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  There are two kinds of people in the world....

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  funny!.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cankj9al4o4.

  bts.

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  Falcon 9 about to launch

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  t minus 3 minutes.. cape canaveral, florida.

  live stream here:.

  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/12/space_x_launch_scheduled_for_1.html.

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  Swastikas on the tree: how the Nazis stole Christmas

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  http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/swastikas-on-the-tree-how-the-nazis-stole-christmas-1848467.html.

  presents wrapped in paper covered with nazi symbols nestling beneath a tree adorned with swastikas and grenade-shaped baubles: welcome to christmas under adolf hitler's third reich.. .

  as a new exhibition in the western german city of cologne shows, the nazis tried to skew the christmas story to do away with the jewish baby jesus and impose their racist ideology and propaganda on the popular festival.. "celebrating the birth of a jewish baby was unthinkable for the nazis," juergen mueller, the chief researcher behind the exhibition, told afp.. "but christmas was too popular to be banned.

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  For the Econ geeks!

  by BurnTheShips in

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  the rapping economists return!.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7ob438hk0.

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  Essay: Beyond God and atheism: Why I am a 'possibilian'

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  we have many interesting debates and discussions on this board between members on both sides of the god/nogod divide.. most of us seem to be quite reasonable, and accept and respect differing points of views.. others, a small minority here, dismiss the opposite side as deluded or evil.

  it strikes me that it takes a large amount of mental certainty to do this.. we all have reaped the fruits of such certainty in these matters during our sojourn in the jehovah's witnesses.. this essayist, neuroscientist and fiction writer david eagleman, takes a different view.

  as you know, i am a believer in god.

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  Carpe Diem!

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  it's a beautiful day!.

  don't let it get away.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6wmzdoh1o.

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  Ran over my dog today

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  she was chasing my car up the road.

  i didn't notice her.

  she is gone.. bts.

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  How manly is your drink?

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  http://www.askmen.com/daily/photo_blog/infograph-how-manly-is-your-drink.html.

  i drink single-malt scotch, natch.

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  The EVOLUTION thread!

  by BurnTheShips in

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  i would like to start a boilerplate thread to discuss evolution.

  there seems to be a great deal of interest in the subject.. so, i ask our members, what do you think about the veracity of the biological theory known as evolution?.

  is it true?

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  Save Fatherhood, Save the World

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  a moving video for anyone who has ever had a good father.. perhaps an even more moving video for those whose fathers were broken, or deeply flawed, or not there at all.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgvske63cyhttp://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/08/12/grace-fathers/bts .

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