Liberalism...the last bastion of anti-Semitism!
XJW4EVR
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Is America Run by Israel?
by sammielee24 inthis is from the pakistani news report...it is her opinion apparently - sammieswife.. .
written by www.daily.pk sunday, 01 february 2009 01:09"another israeli spokeswoman, tzipora menache, stated that she was not worried about negative ramifications the israeli onslaught on gaza might have on the way the obama administration would view israel.
she said 'you know very well, and the stupid americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the white house.
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XJW4EVR
I would have to agree with the columnist that there were some very egregious calls in last night's game. But all and all the game was one the best I have seen.
After Pittsbugh's 100 yard interception for a touchdown and Arizona's subsequent failure at the beginning of the third quarter I thought the game was over, but Arizona overcame the bad calls to make the game an instant classic.
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No Tax Refunds for California
by sammielee24 indon't hurry to file your taxes this year - no refunds for a while.
sammieswife.. tax refunds now on hold in california email print sharejanuary 27, 2009 6:23 pm.
<p class="author">teddy davis</p> abc news' teddy davis reports:.
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XJW4EVR
Yeah, that Democrat Arnold Schwarzenhager sure must be enjoying the delay of tax refunds.
Yes, THAT democrat, Arnold Schwartzen-Kennedy.
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Was Pittsburgh's last Super Bowl win legit?
by JimmyPage ini'm not a seahawks fan, nor am i anti-steeler.
i watched this super bowl just wanting to see a fair game.
and it could have been an exciting, close match- except that every time the seahawks got close the refs made a questionable call against them.
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XJW4EVR
Memo to Seattle fan: GET OVER IT!
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Why do ex-Dubs become either liberal or conservative?
by Alpaca ini am just curious about what factors have made you find your niche in either the liberal or the conservative mindset.. for myself, even when i was a dub i almost always found liberal arguments much more persuasive than those of conservative thinkers.
i attributed it, in part, to my dub-shaped thinking...i.e., the desire to see people living in peace, the fair distribution of resources and wealth, enough food, clothing and adequate housing for all, etc.. personally, i think that liberal thinking is more mature thinking.
here is why: i believe that liberals are generally willing to look at a bigger picture of things and peer down the road to anticpate the tomorrow's ramifications for the things we do today.. some of the discussions on this board, where it is impossible to escape taking a stand as a liberal or a conservative, have turned into bizarre screaming matches between the participants.
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XJW4EVR
Personally, I found the constant feeding by the toothless and incontinent slave to be old. I loved to just read for myself. To discover the truth that had been kept from me. This feircly independent streak still follows me as I am in constant hot water with many of the leaders in the church I attend over their own sloppiness.
I was turned off to a lot of the left, namely because of where I was raised. In that small town there were tons of burned-out ex-hippies. I got tired of their mindless mantras against those that believed that America was somehting to be admired.
I respect those of differing political views, provided they respect my own. What turns me off most about the left is the utter disregard, disrespect and utter contempt they have for those who have a differing views.
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Who is your favorite character on "Lost"? Favorite episode?
by JimmyPage inmy favorite character is sawyer.
such a smartass.
my favorite episode was when hurley won the lottery.. .
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XJW4EVR
I would have to go with John Locke, the man of faith.
Don't really have a favorite episode, yet. I am still trying to think through this entire series.
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No Tax Refunds for California
by sammielee24 indon't hurry to file your taxes this year - no refunds for a while.
sammieswife.. tax refunds now on hold in california email print sharejanuary 27, 2009 6:23 pm.
<p class="author">teddy davis</p> abc news' teddy davis reports:.
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XJW4EVR
Hey, a liberal's idea of heaven. Overcharge, and never give it back.
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XJW4EVR
My team is not in the Super Bowl (49ers). However I love the Cardinals and 7 points.
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Inside Story of the CoS
by XJW4EVR infrom the big hollywood blog:.
scientology: death by devotionby skip press .
its funny how people will take lies as gospel and give power to people who have the worst of intentions.
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XJW4EVR
From the Big Hollywood blog:
Scientology: Death by Devotion
by Skip Press
It’s funny how people will take lies as gospel and give power to people who have the worst of intentions. It’s gone on for thousands of years, as Cicero pointed out in Roman times:
“[F]or there are not so many possessed of virtue as there are that desire to seem virtuous. These last are delighted with flattery, and when false statements are framed purposely to satisfy and please them, they take the falsehood as valid testimony to their merit.” — De Amicitia, Scipio’s Dream
I saw this personally, when I worked for a lady named Yvonne Jentzsch, the founder of the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles. Yvonne was a former kindergarten teacher from Australia who reminded me of the fairy godmother in Walt Disney’s Cinderella. It was because of her that I came to Los Angeles and ended up working for $5 a week and room and board, touting the supposedly spectacular effects of “the world’s fastest-growing religion.” I studied “policies” written by L. Ron Hubbard with sentiments like “always attack, never defend.” Working as a treasurer, I learned to lie to creditors and to yell at people and accuse them of crimes. I was told that non-Scientologists were stupid “wogs” (a derogatory term Hubbard lifted from the British, like he borrowed most of his “great ideas”). Meanwhile, Scientologists were told that we were the natural aristocracy of the spiritual universe, in so many words. Thus, when Hubbard insisted that the survival of the planet depended on Scientology taking over, we fell for it.
Sounds crazy, but for me it was crazy times, and the U.S. was in the midst of a recession. I had no family to help out, and thought I had no other alternative.
My second job at the Celebrity Centre was to write letters of recruitment. I did very well at that, and met celebrities like Christopher Reeve (who later left), Karen Black, John Travolta, and Lou Rawls (who took only one course). I found it amusing when actress Anne Francis bolted after learning that Hubbard had instructed the public recruitment divisions of Scientology to “capture and control the public.” I figured she just didn’t understand.
Still, I wasn’t sure I believed everything Hubbard said in his booming baritone, no matter how certain he sounded. Was Earth really a prison planet? Was it true that Jesus never really existed? (I’d read the Bible all the way through at age 12 and thought Jesus was pretty cool.) I managed to have fun, anyway. Occasionally, I would pull off some stunt like arranging to go backstage at Paul McCartney’s “Wings Over America” concert in Los Angeles and attending the $250,000 party the band threw a couple of days later. I met people there like Chuck Norris, and Yvonne wanted me to get back in touch with Chuck and get him into Scientology. I still laugh at that idea.
Then Hubbard bought the former Cedars of Lebanon hospital and had it renovated into “the Complex” that is still there today on Sunset Boulevard. Executives like myself were suddenly found lacking and in need of spiritual improvement, which consisted of doing construction work as members of the slave labor “Rehabilitation Project Force.” That lasted until Hubbard “discovered” that a mistake had been made and that we were actually okay, which happened to coincide with all the major work being completed. That was enough for me. I left the Celebrity Centre staff and went on a game show, “Knockout” on NBC, and won enough money to retire for a year, setting myself up as a writer and civilian, never to work for Scientology again.
Yvonne Jentzsch was not so lucky. Hubbard sacked her as head of the Celebrity Centre she had founded, even though the organization literally put Scientology on the map with the Hollywood community. She’d gotten people like John Travolta involved, and John adored her. The problem was, Yvonne had lived for years on two to three hours sleep a night and had developed a brain tumor. Hubbard probably didn’t want to foot the medical bills. He announced he was “promoting” her to create and run the “Public Relations Organization” which would promote Scientology all over the world. What he didn’t announce was that he didn’t fund her, and Yvonne was put in the embarrassing position of literally begging for donations to survive.
When she died, Hubbard issued an edict that Yvonne was still a member of the “Sea Organization” (people who signed billion-year contracts in dedication to Hubbard) and that in her next life when she reached age 21 she should report in for duty.
Travolta and other celebrities never knew the real story about Yvonne; it was kept from them, as other horrors of Scientology are kept from its celebrities today. Few knew that when Hubbard died he was screaming at unseen demons and on the psychiatric drug, Vistaril. Ironic, because Hubbard blamed all the world’s problems on psychiatry, the profession he wanted Scientology to supplant. Every aspiring despot summons up a boogeyman, if you haven’t noticed.
Hubbard displayed antisocial personality disorder. He smoked like a chimney, which added to the deepness of his commanding baritone. An undisturbed office was kept for him in every organization, with cigarettes on the desk in case he showed up. There were pictures of him everywhere, with his chin turned up in a pseudo-noble pose, as though gazing at the glorious history he imagined. He associated with the worst people possible, like black magician Aleister Crowley, but expected people to think nothing of his associations. He had the thinnest of resumes, yet got people thinking he could run a planet or a galaxy. He railed about the existing government and told outrageous lies; once Yvonne Jentzsch breathlessly informed the assembled Celebrity Centre staff that “LRH” had informed her that Henry Kissinger was secretly a KGB spy. And this tireless woman who truly solidified his stature on the national stage, by “admiration bombing” (her words) celebrities into believing the glories of his writings, paid the ultimate price for her devotion.
Funny how people like Hubbard pop up on occasion, and those who desire to seem virtuous, delighted with flattery, will believe anything they’re told by such a fellow. These followers, as Eric Hoffer pointed out so well, are “true believers” who are difficult to sway. Personally, I don’t trust a smoker with a baritone voice who associates with nasty people and likes seeing his picture plastered all over the place. If a bubbly, chubby woman adored by celebrities told me I should follow someone like that, based only on some self-flattering books he wrote and lectures he gave, I’d think twice about it. After all, as Yvonne Jentzsch demonstrated, you could work yourself to death for someone like that, get a brain tumor and die, and he would care less. Sooner or later, people find out folks like that are crazy, but they can do a lot of damage in the meantime, particularly if Hollywood celebrities get behind them.
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Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God
by BurnTheShips intwenty arguments for the existence of god.
the argument from changethe argument from efficient causalitythe argument from time and contingencythe argument from degrees of perfectionthe design argumentthe kalam argumentthe argument from contingencythe argument from the world as an interacting wholethe argument from miraclesthe argument from consciousnessthe argument from truththe argument from the origin of the idea of godthe ontological argumentthe moral argumentthe argument from consciencethe argument from desirethe argument from aesthetic experiencethe argument from religious experiencethe common consent argumentpascal's wagerbts.
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XJW4EVR
Those arguments are pretty good, but they are all humanistic. I prefer the Transcendental Arguement for God. This arguement was formulated by Immanuel Kant, and is pretty unstoppable, IMHO. This arguement was brought into reformed Christianity by Dorweerd (sp?), Van Til, Clark, Frame, Bahnsen and Morey.
In a nutshell the arguement goes like this, "What must be in order for what is to be what it is?" For example, if it is 100 degrees (no I am not going to break this down into Celsius, lol) outside the house, but 70 degrees in the house, what accounts for the reality of the discrepancy?
