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  A quote from Wikipedia to send shivers down your spine.

  Journalist Ron Rosenbaum has pointed out that the operational plan for nuclear strike orders is entirely concerned with the identity of the commanding officer and the authenticity of the order, and there are no safeguards to verify that the person issuing the order is actually sane.[10] Notably, Major Harold Hering was discharged from the Air Force for asking the question "How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?"[11]
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  Trump has the football and the biscuit. Layers of security above? We wish.
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  Why the resurrection must be true

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  okay i was thinking about it.

  and it is a transhumanist argument and nothing new, i do realise that before anyone points it out.

  but it struck me afresh today that the resurrection must happen.. firstly, to state the obvious, a rational materialist conception of reality seems to exclude resurrection.

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  Things like laminar flow make me reach for Google.
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  She's from Kilmarnock. The competition she won was in New Zealand.

  Apparently I missed the end, which is the best bit. A reference to Scottish politics.

  So USA, in ma conclusion,
  Know we Scots feel your confusion:
  We are also chained ti those
  Not of oor choosin’.
  Stand firm fur unity will break
  Through Trump’s delusion.

  I am loath to link such a unionist rag but here it is for the rest of the poem and recited.

  http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/burns-inspired-comic-lament-walloper-9637480
  
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  Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. If any of them (if any of us) are around in four years time, let's hope.

  Melania Trump speaks six languages. But I'd like to see her in conversation with Zizek in their native language. They both went to Ljubljana University too.
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  Why the resurrection must be true

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  okay i was thinking about it.

  and it is a transhumanist argument and nothing new, i do realise that before anyone points it out.

  but it struck me afresh today that the resurrection must happen.. firstly, to state the obvious, a rational materialist conception of reality seems to exclude resurrection.

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  Thank you bohm for wiriting that. I've read it a few times. So you are arguing against the proposition that intelligent beings will ever be able to gather information about the exact composition and dynamic of the universe. And you argue against the proposition using chaos theory rather than quantum theory as in the video posted above. It seems you are basically arguing against a deterministic universe.

  Or maybe not, maybe you are saying that the universe in itself may be deterministic, but not in a way that we will ever be able to decipher, because our measurements wil never be precise enough. I think this is an important distinction because, if the universe in itself is not deterministic, that would seem to imply there is something more than purely a material aspect to reality. What is that extra causal element in reality and how does it square with a materialist understanding of the universe?

  On the other hand, if you are saying the universe is deterministic in itself but we can never measure it well enough for it to divulge its secrets, I am still left wondering how do you know? No matter how complex the system, no matter how small the measurement required, if the universe obeys reliable laws, then in principle its trajectory should be discoverable. It is simply a matter of time and progress.

  Plus my very rudimentary understanding of chaos versus classical mechanics suggests there is a problem with your suggestion that uncertainty at a micro-level due to chaos theory is multiplied as you go up. As I understand it, classical mechanics largely "works" precisely because this chaotic feature of reality is not multiplied up the scale, but tends to be cancelled out at the macro-level. The macro level at which human beings exist and function.

  I still think a purely materialist conception of reality, given a progressive accumulation of information, inevitably proves future resurrection.
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  HOUSE, M.D., Jehovah's Witnesses, and '75

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  season 7, episode 18: "the dig".

  house picks up "thirteen" -- dr. remy hadley -- upon her release from prison.

  she asks him to take her to a certain location in order to take care of a personal matter.

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  Cool, and once again interesting that "worldly" people have a more accurate and realistic picture of JW history than JWs themselves.
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  if there is such a thing as a redeeming consequence for this experiment, is that in 4 years, the pendulum will swing ( i think) completely the other way.

  That was the theory when Hitler took power. And I guess the pendulum did swing back to liberal democracy in Germany - 12 years later and tens of millions dead.
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  Part of a wee Scottish poem especially for today by Lorna Wallace:

  America, aw whit ye dain?!

  How could ye choose a clueless wain

  Ti lead yir country? Who wid trust

  A man sae vile?!

  A racist, sexist eedjit

  Wi a shite hairstyle?

  Yet lo, ye votit (michty me!)

  Ti hawn’ this walloper the key

  Ti pow’r supreme, ti stert his hateful,

  Cruel regime.

  A cling ti hope that this is aw

  Jist wan bad dream.

  But naw, the nightmare has come true,

  A curse upon rid, white an’ blue,

  An’ those who cast oot Bernie

  Must feel sitch regret

  Fur thinkin’ Mrs. Clinton

  Was a safer bet.

  So noo we wait ti see unfold

  Division an’ intolerance, cold;

  A pois’nous bigotry untold

  Since Hitler’s rule

  As the free world’s hopes an’ dreams

  Lie with this fool.

  Alas, complainin’ wullnae change

  The fact this diddy has free range

  Ti ride roughshod ow’r human beings

  That fall outside

  The cretinous ideals borne of

  His ugly pride.
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  Why the resurrection must be true

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
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  okay i was thinking about it.

  and it is a transhumanist argument and nothing new, i do realise that before anyone points it out.

  but it struck me afresh today that the resurrection must happen.. firstly, to state the obvious, a rational materialist conception of reality seems to exclude resurrection.

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  Vidiot I elsewhere argued that JWs will create Jehovah at some future time and effect their own salvation. This is the sacred secret, it's salvation but not as we know it.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/255532/true-meaning-jehovah-overlapping-generation-revealed