I may still be having and not be aware of them. I do occasionally experience brief but somewhat intense ?night terrors? where I wake up suddenly and experience a feeling of fright and horror, but don?t recall any kind of dream whatsoever. Apparently this phenomenon occurs more in the deeper non-REM stage of sleep. I have actually on different occasions woken up feeling so terrified that I have grabbed my stomach or side so hard that I?ve actually broken the skin and had some bleeding and bruising. This is a defense mechanism I have to make sure I don?t scream or call out, because I have done this a few times when I was quite young while feeling very terrified while awake at night.

It?s amazing what kind of special traumas people go through dealing with abuse, especially from an abusive cult like the JWs. Thank God for support boards like this one where we can at least find some kind of healing.

?SAHS

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Whats the Biggest JW contradiction?

by sleepy in

jw
friends

what do you think the biggest contradiction was in jw teaching or logic?

i remember people confronted us with the argument that maybe over thousands of years the bible has changed, we would probably say any changes were minor, and we have the dead sea scrolls etc that don't vary much from the bible today.

yet when asked by people with a little knowledge about the bible why the name jehovah was not in any manuscripts of the new testament, we would effectivly says its because they have been changed over time.

SAHS

If you clink your glasses at a JW wedding reception, they would probably throw you out because it?s apparently connected with ?false religion? (not true!), BUT the cover of the Watch Tower magazine itself actually had a cross on it! That?s like straining the bacteria on a gnat but gulping down a friggin? dinosaur! (Ya just gotta love Matthew chapter 23. You know . . . Pharisees!)

?SAHS

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thought experiment

by ballistic in

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i just read this at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/minddict/siliconchip.html what do you think?

this is one thing i have changed my mind on since being a jw.

silicon chip replacement thought experiment - a thought experiment proposed to support the notion of causal functionalism in pylyshyn (1980).

SAHS

?ballistic?:

. . . I think you will find that adults brain cells do not replace themselves and merely die off.

I?m afraid you?re right. I think I remember now from the Creation book?brain cells are the only kind of cells that we retain from birth. Also, I think the brain is pretty much the same size from infancy to adulthood.

?sleepy?:

. . . maybe I am a robot.

Actually, in physical terms, on the most basic level, a person is a robot. If you were the ?First Cause,? and you made such a system as ?ballistic? described?with audio-visual inputs, processing ability, consciousness, and a drive to continue living?using raw materials of carbon, silicon, etc., then that?s exactly what you would end up with?one hum-dinger of a science project!

?SAHS

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thought experiment

by ballistic in

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friends

i just read this at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/minddict/siliconchip.html what do you think?

this is one thing i have changed my mind on since being a jw.

silicon chip replacement thought experiment - a thought experiment proposed to support the notion of causal functionalism in pylyshyn (1980).

SAHS

The functioning of the human brain?including all the cognitive aspects such as logic, memory, sensation, and emotion?however complex and profound, involves at its most basic level a system of Boolean constructs using binary states, namely ?1? and ?0,? ?on? and ?off.? Such relatively ?simple? binary functioning is the basic neurological ?common denominator? (analogous to the theoretical ?super strings? of the grand unified theory applied as the ultimate ?common denominator? of all matter and energy).

In other words, whether you are experiencing physical pain, an emotional euphoria, or are merely filling out some government form at a vehicle licensing office, or whatever you are doing or experiencing, however complex or abstract, it is really nothing more than the functioning of binary ?1?s and ?0?s. Granted, the algorhythms and processes of the human brain are a wee bit more complex than that which are employed in this Microsoft Word software I am using at this moment, but both are, nonetheless, still manifestation of those binary ?1?s and ?0?s (just much more of them in your noggin). So the very existence of our consciousness is actually the product of an elaborate arrangement of such binary data, which in our brains is in the form of the ?on?/?off? states of our neurons, and in computers exists as . . . well, you get the idea. (Thus lending to the idea that ?the sum is greater than the whole of its parts.?)

The physical feature of your brain that has remained constant and in virtue of which you instantiate the same mental properties, is not the stuff of which it is made, but instead the causal relations that each part of the brain bears to the other.

Actually, the above process is happening to you right now, but instead of your neurons being systematically replaced by some synthetic silicon counterparts, the cells in your entire body are going through a continual process of replacement as needed so that every seven or so years, your physical body has actually been ?replaced? on a molecular-biological level. I?m not sure if this replacement process also applies to the brain neurons, but I would imagine that at least some molecular components in those neurons end up being replaced or rejuvenated in some way, as they are, in fact, cells.

Now, think of this: If I were to burn a copy of this Microsoft Word onto a CD (I?m not sure if Windows would allow such unauthorized copying, but let?s just say for the sake of argument that it can be done), destroy my computer, load it into another computer somewhere else, and run it, then it would, would it not, actually ?be? that program (Microsoft Word) existing somewhere else. Moreover, if I were to (hypothetically!) somehow copy all the ?data? existing in your brain neurons onto some physical intermediary device (a real bitchin? hard drive), kill you, cremate your body, reload that data into another human brain?or even some kind of advanced computer system?then would you ?exist? again somewhere else? Would I have resurrected you? And then, at least relative to your situation, would I then become ?God??

(I apologize if anyone has read this post before having their morning coffee. You need those neurons to be firing efficiently for these thought experiments!)

?SAHS