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  A friend of mine needs votes

  by elder-schmelder in

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  http://www.facebook.com/#!/esdenvercchotel.

  vote for robin & jeremiah.

  http://youtu.be/alwkdhif9tc.

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  james_woods

  Not to be a party downer, but what does anybody need with a $30,000 "wedding package".

  That kind of money would be better spent as a down payment on a house...
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  My questions for YOU

  by Terry in

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  i'm curious about human intelligence and beliefs as a natural phenomenon.. i've long suspected that even the most "normal" and well-educated person harbors "fringe" beliefs.. the purpose of this thread is not to mock beliefs of any kind.

  rather it is for all of us to toss in to a pile our own unprovables so .

  we can, as a group, evaluate how natural and non-neurotic such thinking might well be.. .

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  james_woods

  No to everything, including the Loch Ness Monster (if that was on the list).

  A good book to read on this (two books, actually) is "The Physics of Star Trek" and "Beyond The Physics of Star Trek" by Lawrence Krauss.

  He basically lists the absurdity of UFOs (particularly SMALL UFOs travelling here incognito from other stars), teleportation, ESP, and kinetic object manipulation by "thought" in terms of basic physics.

  Of course, I might be convinced about Nessie if provided with the evidence of a bona-fide carcass.
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  Anyone in Dallas, TX area?

  by blindnomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been a texan for a couple of month now.

  i haven't run into any texan ex-jws yet.

  anyone close to denton or wichita falls?

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  james_woods

  Let's wait and see who else can come, then decide on a time. Right at noon is fine with me.
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  Anyone in Dallas, TX area?

  by blindnomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been a texan for a couple of month now.

  i haven't run into any texan ex-jws yet.

  anyone close to denton or wichita falls?

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  james_woods

  Let's wait and see who else wants to come - we can settle the time on Friday.
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  Anyone in Dallas, TX area?

  by blindnomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been a texan for a couple of month now.

  i haven't run into any texan ex-jws yet.

  anyone close to denton or wichita falls?

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  james_woods

  OK - after talking with Mai, she suggests the Pho Pasteur in the Vietnamese shopping center on the NE corner of Belt Line and Josey Lane.

  (the Pasteur name does not mean their Pho is pastuerized, BTW - it is the name of a famous street in Saigon which has a very well known restaurant and they named the Dallas one after this)

  There are also a couple of other places there too -

  Does this sound OK with everybody? If so - What time should we say?
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  Are we on the brink of another world war?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. current

  i don't want to be an alarmist or anything... .

  but i read this article in the economist today that argued it is only a matter of time until china and japan exchange shots over some small islands in between the two countries, it could escalate to full scale war, and the united states is treaty bound to come to aid of japan.

  on top of that the united states is making diplomatic visits to various countries borderning china in a move that is viewed extremely negatively in beijing.

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  james_woods

  The battle for the Falkland Islands did not lead to WW3, and neither will this silly dispute.
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  Are we on the brink of another world war?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. current

  i don't want to be an alarmist or anything... .

  but i read this article in the economist today that argued it is only a matter of time until china and japan exchange shots over some small islands in between the two countries, it could escalate to full scale war, and the united states is treaty bound to come to aid of japan.

  on top of that the united states is making diplomatic visits to various countries borderning china in a move that is viewed extremely negatively in beijing.

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  james_woods

  China does have a surplus Russian air craft carrier - with diesel engines.
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  New World Translation

  by MsD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it may seem like a stupid question but who was responsible for translating their version of the bible?

  i heard it was ray franz, several governing body members.

  does anybody have any legitimate info that can prove who exactly translated it?

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  james_woods

  Perhaps they "could have" done it in two years, Wonderment - but they didn't.

  How long they took proves nothing.
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  New World Translation

  by MsD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it may seem like a stupid question but who was responsible for translating their version of the bible?

  i heard it was ray franz, several governing body members.

  does anybody have any legitimate info that can prove who exactly translated it?

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  james_woods

  I don't think we have mentioned it yet - but the greatest travesty of the NWT was the wholesale insertion of the pet name "Jehovah" into places where it never existed in ANY ancient manuscript.

  This was done purely because the Jehovah's Witnesses have a total fixation on this (inaccurate) name "Jehovah".

  There is no excuse for this.
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  Anyone in Dallas, TX area?

  by blindnomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been a texan for a couple of month now.

  i haven't run into any texan ex-jws yet.

  anyone close to denton or wichita falls?

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  james_woods

  I will keep this thread marked - maybe we can pick a Vietnamese restaurant for noon on Saturday sometime tomorrow?

  Looks like there might be several who could make it...