Topics Started by JanH
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Does the soul or spirit exist?
by JanH inscience deals with what can be observed, directly or indirectly.
so in one sense, you could say that science is simply not providing any answers to the question about the existence of a soul or spirit component of a human being.. .
that, of course, keeps science polite to religious ideas.. .
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Great Moments in the History of the Net
by JanH inthe excellent search engine google not only indexes a significant part of the www, it also contains a massive archive of usenet discussions.
some of the old timers here participated on usenet while the world wide web was just a glimmer in the imagination of tim berners-lee.
i actually participated on both sides of the jw/exjw wars from late 92 onwards.
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Bravest Man in the World?
by JanH inpakistani president pervez musharraf made some comments that are sure to raise eyebrows everywhere.
speaking of the whole islamic world, he said:.
"today we are the poorest, the most illiterate, the most backward, the most unhealthy, the most un-enlightened, the most deprived, and the weakest of all the human race".
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Evilslave: JW Cartoons
by JanH ini can't remember to have seen these posted here before (for a while at least).
check out the j.w.
cartoon page at http://home.gay.com/evilslave/index.html.
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Salman Rushdie on Anti-Americanism
by JanH inanti-americanism has taken the world by storm .
the us has an ideological enemy harder to defeat than militant islam .
salman rushdie.
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"Human Evolution is Over"
by JanH inis human evolution finally over?
"for those who dream of a better life, science has bad news: this is the best it is going to get.
our species has reached its biological pinnacle and is no longer capable of changing.
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God "blatantly anti-competitive"!
by JanH in"washington, dccalling the theological giant's stranglehold on the religion industry "blatantly anti-competitive," a u.s. district judge ruled monday that god is in violation of anti-monopoly laws and ordered him to be broken up into several less powerful deities.. .
"the evidence introduced in this trial has convinced me that the deity known as god has willfully and actively thwarted competition from other deities and demigods, promoting his worship with such unfair scare tactics as threatening non-believers with eternal damnation," wrote district judge charles elliot schofield in his decision.
"in the process, he has carved out for himself an illegal monotheopoly."".
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It'll be a COLD day in hell...
by JanH in...before we see this happen in the usa, i fear:.
norway minister marries gay partner.
oslo, norway (ap) - finance minister per-kristian foss has married his gay companion, becoming the first member of a norwegian government to enter a binding homosexual partnership.
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All Ye Unbelievers: Santa Exists!
by JanH inrenegade deer mows down grandma .
grandma got run over by a reindeer, and it happened on castell avenue in new braunfels.. technically, the perpetrator was a whitetail deer, and no confirmed sightings of santa were reported.. carole moore was leaving her business, alternative copier co. on castell avenue just off san antonio street, about 10 a.m. monday to deliver a message to her husband, who was just outside in the company van.. the only reason she knows what happened next is because her husband and brent henley, one of their employees, saw it all.. i just went outside to talk to them in the van.
i turned and it was strange.
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How we Know that Evolution is a Fact
by JanH inthere has been a number of threads related to evolution in the last month or so.
some posters, like penn, subscribes to a form of creationism, which i for this purpose will define as denial of large scale evolution (sometimes called macro-evolution).. even saner people sometimes alleges that scientists are unnecessarily 'dogmatic' about evolution, and that this is 'just a theory.
' these people may be recent exjws or jws, still believing the watchtower propaganda against evolutionary science, or accepting similar claims from various fundamentalist preachers and groups.