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Posts by barry
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31how much to get you totally out of debt?
by oompa inlist all debt other than your home.
then, if you are buying a home list that beside it.
think about what it would take to make a real difference in your life.
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Wow! Nobel Winner Says Blacks Less Intelligent
by Justitia Themis inhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/tech/science/10/18/science.race/index.html.
a british museum has canceled a lecture by dr. james watson, co-discoverer of the dna double helix, after he claimed black people are less intelligent than whites in a recent newspaper interview.. watson, who won the 1962 nobel prize for his part in discovering the structure of dna, provoked a storm of criticism after his comments were published in the sunday times.. the eminent biologist told the british newspaper he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really.".
watson, 79, had been due to give a lecture at london's science museum on friday but the museum canceled his appearance, saying his comments had "gone beyond the point of acceptable debate.".
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barry
The artical about this bloke appeared in our newspapers yesterday and i think he was just giving an opinion without any hard evidence and the artical also said there may be genetic intellegence tests within 10 years. He was also commenting on how help given to African countries may be misplaced because of lower intellegence.
I think many people confuse cultural factors with their assesments on how smart they beleive a person or race is. I cant comment on negro people because we dont have many of them here in Australia. We have the aboriginals here in Australia and at first glance it would appear they are of very low intellegence, most dont work but live on welfare and dont seem to mind liveing in the most appaling conditions. Aboriginal people that have been taken out of their culture seem to have very little differences in intellegance than the wider population. Aboriginal trakers are very cleaver and are used by the police in crimes solving and cant be equalled anywhere in the world. The Australian aboriginals have negro looks but are actually closer to the caucasian race than any other race.
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Favorite All time Beatles Song- Please List
by flipper ini've been inspired by ip sec here starting a thread on all time favorite led zeppelin songs.
so i will give credit where credit is due, thanks, ip sec !!
so what was your favorite beatles song of all time ?
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barry
With all the troublepaul is having now with divorce and all I would have to say that song about when Im 64 and i beleive he is 64 right now.
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Dancing Cockatoo
by DJK ini've never seen the backtreet boys perform, i can only imagine this bird in some way looks like them too.. http://birdloversonly.blogspot.com/2007/09/may-i-have-this-dance.html.
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barry
We have thousands of them where I live most are wild and are very destructiveof anything man made. They destroy the streetlights. as pets they have a filthy mouth usually from copying there owners.
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Im confused about the Trinity, and who believes it Help please
by WingCommander injust to recap, ive had a nice baptist pastor stopping by my house about once a month for the past 8 months.a very kind soul, we always have the most interesting discussions.him learning about how i was raised as a jw and their belief system, and i learning about his being born again, the trinity, heaven, views on armageddon, etc.
it has all been very interesting, me being raised a jw and now hearing what another denomination believes, especially about the 144,000 and why they feel it isn't a literal number.
also, i am on his regular "field ministry,", and this is shocking to me as i was always taught the other religions don't go door to door like us, with the exception of mormons - lds.. anyway, he made the comment to me that very view christian denominations did not believe in the trinity.he stated that really only small handful of denominations such as jws, mormons, and a few other cultic types dont accept the trinity.this was shocking to me, because asjw i always believed most everyone outside of catholicism and lutheranism believed as jw did, that jesus was gods son, and a totally separate created being.
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barry
Many of the millerites didnt beleive the trinity doctrine because many had come from the christian connection a non trinitiarian group. As a result the SDA still have many in there church who dont beleive the trinity. Of course the official position in the SDAs is the doctrine of the trinity.
The JWs also had connection with the millerites and the second adventists which influenced there position against the doctrine.
In practice christians worship Jesus and the holy spirit and Jehovah without thinking of the workings of the trinity doctrine .
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Why do "christians" have such a hard time explaining the bodily reserrect?
by booker-t ini have yet to find a christian that can truly explain the bodily reserrection of christ doctrine.
they become so confused after a few minutes that many of them will try to change the subject on you.
i was talking to a born-again co-worker of mine about this very subject and after 15 minutes of going over scriptures he said "you know booker-t i have never really swallowed the bodily reserrection doctrine but this is what my church teaches.
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barry
Bookert, When christ was resserected from the dead he had a spiritual body. At the tomb Jesus body was not there. Thomas said i wont beleive unless I see the wounds in his hands and his feet. Jesus said he was not a spirit and he had bones and flesh and he ate some boiled fish to prove it.
Booker t what are you talking about?
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Iranian leader's opening rant...sounded like a JW
by restrangled init was a total sermon about their (islam) version of god and how he feels about the entire scientific and academia communities.
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your take on the whole thing?.
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barry
Steve you are right the Iranians have never said that they will use nukes against Israel. That still doesnt let me rest any easier because they have threatened the west and Israel with complete destruction and they are attempting to build nukes. Add to that a fanatical religious government. The threat is implicide Im sure we all agree.
As iron rod has said we should all be able to rest easily in our beds tonight thanks steve.
The truth is steve we can sustain conventional warfair but atomic warfare is a luxury the world cant afford.
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Iranian leader's opening rant...sounded like a JW
by restrangled init was a total sermon about their (islam) version of god and how he feels about the entire scientific and academia communities.
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your take on the whole thing?.
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HS I guess we wont know what the Iranians will used until it happens but anyone backed into a corner are likely to use nukes if they have them. If th ehutus had them Im sure they would use them.
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Iranian leader's opening rant...sounded like a JW
by restrangled init was a total sermon about their (islam) version of god and how he feels about the entire scientific and academia communities.
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your take on the whole thing?.
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barry
Gday Uzzah, As I pointed out Bin Laden says hostilities will only cease at the day of judgement so under the geneva convention the prisoners in Cuba should be kept off the battlefield until the day of judgement.
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Iranian leader's opening rant...sounded like a JW
by restrangled init was a total sermon about their (islam) version of god and how he feels about the entire scientific and academia communities.
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your take on the whole thing?.
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barry
Steve may I remind you that terrorists dont come under the geneva convention anyway. The geneva convention is for th etreatement of prisoners of war of countries at war.The soldiers taken as prisoners are treated humainly and returned to their contry when hostilities cease. Terrorists do not fight for a country and so there is no time when hostilities cease. Bin laden is reported to have said hostilities will cease at the time of the day of judgement.
The US does have a big interest in the middle east and so it should. The middle east is where most of its oil is scourced. If you think oil isnt important consider this. While the US consumes one third of the worlds oil the US also produces one third of the worlds food. Without this food production many of the contries of the middle east would starve
Steve the Iranian government has said consistently they will wipe out Israel with Atomic weopons. Where do you read youre news stories? Direct from Tehran.