Posts by cellomould

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Ex-J Ws MEETUP-So.CAL
by plmkrzy in
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2. friends
copy and paste this info if you will be in so.cal anytime there is a meet up once a month through this group and a meet up once a month through cynthia/randy also spread the word about exjw.meetup.com!

contribute to the "make-meetup-even-better fund": .

see "who is signed up?
cellomould

Say hi to my folks for me, Plmkrzy! (whoops, they're still JWs)
I will be going to a wedding this weekend up on the central coast. Although there will be some ex JWs (and JWs) there too. Thanks for sharing the link.
cellmould
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Microphone "Handling"
by SYN in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what is all the fuss about?

when i was still assimilated (i.e.

still in the borg, but wanting out every second of that time), there was so much emphasis put on microphone handling that it was almost unreal.
cellomould

Ha ha ha ha Reborn...
Ted Jarascz also probably hits himself in the mouth with the microphone when the lackey-servants try to adjust it for him.
cellmould
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Brain Sex Test
by patio34 in
1. social
2. entertainment
brain sex test .

introduction .

it is possible to text how male or female your own mind is.
cellomould

6o9 makes a good point...perhaps you should move the scoring to a later post (say something at the end like 'see post below for scores'). I think it makes a huge difference.
I scored a 55.
For some of the questions at least one answer just does not make sense. And the question about sniffing out an affair is so subjective that it alone biases the test. How many times have any of us found out that our suspicions were right? It is not enough that you are always suspicious (which of course women will tend to be, as the test tries to demonstrate).
But, anyhow, it's all for fun.
cellmould
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Alchemical Artwork
by Valis in
1. social
2. entertainment
i found this guy and i think his artwork is very cool...thought you might like to see it as well...his name is adam mclean.. .

sincerely,.

district overbeer
cellomould

those would make cool icons for next to your screename.
i like the religous art stuff.
it was always so taboo in JW land.
now i have gothic and religous type posters all over my room.
cellmould
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The Book of Babble
by cellomould in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in genesis chapter 10, we read the following:.

these are the sons of ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

21 also to shem, the father of all the children of eber, and the older brother of japheth, children were born.
cellomould

Fact 2: Linguistic efforts to save dying languages are motivated by drastic differences in grammar and vocabulary in some of the most unexplored languages of the world.
An example from Nicholas Ostler, who directs a linguistics foundation in England:
"Ica, spoken in northern Colombia, seems to have nothing comparable to a personal pronoun system - I, we, you, he, she, it, and they. Otherwise I would have thought [that] a linguistic universal."
Other examples are reduplication (making a word signify plural by repeating it) and plural variation (four forms for each noun: single, dual, trial, and plural).
Wayt T Gibbs "Saving Dying Languages" Scientific American August 2002
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The Book of Babble
by cellomould in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in genesis chapter 10, we read the following:.

these are the sons of ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

21 also to shem, the father of all the children of eber, and the older brother of japheth, children were born.
cellomould

Pomegranate,
I did post that long soliloquy mostly for my own amusement. I don't think that serious debate is necessary for this topic. I do wish to provide people with evidence that challenges their paradigm, but their curious brain must desire a challenge and peruse the evidence.
So I will add a fact or two to this thread once in a while. The facts can speak for themselves (and should be verified by the reader), but do feel free to comment if the subject interests you. (Whether you agree or disagree.)
cellmould
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Baltimore/DC
by cellomould in
1. jw
2. experiences
anyone who lives in the area feel free to respond or send e-mail.. i will be in the neighborhood for a research meeting on sept 11.

(interestingly, i began my lab notebook two years ago on september 11. this will be one of my last research gigs before i file my thesis and graduate.

good thing i don't believe in luck, considering the events of last year.
cellomould

maxwell,
I will no doubt be staying in DC. I have been to the east coast, but only Florida and Georgia; I really don't know the area. All I know is that everything seems to be closer together over there.
This weekend, I'll be driving up the California coast, perhaps to San Francisco/Oakland as well. That's a long haul.
cellmould
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Baltimore/DC
by cellomould in
1. jw
2. experiences
anyone who lives in the area feel free to respond or send e-mail.. i will be in the neighborhood for a research meeting on sept 11.

(interestingly, i began my lab notebook two years ago on september 11. this will be one of my last research gigs before i file my thesis and graduate.

good thing i don't believe in luck, considering the events of last year.
cellomould

Thanks for helping, lauralisa
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The Book of Babble
by cellomould in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in genesis chapter 10, we read the following:.

these are the sons of ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

21 also to shem, the father of all the children of eber, and the older brother of japheth, children were born.
cellomould

If you check out that site, be sure to visit also:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=FRR
Within the Frisian dialects are the most related languages to English. Hence the designation of English as a Germanic language; both evolved from the same group of languages.
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The Book of Babble
by cellomould in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in genesis chapter 10, we read the following:.

these are the sons of ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

21 also to shem, the father of all the children of eber, and the older brother of japheth, children were born.
cellomould

Fact 1:
New Guinea, a large island separated by water from Australia, has the highest density of languages anywhere in the world.
This fact alone makes us question whether the Tower of Babel was responsible for language diversity.
Interestingly, many unrelated languages appear in New Guinea very close together but in geographically isolated populations. In Eurasia, you could travel, for example, from India to Iberia without seeing more than one language family. New Guinea has several language families.
Browse for example:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=Papua+New+Guinea
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Papua+New+Guinea
cellmould