Well, while I am not a huge Marlins fan, the National League is better than the American League. So gooooooo Fish!
Phantom Stranger
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Armageddon's not coming / The Cubs aren't going to the World Series...
by logansrun in.
...my life's been one pipe dream after another.. shocked, yet.............not.. bradley from chicago
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Noah...that drunken boat builder?
by shotgun ini've learned a ton on this forum and elsewhere which pretty much disproves noah's global flood to me personally?.
long before this as a dub though one thing always bothered me about the account and how unreasonable it seemed even if you discount the animals.. .
noah had three sons in 600 yrs (noah got it even less than me), his sons did not have any children before the flood.
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Phantom Stranger
Infant mortality seems to have been absent in these records... due to being God's people, no doubt.
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Is space the next battlefield?
by JH inu.s. general sees war in space.
wed october 15, 2003 10:30 pm et .
by tabassum zakaria .
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Phantom Stranger
This has been discussed within the US military for years.
BTW, it doesn't take much launch capability to toss a bunch of fast-moving ball bearings in front of a satellite... someone gets good at that, and all the GPS receivers, overhead photography, and satellite-guided munitions go pfft.
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How do you feel about privacy?
by iiz2cool inever wonder why you are asked for information when you make a purchase?
i've been asked for all kinds of things, like my name, phone number, postal code, etc.
once i made a cash purchase at radio shack.
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Phantom Stranger
RadioShack no longer asking for info at checkout
Retailer skips the introductions
11/26/2002
By MARIA HALKIAS / The Dallas Morning News
RadioShack Corp. is dumping its decades-old, laborious practice of asking customers for their names and addresses at the register.
Some of the happiest people to hear the policy change Monday were those who've been doing the asking all these years, said Leonard Roberts, chairman and chief executive officer of RadioShack.
"We've been flooded with e-mails from the stores thanking us for dropping it," he said. "We've gotten several hundred just this morning."
RadioShack has been collecting customer names and addresses for its mail-order catalog business since before the chain became part of Tandy Corp. in 1963. At one time, the practice was considered smart marketing. But today, Mr. Roberts said, it's become "a barrier to building superior customer relationships."
"Customers tell us the practice of asking them for names and addresses is time-consuming and annoying and is not something that endears them to us," he said.
In today's competitive retail environment, the practice was taking away from RadioShack's convenience factor.
With 5,100 corporate stores, there's a RadioShack in just about every neighborhood. And 60 percent of store sales are under-$10 transactions.
Running in for a $3 battery or cable connector "should be a quick in-and-out transaction," Mr. Roberts said.
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Armageddon's not coming / The Cubs aren't going to the World Series...
by logansrun in.
...my life's been one pipe dream after another.. shocked, yet.............not.. bradley from chicago
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Phantom Stranger
Now that the Red Sox are eliminated we can all breathe easier. Now THAT would hvae been the beginning of the end. Dead rising from the grave, 40 days of darkness, dogs and cats, living together!
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Noah...that drunken boat builder?
by shotgun ini've learned a ton on this forum and elsewhere which pretty much disproves noah's global flood to me personally?.
long before this as a dub though one thing always bothered me about the account and how unreasonable it seemed even if you discount the animals.. .
noah had three sons in 600 yrs (noah got it even less than me), his sons did not have any children before the flood.
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Phantom Stranger
shotgun, you apostate! Noah built an "ark", not a "boat"! Boats have keels! Read your bible better!
No, but seriously, good point, and if you go with a local flood having given rise to the story, then overpopulating a local area would make sense, and having surrounding nations would make sense too...
Uhh..peaceful pete, I beleive that Egyptian mythology has a flood myth, but no "Noah" figure. See below for a summary.
EGYPT -- FLOOD
Ra was warned by the Watery Abyss that humans had grown too rebellious, so he took Hathor and ordered her to punish the people.
Hathor went to earth and slew millions of humans. The streets of the town of Chetenuten began to run like a river with blood because of her horrific endeavour. So much blood drained into the Nile that it overflowed the riverbanks, and the bloody water flooded the land, destroying everything. This water eventually ran into the sea, which overflowed as well. Hathor began drinking this horrible mixture of blood and water.
Ra was displeased with Hathor's work, as he had only wanted to punish, and not destroy, the human race. So he asked Thoth, the wisest God, for help. He then told the Goddess Sektet to mix together dada, fruit and barley to make beer. The beer was then to be mixed with human blood, in the hopes that it would attract Hathor.
Ra's servents were then ordered to pour out the mixture on the remaining land near Hathor. The beer became a great sea, and Hathor was drawn to it by the smell of the blood. She drank the beer until she was so intoxicated that she staggered off to sleep, leaving the last few humans behind.
From those humans, earth was repopulated.
Ra left the upkeep of earth to Thoth from then on, and he went off to rest on the back of the great cow of heaven. Thoth taught humans how to be civilized.
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What Is The Foundation Of Faith Belonging To a Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus injw's are told that they have a faith unlike any other.
what is the faith that the typical witness has??
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Phantom Stranger
Ah, back to question marks, I see, min :)
The typical Witness believes that if they play the game by the rules the WTS has given them, any lack of material success, any weakness of familial relationships, any narrowness of experience or ignorance about the world around them, any pain of loss, or any personal fears of change and growth - all these will be made OK, even praised as "doing good works", and will result in a future paradise where these nagging fears, doubts, pains, and failures will be erased - sort of a "do-over".
I believe that much of the "faith" that Witnesses have is really a fear response. Many of them want to avoid the pain ahd hurt that is a part of life, and being a Witness encourages much of that pain to be denied and ignored - to be discounted as "not real". It seems that a large obstacle for leaving the WTS, and a challenge to deal with once someone has left, is how to manage the pains and hurts that all humans experience, but which Witnesses are ill-prepared to handle.
Life is pain, highness - anyone who says differently is selling something. The Dread Pirate Roberts.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. purported Buddhist saying (also used by many personal growth writers and groups).
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A question to the English and Canadians about tipping?
by Maverick inin the quentin tarantino movie reservoir dogs, steve buscemi's character argues against tipping.
and a very good discussion ensued on this topic.
it is the only thing i liked about that movie, but anyway this came up yesterday.
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Phantom Stranger
Here is a 36-page paper on the History of Tipping, from Northwestern U.
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I'm Back and I've MISSED Yall SO MUCH !!!!
by Frannie Banannie inmy computer was "hi-jacked" by zone labs/zone alarm approx.
3 weeks ago and with my crazy work schedule and everything, i couldn't get over to new caney to my son-in-law to get it fixed till today......i thought it would hafta be "gutted" and rebuilt, cause that zone bugger was hidden and lurking somewhere quietly just waiting for me to get online so it could prevent me from actually doing anything or accessing any websites......but my sil is a computer genius....it's kinda like havin' a doctor in the family...... anyway...just wanna let yall know my schedule has changed to 12 hr days 4 days a week, so i'll only be online 3 days a week till that changes....and my 4/12's start tomorrow....of course that's subject to change after next tuesday.....i don't know why i don't have an ulcer from all this craziness...prolly do have one..... annnnnnnnnnnd....lawhamercy, i missed yall somethin' awful!!!!!.
hugs 'n smoochies (cyberly) to everyone here!!!!!.
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Phantom Stranger
Nice to see you back FB
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JW Admits She Doesn't Want To Think!
by minimus inone of my wife's best friends talked to her yesterday about "the truth".
she wanted to know if they could get together to "talk".
after some conversation, my wife asked her if she thought all the "prophecies" in the isaiah book seemed reasonable.
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Phantom Stranger
No, Sally-the-troll, the only surprising thing about Minimus' post was that it didn't end with a question mark.