the privately funded spaceshipone made its first flight to out of the earth's atmosphere today.
this craft is one of the contenders for the x prize, which will give $10 mil to anyone who can build a craft to carry 3 people out of earth's atmosphere, bring them safely back to ground and repeat it all with the same craft within 2 weeks.. http://www.cnn.com/2004/tech/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html.
does anyone know the other contenders?.
"Man on earth can no more get rid of these demonic 'heavens' (the organization of wicked spirits) than man can by airplane or rockets or other means get up above the air envelope which is about our earthly globe and in which man breathes."- 1943, The Truth Shall Make You Free p. 285
How pathetic
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would you have been better off being born in to it or have been better off being recruited as an adult .
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what are the pros and cons of both.
I was born into the borg so I would have to say that I would rather have learned about it as an adult. It just feels like I have lived at 27 year sentence in a prison. The crime was apparently being born to the wrong family who believed some screwed up things. I can't imagine it being more difficult for a person who finds "the truth" than it is for a person who is found by "the truth" at birth. Learning about something as an adult and making a decision about it is far better than being taught something from birth. I guess it's kind of like learning a new language. If at birth you are taught english and that is the only language you know and then you have to learn chinese, it will be much more difficult for a person who has never spoken any other language. Whereas a person who spoke chinese a long time ago could learn it again much easier. So I would definitely prefer to have learned about the Borg as an adult. So I could get back 27 years of my life.
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well, i got dragged, kicking and screaming talked in to going to the assembly yesterday as a friend of mine was in the drama.
what a freaking waste of time interesting experience.
first of all, i had a tough time squeezing my larger than life ass bum into a seat that looked like it was made for a house-elf small child.
Funny stuff. I didn't go. Thank goodness for your post, now i'm up to date on the latest "new light." And if it weren't for this apostate website I would have missed out on that new light.
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just curious.
where are you now as you access this website?.
where are you in most cases when you particpate on this site.. i am usually at work although occassionaly my wife and i will access from home.
Are you watching me?
Don't scare confused like that. zugz
here are some loving, choice words from the watchtower empire.. .
july 15 - first study article page 10 .
do you find delight in the law of jehovah?.
I didn't realise that my dislike of liars, hypocrites, and child molesters made me wicked.
You can hate liars and hypocrites and child molesters, just not the WTS approved liars, hypocrites and child molesters.
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i was reading the july wt.
at my mother's yesterday and the qfr asked about who should and shouldn't be viewed as an "unbeliever".
if a person was attending meetings and might even be an "unbaptized publisher" they should not be considered an "unbeliever".
The way they are defining exactly who an unbeliever is demonstrates one more level of control that the borg is trying to exert over the r&f. Heaven forbid some poor believer be called an unbeliever. It's all so stupid.
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the last grandparent i had died this morning.. .
he was such a great guy.
was in the raf in wwii and went to iraq and other places but didn't really talk much about the war.
I am very sorry to hear of your loss.
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i have been calling my kids for some time now.
i am moving far away soon, and since i haven't had any contact with my daughters, i called them to let them know i was moving, and would like to say goodbye, before i flew away.
weeks went by, as ususal, and no response.
It's always nice to hear good news. Congratulations! I hope things continue to work out well for you.
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the watchtower can't establish clear evidence that birthdays , as a natural event, are part of 'false' religion.. so, they try to associate them with negative events in the bible and condemn them thereby.. the trouble with this reasoning is that it is foolish to condemn any practise arbitrarily simply because someone can.
find something negative correlated with it in bible events.
( how about chronology and false prophecy?).
My niece just turned one on the 15th of June. Happy Birthday Monica.
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my girls attended the district convention today with their mom and step dad.
they hate the meetings but see the convention as a time to socialize and meet boys.
(yikes!
Sounds like you've got some really smart kids there. I wish I would have been that smart at 13.
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