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  How unlucky can Charles and Camilla get?!

  by nicolaou in

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  first they plan to get married in windsor castle but that goes wrong and they end up in the town hall.

  then 'mummy' decides that she won't attend the actual wedding ceremony, nor will prince philip.

  then charles is told he must repent for his affair with camilla and apologise to her first husband, andrew parker bowles.

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  I've just been listening to a radio debate; It seems that there is an even split.

  Some think that Charles & Camilla ought to postpone their wedding out of respect for the Pope.

  Others however seem to be blaming the Vatican for not taking into consideration that Friday was Charles and Camilla's wedding day!!

  How long before the conspiracy theories begin?; Maybe they will suggest that the Pope died this week deliberately to snub the Royal wedding.

  Still it does seem that their impending wedding has been dogged by disaster.

  My opinion, for what its worth is that maybe its time we Brits decided that the Royal family has run its course and abolished Royalty altogether.

  After all the only real value they bring is to the tourist industry!!

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  What Was Your Opinion Of Ronald Reagan???

  by minimus in

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  did you love him, hate him or not care one way or another because at the time you were "neutral"?

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  In the 80's I wasnt supposed to have any political oppinions, however I always respected the man a great deal. Without him we may still be involved in a 'cold war' against Russia, the Berlin wall may not have come down and "Frankie Goes To Hollywood" would never have produced one of the best music video's ever with "two tribes" showing Reagan and Gorbachev fighting it out in a ring fight.

  Seriously though, I respected his politics, and think he will be remembered in history as a great president.

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  The "What If" Game

  by copsec in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i ask a question, the next person answers my question and then asks their own and so on.

  so i will start off with....... .

  what if animals could talk?

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  WHY IS THE SKY BLUE?

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  The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.
  

  However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.
  
  

  As you look closer to the horizon, the sky appears much paler in color. To reach you, the scattered blue light must pass through more air. Some of it gets scattered away again in other directions. Less blue light reaches your eyes. The color of the sky near the horizon appears paler or white.
  
  

  If you could go back in time what would you do?
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  "Politics is doo-doo" (a rant)

  by logansrun in

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  folks, after many an argument on-line about politics on this forum i have come to the conclusion that politics is $hit.

  bush lies.

  so does kerry.

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  Its the same here in the UK, whether its Labour or Conservitive, Tony Blair or Willam Hague, you hear the same old lies. Naturaly everything is geard up to promotion and public acceptance. But now we have a Labour party that is more conservative than Thatcher ever was, and a conservative party that has totaly lost the plot.

  And this is my first year away from the borg where I can cast a vote!!! Who should I vote for?

  Maybe I should just 'watse' my vote and vote Liberal??

  Who Knows.

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  The Times They Are A Changing - more active witnesses are posting

  by truthseeker in

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  is it me, or is there a 'quiet revolution' going on?

  maybe 'revolution' is not the correct word.

  i just went on e-watchman's site and looked on the guest page.

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  Brother Beyond

  I first posted on an ex jw site when I was still an elder, it was not this site, but the very fact that I looked at those sites, not to mention posted on them was indicitive of my dis-satisfaction.

  I am now myself an Ex-JW, and would nevr consider going back.

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  browsing online at 26.4k dialup

  by dh in

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  i was just laying here plonking away at my computer dialed in at the high speed of, yes you guessed it 26.4k... that's 26.4 whole kilobytes per second.. at one time this was state of the art .. i shouldn't complain because it's a free service, but come on, 26.4k?.

  anyone else going this slow or is it just me?.

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  I used to be on broadband connecting at 512kbps, but i recently moved to a very rural location and cannot as yet get broad band. I am now back to dial up

  My standard connection rate is 26.4kbps

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  Paradise Earth? Yes. Divine Name? Sure? "The Organization"? No.

  by ParadiseBeach in

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  i walked away from "the organization" in october of 1996. i was neither df-ed nor even reproved.

  i just walked away.

  the belief in this earth being restored by christ someday always appealed to me.

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  Welcome to the board ParadiseBeach
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  Fear Of Flying?

  by Englishman in

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  maybe you were right to be frightened!.

  http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?static=yes&specialsearch=order_views.

  click on home and check out "most popular".. .

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  LOL Englishman,

  I was not afraid of flying, well not till I checked out your post!!

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  Lost

  by Puternut in

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  feeling lost today.. it's the weekend, and i will be once again going home to an empty house, where my children won't be welcoming me home.

  i haven't seen or talked to them in a very long time.

  i won't be able to kiss their sweet faces, or hold them close to me, so i can tell them i love them.

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  Brother Beyond

  I hope you dont mind me replying, I know that you asked for no replies, but I could not ignore this post!

  Like the others who have replied to your post, I am sorry that you are having such a tough time, I hope that you find some support to help you through this.

  I have sent you a private message.

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  Scary pictures

  by Surfacing in

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  i remember as a kid being freaked out by two pictures.

  one was of the demons floating away leaving their screaming wives and babies during the flood, and the other was the collage with the gas mask guy and the kid holding his hands over his ears and the dead guy with the chopsticks.... .

  oh yes, did i mention that i wasn't allowed to watch the care bears movie as a kid because of the "frightening and demonic" scenes?

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  How many times has the WTS taken issue against the Catholics portral of hell?

  I think any child would find these scenes equally as frightening.

  As a child I also had my TV programmes vetted to make sure there was no demonic or disturbing images, yet I was subjected to these kind of images regularly whilst attending meetings and doing family study.

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