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  When Rutherford was cited by Coughlin and the Fascist Poet Pound

  by chasson in

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  in vindication volume ii, you can find a series of letter allegdly written by the english bankers rothschild to some banker in united states.

  rutherford wanted to prove by this letters the conspiracy of "money maker" for the beginning of the civil war.

  (pages 170 to 179 of vindication volume ii) .

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  Did Kangaroos Hop All The Way From Ararat?

  by metatron in

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  if evolution is false and the account about noah's ark is true, then how did kangaroos get to australia?.

  did they hop across the himalayas and vast stretches of asian deserts and a now extinct land bridge.

  linked to australia - or swim from island to island?

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  Who Likes 80's "Modern Rock"?

  by Open mind in

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  Intelligent Design Clobbered Again

  by AlanF in

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  jehovah's witnesses seem to have drifted toward the political notion of "intelligent design" in recent years.

  several times since 1996 their literature has referenced the book darwin's black box by michael behe, which book has become a kind of bible for iders.

  the book introduces the notion of "irreducible complexity" in a formal way as disprove of evolution.

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  Saviours of the world?

  by fullofdoubtnow in

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  i just read this really interesting article about similarities between the various saviours, or messiahs that are said to have walked the earth, most of them appearing long before jesus supposedly emerged.

  http://www.gardinersworld.com/content/view/164/1/.

  i don't personally believe that jesus was the son of god, or that he came to die for all mankind, but i kind of believe he may have been a historical figure with a certain amount of charisma, an ancient version of modern-day cult leaders like jim jones and david koresh.

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  war coming to Isreal?

  by Sasha in

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  is this the beginning of the "abomination of desolation"????

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  Regarding Psychic Phenomena.

  by Blueblades in

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  with the recent tv.

  show ghost hunters 7 hours long shown live and on the internet with web cams planted all over the place from east pennslyvania pentitentiary on friday evening from 8pm to 3am, there were many responses from all over the country about people seeing images, ghosts etc.

  for those who watched it, was this real or is it a great hoax.. i read that when it comes with dealing with hard evidence of life after death it's been shown that there are three classes of people.. there are those that ridicule idea of anything beyond the grave.. then there are those who have already accepted the evidence of continued existence beyond physical death.. the third group is often thrown offtrack when trying to get at the truth by the folks in the metaphysical camp.. which group do you belong to and why?

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  "Polar Bear Politics" - there are more bears than ever

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

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  http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416709 .

  i don't know how to turn the above into a link.

  this article was printed in the walled street journal on 1-3-07. this article criticizes a study that found that the bear population had declined by 25% in western hudson bay in the last decade.

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  WERE TONAL LANGUAGES ONLY SPOKEN JUST ATER BABEL?

  by badboy in

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  people who speak non-tonal languages are more likely to have a more recently evolve form of the genes aspm and microcephalin.. this raises an interesting idea.. possibly no non-tonal languages were spoken at the time of the towers of babel.. how would a jw explain?.

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  Polytheism, Monotheism, Atheism: a logical sequence?

  by Narkissos in

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  the current heated "(monotheist) believers vs. atheists" threads tends to overlook, imo, this rather commonplace but relevant issue: how modern atheism continues (and thus is tributary to) a line of religious, philosophical and scientific thought which runs from ancient polytheism through monotheism, both in greek and jewish traditions (which are the two main sources of western culture).. in the greek-speaking world, homeric-like polytheism went out of fashion, and although political authorities stood for the conservation of popular worship of the gods (atheism being a capital offence, ask socrates), an intellectual monotheism came to the fore, especially in platonic tradition, along with more or less "underground" forms of early atheism (democritus, epicurus).. in judea, for mainly political reasons ("one god, one temple, one priesthood, one king") the "deuteronomistic reform" of the 7th century bc promoted the active rejection (1) of all other gods than yhwh, and (2) of any representation of yhwh himself, henceforth branded as "idolatry".

  it also (3) reinterpreted most "natural" features in older israelite religion (linking yhwh, just as baal, with the cycle of seasons, especially the rain and dry seasons, vegetal and animal fertility) into historical (or pseudo-historical) celebrations: the feast of spring became the celebration of the national foundation in the exodus from egypt, etc.

  (4) the development of a doctrine of creation, increasingly construed as creatio ex nihilo -- mere "fabrication" of the world out of nothing instead of the older theomachy (struggle between the gods) wrestling for order out of chaos contributed to emptying "nature" of its numinous, sacred or divine presences: the sun, the moon, the stars, vegetables, animals and humans became mere "objects," vessels designed and made by a master craftsman, but devoid of intrinsic divinity.

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