Posts by GodZoo

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THOUGHTS ON UPGRADING TO (Free) WINDOWS 10

by Terry in

jw
friends

i've been using windows 7 for several years and have had no complaints.. i've tried many browsers and settled on google chrome.

it has absolutely everything i want or need.. i kept hearing about the free upgrade to windows 10, so i went to youtube and watched endless "reviews" pro and con.. what pushed me over the (microsoft edge) was the fact i could test drive the new operating system.

for 30 days and go back to windows 7 if i didn't like it!

GodZoo

Finkelstein

You can put most of that back if you like..

http://www.classicshell.net/

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What is your "INTUITION" about THE SECRET "law of attraction"?

by Terry in

ever hear somebody say, "trust your gut..."?.

or, like obe wan kenobe: "trust your feelings...."?.

have you ever followed that "little voice" that whispers to you that you should or should not do something?.

GodZoo

Terry18 hours ago
1. I have an incredibly strong and accurate intuition sense that if I look back on I can not recall it ever being wrong.
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You are judging yourself to be a good judge of judging. That's a bit self-referential, isn't it? Should I decide I have talent on the basis of my talent in judging talent? :)
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2. I have always since childhood been somehow able to manifest things I needed materially merely by thinking and feeling about them in a certain way without employing any particular conscious method nor was any effort required in the acquisition of the thing needed.
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I suppose we'll just have to take your testimonial as unbiased "proof" then?
Please forgive my skepticism, but I spent 20 years around people who produced the only "true" religion from a self-induced idea Jehovah was channeling through them.
Many things are asserted to be true things and yet, the fine line between subjective claims and objective proof rests upon something called Falsifiability and the scientific method whereby all people in any land can replicate identical experiments with identical results. Peer testing is a remarkable crucible for testimonial offerings and I have to go with that, respectfully.
I appreciate your comments and in no way wish to be pejorative toward you personally.

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That's all fine Terry, I have no interest at all in trying to prove anything or promote or sell a theory. I know my own experience and that's good enough for me and the wonderful thing is about being sure of oneself is that one does not need group acceptance or approval nor does one need scientific testing in order validate oneself or anything that one may experience. These constant calls and demands from the so called scientific folk to prove this or that otherwise a thing can not be so is not scientific at all but rather pure scepticism.

I love my mother.. can I 'prove' this to you? Nope.

I get the most immense feeling of inner joy whenever I see a small puppy bound towards me and shower me with abandoned affection. Can I explain or 'prove' this to you? Nope.

That one gorgeous girl that for some reason stood out in a crowd of hundreds had me almost smitten with love in a nano second. Can I explain or 'prove' this to you? Nope.

The indescribable pleasure I get when I smell certain flowers.. or hear certain music.. or gaze upon certain scenes and views in nature. Can I explain or 'prove' this to you? Nope.

I can not think of a single instance when my intuition was wrong.. Can I explain or 'prove' this to you? Nope.

I am somehow able to manifest things I need materially by merely thinking about them in a certain way. Can I explain or 'prove' this to you? Nope.

Do I feel I need to explain any of these things? Not in the slightest.

Fortunately I am not a scientist neither am I obsessed with black and white thinking or logic or so called and grossly overrated 'truth' and have not made it my purpose or goal or need to prove, justify, validate or even explain anything to anyone. Peoples opinions are really no importance to me when it comes to my own experience am not at all troubled by the 'if you can't prove it to me then it did not happen' crowd.

There are a billion things that can not be proved or explained yet are just as real and true.

A few more Things Science Can’t Explain

1. Logical and mathematical truths (which are presupposed by science)

2. Metaphysical truths (like the past was not created 5 minutes ago with an appearance of age)

3. Ethical truths

4. Aesthetic truths

5. Science itself (since science is based on assumptions that can’t be proven)

6. The existence of the universe (why is there universe at all?)

7. The beginning of the universe (assuming it had one)

8. The existence of scientific laws

So far these are things that science cannot explain in principle. Here are a couple more that science cannot explain at present and arguably are such that science is unlikely to ever provide more than a partial explanation:

9. The existence of conscious minds

10. The fine-tuning of the physical constants

Science also cannot explain

11. Most of the things that are of greatest importance to us such as love, meaning, purpose and the need for significance and finally it cannot fully explain

12. most of the things that happen in our lives such as why a person lives in a certain place, works in a particular job or marries a particular person.

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THOUGHTS ON UPGRADING TO (Free) WINDOWS 10

by Terry in

jw
friends

i've been using windows 7 for several years and have had no complaints.. i've tried many browsers and settled on google chrome.

it has absolutely everything i want or need.. i kept hearing about the free upgrade to windows 10, so i went to youtube and watched endless "reviews" pro and con.. what pushed me over the (microsoft edge) was the fact i could test drive the new operating system.

for 30 days and go back to windows 7 if i didn't like it!

GodZoo

More importantly..

Windows 10 new Privacy Policy and Service Agreement from Microsoft.

The new policies take effect on 1 August and there are a few unsettling things nestling in there that you should be thinking about if you’re using the company’s services and software.

The Privacy Statement and Services Agreements combined come to 45 pages. Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, Horacio Gutierrez wrote that they are “straightforward terms and polices that people can clearly understand.” The reality is, you’re probably not going to read them. So I did, and I listed for you the major concerns about Windows 10 Privacy.

And, like so many other companies, Microsoft has grabbed some very broad powers to collect things you do, say and create while using its software. Your data won’t be staying on your computer, that much is for sure.

Windows data syncing by default

Sign into Windows with your Microsoft account and the operating system immediately syncs settings and data to the company’s servers. That includes your browser history, favorites and the websites you currently have open as well as saved app, website and mobile hotspot passwords and Wi-Fi network names and passwords.

You can deactivate that by hopping into the settings of Windows, but I’d argue that it should be opt-in rather than on by default. Many users won’t get round to turning it off, even though they would probably want to.

Cortana knows *a lot* about what you’re doing…

Cortana is a sexy spy in the machine

Turn on Cortana, the virtual assistant, and you’re also turning on a whole host of data sharing:

To enable Cortana to provide personalized experiences and relevant suggestions, Microsoft collects and uses various types of data, such as your device location, data from your calendar, the apps you use, data from your emails and text messages, who you call, your contacts and how often you interact with them on your device.
Cortana also learns about you by collecting data about how you use your device and other Microsoft services, such as your music, alarm settings, whether the lock screen is on, what you view and purchase, your browse and Bing search history, and more.”

Lots of things can live in those two words “and more.” Also note that because Cortana analyzes speech data, Microsoft collects “your voice input, as well as your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames.”

Realistically, Cortana can’t work in the semi-magical way it does without being able to gobble up all that information. But it’s worth being aware of just how wide-ranging its access to your and your friends’/contacts’ data is.

Whatever happens, Microsoft knows what you’re doing…

The updated terms also state that Microsoft will collect information “from you and your devices, including for example ‘app use data for apps that run on Windows’ and ‘data about the networks you connect to.'”

Advertisers will know exactly who you are

Windows 10 generates a unique advertising ID for each user on each device. That can be used by developers and ad networks to profile you. Again, you can turn this off in settings, but you need to know where to look:

Where to go to kill the ad tracking ID in Windows 10…

Your encryption key is backed up to OneDrive

Not necessarily a bad thing but something you should be aware of. When device encryption is turned on, Windows 10 automatically encrypts the drive its installed on and generates a BitLocker recovery key. That’s backed up to your OneDrive account.

Open the window and Microsoft can do pretty much what it wants with your data…

Microsoft can disclose your data when it feels like it

This is the part you should be most concerned about: Microsoft’s new privacy policy assigns is very loose when it comes to when it will or won’t access and disclose your personal data:

We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services.

I’m not suggesting Microsoft and its lawyers are alone in making provision for such sweeping power over your data, but we should all be very careful about relying on the “good faith” of corporations.

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THOUGHTS ON UPGRADING TO (Free) WINDOWS 10

by Terry in

jw
friends

i've been using windows 7 for several years and have had no complaints.. i've tried many browsers and settled on google chrome.

it has absolutely everything i want or need.. i kept hearing about the free upgrade to windows 10, so i went to youtube and watched endless "reviews" pro and con.. what pushed me over the (microsoft edge) was the fact i could test drive the new operating system.

for 30 days and go back to windows 7 if i didn't like it!

GodZoo

For someone who likes everything to be so logical and black and white your demonstrating an awful lot of blind faith now and that you can be so easily seduced and won over by mere fancy surface 'bling'.

I can think of at least 50 reasons not to use Windows 10 but here 14 to get you started.

http://www.windowscentral.com/14-reasons-not-to-upgrade-windows-10

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What is your "INTUITION" about THE SECRET "law of attraction"?

by Terry in

ever hear somebody say, "trust your gut..."?.

or, like obe wan kenobe: "trust your feelings...."?.

have you ever followed that "little voice" that whispers to you that you should or should not do something?.

GodZoo

Consider my posts as the wisdom consorting with the rational side of myself.

I always though that wisdom (the ability to apply knowledge) was already rational in itself. So in effect your rational side consorts with your other rational side.

I read through his entire thread because:

1. I have an incredibly strong and accurate intuition sense that if I look back on I can not recall it ever being wrong.

2. I have always since childhood been somehow able to manifest things I needed materially merely by thinking and feeling about them in a certain way without employing any particular conscious method nor was any effort required in the acquisition of the thing needed. And so the last month I have been looking into how this can possibly work which led me to experimenting with the LOA in quite some detail as it seemed to offer a possible explanation for why this is actually happening.

"You are at risk when you fail to use your MIND to investigate."

Better to keep an open one then.

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What is your "INTUITION" about THE SECRET "law of attraction"?

by Terry in

ever hear somebody say, "trust your gut..."?.

or, like obe wan kenobe: "trust your feelings...."?.

have you ever followed that "little voice" that whispers to you that you should or should not do something?.

GodZoo

Would you accept medicine from a door to door salesman rather than your own physician?
Would you accept plastic surgery from a surgeon without a license only on the verbal assurance he was competant?
Would you buy swampland in Florida?
Of course not! And why not? You are at risk when you fail to use your MIND to investigate.

.. and yet you all ignored all of this and became Jehovah's Witnesses for the larger part of your lives..

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JWLEAKS

by ttdtt in

does anyone have any information on jwleaks.org?

it is still down.

does anyone have any contact with them?.

GodZoo

Safe until July.

Registry Expiry Date: 2016-06-24T 03:25:12Z

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What's a word that describes the way Witnesses behave as a group?

by paul from cleveland in

jw
friends

i can't recall the word that describes a group that keeps to itself like the witnesses do.

i thought it was "insular" but i don't think that's the one i'm looking for after reading the definition.

i remember an elder using the word "clannish" and that has the proper definition but it reminds me of a group of elves.

GodZoo

Lemmings..

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Richard Dawkins has had a Stroke

by cofty in

he is back home and making god progress.. he has issued an audio statement here....

GodZoo

Cofty: Godzoo if I heard that a mutual acquaintance had suffered a stroke I would let you know. Would you accuse me of idolatry for doing so? Dawkins is a public figure whose work has been important to millions of people including many on this forum. Why is it strange that we would comment on his stroke? Don't be so churlish.

I have seen may people have bad health reports in here and you not care a tweet. There are also thousands of people that do wonderful things for humanity yet you don't bat an eyelid if they stub their toe in the night or even die for that matter. I was just curious why this particular man gets your care and affection? Is it because he is one of the founding fathers of your view on life? If so just say so and stop pretending you have real altruism and compassion.

Good try but I am being in no way mean spirited towards Mr Dawkins and nothing in my previous comment reflected that.. It was pretty clear I was just looking at you actually.

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How would you feel if this happened to you?

by Island Man in

imagine you're a mentally out, physically in, awake jw who still attend meetings and occasionally do a little door-to-door perfunctory service just to please the still-in spouse and keep the elders off your back while you slowly and subtly try to free your spouse of the cult.

you're also a vociferous online critic of the jw organization and its harmful policies and false teachings.

one day while out doing your occasional perfunctory door-to-door service with a still-in jw, you knock on a door and the householder comes out and says:.

GodZoo

Imagine you're a mentally out, physically in, awake JW who still attend meetings and occasionally do a little door-to-door perfunctory service.

As far as I try to stretch my imagination beyond all bounds of sense and personal integrity I just can't ever imagine myself being in such a situation. There are just way too many extreme polar opposites in your opening statement that it would require a complete breakdown in one's mental well being to even contemplate half of that.