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  May the 4th be With You, RIP Adam Yauch

  by leavingwt in

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  adam yauch, beastie boys rapper mca, has died at age 47, after a long battle with cancer.

  today is also star wars day.. .

  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb3khl_beastie-boys-sabotage-empire-strike_shortfilms.

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  rip MCA
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  South park: Jewpacabra

  by darth frosty in

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  could not sleep so i watched the latest episode last night.

  this was hilarious they went off on jehovah as only south park can lol.

  link.

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  I loved it when Cartman does a flashback to ancient Egypt and the jews all start slitting the throats of those cute baby lambs and Kyle is like "That's just how God is."
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  Bethelite sent to India for heart surgery.

  by marmot in

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  an uncle of mine is a lifer at the brooklyn bethel and he was recently sent to india for open heart surgery.

  it's so much cheaper compared to getting the procedure done in the us it's ridiculous.

  does anybody know if it's the society that pays for all this or if it's up to each bethelite's own health insurance?

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  An uncle of mine is a lifer at the Brooklyn Bethel and he was recently sent to India for open heart surgery. It's so much cheaper compared to getting the procedure done in the US it's ridiculous. Does anybody know if it's the Society that pays for all this or if it's up to each Bethelite's own health insurance? Since I faded I haven't really spoken to them so I don't know the specifics.
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  Trailer Park Boys

  by elder-schmelder in

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  how many trailer park boys fans are there here?.

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  http://youtu.be/sw4jrszpjqo.

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  Huge fan, have all the DVDs and when I went to see the last movie I got an extra-large Coke and dumped an entire hidden flask of rum into it. Laughed myself sore.
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  Psuedoscientific Things JWs Say

  by LostGeneration in

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  2. beliefs

  i distinctly remember more than 30 years ago asking my grandfather how all of the races came about after the flood.. "well, noahs three sons were black, white, and oriental, and thats how all of the races came to be".

  wtf, i thought to myself, even as a 9 year old kid.

  a few years later i remember sitting in the kh listening to the sunday talk when the speaker went over the old "water canopy" theory, but of course presented it as fact.

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  One that always bugged me was this notion that the Israelites were somehow super advanced in terms of medicine and sanitation because God purportedly told them to shit outside the camp. This is coming from the same bunch of superstitious ancient nitwits that believed buildings could catch leprosy and said buildings could be cured with bird's blood.
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  Why Won't They Carbon Date This?

  by Perry in

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  "for the first time in human history a dinosaur fossil is presenting us with the opportunity to see what a living dinosaur looked like.

  in 2001 a field research team unearthed the worlds most complete dinosaur fossil, a brachylophosaurus nicknamed leonardo.

  this incredible dinosaur has all of its skin covering its body, missing only a bit on the head and tail.

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  For one thing, carbon dating is only effective up to about 50 thousand years, this find is over 70 million years old. The actual soft tissue has long since disappeared and has been replaced by minerals that have preserved the shape.

  Here is some more info from National Geographic on the subject: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1010_021010_dinomummy.html
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  GLOBAL FLOOD . . . Did it Really Happen?

  by sizemik in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this question became an off-topic sidetrack in another thread.

  i thought it might be worth some debate so posted here .

  the debate is basically between mainstream geological understanding of the earth's history and "young earth creationism" in particular with how the evidence relates to the occurrence of a global flood in the recent past.. a couple of points from the yec website www.icr.org are raised as examples in order to kick things off .

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  The "local flood" apologists continually trot out the false theory that all mankind lived in a localized area in the middle east some 5000 years ago, which is patently ridiculous. Ask any archaeologist worth his/her salt about this or just do some basic research about human activity in North America or China or even Egypt during this time period. One of the big turning points to my rejection of the literal interpretation of the bible was one day in class where we examined photos of a stone spear tip embedded in the rib cage of an ice age North American bison and butcher marks on the bones of a wooly mammoth. No flood came and wiped these people out, I descended from them. Unless you subscribe to the Mormon's viewpoint that I actually descended from a lost tribe of Israel who wiped out the Nephites.
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  And The Nations Will Fall (The Slave)

  by Este in

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  2. bible

  daniel 2:44.

  44 in the time of those kings, the god of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people.

  it will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

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  Also: "Why feel emotions for someone that does not reciprocate? Love is strong when mutual."

  That doesn't sound very Christ-like at all, you adorable little false prophet. In fact, it goes counter to the Golden Rule itself. Wow. So these half-baked platitudes are supposed to be straight from the mouth of the creator of the Universe?
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  And The Nations Will Fall (The Slave)

  by Este in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  daniel 2:44.

  44 in the time of those kings, the god of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people.

  it will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

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  Holy shit, how many fortune cookies did you have to gorge on to come up with that paragraph?
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  Does anyone else like industrial heavy metal?

  by Pika_Chu in

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  just wondering...if there aren't, i'll be sad....

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  Dunno if it slots into the category but Tool is my favorite band of all time. Freaking brilliant music.