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  Who is your favourite Star Trek character?

  by slimboyfat in

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  mine is garak because he has a healthy cynicism about everything, yet is good deep down.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/garak .

  slim.

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  Oooh, yeah, Commander T'Pol, Jolene Blalock was HOT!

  I found that I liked Piquard better than Kirk. I know, blasphemy, but it's true. I'm showing my geek in that I've actually thought about that.

  My favorite, though, was always Spock, hands down.
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  *fluff alert* Little known facts about Texas

  by daystar in

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  i did not write this, and am not correcting spelling or grammar here.

  but some reasons to love texas and its unique character... .

  here are some little known, very interesting facts about texas... .

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  I did not write this, and am not correcting spelling or grammar here. But some reasons to love Texas and its unique character...

  Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas..

  1. Beaumont to El Paso: 742 miles

  2. Beaumont to Chicago: 770 miles

  3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas

  4.World's first rodeo was in Pecos, July 4, 1883.

  5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water.

  6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach for Rice University in Houston.

  7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America.

  8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.

  9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.

  10. The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was in 1900 caused by a hurricane in which over 8000 lives were lost on Galveston Island.

  11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was "Houston."

  12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island.

  13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a US. rainfall record of 43" in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July 1979.

  14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as Constitution of 1845 by Republic of Texas to enter the union) instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas flag to fly at the same height as the US flag, and may divide into 4 States.

  15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.

  16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.

  17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period after
  Dr in Dr Pepper.

  18. Texas has had six capital cities:

  18.1. Washington-on-the-Brazos
  18.2. Harrisburg
  18.3. Galveston
  18.4. Velasco
  18.5. West Columbia
  18.6. Austin

  19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. (by 7 feet).

  20. The name Texas comes from the Hasini Indian word "tejas" meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas.

  21. The State animal is the Armadillo. (An interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies! They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females. Well, I thought it was interesting anyway!)

  22. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston.

  23. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - TEXAS STYLE People here in Texas have trouble with all those "shalls" and "shall nots" in the ten Commandments. Folks here just aren't used to talking in those terms. So, some folks out in west Texas got together and translated the "King James" into "King Ranch" language:

  Ten Commandments, Cowboy Style.

  Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie, Texas.

  (1) Just one God.
  (2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
  (3) No telling tales or gossipin'.
  (4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
  (5) Put nothin' before God.
  (6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal.
  (7) No killin'.
  (8) Watch yer mouth.
  (9) Don't take what ain't yers.
  (10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff

  Now that's kinda plain an' simple don't ya think?
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  Pictures Of Around Home

  by Legolas in

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  well i promised to give you more pics but i was waiting for everything to be finished first (the garage isn't done yet) but the leaves are pretty much turned and it was a beautiful weekend here so i took some pics around the home to show you!.

  (that's not anyone i know btw...lol).

  and this is where we live...lol...quiet fitting if i do say so myself!

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  Can we come live with you?... Please?

  Just gorgeous Legolas!!
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  The JW phrase I most despise is...

  by exwitless in

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  "need greaters" ugh!!

  i hate that phrase and i always have.

  we knew a jw couple who applied every year to bethel and giliad until the age cut-off (age 35 or 40?).

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  (Did Franz not have access to a thesaurus?)

  "greased" instead of "anointed" -- Ugh!

  LOL @ cathyk!!

  I heartily agree!
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  evolution or creation? lets talk...

  by Sam87 in

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  ok, lets have a discussion about where we all came from, evolution or creation?

  (or whatever you beleive in of course) every one put down there main reasons, along with reasonable facts and backup as to why.. .

  hopefully this doesnt start to many arguments, lol.. .

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  Let's try this again... (I say this because the first attempt at posting this failed.)

  Now this universe has the peculiarly accomodating property of
  tending to provide evidence for, and confirmation of, whatever
  paradigm one chooses to believe in. - PARADIGM SHIFTS AND AEONICS, by Pete Carroll

  The Discordian Law of Fives - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#The_Law_of_Fives

  The Law of Fives is summarized on page 00016 of the Principia Discordia:

  The Law of Fives states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO 5.

  The Law of Fives is never wrong.

  The Law of Fives includes the word "Five" five times.

  Like most of Discordianism, the Law of Fives appears on the surface to be either some sort of weird joke, or bizarre supernaturalism; but under this, it may help clarify the Discordian view of how the human mind works; Lord Omar is quoted later on the same page as having written, "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."

  Appendix Beth of Robert Shea's and Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus! Trilogy considers some of the numerology of Discordianism, and the question of what would happen to the Law of Fives if everyone had six fingers on each hand. The authors suggest that the real Law of Fives may be that everything can be related to the number five if you try hard enough. Sometimes the steps required may be highly convoluted.

  Another way of looking at the Law of Fives is as a symbol for the observation of reality changing that which is being observed in the observer's mind. Just as how when one looks for fives in reality, one finds them, so will one find conspiracies, ways to determine when the apocalypse will come, and so on and so forth when one decides to look for them. It cannot be wrong, because it proves itself reflexively when looked at through this lens.

  I know this doesn't directly address the topic of this post, but that's just how I roll... *shrug* Something to think about...
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  Latest films you saw?

  by greendawn in

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  what's the latest film that you watched on dvd or cinema and would you recommend it or was it bad boring film?

  i haven't watched any films for months now but i will when i restart my satellite tv subscription next month.

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  Hey danny. Sorry to be so... American... but what does this phrase mean:

  a bit near the knuckle

  I've just never heard it before.
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  Active JWs: lurkers and posters, is your religion ritualistic?

  by AuldSoul in

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  watchtower october 1, 1998, p. 14, par.

  2. the coldhearted attitude of the pharisees constituted a crime against humanity and a sin against god.

  (john 9:39-41) with good reason, jesus warned his disciples, "watch out for the leaven" of this elitist group and other religionists, such as the sadducees.

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  I think this is the most important part:

  In that it taught people to view God’s Law solely in terms of their arbitrary rules and rituals, while ignoring "the weightier matters," including mercy.

  Are they arbitrary? And do weightier matters, such as Christians values as mercy, grace, compassion, etc. get side-lined?

  If they do not serve to develop the "fruitage of the spirit", then to what purpose are they directed? Are they directed towards supporting an earthly, man-made religious organization rather than to developing within the individuals Christ-like values and behaviors?

  Rituals are used to "program" the mind. Repetition builds habits, habits of behavior and habits of thought. The repetitive rituals created and supported by the WBTS do very little other than to keep the R&F in line and support the distribution of the publications.
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  The JW phrase I most despise is...

  by exwitless in

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  "need greaters" ugh!!

  i hate that phrase and i always have.

  we knew a jw couple who applied every year to bethel and giliad until the age cut-off (age 35 or 40?).

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  • This wicked system of things
  • True Christians would agree...
  • Spiritual food
  • Spirit-directed organization
  • Good news of the Kingdom
  • Thousand year reign
  • Bad association spoils useful habits
  • World empire of false religion
  • The last days
  • We might reasonably assume...
  • Thus the facts make clear...
  • Thus we can see...
  • Has clearly shown...
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  Demons and God did the same thing *gasp*

  by ESTEE in

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  interesting thing i read in carolynn myss: .

  among god stories, the jewish tradition is unique because yahweh is never depicted as being sexual.

  when christianity appeared on the scene, however, its then-still-jewish followers gave their god a human body, calling him jesus, the son of god.

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  Sounds like one big cover-up that humans concocted for religious control over the masses.
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  Latest films you saw?

  by greendawn in

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  what's the latest film that you watched on dvd or cinema and would you recommend it or was it bad boring film?

  i haven't watched any films for months now but i will when i restart my satellite tv subscription next month.

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  sbf

  Well, when I'm dead I won't know anything at all. Will I?

  ?? How random...

  Anyway, we watched Must Love Dogs and The Propositionover the weekend.

  Must Love Dogs was cute in that "John Cusack" sort of way, with Diane Lane and Elizabeth Perkins as hot as ever.

  The Proposition was good. I feel aggrandized comparisons to Eastwood spaghetti westerns to be a bit much however. It's likely I will have forgotten this film within the year, whereas films like High Plains Drifter will remain with me for a lifetime.