I'm quite skeptical about such shows, as with the state of CGI, absolutely anything can be created in a computer and made to look believable and authentic.
Having said that, there probably ARE some animals which remain undetected so far, such as the coelacanth, discovered alive in 1939, or the hobbits of the south pacific (which some believe may have survived until less than 500 years ago).
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Any fans of the paranormal/cryptozoology shows that are on lately?
by Low-Key Lysmith ini'm speaking of:.
ghost hunters (sci fi network).
ghost hunters international (sci fi network).
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Free To Air Satellite TV - Is this "stealing" satellite?
by gaiagirl ina jw i know was describing his satellite installation, which he describes as "free to air", consisting of a dish and a receiver which does not use acess cards, hooked up to his tv, allowing hundreds of channels with no monthly subscription or payment to a satellite provider.
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is this legitimate, or is he receiving something free which he should be paying for, in effect "stealing" satellite tv?
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A JW I know was describing his satellite installation, which he describes as "Free To Air", consisting of a dish and a receiver which does not use acess cards, hooked up to his TV, allowing hundreds of channels with no monthly subscription or payment to a satellite provider.
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JW weddings gone bad. A story from my old congo.
by uwishufish inmiddle tenn late 70s.
first there was the child the high school girl had out of wedlock.
the term rape was bandied about after she began to show.
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I attended a wedding which went fairly smoothly until the actual vows. The elder giving the talk told the groom to repeat after him, and said a half-dozen words..."I, (name witheld), do take you (name also witheld)".
The groom attentively looked at the elder and began to repeat the words which had been spoken by the elder "I, (name witheld), do take.." when his bride urgently whispered (amplified by the microphone into which they were speaking), "Look at ME!". -
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Eden was supposedly destroyed in the Flood, therefore the sword was no longer necessary. Jehovah deactivated/retrieved it. Or perhaps the water shorted it out, and it's an artifact buried in sediment somewhere...perhaps beneath the ruins of the Ark : )
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Future = Will we find "religion" on other planets! Will it survive on earth
by Witness 007 inif an alien visited earth in the 1600's he would find a culture deeply rooted in religion with little scientific knowledge.
if we travelled to other planets in 2080 will we find jehoovers witnesses??
or some other form of religion...or will they be scientific and logical....will we still be religious in 1,000 years due to scientific breakthroughs in the last 100 years?
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Mmmm, I believe you just experienced a "logic meltdown". If you really believe in Adam and Eve, and that they broke a rule, then it doesn't matter what happened anywhere else, does it?
A more satisfying view is that of some of the ancient Greeks:
Hereclitus (500 B.C.E.) wrote that each star visible in the sky was the center of a planetary system.
Democritus (ca 425 B.C.E.) considered that the Milky Way was a cloud of stars, each with planets around them, but that only SOME planets were capable of supporting life.
Metrodotus (250 B.C.E.) wrote "To call Earth the only inhabited world is as unwise as saying there exists only one blade of grass in a meadow".
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Red Sea Chariot Wheels?
by MissingLink inhey guys.
there is an email making the jw (and other christians) rounds right now that is basically a copy of this article.
that claims that artifacts found in the red sea prove that egypt's army was wiped out when moses and friends crossed.. is this true, or a hoax?.
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I don't believe I've ever been to any natural body of water, from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico, which did NOT have old tires thrown in. I'd be surprised if this had not been happening for millenia, all over the world.
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How many exjw's do you think there are out there now?
by Velvetann ini am not sure if anyone has asked this before but i am curious.
does anyone know approximately how many of us have left the watchtower society in the past 20 years.
it seems to me that it is compounding monthly lately.
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A good question, rephrased "Are there more ex-JWs than current, active JWs"? If so, could we not simply infiltrate and take over? : )
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Bye-Bye Brooklyn....were OUTTA there! Real Estate news.
by oompa ini was told today by a heavyweight elders wife, both of whom were at bethel for many years and are very well connected to the brooklyn brass, that all brooklyn bethel operations will be moved to wallkill and patterson.
in fact, there is a very exclusive walk-through next week for some of the top real estate investors/developers who will see all the properties, starting with the sands, and its lobby has now been remodeled to look just like a high-end hotel..................just fyi.................................oompa
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The WTC was such a huge tragedy, I wonder if the event would have been viewed as of comparable magnitude, or indeed, if so many lives would have been lost, had the planes flown into the Brooklyn complex instead? Not sure if I wish I had happened that way or not, as many on this board have family or friends who might have perished had that occurred.
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More, More, More (Andrea True Connection)
The Alien (?)
Walk the Dinosaur (Was, Not Was)
Safety Dance (Men Without Hats)
Walking On Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves)
Touch Me All Night Long (Cathy Denis)
I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule)
World on Fire (Jane Weidlin)
Staceys Mom (Fountains of Wayne)
Two of Hearts (Stacey Q)
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"Bad" songs at JW weddings
by B_Deserter inwhen i was in my teens, jw weddings were quite the social affair.
of course, the music was strictly regulated by the elders.
somehow though, in each wedding, someone managed to get the song "you shook me all night long" by ac/dc into the dj's rotation, and all of the "bad" witnesses would have a blast dancing to it.
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I once attended a witness wedding at which the bride chose the '70s song "I've got pieces of April (but it's a morning in May)". Kind of strange, until we later learned that her finance had told her a few days earlier that he didn't love her and wanted to call off the wedding. She convinced him to go through with it anyway, they were unhappy, and split up a few years later.