Don't throw those valuable mags out!
Make a real statement. Use them to wipe your ass then put them back.
osmosis
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Guess what I found
by Lady Lee in.
they haven't knocked on my door but either they have gotten in or someone in the building is one.. i live in a russian seniors residence.
almost everyone is russian and most of them speak only russian.. i saw this in the hall outside the elevators and snatched it up before someone else decided to take it home and read
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osmosis
Not takin the bait.
Still shunning this.. er.. person.
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Is revenge sweet?
by lovelylil ina friend of mine recently told me that she had committed this "act of revenge" on an elders wife once.
i know the elders wife too and she is such a snoody-nose in the air, my family is better than yours person.
both her boys grew up witnesses and are in the org.
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osmosis
I try to avoid the issue by not letting people do things to me that would make me thirst for revenge in the first place.
But failing that, yes, appropriate revenge can be very very sweet. I say appropriate to mean that there has to be a point to the revenge, it can't just be bad for the other guy/gal, there has to be a valuable lesson in there somewhere.
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The meme theory
by osmosis inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/meme
the basic idea of the meme theory is that thoughts and information have a life of their own.
they are born, they evolve, they die.
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osmosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
The basic idea of the meme theory is that thoughts and information have a life of their own. They are born, they evolve, they die. They pass from one person to another, with the people acting as hosts for the memes.
If meme theory is correct, then it can easily be seen how a meme could be self-propogating. For example, some memes could flourish by instructing their hosts to reproduce as quickly and as often as possible (think catholics). Some memes could flourish by instructing their hosts to attack other hosts with conflicting memes (think holy crusades). Memes could also be beneficial to their hosts (think not eating pork at a time when there's no such thing as a refrigerator).
Has anyone else ever given this theory any serious consideration? Personally, I think meme theory "works", and goes a long way toward explaining certain beliefs.
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Are you tired of the whole atheist/believer debate?
by nicolaou ini'm usually the first one to stir this particular pot but it get's so frustrating to keep coming up against the same old arguments.
the phrase "banging your head against a brick wall" springs to mind.
how many times have believers argued for a designer but refused to answer the obvious question of the designer's origin?.
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osmosis
I believe I can shed some light on why science and evolution is such a bad thing for (some) creationists.
Non-fundies have it made, argument-wise. They have a thing called "faith", which seems to (in their eyes) transcend everything that atheists take for granted as real, rational or logical. Faith replaces proof, and therefore no argument can touch these guys. No matter what you say, it's an automatic tie. Science is generally ok with non-fundies, because their beliefs are not tethered to such concepts as proof or reason.
Then there's the fundy. A fundy believes in the literal truth of the bible, often to the extent of believing that the earth came to be in 6 literal days. A fundy doesn't have "faith" like a non-fundy does, and therefore they can be touched with logic, which is why the believer who gets angriest during a debate is usually a fundy, because a successful argument against their beliefs makes them very uncomfortable.
One thing common to both groups, in fact all religions that I know of, is the all-or-nothing nature of the claim being made. If one little piece of that puzzle doesn't fit, then the whole thing disintegrates.
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JW featured in Fundies Say the Darndest Things newsletter
by rebel8 inthis web site has a monthly online newsletter featuring quotes from internet postings of fundies.
you can submit links to wierd posts you come across.. april's newsletter features a post from a jw who is on myspace.com a lot.
his posts are strange to say the least, but he claims to be a jw.. http://www.fstdt.com/, see quote from "mars" from myspace, a little over half the way down.
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osmosis
I wonder just what these fundies would say.
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osmosis
LOL WW. Hey, join the club, you're not the only one who needs more "sack" time.
This is just a little joke I came up with because I saw people referring to fundamentalists as "fundies" and I kept thinking, "where have I heard that word before?"
Somehow I have trouble thinking of fundamentalists and "fun undies" as having that much in common.
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What kind of funeral will you have?
by MsMcDucket ini know that this is a morbid topic, but i often wonder what kind of funeral that i should have.
i mean, i'm not associated with any religion.
i don't want a preacher there speaking about the afterlife or trying to recruit followers.
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osmosis
Bah what does it matter what happens to my body after I'm dead.. for all I care someone can have me stuffed and use me for a coat rack.
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OK believers, time to put up or shut up...
by Gregor inapparently, a large percentage of xjw's who post on this site have embraced some other form of god/jesus belief to replace the wt doctrine.
most of them fall into the "i accept the lord jesus christ as my personal savior" class.
they are still extremely attached to the old "forgiveness of sin through the shed blood of jc" line.
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osmosis
Ahh the evil clown throws a grenade.. many people take the bait, a good time is had by some..
Pretty much anything I might have said has already been said, so I'm reduced to offering a few pithy truisms I've learned in my short life.
- People don't want to believe, they need to believe.
- People's beliefs are very personal to them; you cannot attack a person's beliefs without attacking them, in their eyes.
- The same logic that applies in other areas of the psyche do not apply to beliefs.
- Pastafarianism is the one and only true religion.
