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  What Happens at Judicial Committee Meeting on Apostasy

  by passwordprotected in

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  this was a famous case here in the uk, based around the experiences of matt barrie (aka hobo ken).

  we've uploaded the audio recording of his judicial committee meeting with the glasgow bishopbriggs congregation elders and you can listen/download the (long) unedited file here:.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1pajlf7duc5zgh/matt%20judicial%20raw.mp3.

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  slimboyfat

  Thanks, great this is still available.
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  From yesterday WT, don't have kids and if you do then don't see them often nor the grandkids either

  by purrpurr in

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  unbelievable paragraph in yesterday's watchtower was "encouraging" the sheep to not have kids.

  most of their growth comes from the born ins and they are still on about not having kids?.

  then it went on to "encourage" those that do have kids or grandkids not to spend to much time with them and instead to spend their time serving kingdom interests!.

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  It's statements like this that make me suspect they really believe their own nonsense. If they were cynical about the end times and more interested in growth, there's no way they would discourage having children, is there?
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  The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

  by cofty in

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  sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

  charlatanism of the highest order.

  .... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

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  It's easier to make fun of Irigaray than it is to engage the ideas of Derrida and Foucault of course.

  This thread is such a disappointment, it does not deliver.
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  A philosophical question

  by Coded Logic in

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  2. entertainment

  on the internet i keep bumping into people who are extremely insistent that our universe could be a simulation.

  while i think it may, in the future, be possible to simulate a high fidelity universe - i don’t think we should confuse the ability to model a universe with the ability to actually build a universe.. .

  for example, we can model weather patterns inside a computer.

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  slimboyfat

  I assume you've read about Bostrom's trilemma, which a lot of recent discussion about simulation has been based upon.

  http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

  I can't think of a good answer to his trilemma, except that the pessimist in me suspects that option 1 may be a good explanation.

  People have also used this trilemma to invoke solutions involving a deity of course.
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  JWs exist because...

  by oldskool in

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  2. friends

  one sentence answers only.. here's mine:.

  jws exist because people want an escape from the modern world and are willing to give up intellectual freedom to get it..

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  slimboyfat

  JWs exist because WW1 happened to begin in 1914.
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  The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

  charlatanism of the highest order.

  .... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

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  Fisherman I think Kenneth Gergen explains it excellently in the video above. The bottle in itself is not anything. It is only something in relation to how it's constructed for various purposes. Strip things of all contexts and webs of meaning and nothing can be said about them. True for a bottle, the earth or anything. It's not so much that the phrase "the earth is a sphere" may be wrong, but that it only makes sense within a context, And other statements about the same object may make sense under different constructions.
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  The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

  charlatanism of the highest order.

  .... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

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  Kenneth Gergen explaining why constructionism is world changing, and why a bottle is not aimply a bottle. Likely to excite or make you want to pull your hair out depending.

  https://youtu.be/-AsKFFX9Ib0
  
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  The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

  charlatanism of the highest order.

  .... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

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  Never a JW I can say what books influenced me and gave me an initially favourable view of poststructuralism and its impact.

  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Postmodernism-Historians-INF-Callum-Brown/dp/0582506042/

  Earlier edition of this book:

  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invitation-Social-Construction-Kenneth-Gergen/dp/1446296482/

  The latter book in particular argues for a strong constructionist conception of truth to which scientific discourse is not immune.

  Then there is The Order of Things by Foucault and Archaeology of Knowledge, Mythologies by Roland Barthes and Contingency, Irony and Solidarity by Richard Rorty, How to Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher.
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  The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

  charlatanism of the highest order.

  .... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

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  What do the 20th century philosophical schools have done to improve our world or our understanding of it? Will they matter in the future?

  Poststructuralism challenged essentialism in all its forms is the main one.

  Pragmatism challenged the idea that the pursuit of truth and platonic forms should be the goal.
  
  
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  The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

  charlatanism of the highest order.

  .... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.

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  slimboyfat

  We could do a Skype conference

  What happened to the dastardly dog?