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  My Missing Sense of Humor....

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  did you ever notice how serious i post on this board?.

  it's interesting to me, but i haven't tried to make any friends.

  that is because when i first left, i had a somewhat negative experience meeting someone on a jw board...(i am just saying that, it isn't the point of this thread...).

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  caliber

  Just remember the three L's

  Live Love Laugh
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  Darwin was Wrong

  by Earnest in

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  this is the cover article of a recent issue of new scientist and as this is a common debate on the forum it might be of interest.

  darwinian evolution is usually portrayed as a tree of life from which every living thing originates and which splits into many branches, each branch representing a new species.

  since the structure and function of dna was discovered it has been expected that the more closely species are related the more alike their dna ought to be.

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  This idea of horizontal transfer is interesting !

  chimera is an animal that has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes; if the different cells emerged from the same zygote, it is called a mosaicism. Chimerism in human beings has very few (about 40) reported cases.....hermaphroditism may result if one set of cells is genetically female and another genetically male.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

  Human chimeras were once thought to be so rare as to be just a curiosity.
  But there's a little bit of someone else in all of us, says Claire
  Ainsworth, and sometimes much more...
  
  EXPLAIN this. You are a doctor and one of your patients, a 52-year- old
  woman, comes to see you, very upset. Tests have revealed something
  unbelievable about two of her three grown-up sons. Although
  she conceived them naturally with her husband, who is definitely
  their father, the tests say she isn't their biological mother.
  Somehow she has given birth to somebody else's children

  It took Kruskall and her team two years to crack the riddle. In the end
  they discovered that Jane is a chimera, a mixture of two individuals -
  non-identical twin sisters - who fused in the womb and grew into a single
  body. Some parts of her are derived from one twin, others from the other.
  It seems bizarre that this can happen at all, but Jane's is not an
  isolated case. Around 30 similar instances of chimerism have been
  reported, and there are probably many more out there who will never
  discover their unusual origins

  But the story doesn't end there. There is growing evidence that chimerism
  in one form or another may not be so unusual at all. In fact, some
  researchers now think that most of us, if not all, are chimeras of one
  kind or another. Far from being pure-bred individuals composed of a single
  genetic cell line, our bodies are and cellular mongrels, teeming with cells
  from our mothers, maybe even from grandparents siblings. This may seem
  a little shocking at first. The thought of playing host to cells from
  other people may offend your sense of individuality. But you may have
  those outsiders to thank for keeping you healthy http://www.katewerk.com/chimera.html

  A chimera is an ordinary person or animal except that some of their parts actually came from their twin or from the mother. A chimera may arise either from monozygotic twin fetuses (where it would be impossible to detect), or from dizygotic fetuses,

  (Monozygotic (identical twins ) would be impossible to detect except mirror image twins may fuse together resulting in mixed handedness

  in the individual )..( some spectuation only I read once on the web ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins

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  What are your personal guidelines and attitude concerning smoking ?

  by caliber in

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  we all know how the wt.

  deals with smoking.

  have your personal attitude towards such changed ?.

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  Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke, is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of tobacco products (side-stream smoke) and the mainstream smoke exhaled by smokers. It is a complex mixture containing many chemicals (including formaldehyde, cyanide, carbon monoxide, ammonia, and nicotine), many of which are known carcinogens. Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent. In addition, secondhand smoke causes respiratory problems in nonsmokers such as coughing, phlegm, and reduced lung function. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more severe asthma.

  Over the past four decades, cigarette smoking has caused an estimated 12 million deaths, including 4.1 million deaths from cancer, deaths from cardiovascular diseases, 2.1 million deaths from respiratory diseases, and 94,000 infant deaths related to mothers smoking during pregnancy

  So consider what is the cost to OTHERS and society in general not even speaking of personal consequences !

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  What are your personal guidelines and attitude concerning smoking ?

  by caliber in

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  we all know how the wt.

  deals with smoking.

  have your personal attitude towards such changed ?.

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  caliber

  A few thoughts to ponder....

  It's stiffling to inhale 2nd hand smoke. When you stop smoking, your blood carries 25% more oxygen, just like it should do always. So you become restless and agitated because you can't handle the extra oxygen. .

  You are supporting a very large corporation( no not the WT this time) .. and getting NOTHING but ill health in return.

  (partial personal quotes from above previous posting) (With added humor )

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  What are your personal guidelines and attitude concerning smoking ?

  by caliber in

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  we all know how the wt.

  deals with smoking.

  have your personal attitude towards such changed ?.

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  caliber

  They've found something in cigarette smoke that seems to be slowing the breakdown of dopamine.These brain slices show levels of the "killjoy" enzyme MAO B in the brains of two people. The non-smoker at the top has plenty of MAO B, but the smoker at bottom has much less -- a sign that something in cigarette smoke is destroying MAO B, allowing the pleasure chemical dopamine to tell the body it likes smoking and wants to continue.

  So in essence, the nicotine is tricking your body into thinking it needs more nicotine in order to feel good, while at the same time, it's slowly killing you. ( Mary's comment on another post )

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/91326/2/Smoking

  So there are brain function changes.. it is a formidable challenge to quite smoking to say the least !

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  What are your personal guidelines and attitude concerning smoking ?

  by caliber in

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  we all know how the wt.

  deals with smoking.

  have your personal attitude towards such changed ?.

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  caliber

  We all know how the WT. deals with smoking. Have your personal attitude towards such changed ?

  Do you require that all your friends and inner circle be smoke free ?

  Do you believe is proper to set restrictions concerning your car , home or even your personal space ?

  Do you feel compassion for those who smoke .. understanding the addictive nature of Tobacco ?

  Nicotine has been shown to have effects on brain dopamine systems similar to those of drugs such as heroin and cocaine- Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health. Department of Health, 1998.

  Recent information concerning dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and well-being, indicates that cigarette smoke might use both techniques for raising dopamine levels. Nicotine has long been known to stimulate the release of dopamine. Now, research by scientists at

  Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York points toward -- but does not prove -- another mechanism for cigarette addiction. They've found something in cigarette smoke that seems to be slowing the breakdown of dopamine.These brain slices show levels of the "killjoy" enzyme MAO B in the brains of two people. The non-smoker at the top has plenty of MAO B, but the smoker at bottom has much less -- a sign that something in cigarette smoke is destroying MAO B, allowing the pleasure chemical dopamine to tell the body it likes smoking and wants to continue.

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  Well I finally turned 45

  by wha happened? in

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  i don't feel 45 and i certainly don't act it.

  i guess i have things to look forward to such as prostate screening, testicular cancer, more loss of hair, and what hair i have turning gray.. i'm not sad, i just didn't expect to feel this way at 45. .

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  caliber

  Wha,

  Happy 45 th year... there are countless good years to expereince yet ... decades to come.... each with their own rewards

  and satisfactions ........!

  Cal
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  Why Only an Atheist Can Believe - Slavoj Zizek

  by slimboyfat in

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  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mqls4lva5sg.

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6vidnzy7hcc.

  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0s8j03lts.

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  An ideology is a set of aims and ideas, especially in politics. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things

  Ideologies are systems of abstract thought (as opposed to mere ideation)

  (These are merely partial a Wikipedia definition)

  My questions here posed is .. Life and the meaning of life and logic are like dots... is there not a psychological need to somehow

  connect these dots in our own mind ? We can't tolerate for long living in a strange dream without rhythm or reason..... much less

  real life .

  Cal
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  My 500th Post

  by Robert7 in

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  so i hit the 500 post milestone.

  when i joined, i had just mentally 'snapped' the day before, and broke out of the mind control.

  i knew it wasn't the truth, and proudly i did this with my own discernment.

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  caliber

  I agree a great way to make a 500th post

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  Sacrafice, why?

  by VM44 in

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  how did the idea develope among the semite people that sacrafice, the destruction of animal life, would be pleasing to god?.

  what purpose does it serve?.

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  caliber

  What is the non-Semitic idea that "some "Satanist believe value the of animal sacrifice to be ?

  The supposed purpose in performing the ritual of sacrifice is to throw the energy provided by the blood of the freshly slaughtered victim into the atmosphere of the magical working, thereby intensifying the magician's chance of success

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  The release of this force is NOT effected in the actual spilling of blood, but in the death throes of the living creature! .... discharge of bio-electrical energy

  So in this case struggle and suffering would seem to be a some twisted purpose Caliber