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4 million year old superbug in a cave in New Mexico
by schnell inhttp://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/10/504691357/million-year-old-hero-bug-emerges-from-cave.
this is pretty fascinating.
paenibacillum is not pathogenic, but is absolutely battle-hardened as far as bacteria go, having spent 4 million years in a 1600' deep cave that takes 10,000 years to get water from the surface and never sees sunlight..
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Selflessness, Pride, and Awakening
by schnell ini haven't attended a meeting in months and last attended half of a one day assembly because i couldn't take another half.
but truth be told, i have been more intrigued by buddhism since i was a teenager.
in fact, i am finally getting around to reading the dhammapada by gautama buddha himself.
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Numbers 31:17 and 18
by schnell innow therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
but all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.. *sigh*.
it's not that i haven't seen this passage before.
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Lilith
by schnell inso i just learned about adam's first wife, made from the same dirt as him.
some of the google images that came up made me want to hurl.. if you're not aware, there is talmudic lore about adam having a wife named lilith who left him after he wouldn't submit to her, and what's more, she is pictured as the serpent who tempted eve.
a lot of that seemed to develop in the middle ages though.
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Planning my next steps...
by schnell ini work a little over 40 hours per week, but i recognize that all good things are due to end.
i actually got to meet my company president this week, and she's a very nice lady who is very nicely offering $5000 yearly scholarships to her employees and their families.
i don't have a degree, though i did get a nice college experience before i dropped out, and i'm considering online university.. for starters, i could probably afford the computer science undergrad program at university of the people.
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"There is a friend for everyone in the corporation's clutches"
by schnell in"there is a friend for everyone in the corporation's clutches" -- brokeback watchtower.
i just needed to make a separate thread about this.. forced friends are not friends.
as the great marvin gaye said, "smiling faces tell lies.
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Hey, remember when Family Guy had a Watchtower?
by schnell inhey, remember that one time on family guy when the evil monkey in chris's closet became a jw?.
i remember thinking, pssht, they'd never do that.. hey, remember when they did it?.
i am dying to know if someone awake at bethel in the art department or whatever saw that episode and recommended this cover a few years ago.
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To the brother who called in sick after Thanksgiving vacation
by schnell inthanks.. no really, thank you.. you decided to drive down to la with your wife and kids to be with extended family and eat a great big meal on thanksgiving.
that's awesome.
no, really, i hope you had great thanksgiving.. then you drove back up here, and that's a good day's drive so you were pretty tired.
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When 2 JWs have the same call...
by schnell inas i was driving past a certain gas station today, i recalled that the family who own it are called on by a friend of mine, and in a territory where it's hard to find interest.
it reminded me of an incident months back when this friend, brother d, discovered that another friend, brother b, was calling on that family too.
hey, gotta make your time.. those two went at it.
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Regulate the Content of Religion?
by schnell inmy mom texted me to come back and said, "they will close religion!
" here is my response:.
no, they're not closing religion.