Straight in the re-cycling. Who needs these when you can find everything faster on the internet?
eyeslice
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Do you keep your Yellow Pages phone books? Or pitch them when they arrive?
by AlmostAtheist ini just got a fresh supply of yellow pages books.
three huge volumes in a plastic bag.
it's my 3rd shipment this year, from various suppliers, i assume.
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What was your first Computer?
by The Lone Ranger inthe last topic got me thinking about this.. my first computer was back in 1981, a sinclair zx81, it has 1k of memory.
then in 1982 i progressed to a clone of an apple 2 with 16k of memory which i incresed to 48k, a floopy drive for that apple cost me $600 !!!
.. in approx 1987 i got an ibm xt 640megs with a 20meg hard drive..it was like a dream .
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eyeslice
Ah the days when you saved your programs on to cassette tapes!
I once spent days programming Yahtzee for the Atari and cam home one day to find that my kids had 'borrowed' my tape and recorded music over the top of my program. No easy way to back up work in those days -
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Senior Citizens......How does your congregation treat them?
by crazyblondeb innot as good as they use too... but then again they are following the lead of the wts.
why bother with fellowship when you can plug everyone into the telephone.. one one hand they are pushing fs, on the other they are making so many changes that several of the elderly are getting depressed, especially ever since the may 1, 2007 qfr.
with the afternoon bs soon yanked, many not allowed to drive at night, and elderships that don't care enough to orchestrate carpools....it is bad..
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eyeslice
I really do think it is sad that the Society isn't more charitable. Surely, this is the very essence of Christianity.
What is interesting is that people who are socially aware and active tend to be the happiest. The Watchtower continues to totally focus on FS, an activity that is totally unrewarding as a socially.
If they were to totally change to a charity focused religion, even I might be tempted to go back and run a soup kitchen for them in so far flung corner of the world. -
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If You Were "In" A Religion, Which One would You Want To Be A Member Of?
by minimus inpersonally, i'm not into any religion but i think that most protestants are ok. catholicism isn't my thing at all.
judaism, i've always been interested in.
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eyeslice
I like the idea of Universalism. It appeals to my quite liberal out look on life.
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Who remembers the NWT Bible on 3.5 inch Floppy Disks?
by eyeslice inat the dawn of the age of the pc, before the advent of the cd, when pcs had 10 mg hard drives and when few people had pcs at home, the society brought out what at the time was an amazing piece of software: the nwt bible for the pc.
i think it came on something like 12 3.5 inch floppy disks, which took an eternity to load, but as a piece of software was really cool at the time.
it allowed for a full text search way before yahoo and google ever were thought of.
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eyeslice
At the dawn of the age of the PC, before the advent of the CD, when PCs had 10 mg hard drives and when few people had PCs at home, the Society brought out what at the time was an amazing piece of software: the NWT Bible for the PC.
I think it came on something like 12 3.5 inch floppy disks, which took an eternity to load, but as a piece of software was really cool at the time. It allowed for a full text search way before Yahoo and Google ever were thought of. You should note however, that this search feature was a commercial product and not some invention of the Society. -
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Mad cow disease
Look up prions on the web. I am not quite sure how certain the science is behind exactly what these agents are and how they propagate but they have certainly been the subject of much speculation. -
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eyeslice
Don't forget about the e-coli from tomatoes, lettuce, and hot peppers. Also, the tainted apple juice a few years back that killed several kids. But, it does seem to often come from undercooked meat products.
Yes - but let's talk risk here. What are the chances of any one individual dying (a pretty serious consequence) from drink apple juice compared with getting a bad stomach (could be life threatening but most likely more of an inconvenience)from eating chicken?
I should also add that I don't really believe that there is a significant risk of some lethal pathogen entering the food chain. I am simply stating that if were to happen it would be through meat products not vegetables. -
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eyeslice
My advice is don't eat meat at all!
I don't think that I have ever heard of anyone getting food poisoning from eating vegetarian food - almost invariably upset stomachs and food poisoning comes from eating meat or fish dishes.
Also, if there is going to be pathogen, for example something like CJD, introduced into the food chain, it is more than likely that it will be through meat. -
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Recent Literature Letter Sent out -Bound Volumes
by stillajwexelder inbriefly it stated that all those who make extensive use of the cd-rom should seriously consider whether or not they need bound volumes.
these have to be next on the hit list of things cut imho
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eyeslice
I recently re-cycled all the bounds volumes that we had, going back to the early 1950's, which I had inherited from my father-in-law. The problem with the bound volumes is that they take up so much space, even in the attic, and they are used on occasionally, even when I was an active witness preparing public talks, meeting parts, etc. The CD is much more convenient, though on the downside, they are only text based and have no pictures.
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Do the Witnesses ever help anyone (link)?
by easyreader1970 inmormon church warehouse aids evacuees.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/09/03/mormons_hurricane_supplies.html.
do the witnesses ever do anything of note to help the common man or do they strictly help themselves?.
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eyeslice
When the witnesses do help out it is always self-congratulatory. They like to trumpet their activities, think that in some way that in itself brings glory to God.
They seem to forget that Jesus condemned that sort of attitude in the Pharisees, instead recommending that acts of generosity be done anonymously.
But then if they didn’t blow their own trumpet, what would they have to write about in the Awake I wonder?