SBF -- I think your approach to uncertainty/certainty expressed in your initial post is quite different from the views you expressed before your exile. Do you feel you have revised your beliefs yourself?
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175How confident are you about various so called facts?
by slimboyfat inno facts about the world are absolutely certain.
that being the case i wonder how others would rank amd rate their confidence in various factual statements about the world.
i am going to rate my confidence in ten items of "knowledge" as a percentage.
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Warwick to finish EARLY
by wifibandit inok, story time.. anon asks me via pm:.
just heard from a wallkill bethelite that warwick will finish early.
can you confirm?.
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So either Jehovahs blessing (just kidding), or because they can move forward quicker on selling buildings and they need the cash FAST.
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How confident are you about various so called facts?
by slimboyfat inno facts about the world are absolutely certain.
that being the case i wonder how others would rank amd rate their confidence in various factual statements about the world.
i am going to rate my confidence in ten items of "knowledge" as a percentage.
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SBF -- perhaps you should introduce "Santas" as an evidential scale -- the degree to which an ordinary adult believe santa is real.
So the earth is flat: 0.5 SANTAS
JWs has the truth: 0.1 SANTAS
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Farewell
by EdenOne in"don't be dismayed by good-byes.
a farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
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I am sorry to see you leave. From wikipedia: on internet trolling:
In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response
hmmm.
Viviane: However, it also allows us to see how forum members respond to personal attacks and give us a bit of insight into their perception vs. reality.
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Couldn't take it anymore.
by Darkknight757 inso i decided yesterday to give my wife's full disclosure.
not sure it was the best decision considering she holds very firmly to the resurrection hope so we can see our babies again.. anyways she is agreeable to begin a study to find a better truth.
where is a good place to go to get some good reliable biblical info on the web that we can consider together?.
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bohm
I started a topic a few days ago on talking with people on their deeply held beliefs using the socratic method. This is the approach which I plan to follow:
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Free Energy Being Announced Next Week!
by The Searcher inaccording to this scientist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4yn-xqzn6w.
oil, banking, armaments, stock-markets, and society as we know it, all evaporating into thin air thanks to this.. nope - but it will revive tesla stories.
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_Morpheus: Whopp. Guess I was just making a retroactive prediction. Hey, if it works for the WT... :-). -
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I Hate the Sound of the Word Jehovah
by cofty inlistening to clips of the latest manipulative video from the watchtower i realised how much i detest that word - jehovah.. sometimes i have thought it would be interesting to observe a meeting or part of a convention.
every time i heard that word i would be unable to stay in my seat.. i have a visceral reaction every time i hear it.
it stands for so much that i have contempt for.
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Since I was not raised in, whenever I hear the word Jehovah I think about the first time I heard it which was:
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Free Energy Being Announced Next Week!
by The Searcher inaccording to this scientist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4yn-xqzn6w.
oil, banking, armaments, stock-markets, and society as we know it, all evaporating into thin air thanks to this.. nope - but it will revive tesla stories.
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bohm
It is tin-foil land to suggest someone would assassinate him for creating a free energy device IMO. Think of a situation where this has happened (the example has to be about non-military research).
These things are announced every few years, remember the E-CAT and Rossi which was pushed a few years back? This will happen:
- Nothing will happen to him the next 10 days
- He will present *something*. Most likely a video of a black box with a meter attached to it
- He will ask for funds to "scale the technology" and announce with funding it is about 6-12 months away
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Forgiving Loans the Watchtower Way
by cofty inbank - thank you for maintaining your loan repayments for the past 3 years.
to show our appreciation we are forgiving the balance of your loan.
borrower - yeah!.
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"Will you consider volunteering to build our new company headquarter?" -
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Interesting videos on using the socratic method to talk with people on their deeply held beliefs
by bohm init is rare you find something on youtube on religion which feels fresh, but this did it for me.
most here properly agree that the best (only) way to have a constructive conversation with jw who is in is using methods such as those described by steven hassan.
however if you search youtube or the internet, most discussions on faith takes the form of debates or at any rate discussion about factual things -- exactly the things steven hassan would tell you is the least likely to work.. i came across a series of youtube videos with a guy who is basically walking around with a camera and interviewing people on their beliefs.
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disposable hero of hypocrisy: I totally get you, in conversation I find it is nearly impossible not to latch on to something which is factually wrong & it does require a lot of thinking on your feet. I think this guys advice would be to practice a lot, my plan is to do a bit of questioning for the next witness i run into (yah for the carts!) and perhaps report back here :-D.