Topics Started by Sam Whiskey

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The worst gift of Christmas
by GrreatTeacher in
1. jw
2. friends
everybody gets one, the gift that stared up at you hopefully from its beautiful wrapping, and then, like a deflated balloon, delivers the worst gift ever.. i'm not talking about the gifts from small children like the "greatest aunt" coffee mug or the red and black lace folding fan.

surely you never would have chosen them for yourself, but it's the thought that counts from small people who love you.. then, there's the what the hell were they thinking gifts.

my mother-in-law has been giving these a lot lately.
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"Ebola is not spread through the air" -- CDC. Yeah, right!
by FatFreek 2005 in
1. social
2. current
somehow, i don't have a warm fuzzy feeling when i keep hearing from the center of disease control, "ebola is not spread through the air ...".

ever sneezed?

the famous myth busters had a revealing show on the power of the sneeze anecdotally it has a velocity of some 35 miles per hour and travels a distance of some 30 feet.. ever traveled in the close confines of an air liner?
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I really don't understand this
by keyser soze in
1. social
2. current
why, if you're a health care worker who's been exposed to the ebola virus, would you get on an airplane and travel right after?.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/second-texas-nurse-with-ebola-had-traveled-by-plane/ar-bb9f6bs.

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Heaven, where you are?
by free2beme in
1. jw
2. friends
so in the last couple of months we lost robin williams and joan rivers and i have heard something a lot.

i bet they are loving the comedy shows in heaven, or they are now performing with no pain and so on.

so is this the image christians have of heaven, that what you are on earth is what you will be doing in heaven?
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Islam - Where Does This End?
by Sam Whiskey in
1. jw
2. friends
does this end with them actually attempting to take over the world as they profess to want to do?

granted, they are "extremists", but can they really garner enough extremist converts to make a run at it?

keep in mind, i have no fear of them.
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Do you suffer from WELTSCHMERZ?
by yadda yadda 2 in
1. jw
2. friends
definition of weltschmerz1: mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state 2: a mood of sentimental sadness.

as a jw, horrific news and reports of terrible suffering and tragedy never especially shocked or disturbed me because of the conviction i had that it was all temporary suffering caused by satan and the demons and it was soon to end and be replaced by a wonderful new system where all those who suffered and died would be resurrected.

it took the edge off life's harshness.. these fantastical beliefs innoculated me against really feeling and empathisizing with the reality of the horror and suffering experienced by so many in this world.
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Folks, The Word Is "Syncretism" ( Or Why I Agree With The Governing Body)
by metatron in
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2. friends
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grazy link on JW.ORG
by fastJehu in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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TV.JW.ORG is coming!
by Oubliette in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts
by bohm in
1. jw
2. friends
the collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in west antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported monday.. the finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable.

the rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.. this is really happening, said thomas p. wagner, who runs nasas programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research.

theres nothing to stop it now.