TheUbermensch

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  The True Nature of Reality

  by ballistic in

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  does any one have any good theories on the true nature of reality?.

  if you google this you come up with lots and lots of really wacky fringe science.. it's one of those things that shows just how little humans know about our existance or the universe.. some of the more interesting things i've read, are that our 3 dimensions are just a construct, time doesn't really exist, and another essay explaining that we can't trust our senses and they actually tell us very little about the world around us which is really full of electromagnetic forces, waves of various types and sub atomic particles.. i have started a thread before something along the lines of, i think therefor i am.

  i exist on some level.

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  TheUbermensch

  Don't know why the religious people of this board began discussing Adam and Eve or a "Primal Cause".

  May I suggest the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

  Anything you want to know about they give you a general (excellent) understanding from multiple different philosophers and/or psychologists.

  iep.utm.edu

  Also I suggest reading some Carl Jung (C.G. Jung), and Hegel.

  I suggest reading articles on the IEP named: Consciousness, Hegel, Existentialism, Stoicism, Rationalism, Empiricism, and others (You could also just search "reality").
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  What history have you seen in the makeing???

  by karter in

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  i saw:.

  neil armstrong say those famous words...this is one small step for a man........... muhammad ali win and loose the world title 3 times.. the 1st women prime minster of the uk..

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  TheUbermensch

  Have you heard of the new Stephen King book (fiction) that is about a man who travels back in time, stops the assassination and how the world would be if JFK hadn't have been assassinated, talesin? It's apparently extraordinary!

  It's called 11/22/63 (date he was assassinated).
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  What history have you seen in the makeing???

  by karter in

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  i saw:.

  neil armstrong say those famous words...this is one small step for a man........... muhammad ali win and loose the world title 3 times.. the 1st women prime minster of the uk..

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  TheUbermensch

  9/11.

  That's about it in comparison to Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

  My grandpa watched the opening of Disneyland on television.

  My Oma went to Disneyland the first week it was open ^__^

  I was a block away from the Gifford shooting. Heard the shots.
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  Sick With Love

  by compound complex in

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  how you live your life.

  concerns me not, but,.

  strangely, pulls me in.. .

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  TheUbermensch

  Wow, I had never seen this thread.

  CoCo, your writing reminds me of a Yeats, with a bit more attention to detail. Absolutely exquisite. And nancy drew, your short stories are quite excellent as well, short, to the point, and they have wonderful endings (a bit like O'Henry).

  I can definitely empathize with the unrequited love CoCo, definitely.
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  A reality test for Jehovah's Witnesses that really seems to work

  by Terry in

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  i admit to a fondness for "factoids".

  little snippets of information.

  statistics.

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  TheUbermensch

  "Everything You Know Is Wrong"

  Love that book.
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  A reality test for Jehovah's Witnesses that really seems to work

  by Terry in

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  i admit to a fondness for "factoids".

  little snippets of information.

  statistics.

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  TheUbermensch

  A bit off-topic but I absolutely love things concerning earthquakes like "The number of earthquakes since 1914 has significantly increased". I always wondered why they never thought something along the lines of "Duh, technology has increased in the past 90 years, making seismometers more accurate and making them able to detect the smaller earthquakes as well". Not only that but more people died or were affected by earthquakes in the 1700s then the last two centuries altogether.

  It's sort of like saying "Since 1914, more human beings own and use computers" ... lol.
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  Society's position on illegal aliens

  by sir82 in

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  one of the things that has always irked me is the society's position on illegal aliens.. paraphrasing a us boe letter (can't remember the date, not a recent one though), elders were instructed that they are not "policemen", not responsible for enforcing "caesar's laws".

  so, if there are any illegal aliens in the congregation, elders do not report them to any authority.

  no (congregational) disciplanary action at all is taken against them.. however, illegal aliens are not "exemplary", in that they are knowingly breaking caesar's laws.

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  Oh please. So tired of the "white people that took native land" arguments. Honestly, it's been over 200 years since that happened, yes it was horrible and they were ruthless, but none of those people are alive anymore (obviously). I've met many Jews in my lifetime, but none of them ever mentioned the Holocaust when someone was talking about Germany. Are the descendants of the Carthaginians still mad at Italians? Are the Egyptians still mad at Greece? No, of course not, because those events transpired and they realize that they are over and done with and there isn't anything anyone can do about it. (Plus, the Americans that are alive today wouldn't be if it wasn't for those ruthless white men.)

  Back on topic: My grandmother (which is my exposure to the WTS after basically living with her for most of my child/teenager-hood) is a very faithful JW who views illegal aliens as acceptable, and she HATES discussions about it (my grandpa, retired after 40 years of being an electrician, knows all about the hardships they create in construction, and he LOVES to tell her about it).

  Personally, as a resident of Arizona, they've basically ruined this state, so I do not have any tolerance for illegal crossing of the border.
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  that's me in the corner...

  by stillin in

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  love this song!.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-uzxiq5vw.

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  TheUbermensch

  I can't view the video, however, I am assuming it is Losing My Religion by R.E.M.? If so, I agree that it is an awesome song. Sad that they officially broke up about a month ago.
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  Have any other religion flip-flopped doctrinally?

  by stillstuckcruz in

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  i am attempting to see if a comparison can be made to other religions.

  obviously we all know that jw's have fip-flopped on many doctrinal issues.

  but are there any other religions and cults that have done this?

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  TheUbermensch

  Lots of flip flops in every religion. Those who deny it are mentally insane.

  And jonathan dough, there is no need to "prove it", instead give me a religion you do not believe has flip flopped doctrinally and I will easily offer you "proof".
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  Do you think that we are in the last days?

  by stuckinamovement in

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  do you think that we are in the last days?

  i really don't think we are in the last days.

  i came to the conclusion that 1914 is false and is no more than another year in man's history, so hence we are not living in the last days prophesied by jesus.

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  TheUbermensch

  Yep. December is tomorrow, so this is literally the last DAY.