Democracy is a fine principle, and I'd support it almost all the time. But preservation of human life on the planet is also a worthy goal. And if it's a straight choice between upholding democracy or preserving the human species, then in this one instance, I'd vote for survival over democracy. The fear that this might set a dangerous precedent is not as great as the fear that this mad person will visit annihilation on the planet. When the mushroom clouds ascend what fool is going to say, "it's what the people wanted, we had to accept it."
slimboyfat
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Can Trump Be Forced To Take A Psychological Exam To Prove His Mental Fitness (Narcissistic Pernsonality Disorder) A Mater Of National Secrui
by Brokeback Watchtower ini'm think with the president having the ability to use nuclear weapons the need for a psychological exam should be a must for world safety because of the very real damage an easily offended narcissist could do if in a narcissistic rage he had access to nuclear weapons.
since he has clearly shown he has all 100% of the signs that he is one,, surely he can be impeached over this even in conservative run house and senate.
i think the united states owes the world that precaution to not let a mad man have access to nuclear weapons.
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Can Trump Be Forced To Take A Psychological Exam To Prove His Mental Fitness (Narcissistic Pernsonality Disorder) A Mater Of National Secrui
by Brokeback Watchtower ini'm think with the president having the ability to use nuclear weapons the need for a psychological exam should be a must for world safety because of the very real damage an easily offended narcissist could do if in a narcissistic rage he had access to nuclear weapons.
since he has clearly shown he has all 100% of the signs that he is one,, surely he can be impeached over this even in conservative run house and senate.
i think the united states owes the world that precaution to not let a mad man have access to nuclear weapons.
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slimboyfat
Trump is clearly a dangerous narcissist. I have no doubt about this whatever. If Trump at any point needs to choose between suffering damage to his ego or blowing up the planet it is not at all clear he could stop himself from blowing up the planet. Ego is so all consuming for narcissists that they will do absolutely anything to avoid loss of face.
But won't people around him stop him? Unfortunatley the system doesn't work like that. I heard a general explain that the exact protocol around nuclear decision making is classified, but the public should be in no doubt the system is designed for speed to carry out presidential orders, it is not designed for deliberation or debate.
Americans should have thought about this and voted accordingly. I don't know what can be done now other than cross our fingers and hope for the best. I am not optimistic about survival of the next few years if Trump is in charge. I guess the best hope is that he is arrested or impeached fairly quickly.
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No updated Watctower's articles on Evolution
by opusdei1972 inas far as i know, the "creation" book is out of print ?, am i right?.
well, i was searching for new watchtower articles trying to debunk, for instance, human evolution.
so, i did my homework, for the first time, so as to read past and updated papers and books on human evolution.
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slimboyfat
JWs can budge on anything if they want to. Russell was comfortable with the idea that animals evolved but humans were a special creation. Modern JWs could revert to that, or they could even accept human evolution too, as the Catholic Church does. I am not saying they will necessarily, but it's possible, I don't see why not.
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No updated Watctower's articles on Evolution
by opusdei1972 inas far as i know, the "creation" book is out of print ?, am i right?.
well, i was searching for new watchtower articles trying to debunk, for instance, human evolution.
so, i did my homework, for the first time, so as to read past and updated papers and books on human evolution.
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slimboyfat
Jwfacts lists some misquotes in the Creation book toward the bottom of this page.
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/misquotes-deception-lies.php
The Dawkins one is my favourite (they quote the words in red):
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976, p.ix:
"This book should be read almost as though it were science fiction. It is designed to appeal to the imagination. But it is not science fiction: it is science. Cliché or not, "stranger than fiction" expresses exactly how I feel about the truth." -
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Tried my hand at creating a couple of memes. What do you think?
by nicolaou in.
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just a bit of fun..
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slimboyfat
Maybe I'll work out how to do it later and come up with something.
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No updated Watctower's articles on Evolution
by opusdei1972 inas far as i know, the "creation" book is out of print ?, am i right?.
well, i was searching for new watchtower articles trying to debunk, for instance, human evolution.
so, i did my homework, for the first time, so as to read past and updated papers and books on human evolution.
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slimboyfat
The Creator book was notable for its almost complete lack of discussion of evolution. It talks a lot about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, the meaning of life, the Bible and so on. Nothing much about natural selection, the fossil record, and all the things the blue Creation book majored on. It's as if they gave up arguing about evolution and retrenched with the cosmological argument, meaning of life and divine revelation.
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Tried my hand at creating a couple of memes. What do you think?
by nicolaou in.
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just a bit of fun..
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slimboyfat
Being technologically completely inept, could you explain how to create these graphics? Can I do it on my iPad?
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Watchtower's Illogical Teachings
by Vanderhoven7 injust writing down some notes to share with jws when i meet them.
here are a few of the problems of logic i see in their doctrines.
perhaps you can add to them.. systemic contradictions – jws boast about fighting for religious freedom – that is their freedom to share their differing views with people outside the organization - yet there is no freedom amongst members to disagree with any official teaching within the organization without the threat of losing friends and family.
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slimboyfat
It's true that the WT has taught that all Christians between 100 AD and the early 20th century were anointed. But it's also the case that they reckon that most of those who professed to be Christians were false Christians in that period. So their numbers work in their own terms.
By the way, since they dropped the 1935 date as the cut off for anointed, I am not sure if they do still definitely teach that all Christians between the first century and the twentieth century were anointed. It's certainly what they used to teach when they had the 1935 date. At the moment what they teach appears a bit ambiguous. Maybe they will "clarify" at some point, especially if the numbers look increasingly incredible.,
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No updated Watctower's articles on Evolution
by opusdei1972 inas far as i know, the "creation" book is out of print ?, am i right?.
well, i was searching for new watchtower articles trying to debunk, for instance, human evolution.
so, i did my homework, for the first time, so as to read past and updated papers and books on human evolution.
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slimboyfat
Has the extent of plagiarism in the blue Creation book been laid out fully anywhere?
Yeah WT publications don't do extended argumentation any more. They just point to intelligent design type arguments and appeals to authority.
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Watchtower's Illogical Teachings
by Vanderhoven7 injust writing down some notes to share with jws when i meet them.
here are a few of the problems of logic i see in their doctrines.
perhaps you can add to them.. systemic contradictions – jws boast about fighting for religious freedom – that is their freedom to share their differing views with people outside the organization - yet there is no freedom amongst members to disagree with any official teaching within the organization without the threat of losing friends and family.
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slimboyfat
According to Rodney Stark there were around 40,000 Christians in the first century in total.
See full discussion including references to Stark here:
https://infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/improbable/luck.html
So technically the JW claim about 144,000 could still be correct given a few assumptions:
1. Stark is correct there were only 40,000 Christians in total in the first century.
2. The vast majority of those who professed to be Christians between apostasy in 100 AD and Bible Stidents in the late 19th century were not spirit anointed.
3. The total number of anointed in the modern period amounts to fewer than 100,000.
If the number of anointed keeps rising it will become more difficult to maintain. But as it stands it's a pretty good fit, given JW assumtptions.