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  pictures from camping

  by Mulan in

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  at last the long awaited camping photos.

  i will post more as i get them scanned.. here is princess' navel piercing.. .

  here is venice, reading her book.

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  bboyneko 2

  more tummy pics more tummy pics
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  Wow, I didn't know this

  by bboyneko in

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  from ajwrb site:.

  this image appeared in the golden age of march 30, 1932, p. 409, and is very typical of similar pictures or watchtower cartoons of the era.

  note the dead and pock marked babies below.

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  Some things never change. In the 1920s, as now, people spread spurious rumors about the alleged dangers of harmless products -- rumors that were often started by business interests trying to scare consumers away from buying their competitors' products and propagated by a gullible and grossly misinformed public. One of the most virulent of these types of rumors in the 1920s was directed at any food-related product containing aluminum, particularly aluminum cookware and utensils. Just as aspartame today is demonized as inducing nearly every ailment known to man, so in the 1920s aluminum was blamed for causing infantile paralysis, cancer, acute indigestion, gastritis, ulcers, and weakened teeth and bones (because it supposedly "attacked" calcium).

  The rumors were given additional credence through the irony of claiming that the putative victims of aluminum poisoning were often doctors and cancer specialists themselves -- naturally, they were the very same doctors who had declared aluminum to be safe, thus demonstrating the old adage that one reaps what one sows.

  Some of the more widespread anecdotes demonstrating the alleged dangers of aluminum circulating back then were:

  Three navy men died after eating fried oysters that had been stored in aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the government required the Navy to dispose of all aluminum utensils.

  A doctor who had contracted "cancer of the face" stopped using aluminum, and within a few months his cancer had miraculously disappeared. When he later made the mistake of eating squash that had been prepared in aluminum cookware, his cancer returned within a few days.

  Alfred W. McCann (a "scientist" who was touted as "the world's greatest food authority" and wrote books with such fright-inducing titles as Starving America and This Famishing World) denounced "foolish talk about the so-called poisonous properties of aluminum cooking ware"; when he died suddenly in January 1931, rumormongers attributed his death to his use of aluminum utensils and cookware.
  One of the primary movers behind the "aluminum is deadly" rumors was one Howard J. Force, a self-proclaimed chemist who cranked out ominously-titled pamphlets such as Poisons Formed by Aluminum Cooking Utensils and Are You Heading for the Last Round-Up? Force profited from selling his scare literature both to a frightened public and to the makers and sellers of stainless steel pots and pans, earthenware kitchen utensils, and other non-aluminum products. (Force also raked in the cash from marketing a phony cancer cure potion known as "Pheno-Isolin").

  One of the most effective ways to discourage use of a particular product is to claim that it killed a prominent person (the younger the better), as demonstrated by rumors about Jean Harlow's death from overuse of hydrogen peroxide (don't bleach your hair, girls!) and little Mikey's demise from the explosive effects of Pop Rocks and soda. So, when screen idol Rudolph Valentino suddenly passed away from a stomach ailment (actually a perforated ulcer) at the tender age of 31 in 1926, word went out that food prepared in aluminum pots was the cause.

  Although we might now dismiss these old rumors as silly, they carry a message that is still relevant today: Not everyone who seeks to warn us about dangerous products does so out of a genuine sense of concern for our welfare. Shameless profiteering is often the motive of those who start or spread such rumors.

  As a postscript, we might note that perhaps echoes of these old aluminum rumors can still be found in the current common belief that Alzheimer's disease is caused or exacerbated by exposure to aluminum (particularly through the use of aluminum cookware). There is currently no hard evidence to either implicate or rule out aluminum as a major cause of Alzheimer's disease, and the belief that aluminum is a major cause was largely the product of contamination and errors in test procedures. (See the links below for more information.)

  .. http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/medicine/medicine22.html
  Aluminum cookware and alzheimers
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  Matthew 25

  by Farkel in

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  when did we see you a stranger and receive you hospitably, or naked, and clothe you?

  he was talking about food, clothing, shelter and supplication to the least of the brothers.

  he could not be talking about anything else and here is why: could any human offer jesus spiritual food?

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  Are any of you prepared to make the monetary contributions needed to feed, house, vaccinate, provide medical care for the poor of the world. Let the person without sin in this situation put up the first $1,000 per month.

  You have any idea how much it costs the society to print the amount of literature it does?

  But you're right, charity is crap. let the poor suffer and the hungry die. We have magazines to place! God would never approve of us helping fellow men.

  -Dan
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  Wow, I didn't know this

  by bboyneko in

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  from ajwrb site:.

  this image appeared in the golden age of march 30, 1932, p. 409, and is very typical of similar pictures or watchtower cartoons of the era.

  note the dead and pock marked babies below.

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  Don't forget that organ transplants are 'sustaining life' through human flesh and therefore cannibalism. with a track record like this, one wonders why loyal JW's haven't examined the insane blood policy a little bit more.

  -Dan
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  SouthPark and it's close resemblance to...

  by MrMoe in

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  before i go on vacation - thought i would leave you all with a little project.

  the following are some of my favorite characters from south park.

  who do these people remind you of?

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  bboyneko 2

  hey! Im not a blonde :)
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  Oppression of Women

  by MrMoe in

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  this is a bit lengthy, but is a very big issue with me, and that is the issue of women's rights.

  i do agree with women allowing their husbands to make a final decision, being on how women think with their hearts and men think with their heads, making choices often times more logical ones.

  but, the husband according to god is supposed to love his wife as his own flesh.

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  Naeblis, you too are my slave
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  Australian Nazi regime?

  by Norm in

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  what kind of complete bastard regime do they have in australia?.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1511000/1511903.stm.

  norm

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  It's all real cool. A Norwegian ship is asked by the Australian Nazi regime to help people - they do - and the nazi kangaroos in the Australian government suddenly won't touch the case.

  Kent, while in Norway I felt alot of prejudice against pakistani immigrants. In the US the prejudice is against mexicans. Every country seems to have a select 'undesirable' immigrant population.

  -Dan
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  How the WatchTower Society Got Started!

  by MadApostate in

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  brother k. had been reading carefully matt.

  as to the manner of christ's coming other scriptures were found to be in perfect accord with the accounts of matt.

  matt.

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  I started a watchtower society this morniing while on the toilet. I had to flush it though cuz it smelled nasty

  -Dan
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  Oppression of Women

  by MrMoe in

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  this is a bit lengthy, but is a very big issue with me, and that is the issue of women's rights.

  i do agree with women allowing their husbands to make a final decision, being on how women think with their hearts and men think with their heads, making choices often times more logical ones.

  but, the husband according to god is supposed to love his wife as his own flesh.

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  slayer, you were created as a'helper' for me, that is, my slave. I expect my lawn mowed promptly tommorow and my dinner cooked and prepared as soon as I arrive home. Also, I require you to change the kitty litter and take out the trash.

  -Dan
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  So How Bad Is It To Be DF'd Really Then?

  by Englishman in

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  i've never regretted getting myself disfellowshipped.. for me it was a definite pre-meditated action.

  i had realised months earlier that my belief in the teachings of the wtbts was at a total zero.

  i simply could not face another meeting, another hour in the ministry, another watchtower telling me that yet another activity was likely to distract me from wt teachings.. my parents were already besides themselves with worry, i think that when they heard that i had been df'd it was almost a relief to them.

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  Now, I would say I am probably more of an extreme case, since I took my involvement with the witnesses so seriously. I really had no friends that were not witnesses up until just before I got disfellowshipped.

  My mom reacted the same way to being dfed. I'd say yours is a typical, rather than atypical reaction

  -Dan