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  Start preparing now for 2011 memorial night demonstration ! Sunday, April 17, 2011, after sundown

  by koolaid-man in

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  now is a good time to start making preparations for the memorial night demonstration at your kingdom hall sunday, april 17, 2011, after sundown.

  the evils of the watchtower org.have to be exposed and this is an ideal time to do it.

  many around the world have been adversely affected by their association with jehovah's witnesses.

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  ...JW logic. Who said anything about doing nothing?
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  Quotes by Voltaire - Do you agree and Why?

  by Lady Lee in

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  ok i want to stimulate some thinking.

  i'm going to list a bunch of quotes attributed to voltaire - someone i had never thought to read.

  but coming across a couple of quotes of his i thought they were rather profound.. so here is the deal.

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  These are all pithy and worthy quotes. Some I can concur with, while others need clarification. Morality is seldom a black or white issue but contains shades of grey.

  Voltaire makes these bold statements with certainty as though they were fact, yet states: 'Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.'

  By his own reckoning he becomes absurd. This illustrates the error of being dogmatic.

  Nice reasoning G. :)
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  Can you recommend any films? Expanding my collection

  by oldlightnewshite in

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  hey guys, i'm compiling some hard drives full of films and tv series.

  i've come to a bit of an impasse.

  i've got hundreds of films, with all the obvious choices.

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  Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), divorcée Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda (Hiam Abbass), and brother-in-law, Nabeel

  

  How we trained and armed Bin Laden:Texas congressman Charlie Wilson sets a series of earth-shaking events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in an Oscar-nominated role) to aid Afghan mujahedeen rebels in their fight against the Soviet Red Army.

  

  VERY DARK:

  Kevin Costner plays against type, starring as a man caught in a deadly downward spiral -- and at war with his own alter ego (William Hurt) -- in this psychological thriller from writer-director team Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon (Stand by Me). Demi Moore co-stars as a sharp-witted police detective whose passion for her job attracts the attention -- and respect -- of the very serial killer she's tracking.
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  Can you recommend any films? Expanding my collection

  by oldlightnewshite in

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  hey guys, i'm compiling some hard drives full of films and tv series.

  i've come to a bit of an impasse.

  i've got hundreds of films, with all the obvious choices.

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  American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways

  

  Rosalba is a housewife in Pescara with teenage sons, married since 21 to a plumbing supplier whose mistress is her sister in law. When the tour bus leaves her, and her husband calls to tell her to stay put, she rebels slightly and hitchhikes toward home, deciding on a whim to continue to Venice. She lucks into a room in the flat of Fernando, a diffident, formal Icelander; befriends Grazia, a holistic masseuse; and, gets a job at the flower shop of Fermo, a cranky anarchist. Her husband sends a portly plumber to find her. Will duty and maternal instinct win out, or will Alba stay in Venice, combining Rome's rationality with Greece's imagination to find her true Italian self

  Steal a Pencil for Me:

  Jack: “I’m a very special Holocaust survivor. I was in the camps with my wife and my girlfriend; and believe me, it wasn’t easy.”

  

  Fantastic French film: Eight years ago, pediatrician Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) was the prime suspect in his wife's murder. He's put all that behind him, but now that two dead bodies have been found near his home, he's suspected of wrongdoing once again. The case takes an unexpected turn when he receives an anonymous e-mail showing his wife alive -- and eight years older -- instructing him to "tell no one

  

  The only movie I have watched multiple times: An expert marksman (Mark Wahlberg) is coaxed out of seclusion by colleagues who need his help in preventing a plot to kill the president. But he realizes he's been set up when he's framed for the assassination attempt. Can he elude the law long enough to bring the real culprits to justice?
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  Start preparing now for 2011 memorial night demonstration ! Sunday, April 17, 2011, after sundown

  by koolaid-man in

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  now is a good time to start making preparations for the memorial night demonstration at your kingdom hall sunday, april 17, 2011, after sundown.

  the evils of the watchtower org.have to be exposed and this is an ideal time to do it.

  many around the world have been adversely affected by their association with jehovah's witnesses.

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  Inappropriate waste of time...only feeds their persecution complex. It was wrong when JWs did it, and it is wrong to do it to them.
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  Afghan Christian Faces Trial for Alleged Conversion from Islam

  by leavingwt in

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  nato forces have been in this hellhole for nine years and people still don't have religious freedom?

  afghan christian faces trial for alleged conversion from islam.

  an afghan christian, detained for months for allegedly converting to christianity from islam, could face trial as early as next week - and could face a potential death penalty, officials said sunday.. said musa was arrested by afghan interior ministry intelligence authorities near the german embassy in kabul because of the allegations, said qamaruddin shenwari, director of the kabul courts' north zone.

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  I would strongly suggest that the Afghan lawmakers are the doofus, not those in Oklahoma.

  I would strongly suggest that BOTH sets of lawmakers are doofuses (is that a word? is plural of doofus, doofi? )
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  Excellent Movie--Agora

  by Justitia Themis in

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  a must-see for people on this discussion forum.

  it's the story of hypatia, the female mathmetician and philosopher who had the distinct unfortune to be alive when those jesus-loving christians were becoming ascendant in alexandria.

  she was eventually killed by christians...you know...they have always had problems with really smart women.

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  A must-see for people on this discussion forum. It's the story of Hypatia, the female mathmetician and philosopher who had the distinct unfortune to be alive when those Jesus-loving Christians were becoming ascendant in Alexandria. She was eventually killed by Christians...you know...they have always had problems with really smart women. Of course...it's not because these Christian men had/have issues with women...it's always for God...because he seem totally unable to kill people on his own.

  ...lots of good lines in the movie, but one I especially appreciated: when Christian and Pagans were fighting in her class..."there is more that unites us than divides us." Of course, people didn't listen then...or now...

  http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Agora/70115886

  As Christianity gains steam in Roman Egypt toward the end of the fourth century A.D., a young slave (Max Minghella) weighs his desire for freedom against his growing love for his mistress (Rachel Weisz), an atheist as well as a professor of philosophy. Alejandro Amenábar (The Others) directs this epic drama based on the life of Hypatia of Alexandria, a noted Greek scholar and mathematician. Rupert Evans co-stars.
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  Afghan Christian Faces Trial for Alleged Conversion from Islam

  by leavingwt in

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  nato forces have been in this hellhole for nine years and people still don't have religious freedom?

  afghan christian faces trial for alleged conversion from islam.

  an afghan christian, detained for months for allegedly converting to christianity from islam, could face trial as early as next week - and could face a potential death penalty, officials said sunday.. said musa was arrested by afghan interior ministry intelligence authorities near the german embassy in kabul because of the allegations, said qamaruddin shenwari, director of the kabul courts' north zone.

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  Sigh...I didn't mention Islam. I said we routinely respect other government's laws. Those governments include France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Iceland, Portugal, etc., etc., and include agreements, like treaties, NAFTA, etc.

  If you had taken a moment to process the information you read instead of overly-emotionally reacting, you would have been able to deduce such from my mention of civil procedure. :)

  Every time there is a case between a U.S. plaintiff and a foreign person/corporation, one of the first issues to be decided is whose civil procedure rules will be used, or how will we blend the two. Again...THANK YOU Oklahoma dufus lawmakers for thinking you had the right to legislate such boundaries.

  On a personal note, I feel Sharia law has no place in the U.S. Also, congratulations on figuring out the important things in your life...like which kind of car you want to drive. Why am I not surprised that that was an accomplishment for you.
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  Flying to Orlando tomorrow, my daughter is in the hospital

  by coffee_black in

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  my daughter is in the hospital with pneumonia, and possibly a blood clot in her lung.

  they'll be testing through the night...apparently, her heart is enlarged as well.

  she is scared... and if her jw father catches wind of it, he will be there trying to intefere with her treatment... he lives close by to her, so i'll be flying down in the morning....to head him off at the pass.

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  I hope she has a quick and uneventful recovery.
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  Afghan Christian Faces Trial for Alleged Conversion from Islam

  by leavingwt in

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  2. friends

  nato forces have been in this hellhole for nine years and people still don't have religious freedom?

  afghan christian faces trial for alleged conversion from islam.

  an afghan christian, detained for months for allegedly converting to christianity from islam, could face trial as early as next week - and could face a potential death penalty, officials said sunday.. said musa was arrested by afghan interior ministry intelligence authorities near the german embassy in kabul because of the allegations, said qamaruddin shenwari, director of the kabul courts' north zone.

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  it illegal for Oklahoma courts to take into account Sharia or other foreign law systems in their legal cases.

  Overbroad. We routinely respect and apply foreign law systems in international cases. The law was good for a laugh in our Civil Procedures class however. Thank you Oklahoma lawmakers for a much welcome law-school moment of levity.