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  How rare is your personality [FLUFF]

  by diamondblue1974 in

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  well i havent posted for a little while so i thought i would get back into the habit (i have had withdrawals, seriously .

  it isnt big, it isnt clever but its a great bit of fun if your bored.. http://www.blogthings.com/howrareisyourpersonalityquiz.

  gary.

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  Your Personality is Very Rare (INTJ)

  Your personality type is logical, uncompromising, independent, and nonconformist. Only about 3% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 4% of all men. You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging.

  How Rare Is Your Personality?
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  UFOs what do you think?

  by MariAruet in

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  ok, i know this is a taboo but could it all be just a product of imagination?.

  i wached something tonight on tv then went to internet and found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqgfalftl4u.

  what do you think?.

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  I think the chance of intelligent life arising is astronomically small, but the universe is astronomically big. There's an equation called the Drake equation, although it's not much more than a thought experiment since we really can't ascertain all the variables.
  
  N = R* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L
  where:
  
  N is the number of civilizations in our galaxy, with which we might hope to be able to communicate; and
  
  R* is the rate of star formation in our galaxy
  fp is the fraction of those stars that have planets
  ne is the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
  fl is the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
  fi is the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
  fc is the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
  L is the length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.
  
  Carl Sagan played with it on one of the Cosmos episodes, and depending on your speculations the universe could be teeming with life, or it could be relatively barren. Looking at the pictures of the Hubble deep field survey I think that there are certainly other civilizations out in the universe somewhere, even if you'd put very low odds for each item chances are still good there's been a handful of civilizations in the universe.
  
  Have we been visited though? I think most alien encounters can be explained away as tricks of the human mind, or not giving human ingenuity enough credit. I can't say for certain that we have never been visited by beings from another planet, but I think it's unlikely.
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  Did you ACTUALLY do this?

  by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

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  as part of your "dedication and baptism" did you actually go to jehovah in prayer and "dedicate" your life to him prior to your baptism?

  at the time when the elders were reviewing the "questions" with me, i hadn't a clue that i was supposed to do this until one of them asked directly.

  i answered in the affirmative anyway ... wanting the incessant questioning to be over as quickly as possible.

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  Yes I prayed quite fervently, I bought into it hook, line, and sinker. I felt pretty darn spiritual.
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  First impressions of Dallas

  by Crumpet in

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  hi all - well i got here a few hours ago.

  the flight started off well, but i got over greenland and suddenly got very ill - high temperature, and nausea.

  i called the flight attendants who moved to the back and in the process i fainted.

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  Yeah some areas got 100 mph winds, but it was just a little storm. :)
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  If you could spend 1 year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember

  by new boy in

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  nothing of the experience would you do so?..................if not, why not?

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  My original thought was no I would not want to if I couldn't remember, but then the thought occured to me that we ultimately don't remember *anything* anyway, so what's one year when confronted with an infinity of oblivion? Maybe I would like to spend one year.
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  Science question for essay.

  by winnie in

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  ozti the ice man.

  how do you think science has helped to unlock and preserve the past?.

  any ideas welcome..

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  By applying the scientific method we have learned how to harness the energy contained in fossil fuels. In addition we have also learned through science that the burning of fossil fuels is likely contributing to the warming of the planet which has caused the glaciers to retreat revealing Otzi the iceman!
  
  Seriously though I'd pick something that started as a hypothesis and as our understanding grew we were able to make tools to measure it. Like how our understanding of radioactivity lead to tools for carbon dating.
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  WTS Teachings on Online Gaming/Video Games

  by NotaNess in

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  how is this practiced in the congregations?

  how strict do they get?

  some of you might have been out when the more recent games and technology was released, but give me your experiences.

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  I first thought WTS ment Want To Sell. I've played online games too much. I don't see how they could justify playing it with all the witchcraft, necromancy, violence, and scantily clad women there's a game called Lineage II, and some of the female avatars look like they just came out of an S&M shop. It's a virtual sin fest!
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  what song do you want played at your funeral?

  by ninja in

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  what funny song do you want played at your funeral?......what about ..."burn baby burn....disco inferno"...or...."living in a box"...more please

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  "Albuquerque" by Weird Al
  
  First time I listened to this song I was driving with a friend from east Texas back to the Dallas area, and we laughed so hard we were crying. The song almost killed us!
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  Without Any Observer Can The Universe Exist?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  what do you think?

  it is kind of like the question: if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a noise as it crashes to the ground?

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  Maybe it'd be like Schrodinger's cat and be in both states until observed.
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  Do You Pogo??

  by Scully in

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  when i'm bored, i like to play games on pogo.com - i've been a member there for a lonnngggg time.. i was thinking that it might be a fun thing to do when/if jwd is on the fritz to have some jwders on my pogo friends list and start up a group game.. if you're interested, send me a pm and we'll exchange pogo aliases.

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  SacrificialLoon

  You made that avatar appear at the top of the page? Awesome! You must be quite the hacker! lol