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  What's that Smell?

  by FrightMare in

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  "could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

  " - ron patterson

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  "Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?" - Ron Patterson
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  Jay Dubs right about 1914

  by FrightMare in

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  please study this chart very, very carefully: http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/ges/d-3-2.htm.

  why has such an unprecedented boom in population and technology occurred during the specific time the bible points to the 'last days', 1914?

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  On top of all this, virtually everyone in the world realizes that 1914 was one of the biggest turning points in our modern history. Mere coincidence?

  The London Star observed: "Some historian in the next century may well conclude that the day the world went mad was . . . [in] 1914."

  "It is indeed the year 1914 rather than that of Hiroshima which marks the turning point in our time."-René Albrecht-Carrié, The Scientific Monthly, July 1951.

  "Everything would get better and better. This was the world I was born in. . . . Suddenly, unexpectedly, one morning in 1914 the whole thing came to an end."-British statesman Harold Macmillan, The New York Times, November 23, 1980.

  "Ever since 1914, everybody conscious of trends in the world has been deeply troubled by what has seemed like a fated and predetermined march toward ever greater disaster. Many serious people have come to feel that nothing can be done to avert the plunge towards ruin."-Bertrand Russell, The New York Times Magazine, September 27, 1953.

  As regards economic consequences, Ashby Bladen, a senior vice president of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, writes: "Before 1914 the monetary and the financial systems were compatible. . . . If one takes August 1914 as marking the dividing line between them, the contrasts between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries are striking. In many aspects of human affairs there has been a complete reversal of trend. . . . One major reason was the severance of the linkage between the financial system and money with intrinsic value that began in 1914. . . . The breaking of the linkage was a momentous event. . . . 1914 marked a radical, and in the end catastrophic, transformation of that system."

  "The modern era . . . began in 1914, and no one knows when or how it will end. . . . It could end in mass annihilation."-The Seattle Times, January 1, 1959.

  "The whole world really blew up about World War I and we still don't know why. . . . Utopia was in sight. There was peace and prosperity. Then everything blew up. We've been in a state of suspended animation ever since."-Dr. Walker Percy, American Medical News, November 21, 1977.

  "In 1914 the world lost a coherence which it has not managed to recapture since. . . . This has been a time of extraordinary disorder and violence, both across national frontiers and within them."-The Economist, London, August 4, 1979.

  Historian Edmond Taylor expresses something that many historians agree on: "The outbreak of World War I ushered in a twentieth-century 'Time of Troubles' . . . Directly or indirectly all the convulsions of the last half century stem back to 1914."

  The World Book Encyclopedia states: "World War I and its aftermath led to the greatest economic depression in history during the early 1930's. The consequences of the war and the problems of adjustment to peace led to unrest in almost every nation."

  The German reference work Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, says that "the effects of World War I were literally revolutionary and struck deep in the lives of almost all peoples, economically as well as socially and politically."
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  Ya Gotta Love Richard Dawkins

  by FrightMare in

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  richard: .

  our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice.

  "mindless" may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box.

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  RICHARD:

  Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. "Mindless" may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from.

  It came from religion. Religion is also, of course, the underlying source of the divisiveness in the Middle East which motivated the use of this deadly weapon in the first place. But that is another story and not my concern here. My concern here is with the weapon itself. To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
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  Welcome, Frightmare!

  by Stephanus in

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  saw your provocative style on one of the pro-witness boards and wondered how long before you wandered over here; after all, you can say just about whatever you want here without fear of having a controversial (read "interesting") thread terminated and removed by zealous followers of joe-hover.

  glad to see you've become apostate because of your decision to associate with apostates.

  it won't be long now...

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  well, to be totally honest, I did steal that kent/superman transformation photo from someone on WOL cuz I liked it. However, I will be replacing it soon with someone I actually resemble, The Incredible Hulk.
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  Welcome, Frightmare!

  by Stephanus in

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  saw your provocative style on one of the pro-witness boards and wondered how long before you wandered over here; after all, you can say just about whatever you want here without fear of having a controversial (read "interesting") thread terminated and removed by zealous followers of joe-hover.

  glad to see you've become apostate because of your decision to associate with apostates.

  it won't be long now...

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  FrightMare

  You will find I have a mercurial temper, beware!

  I attend no other witness-related board, so I'm not quite sure of what you're referring to. I've been trying to register to witnessesonline.com but those assholes won't let me in.

  I'm here to shatter the intellectual taliban that many people possess, and the rigid orthodoxy of thought that has been passed down to them.

  To the dogmatic, I am your worst nightmare! Sleep well.
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  Jay Dubs right about 1914

  by FrightMare in

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  please study this chart very, very carefully: http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/ges/d-3-2.htm.

  why has such an unprecedented boom in population and technology occurred during the specific time the bible points to the 'last days', 1914?

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  Ok, I used my wife's WT-Cd-rom to look up some of this stuff, but it's really a novel argument that the society has never used before. This scripture in itself can cause nightmares to atheists, and tremors to those who were lulled sound asleep by apostates thinking that the end was no where near.

  Here's my musing:

  Amazingly, almost 2,000 years ago, the apostle John foretold through inspiration that God would "Bring to ruin those ruining the earth."--Revelation 11:18. At first glance, this scripture might not seem so prophetic. But think about what John was saying. He was indicating that there would be a time when man would cause damage to the earth. How was John to know this if he had not known of any causing ruin to the earth in his lifetime? Mankind in the first century had very little technology to ruin earth with, he lacked all of the modern technology we know of today. How could John look into the future, almost 2,000 years in advance and know that man would one day have the power to cause devastation to our planet? There's no doubt that the earth is being ruined. More than 1,600 scientists, including 104 Nobel laureates, from around the world endorsed a warning, issued by the Union of Concerned Scientists: "Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. . . .No more than a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats will be lost. . .it may so alter the world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know ...Our tampering with the interdependent web of life could trigger widespread effects, including collapses of biological systems whose dynamics we imperfectly understand." Quoted in the book State of the World 1988, environmental consultant Norman Myers gives this frightening message: "No generation in the past has faced the prospect of mass extinction within its lifetime. No generation in the future will ever face a similar challenge: if this present generation fails to get to grips with the task, the damage will have been done and there will be no 'second try.'" Ozone depletion, water pollution, deforestation, loss of soil productivity, and the extinction of many animal and plant species are just an example of just some of the things that have occurred in the 20th century to our planet. Yet the apostle John had no knowledge of

  most of these problems during his lifetime. How could he look into the future and know what would occur? More specifically, how was he able to pinpoint the 20th century and beyond as the time when it would occur? (Or at least the witnesses were able to)
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  Jay Dubs right about 1914

  by FrightMare in

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  please study this chart very, very carefully: http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/ges/d-3-2.htm.

  why has such an unprecedented boom in population and technology occurred during the specific time the bible points to the 'last days', 1914?

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  Technological developments in the 19th and 20th centuries brought better food production and distribution techniques, better medicine and better economic development, leading to a larger population.

  But why? Let's get real for a moment, the answer is WAR!

  War is the one great mechanism to fund technological breakthroughs. It's so much easier to fund R & D when the Crown or government foots the bill.

  Ever wonder why the engineering discipline of building mundane roads, bridges and houses is called "Civil" ?

  In Rome, there were only two kinds of engineering: Military: to build war machines and weapons, and civil: to build roads, houses and bridges.

  Over time we've added to the list.

  Through out history, developments in military tools have pushed civilian applications into society and improved things. But by and large, it was originally funded by war.

  There are a few exceptions: since man first saw a bird, man was wanted to fly. After thousands of years of dreaming and trials, the Wright brothers put together a string and bailing wire contraption that was in the air for about a minute.

  By 1914, the designs weren't significantly different from what flew at Kittyhawk. (Ironically, the Wrights thought the plane would make war obsolete!)

  WWI brought the monoplane (change in design) and the bomber. WWII brought the Jet (change in design). In between the wars, only incremental improvements but no revolutionary change in design.

  War, technology and population explosion by the beginning of the 20th century. You may not be frightful yet, but you will be, when I return, to make my point. . .
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  Jay Dubs right about 1914

  by FrightMare in

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  please study this chart very, very carefully: http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/ges/d-3-2.htm.

  why has such an unprecedented boom in population and technology occurred during the specific time the bible points to the 'last days', 1914?

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  Very good Logical, now we're getting somewhere.

  Why more sex than ever before around the beginning of the 20th century?
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  Jay Dubs right about 1914

  by FrightMare in

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  please study this chart very, very carefully: http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/ges/d-3-2.htm.

  why has such an unprecedented boom in population and technology occurred during the specific time the bible points to the 'last days', 1914?

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  Exactly my point expat.

  Seeker, "This" referring to the century I'm talking about.
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  Jay Dubs right about 1914

  by FrightMare in

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  please study this chart very, very carefully: http://www.sru.edu/depts/artsci/ges/d-3-2.htm.

  why has such an unprecedented boom in population and technology occurred during the specific time the bible points to the 'last days', 1914?

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  Actually, the burden of proof is upon you. You are the apostates. You once believed that 1914 was the beginning of the end. Explain why you no longer believe so.

  But more importantly, try answering a simple question: Why has technology and the population grown so dramatically around the beginning of the 20th century?