Village Idiot

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  Canada may get a new government today

  by Simon in

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  the us elections suck up all the attention (and it's not even at the candidate selection stage!

  ) but canada actually has a national election today.. first results are starting to come in and so far it's all liberal party.. i think it's time harper and the conservatives got the boot.

  last premiere from the bush era.

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  Are "liberals" in Canada the same as liberals in the US?
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  Crises of Conscience by Raymond franz hardcopy book

  by Olivia Wilde in

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  2. beliefs

  can anyone tell me where is the best place to buy the hardcopy book from?

  i need it for a friend, i need to buy it from a place that the proceeds go to a good cause, not amazon,..

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  Simon: "They are in a box ... somewhere ..."

  I'll trade you that box for one 8 page Watchtower.
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  Crises of Conscience by Raymond franz hardcopy book

  by Olivia Wilde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can anyone tell me where is the best place to buy the hardcopy book from?

  i need it for a friend, i need to buy it from a place that the proceeds go to a good cause, not amazon,..

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  "I need to buy it from a place that the proceeds go to a good cause, not amazon,."

  Don't quite understand. Do you have something against Amazon? Ebay has one but at a ridiculous price.
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  WT Society SEC Records : Hedge Funds, Cayman Islands, Financial Losses - Links

  by flipper in

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  2. scandals

  so my wife and i were curious so i researched some financial links and found records indicating that the wt society has been operating at a loss since the year 2012. as you read the links it shows a loss of 10 million $$$ in 2012, about 16 million $$$ in 2013, and a whopping loss of 56 million $$$ in 2014 - where the expenditures exceeded the revenues for each of those years in the amount i've mentioned.

  also there is a link on this same website with the sec records indicating that the wt society and it's representatives funneled 40 million $$$$ into hedge funds in the cayman islands as early as 2007. if you look online on other sites you can see evidence that indicates the wt society attended hedge fund conferences to look into more shadiness in 2011 and isn't it curious that by 2012 the wt society started showing losses.

  anyway here is the link : https://www.watchtowerlies.com/the_watchtower_revenue.html .. feel free to check this link out and other links on that link indicating the cayman island connection.

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  Good one Simon.
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  Beast of no nation

  by WasOnceBlind in

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  i always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.

  i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.

  it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.

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  WasOnceBlind:

  I now find my self in a place where I still hold on to the believing in God or a creator (because evolution seems to far fetched) but that he is not what we portray him to be.

  Do you consider yourself a Deist or believe in theistic evolution?
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  Proof that the lingiusts are lying about words used in the bible IE: Shaddai, Angels, Elohim, Yhwh?

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. bible

  in 1967 an archeologist found at tell el-deir alla an inscription that they called the book of balaam son of beor.

  this looks to be about the same balaam that's talked about in the bible book of numbers.

  remember the guy where his donkey is talking to him.

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  Crazyguy, keep in mind that words could change meaning throughout the centuries.
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  Another anti-gay Republican Senator (in the USA) caught advertising his body

  by fulltimestudent in

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  link.

  why do the republicans seem to have a monopoly on this behaviour?.

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  No, but they probably get away with it more than Democrats.
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  Living forever

  by jws in

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  someone on facebook posted john 3:16 where it says people will live forever.. not that i believe it, but i just cannot imagine this.

  this, to me, would be the true hell.. if i'm very lucky, i will live to be 100. at nearly half that, already some parts of life no longer hold much interest to me.

  even tv shows.

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  GodZoo:

  Pulse rockets? Science fiction is called fiction for a reason.

  Nuclear pulse propulsion is a common feature of hard science fiction stories, as the idea offers high thrust and/or high specific impulse drives without requiring new physics.
  

  Nuclear Pulse propulsion was achievable with 1950s technology (though it would have taken a couple of decades to build an interplanetary version. It is a ridiculously simple design that consists of nothing more than a massive steel plate joined to a payload/habitat section with shock absorbers.

  It hasn't been built by now because of what I consider to be political reasons - a fear of the Soviet Union/Russia doing the same thing.
  

  GodZoo:

  Psalm 37:29 "And the righteous ones inherit the Earth and dwell upon it for eternity.

  According to the Bible we are not going anywhere..
  

  Even if your Bible is true that can be considered a forced interpretation. Dwelling on the Earth doesn't mean that everyone is confined to it.

  Why would your God make billions of stars that are not visible to the naked eye - making the original purpose of stars moot (Genesis 1:14) - with no seeming purpose?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSK_mymJvkM&feature=player_detailpage

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEtaQpHBP4U&feature=player_detailpage
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  Living forever

  by jws in

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  someone on facebook posted john 3:16 where it says people will live forever.. not that i believe it, but i just cannot imagine this.

  this, to me, would be the true hell.. if i'm very lucky, i will live to be 100. at nearly half that, already some parts of life no longer hold much interest to me.

  even tv shows.

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  Tenacious:

  I agree with Village Idiot in that, and this is considering planets and stars still, to this day, continue to be formed, we might eventually become space travelers exploring other planets, stars, and galaxies.

  GodZoo:

  We are doing that already and so far they are all lifeless, cold and dead and unable to support any form of life.

  We should also not forget that the Bible itself clearly contradicts this fantasy of space travel and galactic exploration.

  Psalm 27:39

  'And the righteous ones inherit the Earth and dwell upon it for eternity.'

  GodZoo, multiply 8 planets out of which 1 has life times 100 million and you'll get an idea of what lies ahead. Our little camera thrown out in space by a bottle rocket is no match for the pulse nuclear spaceships and the thousand mile wide space telescopes of the future.

  By the way, that scripture you cite is not in Psalm 27 which doesn't have a verse 39.

  
  
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  We discovered a Dyson Sphere! . . . maybe

  by Coded Logic in

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  okay, okay, okay - i know we're not supposed to jump to conclusions.

  but the odds this is a "naturally occurring event" are pretty low.

  and it's just the sort of megastructure we would expect an advanced alien civilization (type 2) to build.

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  prologos:

  The idea is too, to beam the captured energy onto further colonized bodies, it would be h-- to live with no shade, sunlight coming and going. yes, the star/collector would still have to maintain a heat balance. but, build them and they will come, look at this planet.

  It doesn't have to be hell since the distance from the parent star can be calculated to the point where the temperature would be modest.

  Shade can also be provided when clouds form (they only need a few miles of atmosphere to do so). If you were to need artificial shade it can be provided by orbiting parasols above the ringworld/Dyson sphere.