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Our Ruined Harvest
by freydi in
1. social
2. current
http://www.grist.org/comments/food/2008/06/13/ snip .

as corn and soy fields drown in rainwater, the food crisis deepens .

here in the united states, we grow 44 percent of the world's corn crop, and 38 percent of its soy.
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Looking Back, Was Being A Witness A Worthless Experience To You?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
was there anything positive about being a jehovah's witness?
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When the fog lifted - did you see the control tactics everywhere?
by AK - Jeff in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
it took a while for me - but after some time i began to see most all religion as controlling entities, interested not only in forcing doctrine on adherents, but also, and perhaps primarily, seeking to control believers.

i initially saw this as somewhat benign, but have increasingly seen it as dangerous, even a malignant force in human social-evolution.

i see a far-right fundy church and it virtually screams "jwism" to me.
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WHY we can not afford health care in the US...
by zeroday in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bljxmjzxgni
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Lawmaker asks McCain to talk with 9/11 theorists
by What-A-Coincidence in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.constitutionaltv.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:lawmaker-asks-mccain-to-talk-with-911-theorists&catid=58:sept11th.

lawmaker asks mccain to talk with 9/11 theorists monday, 14 april 2008 08:10 administrator an arizona state senator is petitioning presumptive gop presidential nominee john mccain to meet with 9/11 conspiracy theorists, including an adjunct professor from scottsdale who has been fasting outside mccain's phoenix office for more than a week.. football.

state sen. karen johnson, a mesa republican, delivered a letter to mccain's senate office tuesday asking that he sit down with scottsdale activist blair gadsby and a pair of leading members of the 9/11 truth movement to consider alternative explanations for the sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the collapse of the world trade center towers.
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PROOF OF RUSSELL INVOLVED WITH MASONS/ILUMINATI
by whereami in
1. jw
2. friends
thought this was very interesting comming from a person that has no reason to want to lie about russell.

you be the jugde.

listen at 1:50 min.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttj8brmchm&feature=related.
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The Real Culprit For Rising Oil Prices.???..and theres plenty of oil......
by chrisjoel in
1. jw
2. friends
this has been repeated over and over in the news but what the hell no one will do anything about these assholes...so one more time....its the speculators, the investors who ....."institutional investors such as hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds are pouring billions of dollars into not just oil but mamy commodities, distorting markets and driving prices to unprecedented levels.."...and chinese influence???

while that is a factor, it's only part of the story, said mr. masters, a portfolio manager for masters capital management llc.

he cited u. s. government data showing that while annual chinese demand for petroleum increased 920 million barrels over the past five years, demand from speculators has moved up 848 million barrels over the same period.
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Children Who Leave Always Come Back to the Society
by ataloa in
1. jw
2. friends
i heard this in a car group one day.

a young single mother said she always heard that growing up.

when she left she was adamant she would never be back, and now here she was.. is this true for the most part?.
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Questions concerning 607
by beavis in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am sorry to hash and rehash this old topic, but i have a friend that has continually asked the wt's chronology of 607 and that historians do not agree with their thoughts on their selection of this date to "fit" their ideaolgies.

could someone give me information from credible historians that absolutely prove that 607 is impossible?

this person has looked up information and what they have found so far is that most websites or some persons on this site do not show conclusively that 607 is not credible.
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Gay Marriage - The War for Equality
by Inquisitor in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've just read lola28's thread "for those against gay marriage".

i thought i should present a clear message on what i think the gay marriage issue is all about.

the trouble with most discussions on this issue is that it gets clouded by a plethora of side-issues, non-issues, cave-men chest-thumping and medieval puritanism.