AlmostAtheist

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  UFOs what do you think?

  by MariAruet in

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  ok, i know this is a taboo but could it all be just a product of imagination?.

  i wached something tonight on tv then went to internet and found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqgfalftl4u.

  what do you think?.

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  AlmostAtheist

  In my opinion, I think it's likely that life arose on earth spontaneously. So it's reasonable to think similar life could do the same elsewhere. If they got a mere 100,000 year head start on us, they could easily have come up with better traveling technology than we have. If they are still limited to light-speed though, it seems unlikely they would ever reach us. There's always a chance, but it's so slim.

  Even with faster-than-light travel, they'd still need to find us. What would you scan the heavens for, looking for a planet that contained intelligent life? The scent of Italian food? (Seems like a decent indicator of intelligence to me!)

  For that matter, the past is a BIG place. Better civilizations than ours could have arisen, died off, and done it again many times and still not overlap with our civilization's time.

  From what little I know, I'm currently thinking we haven't been buzzed by aliens. I suspect they're out there, but I doubt they know we're here.

  Dave
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  The beginning of the rest of my life...

  by truthsetsonefree in

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  so i sent in my letter of disassociation.

  this is my first day not being a jw.

  there is an unexpected feeling of exhilaration.

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  FREEDOM!
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  Beautiful Atheist Video

  by Kudra in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdvucvo-kdu&nr=1 .

  i love watching this video.

  (i can't make the link active in firefox...)

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  AlmostAtheist

  >>Does the Susan B Anthony coin say "In God we trust"???

  You bet! Apparently it's some very liberal definition of "we"! :-)

  

  Dave
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  Beautiful Atheist Video

  by Kudra in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdvucvo-kdu&nr=1 .

  i love watching this video.

  (i can't make the link active in firefox...)

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  AlmostAtheist

  That rocked, Kudra, thank you! I was especially surprised to find that Susan B Anthony was a fellow "fool". I wonder if the U.S. Mint (or whoever makes those decisions) knew that when they put her on the coin? Of course, maybe that's why the coin never did very well! God put a stop to it! :-P

  Dave
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  Look.

  by chaiyah in

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  http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2022.html?theme=light

  look up close at the writing on the wings : plaedian

  wow.

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  AlmostAtheist

  If you pull up the images in notepad, you'll find "Ducky" pretty early in the header, indicating the file came out of Photoshop. Of course, it's POSSIBLE that they were just trimming out some billboards so we could more easily see the alien spacecraft...

  (For more info: http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2004/062804gearhead.html)

  Dave
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  The Scientific Reasonableness Of Noah's Ark Demonstrated

  by FireNBandits in

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  finally, someone in holland (where floods weigh heavily on the collective subconscious) has built a 1/5 scale model of noah's ark.

  this proves that noah built the original ark.

  if noah hadn't built the original ark, how could someone build a 1/5 scale model of it?

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  >>You can't trust a Canuck anyway. ANYONE who plays hockey is GODLESSS! GODLESS I tell you!

  And that swill they pass off as beer? No wonder they spend their time carving "fossils"...

  Nice work, FNB. Count me in the true believer column!

  Dave
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  Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie -- Give it a pass! :-(

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  hey gang, .

  i'm sure you're all chompin' at the bit to run right out and plunk down $10 to see the aqua teen hunger force movie, recently released.

  let me save you $10.

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  AlmostAtheist

  I love ATHF too, TP, and I was sure I'd love the movie. I wish they'd given Carl more lines, he's my favorite character. Meatwad gets serious screentime, so if you want some meat-gawking, you may well enjoy it.

  Dave
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  Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie -- Give it a pass! :-(

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  hey gang, .

  i'm sure you're all chompin' at the bit to run right out and plunk down $10 to see the aqua teen hunger force movie, recently released.

  let me save you $10.

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  AlmostAtheist

  Hey Gang,

  I'm sure you're all chompin' at the bit to run right out and plunk down $10 to see the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, recently released. Let me save you $10.

  It's not quite fair to say the movie sucked, since there WERE some funny parts. They weren't hilarious, or numerous, but they were there. What WAS abundant was time, confusion, and a robotic character that simply could not be understood better than half the time. It gave me the feeling that they knew they had a movie to make but kept putting it off, then slammed something together in a coupla weeks.

  If you've already seen everything else and you're DYING to see one more movie, then go ahead -- It probably won't make you physically ill. But if there's anything else to watch, or do, or you have a hectare of sod you could watch taking root, then I'd have to steer you towards those activities instead.

  I give it two thumbs down. And a dead rat.

  Dave
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  DESCRIBE HOW YOU WILL DIE

  by Terry in

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  how do you see your own demise?

  a long, slow, painful illness?

  a quick crash?

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  AlmostAtheist

  Apropos words from Carl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBHLrpn07G4

  Dave
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  Let the children listen to JW family members preach to them or shield them?

  by FreedomFrog in

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  i thought i'd start a new thread since my other thread was leading into a different topic.

  hopefully i can get many different views on this.

  i understand the concern not allowing children to be preach to by jw family members.

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  AlmostAtheist

  >>No...you can teach them what they need to know without letting others pollute their minds with the WTS nonsense.

  The trouble with that approach in my opinion is you become responsible for shielding them from EVERY nonsensical teaching. The Watchtower has no monopoly on stupid, life-wasting crap. If we keep our children from even hearing the JW stuff, will we also keep them from going over to their friend's house at school whose parents are pentecostals? Better to prep them for all the whack-jobs they'll meet in life, then they are ready for JW's and anyone else.

  I think good points are raised on both sides of this issue. But I lean pretty heavily toward inoculation, rather than quarantine.

  Dave