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  Catch a falling star

  by kenpodragon in

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  when i live the days of my life, and meet and talk to all the people of the world on boards like this.

  it feels sometimes like i am out on a cool clear night, looking to the night sky and waiting for something to happen.

  soon a shooting star with streak across the heavens and strike excitement in my heart, that i had a chance to witness such a amazing event.

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  Then there are those of us who actually own some falling stars. Granted, very few meteors produce meteorites (actually, the little ones you see all the time are no bigger than dust grains that just burn up in the atmosphere) there's nothing like holding a piece of another world in your hand and knowing that its over 4.5 billion years old. Just too cool.

  I know that this is slightly off topic but for me, I see the greatest beauty of all in science. There's nothing out there like learning about how every single element of my meteorites was formed.
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  NEED XMAS IDEAS FOR MEN

  by pettygrudger in

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  i have purchased my hubby every tool i think known to man, with the exception of one of those "saw table thingies".

  i need some good ideas for a man who seems to own pretty much everything..... interesting "toy" ideas (i.e.

  he has a metal detector) would be great too.. what gadgets would you men buy for yourselves if you could?.

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  Go to x10.com and get some home automation stuff. Yes, they're the same company that has all those annoying pop up ads for video cameras but they've been around a LOT longer than that. You can buy special light switches and thermostats and the needed transmitters to be able to make all the lights and appliances in your house remote controlled. There are hand held remotes that you can use as well as an interface for your PC. I was able to get all the needed pieces to turn a 2 bedroom house fully automated. You can really impress your friends with that stuff too.

  The idea for the Legos kits was good also. I don't know if your hubby collects anything but if so ask him if there's anything in paticular he's been wanting.

  Edited to add you can pick up small black and white TV's that could be kept out in the workshop for about $30 at the nearest Target or K-Mart. What's really cool is that not only do they work on battery power and can be plugged into the wall they also come adapters so you can watch them in the car.

  Edited by - Jesus Christ on 12 October 2002 14:28:33
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  7 DAYS OF GENISIS

  by badboy in

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  were each 7,000 years long

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  Read a book on geology or meteorites. You'll see that the solar system (and hence the earth) has been around for approximately 4.56 billion years. Also, if the earth has only been around for a few thousands of years then its kind of hard to imagine how the earth could be getting light from stars that are around 12 billion light years away. In case you're not that familiar with astronomy 12 billion light years away means that the light left those stars 12 billion years ago and is just now getting to us.
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  Noachian Flood c.2370 BCE

  by badboy in

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  egypt;5 dynasty.

  1st lagash dynasty;2500-2350. y is there no break in the 5th dynasty if a world-wide flood(tm) took place)?

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  Why is there no break in that time period? The flood never happened. There. Case solved.
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  Might as well jump in...

  by Cygnus in

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  i have seen (edited to add the word "posted" here, for clarification purposes) on this board that bill bowen is still a jw at heart, and i have seen posts and transcipts of his where he refers to the "christian" way of handling matters.

  i have it on good authority that bill is not concerned with the bible, and that he is as far from being a jw as could be (religiously speaking).

  bill has refused to answer my inquiries as well as others' when asked about his position on religious/jw matters that have a bearing on his silentlambs credibility based upon direct statements made by him.

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  Might as well jump in...

  Why the heck not? Everyone else is.

  Hey, you know what they say. "Opinions are like @$$holes, everybody's got one."
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  Is Ray Franz Great or What?

  by silentlambs in

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  this evening i had a nice conversation with ray and we discussed our previous conversation.

  while our previous conversation was remembered differently in certain areas we agreed that we should be peaceful with one another, i apologized for any misunderstanding and decided as a result to remove any negative comments made about him.

  i do believe our discussion was productive and will help us both to be more supportive of one another in the future.

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  Good gried Island Woman! You bitch when Bill says something bad. You bitch when he apologizes. What do you want the guy to do? I say screw all sexual abuse victims over again and tear apart the guy who's only human and by far the driving force behind Silent Lambs for the sole reason he said something stupid (despite the fact that he got it all worked out and the only people who matter are perfectly happy now). Yep, that'll do everyone a LOT of good. So, you gonna run Silent Lambs after Bill leaves with his head hung in shame over one single stupid remark about someone who is cool with him now?

  Come to think of it, if we're going to start saying people are horrible people not worthy of the air they breath because they may say something bad about someone else I think just about everyone here should have a nice good opinion of you.
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  Is Ray Franz Great or What?

  by silentlambs in

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  this evening i had a nice conversation with ray and we discussed our previous conversation.

  while our previous conversation was remembered differently in certain areas we agreed that we should be peaceful with one another, i apologized for any misunderstanding and decided as a result to remove any negative comments made about him.

  i do believe our discussion was productive and will help us both to be more supportive of one another in the future.

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  Hi Bill,

  Nice to see that you two were able to work out your private matters privately. Its amazing what can happen when the only two people actually involved with something can talk and get their stuff worked out without paying attention to the pointless discussions of people who have nothing to do with it other than calling bloody murder about something that doesn't involve them.
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  Would You Now Feel Uncomfortable Taking Blood?

  by minimus in

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  now that you know about the truth of the blood doctrine, would you feel, even a little bit uncomfortable agreeing to take a blood transfusion?

  btw, my mother asked me if i would still honor her wishes for refusal of blood.

  i told her that even though my view has changed, i would respect her decision, even if i felt that it was wrong.

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  You mean would I be uncomfortable with doing something to save my life even though some crazy cult people think doing something like that is bad based on their warped interpretation of a book that makes no sense? No, I wouldn't hesitate to do it at all.

  As for family members, I'd probably sign and let them have a transfusion. So they don't like it. At least they'd be alive to hate me.
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  "Updating" of JW Books

  by reagan_oconnor in

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  ::i'm not 100% sure which forum to post this in, so if it needs to be moved, please feel free::

  one thing i always questioned was why the jw literature was ever updated.

  if the organization is 'directed by the holy spirit' then why did they need a new version of the 'scripture inspired' book?

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  Anybody ever read 1984? There's where you can find a good answer on why they "update" their literature.
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  JW Youths Funeral: "cause he wasnt going t...

  by mamashel in

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  this is just an update on an earlier post about jw youth dies in car crash.

  long story short, he was killed when his car struck a pole because he fell asleep at the wheel.

  his father had recently kicked him out of the house (he was only 18) becuase he was missing meetings.

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  So some bad things may happen to people after they leave the JW's. At least they're not in a cult anymore. If it came down to getting very sick and having to deal with that I'd much rather have to take care of it than being a JW.