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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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  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

  1. social
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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.
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  Tons Of Iraq Explosives Missing

  by teejay in

  1. social
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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

  THI-CHI: I think you're right about the timing of the announcement being political.

  But whether the explosives went missing before or after the US invasion won't matter to the people who'll be blown up by them in the near future. What matters is how "targets" are selected by the groups that will use them, and how to stop them.

  The US definitely needs to improve in this respect.

  And in regards to the comment that these explosives were always available to be bought from other sources: Having such large amounts flood the blackmarket will surely make it more cheaper, so more easier, for groups to get their hands on them.
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  Is our universe just a hologram?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  i was doing a shearch on physicist alain aspect, and came across this :.

  http://home.elp.rr.com/osiris/newpage1.htm.

  the universe as a hologramdoes objective reality exist, or is the universe a phantasm?.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Kinda like a revamped take on the idea that we're all just the fabricated bits of a higher being's dream? But with something observable to point to, in support of it.

  Einstein described that bit about the two electrons affecting each other, at faster than light speeds, as "spooky action at a distance". Its called quantum entanglement. Why this happens or is possible, is too involved for my feeble mind to grasp adequately but philosophers love its implications.

  If you like this sorta stuff, then look into the 10 or 12 dimensionional models of the universe. The more knowledgable say that it can account for quantum entanglement and a whole other slew of counter-intuitive things that happen on the quantum scale. Maybe we're real after all.
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  CHARITY WORK---WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!!

  by Mary in

  1. jw
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  look at this article below!

  volunteers hunt produce to feed hungrymon oct 25, 7:29 am ethealth - ap.

  by bobby ross jr., associated press writer.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  A Friend in Need:

  I'll grant you that some jws do make some charitable donations now and again: like say you go to someone's funeral and the family asks for a donation to cancer research etc. My own sib who only works part-time at a near minimum wage job and pioneers, makes monthly donations to Toronto's Sick Children's Hospital.

  THESE ARE INDIVIDUALS and they're not efforts officially endorsed by the Society. Don't evade that central point. That the Society would rather have you using your resources and time to promote their self-interests than in other charities that actually help people.

  Scully made an excellent point: When will there be a food bin at the kingdom hall?
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  What Makes You Feel Loved?

  by Corvin in

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  what does it take in order for you to feel absolutely loved by your significant other?

  do they have to talk to you in a certain tone?.

  do they have to touch you in a certain way?.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  ...just being there with me ... the way I am would try even the patience of a zen master.
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  YOU ARE A LIAR!

  by Terry in

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  what do you lie about repeatedly?.

  what is your biggest lie you ever told?.

  what is the worst?.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Since I'm "fading", my repeated lie is showing up to jw meetings from time to time to see family, and pretending like everything is fine.

  My biggest lie to date is a toss up between: 1) my getting baptized (I lied to myself at that point...thinking maybe I'd change) 2) and my not having any feelings for this one person

  I first try to decipher the motives the other peson had for the lie...if it was to spare me some hurt, I don't even bring it up...if it was questionable, I'll forgive them easily, but if it was malicious, then I just try to steer clear of them from then on...

  Sure some lies are okay....I've spared one very sweet person a life of misery with my lousy economic situation and sub-par health.
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  Ozzie's Weekend Poll #117

  by ozziepost in

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  strange but great times downunder this week!.

  ok, now when will it stop so's we can get back to summer?.

  what we need is something to take our minds off the election weather, so settle back and let's go polling.. this weekend's poll question is:.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  LMAO!!! at the smurf who gave an elder the finger!!!! If only....

  The story that went circulating in the congregation I was in when I was 9(?) or so, was that a male smurf doll and the smurfette doll, started humping ... all of us 7-10 yr old kids were hounding the girl who supposedly saw this for details...Hey we were curious!