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  There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&ssheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html

  there is a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 .

  by bob carter .

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  This guy does not appear to know about or understand the thermohaline cycle. starters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation
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  HAS AN EVOLUTIONARY LINK BEEN DISCOVERED?

  by badboy in

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  scientists have claimed to have found the missing link between fish and land animals on ellesmere island ,canada.

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  NPR had a piece on this. The oldest scientist in the party was fairly absolute that this *IS* the ancestor of tetrapods; another scientist did not believe so but was firm that it represents a "cousin" (his word) of whatever missing link 'did' perform the same service. I'm happy enough that JWs will have to squirm around this one, again again again.
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  No Natural Affection

  by misspeaches in

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  i was talking to jh about this the other day.... this year will be the 3rd memorial i will have missed.

  i've faded not disphellowshipped or disassociated.

  to date i have not recieved an invitation to come along to the memorial for any of them.

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  "I often wondered how the WT and Awake mags could have articles about the Pharisees, and not see the clear connection to the philosophy of the organization. They operate on the same principles as the Pharisees." Projection (dictionary.com): "Psychology. 1. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others: “Even trained anthropologists have been guilty of unconscious projectionof clothing the subjects of their research in theories brought with them into the field” (Alex Shoumatoff). 2. The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt." Evolutionary Psychology (http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/epfaq/ep.html) offers some explanation for the phenomenon of how *normal* people DO have natural affection for their genetic relations. Google "Hamilton's Rule".
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  Ghosts, Demons, or Imagination?

  by ButtLight in

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  ok, its happened again!

  but not to me this time, my 12 year old son.. last night he fell asleep on the couch, so i left him there and went to bed.

  he wolk up about 3 am, and walked upstairs to his bedroom.

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  Lucky! I'd pay good money to have an authentic supernatural experience. After 25 years of JWs with demons under your fingernails, I can't find a one. That being said, you may or may not want to look up M.A. Persinger from Laurentian University. He does work on the haunting capacity of the right temporal lobe. Warning: he is reductionist, but his research at least gives a bottom line for seeing at least one way in which the brain might interact with spirit forces, should they exist. And now for the question at which anti-reductionists love to look askance, Does your kid have any sources of electromagnetic radiation near the head of the bed?
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  Ironic hypocrisy of Bethel "service"

  by MinisterAmos in

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  i normally let people make their own decisions with a very hands off approach, but after reading the "living together in bethel" (or whatever the name of the piece of crap book is) i need to vent a bit.. anyone here is very familiar with the "quit your job or at least cut way back" talks that we were subjected to seemingly every other week.

  after all, good dubz need time to prepare, attend, pioneer etc.

  a good friend of mine left her job at an insurance co. to pioneer.

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  http://www.nathanielturner.com/slaveryandtheamericaneconomy.htm It would be nice to see some figure for the value of branch slave labor adjusted for inflation, growth and shrinkage. And then pay it out to apostates..?
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  Why European women are turning to Islam

  by Dogpatch in

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  http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/p01s04-woeu.htm

  from the december 27, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/p01s04-woeu.html

  why european women are turning to islam

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  Ossification of western religion? Incentives for the marginally invested to explore alternate spiritualities? Happened in Rome. Daring demonstration of rhetorical ownership of spiritual authority? (Granted, nothing like 9/11 happened in Rome.)
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  Shunning someone is one of the worst things anybody can do, JW or not

  by JH in

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  i guess that being shunned doesn't affect everone equally.

  i never did mind being shunned by jw's because i don't have any family or friends there, but being shunned by anyone you care for is cruel.. how did you cope with being shunned?.

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  Being shunned by my elder father (who'sinvestinginthefuturewithrealestateandrentalpropertychucklechuckle) causes zero major concern, but I sympathize with my mother who because of this is unable to have meaningful contact with her first-born son. So although I am the shunned, the worst effects go to an innocent party. (i.e., "just a sister," not invested in patricentric hegemonies.)
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  Apostates protesting conventions = Something I laughed at

  by free2beme in

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  sorry if there are those apostates here that do this, but you were often the butt of a joke and nothing taken serious.

  i personally loved the ones who wore paper bags over their head, as they were often people still afraid of getting in trouble.

  it is not like a political rally with people saying "make love, not war.

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  Rome did not have a permanent policy of persecuting Christians; human-torches and being thrown to lions flared up under just a handful of emperors. Nevertheless, the negative cathectic awe that """pagan""" Romans had for this new cult largely stemmed from the Christians' willingness to BE persecuted, to be tarred and feathered as it were, to BE laughed at, ridiculed, thrown to lions, et al. The apostates who picket conventions are no different from the Christians in their whole ones and twos who lived up to their principles by becoming a laughing stock to the many for the one chance of saving one soul. JWs who laugh at the apostates are rationalizing and repressing a potent, profound concern that the apostates are not doing this for their health, and must have a very good reason for risking resources in time, reputation, and legal concern. Any scripture that Brooklyn can quote from Peter, Paul and Mary about their philanthropic and beneficient motivations for suffering ridicule can be (at least) tested on apostate picketers. If an apostate could reasonably expect that shouting "get out of Babylon the Great" could be correctly interpreted by at least one JW, even if only an adolescent who has no physical means of escaping the situation, they would.
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  2034...

  by Tuesday in

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  i'm sure this has been posted about but can someone link me the old thread or something, i'm interested if this is still being pushed..... .

  http://www.jwfiles.com/2034.htm.

  that's a link to an online article about 2034 being the new end date, is this still going on?

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  There's a generational attention span that must elapse before the next major deception. The generation that swallowed the traumatic deception of 1975 must be largely attritioned, fallen away or inactive for the next installment to work properly. People minimally old enough to contextually comprehend the deception in '75 (15yo?) will be _at least_ 74yo by the time 2034 rolls around and Brooklyn is hammering in earnest. This segment of wisdom and empirical experience will be severely under-represented in the publisher mix. As far as the periodicity of punctuated deception, Big Brother has nothing on Brooklyn.
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  Just finished my last final for my first semester of college!!!

  by Cognitive_Dissident in

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  so i just took my last final for this semester, which was in fact my very first semester of college ever.

  and it feels great!

  dear watchtower bible and tract society, .

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  Good feeling, isn't it.