it appears that comet ison has not survived its journey past the sun.... its a pity, it would have been a wonderful sight next week if it had made it.
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4.6 billions years wasn't a bad innings..
My favorite comet so far has been Hyakutate. It was spectacular in the northern skies. Hale Bopp was okay, seen mostly in the western sky. I had a great view of it in my Dynacope RV-6 and showed it to some neighbors.
When Shoemaker Levy broke into pieces and slammed into Jupiter, I had a front row seat of seeing the impact sites.
Good times. I was hoping Ison would not be a bust.
on an earlier thread i made the statement that, "an evangelical christian government would look a lot like the taliban".. laika asked me incredulously, "do you really think your friends from your old church would govern like the taliban!?".
i thought it was a really interesting question and might work as a separate thread.. the people i worshipped with were mostly a nice bunch of people, but the thought of them having secular power would make me shudder.. christianity is mostly harmless because it lacks power.
christian politicians are restrained by secular laws and constitutions.
rode over to the farmer's market with a couple of neighbors, nice women, seem sensible.
the driver stopped in the middle of a block and stared at the coca-cola truck that was parked there.
she said, "do you see the round tower?
Funny thing is that the county is red-neck Tea Party Republicans who want to secede from the U.S., but this little town is all believers in fairies and angels and 10-foot-high spirit guides and tiny Lemurians and invisible cities.
Makes you wonder what they put in their tea.
Around these parts we had the Heavens Gate people who killed their mortal containers so they could beam away to the Hale Bopp mothership. In the east county there are the Unarius people who have celebrations to welcome the Space Brothers from the 33 world Galactic Federation. Over 60 years ago George Adamski used to meet Venusians on Palomar mountain. Then there are a bunch of people whose worship a being from the Pleiades and have meetings in contact places called kingdom halls.
UFO cults do well around here.
from wikidub:.
"dubyap is the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of the very special religious group known as jehovah's witnesses.
as philosopher condillac observed in 1782, "every [religion] requires a special language, because every [religion] has its own ideas ... it seems that one ought to begin by composing this language, but people begin by speaking and writing, and the language remains to be composed.
Pretty much synonymous with DubSpeak.
good morning folks!
i have believed in the 1914 jw core teaching for more than 20 years.
but now, after seeing much about this date, i find it uncomfortable and odd to believe it unquestionably, much less defend it against opposing thoughts.
One thing everone here needs to keep in mind is that Bible Jesus and Watchtower Jesus are two different people.
They don't come right out and tell you about it, but they leave a lot of clues for those in the know to figure it out.
they seem determined to undermine the us democracy and shut the government down hurting employees and veterans.. what a despicable bunch, hope they get their asses kicked for what they are doing..
The Tea Party is a front group for FreedomWorks, which is an organization populated by a list of usual Republican suspects. For visual purposes, you can think of the Tea Party as a festering carbunkle on the derriere of the Republican party.
i want to celebrate it this year for the first time with my two daughters.
they are 4 and 2 years old.. i am afraid to tell my husband though.
i also don't think it's fair that i feel the need to hide it.. i'm pretty open about how i feel on most things, but i know he feels strongly about demons being involved in the holiday.. what do you think is the best way of handling this?.
You can give out candy and set up some decoration with an autumn theme, and avoid the outright association with Halloween, witches, ghosts, etc. Since your husband is superstitious, this will give him a gentle acclimation to the holiday, and in future years you can demonstrate that nothing bad happened and each year roll in a little more decoration until in 5 years you are doing the full on experience.
i am sure nowhere is perfect but if we want to compare these two countries from different prospectives like racism, job, income/spending, quality of life, standard of living etc.
can you please give me a rough idea by sharing your experiences.. .
by the way, i am considering applying for a masters progrmme in any of the two countries.. .
I am going to throw a curve ball at you and suggest looking at South Africa. It's temperate, like California or Florida, without the extremes of Canada or Australia. The braai is the local version of BBQ and just as good an experience, with steaks, sausages and pork rashers. Being black works to your advantage there as you will get sent to the head of the line for education and job opportunities, if you think that kind of advantage is okay.
they seem determined to undermine the us democracy and shut the government down hurting employees and veterans.. what a despicable bunch, hope they get their asses kicked for what they are doing..
Republicans are becoming less relevent each election cycle, and are a dying breed. The Tea Party is merely a sock puppet of Republican operatives, so they will never hold any power either. So they are declining with a bang, instead of a gasp, but there's nothing to be in terror about.
I have a confession to make. One time I voted for a Republican. Just one time, mostly because his opponent was an obnoxious brassy windbag who talked smack about him and that turned me off. So I voted for him. I repented, and never voted for a Republican ever again, and I voted for 20 years. I never voted for anyone who talked smack about the other candidates, because if their own ideas lack enough merit to outshine the other candidates, they don't need to do that. If they are no better than the other candidates, then they have to resort to knocking them down some to make themselves look better.
One important thing to keep in mind about this government shutdown, the American people voted for these politicians, chuckleheads who call themselves a 'government', and this is the very best the people could come up with.
http://qz.com/133024/americans-are-dumber-than-average-at-math-vocabulary-and-technology/
I want some candy.
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