Posts by slimboyfat

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Is it Okay for a JW to be a Storm Chaser?

by Iamallcool in

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i am thinking about chasing storms for fun.

i know it is very dangerous.

i just think it will be very cool to have a new exciting hobby.

The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism

by cofty in

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.

Don't know I can't say I've ever read Irigaray or Spivak, Kristeva and so on. Or Lacan for that matter. They're a different sort of thing from Foucault and Derrida as far as I can see. I agree the world is constructed not found, and I guess this has implications for feminism and so on. How we describe physical forms and events is shaped by power for definite. Some theorists may have made fools of themselves talking using scientific discourses they didn't properly understand. But it works both ways. Dawkins makes a fool of himself talking about poststructuralism for sure.

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A philosophical question

by Coded Logic in

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.

slimboyfat

Sounds a bit like my doctor who told me I have Tom Jones disease. I asked if that was a rare condition, he said it's not unusual.

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Update on My Journey: 8 Years After the End of Watchtower Control

by passwordprotected in

i last updated you guys almost 2 years ago here.. i thought i'd post an update.. the peace i discovered having decided to let the angst, worry and fear over what to believe is as strong as ever, although i am keeping more abreast of what jw.org (formerly known as wtbts) is up to, and i never cease to be shocked and surprised.. as my last post mentioned, i split from the jw girl i married in 1993 and both of us have moved on with new partners that better fit who we are as grown adults, rather than the children we were 23 years ago.. my partner has no religious background whatsoever, although her children are being raised as catholics by their father.

hearing her kids openly doubt, question and even ridicule the religion is heartwarming and exactly the way it should be.. as for my children, they continue to be a never-ending stream of joy and pride.. my oldest son is now 16, having been only 8 years old when we left the watchtower.

he had big anxiety problems for a while afterwards, worrying about armageddon etc.

slimboyfat

Good to hear things are going well. All the best for your health.

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What Happens at Judicial Committee Meeting on Apostasy

by passwordprotected in

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.

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

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!.

slimboyfat

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

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.

slimboyfat

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

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.

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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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..

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

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.

slimboyfat

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.