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  California Recall Debate-- Listen Live --Entertainment!!!

  by Vita Nuova in

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  anyone interested, who is not a california resident, yet wants to listen to the debate click here and listen live!.

  http://www.kqed.org/index.jsp?flash=true

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  Anyone interested, who is not a California resident, yet wants to listen to the debate click here and listen live!
  

  http://www.kqed.org/index.jsp?flash=true
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  Britney Spears Likes George Bush!!

  by teenyuck in

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  she may have boobies; brains are another thing...... been meaning to post this for awhile....simon, i know will appreciate that his goddess has a different opinion....... http://atheism.about.com/b/a/023941.htmseptember 06, 2003. britney spears likes george bush.

  many actors and entertainers have been outspoken critics of president george bush, but especially of his policies in the middle east.

  quite a few have openly condemned his invasion of iraq and the subsequent occupation.

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  I'm not a fan of Britney Spears, her shamelessness, her music, or any of the products she endorses... except for her tacit endorsement of breast implants. But the difference between her and the Dixie Chix is that she didn't go out of her way to assert an opinion on President G.W. Bush, negative or positive. It seems here she was asked a question and she simply answered it. She has no reason to believe that she would be alienating her fan-base. Not so with the Chix, who displayed utter naivete on the repercussions of their initial words, their impudent defiance in the face of their fan-base in appearing as nude martyrs on a magazine cover, and now making a deliberate break with country music scene like a bunch of sore losers. They, like most celebrities who are not admired for their viewpoints on foreign policy, serve themselves best by just sticking to their day jobs.

  "Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent." --Proverbs 17.28
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  Remembering Names

  by iiz2cool in

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  i deal with over 400 people where i work, and i have trouble remembering names.

  everyone knows mine though.

  i can remember their ip addresses more easily than i can remember their names.

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  Yeah, this problem plagues me too. I think I may be losing my mind. Someone could tell me their name 3 times in a conversation, and even when I ask them for their name again, two seconds later in the conversation I've lost it again. By this time, I couldn't possibly ask them for their name again, so I just have to rely on the coincidence of them mentioning their name once more, looking for places where their name might be written, or creating ingenious ways of extracting their name from them without being obvious. The tricky part about those people I see regularly afterwards is acknowledging them in a manner that seems natural, and not as if I am actually trying to disguise the fact that I don't know their name, which I really don't know.
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  A question of culture

  by Adam in

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  last year my girl's daughter was in 3rd grade.

  we lived in cupertino, ca.

  this area has a lot of newly immigrated families from (mainly) the middle east, asia, and mexico.

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  "All of our Ancestors came from somewhere other than the US."

  That’s right our ancestors. How does the culture of our ancestors affect the culture of someone five generations removed from those cultures? That of which you are thinking is ethnicity. Ethnicity is not culture. Culture is an ever-developing growing experience of the individual, not his/her ancestors. American with a capital A qualifies unreservedly as a cultural experience, of which someone who was born and raised in its particular traditions, customs, and values is categorically American. American is not just a nationality, which is a title that refers solely to a legal identity, but most certainly a culture. If a person has brought with him a personal cultural experience as being inculcated within another country, then of course he is more than just American. But to consider one as having a culture of anything based on nothing more than bloodline is plainly absurd. A multi-ethnic society is one thing America champions, true. But the multi-culturalism that is being pushed by all you hesitant Americans will be the end of this uniquely beautiful nation.

  Oh, by the way… Kwanza is a fabricated “holiday” created in 1966 by a California State University professor. Hardly a viable cultural tradition in my opinion.

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  movies that make you ROFL

  by doodle-v in

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  what are the funniest movies that make you just die laughing?

  feel free to include some quotes!

  here are mine (list subject to change) .

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  Another Strangelove quote:

  "Now I've been to one world fair, a picnic and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've heard come over a set of earphones!"

  Another Groundhog Day quote:

  "You speak French?"

  "Oui."

  And let me add The Royal Tenenbaums to the list! Too much!
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  Some questions from a non-JW-XJW

  by TipToe in

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  hello everyone, i have a few questions if you don't mind...i would like to know what it is exactly that jw's believe in and how it differs from the catholic church?

  i might sound ignorant but no one has ever explained to me the basis of jw's beliefs.

  all i know is they seem to believe alot in satan .

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  Welcome, Tip Toe!

  As a convert to Catholicism from the JW cult, let me note one very exceptional difference between the two. Catholics believe that humanity is something which God smiles upon, that is, the human capacity for reason, creativity, love, and industry are not things absolutely subservient to worship, but that these things in themselves can glorify God without being propagandized. Contrarily, Jehovah's Witnesses suppress all these things in utter distrust of them, unless these things are not utilized in a narrow (and often exclusive) way. Thus, Jehovah's Witnesses employ love and charity only within the parameter of their organization, and similarly with reason manifested as fundamentalism. In short, Catholics celebrate humanity while Jehovah's Witnesses manipulate it.

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  Coming to the Dark Side

  by Vita Nuova in

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  i believe with certainty that the critical point when my de-programming from the jw mind-set began was when i was hired by my former boss and present friend of 9 years.

  she was the most adorably human person i had ever met, yet she was a part of the world nonetheless.

  i believe that our specific friendship began to infiltrate my conceptions about the world in a way that wasnt wholly evident to me.

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  I believe with certainty that the critical point when my de-programming from the JW mind-set began was when I was hired by my former boss and present friend of 9 years. She was the most adorably human person I had ever met, yet she was a part of the “world” nonetheless. I believe that our specific friendship began to infiltrate my conceptions about the “world” in a way that wasn’t wholly evident to me. Over the years, her unwitting “bad association” weakened those Watchtower barriers and without my acknowledging it the walls of Jericho had soon come crumbling and tumbling down. This kind of counter-example, I believe, was the best thing for me, really. My natural appreciation for God's creation of a magnificently-faceted humanity could not have been a bigger strength than it was my "weakness." Was nanyone else called to the "Dark Side" by a friend?

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  What Does Your "Apostate Library" Look Like???

  by minimus in

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  willyloman used that expression in a different thread.

  what publications do you have in your "theocratic"----i mean, "apostate library"?

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  Some apostate notables in my own library, in no order of significance save the first...
  

  La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri ...including multiple commentaries

  Complete Poems and Major Prose of John Milton

  Dialogues of Plato

  Works of Aristotle

  Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas

  The Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 volumes), ed. David Noel Freedman

  New Jerome Bible Commentary, ed. Brown, Fitzmeyer, Murphy

  Death of the Messiah by Raymond Brown

  Birth of the Messiah by Raymond Brown

  The Gospel According to John (2 vol.) (Anchor Bible Commentaries) by Raymond Brown

  A Marginal Jew series by John Meier

  ...but the greatest piece of apostate literature in my library... The Holy Bible (a non-New World Translation version).

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  Interesting quotes about belief in God

  by cruzanheart in

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  i'm reading dan brown's book "angels & demons," which is kind of a prequel to "the davinci code," and i'd like to see what you all think of these quotes:.

  "i did not ask if you believe what man says about god.

  i asked if you believed in god.

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  “It is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop believing in God, they believe in anything.” --G.K. Chesterton

  “Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind.” --Albert Einstein.

  Any questions?

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  From Genesis to Revelation, what are the biggest misquotes by JW's ???

  by run dont walk in

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  well, i will start this thread by saying, misquoting ("new light") on this generation will by no means pass away.

  til all these things occur.

  has to be the biggest one.. any stand out in your mind ???.

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  Biggest New World Translation error: Every scripture with "Jehovah God." That's along with the John 1:1 fallacy, of course.

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