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  IDIOT AWARDS FOR THE YEAR.....

  by Mary in

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  need a good laugh?

  here are the awards for idiots of the year........... .

  when his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at its intended victim during a holdup in long beach, california, would-be robber james elliot did something that could only inspire wonder: he peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again.

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  LMAO... So funny...

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  Hey Gang I am getting my brain scanned tomorrow

  by wildfire in

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  yup thats right iam going to have an mri on my brain...... i have severe numbness on my left side of my face and no feeing in my hands and arm......i have been hurt in 3 car accidents and have two herniated disks in my neck ( oh i pray that they don't have to do surgery......pray for me )))))) i thought i had ms.... a while back because of the numbness but they said no...... well now i get another scan andgo to see a neurologist ,,,, i hope they find out what the problem is so i wont be on

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  (((Wildfire)))

  I hope it's nothing major... we need you on the board and on the chat room to spice things up (in a good way)...

  Best wishes...
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  Regrets.............

  by Latte in

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  please correct my thinking if i'm wrong, but........... i regret pretty much all of the jw friends whom i've loved.... and now lost due to my now no longer viewing things the same as them.. i regret the many very special events in life which i shared with them.

  am i right to feel this way?.

  latte

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  Hi Latte...

  I can understand what you're saying...

  Maybe, because you're still hurt you're still a little angry about the whole situation... and I don't blame you... I've felt the same way. But those experiences and every little experience in your life made you who you are... Just appreciate the good times... don't regret anything... make it your goal to be happy and try to get those 'friends' OUT of that evil org. They are just as blind as we all were before.
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  End of World Has Already Begun

  by email in

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  end of world has already begun, university of washington scientists say in book 'the life and death of planet earth'

  by ascribe, 1/13/2003 11:57

  seattle, jan. 13 (ascribe newswire) -- in its 4.5 billion years, earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space.

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  No... see... what will happen is that

  New light will lead them to believe that the REAL date is 7000005001914
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  End of World Has Already Begun

  by email in

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  end of world has already begun, university of washington scientists say in book 'the life and death of planet earth'

  by ascribe, 1/13/2003 11:57

  seattle, jan. 13 (ascribe newswire) -- in its 4.5 billion years, earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space.

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  End of World Has Already Begun, University of Washington Scientists Say in Book 'The Life and Death of Planet Earth'

  By Ascribe, 1/13/2003 11:57

  SEATTLE, Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- In its 4.5 billion years, Earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space. But in a new book, two noted University of Washington astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving into a burned-out cinder, eventually to be swallowed by the sun.

  By their reckoning, Earth's ''day in the sun'' has reached 4:30 a.m., corresponding to its 4.5 billion-year age. By 5 a.m., the 1 billion-year reign of animals and plants will come to an end. At 8 a.m. the oceans will vaporize. At noon - after 12 billion years - the ever-expanding sun, transformed into a red giant, will engulf the planet, melting away any evidence it ever existed and sending molecules and atoms that once were Earth floating off into space.

  ''The disappearance of our planet is still 7.5 billion years away, but people really should consider the fate of our world and have a realistic understanding of where we are going,'' said UW astrophysicist Donald Brownlee. ''We live in a fabulous place at a fabulous time. It's a healthy thing for people to realize what a treasure this is in space and time, and fully appreciate and protect their environment as much as possible.''

  In ''The Life and Death of Planet Earth,'' Brownlee and UW paleontologist Peter Ward use current scientific understanding of planets and stars, as well as the parameters of life, to provide a glimpse of the second half of life on Earth and what comes after.

  The book, a sort of biography of our planet, is being published today by Times Books, a division of Henry Holt and Co. It is a sequel to Ward and Brownlee's best-selling and much-discussed book ''Rare Earth,'' in which they put forth the hypothesis that simple life is relatively common in the universe but complex, Earth-like life is exceedingly rare.

  ''The Life and Death of Planet Earth'' explains how the myriad life on Earth today was preceded by a long period of microbial dominance, and the authors contend that complex life eventually will disappear and be succeeded again by a period of only microbial life. They say that higher life will be removed much as it came into being, ecosystem by ecosystem. Aspects of the planet's past, such as numbingly cold ice ages, will be relived in the period of devolution.

  ''If we do begin to slide into the next glacial cycle, there probably are grand, planetary-scale engineering projects that might stop or lessen the effects,'' Ward said.

  ''The big unknowns are whether we can afford to do such projects and would we really know what to do. If the planet was cooling, we could, in principle, begin painting the surface black to collect more heat. Could we afford it? And what would be the many possible ramifications of a planet suddenly covered in black paint? Any planetary remediation project would always run the risk of making things worse.''

  Eventually, though, scorching heat will drive land creatures to the sea for respite. Those that can adapt will survive for a time, but eventually the oceans will warm too much for the complex life forms to continue.

  ''The last life may look much like the first life - a single-celled bacterium, survivor and descendant of all that came before,'' the authors write. Finally, even the surviving microbes ''will be seared out of existence.''

  The prospects of humans surviving by moving to some other habitable planet or moon aren't good, Brownlee and Ward contend, because even if such a place were found, getting there would be a huge obstacle. Various probes sent into space could survive Earth's demise, and just a few grams of material could arguably carry a DNA sample from every human, they say, but it's not likely the human species itself will survive. Long before the planet's final end, life will become quite challenging, and finally impossible, for humans.

  As the sun gets hotter and grows in size, it will envelop Mercury and Venus. It is possible it will stop just short of Earth, the authors say, but the conditions still would make this a most-inhospitable planet. More likely, though, the sun will consume Earth as well, severing all the chemical bonds between molecules and sending its individual atoms out into space, perhaps eventually to form new planets. That would leave Mars as the nearest planet to the sun, and on Mars the fading sun's glow would be like that of Earth's moon.

  That end is still some 7.5 billion years distant, but by then Earth will have faced a variety of ''ends'' along the way, the authors say. The last dinosaur perished long ago. Still to come are the last elephant, the last tree, the last flower, the last glacier, the last snowflake, the last ocean, the last life.

  ''The Life and Death of Planet Earth'' is like its predecessor, ''Rare Earth,'' in that the authors collected and distilled some of the latest scientific ideas about the Earth's place in the universe, Brownlee said. He hopes the new book, like ''Rare Earth,'' will spark widespread discussion, and give people a fundamental and realistic view of the past and future of their planet.

  ''It's a healthy thing to think of the place of Earth among the other planets, and its place in the sun. The sun gave life and ultimately it will bring death.''

  A high-resolution version of the Earth's Clock of Life image can be downloaded at www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/images/earthclock.jpg

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  Oral Sex

  by Yerusalyim in

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  that always gets your attention, huh.

  ok, i'm watching the "o'reilly factor", they just aired the case of two hs students who engaged in oral sex on a bus in silverlakes maryland while several other students cheered them on and the bus driver did nothing.

  the principal of the school system didn't inform the school board until after the local newspaper broke the story and he refuses to say how the students will be punished.

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  The example of our EX President didn't help these kids either...

  <sigh>
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  AWAKE Says We Shouldn't Judge Apostates!

  by minimus in

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  the february 8, 2003 awake has an article entitled:"is there an unforgivable sin".notice the good news for apostates or those who once associated.

  "some people who were once faithful christians have purposely drawn away from god, perhaps because of bitterness, pride, or greed, and are now apostate fighters against god's spirit.

  they willfully oppose what the spirit is clearly accomplishing.

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  Totally agree with you Bittersweet... That's probably what I would've thought if I was a loyal dub with doubts... so I take you're also talking by experience
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  You May Already Be Infected.

  by SYN in

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  is the riaa "hacking you back"?

  by andrew orlowski in san francisco posted: 14/01/2003 at 00:29 gmt .

  the riaa is preparing to infect mp3 files in order to audit and eventually disable file swapping, according to a startling claim by hacker group gobbles.

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  Yeah... and then you'll see "anti-viruses" for these MP3 "viruses"... and the story repeats itself...
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  How Did Your Adolescence Go?

  by Englishman in

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  i was chatting to an old aquaintance about some of the weid and wonderful conflicts that i had gone through when i left the jw's.

  she works as a therapist of some renown locally, so i was interested in her viewpoint.

  she said that, in her opinion, anyone who's adolescent development was overly restricted by, for example, their religion, would have to clear away the mental stuff that had been held back during this critical time.

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  Good post englishman... I've thought about this too...

  The rebellion that takes place during adolescence is an essential part of the maturation process, and must be gone through, even if it happens much later in life.

  Thank god in my case my father was a 'non-believer' and therefore we 'got away' with A LOT of things that your typical JDubs with both parents extremely zealous wouldn't get away with... so my "rebelion" wasn't THAT bad...
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  my dad died

  by termite 35 in

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  dear everyone, my dad died suddenly and unexpectedly at the weekend.he did'nt turn up for a family dinner and my husband and i went to see if he was ok.he was dead.collapsed in his home.i can't stop shaking and i feel really sick.i've lost my mum and now my dad too.i wish i could sleep for months and wake when the pain has finished with me.

  it hurts so much .sorry to bring everyone down-but i'm stressed at having to sort out his arrangements due to the autopsy and funeral etc and the house and my feelings.

  ; i just wanted to tell you all as my husband's gone for a walk and the children are asleep and i'm feeling scared about viewing his body, but i know i'll have to and i feel guilty for feeling like that.stupid thoughts racing through my mind at the moment-need to 'hear' a friendly voice .

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  (((((Termite)))))

  Real sorry for your loss... my thoughts are with you.