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  Interesting Radio programme...............................

  by vitty in

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  i have just been listening to a very interesting programme on the radio (here the link).

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/d/.

  john humphries is a journalist who claims he lost his faith in god, whilst reporting many of the atrocities throughout the world.

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  Interesting this week - he talks to the head of the Church of England. Next week he will be talking to a Muslim faith leader.
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  Resources will be gone by 2050

  by oldflame in

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  beijing (reuters) - humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the wwf conservation group said on tuesday.

  populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.. "for more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," wwf director-general james leape said, launching the wwf's 2006 living planet report.. "if everyone around the world lived as those in america, we would need five planets to support us," leape, an american, said in beijing.. people in the united arab emirates were placing most stress per capita on the planet ahead of those in the united states, finland and canada, the report said.. australia was also living well beyond its means.. the average australian used 6.6 "global" hectares to support their developed lifestyle, ranking behind the united states and canada, but ahead of the united kingdom, russia, china and japan.. "if the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste," said greg bourne, wwf-australia chief executive officer.. everyone would have to change lifestyles -- cutting use of fossil fuels and improving management of everything from farming to fisheries.. "as countries work to improve the well-being of their people, they risk bypassing the goal of sustainability," said leape, speaking in an energy-efficient building at beijing's prestigous tsinghua university.. "it is inevitable that this disconnect will eventually limit the abilities of poor countries to develop and rich countries to maintain their prosperity," he added.. the report said humans' "ecological footprint" -- the demand people place on the natural world -- was 25 percent greater than the planet's annual ability to provide everything from food to energy and recycle all human waste in 2003.. in the previous report, the 2001 overshoot was 21 percent.. "on current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out by then," the latest report said.. "people are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources.".

  rising population.

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  Any test that calls eating meat once or twice a week "often" is retarded
  
  Get used it - we have to start thinking differently if the human race is to avoid disaster.
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  Did you go to meetings while on vacation?

  by LovesDubs in

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  ugh...i did.

  im so damn spiritual id leave well oiled spots on your suit if you rubbed up against me.

  yeah...i packed kingdom hall clothes and service bags to go on vacation.

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  Depends where we went but often we did. If not still the Watchtower - good faithful Witnesses that we were.
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  DO YOU STILL HAVE PERSONAL INTEGRITY?

  by juni in

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  for most all of us here we have had association with the jehovah's witnesses in some way or another.

  there are many man-made "rules" within the organization.

  that fact we all agree on.

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  DO YOU STILL HAVE PERSONAL INTEGRITY - I hope so.
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  BIG NEWS!!! Study finds that men always thinking about sex.

  by Elsewhere in

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  who'da thunk?

  http://upi.com/newstrack/view.php?storyid=20061024-033917-3795r.

  report finds sex always on men's minds.

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  Now you've raised the subject - I'm thinking about it!
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  Does It Bother You That Some Posters Give Misinformation???

  by minimus in

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  i don't like the fact that at times, false information is disseminated here.

  where's the "big announcement in october"???

  or we hear that the blood issue will be changed or that something big is going to be happening at the next assembly.

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  This is the internet - take everything with a pinch of salt.
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  Whatever Happened To THIS Belief?

  by Sunspot in

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  as jws, we used to be told that "when they are crying peace and security, the end will come".

  nothing indicates that this will be happening any time in the near future, but the "new" tract would seem to make people think the "end" will be soon.. has the wts changed this "peace and security" teaching over the past few years?

  if they have changed their thinking, how have they worked their way around that one?.

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  There is a bit of a dilema here for Witness theology here!
  
  If the world is filled with violence and uncertainity - people are attracted (perhaps frightened) towards the 'end of the world' doctrine. On the other hand, if the world does become peaceful then people are not.
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  Lets say something positive about Islam!

  by eyeslice in

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  i'ii start off.

  i have traveled widely in asia and have visited iran on business.

  i have always found the average muslim to be extremely hospitable and generous.

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  My take on this -
  
  Christianity has been full of violence right up till the last century - just think about WW1 and 2. Prior to that the history of Christian was full of blood, the Crusades, etc.
  
  Islam still seems to be in its Dark Ages but somehow I don't think it will be centuries before Islam 'grows up'.
  
  Eyslice
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  Gripped by Islamaphobia - now Muslims cheating at cricket!

  by eyeslice in

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  the uk is currently gripped by an intense debate over islam and islamaphobia (fear of muslims) is a new term coined by the media to descibe the feelings of many.

  perhaps they see all muslims as fanatics and potential suicide bombers.. .

  and now to add insult to injury, two pakistani cricketers, shoaib and team-mate mohammad asif, tested positive for nandrolone!.

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  g'day Unc'
  
  What a spot on comment. Spent many hours on the sub-continent watch or playing cricket with the kids. If only we forgot politics and just concentrated on sport!
  
  Eyeslice
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  Lets say something positive about Islam!

  by eyeslice in

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  i'ii start off.

  i have traveled widely in asia and have visited iran on business.

  i have always found the average muslim to be extremely hospitable and generous.

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  eyeslice

  I'ii start off
  
  I have traveled widely in Asia and have visited Iran on business. I have always found the average Muslim to be extremely hospitable and generous.