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  This Article Won't Change Your Mind - Great Read

  by cofty in

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  this article won’t change your mind - the facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs.

  brilliant article in the atlantic by julie beck discussing the phenomena of cognitive dissonance and how it affects religious and political beliefs.

  it includes some interesting thoughts on how social media has magnified the problem.. spoiler - she is not optimistic about the possibility of successfully reasoning with members of religious cults.. the article also has a link to the 45 minute audio version.. link....

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  waton

  excellent cofty, thanks, will refer back to it. a goldmine of insights, sample:

  higher intelligence will serve only to come up with better arguments to defend a wrong position of your group (jws, creationists etc, )
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  Elon Musk causing an uproar on Twitter

  by Tallon in

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  elon musk has called one of the thai cave rescue divers a 'paedo' on twitter.. this could prove to be a very costly post should the diver sue him for defamation.. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter.

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  waton

  Reading between the lines, it seems he is coming under extreme financial pressure, and while this has been happening, he has been saying some strange things to journalists. I am pretty sure where this is all heading.

  He has been accomplishing some amazing stuff, landing two of his boosters backward side by side on return in Florida, while achieving past Mars orbit!

  Why he did not leave the manufacturing to the manufacturers ? Anyway,

  Money well spend! Can not think of any better cause then one, related to his continent of origin.
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  Elon Musk causing an uproar on Twitter

  by Tallon in

  1. social
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  elon musk has called one of the thai cave rescue divers a 'paedo' on twitter.. this could prove to be a very costly post should the diver sue him for defamation.. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk-british-diver-thai-cave-rescue-pedo-twitter.

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  waton

  Elon Musk is a fellow New Zealander. Quite frankly, to most kiwis he's a Johnny-come-lately embarrassment.

  I thought he was from Canada

  Is he not an African? I thought his kid-sized capsules were a great idea, even flexible versions if the passages really were too narrow. But, obviously the boys walked to their refuge place, not wiggle in, having to wiggle out. (bunk by divers). Lots of pedos in Thailand, just by averages Musk might be right. But that sounds like sour grapes by him, of having been shut out by someone eager to keep the spotlight, protect his turf, even while keeping the boys from a safer, more pleasant way out. Egos clashing, never good.
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  Trump - Putin summit , cold war ended

  by mikeflood in

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  trump - putin summit today, putin said : "cold war has ended, difficulties in us - russia relations don't have any objective reasons" .

  it's gonna be another stunt, too much interests in keeping the worldwide weapons race and the inmense profits.....

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  Poker player meeting chess player. We just saw Putin on the platform, and the world's best reaching up to him, eager to shake his hands. Now all hope, Trump does not bet the store to score.
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  How did Jesus keep his beard looking so neat?

  by Sour Grapes in

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  i have a full beard and with a pair of electric clippers, i can't come close to having my beard looking at good and trim as jesus in the picture.

  i wonder how jewish barbers did it or perhaps his beard was more scruffy than is shown.

  does jesus even look jewish?

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  waton

  he had a perfect beard, had ladies ministering to him, spend nights with the Samaritan woman, (at least in her city)

  so if he can walk on water, give him a break.
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  Mosquitos....

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i’m watching a discovery movie about the mosquito.

  scientists tell us that mosquitos are the most dangerous creature on earth.

  nothing kills more than the mosquito.

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  wondrous creation---right? Glad he saw fit to have to of those little xyz preserved alive through the flood! Thank you Noah!

  The best connection between mosquitos and wood is not via a boat that floats but wood fibres that fly.

  The Mosquito aeroplane, the most successful, invincible design harassing the germans during ww2.
  
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  The bread pan illustration is totally flawed

  by purrpurr in

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  it just suddenly occured to me today.... you know the jws always say about adams sin being passed on to his descendants that its like you have a bread pan with a dent in it and that every loaf of bread will then have a dent?

  well that's fine for bread, cos your using the same pan.

  but that's not how genetics work?.

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  waton

  may be that is why no bread pans are used in making the memorial flat breads ? flaws in the eaters is enough? . perfection passed on by male inheritance too? lucky ladies, unaffected by all these male story spinners.
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  Mosquitos....

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i’m watching a discovery movie about the mosquito.

  scientists tell us that mosquitos are the most dangerous creature on earth.

  nothing kills more than the mosquito.

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  waton

  mosquitos are the most dangerous creature on Earth. Nothing kills more than the mosquito. NOTHING..

  When I was mentally in, (mentally period) I questioned god's wisdom to confer creative powers to Satan. allowing him to torture with the itch. Mosquitos also violate the blood laws, suckers.

  cofty would call it the work of a moral monster.

  In any case, imagine if we had no predation, we would have no migration.
  
  
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  Is There Life After Death

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  i think this is a well developed discussion, of ian stevenson's work in investigating people's past lives claims.

  it's a little long.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0attm9hgcdw.

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  waton

  Come around my office at 5pm on a Friday. You will believe! M.

  Another version would be the wt meetings; Coming back to life: the lively conversations after the almost deathlike dragging - ons during the program.

  For there to be conscious life after death, there would have to be continuous recording of brain activity, because, if you go out of your mind, or loose your mind, your memory is gone, how could it be restored, or be stored in real time right now? where and how. so wait and see.
  
  
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  Is There Life After Death

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  i think this is a well developed discussion, of ian stevenson's work in investigating people's past lives claims.

  it's a little long.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0attm9hgcdw.

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  waton

  AFTER you die, other people WILL STILL BE ALIVE!

  and it will be the same organic life that started ~4 bllion years ago. so, if you want to continue to have, or be a slice of that growing pie, make sure your genes are woven back into the cloth.(mix metaphors) If you are for creation, participate in procreation. pass on life with a passion.