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  All of your information could be on Spokeo.com

  by MsDucky in

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  there's a site called spokeo.com that's a new online usa phone book w/personal information: everything from pics you've posted on fb or web, approx credit score, home value, income, age.

  you can remove yourself by searching for yourself on their site to find the url of your page, then go to the bottom of the page and click on the privacy button to remove yourself.. i checked it out.

  they have a picture of my home.

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  Me too, and only by my legal name, which I never use.

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  Atheists Declare Religions as 'Scams' in New Ad

  by Quirky1 in

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  http://www.christianpost.com/article/20110103/atheists-declare-religions-as-scams-in-new-ad/.

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  "In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read the Scripture, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit.’ I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at the last minute Deke Slayton had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O’Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed reluctantly…Eagle’s metal body creaked. I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility. It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements.”

  NASA kept this secret for two decades. The memoirs of Buzz Aldrin and the Tom Hanks’s Emmy- winning HBO mini-series, From the Earth to the Moon (1998), made people aware of this act of Christian worship 235,000 miles from Earth.
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  Castro Expel all undersirables early 70,s including JW,s

  by jam in

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  anyone remerber in the early 70,s fidel castro expell all the.

  undersirables to the us, the mental ill, murderous, rapist and jw,s.. i heard of some brothers from cuba where place in the detention.

  center(us) and brothers here in the states arrange for their release and.

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  1980 then, thanks. I was only 6 at the time when they started coming over to Miami.

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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

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  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  I would be surprised if there was no interbreeding, given homo's penchant for interspecies sex (bestiality) but I would not be surprised if any H. neanderthalensis genetic material failed to survive much beyond single generations of progeny

  The Neanderthal genome has been sequenced. Somewhere around 3% of the modern Eurasian genome is traceable to Neanderthals. You probably have some Neanderthal genes yourself.

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  Castro Expel all undersirables early 70,s including JW,s

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anyone remerber in the early 70,s fidel castro expell all the.

  undersirables to the us, the mental ill, murderous, rapist and jw,s.. i heard of some brothers from cuba where place in the detention.

  center(us) and brothers here in the states arrange for their release and.

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  That was in the late 70's, in the Mariel boatlift. There are plenty of JWs still in Cuba, maybe as many as 90,000.

  The Witnesses meet clandestinely. My former PO worked in Bethel there before it got shut down in the 1960s.

  There are many stories of imprisonment and torture among the exiled JWs.

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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

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  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Another really good thread flushed down the toilet by the know it all twisted sisters.

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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

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  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  The bird is not able to evolve a better shelter (nest) at speeds significantly greater than what happens from one bird generation to the next. Nest building is not a reasoned-out technology for birds. It is instinctual. It is hard wired.

  Human technology is not "built into the circuit." It is software that can be reloaded much faster.

  Humans can, and do. Compare your house/car/computer/whatever to what you had 50 years ago. That is not even a human lifespan, but the changes are profound. That bird species has likely been through dozens of generations, but is still building the same nest. There has been little relative change. For us, technological improvement only speeds up, in an exponential fashion. It is an accelerating evolution of paradigm shifts.

  http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns

  

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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

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  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  What makes humanity actually imagine they are immune to this "corrective balance."?

  None of the other species has a rapidly evolving technology. We would never have been able to sustain the current population using old agricultural techniques. We would have been killed back by plague if it wasn't for modern medicine. The main constraint, therefore, is not external. It is within ourselves.

  Biological evolution took back seat to cultural evolution a long time ago, in human terms. Science/tech are now the next phase. When/if the Kurzweilian singularity hits, there will be no real limit to growth. I think there are no real limits even without it. Malthusian prophecies always get falsified, in the long run.

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  Population 7 billion. Changes ahead.

  by Lion Cask in

  1. social
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  according to the world population clock, we're going to hit the magic 7 billion number this year.

  that's 7,000,000,000,000 living human beings on this planet.

  the world is about to change, again.

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  Thanks for pointing out the weasel words, Beksbks. She doesn't even have the ovarian fortitude to call someone a fool straight up.

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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  People believe in correct things for silly reasons all the time, Hoobster. Doesn't mean that the things aren't right in themselves.

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