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Seven new Saints announced - 2 from U.S. - Mother Teresa overlooked.
by james_woods inrather ironic, i thought - the day after italy put the earthquake scientists in jail:.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20121021/da21tb6o1.htmlthe word on mother teresa is that yet another verified miracle is required by the rules.the inside word is that there is still too much negative contraversy made my a number of women who worked for her.it just seems that this current pope is never - ever - going to be popular to even a fraction as much as the previous.
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Has anyone heard from Terry lately? How about Snowbird?
by james_woods inseems like quite a few days since terry has posted anything - does anybody know if he is still ok after the broken tooth and infection?.
and where is snowbird?
she came back after it seems like a year or more, but hasn't been around lately -.
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RIP Andy Williams
by james_woods ini just read that singer andy williams is dead at 84.. moon river, wider than a mile, im crossing you in style, someday.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...old-dies-at-84wonder if claudine longet is still alive?
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I have decided that the "amatuer status" of Olymic Athletes is bogus.
by james_woods ini am listening to the "outrage" over how the u.s. basketball team totally swamped the nigerian team.. they are accused of being "professionals" and of "running up the score".. well - here is my observation: none of these athletes are really, truly, "amatuers" - all of them have some kind of sponshorship or support.. so did the ancient greeks - they were essentially government employees of their day.. let's get over it and let the best athletes play the best athletes.. if the u.s. can beat uzbekistan in football, so be it.
if the gdr can beat us in target shooting, so be it.. i agree with no drugs - i agree with no men dressed up as women, but this "amatuer status" thing is bogus - and not a part of the ancient tradition either.. rant over - i leave you to your scheduled programming..
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Chinese teen kills nine, wounds four - with a knife
by james_woods inchinese teen kills nine with a knife and wounds four.
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quote:a teenager has been arrested after killing nine people and wounding four others in a knife attack in northeast china, state media reported thursday.
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OK, I am too old and missing it - but what is this SPARLOCK phenomenon?
by james_woods inat first, i thought it was some legitimate cartoon character (disney or such) that the society was putting down as "demonized".. then, i started getting the idea that perhaps (unbelievably) the society had made him up as a negative "teaching device" to warn jw kids about "worldly demonism".... can this possibly be true?.
surely not even the wtbts could be that stupid!!!.
can somebody explain this to me, please???
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When exactly did the Bible Students fixate on the Jehovah name?
by james_woods ini thought i would start a thread on this in conjunction with the other one on the pronunciation and use of the "jehovah" name.. my premise is that the very early russellites, while being aware of the "jehovah" name, were not obsessed by it as are modern jws.. could some student of jw history again enlighten us (for the record) of how and when this "jehovah fixation" occurred in this religion?.
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The Long Island RR Massacre - does it relate to Trevon Martin.
by james_woods ini was just posting on the trevon thread when ironically i noticed that the tv was on id channel and the colin ferguson shooting of 25 commuter train passengers in 1993.. he was a black man who at first claimed "black rage" against whites, then later said he did not do it, etc.
etc.. he fired his defense attorney, and then put on one of the most delusional shows in a capital murder trial ever seen.
speaking in the third person, he actually put on a pretty good stage show for "the defendent".. one sad detail was that almost all of the surviving wounded passengers testified against him, and were then cross-examined by the madman who shot them in the first place.. he was, of course, found guilty of multiple homicides.
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The Tower of Babel - Languages: Isn't this story unhinged?
by james_woods inbesides the obvious fact that it is historically ridiculous - can anybody make any sense out of this story?.
god was somehow afraid that man was developing too much technology?
just because they were building a tower?.
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CERN admits that experiment did NOT exceed the speed of light...
by james_woods inthe cern scientists who had made the very interesting (and contraversial) claim that they had beamed neutrino particles to a reciever at a speed faster than the speed of light have retracted the claim.... it turns out that there was an error in the experiment due to a faulty connector.. the original announcement was met with a great deal of noise from the scientific community as it would potentially have overturned a large foundation of basic physics..