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11+ Math Questions!
by ISP ingreetings apostopeople........... my daughter, 10 yrs, will be sitting her 11+ exam in january 2005 and i am going through some past papers.
some of the questions are pretty tasking....eek for me!!!.
here's one for you to try out.............. 'write down a number which leaves a remainder of 3 when divided by 7 and which also leaves a remainder of 4 when divided by 5.'.
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?'s for Believers in God
by chappy infor those here who still profess belief in god i'd like to know if religion is still an important/necessary part of that belief system.
if so, do you attend religious services?
which religion/belief system do you ascribe to?
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Question on Rom 6:23
by _Atlas in"for the wages sin pays is death, but the gift god gives is everlasting life?".
rom 6:23.
for years we been taught that we die because of sin and once you die you have paid your "debt" .
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AUTO GASOLINE .85 CENTS A GALLON IN IDAHO
by outoftheorg in.
thought you might find this of interest.. for late model vehicles with multi fuel systems, gasoline consisting of 85% methanol "alcohol" and 15% gasoline is now available at one service station in boise idaho, at (( eighty five cents )) a gallon.. the methanol is made from potato waste left over at processing plants.. it has fewer contaminants than gasoline and if spilled, the methanol will turn into water, making it environmental acceptable.. performance is supposed to be equal to gasoline.. that eighty five cents a gallon looks good to me.. outoftheorg.
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Do any of you ex-jws find anything wrong with Born-Again Christianity?
by booker-t inmy friend from my jw's days ran up to me on the street the other day and to my suprise he is no longer with the jw's.
it has been about 16 years since i last saw him.
he was a "devout" jw's and we used to "pioneer" together.
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I Don't Sympathise With Suicides
by Englishman inlet me explain.. firstly i have seen any number of so-called attempted suicides.
i've walked past an old girl friends house, seen her watching tv through the window, by the time i'm knocking on the door she's told me that she had her head in the gas oven and my knock stopped her.. my mother in law walks into the sea for a pastime.
every time she can't get her own way she walks in up to her knees and waits for someone to see her.
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Whence Baptism?
by Room 215 inhave any of you researchedthe origins of the practice of baptism?
as far as i can determine, there's no mention of it, much less as a requirement, in the torah or any of the old testament.. unless i'm missing something, it appears suddenly with john the baptist (oh, excuse me, wt lurkers, john the baptiser).. so then, if all of this is as it appears, then it's fair to conclude that the practice is of extra-biblical (as in ``pagan'' or ``heathen'') origins.
if true, then we have a fascinating example of how john, then jesus, appropriated a pagan custom because of its suitability as a symbol; in this case, of dying to a former life course and awakening to another.
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The three wise men
by Simon injust a thought.... looking through the greatest man book, something just occurred to me which i can't recall has ever been highlighted (but please correct me).. i always thought it a bit strange that jehovah allowed the three pagan astrologers to find jesus especially as they were obviously guided to him by satan's star (remember they were led to herod first who wanted to kill the messiah).
what purpose did it serve?.
well, a few pages earlier in tgm book, we see mary presenting a dove as a sin offering at the temple - this was the cheapest offering that was acceptable which must have meant that they were pretty poor at the time.. shortly after the three wise men visited the family had to flee to egypt when herod started to kill all the young boys in an attempt to kill jesus.. what would they need to travel and live as exiles for a couple of years?.
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