Joey Jo-Jo
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Atheism or Agnosticism, which one is correct?
by Joey Jo-Jo inthis has been bugging me for a while, and while i dont want to turn this into something about semantics i think that we should quickly define what an agnostic and atheists are.. richard dawkins defines 7 different types of atheist ranging from weak to militant atheists, but along these definitions there appears one definition with a strong resemblance to agnosticism.. to me an agnostic is a person who neither believes nor disbelieves in deity/deities, but there are those who define agnostics as a ignorant who simply just don't care or don't have the intelligence to come to sound conclusion.. an atheist can be a person who disbelieves in a deity/deities based on the current mathematical and scientific understandings of the universe, as well as understandings that can refute certain religions such as the strong influence of protestantism christianity in america.. .
from here i will refer deity as anything ranging jehovah to a real spaghetti monster, it's not important because a) we dont know b)for the purpose of this discussion it is not important to define what we believe god to be.. an argument that can be used about a deity is -we cannot prove nor disprove that god exists- this is referred to as a null hypothesis, an assumption that we cannot create a hypothesis to prove or disprove this deity.
this to me is agnosticism and is more correct than the idea of atheism.
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How to explain cognitive dissonance without offending cults and religion.
by Joey Jo-Jo in(this might offend smokers lol).
scenario 1. let's say you are aware that smoking is bad for you and addictive (element 1) so you dont smoke (element 2) - this is congnitive consonance (rational harmony).
scenario 2. let's say you are aware that smoking is bad for you and addictive (element 1) but you smoke anyway (element 2) = the mind's natural reaction to this irrational decision is to create anxiety with the person smoking, but the person wanting to continue to smoke will substitute this anxiety with a positive mental idea "well him old so i will probably never get cancer" or "i will quit when i reach my 30's" this irrational excuse (element 3) will substitute element 1 - this is cognitive dissonance..
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who has taken blood particles
by Joey Jo-Jo inwith the conscience decision to take particles, i have know recent cases of blood not being taken, i wouldn't really know if that wastheir decision or that simply the hospital only has whole blood.
i would like to know if blood particles is an option in the real world..
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Blood dvd
by Joey Jo-Jo induring my book study around two years ago the elder brough a dvd from the wb$ts about doctors view about non-blood alternative operations, some of it was unbereable to watch, is this dvd available to any jw?.
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Already reminded of the memorial twice this month
by Joey Jo-Jo inso the elder who previously conducted my book study reminded me this month during a visit (during field service hours, how nice on them always thinking about me so they can put time on their sheets.
he is the type of elder who does not study too deep and takes everything the faithfull and discreet slave says at face value, he told me that the bible alone can be used to calculate 607bce, pointing out to him that neither 607 or 582 can be concluded with the bible would be pointless, he gave me the two volume insight into the scriptures that said little about 607bce.
he might be an ex-catholic but he has all the dogmatic qualities a practicing catholic has.
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Marcion, Irenaeus and Tertullian on Paul
by Joey Jo-Jo ini found this interesting, true or false?.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk9apowydlq.
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Fail end of time prophecies
by Joey Jo-Jo inhi,.
i am making a list of fail end of times prophecies, but some of this information is hard to find.. i know about rutherford and russell, i know about the dates from moon (the last one is 12/2012 lol), i know about the may and last one.
i am just after end dates predicted during the last 20 to 30 years.
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Scanned copies of all 1960 and 1979 watchtowers
by Joey Jo-Jo indoes anyone know were i can find:.
awake!, october 8, 1979, watch tower, page 31. the watchtower, october 1, 1960, page 599. scanned preferred to prove authenticity.
also, is it possible to get a copy of emphatic diaglott at the hall?.
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A little help please - Question regarding the first Canon
by Joey Jo-Jo ini am confused, so was it constantine who created the first canon or was it athanasius throught constantine, or was it just athanasius before constantine?.