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  Drinking Soda Pop Doubles Risk of Kidney Disease

  by read good books in

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  this article didn't post, oh well, it exposes the dangers of soda pop and it's link to kidney disease, i see sooo many young people and their kids still swigging cans of soda and i want to say hey your wrecking your health, i know for the very health consciounce this isn't big news.http://www.naturalnews.com/025582.html

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  I'd argue in favor of tighter government control on soda pop for health's sake.
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  COULD 2008 BE THE NEW 1914?

  by badboy in

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  some are saying it will be a pivotel equivalent to each other..

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  They said this day would never come.
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  Amazing interviews with real people

  by beksbks in

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  these interviews were done in 1971. i've only listened to three or four now, but they are intense.

  i can't seem to stop crying.

  you have to go to the site and choose an interview, and it takes real player to listen.. http://www.studsterkel.org/htimes.php.

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  The new policies being put in place are going to cause some real tear-jerking interviews in 50 years.

  Read the tarot cards?

  In the long run, we're all dead --- Keynes.
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  We Will Recover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by Warlock in

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  http://www.rense.com/general85/no.htm.

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  I saw Limbaugh at CPAC yesterday. He was awesome!

  A far right moral GOP leader? That would put wind in liberal sails.
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  Article: The Atheist's Dilemma

  by BurnTheShips in

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  campos: the atheist's dilemmaby paul camposwhy is stanley fish so much smarter than richard dawkins?

  that question occurred to me last week, while attending a lecture at which fish, the well-known literary and legal theorist, did the thing he always does, which is to make the following point over and over again:.

  "no believer will find his faith shaken by evidence that is evidence only in the light of assumptions he does not share and considers flatly wrong.".

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  I do not see any reason why God could not -- as a purely hypothetical possibility -- make his presence known in a non-subjective manner that cannot be dismissed as a hoax or hallucination. There can be any number of scenarios in which God sends a message in a manner that (1) lies beyond the scope of a hoax (e.g. present throughout nature at many different levels), (2) can be measured by instruments, recorded, and replicated, (3) contains specific information that has predictive value, and so forth. Maybe it takes a little imagination, but it is not inconceivable.

  That's when God would become god. He would get transferred from the religious to the secular (scientific) realm and lose his sacral character.
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  How Old are You ?

  by flipper in

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  i know- you aren't used to seeing me ask a simple question like this.

  so- i'll start .

  i am 49 years old, will be 50 in october .

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  I saw your pic. Amazing. You make me think of my gorgeous ex-colleague. She was 28 at the time.

  Can I get a kiss now?
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  JW top a "Belief in demon activity" poll

  by inkling in

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  2. beliefs

  a recent article in the new york times on bobby jindal's amateur .

  exorcist experience.... http://blow.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/bobby-jindal-the-exorcist-pro-or-con/ .

  quotes a survey that asked people of various religious groups.

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  There's still a lot of superstition among JWs.
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  Neither atheists nor theists but still moral

  by hamilcarr in

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  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/us/28beliefs.html?ref=us&pagewanted=all.

  scandanavian nonbelievers, which is not to say atheists

  by peter steinfels .

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  "That the parents is perceived as atheists surprice me a little, because here in Denmark we are
  generally both christians and atheists at the same time, some more or less!!

  The first time I traveled to America after "mentally" leaving JWs, I was surprised to be labelled "an atheist". After some months, it became a self-fulfiling prophecy, I started to behave myself as a Dawkins-type anti-theist. Fortunately, I quit atheism too.
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  Neither atheists nor theists but still moral

  by hamilcarr in

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  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/us/28beliefs.html?ref=us&pagewanted=all.

  scandanavian nonbelievers, which is not to say atheists

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  Thoughtful, well-educated Danes and Swedes reacted to Mr. Zuckerman’s basic questions about God, Jesus, death and so on as completely novel. “I really have never thought about that,” one of his interviewees answered, adding, “It’s been fun to get these kinds of questions that I never, never think about.”

  That's my experience, too. After asking people in field ministry for the umpteenth time 'why does God allow suffering and hardship?', I started to notice people just don't see the relevance of this question. Religion as a nonissue is detrimental to the Watchtower. Such an attitude to religion is really contagious.
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  Neither atheists nor theists but still moral

  by hamilcarr in

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  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/us/28beliefs.html?ref=us&pagewanted=all.

  scandanavian nonbelievers, which is not to say atheists

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  the individualist idea in america is also a form of groupthink, imo

  I guess all human beings indeed need communities and social contacts. How could individualism be measured after all? I think American individualism is just a myth.