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Watchtower an NGO for the UN
by ball. inwe all know the story of the watchtower's membership of the un.. here's a hypothetical situation.
you start studying to become a witness and they ask what you do.
you work for the un, say a researcher or something you can do in any town or city.
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Argh!!!! An observation...
by astridkittie ini was trying to find an article on the wbts website about jesus' death that would give some history references about the stake issue... after a while i got rather frustrated when i was coming up empty handed.
then the realization dawned upon me that it seems that the publications for the public never seem to have any research article references... just scriptural ones, and then when an interested one "progresses", they start gaining access to the "deeper" publications with research references... of course, you're only supposed to refer to the references they give you most of the time, lol.
i may be wrong since i grew up in the organization and didn't get to experience coming in on my own, but it feels uncannily true, and it makes sense for them, toss them a scripture to make them feel like they've discovered a wonderful new point of view and then throw in some "worldly" references to hammer it in that it's the truth!
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Clay Kitten Shooting...............
by Gadget inhttp://www.richsalter.btinternet.co.uk/cks1/index.html
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freefall sky diving
by ball. inthinking of taking up sky diving or at least becoming a qualified sky diver in a week, this summer, in about 8 dives.
i was looking to do a bungee jump, and then thought of this instead.
it will cost only about 1200 plus the flights to spain and accomodation.. .
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HAPPY NEW YEAR from GMT 00:00:00
by ball. in.
happy new year from the gmt time zone and london!!!
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Fake Iraq pictures and other stuff
by ball. inall the talk of fake (or not fake) pictures of troops in iraq, not too mention the number of fake pictures mates send me in emails, and not to mention the revolution in fake body parts, particularly boobs, leads me to wonder about the future.
will we live in a world in 50 years time, where every time you look at a picture, your mind is immediately pre-occupied with whether it is real or not, every picture looked at with a critical eye... no longer does a picture contain a thousand words, but may be a thousand lies also.
we've all seen the fake moon landings, haven't we?
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The Brain
by ball. ini know this maybe unhealthy but i think it maybe interesting to some people from a scientific point of view.. i have been playing a game online for about 2 years now and i find if i play the game solidly for about 2 hours, my brain goes into an altered state, where i suddenly feel my brain speed up, and i become unaware of anything else in the room.
in a sense, i actually "enter" into the game, but what i think is happening is that the brain *learns* to see the game in a new way.
bascially, the brain wires itself up to experience being in the game as opposed to seeing it on a monitor screen.. i guess this is why it feels like the brain is speeding up, because it starts using dedicated circuitry to deal with the information pouring in through the eyes and ears.