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  IPCC Climate Change Report........

  by cantleave in

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  .....states that there is 95% certainty climate change is man made.

  people are still saying we don't need to do anything about it.. if you were told there is a 95% risk of you dying if you don't change your diet, wouldn't you change your diet?.

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  sammielee24

  You had 3 billion people on this planet in 1980. You now have almost 8 billion people on the planet.

  Logistics alone make anyone realize that if you triple your population, you triple the amount of resources you now eat up - water and food. You increase the population, you increase the food chain aka more animals to slaughter to feed the masses. You rip out farmers fields to build highrises to house the population.

  We will have 50% more people on this planet at the end of the century if not sooner and in conjunction with that you have increasing technology and a decrease in actual jobs and/or income.

  Humans can't but help add to climate change but nothing changes unless you stop adding another 5 billion in ten years to the problem. That might be a better solution than an Al Gore make him rich project - one that has turned as many people off the issue as it has led them to the same water he drinks. sammieswife
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  Update - Protest done - Hi Everyon

  by LouBelle in

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  i have been rather scarce i know, i've been so very busy with work that i don't really have much time to log on, and we had someone come into our home and steal our laptop, so haven't been able to log on at home either.. work is still going very well.

  it's not easy cold selling, but i've had a good few ads come in and keep me ticking over.

  every now and again i pop because i simply don't know what else management want me to do, i'm doing everything i can.

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  Nice to hear from you Loub - glad you are doing so well and enjoying life! You deserve it! sammieswife
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  Do you detect an underlying sadness ?

  by Phizzy in

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  whenever i talk to jw's, and even in some of the jw official videos, i detect a definite vibe of sadness coming off these people.. i am very sensitive to "atmospheres" and to peoples emotional state, you wouldn't think so, because more often than not i do not react to what i detect, i just let people get on with it.. but i do get this feeling that they are sad, probably because very, very, very deep down they realise that it is all false, maybe ?.

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  Personally I haven't run into any JW's that exhibit an aura of sadness. I've seen many that show signs of weariness and I've been around more that show a certain arrogance and pride in their beliefs and their distance from the world - but not sadness. Sometimes it's like they are tired of hanging on in this 'system of things' and being forced to deal with the world while they wait for eternal life - but sadness - no. Only a feigned sadness of not having brought enough people in. samsw
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  Interesting change of direction by Pope Francis

  by besty in

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  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-pope-francis-gays-20130919,0,6719110.story.

  tribune news wire reports8:54 p.m. cdt, september 19, 2013. vatican citypope francis said the catholic church must shake off an obsession with teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality and become more merciful or risk the collapse of its entire moral edifice "like a house of cards".. .

  in a dramatically blunt interview with an italian jesuit journal, francis said the church had "locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules" and should not be so prone to condemn.. .

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  The church may be trying to change their image by bringing up again the issue of celibacy and perhaps they recognize the advantages of progressing and in so doing, increasing membership. Celibacy has not always been a requirement of the Priesthood so it may not be as hard to revert back as some would think. sammieswife

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  The Vatican is ready to open a discussion about whether Catholic priests should be required to remain celibate, the Vatican's newly appointed secretary of state said in an interview with a Venezuelan newspaper.

  "Celibacy is not an institution but look, it is also true that you can discuss [it] because as you say this is not a dogma, a dogma of the church," Archbishop Pietro Parolin said during an interview with El Universal.

  At the same time, he acknowledged that the ancient policy mandating celibacy is a firmly established tradition in the Catholic Church.

  Vatican policy on priest celibacy

  'Clerics are obliged to observe perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the kingdom of heaven and therefore are bound to celibacy which is a special gift of God by which sacred ministers can adhere more easily to Christ with an undivided heart and are able to dedicate themselves more freely to the service of God and humanity.'

  Source: Canon 277 of the Vatican's Code of Canon Law

  "The efforts that the church made to keep ecclesiastical celibacy, to impose ecclesiastical celibacy, have to be taken into consideration," Parolin said. "One cannot say simply that this belongs in the past."

  For many centuries, Catholic priests have faced the requirement to be celibate — a policy that some have blamed for contributing to the major decline in the number of young men entering the priesthood.

  Until Archbishop Parolin's comments, any discussion about changing the priest celibacy rule was largely considered to be out-of-bounds. As secretary of state, he is considered the top aide to Pope Francis.

  Parolin's remarks could be seen as a further sign that Pope Francis is open to the idea of reforming some of the Catholic Church's most entrenched policies. (cbc world news)
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  Colorado Flooding Near My House

  by dazed but not confused in

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  here are some picture in my neighborhood.. our house was not affected.

  there is possibly more flash flooding expected tonight.. in the picture below our house sits at the bottom right corner about 2 blocks out of frame.

  yesterday and tonight we are staying in another town with family.. .

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  Apparently 34 to Estes is wiped out as well - sw
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  Are your Ready for Sunday's WT...1914...

  by Legacy in

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  to all who are still active...& those who are not...... is everyone ready for wt for sunday....1914....is everyone ready to see the friends faces, that will pretend all is well.

  but their minds will be racing.

  i started the article...talk about confusing...but maybe on purpose only a few in the hall will be able to break it down.

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  Is there a scan of the article being disussed?
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  Education Double Standard

  by Tech49 in

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  this is the kind of thing that really burns me.. .

  wtbts holds out an extreme double standard in regards to education.

  most, if not all, of you know how they feel about obtaining an education past high school (in the u.s.).

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  What is more hypocritical than the Society printing the evils of education - is the JW's themselves who ARE educated, then denying the same education and opportunity to their own children.

  I know well educated JW's who have kids who are being home schooled and when asked IF they will allow little Janie and Jimmie to go to university like daddy - look away and state that 'we will deal with it IF it comes up'. Answer - not if I can help it.

  Kind of like the hypocrisy that reigns in the 'don't follow the world; don't mix in the world; don't take part in holidays as in the world; don't engage in the war or the government - and then they take jobs in schools full of worldly kids, parents, holidays and government benefits; they take pensions from the military; they take pensions from any public sector job they held while working in the world - but decry any interactions others have in the world. sw
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  Are You Upset My Miley Cyrus' Performance On MTV Awards?

  by minimus in

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  i'm not, even a little bit and i don't understand what the outrage is all about..

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  Miley Cyrus isn't doing anything every other performer hasn't done or is out there doing. She's an adult. Not a kid. What should upset us more is the fact that we don't think shaking your ass, simulating masturbation, licking a guy and basically acting like a cat in heat up in front of the world - is just another day in the park. Used to be you had to go to a closed theater or a strip club to see this kind of stuff - now we see it so often that women put poles up in their houses so they can perfect their stripper moves in the form of exercise.

  No, it doesn't upset me - I quite frankly find those ads for men and womens diapers more irritating...alongside all the pharmaceutical sales pitches to cure ED, twitching toes, hang nails, anxiety, shyness and the latest drum roll - shift work disorder. .....sammieswife
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  Chemical warfare in Syria-can man be saved?

  by Monsieur in

  1. watchtower
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  the images on the news after the town in damascus was attached with a chemical weapon was incredibly disturbing.

  babies dying, people suffocating, it was man at his worst.. can man be saved?

  it seems the entire world is implicated in this conflict.

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  Since I don't know who was responsible for releasing the chemical weapons in Syria - I can't point the finger at one specific group.

  What will get interesting is that all those people who have been killed or injured so far, might pale in comparison with the hundreds of thousands more who get caught in the cross fire should this evolve into WW3. Russia, China, US and allies - it could be a bloodbath or a simple nuke that takes out a lot of people and destroys the environment for decades to come.

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  Why was Chris Lane killed?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  chris lane was murdered.

  he was shot from behind.

  he had no skittles in his pocket.

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  He was stalked.

  Those responsible saw him jogging, decided that he was their target, got in their car and followed him. Shot him in the back and left him to die.

  People should realize that every single tweet and social media conversation they have in public can be frozen, read and re-read by everyone. People can identify your family and all your friends.

  sammieswife