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  Car Reviews - What are you driving, how do you rate it?

  by badwillie in

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  i am in the market for a new (used, new to me) car .

  please help me out.. i currently drive a 1993 volvo 960 with 150,000 miles on it.

  not given me any major problems, i'm just itching for something different really.

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  Oh, I should have mentioned that our nice new car is a 2004 Acura TSX (it's the Japanese Accord with leather, basically). Great car, great looking, fun to drive, plenty of power. Since I work at home, I don't get to drive it much, though...
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  Christianity the biggest scam ever!!!

  by William Penwell in

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  reading a number of posts here it seems like a fair amount of posters are still into and pushing the christian philosophy.

  i would like to start a discussion here that objectively examines the evidence and not base a belief on "blind faith".

  after leaving the jdubs, i have read a number of books over the past few years.

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  "Elsewhere, had you examined the evidence, you would have found evidence to support the belief that Jesus Christ literally came to Earth and existed, just as recorded in Scripture."

  I will concur that there is some evidence that supports the idea that some man named Yeshua lived in Isreal at that time. It is certainly not conclusive evidence, or proof (see below) - and there's darned little of it. As far as evidence that he "literally came to earth" - I'm pretty sure that's inadmissible hearsay.

  ev·i·dence
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  1. A thing or things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment:
  2. Something indicative; an outward sign:
  3. Law. The documentary or oral statements and the material objects admissible as testimony in a court of law.

  proof
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  1. The evidence or argument that compels the mind to accept an assertion as true.
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  Bush Bash, Anti-gay marrige.

  by SC_Guy in

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  i think bush is trying to screw this country one more time before he's voted out of office....

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  Internet polls are notoriously unreliable -ask Donald Wildmon... I think SF Jim helped screw up Wildmon's groups anti-gay-marraige poll a few months back...

  While I personally have no problem with gay marriage (gays can't screw up marriage any worse than straights have), I tend to think that the Gallup-type polls are correct - mostly because suburban America thinks they don't know any gays.

  After Will and Grace is in syndication for a few years, the next generation will come along, and they just won't care.
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  Bush Bash, Anti-gay marrige.

  by SC_Guy in

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  i think bush is trying to screw this country one more time before he's voted out of office....

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  Good examples of how churches don't have to marry anybody...
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  George Bush on "Meet the Press"

  by RubaDub in

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  wow.... .

  i'm surprised by the lack of comment on bush's appearance on the show "meet the press.".

  i was expecting the conserveatives to be praising his rousing comments in the interview.

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  You know, on the one hand, I know that everyone does it to some degree... but most of us, after being followed around by reportedr with tape recorders for four years, would probably get better at it.
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  Where's the best place to live?

  by Steve Lowry in

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  i don't usually start non-jw threads, but i was wondering about other places to move to.

  i live in atlanta and while i love a lot of things about it, sometimes i think about moving on.

  i was in south florida for the first thirty-five years and have been here for the last fourteen.

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  Portland Oregon is very nice. If you've lived in Florida, you can handle rain. Just have a job arranged - we're still way underemployed out here.
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  Ralph Nader Running?

  by patio34 in

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  why does ralph nader want to give another term to president bush (what other reason can he have for running and dividing the voters as he may have done in 2000)?

  i just don't understand.

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  I'll see your Minnesota and raise you Oregon. Most of the Nader voters here that I know vote every time, and are very politically active.
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  Bush Bash, Anti-gay marrige.

  by SC_Guy in

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  I certainly concur with you that stereotypes and prejudices are to be avoided no matter which direction they're pointing.

  However, I really seriously don't believe that refusing to prevent two people from marrying is giving them a license to sue anyone who refuses to bless their marriage.

  And I do believe that amending the constitution in this way would lessen the moral authority of that document.

  The latest news seems to make clear that Bush came out in favor of the amendment to nail down the right (who was nervous about deficits, service records, and the economy), while NOT working at all to get it through Congress. One unnamed Republican senator "with ties to the religious conservative movement" told the Washington Post's Milbank: This is "the last place Bush wanted to be. He should be coasting on being the war president and deliverer of tax cuts; instead, he has to take a divisive role on a contentious social issue that could undercut him as a compassionate conservative."

  This article http://slate.msn.com/id/2096061/ examines Bush's own flip-flops on federalism and state's rights over this very issue... but we in Oregon already know that his Attorney General has ditched state's rights - by fighting our assisted suicide laws, passed by a majority of our voters.
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  George Bush on "Meet the Press"

  by RubaDub in

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  wow.... .

  i'm surprised by the lack of comment on bush's appearance on the show "meet the press.".

  i was expecting the conserveatives to be praising his rousing comments in the interview.

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  Or , just go here:

  http://slate.msn.com/id/76886/

  List of Bushisms...
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  Christianity the biggest scam ever!!!

  by William Penwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading a number of posts here it seems like a fair amount of posters are still into and pushing the christian philosophy.

  i would like to start a discussion here that objectively examines the evidence and not base a belief on "blind faith".

  after leaving the jdubs, i have read a number of books over the past few years.

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  I still thought the German-Soviet nonaggression pact of 1939 was the biggest scam ever...