Hortensia

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  New York Times Essay - The Blessings of Atheism

  by Band on the Run in

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  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/opinion/sunday/the-blessings-of-atheism.html.

  i found this essay today.

  it reminds me of obama's first national speech when he pleaded for dems not to let right wing gop fundies define christianity.. how do you create a clickable link in chrome?.

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  It is an interesting essay. I thought this point was important:

  Atheists may also be secular humanists and freethinkers — I answer to all three — but avoidance of identification with atheism confines us to a closet that encourages us to fade or be pushed into the background when tragedy strikes.

  It's important for atheists to speak up. I don't really care if atheists are misunderstood; that doesn't matter so much as speaking out to decrease the amount of ignorance in the world. Simply falling back on "faith" when tough questions are asked is ignorant. And it doesn't encourage research, discussion and enlightenment.

  Why does the quote thing do that -- overlap the lines?
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  Fukushima nuclear reactor cores have melted into the ground!

  by moshe in

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  a newly released scientific study (done some time ago) on a similar tva ge mk1 reactor has determined the uncovered reactor core would have melted through the steel reactor vessel and over 20ft of concrete containment floor in 15 hours-the 500+ degree air temperatures would have melted and blown out all the conduit and pipe seals going into the containment building allowing a free escape of radiation to the atmosphere.

  they are still trying to keep the spent fuel pools covered in water and prevent the used fuel rods from catching on fire- that is a separate disaster.. .

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  I don't know enough to make valid comments about Fukushima, but I was curious and did look up the Simi Valley incident. Wikipedia has an article about it, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory#cite_note-21

  I didn't look at all the sources, so don't know about the reliability of the article, but it certainly is interesting!

  Here is another article about it: http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=06-P13-00003&segmentID=1

  It's really interesting to me -- I grew up in Southern California
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  How did you feel making your first post here?

  by cognac in

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  i was scared sh*tless.

  i stayed home from work for four days scared to go out of my house thinking god would strike me down by lightening if was wrong with my thoughts... i couldn't sleep at all.... but i had to take that first step... as scary as it was....

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  I found this site while looking for something else entirely. I had been out for years, had no fear. It was fun to read the threads and of course, opinionated as I am, I jumped right in.
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  I had some fun today.

  by Defianttruth in

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  i took the kids to a park at the center of our town today.

  i say some inappropriately dressed people, and decided to investigate.

  i keep a close eye on people at the play ground who don't fit in.

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  Good for you!
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  OMG...I missed the whole SPARLOCK craze....

  by Pyramid Scheme in

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  i hadn't been on the board to visit much last year, so i have been going back and poking around through the older threads since i started to post here.

  i was on jwfacts.com, and noticed paul had posted a brief article about the jw video and the evil sparlock the warrior wizard.

  we have no children, and i never got those videos anyway (even when i was still an elder), so when i went back and read all of the old threads, i was crying laughing.

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  Sparlock still makes me laugh. I went to cafepress.com and made a bumper sticker with the Sparlock picture and the word Disobey! It is proudly displayed on my vehicle.

  Sparlock the warrior wizard rules!
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  Is This the Safest Time To Be Alive?

  by 00DAD in

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  safest time to be alive?

  matthew chance takes a look at whether or not we live in a safer world today than any other time in history.. http://www.rr.com/video/2322994712.

  of course this contradicts jw perennial gloom-and-doom prognostications and wt end times eschatology, but if you even could get one of them to sit down and consider the real facts, they'd probably just say, "see, we're getting closer to the cry of 'peace and security!'".

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  It's a moot point, actually, since we aren't alive at any other point in history, JWs and their silly prophecies notwithstanding.
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  Good Reasons To Hate Every Weak And Ex-Jehovah Witness.

  by AuntConnie in

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  1. my husband's time is finite, it's wasted on spouses arguing over money, sex or family mattters with stupid home visits.. .

  i hate people's constant open hand for money, it's the weak individuals asking others to pull their weight.

  my family worked extra hours instead of begging the strong members for district assembly money, cat food for seven cats or tiny little rag-a-muffins weiner dogs.. .

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  http://www.psmueller.com/batshit.htm

  My favorite cartoon
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  I had some fun today.

  by Defianttruth in

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  Hortensia

  Yeah?
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  Bethel perfection bubble burst

  by redvip2000 in

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  just got back from florida where i spent the holidays with family.

  about half are jdubs.. this year the prevalent atmosphere of superiority from the jw side of the family was totally toned down.

  one of my cousins, a bethelite in upstate ny bethel along with his wife, found out that the wife was having an affair with a young bethelite "brother".

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  What a tragedy.
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  Poll Worker

  by Hortensia in

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  we have a small election here next tuesday.

  this will be my third time as a poll worker and my first time as an inspector.

  i had to swear to uphold the constitution, i don't have any problem with upholding the constitution.

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  vote early, vote often is the joke most heard on election day

  It still makes me laugh

  I have to oversee the election process in our precinct -- an extremely tiny precinct. Count the ballots, check names, handle issues that come up, and balance the votes at the end of the day. The presidential election was very busy, but I don't think this one will be busy. So, I'll take my knitting, listen to gossip and watch people as they come and go.