Congrats Raindog!
I made an honor society. It felt good. I also graduated cum lauda. That felt even better! So keep up the good work Raindog. You won't regret it!
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JWDers Congratulate Raindog !!!
by yknot inraindog is in school right now and has been an excellent student....unfortunately his dad is an elder who is currently 'borgwashed'.. (story) http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/160240/1.ashx.
he was made the dean's list (again) and has been invited to join the honor society !.
so let's encourge this young man to keep moving forward in the face of this co outline!......
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politics, global warming, and gas prices
by Junction-Guy ini am so sick of hearing about global warning, i hope that no matter who gets elected, he is able to do something about these gas prices.
$52 to fill up my tank, not even a big car or an suv, and it wasn't even bone dry empty.. .
this is ridiculous !!.
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Thank you JG
I'll give the Bush haters their due, but only just. Clinton set us down the road to our current gas price hell. But Bush, an oil man, should've had no problem seeing where that was leadings us through the years and put a stop to it. But he let his ideology get in the way of common sense and we are were we are today.
I am not going to let the Democrats off the hook though. They controlled the Senate for six of Bush's eight years and the House for the last year and a half. Our biggest price increases occurred during those times with the last increase of almost two dollars, or about half, occurring during the year and a half they controlled
both houses. Think about that one.
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Do the religious have higher morals than the non-religious?
by digderidoo inok, i was going to ask whether christians have higher morals, but i thought that other religions have the same kind of morals too.. when i look at those who sincerely follow their religion, i think that they do have a higher morality than those who do not follow some sort of scriptural guidelines.. this is not to say that the religious have a monopoly on morality, or to say that some religious people are not hypocritical in doing what they say, rather than what they do.
but as a whole it seems to me that someone with a religious upbringing has higher standards than someone without.. now some would say that higher standards or lower standards are defined by society, so therefore by whose definition do they have higher morals.
this would be a fair assumption.
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Some do, some don't
It all depends on where they base their morality. If their morality is based on the needs of some religious institution, i.e. RCC or JWs, then they don't often have all that high a morality. If they are based directly of Jesus' teachings, or I might even add Buddha's from what I little I know of his teachings, then their morality will usually be higher. One poster already noted the high morality of an isolated Russian Christian group who only had a few examples of Jesus' sayings to go on for determining their morality.
I've met non-religious folks with a much nobler sense of morality than most religious. But when I enquirer as to where that sense comes from I usually find that it goes back some sort of religious basis formed early on in life or in their parents life and passed on to them. Others noted how religiously based morals made some associates life better and simply emulated what they saw worked.
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politics, global warming, and gas prices
by Junction-Guy ini am so sick of hearing about global warning, i hope that no matter who gets elected, he is able to do something about these gas prices.
$52 to fill up my tank, not even a big car or an suv, and it wasn't even bone dry empty.. .
this is ridiculous !!.
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AGW is a sham.
Anybody remember the gas crisis of during the Carter administration? OPEC cut back on the oil supply and drove the prices through the roof. Carter instituted price freezes and a "windfall profits" tax on the oil companies. It only made things worse! We learned several things from that fiasco. It is dangerous to our economy to be too dependent on foreign oil. Taxation doesn't work, it exacerbates the problem. We were promised by our politicians that they would work to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Guess what didn't happen?
Instead of increasing domestic production, our politicians worked diligently to decrease it. Instead of increasing refinery production, our politicians helped wacko environmentalists to hinder it. And there is plenty of blame to go around because Democrats and Republicans both held control of the federal government at one point or another during that time. Both ignored the problem.
So what is the proposed answer by our Democratic controlled Congress? A "windfall profits" tax, the very same thing which didn't work the first time around. How did Einstein define insanity?
Republicans want to drill in ANWAR. The same old refrain. Democrats say that it is a very limited reserve of oil to begin with and would somehow destroy a "pristine wilderness." I guess they have a point about the small amount of oil there and the expense of shipping it back to the lower 48. But guess what? There is an oil field right here in the lower 48 which has an estimated three times the reserves of Saudi Arabia. Or enough to keep us going for another couple of hundred years. But Democrats placed it completely off-limits to the oil companies years ago. There is a massive reserve of oil off our east coast and in the Gulf Of Mexico. But, once again, it is off limits up to fifty miles off the East coast and throughout the eastern half of the Gulf coast. and the current Democratic Congress wants to increase the distance off the coast were drilling is prohibited. Now how, pray tell, is that going to alleviate the problem long term?
Instead Pelosi and company want to raise taxes, and exacerbate world food problems by forcing cars to compete with people for available food (biofuels). Be careful about proposed solutions coming from environmentalists. More than thirty years ago we were told that switching to lead-free automobiles would reduce pollution since the only products such vehicles would produce were water vapor and carbon dioxide, a perfectly harmless gas. Now those same people are telling us that carbon dioxide gas, from electricity production and lead-free cars, is the sole reason for the world warming up and we must eliminate both or face extinction within this century.
The current proposed solution is to switch to biofuels, which will only produce water vapor. But guess what? Some of the "global warming deniers" point out that water vapor is known to be a much more intensive green house gas. Guess what the next refrain will be if the global warming fascists succeed?
I don't think it is all that hard to guess what the real fascists are up to given my last two paragraphs.
The more immediate problem appears to be oil speculators. They are bidding up the price of oil all out of proportion with the supply and world demand. Those folks are making tons of money for doing nothing towards producing or supplying oil to the consumer. I'll lay that one at Clinton's feet since the oil futures market was deregulated in 1999 and our increases in oil and gas prices coincide with that happy little event.
In my opinion the solution is to put a stop to the speculators. Don't tax the oil companies since that will only cause them to reduce the supply even further because of the loss (confiscation) of their profits. Increase the domestic oil supply. That is the best mid-range solution. Tap the reserves in the Continental U.S. and off-shore. If off-shore drilling is such a bad thing, why does Norway allow it off their shores? One doesn't get much more left-wing than Norway so it can't be all that bad.
Long term solutions would include greater reliance on nuclear power and other sources of power production. We might want to consider a biofuel like methanol, which can be distilled from most any woody plant and does not place fuel production into competition for food resources.
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My Sister Finally Called Me... After My JW Brother Completely Told Her Off
by cognac inwell, for those that don't know the story, here's a quick recap.
my sister, mom, and dad felt i was an apostate, freaked out on me, then went to the elders and ratted me out.
i haven't spoken to her in about 2 months because i didn't like the way that she treated me.
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interesting.
Right now I am in a situation where a young man I raised and my in-laws are going around lying about me to others in my wife's family to isolate me from the rest of the family. And they are Dubs. They are also doing more. And this started long before I became inactive. It's getting to the point that I can't trust them alone with my wife.
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Odd and interesting videos you find on youtube
by free2beme inever see this one from bill o'rielly?.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2tjjnvvwrcy&feature=related.
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Here's one I've really enjoyed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8fSIbA9SOM
The idiot chambered a pistol for the .600 Nitro Express round and was stupid enough to fire the thing. We are talking about a bullet made expressly to stop a charging rhino or bull elephant.
Somebody else decided to give some Arabs a try with a .577 nitro Express, a slightly weaker version of the same round:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ged4lz_Fw2Y&feature=related
The European in that same video shot the more powerful .700 Nitro.
I'll stick with the Winchester .457 magnum if I ever goe hunting big game. It'll kill anything the Nitro express will and kick me a hole lot less!
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Should the Name Jehovah Appear in the New Testament?
by hamilcarr inthis is the title of an article from the august 1st issue of the watchtower (public edition).. it can be downloaded from http://www.jw.org/index.xjp?option=qryqzrqvnznt but is not yet available in print.. the absence of the divine name in nt manuscripts is vaguely described so as not to confuse the average jw reader.
the opening paragraph even gives the uninformed reader the impression that some of those nasty non-jw translators deliberately chose to omit the divine name.
bible scholars acknowledge that god's personal name appears in the old testament or hebrew scriptures.
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I fear you have read WT lit so long....you now may write for them.
That's your opinion oomp. You go on to make an unsupported assertion, so I hardly feel the need to rehash a subject which has been argued ad infinitum
on this forum already. I would be interested to find out on what authority you have to make such a blanket pronouncement anyway?
Narkissos, one of my current long-term projects is greater understanding of French. I do have an absurdly basic thing which bothers me about the use of a particular French verb. Would you be willing to explain a usage which bothers me by PM?
I am fascinated with the current back and forth on the theories about the LXX recension which may or may not form the basis for the NT quotations. I would, however, like to hear more about why folks think the so called "Palestinian" recension would not have followed the already well-documented custom of the Alexandrian Jews in regards to the use of the Divine name in the LXX as well.
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Well, well,
Somebody bailed my lazy critic out so he/she didn't have to put forth the effort. I doubt it took all that much effort. Still, it says a lot more about my critic than anything else.
In my first post I used the word "if." So I was not being dogmatic and invited correction if the comment I cited was wrong. Instead of doing that, my critic simply threw out allegations without any support. Said critic couldn't be bothered to provide any support, relying on others to make the effort while said critic just blew their mouth off.
And said critic thinks that makes them somehow better?
Bye the way. Thanks for the pictures, I stand corrected. Before I logged off last night I already knew from my further research that Obama's father is supposedly of the Luo people, hardly Arab. But I wasn't going to help an idiot out.
Good luck and good night.
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No CO's - Is It True?
by aniron ini've just heard that they are going to do away with circuit overseers.. is this true or just a rumour?.
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Consider another possibility.
Say Obama becomes president with an increased majority in congress. Guess what will come down the pike? Universal health care! No matter what form it takes such a mandate will drive up the cost of healthcare big time. And I doubt the WTBTS wants to have to finance that one for as big a force of workers as they have now.
A reduction in their workforce is already underway. They were already looking at ways to automate as much as possible and reduce their healthcare costs to begin with. That was likely a significant reason for who they let go in the rounds of cuttings in the last few years. A universal healthcare mandate will make them even more desperate to cut those they'll be obligated to provide coverage for under the new mandate.
Under that scenario cutting back on traveling overseers and replacing them with locals they don't have to pony up the money for becomes awfully attractive. Bet you they are watching this year's election pretty closely up in Brooklyn.
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lol, you offer something up that is A) kinda outrageous sounding
Really? How so?
B) Stupid on it's face
Unsupported assertion.
C) sourced from a wanker (probably either you, or someone very much like you) on an Australian yahoo message board.
Ad hominem, fallacious argumentation.
But I'm supposed to track down proof that this made up piece of shit is a made up piece of shit. Yeah, right.
Exactly, but don't burden yourself on my account if you can't. Just cut the personal "shit" for once. Or is that the best you can do?
"Uh, yeah, he's 87.5 arab, Bob, and 12.5% African negro".... wtf does that even mean? How stupid do you have to be to think that that might possibly be a true, researched piece of information? Or that it is even POSSIBLE to have that information? Or that such information would really make a point.
And how do you know it isn't? Do you know what information is documented on Kenyan birth certificates? Maybe they are not quite so precise as the information presented, but a reasonable percentage can often be inferred from information given. Really Nine, wouldn't it be better to use facts in rebuttal than simply toss out unsupported charges? I found some interesting possible refutations online with little work, but I am not about to make your case for you.
Try doing it right for once. You might find it refreshing considering how dull and boring your current line is. I would.
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