Posts by stevenyc

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Ozzie, a question for you....

by stevenyc in

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ozzie, .

i always have a funny feeling on sunday nights that monday is going to be a bad day, so, i would like to know what tomorrows going to be like.

and since you?ve already seen it, i was wondering if you could let me know.. steve..

I always have a funny feeling on Sunday nights that Monday is going to be a bad day, So, I would like to know what tomorrows going to be like. And since you?ve already seen it, I was wondering if you could let me know.

Steve.

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I'll never look at a budgie the same way

by stevenyc in

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i don't know about you, but i find this pretty scary.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4345079.stm.

however, bbc medical correspondent fergus walsh said professor pennington's estimation could be too low.

he said, based on who estimates that one in four britons could become infected and a mortality rate of 75%, the figure would be about 11 million.

stevenyc

I don't know about you, but I find this pretty scary.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4345079.stm

However, BBC medical correspondent Fergus Walsh said Professor Pennington's estimation could be too low.
He said, based on WHO estimates that one in four Britons could become infected and a mortality rate of 75%, the figure would be about 11 million

steve

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The "Tree" of WHAT?

by Farkel in

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the account of adam and eve as a literal event is so full of logical contradictions that it is mind-boggling.

it only takes a minimum of scrutiny to discover that fact, too.. there is something god did not want adam and eve to know.

he didnt want them to know the difference between good and evil.

stevenyc

BTTT

A lovely read farkel.

I've always had a problem with the Adam and Eve fruit thingy. Made in Gods image - God wired their brain because they were born adults, so ALL there reasoning experiences, the way they choose to do things was Gods own work. So if they screwed up it was Gods brain schematics that screwed up. Its all Jehovah's fault.

steve

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Developers: Question about .Net Windows Services

by Elsewhere in

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last night i decided to start messing around with a windows service.

it is very simple, all it does is monitor my computer?s ip address and if it changes the new ip address is ftped to my web server in a small xml document.. i thought this could be very useful considering my cable modem changes its ip address every now and then and i like to remote desktop into my home pc quite frequently.. now the problem... like i said, the program is very small and simple and the actual exe is 28 kb and has an accompanying dll that is 52 kb.

very reasonable.

stevenyc

Elsewhere,

I'm not sure if I'm reading this right.

Have you written a piece of code to update you website with you home IP address, or are you using someones elses pirce of code.

If I know this, I my be able to tell you wants taking up the extra memory.

steve

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Imprisonment without charge ... ever justified?

by Simon in

is this ever a good thing?

even if people imagine that its justifiable does it ever have the intended effect?

experienced officers from northern ireland describe the internment without trial there as the biggest recruiting sargeant for the republican movement and a big mistake by the uk government.

stevenyc

From Terry Gilliams Brazil

CUT TO JILL at top of queue with several forms in her
hand. A strange prototype radio controlled camera on a
wheeled base is whirring and clicking as it approaches
her. Throughout the next sequence it pokes around JILL in
an annoying manner - thrusting itself at her face, trying
to see what is written on the forms, peering over her
shoulder. JILL hands a form to the Information Porter.

JILL
I want to report a wrongful arrest.

PORTER
(looking at form)
You want Information Adjustments.
Different department.

JILL
(exasperated but
controlled)
I've been to Information Adjustments.
They sent me here. They told me you
had a form I had to fill in.

PORTER
Have you got an Arrest Receipt?

JILL
Yes.

PORTER
Is it stamped?

JILL
(producing Buttle receipt)
Stamped?

PORTER
(examining receipt)
No, there's no stamp on it. You see!
I can't give you the form until it's
stamped.

JILL
Where do I get it stamped?

PORTER
Information Adjustments.

steve

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-13-05 WT Study

by blondie in

will be in black and parentheses ().

quotes from other sources will be in blue.

and the good news about the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then, finally, the end will come.

stevenyc

Blondie,

thanks for the WT study.

I'm sure if you had been giving them at my congregation I wouldn't have fallen asleep so often.

steve

ps ...come to think about it, I was mostly sleeping off the hangovers

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Developers: Question about .Net Windows Services

by Elsewhere in

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friends

last night i decided to start messing around with a windows service.

it is very simple, all it does is monitor my computer?s ip address and if it changes the new ip address is ftped to my web server in a small xml document.. i thought this could be very useful considering my cable modem changes its ip address every now and then and i like to remote desktop into my home pc quite frequently.. now the problem... like i said, the program is very small and simple and the actual exe is 28 kb and has an accompanying dll that is 52 kb.

very reasonable.

stevenyc

Elsewhere,

What are you writing your app in?

steve

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How does the Society refute the 607/1914 discrepancy?

by ithinkisee in

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/55372/1.ashx

i loooove this simple 607 bce explanation by alleymom.

(thank you if you are reading.

stevenyc

7 x 360 = 2520
-607 + 2520 +1 (no zero year) = 1914

I see where your going but I disagree with your methodology. I think it should be this:
1914 ?2520 ? 1 = -607

Okay, lets move history to fit 607

steve

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12 step program required

by stevenyc in

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i am completely surprised by the amount of posts over the last couple of weeks of people (lurkers) signing up to the board and introducing themselves.

most still part of the jw cult, but thinking for themselves and wanting real answers.

i?m still a newbie to the board so i would like to know if this is common.

stevenyc

bikerchic

thank you once again.

I've had a scan through Jan's post and this is stuff written from someone who understands human behavior in a cult, and emotive.

steve.

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apostate questions

by stevenyc in

after reading alanf?s biography

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/9/86609/1.ashx

something was niggling at me.

stevenyc

Alan

Then I said, "Mom, is it possible to be an apostate if you only speak the truth?" She said, "I refuse to answer." I asked why. "Because I can see where you're going with that question." I was extremely disappointed in that answer, for obvious reasons. It gradually dawned on me that most JWs are exactly the same way -- they know that some of the Society's teachings are nonsense, but refuse to take the obvious step of doing something about it. So they pretend to themselves not to have seen such questions. A completely Orwellian response -- "doublethink", "crimestop", and all that.

Yep, most JWs are the same, my family included.

One conversation I had with my father, A 'respected' elder, went something like this:

Dad: ??.and we can be thankful for this proof of Jehovah, and his organization?
Me: ? But Dad, there is no proof of God?
Dad: ?Waddya mean! Oh cause there?s proof?
Me: ?Where?
Dad: ?In the trees and flowers and trees and shit like that? (okay I invented the shit like the bit)
Me: ?No Dad, that faith not proof?
Dad: ?Don?t ever talk like that?

Steve

PS I?m still overwhelmed by people that had such a strange experience as me.