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"However, this is the first time in history where man has the ability to destroy all living things on earth. I believe this frightening ability was born of "the greatest generation" fighting a world war."
Not true. Try as humanity might, it will NEVER be able to destroy "all living things on earth".
The most we could hope for is to destroy the particular ecosystem that supports humankind. The actual amount of life that would be around after even the worst nuclear holocaust would be pretty huge. Think of the teeming life at the bottom of the ocean where there isn't even any sunlight. Bacteria flourishes at those depths, fed by mineral-laden thermal vents, who in turn support their own diverse ecosystem of clams, worms, fish and crabs.
A nuclear holocaust would only wipe the slate clean for a new wave of evolution to fill the vacant niches.
marmot
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Anyone here that DOES believe we are in the last days of this system?
by tula injust taking a roll call here.
no empire lasts forever.
no system of government will last forever.
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You can be spied on even when your cellphone is off!!!
by ohiocowboy inscary.... .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o61yfvpzgjs.
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marmot
Tula, you're a bit all over the map regarding those black "wires" and I thought I might just straighten a few things out.
Your license plate tags are holographic, fine. You say laser equipment can read this, okay. Those black wires stretched across the road aren't laser equipment, in fact they aren't even wires, they're air-filled hoses like the ones at gas stations that go "ding" when a car drives over it.
Besides, think for a second about how hard it is to get information off of a smudged DVD and then think about your assertion that this device is supposed to read the holograph off of your dirty dusty license plate while your vehicle drives by at 50mph.
Also, I think you mentioned that you were going to run an electromagnet over your tags in order to scramble them, well that does diddly squat to a hologram.
I think you're confusing several different technologies (laser coding, RFID chips, and magnetic storage devices) and mixing it with a splash of paranoia. There are technologies out there to read an RFID tag from a distance on a moving vehicle (such as used in the express lanes on toll roads) but those black hoses stretched across the road aren't the culprits. -
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You can be spied on even when your cellphone is off!!!
by ohiocowboy inscary.... .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o61yfvpzgjs.
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Just thought I might clarify something somebody wrote early in this thread about the black "wires" stretched across the streets being sensors that track your personal information by reading your car "tags".
False.
In Quebec we haven't had to buy annual "tags" for our license plates in over ten years but I still see those wires stretched across the road every now and then, especially near pending construction zones, overpasses and bridges.
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Anyone here that DOES believe we are in the last days of this system?
by tula injust taking a roll call here.
no empire lasts forever.
no system of government will last forever.
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Change is ALWAYS happening.
Think of all the "systems" that have come and gone just since Jesus (supposedly) walked the earth. They've risen and fallen and humanity doesn't seem to be the worse for wear, it just adapts and moves on to the next big thing.
The Roman Empire is kaput and we don't ride around in horse-drawn carriages anymore, just as the United States will not be the dominant force on the world scene forever nor will we always drive around in internal combustion engined vehicles.
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The Brand New 2008 Looking For Love Thread
by Tired of the Hypocrisy inon another thread i read about someone being denied by eharmony and was wondering if there are any exjw dating sites.
i wish i knew of one, but thought since someone else mentioned some folks have made a connection here that it would be a good idea to have everyone that is interested raise their hand and say if they are looking for love in all the wrong places or just looking...... i hope this post is not out of line or off topic.. i guess i will start even tho i am married.
ok, anyone interested in chatting with a fat old married cowboy?.
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I'll ante up. You lovely single ladies don't go IM'ing me all at once now, ya hear?
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Kids Still Get Whacked @ Armageddon. Current Light. (With Pix!)
by Open mind inif you've clicked around on other sites, you can find the troubling picture i grew up with from the old orange paradise lost book.
a big old armageddon earthquake that is swallowing up people, churches, a bicycle, a dog!
) and of course, a little girl in a dress that is indelibly planted in my memory chips.
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The guy behind the little girl looks like Samuel L. Jackson's character from Pulp Fiction. Or it's a mormon wearing a sombrero.
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Kids Still Get Whacked @ Armageddon. Current Light. (With Pix!)
by Open mind inif you've clicked around on other sites, you can find the troubling picture i grew up with from the old orange paradise lost book.
a big old armageddon earthquake that is swallowing up people, churches, a bicycle, a dog!
) and of course, a little girl in a dress that is indelibly planted in my memory chips.
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One of the models for that painting of the "bad grapes" is an uncle of mine who's still at Brooklyn bethel.
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Abstain from Blood...
by hotchocolate inmy first post was a few days ago now, and finally my heart has stopped pounding whenever i log on.. :-).
so, i have been in the truth all my life, 3rd generation witness, never left, never been in trouble, pioneered for years, and am a respected member of my congregation.
at the moment.
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Hotchocolate, glad you appreciated it. As for the further research, a really great website to delve into is www.talkorigins.org It's very non-threatening, clear and well-documented with lots of annotated references to scientific source material. Their section on the biblical flood is what pushed me out of the Witnesses.
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Abstain from Blood...
by hotchocolate inmy first post was a few days ago now, and finally my heart has stopped pounding whenever i log on.. :-).
so, i have been in the truth all my life, 3rd generation witness, never left, never been in trouble, pioneered for years, and am a respected member of my congregation.
at the moment.
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The only thing you need to knock down the blood policy is Matthew chapter 12.
I don't even believe in the divine inspiration of the Bible anymore, but when I read that chapter it is downright impossible to argue in favor of refusing blood at the risk of dying, ESPECIALLY when children are involved.
That would have been tantamount to Jesus telling his disciples that if a lamb fell into a pit on the sabbath you had to let the lamb die because the sabbath is sacred. In fact the sabbath was a helluva lot more sacred than the dietary restrictions on blood, you'd be stoned to death for violating the sabbath but merely considered unclean and "cut off" from the camp for a while if you ate unbled meat.
As the chapter shows, that is the exact opposite of what Jesus was trying to convey.
Good luck on your journey, but be warned that now you've fallen down the rabbit-hole there's no telling how far you'll go. Another topic of research you might enjoy is the global flood and the age of mankind and, when you're ready for it, evolution. -
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Ex-Jw dating sites?
by Mizz.Eye ini am lonely.
i am young, but i feel it would be nice to finally have a close friend and if i turn out to love and want to commit then even better.
the regular dating sites don't do it.
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I've wondered the same thing, but I fear the membership pool would be too small and thinly spread out to be workable.