Midget-Sasquatch

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  SETI for Dummies

  by Nosferatu in

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  after i left the jws, i was considering finding a new religion.

  the one that appealed to me most was seti.

  however, i've only started reading up on it recently.. .

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  NOS,

  Do you have the seti at home app running on your computer? Wouldn't it be cool if your computer were the one to first detect an actual ET signal?

  Anyway, I'd have to say that alot of the NT stuff is myth. Like you, I kinda would like for some of it to have some real basis, but look into Jewish midrash, and Jewish traditions about the Messiah. Matthew tries to make a strong parallel with the Jewish traditions of Moses and his "past" and what was supposedly Jesus' story. The murder of the innocent babies by Herod is just like the murder of all the hebrew males in Egyot. Both Moses and Jesus (to be chosen ones) escaped though. There was a jewish tradition that a star would indeed herald the coming of the messiah, as too there was a tradition that a star had also signaled the birth of Moses. Then Matthew adds other stuff like having Jesus and his folks flee to Egypt....that way an OT passage that says God would call his Son out of Egypt looked like prophecy and at the same time reinforce the pattern and link up with Moses and the Exodus of Isreal out of Egypt.

  Even cooler is how alot of the details in the story of the birth and death of Jesus has parallels in several pagan myths too.
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  Human skeletons found in Flores dated back 18,000 years!

  by badboy in

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  they have found `fossils' of a new human species in liang ???

  cave.. only1.5 metres in height, this is of the most exciting disveries to came from east asia.. i wonder what jws will make of this one?

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I really liked reading Lord of the Flies in school but I don't think the remains were of children.

  Blasted, facts have always killed very cool possible scenarios for me!!!!

  Experts can be very close in determining the age of an individual with detailed observations of the skeleton. How many permanent teeth have erupted or not is one way to peg age roughly, as well as whether there's been bone fusion at the ends of long bones...which starts around 17-8 or thereabouts. Joint condition gives more of an idea of the harshness of life or health of the individual but also can have a bearing on age. So alas they were thirty something midgets like yours truly.
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  This is sooooo scary, is it for real???

  by ohiocowboy in

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  i hope that this is not real.

  it is too scary to think about... .

  http://www.drudgereport.com/abct.htm.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  The FBI and the CIA have recently taken in a number of other suspects and are trying to bring to light any plots in progress. How many of them have been mistakenly taken in? More troubling, how many of them are deliberate decoys?
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  An incredible illusion...U Gotta see this!!!

  by ohiocowboy in

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  2. entertainment

  this is really wild!!!.

  http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~moraes/illusion.html.

  if you take a look at the following picture , let me tell you ... it is not animated.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Really Phat OC!!! ...kinda like an LSD-free acid trip...one of the best illusions I've seen...
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  THIS IS ALL COMPLETELY NORMAL???

  by Corvin in

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  2. child-abuse

  remember the kingdom hall bathroom spankings for us kids that did not sit quietly for the meeting?

  the threats, the manipulation, the head games, the forced meeting attendance, forced field service activity, forced family wt publication study, the forbidden association with non-jw?s, the berating and chastising for having a thought or idea of your own, the dresser drawer searches looking for music or magazines you were not suppose to have .

  you know, the typical jw upbringing .

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Took me a while, in fact I was in Gr. 5 I believe before the school had a guest speaker come and talk to us kids about different kinds of abuses and harsh treatments. I knew my situation wasn't the terrible ones that other kids had to face, but I saw how close it got to that.

  Even though I lived in a religiously divided home for most of my childhood, I still got punished the same way by both sides...the old Italian culture of beating the living daylights out of your children for nearly anything was just the way it was for me, other kids at the Italian congegation, and even the Italian kids at the RC school I went to ... we'd tell ourselves that the punishments made us stronger, and that the other kids were the ones who got shafted because they wouldn't be able to play after school, or watch TV for days etc. as their punishments.
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  IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE . . .

  by Corvin in

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  say something kind about someone else on this board.

  try to pick someone you don?t know as well as the others and focus on what it is about them that appeals to you.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  If a topic was started from Terry, then its usually one that makes me reflect deeply on myself and my experiences ... and reading the ensuing responses from others also brings up many insights.
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  Tons Of Iraq Explosives Missing

  by teejay in

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  tons of iraq explosives missing

  material could be used as nuclear trigger .

  cnn) -- some 380 tons of explosives powerful enough to detonate nuclear warheads are missing from a former iraqi military facility that was supposed to be under american control, the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog says.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  AMAC:

  Get peeved at me for the change in direction...I'm the foreigner that hijacked the thread ..Just lob a few spitballs my way instead of cruise missles though....

  ThiChi:

  1. This is a lot of tonnage 380+ Looters can?t just cart this stuff off in a wheel barrel, as some have tried to claim. This takes the big rigs and planning....

  Sadam did have a penchant for guerilla warefare lately...I'd think its highly likely that there was this sorta gameplan in place in case the war couldn't be averted...just release a whole slew of prisoners into the mix and you've got a nice quagmire for the incoming troops.

  2. If they can hide explosives, why can?t they hide WMDs too? This may prove what I have been saying all along: It?s not if WMD exist, but where did they go?

  Any new info on what was being shuttled between Iraq and Syria (before and at the beginning of the war)?
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  607 and Jesus

  by kwintestal in

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  2. beliefs

  a discussion with my grandmother the other day regarding dates for the destruction of jerusalem raised a question.

  she stated that the 607 date can be confirmed by the date that jesus was either born or started his ministry...which i can't exactly remember.

  she said this was discussed recently at a meeting, and that if you go by the date that jesus was on earth, you arrive at 607.. can anyone elaborate on this belief and why it is wrong?

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Kwin,

  I think it has to do with their beloved idea of "Pivotal Dates" and how they can tie in prophecies like all that 70 weeks crud to arrive at other dates...how the 70 weeks started the count from when the walls of Jerusalem were being laid down to where "in the middle of the week the anointed one would be cut off"....Remember how the WT said that the calcualtions from 53x BCE would bring one to 29 CE? That's the link with Jesus... IIRC... Then of course one could just count back 70 years from 537 to get 607.

  What a load!!!
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  Creation or Evolution?

  by JH in

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  i guess i'll always believe in god and his creation no matter what.. how about you, which side do you lean on...creation or evolution?

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Descent with modification is a proven fact. Quite a bit of genetic and archeological evidence for it. Just look up Richard Lenski's on-going experiment with E.coli, if you want something happening right before your eyes.

  But I have no idea whether God or a god was behind it all.

  Several gnostic groups had the concept of the cosmocrator or demiurge. An inferior being or god who was the creator of the physical universe and trapped light/souls from above in prisons of flesh. With the real god unknown even to the demiurge.

  Maybe evolution and the natural laws in the universe can be loosely compared to the demiurge...but no consciousness, just amoral impersonal forces that have shaped and brought into existences various material forms...what looks like intelligent design can "fool" people into believing that this god-the-process is the real deal....when in reality one has to look further on to find God.

  Again not endorsing anything spiritual because I'm clueless on these things.
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  Tons Of Iraq Explosives Missing

  by teejay in

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  tons of iraq explosives missing

  material could be used as nuclear trigger .

  cnn) -- some 380 tons of explosives powerful enough to detonate nuclear warheads are missing from a former iraqi military facility that was supposed to be under american control, the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog says.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  You are just guessing about the black market.

  Your right ... thats just a guess, its more likely that the explosives were taken at no cost from those camouflaged sites. Politics and the motive for the topic aside, the easier proliferation of HMX is something I believe the administration shouldn't downplay. But instead of others wasting time pointing fingers, let's instead move on to the more important issue of how to prevent the destruction they can cause.