John_Mann

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  Fastest growing Religious group in the USA is "None of the above" it is "No Religion'.

  by jam in

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  have anyone read this report published by jonathan.

  turley in oct. 10, 2012 ?

  don't know his credentials or.

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  I think the believe in a god it's a venial sin.

  I think atheists must focus on attacking organized religion. God is a so loose concept that's impossible to direct deconstruction.

  I know the god belief it's what leads people to organized religion, but organized religion it's a objectively defined concept. God is what everyone wants to be, there's no two people with the same god concept.

  Focus must be organized religion. Organized religion must end.

  I think that's exactly the path social evolution are taking, the nature always goes to easiest way.

  The god concept outside a organized religion it's so silly it's innocuos.

  So let the no religion group (atheists, agnostics, independent theists) grow up!

  Let's all of us unite under the big shiny umbrella called no religion group!
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  How exactly did Paul keep in touch with his network of churches across the empire...

  by mP in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the bible presents him as humble with limit means.

  i always wondered how a man with a travelling companion of two like timothy managed to knnow or hear about all his churches.

  how exactly does the troubles of corinth manage to find paul when hes over in judea or maybe somewhere in what we call turkey ?

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  About the existence thing, the existence of a random normal person in history is relevant. If you live your life without claiming to be a messenger from god to tell about eternal life, secrets of universe, etc, you don't have to prove nothing about your existence to the future generations.

  But what about a supposed superman on earth?

  What about if you can ressurect a person but can't write something in a kind of magical time resistant paper or vellum?

  If we have a vellum of graphene with a LCD screen from 2000 years ago I would bet some coins in this tale.

  He ressurected a man!

  Extraordinary claims needs extraordinary proofs.

  When you have extraordinary claims with no extraordinary proofs the doubt must be default.
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  How exactly did Paul keep in touch with his network of churches across the empire...

  by mP in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the bible presents him as humble with limit means.

  i always wondered how a man with a travelling companion of two like timothy managed to knnow or hear about all his churches.

  how exactly does the troubles of corinth manage to find paul when hes over in judea or maybe somewhere in what we call turkey ?

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  I agree with mP, it's something wrong with all this mail issue.

  Even in down to earth issues (like mail) the bible is very doubtful.

  Maybe Paul did not existed at all too.

  There's no doubt some letters were not written by Paul, so what makes us certain that Paul have existed and written some letter?

  Maybe the only real persons involved in the fabrication of the NT were the ones briefly mentioned in the Paul's letters, like Linus for example.
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  How many Governing Body members have secret accounts on this forum?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  how many of them do you think have secret accounts on this discussion board?

  could it be just a couple of the younger ones or all of them or none of them or do they get others to read and post on the forum on thei behalf.

  i saw in a news article that you can hire social media and internet agents to manage your online profiles on your behalf.

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  John_Mann

  really?
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  I really need some help to get out of this religion

  by doughnutkitty in

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  2. experiences

  hi, i've been lurking on this site for quite a while after recently having doubts about the "truth".

  i've read a lot of posts about problems with the doctrines, mind control, the beliefs, brainwashing that jehovah's witnesses and their literature, as well as their history.

  now only being a sixteen year old born in who isn't baptized or unbaptized, i've come to find all this information incredibly overwhelming.

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  John_Mann

  The best thing in your life just already happened.

  To a born in wake up with 16yo it's like nothing is beyond repair.

  I had a kind of semi awakening when I was 16yo but the sum of all circunstances were not on my side.

  I waked in my 24 in 2006.

  If you follow the advices here you will not have big problems.

  Welcome to the real world and enjoy your early morning of your life.
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  'Watson' Goes To College

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/watson-goes-to-college-ibm-sends-version-of-supercomputer-to-rpi-to-boost-cognitive-skills/2013/01/30/c7537234-6ab3-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_story.html.

  yes, "watson", the computer system that crushed its opponents on jeopardy, is going to college to brush up on its skills.. think of a future in which we are dominated by something like "skynet" or "colossus" - only really helpful and nice ( we hope).

  i, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2Xw-GNkUQ&list=PLF2B0DFC347272284
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  'Watson' Goes To College

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/watson-goes-to-college-ibm-sends-version-of-supercomputer-to-rpi-to-boost-cognitive-skills/2013/01/30/c7537234-6ab3-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_story.html.

  yes, "watson", the computer system that crushed its opponents on jeopardy, is going to college to brush up on its skills.. think of a future in which we are dominated by something like "skynet" or "colossus" - only really helpful and nice ( we hope).

  i, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.

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  The IBM Watson is the first cognitive computer. It's the beginning of a new era.

  Computers now can read natural language and no just 0's and 1's.

  They can learn without someone to translate (to machine language) to them.

  The exascale (1 quintillion os calculations per second) will be reached before 2020. Now (until june 2013) the processing capacity is 33/50 peta (quadrillion), the exascale is 1000 peta. It's a long way since the 1 calculation per second with the (never built) Babbage computer in the 1830's.

  And them the computers will have the same capacity of human brain processing.

  For the first time in history, the humans will no more be the only intelligent entities in the earth.

  Truly, we no more will be the smartest guys around.

  We hope all human problems will be solved with the help of such intelligence.

  There's no impossible problems, there's only lack of intelligence to solve problems.

  What we consider impossible problems (aging and death included), to a higher intelligence it's just obvious solutions.

  More than ever the humankind is beyond obsolete. We are living times the humans are bridges and not and end.

  The only solution is to merge with technology. How we'll do this? No surgeries or painful interventions but with nanobots, foglets to be more specific.
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  Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  2. experiences

  or the 2000's generation thing?.

  how did you feel?

  how did it help you wake up?

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  This is one of the best topics on JWN.

  That change was the end of an era in the JW world.

  Things never be the same after that.

  1975 was bad but 1995 was beyond repair.

  The dream was over after 1995.

  After 1995 the only option left to JW's was the dumbing down of the whole thing and forget what they once tried to be.

  At same time the internet was entering in the stage and it was a true paradise of knowledge and new possibilities.

  I just can imagine what the old JW's from the pre-1995 era think about what's happening now in the Watchtower.
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

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  2. friends

  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  {R. Dawkins would also be a partial source.}

  Dawkins is a biologist.

  There's no doubt in biology about evolution like there's no doubt in physics about gravity.
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

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  2. friends

  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  If something is under the darwinian algorithm, that thing will be under evolution.

  Does not matter if the thing is a virus or a proto-language.