Posts by AllAlongTheWatchtower

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6 inches ... in diameter!!

by PopeOfEruke in

i found in my library that i still own 2 jw books, both must have survived the purge of 1995 when i threw away all the jw crap.

anyway i still own the old blue aid book, and the red-brown concordance.

i think the original aid book was the one mainly written by ray franz.

AllAlongTheWatchtower

Ok, I got curious, and wanted to know how much our supposed log would weigh, just as an intellectual exercise. Took some searching, but here's what I found:

http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Log_weight.html

"The log weights in KOCH that I mentioned are based on 4800 logs. Some sample values are for a 16" x 12' log of ash, 1010 pounds, hickory 1267 pounds, soft (red) maple 1059 pounds, red oak 1323 pounds, white oak 1262 pounds and yellow poplar 1262 pounds. Of course, there are numbers for other diameters and lengths. As the volume of such logs in this example are 130 BF (Int.), 120 BF (Scribner) and 108 BF (Doyle), you can figure out weights per MBF log scale too." [BF is a reference to board feet, which is 1"x12"x12"]

I couldn't find any charts or anything which gave an example for 6"x12 feet, but if you divide the 16" log discussed above by 3, you get a log about 5 1/3". If you take the average weights of the above listed logs of various woods, you get about 1200 pounds. (1197 if you wanna be technical, but even numbers work nicely.) Since we divided our diameter by 3, we now divide the average weight by 3, and come up with 5 1/3"x12' of log = 400 pounds. Could you carry it? No, but I know that if I had to, I could drag it. Wouldn't be fun, and I'd probably have to take a breather every 50 feet or so, but I could do it. Not to boast, but I'm pretty strong, not sure if many other people I know could do it. I don't think I could get a half mile or whatever the distance was with it though, unless I was given a whole day.

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S'm-antics

by Frannie Banannie in

the washington post's mensa invitational once again asked readers .

to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, .

subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

AllAlongTheWatchtower

Moch 1: The speed at which some people talk after having 2 or 3 mocha lattes.

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Will Bush change his view on global warming now

by ballistic in

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this is what they are discussing on bbc news 24 right now, in relation to the katrina hurricane.. their conclusion was quite negetive, i was just interested to see if anyone on here had any views?.

AllAlongTheWatchtower

The whole global warming debate still can't be proven one way or another. The same scientific community that 25 or so years ago was warning everyone of a possible global COOLING trend is the one now telling us look out for warming. Yes, pollution is bad, especially in some cities, and I agree that something should be done about it. I am still skeptical about the global warming thing though.

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Why are there more JWs on Social Security Beneifits than any other Religion

by MARTINLEYSHON in

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on a per capita ratio jws ethos for claiming off the state is higher than any other religion.

does anyone have the answer?

i remember in the late 80s the borg came out with an article "uses and abuses of the welfare system".

AllAlongTheWatchtower

Though the statement sounds feasible for the reasons several others have already mentioned, I'd like to see source info. I'm willing to bet that IF that is true, then the Mormons come in a close second. I saw a documentary about them one time on tv, where they were cheating on their taxes and trying to be shady with the polygamy thing, so they had all these women with kids on welfare. (The show explained that since it was illegal to practice polygamy, they would marry them, but not report it to the state, no license, no records etc. Then when they had kids, by the records the women were unwed mothers, and they filed for welfare on the orders of the man.)Apparently they believed that since it was "only" a 'government of man' or 'worldly organization', it was ok to milk it for all it was worth.

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Simpsons, "Thank God It's Doomsday"

by Fatfreek in

check out my favorite family, the simpsons, and its recent episode, "thank god it's doomsday".

i couldnt help but think that one scene illustrates how the gb arrives at their many date predictions over the years.. homer, at the kitchen table reading studiously: "hmmm.

marge: "homey, you havent touched your second dinner tonight -- and [noting the kitchen table covered with thick reference books] youre reading books.

AllAlongTheWatchtower

It may have been the same episode as this, or maybe this was a 2-parter, but I saw another Simpsons show recently that was pretty funny, about religion. Homer had converted to Catholicism, and it caused a big ruckus. Then Bart, of all people, told everybody to get a grip and stop fighting because they were all christians. At the end, there was a future shot of 2 armies getting ready to attack each other, fighting over what Saint Bart meant to them 1,000 years later. Funny stuff. Another funny moment was when Flanders agreed to shake hands with a Catholic, then starts muttering to himself "remember to get hand reblessed, remember to get hand reblessed".

My wife was in the kitchen, and I called her in to see it cause I thought it was so funny... I explained the background as she walked in: "Homer converted to a different religion, and its causing all kinds of funny trouble, you gotta see this". My wife: Changing religion in a marriage? Oh, that's never good. Me (deadpan): Tell me about it.

She either chose to ignore it, or it flew right over her head, but I couldn't help but think how ironic it was that she could recognize that in a mere cartoon show, but apparently not about our real life, what with her studying with witnesses. *sigh*

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Is it crazy at the gas pumps in your State?

by LyinEyes in

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me and the kids went to rent movies and noticed that there were long lines of people waiting for gas.

we live in shreveport/bossier louisiana about five hours north of new orleans.

we do have tons of evacuees here and so i understand it is going to be busier here than usual.. people were breaking lines to get gas tonite, and you could feel the tension in the air.

AllAlongTheWatchtower

I saw a news item on Yahoo that said that 20 (out of about 550) of the oil drilling platforms in the Gulf are missing...status unknown. Its kinda like the stock market for one thing, just the bad news of what is happening in the Gulf-bordering states is affecting prices. Then there's the reality of lowered supply, due to the disruption of delivery, and the increased demand, due to people driving away from that area.

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Is there anything we can do to "Lower Gas Prices"?

by JH in

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every now and then i get an email saying that we should all boycott a certain garage and not buy gas there anymore, and that it would eventually force that garage to lower the gas price and then we would all benefit from this.. i had another power point presentation this morning and they say to boycott petro canada and shell.. now gas is $1.16 a litre in montreal, and should go up to $1.42 a litre this winter they say in this email.. so, my question is, do you think that we as consumers can make the gas prices come down, and if yes, how?

AllAlongTheWatchtower

This won't be a popular answer, but here it is: elect politicians who DON'T oppose opening drilling in Alaska. Greater supply, lower prices. Coupled with this, if you have an SUV or other gas guzzler, sell it/trade it in for something more efficient. Lower demand, lower prices.

I'm also a big proponent of diesel engines. The VW Jetta with 4 cyl diesel engine gets about 50 MPG. The kick in the teeth of diesel though, is that in "normal" times of prices, its usually a little bit more expensive than gas. Not sure about right now. This has bothered me a lot ever since I found out that diesel is a byproduct of the process that makes gasoline. Still, if you have a car that gets about 25 mpg, and switch to a diesel that gets 50 mpg, unless the price of diesel is double that of gas, you save. My current car is on its last legs, and I'm prolonging the inevitable until it dies, but when it does I have sworn that my next car will be diesel.

On another thread recently, there was someone making fun of people who will drive an extra mile or two to save 3 cents a gallon. Well, I'm one of those people. In my opinion, its practically your civic duty as a consumer to reward lower cost with patronage-otherwise, why should the higher cost station bother? Some people believe different brands of gas are better. I have been told by a tanker truck driver that all the different companies' trucks pull up to the same refinery to be filled up before going out to make their deliveries to the gas stations. The only exception to this that I know of is Amoco's "ultimate" gas, which is clear, and readily seen as being different. I NEVER buy gas at Shell stations, they are almost always the highest priced in any neighborhood I happen to drive through. Exxon is usually the second highest.

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Cave men?

by Lilycurly in

i'd love to know how jws explain the discovery of 6000+ year old remnants of cavemen?

i mean, they can explain dinosaurs, but what to they say about the prehistoric men?

i'd ask my jw father, but i want to be prepared first....

AllAlongTheWatchtower

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but Clan of the Cavebear was an awesome book, its part of a series called Earth's Children, I think there's 5 of them now. There was also a movie made of Clan of the Cavebear, with Daryl Hannah. I read the book when I was about 9 or 10, questions about dinosaurs and cavemen were what lead me to doubt the WCG (Armstrong) when I was a kid.

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Another "New Light" or changing their damned story again about reserection

by crinklestein in

can anyone confirm if their doctrin of the reserection has been changed?

a witness idiot i know has been trying to preach to me online trying to convert me.

he has stability issues himself with flip flopping back and forth between the "world" and the "truth".

AllAlongTheWatchtower

Wait wait wait. Lemme get this straight. The witnesses are all about being, well, witnesses, because they have to preach to unbelievers, and convert them, so that they too, can live on paradise earth. This is what I have gathered from secondhand info from my wife and this board over the last few months. Now the info I'm reading in this thread is new to me... unbelievers get 'the second shot' as well???!! Then WTF is the point of "witnessing" to people? It almost seems to me that the 'worldly' people are better off if you don't witness to them, that way they are just hapless unbelievers and are eligible for ressurection. Whereas if they become witnesses, they could f*ck up, get DF'ed, and end up eligible for SQUAT! Am I reading this right, or am I missing something important via my non-witness lack of knowledge?

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Let's Donate NOW they need us

by Dogpatch in

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i am so shocked by the devastation in the south from katrina.

watch the news channel for a few minutes and you can imagine the grief, heartbrake and misery that thousands of people are experiencing as we read this board.

please, if you have any money at all to donate, do it now while it is fresh in your mind.

AllAlongTheWatchtower

I stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work today, and they had a way of automatically adding a donation to your total at the register if you wanted to. The grocery chain is called Farmfresh if you want to do something like that, though I'm guessing other stores have something similar. The sign at the register said that the donations went to a special fund set up by the Red Cross just for the hurricane victims. I made a small donation, wish it could have been more, but things are tight.