There are none so thirsty, as those who have no water.

DOH!

And now, we return you to the latest episode of TV.JW.ORG, already in progress ...........

22 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

“You can’t claim that people are ‘terrorists’ or ‘extremists’ and then simply knock on their doors to arrest them, though in all cases there is nothing at all to suggest that resistance would have been shown. Instead, there are armed searches, most often by masked men in full military gear, with the suspect hurled to the ground and handcuffed, often in the presence of their distressed and terrified children....

“It is clear that ‘secret witnesses’ are also to be used against Jehovah’s Witnesses. In the ongoing trial of Denis Christiansen, the first believer to be arrested and jailed, there has been one such ‘witness’ so far. The person, whose voice was heavily distorted, spoke of having attended Jehovah’s Witness meetings and generally repeated the prosecution’s line.” http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1540343334

I am never surprised how MANY people live in a fantasy world where they expect those that do NOT live in a fantasy world to be FAIR.

It is at the same time sad ... and laughable !

If you control the troops, and rifles, and bayonets .... you can claim anything you want ... AND ENFORCE IT.

There is a LOT of money, prestiege, accolades, and status  to be had  in making yourself into a fortune teller, Shaman, Witch Doctor, Snake-Oil Salesman, Prophet, Prognosticator, Savant, Priest, Counselor, Governing Body, or Elder.

A LOT of money!

Technically ... it may not be yours ... but you control it ... without any accountability whatsoever, to those footing the bill.

Not your "followers".

Not even the IRS.

... even if you have taken a vow of poverty ... you fly Business Class, and stay in very fine hotels, sleep warm, eat well, and have a staff to do anything you want done.

It is a VERY FINE OCCUPATION, much to be sought after, .... if you can keep up the razzle-dazzle .... and keep down your gag reflex.

At what moment "The Truth" has ceased to be "The Truth"?

In a nutshell .... "The Truth" has ceased to be "The Truth", when best guesses, and opinions are represented as exclusive direction and revelations from God ...... without qualifying clearly and unambiguously that they are ONLY best guesses, and considered opinions.

There is of course a VERY serious problem with being direct and honest with people with whom you publish your opinions to ... IF ... if  you DO NOT represent your thinking as the directed " Voice of God" ...

.... they will not give you money, and you will miss meals, and sleep cold at night ... or have to get a REAL job... and you will not be revered as a wise person (or persons).

The next thing on the list is that you have to seriously disparage getting more than a basic education to those you are deluding ... for fear that they will become smarter than you, and figure this out.

... and you lose MONEY!

2 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Unfortunately, lawyers cooled off much of that. When trespassers began suffering injuries on private property & owners were sued for it, many responded by making their property off-limits.

Because of peoples' reactions, I even had to stop digging holes in the back yard, at night by flashlight, in the rain.

You cannot answer what a horse's facial expression is if you are riding on the horse.

It is "unanswerable".

Get off the horse and look at it from different angles!

On 7/9/2017 at 11:41 AM, Marra McDonald Johnson said:

This is great!  Innovative!  The question is?  Where will people work when robots do all the work?

Learn to dig ditches and wash dishes, .... or design, build, program, and repair robots.

The ONLY constant in the Universe ... is constant change.

If you snooze .... you lose.

On 10/23/2018 at 12:06 PM, Kosonen said:

When is the prophecy about time, times and half a time really taking place? The WT organization has taught it happened 1914-1918. But many non-jw christian groups put that time into the final tribulation period right before Jesus' return. 

What is your opinion?

My opinion is like everyone ELSE'S opinion ... except that I cannot make a living, eat well, sleep warm, and fly first class for MY opinion ... nor would I want to.

Opinions are .... to paraphrase ... like "body orifices".  Everyone has, and is entitled, to at least five .... depending on your opinions of how they are counted.  Should belly-buttons (navels) be counted as orifices?  I think not.  Opinions vary.

Let's say you are 100% right ....... or wrong ....... about this " time, times, and half a time" matter.

How will that have any effect on reality?

In the 5th or 7th grade I was told that in Medieval Europe, people used to discuss "forever", how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. 

How is this any different?

Even if we knew incoming Russian Ballistic Missiles were coming next week, details make all the difference.

About the time, and times ... NO ONE has the slightest clue.

NO ONE.

And there is nothing anyone can do about it if they did .... except donate LOTS of money to the pretenders.

That is a semantics problem, and I disagree with that simplistic answer.  Velocity is measured by the distance traveled in a particular unit of time.  If you change the definitions, you can justify ANYTHING, as was done above.

For example, laser light through a particular Bose-Einstein condensate can be slowed down to about 38 miles per hour ... and whether it is passed along through quantum effects, or by Keebler Elves who got the day off from making cookies, it is STILL 38 miles per hour.

Time ON a photon is always ZERO, because at the speed of light, time stops.

That is why Quantum entangled particles can communicate instantly across ANY distance ... not limited by the speed of light.

Understanding WHY Cerenkov radiation makes that beautiful blue light in the water at the bottom of a swimming pool atomic reactor is the key to figuring it out.

‘Would robot sex count as infidelity?

I always wondered if inseparable  R2-D2 and C3PO had a "thing" going on.

12 hours ago, SciTechPress said:

BUT ... have we made any progress in our understanding beyond that?

I have.

A good place to start is Richard Feynman's "QED"

My favorite Robot Movie is  1986  "Short Circuit", with the Robot "Johnny 5".

There are perhaps hundreds of theories.

No one has Polaroids.

Because of Quantum Entanglement, and the speed of light in a vacuum being set, and the fact that all time is a LOCAL thing, and runs at local speeds, depending on local velocity and the gravity well acting upon the local matter, it is possible to communicate ( with pulses of on/off/on/off ... which can be made into Morse code, or constructed and deconstructed to and from speech ...) to and from the future, but not to travel there .... IF .... you can accelerate to near relativistic speeds.

To get one atom up to the exact speed of light would require all the energy in the Universe. This is why "light" travels in waves, and becomes a particle when it hits something.

The reason I don't, is I can't afford the long distance phone bill.

see?

6 hours ago, Anna said:

I'm sure @James Thomas Rook Jr. wouldn't hesitate to put a bullet through your head.

Now you've hurt my feelings ...

I WOULD hesitate.

Deaf Hear USA:

Eternity is a perspective, not a strict definition.

Linear time STARTED about 14.5 BILLION years ago.

Before that ... there was no linear time.

To get a better perspective on that, spend a few months studying "Proton Decay".

Eternity can be when relatives visit, and won't go home!

There is no such thing as "dark energy".

It is a black box of "we don't know what the hell is going on, here".

There is also no such thing as "dark matter".   Same thing.

What we REALLY see is gravity , which in the 11 dimensions of the Multiverse, passes freely between the Universes.

This is why the Galaxies don't unwind like a released clock spring.

Translated into English ... time slows down as you approach the speed of light, and ON A PHOTON .... time is stopped.

You need to study "advanced and retrograde light", to get a better feel for this.

There is no such thing as "Universal Time Rate".

ALL time is a variable according to local velocity, and the strength of the gravity well.

All time is local.

Time passes at a different rate at the bottom of a tall radio antennae, than at the top ... because at the bottom ... there is more gravity, which slows local time.

...looks like an AAdam's family barn.

26 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

You are into some weird stuff man  

You need to get out more .... and read more. And see more movies.

Ever the see the movie "Three Days of the Condor" (1975) with Robert Redford?

 

17 minutes ago, JOHN BUTLER said:

Started life as a JW then ? 

Probably not .... by the 23rd Century, there would have been about 8 to 15 overlapping generations making up one generation, and of course, the Star Trek Universe is completely fictional ...... as many things are ... like the Robot named Six-of-Nine, at the bottom of this picture, a parody of Star Trek's Borg,  Seven-of-Nine.

... can't top THAT!

The United Nations are just thugs with diplomatic passports, and generous expense accounts, each doing what is in THEIR best interests.

NOT YOURS.

What you see above is the setup for the biggest flim-flam con artist job ever perpetrated by the mind of man .... the brokerage of Carbon Credits .... whereas those who do not produce much CO2 can sell their artificially generated and assigned Carbon Credits to those that will be producing a LOT of CO2.

It's all about transferring hundreds of billions of dollars of money from industrialized nations to the lesser industrialized nations... and Carbon Credit Brokers getting their cuts of the action.

Armies will support this as the nations at the receiving end of this transfer are ALREADY of a Socialist bent, and they like free money, selling fantasy imaginationware certificates,, and the liberal Socialists in the capitalist countries get political power and a LOT of money, individuals getting tens of billions of dollars, in the brokerage of Carbon Credits.

You of course, know nothing about this ... because the lunacy of taking your money, and giving it to others, to get permission to pollute at YOUR end, and take it from you to give to socialist governments to influence the goal of global communism and socialism, would boil your blood if you correctly understood how this BRILLIANT scheme really worked.

It's all about the Priesthood of the "Save the Earth" religion consolidating money and power, from you, to them.

...and it's all based on your altruistic ignorance, and their greed .....  and absolute JUNK SCIENCE.