Posts by transhuman68

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Beatles Songs That Aren't Performed By The Beatles

by DT in

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i was hoping you could help me with a little research project.. for reasons that are a little hard to explain, i'm interested in watching videos of beatles songs that are performed by anybody except the beatles themselves.

i'm especially interested in performances by people from foreign countries, (i'll provide a few examples.

) but feel free to add any other interesting videos.

transhuman68

LOL, I'm a little lo-tech, but here's a list of songs & artists from my media player- (some Australian bands there)- all you have to do is find the video:

Birthday- Sunnyboys

Dear Prudence- Siouxsie & the Banshees

Drive my Car- Billy Thorpe

Get Back- Ike & Tina Turner

Got to yet you into my Life- Earth, mind & Fire

Here, There & Everywhere- Emmylou Harris

I saw her Standing- Bob Welch

It's only Love- Gary U.S. Bonds

I've Just Seen a Face- Jenny Morris

Let it Be- Leo Sayer

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds- Elton John

Oh Darling- Models

Revolution- The Radiators

The Fool on the Hill- Sky

Tomorrow Never Knows- Phil Collins

Eleanor Rigby- Zoot

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Thread Envy

by snowbird in

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transhuman mentioned that someone on the board suffers from thread envy.. are you jealous of other posters who just seem to be able to generate responses to their threads?.

lol..

transhuman68

LOL, you crack me up snowbird! I don't worry too much about replies to my threads; but it's nice to get at least half a dozen, so I know that what is important to me is important to others too- and that I'm not a total weirdo, lol. But we are all different, and have different interests, so sometimes we just have to be unpopular.

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Microsoft drops Windows XP Support Today

by Iamallcool in

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i have windows xp.

you have one too?

what did you replace it with?.

transhuman68

LOL, it's still good enough for my states police force... though I don't trust them anyway.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-police-defends-security-of-outdated-software-20140618-zsdez.html

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What would be a scientific description/explanation of what God is?

by EndofMysteries in

based upon descriptions in the bible and what is known scientifically so far, what would god actually be?

lightning comes out of the throne.

no man may see and live.

transhuman68

A god made of pure energy would succumb to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and burn out in the end. That's probably what happened, and why no-one's seen god for a while, lol.

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Books that changed your life-

by new hope and happiness in

i am not much of a reader as i have two many distractions, but i fancy a challenging read, so please list any book that has changed your entire world view on everything.

i remember as a teenager buying at a yard sale, norman vincent peales " the power of positive thinking" and at the time that had a big impact on me.

but i am a little bit more in to " realistic positive thinking" now..

transhuman68

Maybe 3 books influenced me:

Living In Sin? by John Shelby Spong

The Big Book (A.A.)

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

The Misery of Christianity by Joachim Kahl

LOL, a strange mix, but it marks my path to atheism, I guess.

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What would be a scientific description/explanation of what God is?

by EndofMysteries in

based upon descriptions in the bible and what is known scientifically so far, what would god actually be?

lightning comes out of the throne.

no man may see and live.

transhuman68

The Egyptians worshipped a god that was pure energy- the sun god Aten- this is a hymn written about him by Pharaoh Akhenaten:

You shine out in beauty on the horizon of heaven,
O living disc, the beginning of life.
When you have appeared on the eastern horizon,
you have filled every land with your perfection.
When you set on the western horizon,
the earth lies in darkness as in death.
The earth lies in silence,
for the one who created it has gone to rest on his horizon.
Then the earth becomes bright: you have arisen on the horizon.
As solar disc, you shine by day.
Men awaken and stand on their feet.
Their arms are bent in worship, because you appear. The whole land goes to work.
All beasts are satisfied with their pasture, the trees and plants become green.
The birds flutter in their nests,
raising their wings in worship before your spirit. The ships sail upstream and down.
The fish in the river dart before your face. You make the seed grow in women,
make fluid into mankind.
How manifold are your works!
They are hidden from the face of man,
0 sole God, apart from whom there is no other. You have made people for yourself,
the Lord of all of them,
wearying himself with them,
the Lord of the whole land, rising for them. You are in my heart...

It is believed to be the inspiration for Psalms 104...

...so its true- there is nothing new under the sun... lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten

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Religion vs the gospel

by Fernando in

our family's journey out of the watchtower has led us to see the gospel as the antithesis or exact opposite of religion.. for us religion is men telling us what to believe and do (to control us).. for us the gospel is god telling us what he has done (to liberate us from such men).. how have you come to see the relationship between religion and the gospel?.

transhuman68

Well, its obvious if you know anything about the way the NT was created, and the progression from the simple gospel of Mark to the ultimate complex gospel of John, and the fact that Christianity is hero worship of the man Jesus, and that the meaning of Jesus' death was created by Paul- after the event. Jesus had a mesage for those 1st century believers- what they should do at that moment- that had nothing to do with waiting until he was dead.

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Who Is the Glorious Lord?

by Perry in

all scriptures from new world translation.

isaiah 42:8 i am jehovah.

that is my name; and to no one else shall i give my own glory, neither my praise to graven images.

transhuman68

If the Christians hadn't dishonestly hijacked the Hebrew Scriptures from the Jews to give some credibility to their newly-formed Christ cult these problems wouldn't have occurred. But they did, and so the Bible is full of contradictions like these- it is fatally flawed.

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If a Nuclear War Was to Start would you start praying again

by cassuk11 in

i would be interested to know if the announcement came of an immenent nuclear war would you start praying or get drunk etc etc..

transhuman68

From what I have been led to believe, most people are thinking of their mothers just before they pass away. God is really an alien concept to humans- who, after all, are a form of mammal.

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Religion vs the gospel

by Fernando in

our family's journey out of the watchtower has led us to see the gospel as the antithesis or exact opposite of religion.. for us religion is men telling us what to believe and do (to control us).. for us the gospel is god telling us what he has done (to liberate us from such men).. how have you come to see the relationship between religion and the gospel?.

transhuman68

LOL, what Jesus taught while he was alive- what actually attracted people to him- has nothing to do with the religion that was created after his death. Obviously, Jesus didn't say 'follow me because after I'm dead it will all make sense', but he had his own teaching- which has been obscured by the writers of the Gospels after Jesus died. So you can't follow Jesus- you're 2,000 years too late.