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  Muslim Foot Washing Basin Controversy In Indianapolis!

  by AK - Jeff in

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  http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=7116865&nav=9tai.

  i find it curious, but take no particular view at this point.

  i can only imagine that such a thing [let's say a christian chapel] for christians would not ever come under consideration.

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  I've got the perfect solution for all of this, in fact it should be added to the constitution:
  
  "You get freedom of religion in that you have the freedom to believe whatever the crap you want as long as it does not A) actively harm or encourage harm of anybody else and B) you do not press your religious views and sensibilities on others. Belief is personal, special accommodations for your beliefs are no longer personal since they involve others."
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  HALO 3: Anybody getting it?

  by jeeprube in

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  just wondered if anybody here is planning on playing halo 3 online?

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  marmot

  From what I understand, you can set it up so that anyone has the ability to switch, and you're vulnerable while transformed.
  
  Each player gets a certain amount of "points" that they can used towards altering map geometry, "buying" vehicles, adding weapons and teleporters and the like, etc.
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  HALO 3: Anybody getting it?

  by jeeprube in

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  just wondered if anybody here is planning on playing halo 3 online?

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  Yeah, they call that option the Forge. You can alter maps, weapon placement, spawn points, vehicles, ANYTHING in real time during a multiplayer map. The way it works is that in mid-game you can switch into a Guilty Spark-like orb and do all the alterations and switch back to see how it works out. You can save the maps and upload them to bungie.net anytime.
  
  IGN.com was gushing praise over it.
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  HALO 3: Anybody getting it?

  by jeeprube in

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  just wondered if anybody here is planning on playing halo 3 online?

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  SirNose, yep you can unlock the MKV Mjolnir armor, in addition to almost a dozen other helmet & armor patterns including a "samurai" helmet modeled by the guys at Team Ninja to look like the Ninja Gaiden helmet.
  
  Pretty psyched about the whole deal.
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  Have you ever...

  by changeling in

  1. jw
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  taken a shower and realized you have no clean underware left?.

  and then you make up a load of clothes for the wash and remember you are out of laundry detergent?.

  can i get a hug even though i'm wearing yesterday's panties?.

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  Hellooo, ever hear of going commando?
  
  I do it all the time. (PS: having to do your laundry at a laundromat sucks)
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  The fond memories of JW parties

  by cultswatter in

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  i remember the jw parties that i went to, complete with wholesome jw activities.

  the jw do a lot of miming games where they portray an imagined character.

  let see what else....... a lot of pioneer sisters (why were they all sisters?

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  I once hosted a party and tried to get a friendly little mosh pit going in the back yard to Blur's "WooHoo" song.
  
  I couldn't believe it when I was approached afterwards to inform me that I had stumbled some people.
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  HALO 3: Anybody getting it?

  by jeeprube in

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  just wondered if anybody here is planning on playing halo 3 online?

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  I just might have to justify using my credit card to get an xbox360 and a copy of this. I'm completely bitten by the Halo Universe bug (read all the books, played the single-player campaign religiously, even participated in the "ilovebees" reality rpg).
  
  However, another more rational part of my brain says to wait for a price drop.
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  How to stump someone that believes the noah's flood happened.

  by 5go in

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  one of the key peices of evidence that people sight to try to prove the flood happen is the fact the most cultures have a flood myth or story as they put it.. i was just watching a program that also points out the most, if not all cultures believe in dragons.

  even cultures that evolve in isolation have beliefs in dragons and they are all simular though not the same.

  just like the flood myth.. so if they believe the flood happened because so many cultures have flood stories.

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  Perry, those "answers" are worse than anything I've ever read from the pages of the WTBTS. I hope you were being sarcastic when you posted the link.
  
  Their arguments are full of baseless supposition and selective ignoring of facts then pulling them out again when it suits them. For example, they show absolute scorning disregard for geological processes and use completely unfounded theories to explain them away but then when confronted with the whole marsupial thing they state: "Evolutionist geologists themselves believe there have been major tectonic upheavals" that explain supposed land bridges to Australia that would have allowed all the platypuses (platypi?), koalas, wombats, tasmanian tigers, kangaroos, wallabies and other assorted creatures a plausible escape route from Mt. Ararat.
  
  The whole global flood false doctrine is what first pushed me away from the WT's teachings, and I have no patience for people who use junk science to prop up their literalist interpretation of scripture.
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  i'm so freaking nervous

  by bigdreaux in

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  well, as some of you know, i've hung up my tools and am leaving the mechanic world.

  i start my new career tomorrow.

  i am going into new car sales.

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  Depends on what your tolerance is for pressure, sales (especially car sales) is mega-pressure with lots of dubious "acting" thrown in if you really want to perform.
  
  Don't get me wrong, you can make a truckload of money doing it and some people have perfect personalities for it, but I found that my numbers never matched the top performers because I could never fully immerse myself in the mindset.
  
  In a way, it's very much like the JWs, only instead of an elder noticing your field service report slipping it'll be the finance manager giving you "the talk" about how come you're not performing. Expect lots of aggressive pep-rallying and pressure to bend your ethics in order to close the deal with a healthy margin for the finance dept.
  
  Don't burn your bridges as you jump into this new career and make sure you keep some options open while you try it for the first few months.
  
  After working sales for so long, I'm coming to the realization that being able to sleep soundly is worth more than fat commissions.
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  As a JW were you ever counseled about clothes you wore, or lack thereof ?

  by flipper in

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  thought this could get interesting discussing experiences.

  i for one was trying to reach out for ministerial servant again in the early 90's , had been one before, and was assigned to carry the microphones one meeting.

  had an elder call me in the back room and say , " brother flipper, i noticed looking down towards your shoes that you are wearing white socks today.

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  I never got counseled about clothing (except for not bothering with the jacket anymore, but nobody really cared about that) but I DID get a talking-down to after I shaved my head.
  
  Said I looked like a skinhead and shouldn't go out in service like that or give parts on the platform. In retrospect, I should have done that more often.