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On Not Mourning the Pope - Thoughts over the grave of John Paul II
by donkey init seems only a year or so since every talk-show host and pundit in the country was telling us that ronald reagan had personally demolished communism in eastern europe.
now we come to the end of an entire week when the mass media behaved as if we all lived in a catholic country and were united in mourning the dear leader, in which this historic achievement of freedom was credited to "the polish pope.
" that isn't necessarily a contradiction: the two men might possibly have shared the work.
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Hello to old friends
by donkey ini don't come to the boards much any more but was reading today and wanted to say hi to all from the past and convey my best wishes to you all.
i miss many of you - especially some of those to whom i was close.
i have been a loner for the past year and have hardly been in contact with anyone from the xjw community.
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DNA - belief destuction
by donkey inthe single largest reason to decimate my belief in jw?s and all biblical faith occurred when i discovered some facts about our cells.
specifically a part of the cell called mitochondria.
mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because their primary purpose is to manufacture adenosine triphosphate (atp), which is used as a source of energy that the cell uses.. as humans one inherits one?s mitochondria only from one's mother, this finding implies that all living humans have a female line of descent from a woman whom researchers have dubbed mitochondrial eve.
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Mike Moore on the Airport Roof?
by donkey in.
did mikey moore climb onto the roof at the airport to cheer the crowd?.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newspackagearticle.jhtml?type=worldnews&storyid=515868ion=news.
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The need to be right
by donkey inas humans we are programmed to survive (whether this is by natural selection or a creator is a separate discussion).
as such we are predisposed to find our comfort zones.
one of the primary mechanisms for this is seeking validation or justification that we are right.. once we feel we are right then we are able to hunker down in that position and we are then able to seek and observe things that support our position, very often ignoring any conflicting contra-indicators or discounting them as irrelevant.
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New explosives found on Spanish Railroad
by donkey infrom reuters news service:.
bomb found on spanish high-speed rail track.
by adrian croft .
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Where did i put it my ticket?
by donkey in.
can you imagine being the dude who has misplaced his ticket for: .
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-1/107960823727600.xml.
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To the right wing Americans
by donkey in.
if john kerry wins the election: will you respect him as your president?.
will you support him?