Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder, an oddly good version of “Take On Me” by “Donald Trump”. If this isn’t a sign of the end then I don’t know what is. 😂
slimboyfat
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Top AI inventor Geoffrey Hinton reluctantly concluded that AI will probably humanity fairly soon
by slimboyfat ingeoffrey hinton, major inventor of artificial intelligence: .
“if you take the existential risk seriously, as i now do—i used to think it was way off, but now i think it’s serious, and fairly close—it might be quite sensible to just stop developing these things any further, but i think it’s completely naïve to think that would happen.
there’s no way to make that happen.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
I thought she couldn’t stand LE either?
His patrons are drifting downwards again, now on 486 - so much for the mini beg. Diminishing returns to his begging are definitely setting in.
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Do we blame the Governing Body too much?
by no-zombie ini'd like to start this post with a part from the movie 'v for vendetta'.
here in a dystopian state, the main character named v, explains why things have gone so bad ....
those who do not want us to speak.
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slimboyfat
I wonder whose idea it was on the Governing Body to change the “faithful slave” doctrine to include only GB members rather than the anointed as a whole. It’s a pretty bold step considering they all served in the organisation and rose through the ranks on the basis that all anointed make up the “faithful slave”. In effect they’re saying that the faithful slave of previous decades didn’t even know their own identity accurately and laboured under a misapprehension that they shared the status with thousands of anointed throughout the world.
Since they claim sole ownership of the title “faithful slave” now, it seems only right that they bear sole responsibility when they make mistakes.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
I watched the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders years ago and I liked it. I haven’t watched the rest just because I didn’t find the time. It was very violent but a lot of good fiction and drama is violent, and the Bible has violent episodes too. It doesn’t mean we need to act it out. My favourite series of all time is Breaking Bad which had drugs and violence, but it’s the psychological development that makes it a classic. I have tried to read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy a number of times and not made it all the way through. What I’m trying to say is that I think dramas such Peaky Blinders are enjoyed by many ordinary people who have no compulsion to act out violence or sadism in their own life and is not in itself evidence of psychopathy. Remember LE has been described as psychopathic by qualified psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das, a claim that oddly attracted no legal response from LE, whereas others who simply quilted his own words back at him were targeted.
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JW Writing Committee has a dilemma with Stephen's prayer
by BoogerMan in(acts 7:59, 60) "and they went on casting stones at stephen as he made appeal* and said: “lord jesus, receive my spirit.” then, bending his knees, he cried out with a strong voice: “jehovah, do not charge this sin against them.” and after saying this he fell asleep [in death].
" *or, “invocation; prayer.” nwt reference bible).
w59 2/1 p. 96 - jesus had taught his followers that the father authorized him to raise others to life.
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slimboyfat
Well if we are being stoned to death, see a vision of Jesus next to God, and feel moved to speak directly to Jesus then I don’t suppose there would be anything wrong with that at all. On the other hand, in terms of prayers at meetings, and private prayers, it seems reasonable to follow Jesus’ instruction to pray to God in Jesus’ name as was the practice of the first Christians.
The practice of praying direct to Christ in the Liturgy, as distinct from praying to God through Christ, appears to have originated among the innovating 'orthodox' opponents of Arianism in the fourth century. It slowly spread, against a good deal of opposition, eventually to produce Christocentric piety and theology.
Don Cupitt ‘The Christ of Christendom’ in The Myth of God Incarnate (1977), John Hick Ed., page 142.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
Maybe a refund is in order rather than merely “much thought and deliberation”. If patrons were automatically refunded for pledges not kept, then he’d no doubt deliberate a bit harder before weaselling out.
He can’t stand his patrons that’s, why he can hardly bring himself to interact with them. He knows by this point that his remaining patrons must either be morons, morally debased as himself, or somehow remain in the dark about his behaviours and haven’t yet encountered his true self.
Yes his patrons numbers are drifting down yet again after the latest mini beg.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
I don't think he has the patience or energy to delete literally hundreds of tweets (possibly thousands). And I know it would just kill him to delete his account. His only option is to pray to Jehovah
He would get Tibor to do it before he’d do it himself. His job is basically to do whatever LE can’t be bothered, which turns out to be an expanding list.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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slimboyfat
LE doesn’t block people because he doesn’t want to see what they are saying, he blocks them because he doesn’t want other people to see what is being truthfully said about him. The proposed personal mute button simply wouldn’t cut it for that purpose.
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Why are aqwsed12345 post`s so long ?
by smiddy3 inthere is no way i will even try to read such long posts and i`m sure many others here would agree with me.. smiddy3.
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slimboyfat
Maybe he’s entering his own text into ChatGPT with the prompt: can you say this exact same thing but with 10 x as many words? 🤔
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JW Writing Committee has a dilemma with Stephen's prayer
by BoogerMan in(acts 7:59, 60) "and they went on casting stones at stephen as he made appeal* and said: “lord jesus, receive my spirit.” then, bending his knees, he cried out with a strong voice: “jehovah, do not charge this sin against them.” and after saying this he fell asleep [in death].
" *or, “invocation; prayer.” nwt reference bible).
w59 2/1 p. 96 - jesus had taught his followers that the father authorized him to raise others to life.
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slimboyfat
Fair enough if all you mean to show is that Watchtower has made contradictory statements on the topic. Watchtower has in the past also said that Jesus is to be “worshipped”, as in the early NWT rendering of Heb 1.6, for example.
The New Testament itself has different perspectives and emphases as it was written by many different authors. However it’s pretty clear that the early Christians distinguishes between God and Jesus and worshipped God through Jesus, everything ultimately being to the glory of God the Father.