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why even numbers are better

by John Doe in

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every number added to itself yields an even number.. there is never an "odd one out" with even numbers.

even numbers are divisible by two.

there is only one prime even number.. even numbers won't murder you in your sleep.

Ciphers and codes are cool and fun (as is doing arithmetic on paper; I did that too, and sometimes still do LOL). Here is a link that details a number of well-known ciphers that remain unsolved after many years (in some cases, centuries), as well as some that were finally cracked:

http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html

Some of them are very interesting.

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2008 Keep Yourselves In God's Love--PDF!

by Atlantis in

2008 keep yourselves in god's love--pdf!

bookmarked searchable reduced to 2.4-mb from (anonymous-5) please note the "appendix" of this book!

click the link at the bottom of the next page.

nameless_one

Thank you for this, Atlantis. I'm not looking forward to reading it, but gotta stay two steps ahead of the new/old/new light LOL. Your efforts are much appreciated :-)

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Elders Appreciation Day?

by Tired of the Hypocrisy in

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hi everyone, here i come, "from roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.".

i have been trying to keep from expressing my volatile opinions and doing pretty well until i came across this rediculous video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkzrvkey5yi.

nameless_one

That was painful to watch, on many levels. Yikes.

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why even numbers are better

by John Doe in

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friends

every number added to itself yields an even number.. there is never an "odd one out" with even numbers.

even numbers are divisible by two.

there is only one prime even number.. even numbers won't murder you in your sleep.

nameless_one

I suspect I'm not getting the full meaning of this thread, but I am going to dive in anyway because I like numbers :-)

Individual numbers aren't that interesting to me (with the exceptions of special ones perhaps, such as exceptionally large prime numbers, or pi, or 2 simply because it is the "oddest prime" LOL). Patterns and relationships amongst numbers, on the other hand, are an entirely different story. Witness the beauty of the Fibonacci series as an endlessly elegant example:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, ...

(Did I kill the thread? Sorry LOL)

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JW and hate

by is there help out there in

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there is a young jw at work and she states that she does not have anyone.

does the wt teach that all worldly people are evil and therefore jw must hate then.

if she does not hate them does this not make her a apostate.

nameless_one

I am really sad to say that even though I have never been a JW myself, I understood everything Quotes just wrote ("understood" it, but yeah it doesn't make sense to me either).

It has been explained to me and shown to me in this very twisted way: hate is actually a form of love. It might look like hate and sound like hate and act like hate and even be called hate, but to those who "know the truth" it's obviously love. When Jesus himself is described as an "executioner" full of hate (oops I mean love), well, really, that pretty much says it all.

To address the original question, I think your friend is likely very sincere when she says she doesn't hate anyone. Most JWs would say the same, and believe it. I guess it depends on whose definition of "hate" you're using.

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Adam and Eve, True or False

by RavenManiac in

do you believe the story of adam and eve?

why or why not?

nameless_one

truthis, what the heck are you talking about?? That question applies to almost all of your posts so far. You make no sense to me, but welcome all the same.

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"fade" Is this term or other "apostate" vocab being used in talks by JW's?

by Thechickennest in

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i am picking up a whole new set of terms, abreviations, etc.

from this forum.

with the number of increasing active jw's veiwing and using this forum i was wondering if this new language is making its way back into talks, meeting parts, preaching work or other areas in the social lives of current jw's?.

nameless_one

My JW has never used the term "fade" himself, but he knows exactly what I mean when I use it, no explanation required.

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WT undergoing "Invisible Growth"

by Gerard in

i heard that the latest watchtower mag made reference to the borganization undergoing "invisible growth".

anybody can fill me in with the details and context?

thanks..

nameless_one

Invisible growth? LOL, well why not, it fits right in with the invisible Jesus.

How do they define this invisible growth? Does anyone have scan or text?

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