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  Gas to hit 7 dollars per gallon

  by 1914BS in

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  gas to hit $7 a gallonby marty jeromeapril 29, 2008 | 2:00:00 pmcategories: alt fuel, business, finance, fuel economy, policy, post-petroleum.

  both qatar's oil minister and the head of opec can see oil hitting $200 a barrel before the end of the year and one analyst says gas could reach $7 a gallon within four years.

  but this seems to explain part of what's happening with the price of oil.

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  Gill

  What is amazing is that the oil companies are being permitted to destroy the economy and inflation figures, and even lives of people all over the world.

  They tell us that the Terrorists in this world are Muslim fanatics but I think that the oil magnates and the profiteering speculators are the real terrorists in this world and they will kill millions if they manage to bring unafordable food and starvation to the most deprived people on this planet.....but maybe that's their plan! Cut off the 'drift wood' and just keep the hard working middle classes!
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  Gas to hit 7 dollars per gallon

  by 1914BS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  gas to hit $7 a gallonby marty jeromeapril 29, 2008 | 2:00:00 pmcategories: alt fuel, business, finance, fuel economy, policy, post-petroleum.

  both qatar's oil minister and the head of opec can see oil hitting $200 a barrel before the end of the year and one analyst says gas could reach $7 a gallon within four years.

  but this seems to explain part of what's happening with the price of oil.

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  Gill

  $7!!! That's an absolute bargain.

  Our fuel is about the equivilant of between $10 and $11!

  We don't use our car anymore as we both work very close to home. I have a five minute walk and my husband just a five minute cycle.

  No way are we giving the government or any blood sucking oil company all of our hard earned cash!

  The car will only come out when we go on holiday and if we have some very heavy shopping to do.......otherwise it stays where it is!!

  It's time that everyone moved as close as possible to their employment if at all possible, and don't give your money away to people who don't need or deserve it
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  Sitting on the terraces at Hillsborough / Maine Road eating Hellas bars

  by Simon in

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  the topic on assembly meals hot food at the dcs past...what was it like?

  made me think of the days sat on the terraces at district conventions.

  they were originally 4 day affairs but ended up just friday and the weekend (maybe they are just the weekend now?)..

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  Gill

  Does anyone remember having to walk right by the open sewage treatment works at Twickenham to get to the car park and back!

  I can still smell it nearly forty years later!

  The things we did for Jehoober!!!
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  Sitting on the terraces at Hillsborough / Maine Road eating Hellas bars

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the topic on assembly meals hot food at the dcs past...what was it like?

  made me think of the days sat on the terraces at district conventions.

  they were originally 4 day affairs but ended up just friday and the weekend (maybe they are just the weekend now?)..

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  Gill

  Don't! Just Don't!

  We were sitting watching TV News when the football bit came on. I said to my husband, 'Does that still remind you of....you know?' and he just said, 'We must have been nuts!'

  How did we all put up with that sitting on concrete steps in pouring rain, and sweltering heat with crying babies and ...... just makes me mad thinking about it

  We used to go to Wolverhampton, Sheffied Wednesday, and once the horrible old Leicester Football ground where the parking was in the cattle market and the smell.....well, I won't even begin.

  As for the Hella's bars.......yuk!

  The first assembly we missed was when the twins were born. I was already beginning to suffer from a heart defect (been put right since) and was struggling to look after four children and just day to day living. My parents had been to Nottingham assembly and stormed round when they came home and gave us a proper going over for not going to the assembly like 'other people with babies who want them to survive Armageddon'. Apparantly, my mum told me, 'there was a lovely sister with twin babies there and she was managing very well', implication being that I was a useless article. And you know, we just sat there and took that bull shit and let them make us feel guilty.

  I HATED ASSEMBLIES MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD AND MY ONLY GOOD MEMORY WAS WHEN ME AND MY NOW HUSBAND COULD HAVE A QUICK SNOG WHEN WE WERE TEENAGERS WHEN NO ONE WAS LOOKING, OTHER THAN THAT, THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY THING WAS A BLEEDING NIGHTMARE! (Glad I've got that rant off my chest!!! )

  What about those toilet queues?!!!

  What about those imbecile attendants?!

  And who where's high heels and flowery dresses to a football stadium?

  I suspect however, that these big assemblies are going to be amongst one of the next few things to be abolished in the new 'slim line' version of the WTBTS!
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  Cross is a pagan symbol, watchtower is a pagan symbol too

  by Noelle in

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  you all jehovah witnesses that said jesus didn't die on a cross but on a stake your wrong because the romans were pagans and what better way to crucify someone than on a pagan symbol.

  i have a fact that you need to listen to as well, the watchtower which you symbolize is a pagan symbol as well.

  oh no how can that be you ask, well let me tell you.. in ceremonial magic and some traditions of wicca and neopaganism, the four cardinal points are believed to have spiritual guardians called watchtowers.

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  Gill

  To a certain extent the jewellery reminds me of the 'leather bindings' that the certain 'in crowd' JWs would use for their bibles, song books etc.

  It is, as Gary says, a form of identification just as the NO BLOOD Key fobs are and other 'we are different and SPECIAL' Identification measures of dubbies.

  Sad really, that, apart from the jewellery, my parents have all these dubbie IDs. They can't see that their absolute devotion and dedication to the Watchtower is no different to any other worship of idols that they claim to detest.
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  2012: The Year The Internet Ends

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. jw
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  http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality.

  06/01/2008 - every significant internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.

  what can we do?internet providers have realized that the only way to not lose massive amounts of customers over this is to make sure there are no alternatives, that's why all major internet providers are currently making agreements and planning to switch simultaneously somewhere in the year 2012. this is currently all going on under very strict nda's (non-disclosure agreements) because the last thing they want is the masses speaking out against it.

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  If this is true, and there really is apparantly nothing we can do about it but 'complain', then the answer is very simple......DON'T SUBSCRIBE!

  If everyone makes up their minds to not give in to the ruination of the internet and does not buy any of the packaged but EVERYONE REFUSES they'll soon go out of business.

  We subscribe at the moment to AOL, but should anything like you mention happen the subscription will end immeadiately. If we all do the same, we may not have the internet but THEY will go BUST! Ultimate vengeance if we all stick together and not long before they have to return to what WE want!
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  Remarkably Blatant Antiscience Statements in This Week's WT Study

  by hamilcarr in

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  is there still enough room for scientists in the wt?.

  16. do we hear valueless things being uttered today?

  for example, some scientists say that evolutionary theory and scientific discoveries in other fields demonstrate that there is no longer any need to believe in god, that everything can be explained by natural processes.

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  http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2001/PSCF9-01Schneider.html

  You might find this article interesting also, on the same theme of the 'Earth hanging upon nothing?'
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  Can genesis be reconciled with science?

  by inkling in

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  ok, so a recent thread about the latest wt antiscience content (found here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/159423/1.ashx).

  has got me thinking.... it does seem really hard to hold active trust in the bible as the word of.

  god without being leery of science.

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  Gill

  What is so fascinating about the Genesis account is that it is an apparantly (disregarding it's Babylonish origins and pre babylon) a story about how God made the Jews and everybody is Jewish.

  It is therefore the tale of a Nation that was seriously into navel gazing and apparantly the whole world was made for the first Jewish man and his wife, Eve and their children and how the whole world originated with them.

  There is the problem with the whole Bible , in one.

  It is the mythology of a nation that claimed it was God's chosen people and which a lot of other people then chose to believe to be true.

  It is no different from the Americans perhaps saying, 'we are God's Chosen People' or the Malaysians saying 'We are God's chosen people' and 'Why?' Simply because our old book says so.

  LIke Genesis, the whole Bible makes no sense at all unless you look at the reasons why people WANT to believe it. Then it all begins to fit together as something that some people want to believe and nothing more.

  There is nothing scientific about people being misled by others and more importantly, by themselves.
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  Can genesis be reconciled with science?

  by inkling in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, so a recent thread about the latest wt antiscience content (found here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/159423/1.ashx).

  has got me thinking.... it does seem really hard to hold active trust in the bible as the word of.

  god without being leery of science.

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  Gill

  The writer of Genesis was retelling a story which belonged to the Babyonians which probably belonged to an ancient civilisation way before the end of the ice age. Like many oral traditions, it suffered from the effects of 'chinese whispers syndrome' until it was written down, and probably furthur 'chinese whisper' like problems after being written.

  No, it can't be reconciled with science becasue it is just a vague piece of mythology which lacks sufficient detail that might give it body to be able to pick out any remnants of fact that just might correlate with scientific reality.

  It's like broken up, mismatched DNA.
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  Cross is a pagan symbol, watchtower is a pagan symbol too

  by Noelle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you all jehovah witnesses that said jesus didn't die on a cross but on a stake your wrong because the romans were pagans and what better way to crucify someone than on a pagan symbol.

  i have a fact that you need to listen to as well, the watchtower which you symbolize is a pagan symbol as well.

  oh no how can that be you ask, well let me tell you.. in ceremonial magic and some traditions of wicca and neopaganism, the four cardinal points are believed to have spiritual guardians called watchtowers.

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  Gill

  Wow! Rather Masonic style jewellery! Is there a ring that is only to be worn by initiates!

  Are these only available in the USA or are the trendy 'in' UK WatchTowerites wearing them also?