Posts by Dan-O

if damage from one storm is going to cost, as they say, over a hundred billon dollars what would happen if we have another storm like that one, and another, and another, and another....

i mean prices of fuel have jumped to record high all over the world as result of one storm, how bad can it get really?

just this simple analysis would tell me that in a year or two of such hammering economy of the entire world could collapse.

Sorry, Black Sheep. I didn't mean to double up your post. I agree with you, though. It's way too soon to grab a chicken Little "The sky is falling!" approach & blame Katrina's damage on theories about man-made global warming.

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Is Katrina just a precursor of things to come?

by zagor in

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if damage from one storm is going to cost, as they say, over a hundred billon dollars what would happen if we have another storm like that one, and another, and another, and another....

i mean prices of fuel have jumped to record high all over the world as result of one storm, how bad can it get really?

just this simple analysis would tell me that in a year or two of such hammering economy of the entire world could collapse.

Dan-O

The fun part is that for the past 35 years, the number of hurricanes that have made landfall in the U.S. have been lower than the average of the past 150 years. What happens when the numbers swing back the other way, now that people have had a few decades of relative calm to build more beachfront condos?

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml

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Wedding Anniversaries

by sandy in

i just heard through some ex-witnesses that it is no longer okay for witnesses to celebrate wedding anniversaries.

i was very surprised to hear this.

i am sure it has been discussed here but i cannot find anything on the matter.

Dan-O

After all, G Hoover blessed the union, didn't He? ;-P

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What song reminds you of your first crush/lover?

by JH in

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probably you'll have to go way back in time... .

Dan-O

Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

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WATCHTOWER PUBLICLY ADMITS HUMAN OPINION AND NOT GOD'S SPIRIT

by Terry in

can any christian imagine jesus christ taking the pharisees to court and complaining to the sanhedrin:

"stop these men from quoting me accurately--it is embarassing!"?

the pharisees twisted words for their own benefit and opposed jesus publicly for exposing their errors as errors of men spouting human opinion and passing it off as god's authority.

Dan-O

Just tell me the Quotes dude is counter-suing for at least 10 times as much.

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Feeling like chopped liver.

by bebu in

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my son's best friend's parents attend a really whacky religious group, similar in some respects to the jws.

simply replace armageddon with hell, and there ya go!

i have just shrugged at it; they've been nice enough to me, very friendly.. this evening, their son asked me if he might be able to spend the night and go with my son to the youth group at our church in the morning.

Dan-O

"if Jesus showed up while he was at our church, he would certainly go to hell!!"

But, if Jesus showed up while, for example, he was sitting on your toilet, he would certainly go straight to heaven?

What if he was on the toilet at your church, not even attending the services, mind you. He was just walking down that particular street and had to go? And he was constipated?

(Armageddon can do that to you. The fifth horseman of the apocalypse is Constipation. He rides a brown horse.)

Could he just pull his pants up real quick & run out the door to salvation?

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