Posts by ackack

When James Randi is the villain and Sylvia Browne is the good guy, its little wonder you guys got yourselves involved in a cult. (rolling my eyes at these comments)

Unless you actually smarten up to these sorts of charlatans, you are leaving yourself open for another magical cult to come and sweep you away (unless of course, thats already happened)

ackack

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IPOD (MP3 Player) Warning! What you need to know....

by MinisterAmos in

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i bet more than one person here got a shiny new mp3 player for x-mas?

i'd like to share some info about the downsides of the major brands and what you can do to overcome them.

zune a drm filled pos.

ackack

..or, you know, you can just buy CD's.

ackack

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I need HELP and ADVICE. PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE READ

by theyoungone in

6 months ago i was d'fd and i am right now confused as to what i want to do cuse i can put my letter in for reinstatement now but i just dont know if that would be the best desicion for me.

one side of me says go back to the jw org and do all that i can in the org so that i can make it to the paradise.

but then one side says just do what u want to do til u die.

Essentially it comes down to priorities. If you want to be able to hang out with your family, or you want the JW lifestyle, or you want to be with your "friends" again then yes, you should go back to the JWs. (And you really shouldn't be here too) The fact that you're here seems to indicate you want to be talked out of going back. I personally feel if you care about truth and knowledge, then going back to the JW is not a very good choice, and probably some reading (like one of Franz's books) and some cult exit counseling would help greatly.

I'm not going to say you can't have a fulfilling life as a JW. Just make sure you don't care too badly about being intellectually stimulated, pursuing truth or being allowed to make up your own mind about a great number of things. For some people this is a fine trade-off for their families and the only way of life they know.

ackack

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IPOD (MP3 Player) Warning! What you need to know....

by MinisterAmos in

jw
friends

i bet more than one person here got a shiny new mp3 player for x-mas?

i'd like to share some info about the downsides of the major brands and what you can do to overcome them.

zune a drm filled pos.

ackack

Leolaia, depressingly, I saw a chart in an audio magazine that showed how the average dynamic range of CD's was shrinking. Sadly, people don't want music with dynamic ranges, they just wanna toss it on their stereo and listen. There is a great tune by Belle & Sebastian called "If You Find Yourself Caught In Love" which has a nice piano intro before it breaks into the tune. Greatly startling if you haven't heard it before. We need more startling music. (James Chance and the Contortions anyone?)

ackack

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IPOD (MP3 Player) Warning! What you need to know....

by MinisterAmos in

jw
friends

i bet more than one person here got a shiny new mp3 player for x-mas?

i'd like to share some info about the downsides of the major brands and what you can do to overcome them.

zune a drm filled pos.

ackack

The Apple software is fatally flawed. First, it takes control over every song on the comp, redudes tham to 128 kbps (terrible quality) no matter where they came from and forces an automatic full synch every time you dock the IPOD. Any time the IPOD file, library, and IPOD itself are not "synched", all the music is erased from the IPOD. Connect your friend's by mistake to your comp? You're screwed.

You obviously have no idea how iTunes works. First, when iTunes loads your music, it either copies it to its own structure, or it leaves it alone. (This is a setting.) iTunes does not alter any MP3's or AAC files you choose to use, however, it does transcode WMV (windows media files) into an open format such as aac or mp3. (You can choose which, its in the settings.) Second, if you plugged in your ipod to another friends computer, and your ipod was set to auto-sync, it would give you a WARNING, asking you what you want to do. Wipe out your iPod or leave it as is. If you wanted to copy a little bit of music off their computer, you would have to put your iPod into manual sync mode, which lets you copy over whatever you need.

Sounds to me like you need two things. You need to read the WORDS ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN. Also, a book like the iTunes: Missing Manual would do you some good. iTunes is a pretty nice MP3 player and really a wonderful mp3 organizer. Even if I wasn't using an iPod I would definitely be using iTunes to simply organize all of my music & podcasts.

ackack

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Dawkin's Documentary, Root of all Evil

by ackack in

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root of all evil.

part 1. part 2. interesting documentary.

ackack.

ackack

Root of all Evil
Part 1
Part 2

Interesting documentary

ackack

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Nintendo Wii

by Oroborus21 in

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the funniest thing i have heard lately is how all these people have flung their nwii game controllers and smashed their televisions when it slipped out of their hands.. eduardo.

of the thinkng of getting an xbox 360 class.

ackack

I so badly want a Wii. I've been trying since launch to get my hands on one, and ironically, I haven't been able to get one (Ironic because I do work for Nintendo marketing). Oh well, must wait till the new year.
Incidentally, the people swing the controllers like idiots and smashing their TVs are just dumb. Have you seen the youtube videos? Its quite silly.
ackack

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Christmas is Christian

by Amazing in

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false reasoning: the wts claims that there are only two birthdays mentioned in the bible, both of which resulted in someone being killed.

thus, they conclude, that this is jehovah's way of telling us that we should not celebrate brithdays, including the birth of jesus christ.. fact: there are five birthdays mentioned in the bible.

the most important and celebrated is the birth of jesus christ himself.

ackack

This is exactly why I don't celebrate Christmas. I'm not a Christian, so why would I? Besides which, I strongly object to Christmas being a national holiday in a culture that is increasingly pluralistic.

ack & ack

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News - Neanderthal DNA 99.5% Like Ours

by Satanus in

just recently, some scientists managed to sequence neanderthal dna.

while this discovery is not totally explored at this point, the following data are quite solid.. using different techniques, two teams of scientists separately sequenced large chunks of dna extracted from the femur of a 38,000-year-old neanderthal specimen found in a cave [image] 26 years ago in croatia.

one team sequenced more than one million base pairs and the other 65,000 pairs of the genome.. .

ackack

I would also add, that they have already sequenced the mtDNA of Neanderthal man. Very fascinating stuff, really a big step forward for genomics. Of course, they very scary interesting idea here, is being able to being one back.

ackack