Uh, cam, you DO know how google street view works, right? It's not a permanent video camera, it's a vehicle-mounted rig that drives around taking 360-degree still photos. It's a very slow and labor-intensive process but even so, people have successfully protested its use due to privacy concerns (several cases in the UK and Canada) so it's not as if Google has an all-powerful Eye of Sauron looking at you while you take a dump.
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more and more and more ...like 1984
by ninja inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209602/tenants-fuming-flats-turned-big-brother-house-112-cctv-cameras-installed-inside.html.
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Tower Of Babel
by Blue Grass innote:this was a post i made on another thread but i felt it was off topic so i giving it it's own thread.. someone(who i can't remember) on a thread(which i can't remember) said the tower of babel story is proven false because some languages evolved from others and thus that was another strike against the bible as being fiction.
however this person doesn't realize that there are languages on this earth that has absolutely no relation whatsoever such as chinese-english, spanish-arabic, greek-xhosa, etc.
not to mention all of the ancient languages that are now extinct due to invading countries forcing their own language on other countries.
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Blue Grass, what are you trying to get across by saying certain languages are not related? That it was God who created them?
It just means that their progenitors are extinct and from different linguistic branches. Language is constantly evolving and dating a language using comparative linguistics gets harder and harder the farther back in time you go, and generally cannot be accomplished with any degree of certainty past 10,000 years.
Just think of all the Romance languages. They all began as Latin a mere 2000 or so years ago yet think of all the variations today (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Creole, Romanian, etc.).
Did God create those languages too?
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A Question for Blue Grass
by marmot insince i noticed you seem to take particular offense at atheism or anything that contradicts a literal interpretation of the bible, could you explain to me your view of noah's flood?.
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because that's the fable that made me stop believing in the god of the bible..
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That's a big red herring argument, BG, I was asking about the flood. The bible clearly has a chronology that situates this global (or regional) catastrophe somewhere around 4000 years ago (go look it up on your WT CD-ROM if you don't believe me). As others have stated, if the flood were localized to the middle east then that means natives from the Americas were spared the destruction because there is rock-solid evidence they've been in North America for at least 15,000 years and there are sites in South America that date back even further.
I can sense some form of conflict in your answer, though, because you're clearly not toeing the WT party line when it comes to the Flood. As recently as last year they had a Question from Readers re-affirming their stance that the Flood was indeed earth-wide in scope. You and I both know that this is scientifically impossible, thus your suggestion of a localized flood.
If you pull out one piece of the bible that doesn't fit, the rest comes crumbling down in terms of divine inspiration. I have a great admiration for the bible as a work of literature, however. The fact that I don't view it as inspired by god doesn't take away from its significance in Western history or the beauty of some of its passages.
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A Question for Blue Grass
by marmot insince i noticed you seem to take particular offense at atheism or anything that contradicts a literal interpretation of the bible, could you explain to me your view of noah's flood?.
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because that's the fable that made me stop believing in the god of the bible..
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Tower Of Babel
by Blue Grass innote:this was a post i made on another thread but i felt it was off topic so i giving it it's own thread.. someone(who i can't remember) on a thread(which i can't remember) said the tower of babel story is proven false because some languages evolved from others and thus that was another strike against the bible as being fiction.
however this person doesn't realize that there are languages on this earth that has absolutely no relation whatsoever such as chinese-english, spanish-arabic, greek-xhosa, etc.
not to mention all of the ancient languages that are now extinct due to invading countries forcing their own language on other countries.
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Has anyone else heard of this !!!
by twinkle toes ini was watching t.v.
last night and a commercial for this institute for humancontinuity came up.
they are proclaiming the end of the world in 2012 in keeping with the mayan calendar.
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Did anyone else run into this JW urban legend?
by marmot ini remember way back when the sega gamegear came out (a way ahead of it's time portable gaming system that competed with the nintendo gameboy, but in full colour and gorgeous graphics) a friend of mine bought one and i would borrow it every chance i got until one day he threw it out.
the reason?
he said that he was told "sega" meant masturbation in spanish..
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Did anyone else run into this JW urban legend?
by marmot ini remember way back when the sega gamegear came out (a way ahead of it's time portable gaming system that competed with the nintendo gameboy, but in full colour and gorgeous graphics) a friend of mine bought one and i would borrow it every chance i got until one day he threw it out.
the reason?
he said that he was told "sega" meant masturbation in spanish..
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I remember way back when the Sega GameGear came out (a way ahead of it's time portable gaming system that competed with the Nintendo Gameboy, but in full colour and gorgeous graphics) a friend of mine bought one and I would borrow it every chance I got until one day he threw it out. The reason? He said that he was told "Sega" meant masturbation in spanish.
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Dated Fulfillments of Bible Prophecy (the faithful slave)
by Son of Man in<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } p { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> .
4 and in answer jesus said to them: look out that nobody misleads you; 5 for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, i am the christ, and will mislead many.
[it is more than apparent that many were misled even by the w.t.s.
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have you ever wittnessed the fall of an "alpha family"?
by highdose inyou know the family i mean in the congo, its always a 2.4 family,the father is always always an elder, the wife is always has an air of supremness who looks down her nose at all the other sisters, the kids always appear to be textbook straight of a watchtower illistration " how to be a perfect jw".
they spend their time practiculay glued to the platform, showing everyone how they are not measuring up to their perfect example.
and all round just making everyone feel unworthy.
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